Chapter 356 Is this thing edible?

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will write it down immediately."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The villagers knelt down again. Zhou Yu felt helpless and quickly waved his hand to ask people to help them up.

After eating two egg pancakes, he was still hungry and dizzy, and he didn't want to talk anymore.

"Your Majesty, it will take too long to burn all the bodies. It's almost dark. Look..."

Li Dalin turned back again, and the faint smell of egg and scallion pancakes in the air made him subconsciously sniff.

Zhou Yu...

Sorry, we’ve finished eating!

Eunuch Li covered the half cake in his arms and said, "No, this is what he picked out from between his teeth and left for the emperor. I can't give it to him."

The military doctor picked his teeth and found some chopped green onions in between them, but they had no taste after he swallowed them!

"Your Majesty, since the villagers are here, please ask them to help burn the bodies. We should try to finish burning them before dark so that we can set up camp."

"According to Marshal Bai, the common people who help with the cremation of the corpse can each receive 100 coins. Eunuch Li will record the list and distribute it according to the number of people."

"yes!"

Bai Li asked Nangong Min to accompany the emperor, and she walked straight towards the yam vine.

"Marshal Bai, this vine is poisonous!"

Before Bai Li could touch it, an old man next to her suddenly spoke, almost scaring her.

"Uncle, don't you know this is edible?"

"Marshal Bai, you absolutely cannot eat this, it's poisonous!"

"What's the matter?"

Nangong Min arranged for the emperor to sit at the entrance of the cave, with the military doctor and eunuch Li guarding him. He heard the noise and came over.

"Major General Nangong, please persuade Marshal Bai. This thing is truly poisonous. Its stems are covered in mucus. Touching them will cause severe itching and swelling. There's no medicine to cure it!"

The old man recognized Marshal Bai and naturally knew that the person with her must be Major General Nangong.

He looked nervous, fearing that Marshal Bai was young and ignorant and would not listen to advice.

Just then a helper showed up and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Nangong Min looked at Bai Li, who gave him a reassuring look in return.

"Uncle, I believe her. Everything she says is right."

The old man choked and was unable to breathe. He was choked by the dog food!

"Uncle, this thing has mucus, but it can be eaten after being cooked or roasted. It not only fills your stomach, but also strengthens your spleen and kidneys. It is a rare and excellent tonic!"

"real?"

The old man fell into self-doubt. Someone had been poisoned just after digging it out, so naturally no one dared to cook it and eat it.

But if Marshal Bai wants to try, let him try it later. Anyway, he is already buried up to his neck in the earth, so he can just enjoy his life in advance when he dies.

Marshal Bai cannot be in any danger, as she still has to lead the soldiers of the Great Zhou to conquer the six kingdoms.

At first, the common people could not understand why the emperor wanted to conquer the six kingdoms.

But just now they saw with their own eyes how brutal and hateful the Li army was, and they understood the emperor's decision.

The six kingdoms have always been eyeing the Great Zhou covetously. If the Great Zhou is not subdued, it will sooner or later be devoured by them.

While the old man was daydreaming, Bai Li had already dug out the yam with a big knife.

The yam is long and as thick as a child's arm, covered with hairy roots, and its brown skin looks like a tree root.

"What is this? Can you eat it?"

At some point, Zhou Yu came over with the support of the two of them.

"Your Majesty, you will know soon."

Next to him, Nangong Min had already lit a fire. There were many dry branches and leaves in the woods, and he used the lighter given by Bai Li to light it.

Bai Li threw the yam, which had been wiped dry of dirt, into the fire. When the fire burned out, a unique aroma of burnt noodles wafted out.

"Hmm, it smells so good. Am I hallucinating? How can there be any food smell here?"

Zhou Yu and a few others gathered around the fire. People outside could not see the situation inside, and no one saw what Bai Li had just done.

Everyone was busy moving the bodies and looking for dry firewood to burn them.

The old man was the head of several villages. Because he was old, the emperor did not let him help.

There were nearly 100,000 corpses from the two armies combined, and they all had to be moved to a large pit on the other side of the mountain and burned. This was a huge project.

Bai Li used a wooden stick to pull the yam out of the fire. Zhou Yu and the others looked at each other, and finally looked at Nangong Min. It has turned into charcoal, how can it still be eaten?

Nangong Min touched his nose. As a loyal supporter of his future wife, he still insisted on believing in his wife.

After it cooled down a bit, Bai Li broke the yam into two parts with his hands, revealing the white powdery surface inside.

He handed a section to Nangong Min, then began to peel the skin, took out a piece, and took a big bite.

Um!

So delicious!

It is powdery, floury, and has a hint of sweetness. It is delicate and has the unique fragrance of wild yam. This original wild yam is many times more delicious than the improved and cultivated ones in later generations.

While Zhou Yu was stunned, Bai Li had almost eaten half of the piece in his hand.

Zhou Yu was so greedy by the aroma that he felt like his stomach was about to burst. He was too embarrassed to snatch Bai Li's food, but he was not polite to Nangong Min next to him.

"Cousin, thank you for helping me peel the skin!"

Nangong Min's hands suddenly became empty...

What happened? Where's my food?

Bai Li brought a piece of freshly peeled yam to his mouth. Nangong Min took a bite and felt satisfied!

Zhou Yu couldn't wait to take a bite. Before he even chewed it, his eyes lit up. He looked at Bai Li intently and nodded frantically.

"Your Majesty, how is it? Can I eat it?"

The old man thought that Marshal Bai was just pretending for everyone to see. Even if it was edible, it shouldn’t taste good, right?

However, it does smell a bit fragrant...

The old man swallowed involuntarily.

"Mmmmm! Great time, great time!"

"Your Majesty, I'll catch a few more pheasants and stew them in soup. I'll add some yams and make both meat and staple food. That will be delicious!"

While the old man was staring intently, Bai Li finished the food in his hand in just a few bites.

"We can dig out a thousand pounds of food from this piece, and there's another piece over there. If we dig out all of it, it's enough for the soldiers to have a good meal!"

There was a cook with kitchen utensils in the marching team. They peeled the yam, put water in the pot and boiled it, and ate it together with the soup. It was not very filling, but about 80% full.

"I'll go dig!"

The old man was very enthusiastic. The emperor and Marshal Bai had both eaten this thing, so how could it be fake?

Just dig it quickly!

Farmers have a natural reverence for food, and countless people have starved to death during natural disasters.

In other words, we were lucky this year. Thanks to the planting methods and high-quality seeds promoted by Marshal Bai, we had a good harvest.

However, after paying various taxes and repaying for the famine caused in the first half of the year, there was not much left.

A little bit of grain mixed with half wild vegetables every day can barely last until next year, no more.

Now that edible food has been discovered on this hill, perhaps there is also edible food on other hills.

They dug them up and put a few of them in the wild vegetable soup, so they no longer had to worry about being hungry!

The old man, Zhang Lizheng, found a shovel and started digging. The tools they brought just came in handy.