After drinking some water to quench their thirst, everyone continued to swing their pickaxes to dig for kudzu root. It must be said that digging for kudzu is truly exhausting work. Because the roots can grow over three meters long—or at least a meter at their shortest—and these were wild, many of them were incredibly long.
Si Jiuyue enjoyed digging for the "big ones." Not long after, she followed a kudzu vine and discovered a massive specimen. She let out a sincere "wow," spat on her palms, and immediately got to work. Once she started, she couldn't stop; she ended up wrestling with this giant all afternoon. By the time she finished, she had excavated a pit over a meter deep and three meters long, unearthing the entire massive root system. Shen Yan and the others also used their pickaxes to dig up plenty of large roots.
A young man named Wang Er was particularly impressive, digging up a sixty-pound kudzu root in just half an hour. As sunset approached, Shen Yan grew worried that it would be unsafe for Jiuyue to return late, so he told everyone that it was about time to head home.
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