Lin Ruan wiped the water stains on his face, tidied up his clothes and hair, regained his previous calm appearance, and walked towards the outside of the hall.

Xiao Jingchen heard the footsteps, turned around and smiled at her, "Let's go." ”

After speaking, he raised his feet and acted first.

Lin Ruan felt that the smile just now made her heartbeat finally calm down, and there was a sign that she was about to beat wildly, so she quickly lowered her head, not daring to look at his back, and even deliberately lengthened the distance with him, so as not to get too close, and be affected.

The two walked one after the other, and Lin Ruan listened to the footsteps in front of him, despising himself in his heart for being unproductive.

She had been with Xiao Jingchen for so long before, and she was not completely unaffected, why was she so useless now, and she didn't even dare to look at him?

At the same time, she couldn't understand why Xiao Jingchen took a fancy to herself.

Although her body is indeed good-looking, she thinks it is the reason. After all, with Xiao Jingchen's identity, it is not a problem what kind of peerless beauty he wants.

Moreover, her body is only fourteen years old, no matter how good-looking she is, she is just a little girl who has not yet grown.

Excluding her use value and appearance, Lin Ruan really couldn't think of any other reason.

Thinking about it like this, Lin Ruan found that Xiao Jingchen suddenly stopped.

When she looked up, she found that the plaque hanging on the palace door in front of her read the words "Imperial Study". It turned out that before I knew it, I had arrived at the place.

Xiao Jingchen glanced back at her, motioned for her to wait here, and then raised his feet and entered the imperial study.

Lin Ruan stood quietly, his eyes looking around, the area around the imperial study was very quiet, and there were many guards guarding it. There were several attendants standing at the door, all of them standing with their eyes and noses and noses, like puppets.

There was a faint sound of talking in the main hall, and Lin Ruan listened with his ears pricked up, but he didn't hear it clearly.

After a while, an attendant came out to spread the word: "Lin Ruan, the daughter of the people, has entered the hall." ”

Lin Ruan took a deep breath, tidied up her clothes again, and then according to the etiquette taught to her by the two grandmothers, her head hung slightly, her upper body leaned forward slightly, her hands were gently folded together, she put them on her waist and abdomen, and entered the hall with unhurried steps.

After entering the hall, Lin Ruan remembered the words of the grandmothers, and did not look at it indiscriminately, and followed the attendant to a distance of three or four meters from the imperial case and stopped, then knelt on the ground, made a big salute, and shouted in his mouth: "Lin Ruan, a citizen of Yulin County, Huaiyang Prefecture, see the emperor, long live my emperor." ”

The emperor's majestic voice came: "Flat." ”

Lin Ruan hurriedly said: "Thank you, Emperor." Then he calmly got up and stood in front of the desk with his head bowed and leaning forward.

The emperor glanced at her, pointed to the pots of sweet potatoes on the table and asked, "Where did you get these sweet potatoes?" ”

Lin Ruan's voice replied unhurriedly: "The folk girl runs many hot pot restaurants and wants to find some novel dishes, so she asked the firm to collect seeds for me. The seed bulbs of this sweet potato are mixed in. ”

After hearing this, the emperor nodded: "It's unexpected." So how did you recognize it? What is the basis, but how much can it be guaranteed to yield per mu? ”

Lin Ruan has long had a response to the situation: "The folk girl once read some miscellaneous books and found a record about sweet potatoes in a travelogue. When I got this bulb, I wasn't sure, so I wanted to try to grow one. After it sprouts, I am sure that it is a sweet potato. ”

The emperor asked: "Travelogue? What travelogue? Who wrote it, and where is this travelogue now? ”

Lin Ruan's tone was filled with regret: "The travelogue that the folk girl got is a broken book with no information about the author. A few months ago, a fire broke out in the girl's house, and the travelogue was burned. Fortunately, some of the contents in the travelogue are still vaguely remembered by the folk girl. ”

At this time, Xiao Jingchen spoke: "In February, the Lin family was set on fire to their home, and Miss Lin and her sister were almost killed in the fire. The real culprit behind the arson case is the nephew of Master Yao Bingzhang, a bachelor of Hanlin, who has a business conflict with Miss Lin, and in order to eliminate the opponent, he bought the murderer and set it on fire. The case has been closed, and Lord Yao's nephew has been assigned to the frontier. ”

Liang Wei is the name of Liang Twelve.

The emperor frowned: "If you and Liang Wei hadn't been there at that time, then Miss Lin would have had to die in the fire?" ”

Xiao Jingchen nodded: "At that time, Miss Lin and her sisters were drugged by gangsters, and they were delirious and lost the ability to escape. ”

The emperor's face suddenly turned cold, if the two Lin Ruan sisters were burned to death that night, there would be no more such sweet potatoes.

And Lin Ruan's contribution is not only these, the work of the telescope, the work of assisting in the extermination of the Dark Pavilion, and the ice-making recipe that Xiao Jingchen handed over just now.

The emperor is a very realistic person, and when he thinks of these and the actual benefits, he suddenly has a plan in his heart, but he doesn't say anything at this time.

Xiao Jingchen knew the emperor very well, he had already guessed a certain result, a trace of darkness flashed in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

The topic comes back to sweet potatoes.

The emperor stretched out his hand and turned over the sweet potato vines that had regained their vitality, and said, "I heard that this sweet potato is full of treasures? ”

Lin Ruan nodded and said: "The edible value of the fan body is much higher than that of rice and wheat, its rhizome flavor is edible, and the main stem can also be used as fodder to raise livestock." The resulting sweet potatoes can be cooked directly or processed into a variety of other foods, from staple foods to snacks and even dishes. ”

When the emperor heard what she said, he was very interested: "Then I want to taste this sweet potato for the people of the world." Let's talk about the various methods of this sweet potato, I let the imperial dining room do it, if it is really as delicious as you say, I will be rewarded. When this sweet potato is successfully promoted, it solves the suffering of food and clothing for the people of Li in my Great Zhou, and I will definitely be rewarded. ”

Lin Ruan hurriedly knelt down to thank him, and then an attendant came over and asked Lin Ruan to explain the various methods of sweet potatoes in detail.

The waiter wrote down what Lin Ruan said in detail, picked up the sweet potato pot and left.

The emperor said: "Sweet potatoes are not easy to come by, so take two pots, and the rest will be planted in this pot and placed outside the study, and I will personally guard them to ripen, and then pick the fruits with my own hands." ”

Neichuan hurriedly responded and took away two of the pots.

Lin Ruan stayed in the imperial study, waiting for the emperor to taste the dishes grown from the sweet potatoes.

The emperor couldn't calm down at this time, so he chatted with Lin Ruan about strawberries.

"I heard that you raised the strawberry?"

Lin Ruan replied respectfully: "Yes, the folk girl grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and her family was poor, and when she was hungry, she often looked for some wild fruits in the fields to quench her hunger and thirst. Strawberries are cultivated by folk girls from wild berries in a variety of ways. ”