Chapter 90 - 79: Unreliable
The system noticed her taking a knife to peel the skin and felt something was off, but couldn’t quite put its finger on what it was.
After a self-check within, the system found no issues, so it quietly waited.
Manbao, who had never had mountain yam and had never seen this thing before, was very curious about it, and for the first time, did not go inside to settle accounts with her mother and brothers, instead squatting at the kitchen doorstep, watching her sister-in-law peel.
Junior Ms. Qian gently scraped, revealing the mountain yam’s white flesh. Manbao, still curious, reached out to touch it and found it sticky.
Junior Ms. Qian slapped away her dirty little hand and continued to peel.
While peeling, Junior Ms. Qian felt something was not right, "Why do my hands feel itchy?"
Manbao, who had gone to pick up mountain yam skins out of curiosity, also felt her hands getting itchy, and the feeling was intensifying.
She couldn’t help but scratch, and once she started, she couldn’t stop, scratching her own hands against each other.
Seeing that Manbao’s little hands were quickly scratched red, Junior Ms. Qian was frightened and hurriedly dropped the knife and the peeled mountain yam to grab her hands, exclaiming in panic, "What’s happening? Is, is this poisonous?"
Ms. Qian, hearing the commotion, couldn’t help running out from the house. Seeing Manbao’s hands covered in bright red scratches, she immediately said, "Hurry and wash them with water."
Zhou Wulang quickly fetched water for them. After the aunt and niece rinsed their hands, they still felt itchy. Junior Ms. Qian could hold back, but Manbao couldn’t. She scratched and scratched, and finding it still very itchy, she couldn’t help crying out, while scratching, "Mother, mother, it’s so itchy..."