Hearing his voice, the elderly farmers were bewildered. They didn't understand how the seeds had ended up coming from the Taoxian Brew distillery, nor why these people were now facing a prison sentence.
Liu Zhishui’s eyes lit up the moment he heard this, and he suddenly remembered who Zhao Tiezhu was. He was the director of the Taoxian Brew distillery. He must have come for a covert inspection to investigate why their raw materials were going missing. Liu had visited the distillery before to study their operations, hoping to implement their techniques in this area, though he hadn't succeeded at the time. He had known even then that the director was Zhao Tiezhu and had seen his photograph.
Zheng Jiye had also likely guessed that Zhao Tiezhu had some connection to the distillery; otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to identify the corn seeds at a single glance.
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