Chapter 78: Sweet Potatoes
"What, raw?"
"Yes, Prime Minister. Mary, the queen ant, laid 300 eggs!"
Okay, I'll take a look. ”
The queen ant has laid eggs? Xiao Ran has never seen a queen ant lay eggs, all this is sudden and new to him.
Xiao Ran came to the room of the queen ant, the room of the queen ant is much larger than the ordinary room, this is also the residence of the royal family, and it is not allowed to be sloppy.
Maoli's living room is full of white and yellow ant eggs, and the ant eggs are neatly arranged, like a neat row of rice grains.
Xiao Ran pepper learned that the eggs will hatch larvae after two weeks, and after the larvae form cocoons, after another two weeks, they will grow into adult ants. He seemed to remember that this was called complete metamorphosis, which meant that after the cocoon was broken, the size of the ant would no longer change.
Two weeks......
Xiao Ran suddenly felt that the task of finding food in the Sea Buckthorn Wasteland had become heavier.
He didn't expect that this queen ant could lay hundreds of eggs at a time. If the queen produces hundreds of eggs or more every day, at least that's what peppercorns tell Xiao Ran, then there will be a shortage of food in a short time.
If there is a shortage of food, the ants will not even survive the day of hibernation, and they will be starved to death.
"Let's go! to the sweet potato fields!"
Xiao Ran instructed the workers.
This time, Xiao Ran took the Shi family's cousin and cousin, and also took away almost all the ants in the sea buckthorn wasteland. Only the disabled 7 ants were left, Porco Rosso and 8 ants guarding the sea buckthorn wasteland, the second queen, and a few worker ants for the queen.
All the rest of the ants participated in this sweet potato action.
This time, Xiao Ran did not let the wizard divinate whether the sweet potato operation would go well, because he knew that the wizard would inevitably say that the salt peanut campaign was not over yet, and no other divination could be carried out.
The ants walked with the Shi brothers for about two hours and came to the sweet potato field. This is another large-scale operation after the crane, the holy armor of the twenty red spade clan, and the strong ant cells of the 120 ant clan, under the organization of Xiao Ran, carried out this operation in a mighty way.
The ants, along with the scarab priests, formed a 160-centimeter line and marched towards the sweet potato field.
When they arrived at the sweet potato field, Xiao Ran instructed the Shi brothers to carry out the excavation work.
The few nests of sweet potatoes that have not been poached are simply a gift from God.
The Shi cousins were divided into four groups and dug down four sweet potato vines. And the worker ants of the ant clan also fully cooperated. The soldier ants brought by the rattan pepper have never been able to produce and live in this way, but this time the situation is special, and half of the spear ants have also joined the digging of the sweet potato vine.
Xiao Ran looked at the ants of the Shi brothers who were digging with all their might, they did not have the slightest reservation, and used all their strength to dig this work.
Kobayashi shouted a trumpet on the side.
"Dig sweet potatoes!"
"Heyazole~"
"Don't eat melons!"
"Heyzole ......"
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Although they used all their strength, their digging work did not hurt even a single bit of sweet potato vines.
It would be a very wise choice to drag him to archaeology. Xiao Ran thought to himself.
"Prime Minister, dig it, dig it!" a worker ant shouted in cheer.
Xiao Ran saw in the direction pointed by the worker ants, and sure enough, a large pit had been dug next to the sweet potato vine, and part of the sweet potato had been exposed.
He ran down to the pit to see, and it turned out to be purple skin......
Is this purple sweet potato?
Well!
Xiao Ran confirmed again, this is indeed a purple potato. This is not surprising that every year in the sweet potatoes grown in my hometown, there will always be a few varieties that become purple potatoes.
It's like a wheat field where there are always a few oats.
Purple sweet potato!
Xiao Ran, who originally wanted to dig sweet potatoes, actually dug up purple potatoes. He was extremely excited, he hadn't tasted purple potatoes from his hometown for many years.
The ants and the Shi brothers kept digging, and finally after working for most of the day, they dug up two sweet potatoes and two purple potatoes.
At this time, it was already afternoon, and Xiao Ran said to the ants: "Ship these sweet potatoes and purple potatoes back to the sea buckthorn wasteland first, and we will continue to dig tomorrow." ”
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Good!"
The first day of excavation ended with the harvest of two sweet potatoes and two purple potatoes. The ants had a good night's rest, and the next day, as soon as it was time to work, Xiao Ran led everyone to run to the sweet potato field.
The original purpose of exploring this piece of land was to salt peanuts, but the salt peanuts were not found, and the unexpected sweet potatoes were harvested. Xiao Ran felt that this exploration was not in vain, if he didn't believe in wizards, it would be good to come and explore earlier.
The ants worked for four days and harvested a total of 9 sweet potatoes and 3 purple potatoes.
They all stayed quietly by the sauce vat where the berry jam was stored, and Xiao Ran wanted to dig another cellar and store them to prevent rats from stealing food, but all the labor had already been put into digging and carrying the sweet potatoes, so there was no extra time to do these tasks.
How to deal with these sweet potatoes?
Dried sweet potato?
Roasted sweet potatoes?
No, no, no, every food has to be made!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The scoop of the second-generation juicer went down again and again.
That's right!
Xiao Ran heard the sound of the spoon, and suddenly had an idea in his heart - sweet potato powder!
Not only roasted sweet potatoes, but also sweet potato powder!
First of all, Xiao Ran assigned work to the worker ants. The first part of the worker ants is responsible for washing the sweet potato and pushing a sweet potato to the second-generation juicer.
The second part of the worker ants is responsible for collecting firewood, with as few dead leaves as possible and more dead branches.
Because the last time the second-generation juicer was made, the termites bit off a large section of the Tsubaki branch when they gnawed on the pulley, so the workers did not need to look for anything else, and they could take the materials on the spot.
The worker ants place the dead branches into the firewood pit, which has completed the task of roasting the leg essence egg many times, and is now a symbol of the glory of the sea buckthorn heath.
After the branches were placed, Xiao Ran instructed the worker ants to light the dead branches and burn them into charcoal fires first.
Laugh at!
The match was lit.
Rumble!
The dry firewood is ignited instantaneously.
The firewood was crackling and burning, and on the other hand, the first part of the worker ants had already washed three sweet potatoes. Among them, two sweet potatoes were first transported to the stone scoop of the second-generation juicer to be washed, and one sweet potato was transported to the edge of the firewood pit to be washed.
The worker ants in the first part push a sweet potato into the second-generation juicer and open the valve.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The scoop did not rot the sweet potato at the beginning, but only destroyed the skin of the sweet potato little by little. After the reddish-purple skin is rotted by the scoop, the sweet potato reveals its white pulp.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The second-generation juicer is hard at work.
A few minutes later, the firewood in the firewood pit in front of me was almost all charcoal. Xiao Ran instructed the Shi brothers, who had washed their paws three times, to push the sweet potatoes into the firewood pit.
The reason why the worker ants did not push the sweet potatoes was because the Shi brothers were fearless of fire. Worker ants, on the other hand, get too close to the flames, and they will feel the same burning and stinging sensation as humans.
So for safety, Xiao Ran instructed the Shi brothers to complete this work. Take a look at the latest chapter of "Ant Clan Gourmet Claw Book House" to read for free for the first time.