Chapter 33: The Bamboo Shoot Hunting Ground
For the first time, the Oil and Salt Road brought back five barrels of salt, which stunned the workers in the anti-sperm cave. Xiao Ran instructed the rattan pepper to open a tube for everyone to taste.
"What the hell is this ant!" a rude ant who had arrived yesterday scolded, after taking a big sip of salt.
Xiao Ran smiled and said to the workers: "This is called salt, which is an indispensable freshness seasoning for making pepper and salt bamboo shoots. However, this kind of seasoning has two sides, eating the right amount is fresh, and eating too much is the sloppy. ”
After Xiao Ran finished speaking, he dipped a little salt in his front paws and gently put it in his mouth.
For a moment, he only felt that he was relaxed, and this familiar salty and umami taste made him feel like he was back to being a human being.
Other animals, if they want to eat salt, they can only lick and lick on stones, or if they are lucky enough to come across a salt well and drink two sips......
Xiao Ran tasted the taste in his mouth, and when he came back to his senses, the pepper and salt bamboo shoots and insects resurfaced impatiently in his mind again.
The ants watched Xiao Ran's demonstration, stepped forward to learn Xiao Ran's appearance, hooked up a little salt with their front paws, and gently licked it.
"Salt and pepper, bamboo shoots!"
"Salt and pepper, bamboo shoots!"
"Salt and pepper, bamboo shoots!"
......
For a while, all the ants boiled, and they all shouted for the pepper and salt bamboo shoot insects.
Xiao Ran ordered Teng Jiao to take eighteen spear ants with him on the expedition. This is another actual battle of spear ants after the last battle with the Empire's bamboo shoots.
Xiao Ran hopes that through this actual battle, he will see what the strategy of the spear ants after several days of training is.
"Let's go!" rattan pepper shouted, and eighteen spear ants lined up with silver spears on their backs and marched towards the bamboo forest.
After more than an hour of marching, Xiao Ran and the spear ants came to the bamboo forest. This bamboo forest is not large, but it has a sense of being out of this world. An autumn wind blew, and the leaves of the bamboo forest rustled by the wind.
"Creeping forward. Xiao Ran said.
After Xiao Ran finished speaking, the spear ants were short and shuttled between the bamboo shoots.
The ants searched for more than a dozen bamboo shoots, but they did not find any bamboo shoot insects. Xiao Ran felt strange, last time, it was clear that many bamboo shoot insects were in this bamboo forest, and this bamboo forest has grown freely for many years, and it has long become a happy land for bamboo shoot insects, is it ......
Could it be that because there were too many bamboo shoot worms last time, the number of bamboo shoot worms here is almost extinct?
The spear ants searched for more than a dozen bamboo shoots, but still found nothing. It wasn't until I explored the fortieth bamboo shoot that I found that there was a bamboo shoot insect on it that was gnawing on the bamboo shoot.
"Leave this bamboo shoot worm to me!" said Teng Jiao.
Xiao Ran nodded.
Pepper smeared some mud with the spear behind his back, allowing the shiny silver spear to hide the mud glow. Then, the rattan pepper crawled under a piece of bamboo shoot shell, and after a while, crawled out from the other side of the bamboo shoot shell.
At this time, the rattan pepper is already very close to the bamboo shoot worm.
But rattan pepper did not immediately attack the bamboo shoot worm, but climbed on the bamboo next to the bamboo shoot worm. The bamboo grew a little crooked, and the rattan pepper climbed up about 60 centimeters, just above the bamboo shoot insect.
At this time, the bamboo shoot insects did not find the existence of rattan peppers, and still gnawed on the bamboo shoots by themselves.
The six claws of rattan pepper loosen the bamboo and tighten the body.
Sou!
The rattan pepper begins to make a freefall motion downward.
At this time, the bamboo shoot insect seemed to sense the presence of rattan pepper, and it carried it up to look up, just in time to find that rattan pepper was falling from the sky. The bamboo shoot worm hurriedly unfolded its shell, stretched out its wings in the shell, and fluttered to fly away.
Yikes!
At the moment when the bamboo shoot insect spread its wings, the rattan pepper just arrived and stabbed the bamboo shoot insect in the wing with a shot, nailing the bamboo shoot insect firmly to the bamboo shoot.
Then, the pepper let go of the silver spear, and with a dash, it almost flashed to the front paws of the bamboo shoot worm.
Swish!
The rattan pepper's mouth hooked up, and before the bamboo shoots could react, the right front paw was bitten off by the rattan pepper.
The bamboo shoot insect with folded wings and a front paw instantly lost the ability to escape, presumably, it could never have imagined that it would be instantly subdued by a worker ant several times smaller than itself.
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Good!"
......
The eighteen spear ants cheered, especially the new spear ants, and they even had a sense of worship for the rattan pepper.
The ants stepped forward and removed the two wings and left front paws of the bamboo shoots. A bamboo shoot worm that is about to become a delicacy is conquered in this way.
The workers searched for dozens of bamboo shoots, but found no trace of bamboo shoots.
Xiao Ran decided to withdraw his troops, it seems that this bamboo shoot hunting ground needs to be recuperated, and the autumn hunt will end here!
More than an hour later, the workers drove the bamboo shoots back to the sea buckthorn wasteland. At this point, it was noon. When he arrived at the kerosene stove, Xiao Ran instructed the ants to move out the salt that was transported back from the oil and salt road last time, and asked Xiao Sen to take a few ants to pick more than a dozen peppercorns.
After all the materials were prepared, Xiao Ran first asked the ants to wash the whole bamboo shoots with the morning dew that had been prepared.
Now that the weather has turned colder, it has become very difficult to use a magnifying glass to light a fire, Xiao Ran instructed the sixteen worker ants to bring a box of matches, although Xiao Ran is very economical in the use of matches, but can not use a magnifying glass to light the fire, and can only rely on these matches.
Laugh at!
A red flame burned from the match, followed by a somewhat pungent smell of sulfur.
Xiaoran lit the kerosene lighter with a match, and the lighter burned quietly in the kerosene stove hole, and the smoke exhaust of the kerosene stove emitted black smoke from kerosene burning.
Two minutes later, you can already feel the heat of the tiles, Xiao Ran instructed the worker ants to push five steps of peppercorns down first, and fry them for about a minute, the diameter and alcohol in the peppercorns are heated and volatilized, and a fragrant peppercorn fragrance comes to the nose.
Then, Xiao Ran instructed the ants to push the bamboo shoot worm down.
After a while, the bamboo shoots and insects began to sizzle on the tiles.
The oil from the bamboo shoots was baked, and slowly, some of the tiles were already soaked with oil.
Then, Xiao instructed more than a dozen worker ants to use a long straw pole with a tube to sprinkle salt on the bamboo shoots and insects.
It's so fragrant! Xiao Ran smelled the smell of salt-and-pepper barbecue. Although there is no rapeseed oil, this bamboo shoot is fat and fat, and it also secretes a lot of oil when it is grilled, which makes the whole barbecue have a soul.
"It smells so good!"
"It smells so good!"
"yes, it smells so good!"
......
All the worker ants greedily sucked up. The worker ants who were originally building the Cloud Palace all ran over and were deeply attracted by the smell of salt-and-pepper barbecue.
Even the Shi brothers, who have always been vegetarians, were attracted by this novel taste of salt-and-pepper barbecue. The Shi brothers looked at the salt-and-pepper bamboo shoots on the tile baking pan with blank eyes, and swallowed their saliva.
"You guys, don't you want to eat meat instead?" pepper quipped.
"Sin, sin......" Staro panicked, "We Holy Armor of the Red Shovel Clan will never betray the Holy Fire!"