primitive survival evolution

Chapter 221 Banlangen and Tung Tree
"understand!"

"We understand!"

The man in black and the others responded respectfully one by one, and the patriarch Xie urged them not to offend the Jiang tribe, so when they saw it was the Jiang tribe, they became respectful one by one.

"Ah."

Li Yan nodded, then looked around.

There are a lot of kudzu plants that have been dug out and dried up, which is obviously a good thing done by the hunting team members of the Shao tribe. These people are probably staying here temporarily, and then dig some kudzu nearby to supplement their food. It will not be maintained or replanted, so the surrounding area has become a mess.

Li Yan looked at it, and thought of the incident of the ferocious beast last year. During the beast tide last year, one ferocious beast died, presumably it was killed by another ferocious beast, and there used to be a ferocious beast living here in the Ge clan. Beast, now, the beast team of the Xie tribe is stationed here, and there is not even a totem tree here. Could it be that they except the ferocious beast?

Li Yan quickly looked at them and asked, "Let me ask you, a long time ago, there was a ferocious beast near here. Have you ever seen it?"

"no!"

The man in black said bluntly: "We also know that ferocious beast you mentioned. We haven't seen it since the autumn meeting last year. The cave in the west is covered with spider webs. There are no ferocious beasts in this area." beasts, so we dare to hunt in this area."

Li Yan thought for a while, then said: "Okay, you guys continue to be busy."

"This patriarch Yan... can we still be stationed here in the future?" the man in black asked worriedly.

"Yes, but you can't move the crops on the fields here. I will send people to station here later. If you are willing to live with our Jiang tribe people, I will not drive you away. After all, we are all in an alliance. People, I will send someone to talk to your patriarch about this." Li Yan said.

There are many mountains and forests in this area, few tribes, and a variety of beasts. If there is this foothold to stop, the hunting efficiency will increase several times. The man in black is naturally very happy to see Li Yan agreeing.

"Patriarch Yan, we will provide you with meat and animal skins when your tribesmen are stationed here in the future." The man in black said with interest.

"Ah."

Li Yan nodded, ignored these people, turned to look at the tribe next to him, and asked, "Moth, where is the plant that can dye cloth?"

"It's a blue flower, at.at."

Ge Mo looked left and right, and finally pointed to a distant hillside in surprise, and said excitedly: "It's there! It's there! It's there!"

As she said that, she ran towards it quickly.

Li Yan looked quickly, and saw a large clump of grass half a person's height at the foot of the hillside, which looked a bit like a vegetable, but it was a big one with blue flowers, a big one.

There are still many tall trees growing on the hillside, and the trees are full of yellow-green fruits, but those fruit trees seem to have not been broken, and there is no trace of being harvested. It can be seen that those fruits are not edible. Otherwise, it would have been ruined by those Yi people long ago.

When Li Yan walked down the hillside, Ge Mo had already pulled up a vegetable plant. This vegetable plant had a thick root, which was cut off and oozing blue juice, just like the flower it bloomed. Same.

"Patriarch, it is this kind of flower. Its leaves can be eaten as vegetables, and its root is a kind of herbal medicine that can treat fever. Especially in spring, many children will suffer from fever. The witches of our tribe will use this herb Boil water from the roots and give it to the children to drink, and it will be fine.”

After Ge Mo finished speaking, he handed the whole plant forward.

Li Yan took it, looked at it carefully, and studied the herbal medicine.

There is no such herbal medicine near the Jiang tribe. Anyway, Li Yan has only seen this kind of blue flowers here. He had seen these flowers when he came here for the first time before, but he didn't pay much attention to them at the time.

The root of this blue flower is blue inside, squeeze some juice, try it with a small piece of sackcloth, the sackcloth is easily dyed blue, this blue plant is indeed a good source of dye .

Moreover, this plant is also a kind of medicine, which can treat cold and fever.

Blue root, can cure cold and fever?
Li Yan frowned and thought about it, and suddenly realized, isn't this the characteristic of Banlangen?
The shape and characteristics of isatidis are exactly the same as this blue flower, and isatidis is indeed a raw material for dyeing cloth. Even in mountain villages in some remote areas after liberation, some people use isatidis to dye cloth!

This is a great discovery. Large-scale planting of Radix isatidis can not only develop the tribal bleaching and dyeing industry, but also produce cold medicine. In this era, colds are not trivial. Some children have poor resistance, and a small cold may turn into a serious illness. Then die young.

However, it would be different if there was a cold medicine called Radix Isatidis. We only need to concentrate and formulate it, develop a prescription, and then mass-produce it.

Thinking of this, Li Yan couldn't help but smile.

"Patriarch." Seeing this, Jiang Mo repeatedly reminded.

"Oh, this is called Banlangen. This kind of Banlangen is very useful. In the future, I will send people to plant Banlangen here, and the tribe will also plant it." Li Yan replied.

As he said that, Li Yan squatted down again to pull out those Radix Radix, intending to study further, but when he squatted down, he found a lot of yellow fruits and some walnut-like nuts on the ground. Obviously, these fruits came from the hillside. fell from those fruit trees.

Li Yan picked one up curiously to have a look.

Ge Mo hurriedly took Li Yan's arm and said, "Patriarch! You can't eat this!"

"I know." Li Yan nodded, studying these fruits carefully.

"Patriarch, this kind of fruit has oil in it, but it can't be eaten. It can be used for burning. It burns very badly, just like our tribe's oil, but it can't be eaten."

After Ge Mo finished speaking, she picked up a brown dried fruit, opened the husk, and poured out a few brown kernels from it. Then she picked up two stones and crushed the kernels. Oily and gives off a slightly pungent smell.

When Li Yan smelled it, he immediately felt that this smell was very familiar, a bit like the smell of furniture.

That's right, it's the kind of paint smell of newly bought wooden furniture.

Thinking of this, Li Yan quickly picked it up for a closer look, and even put it to his nose to sniff.

This is indeed the kind of paint smell of furniture!
Looking up at the big tree on the hillside, the big tree has emerald green leaves, and there are strings of attractive yellow fruits hanging on the branches. Some of the fruits are dry and look a bit like walnuts.

Obviously this tree is an oil tree, and the oil squeezed from its fruit can be used to make wood such as furniture.

Oil for making furniture?Then there is only one possibility!

That is tung oil, tung oil is an excellent drying vegetable oil, which has the characteristics of fast drying, light specific gravity, good gloss, strong adhesion, heat resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, anti-corrosion, anti-rust, non-conductive, etc. It is very useful widely.It is still the main raw material for the manufacture of paints and inks. It can be used in large quantities for construction, machinery, weapons, vehicles, fishing gear, anti-rust coatings, and can be used to make tarpaulins, oiled paper, soap, pesticides and medical emesis, insecticides, etc.

There is no doubt that the industry will usher in great development when the Jiang tribe gets this tung oil!

(End of this chapter)