Shen Ningning pointed to the pot of sweet potato vines: "I don't have much time to take care of it. If you can take good care of this pot of sweet potatoes and let it bear fruit within a month, no matter how big or small, I will give you more rewards."

Upon hearing this, Dong Sanhua hurriedly said: "The princess does not need to give me any benefits. I am already very grateful to you for taking me in."

"Not to mention this pot, even if you give me a few more pots, I will plant them."

 “Okay!” Shen Ningning’s eyes lit up: “Just wait.”

She ran back to the back room with her little feet and took out six sweet potato vines from the fairyland.

"But I don't have any extra flower pots. You have to find a way to plant them yourself." The little guy handed it to Dong Sanhua.

Dong Sanhua turned over the vine seedlings and looked at the roots. She was surprised by how fresh the sweet potato vines were.

Uncle Deng took the initiative and said, "I happen to have a few unused flower pots. I will bring them to you later."

Dong Sanhua laughed, quietly and beautifully: "In fact, when planting sweet potato vines, you can't restrict its roots, so you can't put it in a flower pot. But, Brother Deng, just lend me your small shovel."

 Uncle Deng agreed immediately.

 After that, Shen Ningning and Uncle Deng sent Dong Sanhua to the abandoned village house.

 Dong Sanhua is very diligent. As soon as the things are put away, he immediately starts cleaning.

Shen Ningning asked her if she needed help, and Dong Sanhua quickly shook her head politely.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Ningning saw that she had turned up the land next to the kang in the inner room with a shovel, and then spread the live soil in the flower pots into the pit.

 Dong Sanhua planted sweet potato vines in it.

Shen Ningning was surprised: "You planted it in the house?"

Dong Sanhua smiled quietly: "It's warm in the house, but if you put it outside, the sweet potato vines won't grow if they get cold."

While they were talking, Uncle Deng had already brought back a lot of firewood and piled it all in the small kitchen.

He also helped her lay out the bedding, carried two large tanks out, washed them, and filled them with fresh water brought from home.

Shen Ningning saw that they cooperated with each other, and they had a good understanding.

So he didn’t stay any longer and said goodbye before leaving.

Uncle Deng has been helping to clean the tables and benches and sweep the dust, and he only went back in the evening.

“Dad, I’m back.” Uncle Deng walked in, patted the snow dust on his body, and went to the stove to warm his hands.

He brought over a food box: "I know you didn't eat the pancakes that Ahua baked just now, so I brought you a portion and a bowl of porridge."

The old village chief ignored him and chewed tea stems with an unhappy look on his face.

Uncle Deng felt it no matter how slow he was.

“Dad, what’s wrong with you?” he asked sitting next to him.

The old village chief sneered: "You still know what's wrong with me? You are just a useless thing, boring gourd!"

“While Ning Ning was here, why didn’t you say that you wanted Ahua to stay?”

"If you open your mouth, I can help you two arrange a marriage smoothly. It would be better for you to not say anything and cooperate to send the person away."

Uncle Deng was scolded and looked innocent: "Dad, Ah Hua and I are friends now. We can't force her to marry me just because she lives with someone else. Otherwise, wouldn't this be bullying?"

The old village chief kicked him angrily: "You don't like her? You don't like that you follow her around every day!"

Uncle Deng blushed immediately: "I like her, but... I'm not worthy of her, and A-hua has never been married."

  The old village chief had nothing to say to his son.

 He patted his heart angrily, and Uncle Deng quickly poured him tea.

The old village chief slapped him: "Go away, don't be an eyesore in front of me, my life will be shortened if I see you!"

 …

 This day.

  Shen Ningning was dismissed from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

As soon as he went out, he saw Xie Mingan's carriage stopped.

A slender white palm lifted the curtain, revealing Xie Mingan's handsome face like a jade master.

He smiled faintly: "What a coincidence, I was about to pick you up and you were out of school? Get in the carriage and go home together."

Shen Ningning pretended not to hear, tilted her head, and walked towards her carriage.

 Xie Mingan's eyes darkened. He decisively got off the carriage and followed Shen Ningning.

"Why are you still ignoring me? I haven't made you unhappy recently, have I?" Xie Mingan asked.

Shen Ningning stopped her feet and looked at him with dark, watery eyes.

 “I just don’t want to care about you, so don’t bother me!”

"Shen Ningning, you are so heartless. When you said you liked jade, I took out everything my mother left for me. Why don't you remember me?" Xie Mingan frowned and said.

Shen Ningning blinked her big eyes: "What, that's yours? If I had known it was yours, I wouldn't have wanted it."

 Xie Mingan didn't expect that she would be so clearly separated from him.

He stretched out his hand and blocked Shen Ningning's path, preventing the little guy from getting on the carriage.

"Xie Shaoqing, do you want to bully a child? If I shout now, Mrs. Han will come out and knock you down with a punch!" Shen Ningning threatened him fiercely.

 Xie Mingan had a sneer on his thin lips.

He frowned: "The eldest brother is Brother A, but my second brother is Xie Shaoqing."

"I misunderstood you before and I already said it was my fault. Why do you still hold grudges?"

 “Tell me what you can do so that you can forgive me and talk to me properly!”

 Shen Ningning was silent.

 The cold wind blew up, lifting their clothes.

After a moment, the little guy turned his head and looked at him with his big, clear, black eyes.

 A small face, blown pink by the cold wind.

She said: "Aren't you very good at investigating cases?"

"Then you can help me find out who my biological father and mother are."

“I don’t want to have to face a bare tablet every time I worship them.”

“If you find out, I will let go of the past with you.”

 Xie Mingan was startled.

By the time he came to his senses, Shen Ningning's carriage had already driven some distance away.

"Okay, I promise you." Xie Mingan raised his voice and made his promise to her in the ice and snow.

 Just do it.

 After Xie Mingan returned, he immediately sent more than ten confidants to Shuzhou.

 Because it was said that the maid from the Xie Mansion who had met Shen Ningning's parents ended up in Shuzhou.

Although Xie Mingan checked before, the maid was already dead.

 However, he did not believe that there were no clues.

 The wind and snow were howling, the weather was gloomy, and soon, a month passed.

 “Sir, Shaoqing, we found it!”

 At night, his confidant ran for hundreds of miles, carrying snow foam on his body, and went directly to Xie Mingan's study.

Xie Mingan hurriedly put down the pen in his hand: "How? What's the gain?"

A confidant said: "That maid may not have died, but was taken away."

Just as Xie Mingan was about to ask further questions, the butler, Uncle Pang, knocked on the door: "Second Young Master, I have summoned you to come over."

 Xie Mingan frowned: "I know."

 He stood up and said to his confidant: "I'll go and come back."

 Xie Mingan arrived at Xie Suzhi's study.

But Xie Suzhi's face was as gloomy as frost: "The people below said, have you been checking the old slaves who served your mother recently?"

"Yes, father." Xie Ming'an nodded, still not understanding what Xie Suzhi wanted to do when he asked.

Unexpectedly, Xie Suzhi immediately said in a deep voice: "Call your people back immediately. This matter is not allowed to be investigated again."

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