Chapter 1072: Chapter 1072: This Thing Isn’t Innocent_1 Chapter 1072: Chapter 1072: This Thing Isn’t Innocent_1 “This thing doesn’t look very innocent,” Qiao Xiaomai spoke up.
“Not innocent?” Tong Sanlang was taken aback, then he looked down to examine the thing Xiaomai was holding in her hands, asking in confusion, “How is it not innocent?”
“Look at these ridges on the shell, don’t they look like they are up to no good?” Xiaomai raised her eyes to look at him.
Tong Sanlang “…”
He widened his eyes, picked up a Herbal Fruit and scrutinized it closely, “They are naturally grown this way, how can they be up to no good?”
“Then look at the top here, there is a really small thing that looks like a blooming petal. Doesn’t this petal look like a suction cup with ill intent?” Xiaomai pointed at the Herbal Fruit in his hand as she spoke.
“Err…” Tong Sanlang stared at the Herbal Fruit in his hand, “It does look a bit like a suction cup.”
“Normally, a Herbal Fruit should look like this.” Xiaomai dug out a Herbal Fruit from a clay pot and passed it to Tong Sanlang, “Look at the top, there’s no little suction cup, right?”
Tong Sanlang held two Herbal Fruits and compared them carefully, then nodded, “They really are different.”
“Clearly, this Herbal Fruit is a real Herbal Fruit, but I’m not sure about this one with the suction cup,” Xiaomai said as she poured all the Herbal Fruits from the small clay pot out.
“To find that half of them have suction cups…” She rummaged through the pile of Herbal Fruits and couldn’t help but widen her eyes.
Tong Sanlang also leaned in to observe closely and found the situation was as she described. He frowned deeply, “You actually know what this thing with the suction cup is, don’t you?”
“No, no, no.” Xiaomai quickly waved her hands, “I am familiar with sothing similar to this, but I can’t be sure it’s the sa thing.”
“What is it?”
“A kind of poison called Poppy, it can be used as a dicine, but if used excessively, it can cause addiction and ultimately ruin a person,” Xiaomai explained as she picked up one of the fruits with a suction cup to examine closely, her arched eyebrows knitting together.
“But according to my knowledge, the exterior of a Poppy shell is not like this. Although it also has edges, compared to Herbal Fruit the shell can be called smooth, and the poppy’s suction cup on the head is quite large, like a blooming flower.”
“This thing in front of us, the shell looks exactly like a Herbal Fruit, but oddly the top has a suction cup like that of a Poppy shell, so I can’t make up my mind about what it really is.”
She didn’t know much about the differences between Poppy shells and Herbal Fruits, only having seen other people elaborate online, but she had seen just images, never a real Poppy shell.
In her mory, the most obvious difference between the two was that one had a flower at the top and the other did not.
Now this thing has the sa shell as a Herbal Fruit, but there is a tiny flower on top, easy to miss if not careful. With her limited knowledge, she couldn’t be certain what it was.
“But since it was found in the kitchen of the Imperial Palace, it should also be a Herbal Fruit, right? Maybe it’s a variation of Herbal Fruit?” she asked.
Tong Sanlang held one up to his eye to observe closely, then he shook his head slightly, “You said, this is very likely a Poppy shell, a drug that can cause addiction if taken over a long period?”
“Yes.”
“To be safe, better not use it. Braised pork knuckle, right? Don’t add this in.”
Making food for the Yang Family, one must be extra cautious, over and over again. If any mistake occurred, it could easily be frad as a rebellion.
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