Manbao reached out and tugged at the leaves of the vine. He still felt that it looked familiar, so he asked Keke, "What is yam? Did I enter it before?"
"No," the system seemed a little excited and said, "This is wild yam, which is very valuable. If the host enters it, you will remember it."
The system added, "It's delicious and can be stewed with chicken."
Keke has quickly retrieved some records about yam from the encyclopedia.
Yams are now extinct in the future, but they disappeared for a short time and they were once glorious as food ingredients in history, so there are many records about yams. Not only that, you can even find a whole cookbook using yams as ingredients in the encyclopedia.
The system urged Manbao to dig up the stuff and include it in the database. It said, "Because Chinese yam not only has medicinal value, but also has huge edible value, the encyclopedia has a very high position for it. If it is included, the reward points will definitely not be low, and the speed of getting them will be fast."
Up to now, the Encyclopedia has not settled Nuzhenzi's points with them, and the system is afraid that Manbao's enthusiasm will be dampened.
But Manbao herself almost forgot the points of Ligustrum lucidum. She only heard Koko say that the yam was delicious, so her saliva secretion increased a little. Then waved her little hand and asked her fifth brother to dig for her.
Zhou Wulang looked at the plant with disdain, and finally squeezed out a little impression from his limited brain, and said: "Isn't this the chicken-foot vine? Why did you dig it up?"
Ke Ke subconsciously searched for Chinese Yam in his system, but found no entry. He then searched in the encyclopedia, but there was no such entry either. He couldn't help but wonder, "Could this be another nickname for Chinese Yam that is not included?"
Manbao didn't care and asked Zhou Wulang to dig. When he refused, she squatted on the ground, picked up a small wooden stick and started digging by herself.
Zhou Wulang had no choice but to pick up the youngest sister and put her aside, saying, "Let me do it."
He found a relatively thick branch and broke it to make it sharper. Then he pushed the vine aside and dug its roots.
While digging, he complained, "This is the Cistanche deserticola, right? There are long roots underneath this thing, why are you digging it up?"
Zhou Liulang and Datou came over and saw Zhou Wulang digging something, so they joined in and asked, "Brother Wu, what are you digging for?"
"Manbao asked me to dig it up. Isn't this the Cistanche deserticola? I remember there is one next to our land." Zhou Wulang tried to negotiate with Manbao, "If you want it, I'll dig it up for you when I get home."
Zhou Liulang looked at the plant and said, "It's not the Cistanche deserticola, you see it has no fruit."
Big Head also didn't think it looked like Cistanche deserticola. As for the others, they had no idea because they had never heard of the name Cistanche deserticola.
Zhou Wulang was a little tired and was just trying to find an excuse to go on strike when something suddenly appeared from the soil.
He exclaimed , and quickly dug to the side along the root, "It's really not the chicken-arrow vine."
Manbao happily squatted a little closer and directed: "Dig here, dig here, don't dig too much."
The soil here is relatively easy to dig because it is on the side of the hillside. There are a lot of fallen leaves here and the soil is brown. Perhaps because there are a lot of rotten leaves and it is moist, the soil is a bit loose.
In this short period of time, Keke has searched a lot of information about yam for Manbao, and analyzed the soil for her, saying that this piece of soil is very suitable for the growth of yam.
The soil is fertile and moist, and the fallen leaves can provide it with enough nutrients, so Keke also reminded her that for sustainable development, it is recommended that Manbao not dig up all the yam, but leave some for seeds.
Manbao agreed. There were a lot of yams in the bunch and they definitely couldn't dig them all up.
Manbao squatted aside, stretched out his hand and scooped up a handful of soil mixed with rotten leaves and rubbed it. Zhou Wulang had already dug out a yam. It was a very long piece, and a small piece was broken in the mud. However, Zhou Wulang was too lazy to dig it out, so he broke the vine, gave the rhizome to Manbao, and then went to dig another one.
Several people were busy here, and Zhou Dalang finally felt something was wrong and came over.
Seeing them digging with their buttocks sticking out, Zhou Dalang couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
Manbao had already started to help, her face was covered with mud. She raised her excited face and said to Zhou Dalang happily: "Brother, come and help us, we found yam."
Zhou Dalang immediately stepped forward, took a look at the rhizomes they dug out, and asked, "What kind of medicine is yam?"
Manbao said: "It's yam. It can be eaten as a vegetable or as medicine."
Zhou Dalang had no doubts, because it was Manbao who told them about Ligustrum lucidum, and they only then knew that this thing was a medicine.
He immediately rolled up his sleeves to help, and asked Manbao, "Manbao, how do you know that yam is a medicine?"
“It’s written in the book.”
It’s a pity that Manbao can’t take out the book in Koko’s stomach and show it to his elder brother.
Zhou Dalang thought that Manbao saw the book from Mr. Zhuang or the Bai family, because in recent days Manbao had been following the young master of the Bai family to read books. According to her, the Bai family had many books, including a book with pictures, which contained many medicinal materials and recorded the methods of preparation.
With Zhou Dalang's participation, the speed was much faster. At Manbao's request, everyone left a yam on the hillside. In Manbao's words, "Leave one as a seed, and you can harvest another one next year."
Daya supported her waist and said, "It would be better to dig it up and plant it at home, so that we don't have to come here to dig it up next year."
Manbao thought about it and felt that what she said made sense, so he asked everyone to dig up the last yam.
Koko wanted to say something, but after scanning, he found that they were not digging professionally and almost every root had a small section broken off in the soil. After thinking about it, he stopped talking.
There were quite a lot of yams in this bunch. Zhou Dalang and Zhou Wulang each held one in their arms. For fear that they would break, they put them on the cart carefully.
Zhou Dalang said, "I don't know if this thing should be prepared."
Zhou Wulang was curious, "I wonder if the pharmacy will accept it."
Manbao was very confident, "Since it's medicine, of course I'll take it."
Everyone's mood became more excited, Zhou Liulang said: "I wonder if the price is high."
Zhou Erlang already knew from their few words that this thing was also a medicine. He couldn't help but hug Manbao into his arms and said, "Manbao, you are really smart. You know more than us brothers."
"That's right," Zhou Dalang was also very proud, "Our Manbao is a scholar."
The scholar Manbao was placed in the middle of the cart. The two Zhou brothers were very excited and pulled the cart away. If these yams could be sold for a price, they would have to look carefully in the mountains, maybe they could find some.