While the engineering team was building the sewage treatment plant, the Vine Tribe’s annual autumn harvest also began.
This year's weather is not bad, and the planting team has accumulated a lot of experience in the past few years. Coupled with the addition of the Quyuan plow, the grain area and output of the Teng tribe have been greatly increased.
In order to store more food, the Vine Tribe built two large warehouses in the summer.
But no one expected that the Vine Tribe would attack the Bird Tribe and obtain a large amount of supplies.
In addition, the trading area also received a steady stream of various materials, which needed a place to meet. Therefore, after the autumn harvest, all warehouses were filled to the brim.
They had no choice but to use a few wooden houses to pile up non-perishable items such as stone and animal bones.
After the construction of the sewage treatment plant is completed, let the engineering team build more warehouses so that all food and materials can be properly stored.
In addition to harvesting food, the rattan tribe’s autumn harvest also has another precious product, which is insect wax.
This spring, the Vine Tribe moved the waxworms that were previously in the Blue Sheep Tribe site to the newly planted wax forest.
Because Ophiopogon japonicus and other warriors from the original blue sheep tribe took careful care of them, these waxworms all grew white and fat, and spit out a lot of wax.
When harvesting insect wax, Jiang Xuan rode glutinous rice balls over to watch.
When the glutinous rice balls landed outside the wax forest, Jiang Xuan saw a large amount of white insect wax condensed on all the wax trees.
These insect waxes are like ice and snow, covering the branches. Most of the branches are white, which is very spectacular.
Ophiopogon japonicus led the warriors of the original blue sheep tribe to climb those trees, break off the cylindrical insect wax on the branches one by one, and put them into animal skin bags.
After Jiang Xuan came over, Maidong said excitedly: "Chief, the insect wax we harvested this year is at least twice as much as last year!"
Jiang Xuan walked to the wax tree, pulled down a branch, broke off a piece of insect wax from it, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it.
Insect wax has a special fragrance, which can refresh people after smelling it.
"Yes, good insect wax, your hard work for the past six months has not been in vain."
Jiang Xuan's affirmation made Maidong and others show honest smiles on their faces, making them even more motivated.
"Let me help too."
Jiang Xuan picked up an animal skin bag and climbed up a tree.
Maidong said hurriedly: "Chief, this work is too hard, we can do it."
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of hard work."
After Jiang Xuan climbed up the tree, he began to peel off the insect wax with Ophiopogon japonicus and others.
The wax on thick branches is easier to peel off. The wax on thin branches is small and difficult to reach. Some of them can only be obtained by breaking the branches.
This is indeed a very hard job, and if you are not careful, you may fall from the tree.
But soon, Jiang Xuan thought of a new way.
"Tangyuan, come here!"
Jiang Xuan waved from the tree, and Tangyuan immediately ran over. It was huge. After entering the wax forest, it could only lower its body as much as possible and move step by step.
When Tangyuan squeezed under the tree, Jiang Xuan immediately jumped from the tree onto Tangyuan's back, and then said to it: "Squat down, don't move around."
Tangyuan nodded, and then saw Jiang Xuan standing on its back, starting to pick insect wax from the tree.
With the help of the glutinous rice balls as a supporting platform, Jiang Xuan can easily pick the insect wax from the trees, whether it is high or low.
Maidong and others were very envious of this, but they did not have large mounts like Tangyuan, so they could only continue climbing trees.
At noon, everyone came down from the wax tree to rest and eat the dry food they had brought.
Jiang Xuan pondered for a moment and said to Maidong: "Just now when I was standing on the back of glutinous rice balls to break off the insect wax, I thought of a tool."
Maidong asked curiously: "What tool?"
"Ladders."
"Herringbone ladder?" Maidong looked at Jiang Xuan in confusion, hoping that he could explain it in detail.
The Vine tribe already has such things as ladders, but they are very primitive ladders, the kind tied with ropes.
For example, the construction team that often built houses had several original ladders.
But tools like herringbone ladders have not yet appeared.
Jiang Xuan ate the dry food in his hand in a few mouthfuls, then picked up a few sticks from the ground and demonstrated to Ophiopogon japonicus.
"Look, our current ladder is one-sided. You can only climb up by leaning on a tree or wall."
"Like insect wax on the treetops, it's difficult to pick it up with a one-sided ladder."
"But what if we connected the top and middle of the two ladders together? Wouldn't it be able to be supported directly?"
Maidong watched Jiang Xuan's demonstration and easily understood what the herringbone ladder was.
He looked at Jiang Xuan blankly and said: "Chief, you are so smart. Why didn't I think that the ladder could do this?"
The other warriors also looked at Jiang Xuan with admiration.
In fact, things like herringbone ladders are not complicated, but no one has thought of them yet.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "I also thought of it accidentally. As long as you are willing to think more when encountering things, you will definitely be able to think of many convenient tools."
Jiang Xuan has never underestimated the wisdom of the tribesmen in this world. Their IQs are not low, they just have less knowledge.
As long as they really start to get used to thinking, they will definitely develop strong creativity.
Maidong scratched his head and said sheepishly: "We don't have a brain as smart as our leader."
"No, you are very smart. Remember this, if you can't even look down on yourself, how can I give you more important tasks in the future?"
When Maidong and the others heard about the more important task, their eyes lit up, and then they nodded like chickens pecking at rice.
After eating and resting, they first followed Jiang Xuan's idea and built several simple herringbone ladders with branches and ropes, and then stood on the herringbone ladders to pick insect wax.
In this way, the efficiency of picking insect wax is indeed much higher. At least they don't have to work hard to climb the tree and worry that the branches are too thin to bear their weight.
By the end of the day, they had harvested a dozen skin bags of insect wax.
However, these insect waxes are in a curly state and are relatively loose. After being boiled, the volume will be reduced a lot.
In the evening of the same day, Jiang Xuan tied the insect wax together and put it on Tangyuan's back so that Tangyuan could carry it back.
Maidong and others rode down the mountain on blue sheep to return to the tribe.
Tomorrow they will continue to go up the mountain to pick insect wax until all the insect wax is picked.
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In mid-September, the autumn harvest and insect wax collection were completed, and the sewage treatment plant was built. The people of the Vine tribe fell into an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.
Because the tribe has sufficient supplies and powerful enemies have been eliminated, they can spend this winter with peace of mind.
However, Jiang Xuan quickly thought of another question.
That's the problem with the tribe's lack of grease.
Most prey animals have little fat on their bodies because they are transported too much and eat poorly. They can only store up a little fat before winter comes.
Even the beasts and birds currently farmed by the Vine Tribe do not have much oil, and are at most a little better than those in the wild.
But things like grease are indispensable to tribal people, because tribal people also have a large amount of transportation and consume a lot of energy every day.
Therefore, when tribesmen eat prey, they like to break the bones and suck out the marrow, because the marrow contains a lot of oil.
The advantage of the Vine Tribe over other tribes is that the Vine Tribe is good at fishing and also raises a large number of fish in the pond.
Many fish have fish oil in their bodies, especially those raised in ponds.
For example, fish such as catfish and herbivorous fish have a large amount of fish oil in their bodies.
Relying on these fish oils, the people of the Teng tribe can consume more oil than the people of other tribes, and are therefore stronger, unlike the people of other tribes who are skinny and skinny.
However, the amount of fish oil is still not large enough, and it is impossible for the people of the Vine tribe to eat oil every day.
In the past, everyone could not fill their stomachs, and it was a blessing to be able to eat.
Now that the Vine Tribe has initially solved the problem of food and clothing, Jiang Xuan wants to further enhance the physique of the Vine Tribe people so that they can obtain enough oil.
At first, Jiang Xuan wanted to find a plant rich in oil for large-scale planting, such as rapeseed.
But he soon gave up this idea because vegetable oil was not suitable for tribal people who exercised a lot.
He thought about it and finally pointed to one path: raising pigs.
Other beasts are either difficult to tame or have little fat. Only by raising pigs, and fattening pigs, can they obtain a large amount of animal fat, enough for tribal people to eat regularly.
Previously, the Teng tribe had never thought of raising pigs, because there were some giant wild boars near the Teng tribe. When they reached adulthood, they generally weighed more than a thousand kilograms, were as big as a cow, and were astonishingly destructive.
These giant wild boars are very destructive and eat a lot. With the previous strength of the Teng tribe, even if they could find a way to imprison them, it would be difficult to feed them.
But now, the strength of the Vine Tribe has been greatly improved, and with the existence of the Vine Wall, it is almost impossible for these giant wild boars to escape.
Coupled with the abundant food, Jiang Xuan came up with the idea of raising pigs.
In autumn, when giant wild boars give birth, Jiang Xuan plans to take people to catch some giant wild boar cubs.
He was a very decisive person. After thinking clearly, he immediately found the leaders of the two hunting teams and gave them the task of catching giant wild boar cubs.
"Catch giant wild boar cubs?"
After hearing the news, Undo's face became obviously tangled, because he had almost lost his life under the tusks of a giant wild boar, and he still has some psychological shadow.
Jiang Xuan said angrily: "I'm asking you to catch cubs, not adult giant wild boars. What's there to be afraid of? Is it okay to trap? Is it okay to lay a trap?"
Uncaria felt humiliated after being scolded by Jiang Xuan, so she puffed up her chest and said, "Don't worry, leader, our hunting team will definitely catch the giant wild boar cub."
Shi Loach was as calm as ever: "The second hunting team is fine."
Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "Since there is no problem, let's set off as soon as possible. Be careful. If you encounter a situation where an adult giant wild boar goes crazy, you can give up temporarily."
Uncaria and Stone Loach both nodded. The lives of the hunting team soldiers were more important than the prey. Jiang Xuan had told them this truth countless times.
Afterwards, the two went back to discuss with the soldiers in their respective teams how to capture the giant wild boar cub and prepare some things in advance.
The next day, two hunting teams from the Teng tribe set out at the same time to catch wild boar cubs in the wild boar forest to the north of the tribe.
