Chapter 356: Primitive Farming (16)

Pu grass, along the river, almost two or three miles, as far as the eye can see, is full of cattails.

This means that she can eat fresh and tender pu vegetables, and can also weave pu mats, pu fans, pu shoes, pu curtains, and pu baskets.

The cattail sticks of the cattail grass can be used for lighting, and they can be lit at night in summer to repel insects and mosquitoes. The wadding of the puff stick can be used to make pillows and fill cotton clothes. Pu powder is a medicinal herb. In her first life, she even killed many people because of the problem of investigating the corruption of the army, and found out that the army's cotton clothes were filled with cotton instead of cotton.

Of course, cattail grass can also be used to make paper. In later generations, pampas grass was the most important raw material for papermaking. Like bamboo, it can be regenerated every year to avoid the damage to the environment caused by the use of forest trees to make paper. Of course, the current barren jungle does not hesitate to use wood. But the embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in an anthill.

She didn't do anything else, she cautiously approached the riverbank, with the best insect repellent fragrant naan produced by the Xiuzhen Realm, smeared the insect repellent medicine produced by Wu on her body, and took a stick, and slapped it on the grass from a distance, scaring away some aquatic creatures such as snakes in the river, and then went down to the river to pick the grass.

The river is wide, and there should be no large fish except snakes.

When I was picking up the grass, I even found a lot of quite large river shrimp, as well as green shrimp that resembled crayfish, but they were all frightened away.

There are a lot of one or two palm-sized snails, attached to the cattail grass and other aquatic plants, and the green soul is happy, and now her daily food variety can be increased again.

Stir-fried snail slices or something, it's so fragrant.

When she used to live in the countryside, she didn't eat less. Stir-fry with pickles, that's called a fragrant.

It took half a day to allocate thousands of catties of cattail grass into the space, and found a few clusters of cattails, and the green soul also allocated a bundle. Then he picked up another basket of snails, and the green soul went ashore.

The shrimp and fish in the river, she can't care about it for the time being. She plans to make a few fish baskets in a few days to catch fish and shrimp.

Grilled dried fish can be stored for a period of time, even in hot seasons. After the shrimp are dried, they can also be stored.

It's a pity that there is no salt. Otherwise, after the rainy season, more food can be stored, and the tribe will not have the problem of hunger in winter.

For the green soul, the most important thing now is actually salt.

It's a pity that she can't run far now, otherwise she can go out and travel, look for salt mines, or look for the sea. How to make salt, of course, she knows.

However, since the tribesmen were able to exchange salt for salt when they participated in the trading fair, it proved that there were salt mines nearby.

Rock salt is rich in minerals and is indeed better than sea salt in terms of nutrition. Of course, if salt deposits can be discovered, there are other benefits, not only to solve the problem of salt, but also to mine salty and useful minerals such as gypsum and miscanthus salt.

It's a pity that these are really not things that can be rushed.

Take your time.

Being able to find such a large patch of pampas grass is enough to surprise the green soul.

Seeing that it was still early to go back, Qing Soul also remembered the place where she had cut the fine soft vines, and went to cut a few bundles of soft vines and threw them to the place where she soaked the soft vines that day.

On the way back, the Green Soul found a few more tall trees.

Qing Soul had to sigh that the primeval jungle may be more dangerous for primitive people, but for her who has received thousands of years of cultural and technological knowledge from later generations, it is really a treasure everywhere.

The roots, bark, leaves, seeds, and seeds of the tree are all important medicinal herbs. Moreover, the bark is even a very high-grade raw material for papermaking.

The tree grows like an acorn plane tree, and the fruit is like, and when the fruit is ripe, small red balls hang on the tree one by one, which is very beautiful.

When the leaf branches are torn apart, there is a very rich white ** inside, and this ** is rich in protein.

Qing Soul remembers that during the childhood of rural life in the 70s, every Dragon Boat Festival, no matter how poor the family was, no matter how tired they were from farming, they would remember to use cattails, mugwort leaves, and tree leaves to cook a big pot of water for their children, and then throw the babies in a big wooden barrel, use the green water from this pot to wash them well, and finally take them out of the barrel, wipe them clean, and smear the navel with rice wine sulfur powder.

She has also enjoyed this treatment for many years. When I think about it now, I just feel warm.

She used to think it was superstition, but later she learned Chinese medicine by herself and realized that it was really not superstition.

Cattails, mugwort leaves, and leaves have the effect of repelling insects, clearing heat and detoxifying, treating dysentery and skin diseases.

This is quite important to the current clansmen.

You know, more people die every year from various diseases than from hunger and cold. Among them, the elderly and young children are the majority.

Cattails and Tree Trees are already there, and it would be nice to find wormwood again.

Wormwood and cattail trees need similar conditions to grow, and since they exist, she believes that mugwort leaves can also be found.

After all, although she didn't know most of the plants here, as far as she saw in the past two days, such as amaranth, dandelion, purslane and other wild vegetables, although there were some differences in size and taste from the vegetables she knew in later generations, but after all, these plants existed, but with the change of the climate of heaven and earth, some changes in appearance.

This is normal, all living plants will evolve to be more suitable for survival because of climate and other conditions.

Because he had to bring wild vegetables with him when he went back, it was inconvenient to carry the pampas grass, so the green soul simply cut down a branch, and after carrying the pampas on his back, he used the branches to carry two bundles of pampas grass and returned to the clan residence.

This one who recycled the vegetables was no longer Uncle Thorn, but another first-class warrior named Takagi, who was only fourteen years old, not much older than the green soul.

Seeing that Qing Soul was carrying and peaching, the little person brought so many things back, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her unload the things.

"Yo-yo, why did you bring so much grass back? It's not winter yet, so you don't need to sleep on this bunk, right? Is it meant to be burned? Don't you have any firewood at home? Haha, let your friends chop some back for you. ”

Then he laughed at her for catching a lot of snails and coming back.

Qing Soul didn't explain, but smiled: "I'll keep this grass anyway, it's useful, this isn't a wild vegetable to hand in." I picked a big basket of wild vegetables. Brother Takagi, you hurry up and help me collect my things, I have to rush back. ”

Gao Mu took out eighty percent of the vegetables in the basket and put the rest back for her, and said: "Your basket is really good, but I don't have time to study, and I have to patrol the clan every day, yo yo, can you help me make one?" I'll trade jerky with you. ”

Qing Soul nodded: "Okay." But I didn't cut the soft vine today, and I'll cut some tomorrow and weave it for you. It's good overnight, and you can pick it up the morning after tomorrow. ”

When she returned, they sat under the wooden shed of her house and waited for her. (2nd Update)