Chapter 130: Associated Termites
Really, I don't have an encyclopedia around me right now that I can turn it out and show you!"
Yu Le complained in his heart, but he had an idea, but he had another way, and said to Lu Lin: "Then shall I make a bet with you?"
Lu Lin asked, "Bet?"
Yu Le nodded and said, "I said that this is the chicken mushroom I know, you don't believe it." So let's check it out. ”
"How to verify?" Lu Lin looked at him suspiciously.
Yu Le said: "Actually, this mushroom is grown by termites. Termites know, it's the kind of white ant, I guess you haven't seen it like this, you haven't even seen it on TV?"
Lu Lin was unconvinced when she heard it: "I've seen it, of course I've seen it." I remember seeing the animal world, too, and it was just the kind of ants the size of a small grain of rice. ”
Yu Le said: "That's good! Actually, you don't know, this kind of termites have a unique craft, which is to grow mushrooms, and only one kind of mushroom, grow what I call chicken mushrooms." We want to determine whether these are chicken mushrooms on the ground, just see if they are termites grown. ”
Where did Lu Lin believe it, and said disdainfully: "You just open it up and break it, and ants can grow mushrooms, so what do you need people to do on the mushroom farm, just call the ants to plant them, and you don't have to pay for it." ”
Even Su Wu didn't believe him very much: "Lele, what you said is unreliable!"
These two girls must not know that chicken mushrooms, this kind of mushroom cannot be cultivated artificially.
Yu Le smiled: "Whether it is reliable or not, you will know if you try it." Let's agree on the bet in advance, so that we don't have to worry about someone to pay when we win or lose!"
Lu Lin was excited by him: "Bet on it, who is afraid of whom, you say, what bet you want." ”
Yu Le said: "I don't embarrass you, if you lose, just be on duty for me tonight." I'm the same, if I lose, you just have to sleep tonight, and you don't have to worry about the things on duty. ”
Lu Lin nodded and said: "Okay! But this bet is too small, it's not fun, I'm going to add another one, whoever wants to lose, who has to beat the other party's back! It's not a random hammer, it's going to be hammered for an hour!"
Yu Le smiled: "That's not up to you, if you want to beat me for an hour every day, I don't care." ”
Lu Linqiao shook his face: "Don't look like you're winning, I'll see how you prove to me that termites can grow mushrooms!"
Yu Le gave a mysterious smile: "Then keep your eyes open and take a look!"
He picked up the dagger, chose a freshly harvested mushroom field, and dug up the mud.
This dagger Yu Le polishes at any time, it is very sharp, and the ground is not very strong, it is the kind of grass and coiled ground in the forest, so digging it is as easy as peeling tofu.
Several women, holding their breath, watched from the side, not knowing what he meant.
Soon, the mud ground cut a small pit of more than 130 centimeters for Yu Le. As the dirt was dug up, there were mushroom stalks. These are stalks that go deep into the mud and cannot be pulled out directly.
Suddenly, Yu Le felt the tip of the knife pierce the air!
He knew he was going to get to the right place.
He took the dagger and spun around the hole, and with a bang, the dirt sank.
"It's actually empty down there?" a few women sighed.
Yu Le didn't answer, and directly took out the fallen red soil again.
Below, an underground palace castle appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and layers of ant nests, like high-rise buildings, stood up.
Yu Le used a dagger to cut a palm-sized ant room and came out, held it in the palm of his hand, and stretched it out in front of the three women: "Do you see it, what is this, do you know?"
In the palm of his hand, the termites, frightened by his destruction, were scattering and fleeing, and the termites were exactly the same as they had seen before, but they were a little bigger, as big as a grain of rice.
Of course, Yu Le is not very strange, on this island, everything is bigger, bears, red muntjac, hares, wolves, all wild things will be bigger, including trees, it is also the same. So this termite is no exception.
He also thought about the reason for this strange phenomenon, and felt that the oxygen content on this island should be too large. Too much oxygen in the air makes all plants and animals thicker and taller, as he read in the journal Nature.
The ant in Yu Le's hand, although it is one size larger, is not controversial to say that it is a termite. At best, you can only call it a large termite!
When Lu Lin and the others heard his question, they said, "This ...... Is this a termite nest?"
"That's right!" Yu Le looked at Lu Lin: "Convincing, cousin?"
Although Lu Lin had already believed seven or eight points, he refused to admit defeat and said: "Oh! There is a termite nest under the mushroom, which proves that the mushroom was planted by termites? Maybe this is a coincidence! It just so happens that a termite nest has been built under this mushroom." ”
Yu Le said: "Coincidentally, open your little eyes and take a closer look, what are those root things that grow on the top of the termite nest! That's the root of the mushroom! See clearly? This is enough to prove that this kind of mushroom is grown from this termite nest, and the evidence is ironclad, and it's useless if you want to repay the debt." ”
The facts are in front of him, no matter how thick Lu Lin's face is, he finally has nothing to say now, just laughing with him.
Yu Le said: "Remember, you have already lost, you have to be on duty for me at night, and you have to beat me on the back!"
Lu Lin said: "It's okay to be on duty, you can beat your back, you let Su Wu beat you!"
Yu Le said: "No, I am willing to gamble and lose." You lost and want someone else to pay you back, I said can you be less thick-skinned!"
Lu Lin pursed her lips and said nothing.
After winning the fight against Lu Lin, Yu Le put the ant house in his hand back to its place, and then took the women to pick out the remaining mushrooms.
By the way, Yu Le explained to them again: "You have a good understanding, this kind of chicken mushroom is edible, and when you see it in the future, you can pick it and eat it." This is the king of mushrooms, and it is the most delicious edible mushroom, and even those who are idle cannot eat it. The surest way to identify, I've already shown you, this mushroom is associated with termites, where there are mushrooms, there are definitely termite nests underground! In addition, there are shiitake mushrooms and fungus, which are two easily recognizable mushrooms that you can also pick and eat. As for other fungi, you should be cautious about eating them, and don't try them easily no matter how hungry you are, otherwise your life may not be guaranteed. Like yesterday!"
Everyone plucked all the chicken and mushrooms and stacked them all over the ground. Because it was far from the camp, they didn't want to go back and forth.
But bringing back all the seventy or eighty pounds at once seems too much. It's not that the four people can't carry their backs, it's that the leaves of this thing are stretched out, loose, and can't withstand squeezing, and if you hold it with your hands, you can't hold much at once.