Several experienced carpenters worked with Bell to study the tree that had been washed down by the flood, and finally they confirmed that it was a green tree. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Glauconia is a subspecies of oak that is found in Fujian and Taiwan. It's just that there are very few large Qinggang trees in Fujian, and now the Qinggang tree that has fallen in the stream is almost thick, and it can be used as a material for building warships.

"This suggests that there must be more of them upstream, at least as big as this, and probably probably a larger number of green woods. Find them, and we're halfway there. Bell patted the thick trunk of the green tree with his hand.

"The students in this neighborhood must be familiar with the surrounding environment, and if we can talk to them, maybe we will soon find a large green wood." Hao Ren said the same.

But how can I find a nearby village?

"In general, the dwellings are not too far from the river. If we continue to walk upstream along the stream, we should find the village of the people. Judging from the area where their hunters are active, the village should not be too far away. However, the attitude of the students towards us is unknown, and we must be vigilant along the way. But before that, we have a more important thing to do, which is to deal with the wild boar, and find a place to set up camp and arrange a guard, after all, it is not early in the morning. As for the village of Shengfan, the village will not run away on its feet anyway. Bell said.

Bell's opinion was agreed by the good people, so the group found a piece of dry high ground. The tents were swept away by the flood, so they had to cut down some branches, set up some improvised shelters, only a roof covered with leaves, and swept away the fallen leaves on the ground, and made makeshift beds out of soft branches and leaves. A bonfire was also lit in the camp, and Chen Guang threw some wormwood and other things into the campfire so that the bonfire could emit thick smoke and drive away the mosquitoes that were ubiquitous at night.

In this day and age, neither Easterners nor Westerners have any idea that mosquito bites can spread diseases. However, when arranging immigration, Zheng Sen from later generations put mosquito prevention and insect bite prevention in an extremely important position in the health regulations he wrote, and the facts have also proved that few immigrants in the immigration camps who implemented this set of rules suddenly fell ill. So Chen Guang, who worked in the immigration camp, also brought this set here.

In addition to this, the campfire also serves to ward off wild beasts. In the forests of Taiwan, there are also fierce beasts, although there are no tigers in Taiwan, but there are black bears. If it is in the daytime, dozens of middle-aged men with weapons in their hands can despise any kind of predatory animal in this world except their own kind, of course, the kind of unscientific in some of the so-called documentary secrets of GZJY, hundreds of thousands of them, and will lure the enemy deeper, outflank and encircle, and if they do not do well, they can kill a platoon, a company, a battalion, a regiment or even a division of wolves in one breath. Although under natural conditions, it is impossible for any place to have a large herbivorous population of herbivores that can support the existence of such a large wolf pack. The largest wolf pack on record consisted of less than forty wolves, and only about twenty of them had the ability to hunt.

But if it was at night, the situation might not be the same, and in the darkness the team would not be able to exert its strength, and it was likely that someone would die in the attack. Therefore, camping in the wilderness and lighting a bonfire is a must.

It's just that sometimes, bonfires can also bring some other dangers, such as now, their location should not be too far from those villages of Shengfan, and if those Shengfan have bad intentions, the bonfire will reveal their location. Therefore, in order to prepare for a possible night attack, the necessary precautions are also essential.

The expedition team built a fence of rattan around the camp as a fortification, and in the event of an attack, they could rely on the rattan to defend themselves with muskets and short spears. Moreover, those raw fans don't have many sharp things in their hands, and it's really not easy to break these vines.

In addition to the fence made of vines, they also made a rope loop with thinner vines, and hung some bells on it. The rope loops are very low and not easy to see in the dark, and if they come to attack, they will most likely touch the rope loops and make the bells hanging on them ring, so that the exploration team members have time to prepare.

In addition to the rope loop, Hao Ren also arranged sentinels. But the night was quiet, and nothing happened.

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In a panic, Wari Billin ran back to the village and reported what he had seen to the chief, Bihan Nyin. The sudden appearance of a large group of middle-aged men near the tribe made Bihan Nyin very nervous, but it was not early at that time, and it was getting dark, so he did not take any more measures than to tell everyone to take precautions.

Early the next morning, Behan Nyin sent out some of the most astute young men, including Warge Billing, to see what was going on with them.

"Remember, don't get into a conflict with the heroes and don't be discovered. If anyone comes to us, come back and report it. Bihan Nyin explained to them.

When it was time for lunch, several young men came back, and they all reported that they were moving along the river in the direction of the village.

"They don't go very fast, but by the time the sun is over, they should be able to see our village." A lad reported.

"Wari Billing," said Chief Bihan Nyin, after a moment's thought, "take the women and children of the village and hide in the woods over there. Everyone else followed me to see what the people from the outside were trying to do. ”

Wari Billin knew that this was not a trivial matter, and if the people outside really had bad intentions, there were only so many people in the village, and I was afraid that it would be really dangerous. He nodded, turned around and went to gather the women and children of the village.

Chief Bihan Nin summoned a few other lads and told them to move the troops to the friendlier villages in the vicinity. It's not certain whether those people are hostile or not, but it's always better to be prepared than not to be prepared, isn't it?

By noon, people who looked and dressed strangely appeared at the entrance of the village. Chief Bihan Nin told the men of the village to be armed and ready to resist. According to the time, he estimated that as long as he resisted for a while, the rescue of other villages should be able to arrive.

The men stopped at a distance from the village, and then one of them came out, with his hands raised and his palms spread out, so that Bihan Nyin could see that he was not armed. The man took a few steps forward until he came to a place about twenty paces or so from the fence of the village. Then he shouted to them.

Taiwan's aborigines have nine major ethnic groups, and their languages are also diverse, that is, they are the same race, and there are still some differences in the languages between different tribes. Fortunately, this man could speak more or less than Chief Bihan Nyin.

"Hello, we have no ill intentions, we are here just to exchange something with you." The man shouted, "We had a flood yesterday and a lot of food was washed away. But we have salt here, and we are willing to exchange it for food with you. ”

If this exchange is true, it really makes Chief Bihan Nyin very excited. For them living in the mountains and forests, table salt is a very precious thing.

Chief Bihan Nyin consulted with a few of the men around him, and then stood up from behind the fence and said to the man, "What are you going to change?" ”

The person who came out to shout was naturally Lao He, and he was also one of the few people in the team who could speak indigenous languages. The two of them talked for a while across the fence. Some preliminary intentions have been reached on friendly free trade. At this time, a young man sent out to ask for help rushed over with more than a dozen people from other villages. With these people, Chief Han Nyin felt more at ease than Chief Han Nyin, so he agreed to let one of his people out of the fence and take a sample of the grain to the clearing in front of the village to show the man on the other side, and to check the salt in the hand of the man on the other side. Of course, before that, he also made those on the other side retreat a little further back.

The man who sent out was named Navi Nomin, and he walked up to Lao He and handed him a small straw bag, and Lao He handed him a small pot of salt from Navi Nomin.

Lao He glanced at the "grain" in the straw bag and nodded, Nawei Nuomin first looked at the contents of the jar, showing a puzzled look, and then stretched out his finger and dipped it in some salt at Lao He's signal, and put it in his mouth. Evidently he was pleased with the salt which was completely different from the earth salt they were familiar with, and he smiled kindly at Lao He, said something more, and went back to the village with the salt shaker, so that Chief Bihan Nyin could also check on this particular salt.

At this time, Lao He had already walked to the exploration team with the straw bag.

"Look, Captain, we've really found the right place!" Lao He grabbed a handful of nuts from the straw bag at once.

"It's ......," Hao Ren's eyes widened.

"Isn't this an acorn?" Chen Guang shouted from the side.

"This is the seed of the green oka tree." Lao He said, "But this thing is also a kind of acorn." ”

"Very well, they use this as food, which means that there should be a lot of green trees around here. We were really lucky. Hao Ren said.