After the red acid branches are cut down, the workers will "trim the trees", that is, cut off the side branches that have little use value. Elephants and tractors then work together to haul the trees down the logging road to the makeshift yard. Finally, the red acid branches are transported to the wharf by heavy-duty trucks, and the raft is set off.

Lancang and Khmer are the most famous production areas of Cochin Sandalwood and Bari Sandalwood in the world, and they are the most precious mahogany resources in the world. These sandalwood trees are as hard as iron and are several meters thick. The first-class red sour branches are high-quality timber that has grown over hundreds of years and thousands of years, and they are the best in wood and are precious.

The red sour branch of Lancang belongs to the cochin sandalwood in botanical classification, and the scientific name is red elm vine. It is the traditional sense of "old mahogany", "mahogany", "red sour branch", is the most precious and authentic mahogany in the world of rosewood market. Whether it is in density, hardness, oiliness, oxidation and corrosion resistance, etc., it is stronger than the red acid branches of other countries.

Another type of Lancang sour branch, which is also internationally classified as a "red sour branch", refers to Balinese sandalwood. This kind of "Bali sandalwood" is mainly produced in Khmer and Lancang, and the mahogany industry has the name of "purple acid branch" or "flower branch". It is very different from the authentic Cochin sandalwood, whether it is in terms of wood, fragrance, hardness, etc.

The best way to distinguish between purple sour branches and red sour branches is when sawing. When the red sour branch is sawn, the wood exudes a spicy fragrance and smells sour. Its color is generally red or crimson, and it is dark red when oxidized in the air. The red sour branch is strong and heavy, with a delicate structure and heavy oil, and can sink in water. The mane is thin, small, and dense. The wood grain is rustic, the grain is beautiful, elegant and fresh, with dark brown or black straight filamentous stripes.

Since the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, mahogany furniture has been extremely popular. The high-grade mahogany furniture, almost all of which are processed from Lancang red acid branches, has high historical and cultural value after hundreds of years of use and precipitation in terms of wood stability. Mahogany is already a symbol of home culture.

However, since the defeat of country M in the Vietnam War, the countries of the Indochina Peninsula have become independent one after another. From this time on, as a regional power in Indochina, Annam almost controlled the export of red acid branches from the Khmer and Lancang. Even the red acid branches exported to the Chinese market can only enter the Chinese market after initial processing at the processing plant in Annam.

Yu Songyuan made a preliminary estimate that the market value of nearly 100 square kilometers of primeval forest in Longji's Cologne Forest Farm alone is also difficult to estimate. If estimated by the price of the finished product, the value is even more astronomical. Let Annan completely control the Indochina Peninsula red sour branch market, which makes people feel very regretful and helpless.

This is because China, which has just begun to recuperate, is not yet able to fully influence the Indochina Peninsula at the economic level.

The brothers stayed in the logging team for a week, and in the name of accompanying the princesses to relax, they went to the forest every day to "hunt", and also participated in the two days of red sour branch harvesting. The game and meat were eaten, and the fur was given to Li Hong. It is always a happy thing for someone to give gifts, and the military adviser Annan smiled and thanked him repeatedly.

During the logging team, Yu Songyuan deliberately observed Longlin. This strong, most capable man of the Dragon Dai tribe, the former armed leader of the tribe, is taciturn and seems to be trying to reform himself. Every day, he takes the logging team to go out early and return late, and he is conscientious and hardworking. Almost blind to the presence of the brothers' squad and several notaries.

Li Hong seems to be only interested in animals, and he rides elephants to hunt every day. Usually in the morning, after breakfast, they are armed and neatly mounted on elephants and enter the mountains with the logging team. After working in the logging team, his job was hunting. And the deputy captain of the logging team, Kusa Fang, is extremely respectful to Long Lin, and he obeys his orders, he is like a housekeeper, and the daily management of the logging team is responsible for Kusa Fang.

Li Hong went into the jungle alone to hunt, and there was no safety problem. His mount is a male elephant, tall and mighty, and he is the true king of the jungle animal world. In the jungles of South Asia, few animals have the courage to challenge a full-grown bull elephant.

Because there was already an early warning, Yu Songyuan and the others were always nervous during the logging team. Long Lin was restricted from leaving the forest farm, and Liu Guodong and Lin Zhumin were in the forest farm for so long, and they didn't find anything abnormal about him. But Yu Songyuan was not sure how many secrets Long Lin and Li Hong knew, he had a faint thought, since he was stuck with Li Hong, it was a hidden danger, and this person would definitely not be able to stay!

On this day, Li Hong's mount, the elephant, was sick, and Li Hong did not enter the mountain with the logging team. He already had a lot of affection for the elephant, and he circled around the elephant, so anxious that he didn't know what to do. Several members of the brother team were about to go out to "hunt", and Liu Guodong stepped forward to take a look at it when he saw this. Lin Tao asked puzzledly, "He can also be a veterinarian?" ”

Lin Zhumin said, "The omnipotence of this dog day, the disease of people and animals, he may not be famous." However, this evil man understands medicine, and he knows the medicine that makes people and animals suffer! ”

The elephants were in pain and irritable, "bouncing" and stomping their feet back and forth inside the enclosure, and the interior of the camp shook and shook. The big nose flicked wildly, and from time to time it wailed in pain.

"Do you have a way?" Li Hong asked anxiously.

"What's so hard about this, don't worry. You take care of it here first, and we'll bring the herbs back after we're done. ”

After the team left the camp, Lin Zhumin asked Liu Guodong, "Do you really know about veterinarians?" ”

Liu Guodong laughed out loud, "I don't know about veterinarians, but I can treat elephants!" ”

No one took his words to heart, thinking that he was joking. Before returning to camp at about 3 p.m., he picked a small bundle of leaves that elephants love to eat. I walked to a bush not far from the back of the camp, picked some fresh fruit and brought it back.

Li Hong wandered around the camp, and when she saw them coming back, she greeted them from a distance, "Is this the herb?" ”

Liu Guodong nodded, and handed the things in his hand to Li Hong, "This leaf is sweet, elephants love to eat it." The leaves are mixed with the fruits, mashed into a paste, and fed to the elephants. The elephant is constipated, and it is okay to pull it out. I'll come down in half an hour, and I guess it's done. ”

Yu Songyuan and others handed over the prey to the female workers in the forest farm to clean up, and they returned to the bamboo building to wash, Liu Guodong looked at his watch, and said with a smile to Lin Zhumin, "I'm going to treat the elephant, you have to pay attention to it, don't miss it." ”

After Li Hong finished feeding, she kept squatting next to the elephant, anxiously waiting for the elephant to get better. Seeing Liu Guodong coming down from the bamboo building, he hurriedly asked, "Will the medicine not work, why is it more irritable, and it doesn't get better at all, what should I do?" ”

Liu Guodong looked around in a circle, and listened to the elephant's belly for a while, and then fed half a basin of spring water in a thoughtful manner. Seeing that the elephant's tail began to harden, he hurriedly said, "The elephant's stomach is cold and cold, which is caused by cold and indigestion. The medicine I gave it had the effect of warming the intestines and diarrhea, reducing swelling by water, stagnation of food and lodging, and cleansing and softening. Don't worry, let's see if you're going to start pulling? ”

Li Hong was overjoyed when she heard this, and she didn't suspect that there was fraud, so she quickly ran behind the elephant, and when she saw the elephant's tail raised, she shouted happily, "It's true, you're amazing, wow, it's fast, it's fast......"

I didn't finish speaking, I just listened to the "boom...... There was a loud bang, and the feces accumulated in the elephant's stomach, like a mountain waterfall, gushed out and rushed down, completely surrounding Li Hong in an instant......

Upstairs, Mei Xue and the others turned their heads in surprise and disgust when they saw this. Yu Song saw that Li Hong was submerged in the dung waterfall, and the person had already fallen to the ground softly, so he hurriedly jumped downstairs and dragged Li Hong out during the interval of the elephant's wild discharge.

Liu Guodong also came to help, and the two dragged him to the edge of the pool, and first washed off the filth on his body with the mountain spring water in the bamboo tube. Li Hong slowly eased up, coughed violently, and vomited feces again, and it took a long time before he asked obsessively, "Thank you...... What happened to the elephants......"

"The elephant is gone, why are you standing directly below, how mysterious it should be......"

Li Hong said weakly, "Xie Lu, thank you for curing the elephant, blame me for being too anxious......

This scene shocked Mei Xue and others. Lin Tao and the others thought of Peshawar in the Western Regions, the disgusting night when the "signal flag" was released wildly. Lin Tao sighed with palpitations, "It's too mysterious, I don't know how many evil tricks he has hidden in his belly, if the boss doesn't go down, Li Hong will have to choke to death!" ”

Bringing Li Hong back to the bamboo tower to rest, and returning to the bamboo building where the team lived, Yu Songyuan unceremoniously gave Liu Guodong a palm, "Bastard, you're playing a little too much, aren't you?!" He is going to choke to death, the 678 Corps can finish the calculation, and he will definitely come to the forest farm to investigate, won't he miss our big event?! ”

Liu Guodong knew that the joke was a little bigger, so he had to admit his mistake one after another.

Lin Zhumin asked curiously, "What did you give the elephant to eat, as if you could see it?" ”

"Pig, what else could it be. Croton! ”

"You mean those dwarf trees on the edge of the camp are crotons?" This time, Lin Zhumin was surprised, "No wonder it's so lush, no animal dares to eat it......"

"Tut-tut......" Su Gong remembered the scene in the afternoon, and still felt disgusted, just not letting Liu Guodong get close to her, and the girl's unique shyness and coquettishness were fully revealed.

After Liu Guodong took a bath, he had to force him to wash his hands several times before he was allowed to enter the tent. But when he was sleeping, Su Gong got into Mei's tent, which made Lin Zhumin also depressed, so he had to squeeze a tent with Liu Guodong.

Jungle training is hard and comes with all sorts of unexpected dangers. In the tropical primeval forest, all kinds of insects, all kinds of animals, all kinds of miasma, all kinds of diseases, all kinds of poisonous plants, are completely different from the domestic environment of the subtropics.

Jungle warfare is a special way of warfare. Although the "No. 1" and "No. 2" instructors and Zhu Jun had already given them theoretical training, and at the same time, Liu Guodong and Lin Zhumin were already familiar with the tactics of tropical jungle warfare, and Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao quickly made up for this lesson one by one.