As previously recounted, the junior minister, in order to steal the "seven-colored rice seeds" for his grandson, had fallen for his strategist's foolish idea to dress up like a mother hen and infiltrate the flock—only to be chased and pecked by a real rooster and tied to a scarecrow by the Spirit Rice using its own ears.
When Li Rufeng discovered him, the junior minister was wearing a chicken-feather skirt and howling miserably, Ayina was slapping her thighs in laughter, and Mei Yuxin was disdainfully handing over a towel.
Half a jade pendant had fallen out from beneath the junior minister's chicken-feather skirt, which matched the fragment on Li Rufeng's sleeve, triggering the hidden System quest: "The Mystery of the Jade Pendant".
Chapter 505