My Beloved Dog is the Strongest in Another World-Chapter 878

Konjac was used as emergency food

The potato fields in the village were small, and so I doubted they could produce that much to be eaten by outsiders.

If it was just one person, then it would not be a problem. But you would need a lot to feed all of the people at the mansion.

He had brought quite a lot to Ractos, but as for whether he could produce more than that…and regularly. I would have to ask about it.

“Do you really have enough to be selling it to outsiders?”

“Yes, I thought that you would be curious about that. Well, it was originally not meant to be sold outside. We keep it as emergency food. Along with the smoked meats.”

“It started as a way of dealing with times when the crops fail us. As they are able to be harvested more consistently.”

“I see…”

“The potatoes themselves can be stored for quite a long time, but there are still limits. Regardless, as it is for emergency, we do not care about the taste as much.”

“In other words, it does not taste too good by itself.”

“Aye. It does not taste as good as other potatoes. And so we usually don’t eat it.”

“And that is when they started to turn it into konjac. That is what I heard from the elders.”

“Yes, I heard that as well. It was a very long time ago.”

“I suppose they did not want the food to go to waste.

So the potatoes really did not taste good if you ate them as they were. I had heard something similar about the potatoes they used back on earth.

Though, I think it also had something to do with poison.

“It is very easy to make. You crush it and mix it with ash water so that it hardens. And then you boil it.”

“Ash?”

“Aye. I don’t know why, but that makes it harder. It was a method devised in this village.”

Well, they used different ingredients here. It was no wonder I thought that the taste was also quite different.

“Still, are you really allowed to tell me how to make it? The chief said that I would not be allowed to see it being made…”

“Bah, I don’t mind. The chief doesn’t know the situation with you. He thinks you are just an ordinary merchant. But you will not try to imitate it or do anything that will hurt this village.”

Well, I suppose it was because he saw me as someone related to the duke.

“Oh, back to the konjac. We have to negotiate. That being said, there is not a lot to talk about now…”

“Indeed. In any case, while we still have some konjac left, we have decided to purchase some more.”

“So the question is…the price.”

It wasn’t that I absolutely had to buy it. But the people at the mansion might be expecting it, and so it was best to not disappoint them.

“Should I ask the grandmothers to make more of it?”

“No, there are not that many potatoes to begin with, so we will run out.”

“And we cannot use the ones that are being saved for an emergency…”

“Perhaps a little is fine. But it is being saved for a reason. Well, the fields will probably have to be expanded in the future. But for now, we should think about how much we can sell.”

Ms. Delia had suggested they just make more of it, but Mr. Kanat objected.

For a moment, I wondered if I could just use Weed Cultivation to help them grow more, but then I remembered that it was impossible to grow such crops.

…Besides, I would not want to take the jobs of the people who worked in the fields…