Chapter 2456: 2370 Doing Anything Is Not Easy

Really, everything carries risk; even eating something requires caution to avoid choking to death.

Chang Yue was still measuring her stomach size, gauging the volume of several dozen hot dogs. When it came to talking with people, Chang Yue, whose social skills were maxed out, obviously couldn't understand; if she hadn't seen the competition with her own eyes, she definitely wouldn't believe it.

Even if she saw it, she couldn't believe it.

"The stomach's peristalsis is not obvious, turning it into a container; I estimate other organs will also be squeezed." Zheng Ren said, "And the stomach isn't non-peristaltic; its peristalsis is slow, and the pylorus will have some food sent to the small intestine to be 'stored'."

"Then induce vomiting to bring it back up. Doing this is really hard; repeatedly stimulating the stomach easily..."

"Competitive eater Kinoshita once, after eating 100 sushi, had a CT on a variety show; the result showed her stomach could really hold a lot of food, but it might compress other organs in the thoracic and abdominal cavities." Su Yun obviously had researched this; she almost completely crushed her own boss.

"Wanting to eat that much definitely requires professional training." Zheng Ren said firmly, "Not to mention whether it can fit; just looking at a mountain-like pile of hot dogs makes me sick."

"You can't judge others with your own thinking; you need to be tolerant, be a bit more tolerant, okay?" Su Yun said, "In the Ming dynasty there was a top scholar who could really drink. When he went to eat at a British government office, the host prepared a wooden barrel; the scholar drank a cup, and the servant poured a cup into a barrel as tall as a person. In the end the person was fine, but the wine in the barrel overflowed."

"What you're saying is just anecdote; anything not written in the Ming Shi or Ming Shilu doesn't count. People of the Ming loved to fabricate, starting with Yang Shen; I think the Ming Shi has many untrustworthy parts, for example..."

"Stop!" Su Yun immediately stopped Zheng Ren, "Let's chat, to dispel your unhappiness, talk to me about whatever Ming history. I don't want to do scholarship; I'm not interested!"

Zheng Ren smiled.

"What emetic are they using? Do you know?" Zheng Ren then asked.

"I don't know." Su Yun shook her head, "Just watching for fun, I haven't looked into it deeply."

"But inducing vomiting mainly works by stimulating the gastric mucosa to trigger the gag reflex, sending signals to the brain's vomiting center." I remember discussing this with Old Zhao and Fang Lin over a meal." Su Yun continued, "Since ancient times, metallic antimony has been the most orthodox emetic."

The toxicity is too great.

"The Romans would eat and vomit, vomit and eat, looking down on digesting the world's delicacies on one table." Su Yun said, "Antimony as an emetic has a history of about 3000 years."

"During the Renaissance, antimony also became a belief; many monks who took it died, and it was thus called the monk's killer."

The topic had been dragged all over the place; Chang Yue was already dazed. In a short time she'd been fed too much information, her head full of hot dogs—when would she have time to think about that patient who self-discharged and gave up life?

"Many female celebrities use emetics to maintain their figures." Su Yun said.

"It's really hard; doing anything is not easy." Zheng Ren said, "I remember Da S saying that filming historical dramas, the set is especially hot; after just one minute on stage the makeup melts, so a certain female celebrity had her facial sweat glands removed."

"Not professional." Su Yun seized a loophole and immediately retorted, "If it were sweat glands, they wouldn't be cut out; I think they'd be destroyed by suction technique."

Zheng Ren didn't mind, smiling.

"Da S also said that Xiao S, to play piano, had her hand sweat glands cut... destroyed."

"Isn't this self-harm?" Chang Yue murmured.

"This isn't even self-harm! Da S is even more extreme; supposedly she took anticoagulants for skin whitening."

"It's just a high dose of VC derivative, nothing special. That episode of Kang Xi featuring Da S raised a lot of questions." Su Yun said casually.

The topic drifted to Kang Xi; Zheng Ren had already begun writing the molecular formula of VC, calculating the derivative's molecular structure.

In the world of academic elites, Chang Yue didn't understand. But her phone rang, just in time so she didn't have to watch those two calculating VC derivatives.

"Yi Ren called us to come home for dinner." Chang Yue answered the phone and told Zheng Ren and Su Yun.

"Oh, going home to eat." Upon hearing that, Zheng Ren felt like he'd heard a mantra; he immediately stood up, forgetting all his doubts and worries completely.

"Boss, you're the most energetic at this time." Su Yun said.

"All right, going home to eat, eat!" Zheng Ren bustled about, forgetting his afternoon gloom completely.

After greeting the resident doctor, leaving the Community Hospital meant arriving right at the doorstep—very convenient.

Back home, I saw Xie Yiren standing in front of the fridge, hesitating, not knowing what she was doing.

"Yi Ren, we're back." Zheng Ren patted the head of Heizi, who had come up seeking affection, and said with a smile.

"Zheng Ren, I saw a video in the class group saying that peanuts left in the fridge release formaldehyde. I can't figure out the reasoning; what's going on?" Xie Yiren asked cutely, tilting her head.

"..." Zheng Ren was speechless.

"Yi Ren, is your brain letting a donkey..." Su Yun blurted out, but as soon as she said that she felt a sharp gaze fall on herself.

"Impossible, don't worry." Su Yun immediately said, "If peanuts are left too long, they only produce aflatoxin. A few days ago there was a popular science article saying that something in the home has toxicity 68 times that of arsenic. I wondered how the figure of 68 times arsenic was calculated."

"What is it?" Xie Yiren definitely wasn't using her brain; whatever Su Yun said, she would then ask what it was.

"Peanuts, if left too long, will produce aflatoxin." Zheng Ren laughed and said, "Don't believe this; seeing such a headline, don't click on it—it's meaningless."

"Oh." Xie Yiren went along with it and immediately stopped thinking about it.

"If we're talking about peanuts, I think turkeys are a more typical example." Su Yun said.

"Turkey?" Chang Yue took off her shoes, went to wash her hands, and prepared to help cook.

"Oh, in 1960 a strange disease appeared in the suburbs of London, UK, caused by eating turkey, so it was also called Turkey X disease. Research later showed it was aflatoxin at work." Zheng Ren explained, "But later it was found that peanuts and corn are most prone to aflatoxin."

"Aflatoxin is listed as extremely toxic; arsenic, no creativity at all. You know potassium cyanide? Aflatoxin's toxicity exceeds potassium cyanide by more than tenfold." Su Yun slumped onto the sofa, playing with her phone as she said.

Extremely toxic! Chang Yue frowned at the peanuts for drinking after dinner that evening, and suddenly had no thoughts.