The males are very satisfied with the New Year's banquet, and when the protagonist announces that there will also be a banquet during the Spring Festival next year, the males immediately express their silent cheers by shaking their heads.

Ants do not have vocal organs, which makes them express emotions only through movement rather than sound. Having been in this ant world for many years, the protagonist is also used to this way.

In this way, the concept of the New Year and the Spring Festival entered the minds of the male ants, and was firmly remembered along with the food.

The Spring Festival is over, but there is still a long way to go before the real meteorological spring, and there is still a month or two of winter to survive.

Fortunately, there is plenty of food in the nest and it is very warm. And this year is a winter as peaceful as last year, and there are no external threats.

In the winter of the year before last, the protagonist also led his troops to fight desperately against the invading paving ant barbarian army in [Linshui City], and the pressure was great every day. Last year, the Paving Ant Barbarian Army did not come, and this year, the mysterious ants did not invade.

Now that I think about it, maybe the reason why the Paving Ant Barbarian Army gave up the southern invasion in winter last year was because it was attacked by the mysterious ants.

The mysterious ants also have small ants that can move during the day in the winter when there is sunlight, and although their combat power is different from that of their larger counterparts, it is enough to contain the Paving Ant Barbarian army.

After all, in the past, the winter was the home of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country, and they all launched the offensive, and they did not encounter the challenge of other ants in the winter.

In fact, it goes back a long time ago, when there was more than one country founded by the Paving Ant Clan on the north bank of the Great River, and the winter war was still very fierce. However, the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation had already unified its own people hundreds of years ago, and established its current territory in a very short time.

In the past hundreds of years, the Paving Ant Barbarian Country has not encountered a challenge in winter, and even in other seasons, the only people who can cause trouble to the Paving Ant Barbarian Country are the Japanese Bowback Ant Tribe in the north.

Other opponents, including the big-headed ant kingdom on the other side of the river, were not taken into account by the paving ant barbarian nation.

If it weren't for the fact that the paver ants don't like the environment of mountains and dense forests, and can't cross large rivers without ice, they would have continued to expand a long time ago.

But the arrival of the mysterious ant changed all that, and in just two years, the paving ant barbarian country has lost a large part of its territory, and even the main nest has been attacked. The paving ants, who are accustomed to attacking enemies in winter, finally tasted the situation of being trapped in the secondary nest and besieged this time.

In the eyes of the paver ants, these mysterious ants are more hardy than themselves. In some extreme weather, when the paver ants were forced to hide underground, these terrifying enemies did not slow down the pace of aggression...

- I'm the dividing line -

Winter leaves little by little, reluctantly, but not quietly. Whenever the temperature rises to a certain point, there is always cold air from the north that comes back to proclaim the sovereignty of winter.

It's just that these cold airs are becoming less and less frequent.

As the plum blossoms bloom with the fragrance that spreads for thousands of miles, injecting vitality into the frozen earth, spring begins to favor this once dead land with a great power that can be postponed but cannot be stopped.

After the plum blossoms, the plum blossoms also bloomed, precisely because the plum blossoms bloomed in late winter and early spring, and the literati insisted on classifying this beautiful white or red flower as a representative of winter. But in fact, plum blossoms still like spring, otherwise why don't they bloom in late autumn or deep winter?

Spring flowers and forsythia, which are easy to confuse, also bloom together, bringing a golden beauty to the earth.

With the blooming of spring flowers, as the name suggests, spring is truly "ushered in". Even if there is a cold spring after that, but the plants are not afraid, magnolia, peach blossom, pear blossom, begonia, purple leaf plum, paulownia flower, all the purple and red flowers, are competing to bloom, showing their beauty on the stage of spring.

Compared with the scramble of the flowers, the insects are much slower, until a spring thunder and the stinging solar term arrives, and all kinds of insects begin to become active.

The main character's current calendar is the Gregorian calendar, which can't reflect the date of the sting, but it's only March, and it's the season.

The frozen river has frozen, and once again it has become a threat to the north bank of the river that has been blocked by the moat. The mysterious ants still haven't come to the river, and the first flying knights are ready to go to investigate.

The army stationed in [Linshui City] for a winter began to pack their bags and prepare to return to the main nest [Qingqiu City] - after the beginning of spring, there was no military threat here.

The protagonist does not return with the main army, he is waiting for the Flying Knights to bring back the first important military information of the new year. For the situation on the north bank of the Great River, the protagonist is still very concerned.

Anyway, the protagonist is riding Xiaoqing II, and it is still very convenient to return to the main nest [Qingqiu City], which is much faster than the army of the Divine Envoy King who is advancing on foot.

With the arrival of spring, [Waterfront City] has also started a busy spring production.

Last year's grain harvest was a bumper harvest, and now there are still a lot of dried meat, grass seeds and local specialty banyan dried fruits in the [Linshui City] warehouse. But the industrious ants are still devoting themselves to the production activities of the new year with 12 points of enthusiasm.

After a simple cleaning, a large number of mealworm eggs that had been left for the winter were sent to a hatchery with proper temperature and humidity control.

These mealworm eggs are so valuable that in the winter, even the protagonist is reluctant to eat them in a dish that resembles a boiled egg. You must know that one egg can reproduce hundreds of offspring in just three months, bringing a lot of meat.

Since mealworms eat less and grow slowly in autumn, the eggs collected at this time must be properly stored so that the farm can be quickly restored to size after the beginning of spring.

Farmland has also begun to be cultivated, and after the first year's harvest, the farmland has been occupied by a large number of weeds. After all, this farmland has a large amount of manure and kitchen waste deliberately discarded by ants as fertilizer, and there are also a lot of earthworms, which are very suitable for the growth of various plants.

The ants show no mercy to invading weeds, and many of the ants in the agriculture group are equipped with copper-jawed knives that can quickly cut off the delicate rhizomes that have just grown from the weeds.

Although the grass needs to be eradicated, the ants lack the ability to clean the underground root system, so they can only keep cutting off the grass stems that grow.

When the planted plants become forests, these other weeds will not survive.

After all, many of the ants' crops are originally tenacious weeds, such as early maturing grass, chicks, weeds, cow tendon grass, horsetail grass and dogtail grass.