She ground the potatoes into pulp, settling the starch out, and then made the leftover potato dregs into snack balls for the children to eat.
After sedintation and drying, the result was genuine potato starch.
However, potato starch could not replace flour after all, so the search had to continue.
But since it was the potato harvest season, it couldn’t be wasted, so during the dayti, she had Lang Sen stay at ho to look after the children, and she let Pan Lin take her to places outside the tribe to look for potatoes.
To her surprise, on the deadwood in the grove, she found many fresh black fungus. Pan Lin spat out his forked tongue before she could even go to pick them and said,
"Poisonous, can’t eat."
Tangtang nodded, "I know, fresh black fungus is poisonous and needs to be exposed to the sun’s rays before it’s edible. Don’t worry, I know how to deal with it."
Seeing this, Pan Lin no longer questioned and silently moved the deadwood with the black fungus closer to her.
Because there were many, Tangtang picked several baskets full before she was done, and there were still so left elsewhere, but she didn’t forget her task.
"Let’s leave the rest for when we have ti, and keep exploring!"
"Oh, what’s that?" Suddenly glancing into the bushes, she saw a patch of lush green and parted the grass to discover a cluster of green plants with large leaves, both tall and short. She seed to recognize this vegetable and pinched a bit to taste it, then turned around in astonishnt to look at Pan Lin.
"Spinach, is this really spinach? But isn’t this spinach a bit too tall?"
Looking at so spinach that was even taller than her, she was filled with shock.
These spinach plants, so just breaking through the soil and so already at the height of her calves and even her chest, with the most exaggerated one being taller than her, were so uneven in height. Wasn’t that a bit too exaggerated? Didn’t they grow way too randomly?
Little did she know, even the spinach from her previous life could grow as tall as corn if you let it grow unchecked.
Tangtang put those crawling on the ground into her space, and as for the tall ones, she saw they were almost ready to seed, so it might be better to wait until they flowered and bore fruit before collecting them.
As she passed by a lotus pond, she suddenly rembered sothing she seed to have overlooked and slapped her forehead.
"Lotus roots, how could I have forgotten about lotus roots? Quick, Pan Lin, go under the pond and see if there are any segnt by segnt lotus roots, check if they have sprouted and if they’re edible?"
These lotus roots should have been dug up at the start of spring, how could she have forgotten!
If it were her previous life, they would probably have to be dug up before winter, alas, she had completely forgotten about these matters.
Pan Lin dived into the water, and after not too long, he ca up and shook his head at her. Tangtang’s face was full of disappointnt—what a waste of a pond full of lotus roots.
In truth, she hadn’t held out much hope, judging from the lotus leaves that had grown out, she knew the likelihood was slim. Indeed, alas~~~
As if to compensate for her loss, on the way back she stumbled upon a vine that was bare and leafless. However, it looked sowhat familiar, and there were bulging mounds of soil beneath it. Moved by instinct, she started digging with a shovel.
When she unearthed a sweet potato as big as a waterlon, her eyes widened in disbelief.
"Oh my goodness, such a huge sweet potato? Has it beco a spirit?"
Moreover, unlike later generations, there was only one sweet potato this big in a pit, not growing in clusters.
But the vines were almost the sa as those she knew.
Regrettably, she found fewer than twenty sweet potatoes nearby, then there were no more.
The edges of those vines were already showing signs of budding; perhaps if she didn’t co to dig them soon, they might turn into seeds?
"Let’s co back tomorrow, it’s getting late, we should head ho."
She stored all the sweet potatoes in her space because they were so large and heavy that without the space, she probably couldn’t carry them back.
Potatoes are used as seeds after they sprout.
But sweet potatoes are different, in so places they can flower and produce seeds, but sweet potatoes grown from seeds may mutate, and the yield is also low.
So propagation is usually done through tubers, but there are many tricks to tuber planting, and she doesn’t know if she can grow them in this life, so she needs to conduct experints year after year.
In her previous life, sweet potatoes had to be harvested before Frost Descent, otherwise, they would freeze in the ground, but look at the sweet potatoes in Beast World, they survived the very cold Cold Season without issues, so could it be said that they are strong enough, or is now the actual harvest season?
Tangtang didn’t understand the growth cycle of plants in Beast World, so all she could do was to find the knack for propagation through observation year after year.
After bringing the sweet potatoes ho, she tried to cut them with a stone knife, but the knife got stuck and couldn’t be pulled out. No way around it, Lang Sen had to use his own claws to divide one of the sweet potatoes, cutting it into consistently sized chunks as Tiantian had asked, and then she used the stone knife to make even smaller cuts.
The sliced sweet potatoes revealed their ginger-colored flesh, exceptionally tempting; Tangtang was certain that these were sweet potatoes. Although they varied in color between yellow and white, judging by how hard they were, they should not be as watery as the previous world’s "heart red" sweet potatoes, which were only suitable for baking, not for making soup or for steaming.
She boiled a pot of thick rice porridge with sweet potatoes, and it had a smooth and sweet taste, very soft and delicious, not just the cubs liked it, even the four Beastn were amazed.
"Not bad, the starch content is high enough." Lang Sen, tomorrow you cut them into thin slices and dry them in the courtyard. When you co back, I want to grind them into sweet potato flour.
"Yin Ye, Pan Lin, you two co with tomorrow to look for this stuff. Before we find flour, maybe potato flour or sweet potato flour will beco our new staple food."
Although Tangtang’s words were sowhat confusing to them, they understood one thing – this stuff and those things called potatoes could replace grain fruit.
After dinner, Tangtang chopped up the skins of sweet potatoes and potatoes, feeding them to the Gugu chickens, then squatted in front of the cage, fretting over the plump chickens.
"It’s been over ten days, all you do is eat but don’t lay eggs, aren’t you uncomfortable?"
The roosters were separated into another cage; this cage was full of hens. Being hens, and yet you don’t lay eggs, where is your integrity?
She had already forgotten how many days it had been since she ate an egg, but these creatures just wouldn’t lay, truly worrying!
But she didn’t plan to release them; if she gave up now, it would be a total waste of previous efforts. Moreover, she believed they would eventually lay eggs for her, because they couldn’t hold it in.
"Listen up, I’ll make it clear. If you don’t start laying eggs, you might end up like those roosters. Right now, I don’t need you to hatch chicks for , so keeping roosters is useless to ; they are all butchered for at. If you don’t want to end up like them, show what you’ve got!"
And the result—
Cluck cluck cluck!
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