Chapter 24: The Ceremony
After the third grandfather left, Xiao Ran instructed the four brothers of the Shi family to push the leg essence eggs out from under the firewood.
Then, the four brothers of the Shi family were responsible for pushing the eggs, and the workers were responsible for controlling the direction, and together they pushed the leg sperm eggs to the firewood pit next to the kerosene stove on the sea buckthorn wasteland.
The journey of more than 20 meters is another expedition for the four brothers of the Shi family.
Compared with persimmons, eggs are much rounder and have less friction with the ground. The workers and the four brothers of the Shi family pushed together for about half an hour, and then returned to the firewood pit.
Xiao Ran asked Hua Jiao to gather all the worker ants, and the Shi family's family also arrived at the scene.
I saw that all the workers and ants stood neatly in four columns, and the Shi brothers also stood in a phalanx.
For this grand ceremony, the holy armor of the Shi family specially smeared a layer of gold oil on their bodies. Xiao Ran didn't know what this layer of gold oil was, he only knew that after applying this layer of essential oil, the unique taste of the Shi brothers in the past was gone at all, replaced by a faint fragrance.
The Buddha relies on gold, and the insect also relies on gold, which is really true, Xiao Ran thought to himself.
"Start?" said Pepper.
Xiao Ran nodded.
Sixteen worker ants carried the matchbox to the scene, eight ants opened the matchbox, and the four ants stepped forward, took out one of them, lifted it to the side phosphorus surface of the matchbox, and pressed the match's red head against the side phosphorus surface.
Xiao Ran stepped forward, stretched out his front paws, held down the sticks of the match, and pushed forward hard.
Laugh at!
The match was struck instantly, and a red flame emerged from the matchhead.
"Ignition!"
Xiao Ran shouted.
The four ants threw the match into the firewood pit.
Burst......
The firewood in the pit was instantly ignited, and the dry firewood, which had been scorched by the sun for several days, crackled and burned. When digging the pit and piling up firewood, in order to let the air flow into the bottom of the firewood pit, Xiao Ran specially asked the four brothers of the Shi family to dig a trench in the pit to let the air enter the bottom of the firewood pit smoothly.
The flame burns and the air rises, and the rising air flows down the trench to the bottom of the pit, so that the fire burns more and more, and in a short time the small branches in the pit are burned into charcoal.
The red charcoal was roasting the leg eggs, and after a while, the aroma of protein came out.
This charcoal-grilled egg was learned by Xiao Ran from his mother. He remembered that when he was a child, his mother occasionally took out an egg and wrote the word Zhang Xiaoran on a certain part. Then, sprinkle a layer of plant ash on the burned eggs to prevent the eggs from coming into direct contact with open carbon, put the eggs on the plant ashes, bury them with a layer of plant ash, and spread a layer of charcoal on top.
Just wait about ten minutes for a charcoal-grilled egg to be ready.
This kind of charcoal-grilled eggs is very skillful, and 90% of charcoal-grilled eggs will crack. Mother said that if the crack is just in the name part, it will bring good luck to Xiao Ran in the next year.
Whether it can bring good luck or not, Xiao Ran doesn't care, he just misses the taste of this charcoal-grilled egg, and it has been many years.
In front of me, the smell of charcoal-grilled eggs in the pit came to my nose. Xiao Ran originally wanted to use his mother's method to bake this native egg, but after transforming into an ant, many ordinary operations have become very difficult.
To turn the charcoal and spread the ashes of the plants and trees is too risky for the worker ants in the anti-sperm hole.
A rough way of baking eggs may be able to create a different flavor, Xiao Ran said.
Bang!
The baked egg is cracked!
It's cooked! Xiao Ran was happy in his heart.
The charcoal in the firewood pit was also slowly extinguished, and it seems that this first trial roasting of leg sperm eggs was very successful.
Next, it's time for the workers to feast. The freshly roasted leg eggs were so hot that the workers waited for about half an hour before they could go down to the firewood pit and prepare for dinner.
The Shi brothers don't eat meat, so Xiao Ran specially prepared popcorn for them. There are so many bud valleys hanging from the Land of the Dead, and the weather is still good for popcorn, so for a while, popcorn has become an inexhaustible supply.
Xiao Ran climbed to a high place and said loudly: "The Sea Buckthorn Zerg United Nations is officially established, let's eat!"
Teng Jiao couldn't wait for a long time, and he didn't even dare to think about this kind of thing before today. It has always been a worker ant who has been ravaged by the leg essence in the anti-sperm hole, and now, it is finally the turn of the anti-sperm hole to eat the leg sperm eggs!
The shell of the leg sperm egg is hard, but the rattan pepper has already figured out a way. He dragged a silver spear, and with the help of two worker ants, he tied the silver spear to his body, and after the silver spear was tied, he lifted the silver spear and walked to the place where the leg was cracked.
Laugh at!
The rattan pepper stabbed the leg sperm egg with a shot, and shook it hard, warping a piece of leg sperm eggshell. If you do it a few times, a large shell will peel off.
Xiao Ran looked at the leg sperm egg, the burst was a little burnt yellow, it looked like it was crispy and delicious, and the rest was white and tender, which made the ants very appetizing. It worked, this time charcoal-grilled leg eggs!
Although the rattan pepper has always been greedy, he still used a silver gun to cut off a leg essence egg first, and carried it in front of Xiao Ran with the four worker ants, so that Xiao Ran could enjoy it first.
After Xiao Ran tasted it, the worker ants started to move.
Xiao Ran thought, although experts say that native eggs are the same as raised eggs, but the eggs in this entrance are obviously more delicate and tender than the raised eggs, as long as the taste is good, it doesn't matter if his nutrition is the same.
The volume of the leg sperm egg is about the same size as the total size of more than 40 ants in the entire sperm prevention hole. The worker ants only ate one-third of the eggs on their legs, and they spread them on the ground one by one, unable to move.
The ceremony went well, but it wasn't over yet.
After the workers and the Shi brothers had eaten enough, Xiao Ran continued: "The founding ceremony of the country is successfully concluded, and in the future, every year today, it will be our founding day, and it will also be ours - the Bake Egg Festival!"
"Egg Baking Festival!"
"Egg Baking Festival!"
"Egg Baking Festival!"
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The enthusiasm of the workers for food is obviously higher than that of all the emperors of any country.
The founding ceremony、Oh no、The first baked egg festival is here,Successfully concluded。 But the strategy against the leg essence is far from over.
On the second day, when the worker ants were about to eat the remaining two-thirds of the leg sperm eggs, they were stopped by Xiao Ran. Xiao Ran ordered the worker ants to throw the remaining leg sperm eggs into the Artemisia jungle, and all the worker ants picked up the dead branches of firewood again and threw them into the firewood pit.
Some worker ants complained: "Why do you want to give other ants to the leg sperm eggs that are obviously not easy to make!"
"yes, yes. ”
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Xiao Ran explained: "We only eat fresh leg sperm eggs, overnight leg sperm eggs, let other ants eat them!"
After listening to Xiao Ran's explanation, the hearts of the ants were slightly balanced, and according to Xiao Ran's instructions, they picked up the firewood again and threw it into the firewood pit.
After everything was ready, Xiao Ran once again led the workers to ambush beside the Artemisia jungle, waiting for noon to come.