He continued, as if admitting defeat to his long-held obsession, "Perhaps we should try to let go of our prejudices against outsiders..."

Zeng Lianggu was completely baffled. He had said this to Lao Geng many times before, and what had Lao Geng replied? Oh, he yelled at him, "You're telling me to let go? Zeng Lianggu, you actually want me to let go? You actually want to let go? You can let go but I can't. If you do let go, don't blame me for turning my back on you!"

And so, his obsession grew deeper and deeper, becoming increasingly difficult to let go, which led to his and Lao Geng's later conflict with that kid, A-Yi-Gu...

But now that this guy would actually say such a thing, Zeng Lianggu felt inexplicably relieved. "If that's the case, then let it go."

The two longtime friends exchanged a glance. Ruan Geng had only brought it up to fool Zeng Lianggu, and although his words sounded nice, they were not his true thoughts at all. But at this moment, the string that had been tied to his heart seemed to loosen. Perhaps, trying to let go of his prejudices was not a bad choice.

Hua Ansu is very powerful. If her abilities were to be used by him… would he be able to see that person again before he dies? Is she well? Does she still look the same? Is she…?

Thinking of this, Ruan Geng became excited. If only it were possible, if only it were really possible...

He closed his eyes, and even if he died, he would have no regrets.

Because of the inhibitors, people started work late today. After having tea and a meal, Ruan Geng held a small meeting before heading to the new city. The purpose of the meeting was nothing more than to make use of the people who were with him and get them to work in the new city.

It's called "working," but it's really just turning the soil, turning the soil, and more turning the soil. They keep turning the soil, but not a single seed is lost. Why turn the soil? Isn't this just making people do useless work? Nobody can accept that.

Actually, it wasn't all about turning over the soil; the men of Huafu Battalion had to spray "pesticides" once a day.

But people's resentment has been slowly accumulating. Now that they have been given the so-called "inhibitor" and their strange disease has been cured, they are even more focused on food. They eat and drink to their hearts' content every day, but there is no new grain. Is this a way to let people enjoy a period of freedom and then send them all to the underworld?

Even though Ruan Geng "betrayed" Hua Ansu and said many good things about her, it couldn't stop people's thoughts. Complaints spread from one person to another when they went to work, but that afternoon, everyone shut up.

The Mengwa people have returned.

They brought more than a dozen cartloads of grain, including wild potatoes, wild rice, and many more grain varieties they had never seen before.

Hundreds of people stared wide-eyed—it was grain!

Despite having so much grain, the Mengwa people said they still had a lot more to bring back and would have to make two or three more trips to bring it back!

Good heavens, am I dreaming?

But I can't even dream of this kind of thing that looks so pleasing, golden yellow, and has an indescribable fragrance... Oh, the vice minister said it's called corn.

Jade, indeed! Each bead is exquisitely translucent, even more beautiful than jade itself.

And another thing, that pearl rice, it's called pearl rice, it's much better than their wormwood rice.

Most importantly, there's another truckload of meat!

Now they finally understood why the deputy minister was being so "unrestrained." It turned out she really wasn't lying to them; she knew exactly what she was doing!

Therefore, amidst the cheers of everyone calling him "Deputy Minister," Hua Ansu's popularity soared.

She must be the goddess who came to save them!