survival in the wilderness

Chapter 130 Tung Oil Fruit

Now that Lanyue came, the three of them couldn't let her go, and asked about what they had seen on the way.

Mentioning the passage along the way, Lan Yue's eyes shone with an inexplicable brilliance.

Lin Yan couldn't believe it when he saw it, "What treasure did you find?"

Thinking of Lanyue's good luck, her eyes turned red with envy.It is a pity that these two trips to the mine were not able to accompany me, and I did not get the light.

She must go next time, the wheat has already been planted, and the important matter in her heart is settled, Lin Yan thinks that it is enough to leave this matter to others to continue watching.

Lan Yue smiled softly, and took out the sack she was carrying behind her back, only to see that she took out a notebook and opened it to a page.Pointing: "It's all here."

Shi Zhi snatched the notebook, took a quick look at it and it was full of pages, and one of the items was three roots of wild ginseng, and the bottom one was 3 catties of seven-star lotus...

"You found all this?"

Lan Yue nodded reservedly, "Yes, there are treasures everywhere outside, of course you have to bring them back when you encounter them."

Lin Yan couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed the notebook from Shi Zhi, and read it carefully.The more I look at it, the more jealous I become. God is indeed unfair, and the preference is too obvious.

With his gaze fixed on one of the lines, Lin Yan carefully asked, "What is this?"

Lanyue looked closely at her finger, "I found it in the mine, I don't know it. It looks like a kind of wild fruit, one is as big as the mouth of a bowl, the fruit is round, and it grows on tall trees. I picked it. I took two and brought them back."

"Where is the thing, let me see." Lin Yan asked hastily, a fruit from an unknown tree might be useful.

"Let Lan Xing take it home. Let's go and have a look."

Lin Yan nodded. He knew all the other things. They were basically herbal medicines, with various types and quantities.

Shi Zhi and Ye Cong were also curious, and they went to Lan Yue's house together.

When he saw the wrinkled fruit, Ye Cong said disappointedly: "It looks wrinkled, so I can't eat it."

Shi Zhi said in a regretful tone, "It doesn't look good, it doesn't look like an edible wild fruit."

Lan Yue ignored them and stared at Lin Yan.

Seeing Lin Yan take the things in his hands, after a while, the expression on his face eased, and Lan Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's really not edible." Lin Yan said, put the things down, and was going to open it to look inside, and asked Lanyue to find a knife.

"Since you can't eat it, what are you looking at?" Ye Cong was puzzled.

But Lin Yan said: "It can't be eaten, but it can be used. I look at the seeds inside, it should be a treasure, and it can be used in many places."

Shi Zhi became interested, "What is it and where is it used?"

"This is tung oil fruit, the fruit of the tung tree. Peel off the husk, and the seeds inside are good things that can squeeze oil."

"Pressing the oil is not very useful. We have more sesame oil than we can finish." The oil workshop run by Ye Cong's family has a good business, all of which are used to extract oil for people to earn some hard money.

Since the opening of the oil workshop, less than ten catties of sesame oil have been sold.Ye Cong is not optimistic about things that squeeze oil.

"I've said it's not edible." Lin Yan emphasized, "The squeezed out is tung oil, a kind of industrial oil, so it can't be eaten."

"Tung oil is a kind of 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 widely used in the manufacture of paint, The main raw material of ink is widely used as waterproof, anti-corrosion, and anti-rust coatings for construction, machinery, weapons, vehicles, fishing gear, and electrical appliances, and can be used to make tarpaulins, oiled paper, soap, pesticides, medicines, and insecticides.”

Ye Cong was dumbfounded, "So many uses?"

"Of course. With it, the wooden furniture we usually use can be coated with a layer to prevent insects, brighten the color, and last longer."

Shi Zhi's eyes lit up, "It's a good thing. We need to gather more tung oil fruits, and let's press the oil for experiment."

When Lanyue came back from looking for the knife, seeing their appearance, she quickly asked, "What is this?" When she left, the two of them still looked regretful, but now their faces are full of excitement, it must be a good thing.

Ye Cong repeated what Lin Yan said just now, word for word.

At the end, he asked: "Are there many tung oil fruits?"

Lanyue nodded, "In the mountain to the north from the mine, there is a large area of ​​tung tree, which grows very tall, more than ten meters high, and bears many fruits."

"Okay, when we go to the mine again, we must pick more tung oil fruits." Ye Cong couldn't wait, he wanted to try the effect of tung oil.

Shi Zhi is also looking forward to it. There are so many uses of tung oil waiting for them to develop, this matter cannot be delayed.

Lin Yan took the tung oil fruit and cut it open. The seeds inside were full. She nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, such a big tung oil fruit has more than half a catty of seeds, so it's worth picking."

"When are you going to pick them?" Ye Cong wished he could go now, he was most curious about these novel things.

The oilcloth and waterproof material that Lin Yan mentioned just now aroused Shi Zhi's interest, and he asked Lanyue, "Have you decided the way to the mine?"

Lanyue nodded, "The route has been determined. It took a long time for us to come and go on the road, just to clear up the difficult sections. After walking a few more times, the road will come out. When I come back this time, I saw the ground The roads in the village have been repaired, so should the road to the mine be repaired like that?"

"Of course it needs to be repaired." Ye Cong said first, "You haven't seen a frame truck yet. The road needs to be widened so that frame trucks can pass. From now on, frame trucks will be used to pull ore. It won't work if the road is not repaired."

"The shelf car is ready?" Lanyue looked at them in amazement. Before leaving, she knew that they were busy making the shelf car, but she hadn't seen the real thing yet.

Lin Yan said with a smile: "It's done. This year's harvest of hemp and wheat is pulled by a rack cart. It has been proven that it can be used. One person can pull hundreds of catties. When this year's wheat is harvested, every family will not be short of food. Afterwards, the construction of the road will begin.”

It was getting late, and the few people looked tired at Lanyue, so they left first.

On the way home, Ye Cong said excitedly: "When will the road be repaired, I want to go to the mine too."

Shi Zhi hadn't left either, and was also in high spirits.

Lin Yan said: "When the road is repaired, you all go." But he was thinking in his heart that he would have to wait at least a year or two, when they were all grown up, they should go out to gain experience.

The mining team returned safely, and Sun City was very lively that day.

Every household is celebrating. Every time the mining team comes back, they will bring back more ore, and all the tools they need are there.

Nowadays, iron pots and kitchen knives are not available in every household. Ironware is in short supply and the price is high. With more ore, the price will naturally come down.

As long as the ore is enough, you can make any tool you want, and what more people want to have is a sharp weapon.

Many people have realized that in the future, they will not hide in Sunshine City, and going out is inevitable, and they need to prepare early.

When the family had dinner in the evening, Lin Yan mentioned the tung oil fruit brought back by Lanyue, and Hua Hong also excitedly said that the mining team had brought back more than 2000 catties of ore.

That night, like Lin Yan's family, most of the family discussed the ore brought back by the mining team, hoping to buy the desired ironware.

(End of this chapter)