Chapter 17: Going up the Mountain
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room fell silent, and then there was a loud "bang" and the place exploded.
Ye Jinhua was completely stunned. No matter how much she thought about it, she could not have expected that Ye Caiping would admit it.
"What did you say, little sister?" Ye Daquan screamed, "This, this, this... this is too much! Hurry up and call a doctor! No, first feed me some feces so I can vomit it out! Erquan, go scoop out the feces!"
"Hey!" Ye Erquan responded and wanted to rush out of the house.
Ye Caiping's eyebrows jumped: "Stop! I ate it yesterday at noon! Even if it is a stone, I have digested it in a day and a night. Why are you vomiting it!"
"This..." Brother Ye Daquan was stunned.
Mrs. Du, Mrs. Wei and others came back to their senses from their shock and looked at her.
"Caiping, did you really eat the poisonous root? You can't joke about this!" Old Mrs. Ye said anxiously with a dark face.
"I really ate it." Ye Caiping nodded heavily, "Not only me, Jin'er and Huan'er also ate it."
"It wasn't just yesterday at noon. Yesterday morning, we were so full from eating poisonous roots in the mountains that we couldn't eat."
"Actually, this is not called a poisonous root. Its real name is cassava. As long as it is handled properly, its toxicity can be removed and it can be eaten."
After these words came out, everyone in the Ye family looked at her in shock again.
Old Man Ye's eyes widened: "Cai Ping, this matter... is very serious..."
"I know, that's why I tried it myself. I also went to great lengths to get a witness." Ye Caiping looked at Ye Jinhua and said, "Jinhua, you saw it with your own eyes."
Ye Jinhua was already stunned, and the conflict of yesterday was instantly thrown behind her mind. After all, the poisonous roots were edible, and that was a big deal!
"Jinhua, did you really see it?" said Old Man Ye. Not only him, everyone was staring at her.
"This... I..." At this moment, Ye Jinhua did not dare to draw conclusions easily:
"I did see you guys eating something white and sticky yesterday... and there really were poisonous roots on the ground... but..."
"That's what I eat." Ye Caiping said, looking at Old Man Ye: "Dad, I really know how to deal with poisonous roots."
Old Man Ye still couldn't believe it: "But... Caiping, how do you handle this thing?"
Ye Caiping had already prepared an excuse: "Don't I love reading? Once when I went to the county town, I saw someone selling miscellaneous books at a stall. The stall owner said that these were imported goods, not from this place."
The original owner could read.
All of Ye Daquan's brothers were educated. Ye Caiping had been proud and arrogant since childhood and vowed to marry a scholar, so she learned to read and write from her two brothers.
After getting married, Li Zhiyuan would say that everyone he met was rude and vulgar. In order to please his taste, the original owner often read books.
Ye Caiping continued, "I bought it out of curiosity. It contains records of many strange animals and plants. Among them is a poisonous root, and it also records how to eat it."
"I didn't believe it at the time. Later, when I saw that there was not much food left at home, I tried the method in the book. I even used mice to test the food, and finally ate it myself. Only then did I realize that the method was feasible."
Ye Jiner and Ye Huaner looked at each other. When did their mother try it on mice?
But they dared not say a word, for fear of ruining Ye Caiping's show.
After hearing this, Old Man Ye and others all gasped.
"Girl, why do you try it yourself?" Old Man Ye said anxiously.
"Someone has to try." Ye Caiping said.
Ye Daquan said: "Then why didn't you just tell us yesterday..."
"If I tell you, will you believe it?"
Ye Caiping shuddered when she recalled the scene yesterday when Ye Daquan blocked the door with a bucket of manure.
If you tell them directly, they won't believe you no matter how hard you try, and they will try to stop you in various ways.
It would be better to find a witness and eat it in front of him. After the poison has taken effect, they will have to believe it even if they don't want to.
Old Man Ye couldn't help but think of what happened yesterday.
Although Jinhua is sharp-tongued and fierce, she is not the kind of person who would frame someone wrongly. If she hadn't seen it, she would never have come to find them.
He had always felt that something was strange, and now he knew that this was the case.
Thinking of this, Old Man Ye became excited.
If the poisonous roots were really edible, then they wouldn't have to worry about food!
"Caiping, can you really remove those toxins?" Old Man Ye confirmed again.
"Of course. This is the life of our entire family. I dare not joke about it." Ye Caiping looked serious.
Mrs. Du slammed the table excitedly: "What are we waiting for? Let's go dig out the poisonous roots!"
This time, Mrs. Du forgot about the discord between the two.
Rather than competing with my sister-in-law, filling my stomach is the most important thing!
Wei and Ye Yinhua looked at Ye Caiping with anxiety and expectation.
There was a gleam in Ye Yong and Ye Peng's eyes, and even Ye Xuan, who was usually cold-hearted, was a little surprised.
"Okay, let's go dig out the poisonous roots first." Old Man Ye said, and when he turned around and saw that his family members were eager to try, he said, "Old lady, Daquan, follow me and Caiping up the mountain, and everyone else, stay at home."
"Also, don't tell anyone that poisonous roots can be eaten. If someone dies, we can't afford it."
Although Old Man Ye believed it 80% of the time, he was still afraid of the remaining 20% of accidents.
If you are not sure you can really handle it, just tell others about it. If someone is foolish enough to dig it up and eat it, and then dies and blames their family, that would be terrible.
Ye Erquan and the Wei mother and daughter were disappointed when they found out they couldn't go together.
Mrs. Du was so anxious that she scratched her ears and cheeks.
Ye Peng begged, "Grandpa, let me follow you! I'm strong and can do the work."
"No, stay home. Caiping, let's go!"
Ye Caiping responded and went out with the old man Ye and his wife and Ye Daquan, who looked very proud.
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It is noon now, and the villagers have all gone home to eat and rest, so I didn't meet many people along the way.
When going up the mountain, Ye Caiping explained how to process bitter cassava.
Ye Caiping's explanation was so logical that Old Man Ye and the other two could not help but gasp. The process was so complicated! No wonder it removes toxins!
This time, Old Man Ye and the other two believed it 90%.
Soon, we arrived at the cassava forest.
The cassava trees are lush and green, covering half of the mountainside.
This thing cannot be eaten or used. Even if it is chopped up and used as firewood, villagers are afraid that it will produce poisonous gas, so no one has ever chopped it down.
Old Man Ye saw several trees on the ground that had been broken off. It seemed that his daughter and two granddaughters had done it a few days ago.
"Brother, dig this one." Ye Caiping pointed to a big one.
Ye Daquan spat on his hands twice, picked up the hoe, dug hard next to the cassava plant, and then dug it up.
Old man Ye and his wife pulled the tree trunk and pried it apart with great force, uprooting a cassava tree. The huge cassava is exposed to the sun.
There are eight or nine tubers, which are thick and long, and weigh about thirty pounds in total.
"What a huge output!" Ye Daquan swallowed.
Both Old Man Ye and his wife were a little scared.
If this is poison, it would be horrible! But if it’s food, it’s a real surprise!
"I'll teach you how to peel it." Ye Caiping casually cut off one of them.
She sat on the ground and slowly moved the sickle diagonally down on the cassava. With the last lift, the snow-white flesh was exposed.
Old Man Ye and the other two picked up a cassava with trembling hands and fear.
After all, their elders have warned them since they were young that this is a poisonous root that can kill people, so they subconsciously feel fear and resistance.
They followed Ye Caiping's method and peeled the cassava. Next, chop the cassava into small pieces.
Soon, the nine cassavas were processed.
Several people came to the mountain stream, and Ye Caiping tied the cassava in the water like last time.
“Actually, you can soak it in a basin, but you have to change the water every hour. Rinse it directly in the running water without the trouble of changing the water, and the effect is better,” said Ye Caiping.
Old Man Ye and the other two nodded as they listened, keeping the knowledge points firmly in their minds.
"Soak it for a day and a night, and you can eat it tomorrow."
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