Chapter 14 Manual Testing

At noon, the mother and her two daughters returned home.

Ye Caiping carried several kilograms of shepherd's purse, and her two daughters carried miscellaneous dry firewood.

When I entered the door, I saw Old Man Ye and Brother Ye Yong putting the rope in the woodshed.

"Dad, you're back." Ye Caiping greeted him, "Have you sold all the firewood?"

Old Man Ye nodded. This time, he not only sold the firewood, but also paid off the debt that Ye Daquan had borrowed.

There were a total of twenty bundles of firewood, which was the amount that Ye Yong and his brothers had saved for half a month.

A bundle was only two cents, and I got 40 cents. After paying off the debt of 37 cents, I had only three cents left.

"What are you carrying?" said Old Man Ye.

"We dug a few pounds of shepherd's purse, enough for us to eat for two meals."

Wei and Ye Yinhua in the kitchen were delighted to hear that they didn't have to eat radish porridge anymore.

This year, almost all the edible things in the mountains have been picked up by the villagers. It is considered good luck if you can dig up a few pounds of wild vegetables to change the taste.

Another quarter of an hour later, Ye Daquan, Du and the other two came back.

Mrs. Du became much more restrained and did not have much contact or communication with Ye Caiping and her daughter.

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The next morning, after Ye Caiping had some porridge at the headman's house, she continued to go up the mountain with her two daughters.

He also secretly took the unused clay pots and small stove at home with him.

The mother and her two daughters went up the mountain and came to the stream where they had soaked cassava yesterday.

Ye Caiping untied the vines tied to the tree and pulled out the cassava soaked in the stream.

"Jin'er, you light the fire, Huan'er, you go get some water."

The two sisters swallowed and took action immediately.

Soon, Ye Jin'er started a fire, and Ye Huan'er filled the clay pot with water and placed it on the stove.

Ye Caiping put the cassava that had been soaked for a day and a night into the pot.

Ye Jin'er and her sister stared at it anxiously, and soon the water began to boil.

After boiling for about ten minutes, Ye Caiping picked out the cassava with chopsticks, then poured out the water in the pot, filled it with clean water again, and brought it to a boil again.

Ye Caiping also washed the cooked cassava in the river and put it back into the pot.

This was done twice. After changing the water for the last time, Ye Caiping added salt and cooked together.

It's done when the cassava in the pot can be easily pierced by using chopsticks.

"Okay, take it out of the pot!" Ye Caiping let out a breath.

She piled all the cassava on the big leaves on the ground, and the fresh fragrance of cassava immediately filled her nose.

Sister Ye Jin'er slurped their saliva. Is this the root of the poison? It smells so good, and looks so soft and sticky, it looks so delicious.

But when they thought of what happened to Liu Heigou last time when he was poisoned and had to be fed feces to induce vomiting, they couldn't help but shudder.

Not to mention Ye Jin'er and her sister, even Ye Caiping was unsure at this moment.

When they were young, the aunt at the welfare home cooked bitter cassava for them, and she knew the method. But by the time she grew up, bitter cassava had already been withdrawn from the market.

Ye Caiping turned her back and called up the system panel.

She remembered that the space would automatically detect merchandise, with each detection describing the product in detail.

Just like her golden wound medicine and yesterday's cassava, Space would describe it as "extremely ineffective" and "toxic and bitter cassava".

Ye Caiping stared at the cooked cassava in front of her. The system still did not respond. She glanced at the panel and saw a "manual detection" button in the corner.

Ye Caiping was delighted and pressed the button quickly. Suddenly, a small light curtain appeared in front of her eyes, and wherever she looked, the light curtain fell there.

She looked at the cooked cassava and pressed the button again. A familiar mechanical voice sounded:

【Edible cooked cassava was detected. This system does not purchase cooked food, please show other products. 】

Ye Caiping was overjoyed, because if it was edible, it was non-toxic!

Moreover, this detection function is so useful! It’s a magical drug detection tool!

In the future, if you come across suspicious food, you can just manually test it to see if it is poisonous.

"Mom?" Ye Jin'er called tentatively.

They couldn't see the system panel and the light screen. They saw Ye Caiping was silent, sometimes sad, sometimes smiling, which scared the two sisters.

"It's okay, eat it!" Ye Caiping smiled and picked up a piece of cassava.

Ye Jin'er's face changed, and she said anxiously: "I, I'll eat first..."

If anyone dies, she will be the first to die.

Ye Caiping was speechless. She didn't argue with her and picked up a piece and stuffed it into her hand: "Then eat it."

Ye Jin'er took a bite without hesitation, and then her eyes lit up: "It's delicious... much better than the radish and rice bran porridge... it doesn't make your throat sore at all."

Then, she solved the problem in no time.

Although Ye Huan'er was afraid, she was also very greedy, so Ye Caiping stuffed a piece into her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, it's not poisonous."

"Yeah." Ye Huan'er was happy.

Anyway, my sister has eaten it. If it is really poisonous, the worst that can happen is that the three of us will die together.

The three of them started eating happily.

Cassava is the king of starch. One person ate three big pieces and felt full.

There were three large pieces left, so Ye Caiping stopped them from eating them.

Then, the two sisters followed Ye Caiping to look for wild vegetables with nervous hearts.

It was not until noon that the two sisters finally breathed a sigh of relief. Generally, if someone eats a poisonous root and is poisoned, the poison will take effect in about an hour and a half.

Two hours have passed now, and they are still fine, proving that my mother's approach was correct!

"There are poisonous roots all over the mountain. There look to be thousands of them. We won't have to go hungry anymore." Ye Jin'er said excitedly.

"This is called cassava, not poisonous root." Ye Caiping corrected.

"Yes, it's cassava. Let's tell grandpa and uncle right away when we get back."

"Wait. If you tell them directly, they won't believe it, nor will they try it. I have a better way. When you get home, just do as I say." Ye Caiping said.

As Ye Caiping spoke, she told her two daughters about her plan. Ye Jiner and her sister's eyes lit up and they quickly agreed.

Ye Huan'er said, "We dug hundreds of kilograms yesterday. Let's get them here and soak them all."

"Okay, let's go."

The mother and her two daughters quickly returned to the cassava forest, but the cassava they had bundled yesterday was gone.

Ye Jin'er frowned, "Strange, I clearly put three bundles here yesterday! How come they are gone?"

Ye Caiping said calmly, "It must have been accidentally bumped or kicked by an animal in the mountains, and rolled down to the forest below. Forget it, there are so many anyway, we can just dig it up after we convince your grandfather and the others."

Although Ye Jin'er and her sister felt it was a pity, there was nothing they could do. They couldn't risk going down the mountain to look for it.

The mother, her two daughters, put on their backpacks and walked down the mountain.

"It's very heavy, let me help you carry it down the mountain!" A steady voice came from not far away.

Ye Caiping paused. This voice...

Ye Caiping pulled aside the branches of the bushes that blocked her view and saw a young man and woman cutting grass for pigs.

The tall and handsome young man was her nephew Ye Yong.

Ye Yong put handfuls of cut pig grass into a large backpack, with a simple smile on his dark face.

The girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old. She was wearing coarse cloth clothes that were washed white and a cloth towel tied on her head. She is not very white, but she has delicate features and a slim figure.

"Thank you... You have already helped me cut so much grass for the pigs. I can't trouble you anymore. You still have to carry firewood." said the girl.

"Let's switch back!" Ye Yong took the lead in carrying the large backpack full of pig grass, "and then switch back after we get down the mountain."

There wasn't much firewood in his own backpack, so it was naturally not as heavy as the pig grass.

Seeing that he had already carried the firewood on his back, the girl could only nod shyly and carry his half-bunch of firewood on her back.

The two left one after the other.

Behind the bushes, Ye Jin'er said, "Mom, my cousin and that girl..."

Ye Caiping said: "Let's just pretend we didn't see it and don't tell anyone about it."

The Ye Jiner sisters looked at each other and nodded quickly.

Now they don’t know the situation between Ye Yong and the girl, so they can’t tell anyone carelessly.

Although the separation of men and women in the village is not very serious, if this kind of thing is made public, it will always bring bad reputation, especially to girls.