Chapter 111: Spring
Cloud Palace.
The wizard seemed to have never communicated anything with Xiao Ran, and he began to live the life of eating the last meal and staring at the next.
Knowing that Burning Wing's body was a human soul, the wizard didn't talk to any ants, and he didn't think about using the church's power to torture Xiao Ran.
Drip.
In front of the third grandfather's old house, the sound of a car was heard.
Xiao Ran hurriedly flew over to take a look. The third grandfather and his sons were talking about something next to the car.
"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, what to check. The third grandfather spoke a strong dialect.
"Dad, check it out early and know it early, you don't tell us anything, you've been sick for half a year and haven't gotten better, and you don't say it's serious. The eldest son complained.
"yes, Dad. I told you a long time ago to move to the city with us, you see, you and your mother are the only ones left in the village, and you still have to say that this place is suitable for the elderly. Where is this suitable for retirement, there is not even a person to talk to. The second son said.
"Big brother and second brother, don't blame Dad, it's better to go to the hospital for a check-up as soon as possible. The third son said.
"The third child is right, let's check it first. After the inspection, don't come back here, our three sons, you can live in wherever you want. The second son said.
"Dad, you live with me. My five-bedroom and one-living room, hug your great-grandson well. The eldest son said.
"Hmph. The third grandfather's tone was very slow, "I don't go anywhere, I just like it here." Besides, there are still so many crops that have not been harvested. ”
"What do you care about those crops, which of your three sons has no income, any son, the money earned in a month is not worth several years' crops. The eldest son said.
"Yes, you just listen to my brother. I won't advise you anymore, so let's decide this matter. Tell me, now that everyone in the village has been taken to the city, your three sons have money, and your old man is leisurely here, but the three of us are gossiping, and those who don't know think we are not filial. The second son was a little angry.
"Don't go. The third grandfather was stubborn.
"Dad~ I won't be able to live in the city later, let's go to the hospital for a checkup now, do you think it's okay?"
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Third grandfather, what's wrong? Xiao Ran didn't know, but he also guessed a rough idea. The eldest son of the third grandfather is in his 50s, and now he is also a grandfather.
Time has left a mark on the eldest son's head, and his temples have turned white.
That's fast!
That year, when he just left the old house, the eldest son of the third grandfather was obviously a young man, and now, he has become a grandfather.
......
Rumble......
The third grandfather still didn't insist on his last stubbornness, took his wife, followed a large family, and left in the three cars.
The lively world suddenly fell silent.
Now, is there really only the Zerg left in this village......
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As time continued, day by day, the third grandfather never came back with his wife.
Spring.
Spring has been coming slowly.
The hatching work of the Cloud Palace began, and the worker ants were busy, seriously incubating 5,000 eggs of Ma Li and Ma Sha.
The eggs hatch into larvae, which takes about two weeks.
Sugarcane gets sweeter after the cold of winter. However, if it is not harvested in time, the moisture content will be reduced, which will affect the sugar content and taste.
The third grandfather still hasn't returned, and Xiao Ran decides to take on the task of harvesting sugar cane.
The second-generation juicer works at full capacity, day and night. The Shi brothers also joined the team to harvest the sugar cane.
Transporting sugarcane from sugarcane fields to seabuckthorn wastelands, and then squeezing sugarcane juice and boiling sugar has become a process-based operation. Because plant ash is not enough, brown sugar is the majority of boiled sugar.
With the increase in sugar, the original simple storage room is no longer enough.
The Shi brothers expanded the size of the storage room to meet the storage needs slightly. Despite this, less than a tenth of the sugarcane in that sugar cane field was harvested.
As the days passed, Xiao Ran only felt that life was a little boring. The idyllic life he had thought of was now becoming bored because he had enough to eat.
He always felt that something was missing from his life.
......
"Prime Minister, our crickets have hatched too. ”
One day, information came from Jiulixiang.
"Cricket ......"
Xiao Ran followed Jiulixiang to the cricket's incubation room, and the small crickets were indeed hatched. This cricket is not the same as ant hatching, the baby cricket that hatches from the cricket eggs is smaller and will grow slowly.
But when the eggs hatch and the larvae are pupated, they become adult ants and will not grow taller.
Could it be that Xiaobei's height is still so small, Xiaoran thought at first that Xiaobei's height is not long, because he is young, only a few months, it turns out that Xiaobei will only be this size in this life.
Crickets are different, baby crickets are cute, but they have shown their aggressive nature from an early age.
Xiao Ran remembered an incident he did when he was a child, he once caught a jar of crickets, but when he brought these crickets home, the hundred or so crickets in the jar were either broken arms or legs. There was only one, intact.
So, Xiao Ran instructed the ants to separate the crickets and raise them and live in separate rooms.
If the crickets were so aggressive, it would be a big problem to train the crickets and promote the pikemen to cavalry.
After thinking about it for a few days, Xiao Ran killed countless brain cells, and he didn't come up with a reason.
On this day, Xiao Ran walked on the sea buckthorn wasteland, but saw that the sea buckthorn wasteland was lively.
A swarm of worker ants gathered around, not knowing what they were doing. Xiao Ran set aside the ant colony and went to check, it turned out that a few ant people came out to release crickets, but the crickets that had not yet grown up actually started a fight and couldn't pull them away.
This......
Isn't this a cricket......
Xiao Ran suddenly had a good idea, there were gladiators in ancient Rome, there was a cattle farm in Spain, and the Zerg also had a cricket fighting field.
Why don't you call it the gladiatorial arena too!
Xiao Ran began to design, which was to build a circular building. In the middle is the place where the crickets dueled, and on the side are the steps, which can be watched from the steps.
Crickets are cultivated from a young age, just to make them fight and be more skillful.
The six-wheel drive general that Rattan Pepper captured last year had already died of old age while the ants were hibernating. The rattan trellis was sad for several days.
Whenever he saw these smaller crickets, there was always an indescribable feeling in his heart.
After there was a gladiatorial arena, Tengjiao threw himself on this gladiatorial arena, and he no longer had the heart to think about the six-wheel drive general. It was just an accident that happened in the past.
The wizard is always in a hurry, he is always worried about the cataclysm. Every day, I run on the altar, sometimes, in a daze all day, and sometimes, I chatter alone.
Xiao Ran is looking for the meaning of ant life, it seems that the material conditions are guaranteed, and the ant life begins to get bored.
He began to think nostalgic for the days when he had searched for food, and although there was a shortage of food then, it seemed that life was more fulfilling than it is now.
This......
It suddenly occurred to him that this seemed to be uncomfortable with the fact that after working for more than a year, he suddenly did not need to work.