If you enter the reception area and pass through the doorway that has been specially left in the partition of the woven wooden strips, you will see the living area, or the dining room to be exact.

Using a wooden partition to separate the room is not very soundproof, but it can play a basic role in isolating the view, especially in the nest room where the light is not strong. Fortunately, the protagonist's room is heavily guarded, and the ants don't have a well-developed sense of hearing, so they don't have much need for sound insulation.

The living area is mainly where the protagonist eats and drinks, so there are leather stools and a simple stone table with some cutlery.

The stone table has not undergone any processing, it is a natural shale, the height and size are suitable, and the surface is very flat, which the ants found according to the instructions of the protagonist and brought back as the protagonist's dining table. In order to carry this large dining table, the main passage outside the protagonist's house was also deliberately widened.

Although the hardness of shale is low, generally the Platts hardness coefficient is 1.5~3, the structure is relatively dense, the Platts hardness coefficient can reach 4~5, and some hard shales have higher hardness, but they are all softer stones. But the hardness is completely enough for the ants, anyway, except for the protagonist of the gods, the other ants can't damage the table.

This table has some tableware, which are made of pottery and have natural plant textures. The pottery is mainly plates, bowls, etc., which are fired in the combustion chamber, and the ant craftsmen under the command of the protagonist are already able to make relatively good pottery, although the output is not high.

The natural plant texture is mainly large items. For example, a water reservoir made of a nut shell similar to a round chestnut has a flat bottom for easy placement, and a gravel drill bit is drilled at the upper end, which is usually plugged with a wooden stopper, which can hold several drops of water, which is already a large water reservoir for ants.

There are now two nut water reservoirs on the table, one for clean water and one for honeydew.

The reason why we do not use pottery to store water is that there are tiny holes on the surface of the pottery, and water can overflow from them, making it difficult to store water for a long time. However, the current technology of ant craftsmen makes large pottery The rejection rate is too high, after all, small pottery can easily be burned through the fire, while large pottery is prone to uneven fire, thus cracking and scrapping.

The protagonist can't get the ants to start trying to fire porcelain now, and the glaze can still be solved, but firing porcelain requires a high temperature, and with the small fire that ants currently burn natural firewood, they also need ants to take care of it, and it is difficult to reach a firing temperature of more than 1,000 degrees. Even if they did, the ants working next to them were roasted to death, and the fire was deprived of its caretaker.

This is where the natural nut material comes into play – it is the right size and water barrier, although drilling is more laborious. Fortunately, it is the protagonist who uses this thing, and there is no need for large-scale promotion.

In the protagonist's long-term plan, there is an idea that large water reservoirs are made out of natural walnuts, and storage baskets are woven out of rattan and wood, and many logistical problems can be solved by relying on beetles to carry these water reservoirs and storage baskets and accompany the army.

You must know that the current ant army goes out after eating and drinking, so that you don't need to eat for about three days. And if the battle is expected to last longer, it can only rely on capture, or let the soldiers march with a small amount of food between their large jaws.

In this way, the amount of grain that can be carried or captured is scarce, and the grain is unstable, which seriously affects the effectiveness of long-term operations. Moreover, there have been extreme situations, that is, the troops carrying the food were suddenly attacked, and it was difficult for the soldiers with the food in their jaws to react in time to line up, and even if they repelled the enemy's attack, they had to spend time and effort to pick up the food that was discarded on the ground.

With a dedicated transport beetle, a lot of logistical problems can be solved, especially since these beetles are vegetarians and don't need extra food, just find a suitable tree to suck the sap or eat the ant's excrement. This can be more trouble-free than the transportation of mules and horses in ancient human society, mules and horses also need to prepare food, if the mules and horses are heavy, they can not just eat grass, they need a lot of concentrate feed to feed, and their own forage occupies a large proportion of the transportation space.

Let's turn back to the protagonist's "restaurant", where the protagonist eats one or two meals a day. The ants basically eat one meal to fill up for three days, but the protagonist can't do that, he needs at least one meal a day, and a second meal when he has too much exercise or thinking activity.

The protagonist speculates that he has the human mind and the special skills of the gods, and that he consumes a lot of energy to require far more food than ordinary ants. In particular, the protagonist finds himself now very fond of high-calorie foods.

At the time of the first crossing, the protagonist has a hard time accepting the diet of ants and can only live on nuts such as water and sunflower seeds.

Later, after meeting the praying mantis and losing his soul, Mulan gave him a drink of honeydew, a luxury in ant food. After getting used to the sweet honeydew that can quickly replenish energy, the protagonist is already addicted to this drink even after knowing that it is the excrement of aphids, so he doesn't want to drink it, and drinks it when he wants.

After receiving aphid honeydew, other foods are gradually acceptable, such as insect meat. However, the protagonist still only eats the meat of insect larvae such as mealworms, and is not sensitive to adult meat.

Let's take a look at the daily recipes of the protagonists.

The content of the protagonist's two meals is almost identical, the drink is honeydew or water, and the main food is porridge.

These porridges are generally boiled with grass seeds, and in the combustion chamber, there is a large clay pot specially equipped for the protagonist.

The large clay pot is one of the few large pottery vessels that ant craftsmen have successfully fired, and is about the size of a standard bottle cap for humans. Whenever it is to be used, the large clay pot is moved to the edge of the fire through a stone stand, and the ants pour water into it through a water reservoir, then add ground grass seeds, chopped vegetable leaves and mushrooms, and salt to make a pot of salty porridge - well, the protagonist is a southerner who doesn't like sweet porridge.

Because the clay pot is too small, it cannot be placed directly on the fire, otherwise it will be steamed dry before it is cooked.

Even so, the porridge cooked in the clay pot is only the size of two or three meals of the protagonist, and most of the water evaporates during the cooking and subsequent cooling.

When the porridge is warm and not hot, the ants will use a wooden pot-like tool to put the porridge into a large clay pot and give it to the protagonist.

This porridge is placed on the protagonist's table and is usually left for a maximum of two days, either removed and cleaned after eating, or taken away in the afternoon of the next day to avoid mold. Fortunately, the protagonist is used to cold food, and he is satisfied with a hot meal once in a while, after all, it is too troublesome for ants to cook a meal.

Dishes are also cleaned by the protagonist's own worker ants, who are not allowed to do any dirty work. They use clean water to clean the dishes, after all, there is less oil and no detergent is needed.

In terms of side dishes, it is mainly insect meat, nuts, roots and vegetables, some of which are roasted and some are eaten raw.