When the system saw her picking up a knife to peel the fruit, it felt like something was wrong, but it couldn't tell what.
The system checked itself internally and found no problems, so it waited quietly.
Manbao had never eaten yam and had never seen it before, so she was very curious about it. So, for the first time ever, she did not go into the house to settle accounts with her mother and brothers, but squatted at the kitchen door to watch her sister-in-law peel the yam.
Xiao Qian gently cut the yam and the white flesh appeared. Manbao curiously stretched out his finger to touch it and found it was sticky.
Xiao Qian slapped her dirty little hands away and continued peeling.
As she was whittling, Xiao Qian felt something was wrong. " Why do my hands feel a little itchy?"
Manbao, who picked up yam peels to observe out of curiosity, also felt his hands were a little itchy, and the itchiness was getting worse.
She couldn't help but grab it, and once she grabbed it, she couldn't help it anymore, so her two hands started grabbing each other.
When Xiao Qian saw her, her hands turned red. She was so frightened that she quickly dropped her knife and the peeled yam and grabbed her hands, saying in panic, "What's going on? Is this medicine poisonous?"
When Qian heard the noise, she couldn't help but run out of the house. Seeing that Manbao's hands were covered with red scratches, she immediately said, "Hurry up and get some water to wash them."
Zhou Wulang quickly got them some water. After the two sisters-in-law washed themselves, they still felt itchy. Xiao Qianshi was fine, she could bear it, but Manbao couldn't help it. She scratched and scratched again, but found that it was still very itchy, so she couldn't help crying out, scratching and shouting: "Mom, mom, it's itchy..."
Qian grabbed her little hand and stopped her from grabbing it. Seeing her crying in pain, she felt a little uncomfortable. She turned around and asked Zhou Dalang, "Didn't you say it was a good thing? Why is it poisonous?"
Zhou Dalang and the others didn't understand either. He said with sweat on his forehead, "This, this is all what Manbao said. The owner of the medicine shop also said it's a good thing and can be eaten."
Qian asked Manbao with a stern face, "Don't cry, Manbao, isn't it clearly written in the book you read?"
Manbao was crying and calling "Koko" in his mind. The system had already looked up information when Manbao felt itchy, but found that there was not enough information about him, so he could only check in the encyclopedia.
There is no such knowledge in the confirmed materials, but there are some records in some novels and strange stories.
It is said that when peeling yam, the soapnuts in the skin will stick to your hands and cause itching and allergies.
But there will be no such species as yam in the future, and relevant botanists have not found the exact genes left behind, so they certainly cannot be sure about this.
It is impossible to write uncertain factors into the entry information to avoid misunderstanding by future generations. Science must be 100% accurate.
However, Keke reacted quickly and guessed that saponin might really exist. It was not difficult to destroy this plant alkaloid. The system did not even need to search for information. It directly said: "Just soak your hands in vinegar. It neutralizes the acid and alkali."
It briefly explained to Manbao what alkaloids are and what acid-base neutralization is.
Manbao said to her mother with tears in her eyes, "I want vinegar to soak my hands."
Qian felt distressed when she heard this, but she still gritted her teeth and asked He to go to the kitchen to get vinegar.
He did take it out, but said, "Mom, there's only a little vinegar left. It's not enough."
Qian took the vinegar jar and poured out the remaining vinegar for Manbao to wipe his hands, saying, "Go borrow some from other families, and then go to the market to buy some and return it to me."
Manbao smelled the fragrant vinegar and felt a little hungry. She couldn't help but lick her hand with her tongue. Qian almost slapped her in the face. She panicked and quickly gave her water to rinse her mouth. She scolded, "You knew it was poisonous, but you still ate it. Don't you have a heart?"
Manbao felt wronged, "It smells so good, so good."
The system has come back to its senses. The host's howling almost made it forget the poverty of this era. It said, "Host, in addition to using vinegar, you can also use fire. Roasting your hands with fire can destroy the saponin, and it will stop itching."
Manbao quickly told her sister-in-law and used her little hands to grab her hands, so that the vinegar on her hands would stick to her hands.
Qian was a bit partial. Since she didn't have much vinegar, she gave it all to her daughter.
When He heard this, she quickly lit a fire to warm the two men's hands.
As their hands gradually warmed up, Manbao and Xiao Qianshi no longer felt itchy, and they began to become interested in studying the yam peel.
Little Qian said to Manbao, "Why don't you remember the whole book when you read it, but just remember it paragraph by paragraph?"
Manbao sniffed and made up her mind that when the entry about yam came out, she would read it carefully, and she would also read the other entries carefully in the future.
The aunt and the sister-in-law slowly turned their hands over. After a while, they were warm and the itchiness gradually subsided. However, Xiao Qian was still frightened. She looked at the peeled yam and said, "It's poisonous. Should we eat it?"
Manbao had already been educated by Keke, so he quickly said, "It's not poisonous. It's just that there is saponin in the yam peel, so it itches. Next time you peel the yam, just wrap your hands with something."
He added, "Yam is delicious, very delicious. And we don't have to worry about it being poisonous. Look, we can just warm our hands. Even if the yam is poisonous, wouldn't it be fine if we put it in boiling water?"
Although no one knew what saponin was, everyone thought what Manbao said made sense, and everyone was still very interested in this kind of food that wealthy people spent a lot of money to buy.
Yes, in their opinion, the price of yam is very high, even higher than meat.
Chicken is only twelve cents a pound, not to mention that Manbao said it can be used as medicine.
In their impression, all medicines are bitter. How can some of them taste delicious?
Xiao Qian felt itchy anymore, so she went to chop the mutton. She first boiled the mutton until it was almost cooked, then put in the yam and simmered it for a while. Because she was afraid that the yam was not cooked, she picked it up with chopsticks and found that the chopsticks could split the yam in half, so she served it out.
The whole family was waiting. After smelling the aroma of meat, Manbao squatted in the kitchen and refused to leave.
Ertou and Santou, who were about the same age as her, and Sanya and Sitou, who could only walk, were all squatting in the kitchen without moving. Zhou Wulang called them several times but they did not respond.
He wanted to reach out and drag her away, but Xiao Qian hit him, "Go play by yourself, why do you always bother Manbao?"
Zhou Wulang pouted. He just wanted Manbao to settle the accounts with him. They had a share of the money from the yam, and they were the ones who pulled out all the Centella asiatica. But in the end, his eldest brother gave all the money to his mother.
If Manbao doesn't go, even if they have the guts to ask for money, they won't have the ability to settle the bill.
Seeing that Manbao's eyes were full of food and he couldn't think about money at all, Zhou Wulang went back to the house angrily. He decided that he must learn arithmetic well. His second brother was right, and his uncle was right. In this world, brothers will give your money to mother, mother will take your money, and sisters will be unreliable. Only the skills you learn by yourself will always be yours and no one can take them away from you.
Zhou Wulang squatted on the ground angrily and wrote down numbers.