The variable of nail leaves a and b is water. After the main vein is cut off, the conduit at the cut-off place is cut off, resulting in that water can't be transported to leaf A. Photosynthesis at leaf A stops due to lack of raw materials, and starch can't be produced, so the drop of iodine doesn't turn blue. Below the cut-off place, water transported by the conduit can be obtained for photosynthesis, so starch can be produced at leaf A, and the drop of iodine turns blue.
So choose: C.