The engagement was annulled on the same day after being transformed into cannon fodder for abuse. Without saying a word, Su Tang took fifty taels of compensation and went to a poor village on the outskirts of the capital to buy a leaky earth house. He connected it to the Shennong system and started growing potatoes.
Sowing and planting, potatoes were harvested. After planting, the Quyuan plow was built. As she kept planting, she and the whole village stopped the locust plague. As she continued to plant, the government issued commendation documents, the eldest princess in the capital presented her with a hosta and brocade, and the court appointed her to attend a symposium on agricultural affairs.
As for the cold-noodle neighbor who had lived next door since the day she planted her first potatoes, she didn't say anything from beginning to end. He just put things at her door every now and then - a bowl of antipyretic medicine, a pack of dried dates, two boiled eggs, a handful of hot pancakes, and a sheepskin map with the route from Qinghe Village to the capital.
He gave her medicine when she had a high fever. The note said, "Cool down the temperature tonight and put on extra quilt." When she traveled far away, he drew a map, and it was marked on the map, "The noodle shop outside the west gate only has hot soup noodles until midnight." When she walked to the city gate, he stood in the dusk and waited for two hours, then reached out to take her bundle and said, "We're here."
She said, "I'll save the potatoes for you every time from now on." He said, "Okay."
Later she found out that his name was Xiao Jue, the Prince of War, the eldest princess's biological brother, the man who had been standing at the gate of the capital for two hours waiting for her to come.
From a potato to a country, from the shabby courtyard of Qinghe Village to the gate of the capital. Farming, infrastructure construction, building a business, falling in love, what grows in one-third of an acre eventually covers the entire world.
