Although the autumn harvest is over, the grain tax hasn't been paid yet! Farmers haven't sold their grain!

If you want to buy new grain, you'll have to wait a bit longer. After the farmers have planted their winter wheat and paid their grain tax, the extra grain will be sold at the grain shops, where the price will be cheaper.

The two of them will come back to buy food in a while; there's no rush now.

When the two returned home, the sun had already set, and the sky was gradually darkening. It was already the end of August, and September was just around the corner, so it was getting dark earlier than usual.

Once they got home, the two got busy. Xu Han first gathered up the dried vegetables in the yard, while Lu Chuan went to feed the chickens, ducks, and geese and clean the chicken and duck coop.

Before long, it got dark. The two tidied up a bit, had dinner, and then went to bed.

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

The next morning, after breakfast, the two set off to check on the walnut and hawthorn trees near their home to see if the fruit was ripe and if they could be picked.

They first arrived at a hawthorn tree. The fruit was already red. Xu Han picked one and tasted it, but it was very sour and she couldn't eat it yet! She would have to wait a while longer.

I continued walking and picked a walnut from the tree. I peeled off the outer shell, cracked it open, and tasted it. Mmm! It was ripe and ready to eat.

However, the outer skin is still green and not easy to peel, so let's wait a while longer!

Since they couldn't pick walnuts or hawthorns, the two wandered aimlessly around the mountain, looking for anything else they could eat.

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

The wild konjac is not much different from the konjac grown at home. Xu Han had never seriously observed the environment here before.

Every day I think about the wild fruits and nuts on the trees, and when I'm outdoors I'm always looking up, but I've never actually looked down to observe them closely.

Actually, the konjac tree is quite large; it's just that Xu Han hadn't noticed it before.

Xu Han had never seen a real konjac flower before; it wasn't found in her hometown back in modern times, but she watched a lot of short videos!

I am familiar with konjac, especially its distinctive leaves and stems.

I know a lot about how to eat konjac.

To make sure she hadn't made a mistake, Xu Han immediately called Lu Chuan over.

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

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

Soon she saw what the konjac looked like. As soon as it emerged from the soil, Xu Han was certain that this was the konjac and that she had not made a mistake.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has already passed, and now is the harvest season for konjac. It's okay to wait a while longer, since it won't spoil if it's buried underground.

If it is not dug out, it will continue to sprout and grow next year.

In no time, Lu Chuan dug out the konjac. Perhaps because the konjac here had never been dug up before, the konjac here grew particularly large, with each one weighing about 20 kilograms.

After confirming that it was konjac, Xu Han started digging out all the konjac plants in the area with Lu Chuan.

Konjac plants grow in patches, and some konjac plants sprout small konjac plants from their roots, which then detach from the parent plant and grow on their own the following year.

Over time, if no one digs it up, it can easily become a large, continuous expanse.

First, they cut down all the konjac plants with sickles, and then the two of them started digging up the konjac using different tools.

There were so many konjac plants here that the two of them hadn't finished digging by lunchtime.

So they stopped and decided to have lunch first, and then continue digging later.

Xu Han took out white rice, stir-fried chicken, cucumber and scrambled eggs, and scallion oil rapeseed from her spatial storage, along with some tea, and the two began to eat.

After lunch, they rested for a while and then continued digging for konjac. Only after they had dug up all the konjac in the vicinity did the two pack up and continue on their way.

Before leaving, Xu Han broke off some small konjac taro from the root of the large konjac and buried them in the pit she had dug, then filled the pit in slightly.

New konjac plants will grow here next year, but it's uncertain whether they will grow to maturity. Let's plant them first!

Anyway, the pit is already there, so it won't take much time. And what if it grows back next year?

Then the two continued walking forward to see if they could find any konjac.

The two of them actually found it, but this patch of konjac wasn't as big as the previous one, but there were still quite a few!

The two started digging again, stopping to eat some fruit and drink some water when they got tired.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that the two of them went home. Fortunately, it was close to home, so they arrived home in no time.

Xu Han doesn't usually go to the place where she's digging konjac today, otherwise, how could she not have noticed such an obvious konjac plant?

When I first came here, I explored the area for edible things and found that there were no fruit trees or anything like that on the side where the konjac grows, so I rarely came here after that.

The reason we were able to find konjac today is because hawthorn and walnuts can't be picked. Xu Han felt that it had been a long time since she had been here. What if something new had grown here?

So she pulled Lu Chuan this way, and fortunately, today's harvest was quite good.

Konjac can be used to make many delicious dishes, such as konjac tofu, konjac snacks, and so on.

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