Chapter 130_Explanation of Doubts [II]

However, Gao Ji was reasonable, and seeing that he was ashamed, his words changed, and he said happily: "...... You don't need to blame yourself, don't say it's you in this case, even if the official has been investigating it for 30 years, I'm afraid I can't find out, but you, and Kangtong Kangda, they have worked hard during this time! ”

Wu Dakui hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "My lord's words are serious, this is a matter for the villain, it should be!" ”

Gao Ji nodded, and said: "Speaking of this case, you should really thank Lord Li, if it weren't for Lord Li who happened to be a guest in the mansion today, I'm afraid that you and I would be busy for a while." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Wu Dakui sighed, although he was unwilling, he could only take the nursing home to thank Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan smiled and said that half of today's work is on Kangda, if he hadn't found the tree hole, he was afraid that he would have to spend a lot of trouble, so Kangda touched his head and laughed.

Everyone was rejoicing, but Gao Xueling was obviously not satisfied, and what she wanted to understand most in her heart at this moment was the mysterious ant mound.

"Li Gongzi, what's the matter with that ant mound, listen to what you just said, will all the dead ants be sent here?"

Chen Ruolan knew that she had been thinking about this since just now, and said with a smile at the moment: "Li Gongzi, you should explain to Miss Gao quickly, otherwise she will not be able to sleep tonight." ”

"It's not going to be, it's just that this matter ......" Gao Xueling was a little embarrassed by her, "- Miss Chen, I don't believe you are not curious." ”

"It's normal for the two girls to be curious, ants are indeed different from other insects, and I like them very much, so I probably know a little about them." Li Qingshan said with a smile, and then explained the principle of the ant mound.

Ants are very social creatures, they cooperate with each other and can accomplish many incredible things, and burying their companions is just one of them.

Many of their behaviors rely on pheromones, known as pheromones, to accomplish this. As soon as an individual in the colony dies, its body automatically emits pheromones, which signal death - an act that is done automatically after death.

Other living ants will send their carcasses to a fixed location once they smell it, so it is not uncommon to see ants running along with their companions in their mouths. In the long run, as the number of ant carcasses increases, small-scale ant mounds will form.

After a long evolutionary pattern, this pattern of concentrating on the corpses of their companions seems to have been deeply embedded in the genes of ants, who only recognize pheromones and do not raise any objections to them.

Later, there was a very poor biologist who extracted this dead pheromone, applied it to a living ant, and then put it back into the nest.

As a result, the poor ant was also treated as a corpse by his companions, and without saying a word, he was sent to the ant mound to be thrown away. After inexplicably running back to its nest from the pile of dead ants, it soon encountered the same embarrassment again.

In the days that followed, such a hilarious plot continued to be staged.

The depression lasted for many days, and it was not until the pheromones on the ant had completely evaporated that the ridiculous treatment finally stopped.

Of course, Li Qingshan won't talk to them about pheromones, as before, as long as it involves pheromones, they will be replaced by generic smells.

To be honest, these strange things were not easy for the ancients to accept, if it weren't for what Li Qingshan said just now that had already been corroborated one by one, I was afraid that Wu Dakui would shout next to him again.

But after what happened just now, Wu Dakui obviously also had self-knowledge, he didn't say a word, just silently looked at his goddess and chatted with the young man with questions and answers, but he couldn't insert a word.

I only heard Gao Xueling ask, "...... But Li Gongzi, since there are so many ants in the ant mound, why have so few people ever discovered their existence? To tell you the truth, I've never seen anything about it in a book......"

"Yes, Lord Li, the matter of the ant building a mound, it stands to reason that someone else should have discovered it!" Gao Ji also agreed with his daughter's statement.

"Not necessarily," Li Qingshan thought for a while, and then said, "Ordinary ant mounds are generally more secret, and some are even located underground, while the ant mounds above the surface are often attacked by wind and rain, or pecked by birds, and the corpses of ants cannot be preserved for many years. ”

"That's not right, but the official saw it just now, the number of ants dug out of the tree hole is really a bit amazing, why is this?"

Li Qingshan shook his head and said, "The situation in the mansion of Lord Gao is quite special, and it cannot be generalized. ”

"Oh? What's so special? ”

Li Qingshan glanced at the tree hole again: "What's special is that these ants in the tall mansion will die in large numbers in a short period of time because they have stolen the silver in the warehouse, so this has caused the ant corpses here to pile up." Without this theft, there would not have been so many dead ants in this tree hole. ”

Gao Xueling asked curiously, "Gongzi Li, why do these ants die in large numbers?" ”

Li Qingshan sighed lightly, and then explained: "Miss Gao, as I said just now, although ants can eat silver powder, they can't digest it at all, and it's okay to eat a little less, but once they ingest too much, these ants will die soon." ”

Everyone was slightly surprised, but Gao Ji nodded for a while: "This official understands, this truth is somewhat similar to the suicide of people in the world who swallow gold." Although gold and silver are precious, once eaten, they can also kill people, not to mention small ants! ”

Li Qingshan nodded: "Yes, so although these ants eat happily, they actually have to pay the price of their lives." The more they eat, the faster they die......"

Hearing this, the personal maid beside Gao Xueling suddenly screamed, trotted over with her skirt all the way, and found the place where she put the silver bar just now.

Everyone immediately looked at her, Gao Ji was a little puzzled at first, but when he saw it, he smiled at Gao Xueling and said: "Ling'er, I didn't expect this girl Xing'er to have a kind heart!" ”

Gao Xueling also smiled and nodded: "Father, although ants are small, they are also lives after all, and they can be saved with a single effort, so why not?" ”

Gao Ji nodded yes, his face was also a little relieved, and when Xing'er came over, he praised her twice.

But Xing'er blushed and said, "My lord, the slave and maid are sorry for this silver...... You see, they have been gnawed a lot, and if the slaves and maids go over later, I am afraid that they will all be gnawed up! ”

Gao Xueling smiled and took the silver bar from her hand, and found that the silver bar had indeed been significantly smaller, and the originally smooth surface had been gnawed a little rough, and there were jagged bite marks on it, like very fine jagged teeth.

"Li Gongzi, I didn't expect the strength of these ants to be really not small!" Gao Xueling gently touched the silver bar with her fingertips and sighed again.

After listening to Li Qingshan say so much, the girl realized at this moment that the little ant was so interesting, and she could hear the mystery.

But what made her most curious at this moment was not the ants, but the young man standing in front of her. (To be continued.) )