Chapter 73 Digging and Digging
Manbao reached out and tugged at the vine's leaves. Still feeling familiar, he asked Keke, "What is yam? Did I enter it before?"
"No," the system said, a little excitedly, "This is wild yam, 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 were once glorious as a food ingredient in history. Therefore, there are many records about yams. Not only that, you can even find a whole book of recipes using yams as ingredients in the encyclopedia.
The system urged Manbao to dig up the information and include it in the database. It said, "Because yam not only has medicinal value, but also has enormous edible value, the encyclopedia has a very high ranking for it. If it is included, the reward points will definitely be high, and the points will come out quickly."
Up to now, the Encyclopedia has not yet calculated the points of Ligustrum lucidum to them. 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, and then she waved her little hand and asked her fifth brother to dig it for her.
Zhou Wulang looked at the plant with disdain, and finally squeezed out a little impression from his limited brain. He said, "Isn't this the Cistanche? Why did you dig it up?"
Keke subconsciously searched for "Centipede chinensis" in his system, but found no entry. He then searched the encyclopedia, but there was no entry either. He couldn't help but wonder, "Could this be another name for yam that's 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, broke it to make it sharper, then pushed the vine aside and dug its roots.
While digging, he complained, "This is the Cistanche deserticola, right? There are long roots underneath it. Why are you digging it up?"
Zhou Liulang and Datou came over and saw Zhou Wulang digging something, so they joined in and asked, "Fifth brother, what are you digging for?"
"Manbao asked me to dig it up. Isn't this the Cistanche deserticola? I remember there's one right next to our field." 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 Cocksfoot Vine, it looks like it has no fruit."
Datou 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 looking for an excuse to go on strike when something suddenly appeared from the soil.
He uttered an "eh" and quickly dug to the side along the rhizome, "It's definitely not Cistanche."
Manbao happily squatted a little closer and gave instructions: "Dig here, dig here, don't dig too deep."
The soil here is relatively easy to dig because it is on the side of the hillside. There are many fallen leaves here and the soil is brown. Perhaps because there are many rotten leaves and it is moist, the soil is a bit loose.
In this short while, Keke had searched a lot of information about yam for Manbao, and analyzed the soil for her, saying that this area was 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 yams, 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, reached out 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 covered in 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 rhizome they had 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 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 belly 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 the Bai family to read books. She said that the Bai family had many books, including a book with pictures, which contained many medicinal herbs and recorded the preparation methods.
With Zhou Dalang's participation, the process was much faster. At Manbao's request, everyone left a yam plant on the hillside. In Manbao's words, "Leave one plant for seed, and you can harvest another next year."
Daya supported her waist and said, "Why not dig it up and plant it back home? That way, 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 one of them had a small section broken off in the soil. After thinking about it, he stopped talking.
There were quite a few yams in this bunch, and Zhou Dalang and Zhou Wulang each held one in their arms. They put them carefully on the cart for fear that they would break.
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 spirits were high, and Zhou Liulang said, "I wonder if the price is high."
Zhou Erlang had already known from their few words that this thing was also a medicine. He couldn't help but hug Manbao in his arms and said, "Manbao, you are really smart. You know more than us brothers."
"That's right," Zhou Dalang said proudly, "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, and maybe they could find some.
(End of this chapter)
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