It's just a bag of sweet potatoes. Does she really want to treat it like a precious treasure and worship it?

Could it be that Ding Huizhu's eyes flickered slightly as she glanced at Xie Li, her brows furrowing? Was she planning to make an exorbitant demand?

If she dares to ask for 100,000 from Jiang Baili, then she'd probably ask for at least 500,000 from her biological mother.

Ding Huizhu's gaze slowly changed, and the expression on her face gradually became distant and indifferent.

Xie Li: "This is a golden sweet potato, not an ordinary sweet potato, and it also has the effects of strengthening muscles and bones and delaying aging..."

These aren't ordinary sweet potatoes? Ding Huizhu's heart sank. So, Xie Li really was planning to use this sack of sweet potatoes to extort a large sum of money from her, right?

Even before she learned that her biological daughter had been raised by a couple who cheated and sold fake medicine, she was very worried about her daughter's character.

Now it seems that it was indeed true.

"Enough!" Ding Huizhu waved her hand, stopping Xie Li from continuing. "Since this thing is so valuable, I can't accept it."

She doesn't plan to give him 500,000 anymore. If she really asks for it, what will happen later?

"Do with it as you please," Ding Huizhu said coldly. "Just don't let me see this snakeskin bag again."

Xie Li glanced at her with some surprise, but Ding Huizhu had already stopped looking at her and turned away.

Xie Li stood silently in place for a while, feeling somewhat lost and confused.

Are city folks starting to look down on even sweet potatoes?!

A year ago, Shen Tiezhu said that the cost of a snakeskin bag was no less than 100,000 yuan. How come it has dropped to 1,000 yuan in just one year?

As expected of a city dweller, they are well-traveled and knowledgeable, and have no interest in such heavy and dull things.

She once planned that if the Xie family didn't want to acknowledge her, she would grow sweet potatoes in the mountains for the rest of her life. After all, she had cultivated this plant according to ancient books, and only she could grow the best quality sweet potatoes, so she was not worried about not being able to become rich.

Now it seems that farming is indeed a bad idea; I should just stay at the Xie family home and focus on my studies.

Just then, Aunt Zhang came over, and Xie Li's eyes lit up. He earnestly tried to sell her sweet potatoes: "Grandma, would you like some sweet potatoes...? Oh, right, we can't eat them at the Xie family villa. Do your family members eat sweet potatoes?"

Zhang Ma was flattered: "I'll eat, of course I'll eat! The old man didn't ask me to serve him at the front, can't I just hide and eat?"

"Young lady, you planted these yourself! Oh my, this old lady is so lucky!"

Xie Li breathed a sigh of relief after delivering the snakeskin bag to Zhang Ma's room in the annex.

Xie Li was quite happy to have solved the problem of the golden potatoes, and a smile even appeared on his usually aloof face.

That smile was warm and radiant, vibrant and dazzling.

Zhang Ma had just finished calling her son, asking him to come to the old house and bring some sweet potatoes... uh, not regular sweet potatoes, to eat when she turned around and saw them, and was immediately amazed.

Even though the young lady's face was still covered in green juice, it made her feel as if she were seeing the old lady when she was young!

But the smile vanished in an instant. The old lady clutched her chest and shook her head. If the young lady laughed a few more times, she was afraid her heart wouldn't be able to take it!

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When Xie Li returned to the living room, only Xie Yunqiu and Jiang Baili, mother and daughter, were left.

She sat down by herself, took out her phone, and started playing with it.

Jiang Baili had been watching her closely. Peeking out, she smiled elegantly: "The best high school in Linjiang City? Why are you searching for that?"

Xie Li thought for a moment and then honestly confessed, "I plan to find a school to study hard in high school."