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 and needed space to store them. Therefore, after the autumn harvest, all warehouses were filled to capacity.
As a last resort, they could only 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 good care of them, these waxworms grew white and fat and spit a lot of wax.
When the insect wax was harvested, Jiang Xuan rode over on glutinous rice balls to watch.
When the glutinous rice balls fell to the ground outside the wax forest, Jiang Xuan saw a large amount of white insect wax condensed on all the wax trees.
These insect waxes cover the branches like ice and snow. Most of the branches are white, which is very spectacular.
Ophiopogon japonicus led the warriors of the original blue sheep tribe to climb to 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 amount of insect wax we harvested this year is at least double that of last year!"
Jiang Xuan walked to the wax tree, pulled down a branch, broke off a piece of insect wax, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it.
Insect wax has a special fragrance, which can refresh people's minds 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 hurriedly said: "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, but 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 and 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 support platform of glutinous rice balls, Jiang Xuan can easily pick insect wax from 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 Ophiopogon japonicus: "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?"
"Herringbone ladder."
"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 builds houses has several primitive 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 connect the top and middle of the two ladders together? Wouldn't it be directly supported?"
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, it’s just that no one has thought of it yet.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "I also thought of it accidentally. As long as you are willing to think more when you encounter 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 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.
At the end of the day, they had harvested more than a dozen skin bags of insect wax.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, these insect waxes are in a curled 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 and returned 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 had been completed, and the sewage treatment plant had been 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 peacefully.
However, Jiang Xuan soon thought of another question.
That's the problem of the tribe's lack of grease.
Most prey animals have little fat on their bodies because they exercise too much and eat poorly. They can only accumulate 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 exercise a lot 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 oils 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 tribesmen who exercised a lot.
To be continued...