Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Although the autumn harvest has passed, the grain tax has not yet been paid! Farmers have not sold their grain yet!

If you want to buy new grain, you will need to wait a little longer. After the farmers have planted the winter wheat and paid the public grain tax, the extra grain can be sold at the grain shop, and the price will be cheaper at that time.

Let's wait for a while and come back to buy food. There's no need to rush now.

When the two returned home, the sun had already set and the sky was slowly getting darker. It was already the end of August and September was approaching, and the sky was getting dark earlier than usual.

When they returned home, they started to get busy. Xu Han first collected the dried vegetables in the yard, while Lu Chuan went to feed the chickens, ducks and geese and clean the chicken and duck pen.

In the blink of an eye, it became dark. The two of them tidied up a little, had dinner and then went to rest.

I went to bed early today. I was tired after walking all day, so I decided to go to bed early!

The next morning, after breakfast, they set out to check out the walnut and hawthorn trees near their home to see if the fruits were ripe and if they could be picked.

First they came to a hawthorn tree. The fruits were already red. Xu Han picked one and tasted it. It was very sour and could not be eaten yet! She needed to wait for a while.

I walked on, picked a walnut from the tree, peeled it, cracked it open and tasted it. Hmm! It was ripe and ready to eat.

But now the skin is still green and not easy to peel, so let’s wait for a while!

Since they couldn't pick walnuts or hawthorns, the two of them wandered around the mountain aimlessly to see if there was anything else to eat.

As Xu Han walked, she saw something that looked particularly familiar. Wasn't this konjac?

There is not much difference between wild konjac and the konjac grown at home. Xu Han had never carefully observed the environment here before.

Every day I think about the wild fruits and nuts on the trees. When I am outdoors, I often look up, but I have never lowered my head to observe them carefully.

In fact, the konjac tree is very large, but Xu Han had never paid attention to it before.

Xu Han has never seen real konjac. It is not available in her hometown now, but Xu Han has watched a lot of short videos!

I am familiar with konjac, especially its special leaves and branches.

There are many ways to eat konjac.

In order to make sure that she did not admit her mistake, Xu Han immediately called Lu Chuan over.

"Lu Chuan, this looks like konjac to me. Let's dig it out and take a look!" Xu Han shouted.

Lu Chuan didn't know what konjac was, but he followed Xu Han's instructions and started cutting down the tree trunk and digging.

After a while, she saw the appearance of konjac. When it just emerged from the soil, Xu Han was sure that it was konjac and she was not mistaken.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and now is the season for harvesting konjac. It will be fine after a while, as it won’t go bad if it is buried underground.

If you don't dig it out, it will continue to sprout and grow next year.

After a while, Lu Chuan dug out the konjac. Maybe the konjac here had never been dug before, so the konjac here was particularly large, weighing about twenty pounds each.

After Xu Han confirmed that it was konjac, she and Lu Chuan started to dig out all the konjac here.

Konjac grows in patches. Some konjac plants have small sprouts from their roots, and then they will separate from the mother plant and grow on their own the next year.

Over time, if no one digs it, it will easily become a large piece that is connected together.

First, all the konjac plants were cut down with a sickle, and then the two began to dig konjac using different tools.

There was so much konjac in this patch that the two of them hadn't finished digging by lunch time.

So we stopped and prepared to have lunch first and then continue digging later.

Xu Han took out white rice, stir-fried chicken, scrambled eggs with cucumber and vegetable sprouts with scallion oil from the space, and then took out some tea, and the two began to eat.

After lunch, they took a short rest and continued digging konjac. After they had dug all the konjac nearby, they packed up and continued on their way.

Before leaving, Xu Han broke off some small konjacs from the rhizomes of the big konjac, buried them in the dug hole, and filled the hole a little.

New konjac will grow here next year, but it is not certain whether it can grow successfully, so let’s plant it first!

Anyway, the pits are ready-made and don't take much time. What if they grow back next year?

Then the two of them continued walking forward to look for any more konjac.

The two of them actually found it, but this piece of konjac was not as big as the previous one, but there was still quite a lot of it!

The two started digging again. When they got tired, they stopped to eat some fruit, drink some water and take a rest.

It was almost dark when the two of them went home. Fortunately, this place was close to home, so they arrived home in a short while.

Xu Han didn't usually go to the place where they dug konjac today, otherwise how could she have missed such obvious konjac.

When I first came through here, I was exploring for edible things nearby and found that there were no fruit trees or the like where konjac grew, so I seldom came here afterwards.

The reason why we were able to discover konjac today is because hawthorns and walnuts cannot be picked. Xu Han also felt that she had not been here for a long time. What if something new has grown here?

So he pulled Lu Chuan over here. Fortunately, today's harvest was quite good.

These konjacs can be used to make many delicious foods, such as konjac tofu, konjac cake, etc.

A new dish has been added to Xu Han’s menu, which is really a happy thing!

When the two returned home, it was already dark. It was getting dark earlier and earlier every day, and it was getting colder at night.

Maybe it’s because I live deep in the mountains! The temperature in the mountains is naturally lower than outside the mountains.

After arriving home, Xu Han first put on a coat, and then went to the kitchen to start cooking dinner.

Let’s make tomato dumpling soup today! I didn’t have enough last time.

After cooking, they still ate in the kitchen. Since the weather turned cold, the two started eating in the kitchen as before.

Anyway, the kitchen space is large, so putting a small dining table there won’t make it crowded. It is also very convenient to eat in the kitchen, and there is no need to bring the dishes to the living room.

As the weather gets colder, it takes a lot of time to carry the food from the kitchen to the living room and add bowls, chopsticks and rice, and the food will get cold.

After finishing their meal, the two sat on chairs to digest their food. Lu Chuan said

"I will continue to go hunting in the mountains tomorrow. This time I will hunt wild boars. If everything goes well, I will be back in about three days."

"Aren't you going to rest at home for a couple of days? You dug konjac and did some hard labor today. Can you handle it?"

"It's okay. I'm strong and not tired. I'm going to go hunting for a few days while the walnuts and hawthorns are still ripe. I don't have anything to do at home right now."

"Okay then! I'll prepare something for you later. Be sure to be safe! Don't try too hard."

"Okay! Don't worry! You're still waiting for me to come back home! I will definitely not put myself in danger."