The next day, early in the morning.

Ling Hao got up on time, ready to continue yesterday's work, but before that, he still wanted to make a relatively fresh hors d'oeuvres.

This is the ant egg.

Ant eggs are a traditional dish in the Dai family in later generations, which is not only delicious, but also has high nutritional value.

However, although ant eggs are delicious, they are extremely rare. The ant eggs eaten are all laid by the rhubarb ants that grow on the trees.

When climbing the tree to get eggs, it is inevitable to suffer from ant bites, so in the Dai people, there has long been a saying that "if you are not strong, you don't want to eat ant eggs".

Ancient Shenzhou is the hometown of edible ants and medicinal ants, eating ants has a history of more than 3,000 years, as early as the era of human wool and blood, ancestors found in life practice that animals such as bears and pangolins are strong and powerful due to a large number of ants to lure, and began to eat ants.

Li Shizhen called it "Xuanju" in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and the ancient books "Zhou Li, Tiangong" and "Notes: Internal Rules" recorded that there were accounts of special people collecting ants and ant eggs for the emperor's sacrificial banquets.

Ants are a "treasure trove of advanced micro-animal nutrition" and a "natural medicine processing factory" that provide human nutrition, and are a good friend for human beings to maintain their health.

Ants are rich in protein and amino acids, biologists have found that ants contain 45-67% of protein, 19 kinds of enzymes and coenzymes, 28 kinds of free amino acids, growth hormones, interferon, of which 8 kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body are complete, ants also contain high-energy phosphorus-containing compounds adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and antaldehyde, formic acid, etc., containing a variety of trace elements necessary for the human body selenium, manganese, zinc, phosphorus, calcium, etc., and a variety of vitamins and alkaloids. The reason why ants have such a warm tonic effect on the human body is because ants have one of the most attractive special functions - the synthesis of early-body antaldehyde, which is an extremely precious high-efficacy tonic substance for the human body.

Ants are the strongmen of the animal kingdom, and they can lift things that exceed hundreds of times their own weight, and they can pull objects that are thousands of times their own weight, which is the role of antaldehyde. Ants have 16 times more protein than milk and 38 times more protein than eggs. It produces up to 6 times more calories than fish, meat and eggs......

Later generations have conducted investigation and research on the hip fracture of the Kino people, and found that the Jino township east of Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which often eats ants and ant eggs, no one over the age of 60 has a hip fracture in the Kino ethnic group, and the investigation shows that calcium, phosphorus and protein are rich in deposits, which are conducive to ossification and increase bone strength, so that hip fractures are not easy to occur. In the Kino cottage, the elderly are in good spirits and have a long lifespan, which has a lot to do with their own good eating habits.

In later generations, there were three common ways to eat ant eggs: one is cold salad. Wash the ant eggs, blanch them in boiling water, and then add onions, garlic, salt, vinegar, peppercorns and other seasonings to eat; Wash the ant eggs, mix the seasonings, wrap them in banana leaves, and put them in a pot to steam.

The third is that it is used to cook fresh soup, and it also has a unique flavor when eaten.

Of course, there are special cases of eating ant eggs (the practice of Jinuo Mountain east of Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province):

One of them is "cold ant eggs".

The second is "steamed ant eggs with plantains".

The third is "ant egg soup", which can be boiled with tomatoes, coriander and ant eggs for 10 minutes, and it has a unique flavor to eat.

The fourth is the "ant egg cake", the ant egg is washed, mixed with the seasoning, and fried with the egg, and the small black spots on the egg cake are the traces left by the ant egg......

Scientific research has confirmed that the black spiny ant is an excellent ant species and has been approved as a new resource food in later generations.

The ant contains 28 kinds of free amino acids, growth hormones, interferons, of which 8 kinds of amino acids are essential for the human body, containing a variety of vitamins B1, B2, B12, A, D, E, etc. and a variety of trace elements: calcium, iron, phosphorus, selenium, zinc, manganese and other minerals, especially the most abundant zinc content, each kilogram of ants contains zinc up to 230~280 mg, and contains a variety of enzymes, alkaloids, high-energy phosphorus-containing compounds adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and formic acid, Antaldehyde and other bioactive ingredients, with a protein content of up to 40~67%, are known as "natural nutrition treasure houses".

The black spiny ant is also known as the two-toothed spiny ant, and most of them like to nest in trees, and a few build nests under grass and rocks.

In winter, the nest can be moved from the tree to the ground. The ant nest is composed of tree branches and leaves, weed debris, silk spinning, etc., and the nest is honeycomb-shaped with many small chambers. Ranwen

The two-toothed spiny ant is active throughout the year in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian and Yunnan, and dormant in winter in Hunan and Anhui.

The ant eggs that were mainly eaten in later generations were still yellow ant eggs.

Yellow ants grow on subtropical trees, with a body length of about 2 cm, a thin waist and a large belly, a mouth with two large teeth, and its eggs are edible.

According to historical records, as far as 3,000 years ago, ants were regarded as a good nourishing product, and there was a record in the "Zhou Li" about the king of Zhou who heard that the mountain people ate ants and tonic, and also sent people to collect ants and ant eggs for nutrition.

Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty also wrote in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The ant power is the largest, it can lift pig iron, and our people's regular food can also benefit qi and color." In ancient times, most of the chiefs used ant eggs as sauce, and the cloud taste was similar to meat sauce, and those who did not respect it could not get it. "Although the ants are small, they are full of treasures and contain 27 kinds of amino acids.

Vitamins B1, B2 and a variety of trace elements beneficial to the human body, and contain high-phosphorus compound adenosine triphosphate, a variety of hormones, grass antaldehyde, its protein content is more than twice as high as beef, chicken, eggs.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is a mild tonic medicine, which has the effect of strengthening the body and strengthening the roots.

Someone even made a statistic that there are about 10,000 kinds of edible ants in Shenzhou, and most of them grow in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces......

And very coincidentally, he often sees such and such ant nests in the wild areas of this world, among which there are naturally yellow ants, with his current strength close to the triple lock of the ground, it is not too simple to take out a few ant eggs from these ant nests.

Ling Hao witnessed these little guys in the wild preying on an injured sparrow, so he took out several of the largest ant nests and took them all the way to the Luoyi Academy......

Although this approach is a bit lacking in morality, Ling Hao feels that having a healthy body is more important than anything else, so he must make use of all the existing resources in this world.

After all, the whole world in this world is still on the land of the Central Plains, and the people here don't even know what the Western Regions is......

In order to ensure that he has enough energy to find more resources that can be used, in addition to his daily practice, he often goes to the wild to find and identify some of the small animals he has seen in documentaries before.

So, Ling Hao saw a squirrel as big as a monkey, a rhinoceros as tall and bulky as a road steamroller, and even a mutated colorful tiger with two sharp bone teeth...... It looks like a prehistoric extinct saber-toothed tiger.

It is worthy of the world of high martial arts, and any scene can happen.

"Huh, these yellow ants...... It seems to have gotten bigger again, could it be that they are also cultivating?" Ling Hao looked at a yellow ant coiled in his hand, ready to bite him, and his heart was curious.

Half a month ago, they were only half the size of a thumb, but now, they are as big as one of their thumbs...... If it weren't for the natural development of living things, then there was only one possibility, and the animals of this world could also cultivate into more powerful giant beasts, thus posing a threat to people.

It is said that in some tropical rainforests in ancient times, there may be prehistoric creatures that have been declared extinct in later generations, such as the story of "snakes swallowing elephants" recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

It sounds strange, but when you think about it, it may be true.

So, will there be animals in this world that have already cultivated into "war beasts......"? Can you take them for your own use?

"Childe, the hot soup is ready, Childe should go wash up first, and leave this kind of little thing to the slave maid to do. Gao Rong stepped forward.

"Oh, well, that's hard work for you. Ling Hao said politely.

"It's all the duty of a slave. ”