Chapter 1930: 1862 Mushrooms Growing on the Body (Monthly Ticket 38500 Bonus ×77)

"Honey ring fungus is a predatory species, harmful to tree growth. The hazel mushrooms from our Northeast, the kind used in stewed chicken with mushrooms, are a type of honey ring fungus." Zheng Ren continued gossiping.

Stewed chicken with mushrooms is a fragrant Northeastern dish, but once associated with honey ring fungus, it becomes uncomfortable for people.

Just hearing "honey ring fungus" sounds improper; it doesn't sound like a mushroom, more like a name for some kind of bacterium.

"If you see hazel mushrooms appearing in clusters on fallen logs or the bases of big trees, you know they've successfully invaded another unlucky tree. Planting trees and afforestation is so hard! Our country currently……"

"What do you want to say?"

"Eating mushrooms is for afforestation." Su Yun said with a smile: "Benefiting the present, benefiting the ages!"

"……"

Even eating a mushroom can lead to this much idle chatter; Chang Yue is also quite convinced.

"Fungi…… many of the medicines we usually use are for treating fungal infections." Chang Yue said when he saw Su Yun pick up a piece of some unknown mushroom variety.

Su Yun was stunned for a moment, then realized this guy was deliberately trying to disgust him; he chuckled, ate the mushroom, smacked his lips, and said: "What you say makes sense!"

Chang Yue's eyes went wide.

When patients overuse antibiotics, fungal infections can occur; this is a real headache in clinical practice.

How come when it comes to Su Yun, it suddenly makes sense?

Given his personality, he's bound to say something disgusting.

Chang Yue watched Su Yun very cautiously.

"Human skin can also grow mycelia and fruiting bodies." While Chang Yue was on guard against Su Yun, Zheng Ren suddenly said: "Exactly, the fruiting body is actually a mushroom, but the fruiting bodies on human skin aren't large and can't be seen with the naked eye."

"……"

This time, not only Chang Yue, but everyone at the table except Xie Yiren and Su Yun was stunned.

"Put another way, it's easier to understand." Zheng Ren laughed: "When I was in Hai Cheng, once I was eating a boxed meal at a rental house, I got a call from my unit to go to emergency surgery. After sleeping three days at the unit and returning home, the boxed meal had grown mushrooms."

"Really disgusting." Chang Yue frowned at Zheng Ren.

Xie Yiren heard nothing outside the window, focused solely on eating mushrooms.

She doesn't avoid any kind of mushroom, especially mushroom soup, which she drinks with particular joy. Amidst all this talk, she really hasn't heard a word.

"It's fine, really. At that time, I was just passing by; getting the emergency call, I truly had no time to tidy up." Zheng Ren gave a weak excuse.

Doctors at grassroots hospitals really have it tough." Lin Ge said leisurely.

"Director Lin, the doctors in our 912 department are just as hardworking." Su Yun said.

"Common fungi causing skin infections are mainly red ringworm, grayish ringworm, small spore fungus, white candidal tinea versicolor, etc.; for internal organ infections, the common fungi are mainly pathogenic yeasts, neoformans, mucor, mold, white candida, etc." Zheng Ren said.

"Listen, small spore fungus—just hearing the name makes you think it can grow mushrooms." Su Yun laughed heartlessly, with no taboo.

At this moment, Liu Zewei gave a wry smile, thinking only about mushrooms— isn't skin fungal infection not exactly normal?

As an old doctor, I'm being made dizzy by Zheng Lao Ban and Su Yun. Athlete's foot is a fungal infection, yet Zheng Lao Ban calls it growing mushrooms…… really can spout nonsense.

"Just joking, it's impossible for mushrooms to grow on a human body." After Zheng Ren's earnest nonsense, he finally felt it was going too far; Chang Yue even put down his chopsticks, not intending to eat anymore.

Who knows if there will be a psychological shadow later?

Jokes can't go too far; Zheng Ren immediately turned serious to explain.

"Among the fungi causing athlete's foot, red ringworm is one of the most important species, accounting for about 82.5% of foot skin fungi according to statistics. Simply put, fungi that cause human skin diseases can reproduce to a visible state, but they won't grow plant-like mushrooms because their targets differ."

"Why are you telling her all this? She was the one who brought it up in the first place." Su Yun was very dissatisfied with his own boss ruining the atmosphere.

"Speak clearly, so Chang Yue won't avoid mushrooms later." Zheng Ren laughed: "Athlete's foot fungus survives on dead skin from human feet, while mushrooms rely on rotting plants."

Dead skin…… rotting plants……

Chang Yue couldn't help feeling a wave of nausea.

If Zheng Ren hadn't explained, it would've been fine; but once he clarified, she didn't want to eat it even more.

Song Ying also gave a wry smile.

Originally, chatting about random topics at the wine table, joking around to avoid embarrassment, is all normal.

But Zheng Lao Ban really doesn't shy away from anything, and as he talked he started linking athlete's foot with mushrooms.

That's why, at such gatherings, in another setting someone would have already left in a huff.

"When I was in high school……" Su Yun had just said half of it when Chang Yue cut him off.

"You're not going to say something disgusting, are you?" Chang Yue asked sternly.

"No way, how could that be." Su Yun chuckled: "It's just about doing experiments in high school."

Chang Yue didn't speak, but he remained cautious, guarding against Su Yun—this guy might still say something disgusting.

Back in high school, we stole agar medium from the lab. Ah, it was tough back then—you had to steal each batch. Now you can buy it on Taobao for just a few bucks.

Get to the point." Chang Yue's appetite was whetted, and he wasn't as scared anymore.

Later, we each took one, started using cotton swabs to collect specimens from between our toes, culturing them on agar medium." Su Yun said quickly, not giving Chang Yue a chance to interrupt: "Every day returning to the dorm, we compared whose culture smelled the best."

"……"

Song Ying continued to wryly smile.

These med students—how do they even culture athlete's foot themselves? If they actually grew something, the smell would be awful.

After the meal, it wasn't until Chang Yue grabbed Su Yun and forced him to chug a bottle of Maotai that things finally settled down.

Actually, Zheng Ren also thought that Song Ying's mushroom banquet had indeed been put together with care—seeing Xiao Yi Ren eat from start to finish showed it was delicious.

Originally, Zheng Ren had a good impression of Song Ying; seeing Xiao Yi Ren happy made his impression even better.

Song Ying had nothing else going on; he simply found something tasty and invited Zheng Ren's medical team to try it out.

Because the number of people exceeded expectations, they had to mix in some other mushrooms.

Although it wasn't as refined, it felt more substantial.

Zheng Ren also didn't continue with Su Yun's topic to talk about hand fungus, foot fungus, gray nails, etc.; he just chuckled while watching Xie Yiren eat, casually chatting with Song Ying.

Zheng Ren could still accept this way of eating.

Song Ying was also extremely skilled at reading people's minds, and winning Zheng Lao Ban's favor was really not especially difficult.