Maybe it's because the pride of the Uchiha family doesn't allow retaliation, and there is no follow-up to the group fight with the children of the Uchiha family, and a year has passed quickly, and the oil girl Tetsumaru is five years old.

The oil girl's economic situation is getting worse and worse, and the entire family has sacrificed and disabled a full twenty-two ninjas in the past year, accounting for almost two percent of the total number of ninjas in the family.

The oil girl family is not good at management, and the main income is the commission of the family ninja's mission gold, and the income has decreased, but the number of orphans has increased, and it is impossible to make ends meet.

The number of children in the nest house has increased by more than a dozen, the number of family ninjas has frequently gone on missions, and the number of children who come to eat during the day has also increased by more than thirty. In addition to Sachiko, two retired ninjas also came to help take care of the children, and they were barely able to take care of them, but the quality of the food supply in the nest house was getting worse and worse.

Among the children, the oil girl Tetsumaru was the oldest, and he ate the wild vegetable rice balls without oil and salt in a few bites, and watched the house full of younger brothers and sisters eating.

Now there are no big bowls, two rice balls mixed with wild vegetables per person, and a small bowl of wild vegetable soup, which is not enough to eat at all.

The children's faces full of vegetables and the frowning brows of the three family ninjas made him feel uncomfortable.

In his previous life, he lived in a country that was completely free from the threat of war and was on the rise, and he only heard about the tragic situation of war and famine through the news, and he never had an intuitive feeling of being there.

After eating, I took the older children of the same age to help clean up the dishes, and the oil girl Tetsumaru, who was in a low mood, went out alone.

The traverser is an old fellow who is over forty years old in mental age, and children can feel his difference, although they all recognize his status as the king of children, but they can't play with him.

Oil Girl Iron Pill himself is not happy to play with the little kid, as his body develops, he gradually gets rid of the dilemma of being controlled by the body, and deliberately keeps a distance from the child, which can effectively avoid being taken to the ditch.

After the fight with the Uchiha family last year, the name of "Boss Tetsumaru" spread all over Konoha Village, he was very capable of fighting, and he was very reliable in doing things, so the words of the oil girl Tetsumaru were not only the children of the oil girl family who would obey, but all the children near the family listened to his greetings, which was more effective than the orders of Sachiko the oil girl.

Wandering around the village, today's Konoha Village can clearly feel the pressure of soaring prices, the prices of sugar, wine, and grain have more than doubled compared to last year, and fresh meat, milk, and fruits are even more priceless, and there is no market at all.

Konoha Village is located in the core of the rich Fire Country, and it has fallen to such a point, and other ninja villages can be imagined.

In the normal years after the end of the war, prices continued to rise in the absence of disasters, which was a textbook prelude to war, and a new round of war was brewing.

The problem is that the last war started in a messy way, the fight was slimy, everyone was not used to large-scale ninja confrontations, and the proportion of deaths was very terrible.

The corpses of ordinary ninjas are all over the field, and the shadows standing at the apex of ninjas are also doomed, except for the sand who withdrew from the war early, the second generation of the four major ninja villages are all dead.

The shadow mortality rate of the five major ninja villages is as high as 80%, and small ninja villages like the grass ninja village have simply been wiped out, and the death rate of ordinary ninjas can be imagined, and how big the shadow in the hearts of the ninjas is.

What's more, the so-called end of the war was not at all simple, and after several years, the conflict between the villages was still very fierce, and all the countries were dragged to the exhaustion, and it was really difficult for a war to break out.

The society of the ninja world is in the feudal era, and the social system is backward and simple, but the simple structure is more resilient.

The economic crisis could not trigger a war, not because the daimyo and the village leaders did not pay attention to the people at the bottom, but because the suffering at the bottom did not affect the power operation of the superstructure at all.

Even if a village dies, it is a big loss to the lord of the direct leader, but it has no effect on the higher daimyo.

What's more, the characteristics of the ninja war are closed, and the battlefield covers the entire world, but it is only a fight between ninjas, and it does not involve the mobilization of civilians, so as long as it has not affected the levy of the daimyo, the war will not be considered.

Maybe in another three or five years, the ninjas will be so poor that they will starve to death, and the fear of hunger will overcome the fear of death before the war will detonate.

It's just that the oil girl family can't hold it now, and the oil girl Tetsumaru doesn't know how the oil girl family in his memory survived, but he can't watch his brothers and sisters starve when he has money.

……

The family's house has been renovated, and the yard is full of life, with lush grass covering the entire yard, leaving only a narrow path with stone slabs to block the encroachment of plants.

Follow the path into the small stone house on the edge of the western wall, which is the research room of the oil girl iron pill.

After the fight, the oil girl and the wind raided the bedroom of the oil girl Tetsumaru, and at that time, hundreds of jars were copied from the bottom of the bed and the cabinet, among which there were more than 200 kinds of insects, with a total of nearly 10,000.

After that, the amount of fried meat with bamboo shoots doubled and doubled, but the oil girl iron pill also benefited, and the oil girl and the wind built a separate small house in the yard to store these bugs.

The oil girl iron pill has obtained a lot of results here, including a full set of technology for sugar ant breeding.

Last year, through the cooling stimulation experiment, sugar ants differentiated sugar tank ants for the first time in the land of fire, and began to collect sugar. However, the simple cooling stimulation is not enough, and it is technically equivalent to natural collection, and it cannot be scaled up.

Later, the oil girl Tetsumaru discovers that it is not the temperature that directly affects the ant colony, but the queen pheromones, and he uses a vacuum test tube to collect the queen pheromones.

As a means for the queen ant to command the colony, pheromones were extremely complex and had to start a long and difficult analysis work.

This work lasted for six months, and because there was no progress, the oil girl Tetsumaru wanted to give up more than once.

Qualitative analysis of the presence and amount of a specific ingredient in a sample is simple and can be obtained in a few minutes in a fully equipped laboratory.

The uncertain analysis is a sinkhole, because we don't know what the specific components are, so we have to first use spectroscopy, X-ray method, and fluorescence analysis to determine the proportion between the elements.

Then guess what kind of molecules these elements can be combined into, and the proportions between different molecules, and do a qualitative analysis for each result of the guess.

In the laboratory of the previous life, several senior brothers researched a biological toxin, and the composition analysis was carried out for two whole years, and the sample material consumed 1.2 tons, yes, 1.2 tons.

If you don't know the specific ingredients, you can't synthesize them artificially, and you can't breed sugar ants on a large scale.

The oil girl from the industrial age knows how big the gap between the output of natural collection and industrial synthesis is, which directly determines whether breeding ants can make money, so she gritted her teeth and insisted.

Six months ago, the golden finger of the oil girl iron pill improved, and with the help of insight, the macromolecular structure in the pheromones was vaguely observed, so there were only seventeen or eighteen possibilities left for the combination of ingredients.

The analysis was completed in the afternoon, and the subsequent synthesis was not difficult for biochemistry practitioners.

The next day, the four pheromones that control the production of sugar tank ants were successfully synthesized, and a week later, all the pheromones of the sugar ants were synthesized.

Since then, the oil girl Iron Pill has completely controlled the sugar ants, and can manipulate the activities of the ants at will, collect sugar and harvest it.

With the help of pheromones, he also differentiated a population of tree ants, which were actually indistinguishable, except that the grazing insects were changed to scale insects.

Scale insects are parasitic trees, and they can also secrete honeydew and insect wax, which not only produce sugar, but also wax, which is even more beneficial.

With two large trees and grass in her yard, the oil girl iron pill raised two nests of tree ants and three nests of grass ants.

Enough to feed a family, how big is the difference between the yield of industrial farming and natural harvesting?

The Sugar Ants of the Land of Grass require two square kilometers of territory and can be harvested once a year, while Tetsumaru can graze five colonies of Sugar Ants in a yard of three hundred and fifty square meters, and can harvest six times a month.

The difference in production between the two is more than 2,000 times.

The sugar and wax produced by the five nests of ants in the courtyard bring in a huge income, which is equivalent to two B-class tasks per day, stable and risk-free.

can earn money safely and steadily, which one lacks the heart to earn money?

My father simply stopped taking on ninja tasks and concentrated on taking care of his own bugs.

The family's economic situation has improved, the father is not performing dangerous tasks, the mother's sense of security is about to explode, and the small life is naturally thriving.

……

"Father, I have an idea."

It's not the slightest bit unnatural for the oil girl to call the oil girl and the wind father now.

Wearing a straw hat, the oil girl Kazukaze squatted in the grass to check the status of ants, aphids and grass, and stood up when she heard her son's voice.

He took off his hat and fanned the wind, smiled and said to his son, "You say, I'm listening." ”

"The younger siblings of the nest house are getting worse and worse, and I want to hand over the ants to the clan to manage."

"Okay."

Well?

The oil girl Iron Pill was a little surprised, but looking at the oil girl and the wind with a relieved smile, he understood that the family had long wanted to hand it in, but he was waiting for his own feelings.

Waiting for me to bring it up myself?

I was actually a little moved.

"As a boy, responsibility is the first quality, you go and talk to Elder Zhihui yourself."

"Okay."

The oil girl Tetsumaru ran to the hut, took a large glass bottle and tool kit, walked into the grass on the left side of the path, and found a large wooden box with all her knowledge.

When the lid of the wooden box is lifted, dense ants are revealed, and the ants begin to stir after being exposed to the light.

The oil girl took out the watering can from the toolkit, sprayed diazepam to appease the colony, then opened the core in the center of the box, and carefully pinched out the sugar pot ants inside with tweezers, and fixed it to the edge of the special large funnel.

The sugar tank ant is the strange one of the sugar ants, and it will take the initiative to eat during the change of seasons in autumn and winter, until its belly swells to 200 times and becomes a sugar ball the size of a grape, completely unable to move.

The sugar tank ants will enter a state similar to hibernation, and will be dragged to the core area of the ant nest by the worker ants to protect it, as a reserve granary for the ant colony to spend the winter, and the sugar in their stomachs will not be digested or spoiled.

Now the oil girl iron pill uses pheromones and cooling to deceive, so that the ant colony is cognitively confused, and every five days it goes through a round of seasonal changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

As a result, the sugar tank ants in the ant colony will continue to repeat the process of eating and dormant, and in the hands of the oil girl iron pill, it has become a means of harvesting ant sugar.

The oil girl iron pill fixed the 24 sugar pot ants, buckled the funnel to the mouth of the glass bottle, and took out the next watering can to spray new pheromones. This is the pheromone emitted by the queen ant in early spring, which will prompt the sugar tank ants to spit out all the sugar liquid and help the colony survive the spring famine.

Soon the sugar tank ants spit out the sugar liquid and returned to their normal size, and the oil girl Iron Pill clamped them back into the wooden box, followed by the next batch.

In the core area of the nest, there are more than 300 sugar tank ants densely packed, and the collected sugar liquid is soon filled with glass bottles. Seal the glass bottle filled with sugar and close the nest box.

Spray the abundance pheromones tomorrow, spray the reserve pheromones after three days, and cool the nest with ice packs, and the ant candy can be harvested again on the sixth day.

However, the quality of ant sugar is not as good as that of honey.

Honey not only has a strong aroma, but it also contains bacteriostatic enzymes, which has a long shelf life, and can be used as a disinfectant if it is fresh enough.

Ant sugar is a monosaccharide formed by aphids after hydrolysis of plant cellulose, and the ants have not been fermented after collection, so it is sweet but not fragrant.

Depending on the plant collected, the freshly harvested ant sugar has an attractive pale green or pale golden color.

If it is not treated, it will become sour and astringent within two days due to the degradation of sugar, especially like vinegar that has failed to brew, and will produce disgusting black flocculents, and no one will have an appetite.

These problems are not difficult at all, and it is good to add fragrance if there is no fragrance, whether it is distilling flower essential oil or alcohol cold brew fruit flavor, so the two methods are on together.

The short shelf life of ant sugar is not a problem, adding plant ash water to neutralize the acidic components, and then purifying, dehydrating and drying, and coagulation into anhydrous sugar cubes can be stored for a long time.

The oil girl iron pill divides the collected ant sugar stock solution into two parts, and directly processes one of the parts into sugar cubes. Wrap the candy cube and put it in the backpack with the other half of the stock solution, various tools, and medicine powder.

During the whole process, the oil girl and the wind have been watching, and the oil girl Aiko has not cooked after work, and has been accompanying the child.

After packing up everything, the oil girl Tetsumaru said goodbye to her parents, not caring about the darkness of the sky at all, and strode towards the forbidden place in the clan.

The young parents smiled happily and then began to pack up the housework, prepare for supper, and wait for the child to return.

……

In the middle of the night, Elder Oil Girl Zhihui and several other elders gathered around a table, watching intently as Oil Girl Iron Pill performed ninjutsu.

Zi, Shen, and Hai, the three handprints were completed, and the oil girl Tiemaru folded her hands.

Water escape, water gathering.

The hands slowly parted, and a fist-sized ball of water gathered in the middle.

At the same time, the clear sugar solution in the jar was dehydrated and dried, and then the iron pill was divided with a knife to obtain a half-catty of finished sugar cubes.

The old men cut the candy cubes into finger-sized pieces, and each of them picked up a small piece and put it in his mouth to taste.

"Sweet! Fragrant! ”

"No smell, delicious."

"A nest of ants can harvest so much in five days, and this ant candy is stronger than honey."

"Such a good candy can be sold for more than four hundred taels now, how many pieces are there?"

"One hundred and twenty pieces, hiss, this, that's so much."

The oil girl Zhihui was the leading elder, and he tasted the sugar cube silently, his expression gradually changing from ecstasy to hesitation.

"It's almost 50,000 taels, this, that's too much......"

The scene was quiet all of a sudden, and the sound of candy could be heard, and a cooing sound made everyone stunned.

The oil girl Iron Pill rubbed his stomach, he planned to have dinner after finishing the matter, but he didn't expect Elder Zhihui to attach such a high level of importance to sugar, so he had to call all the elders who were looking after the house, and he wanted him to demonstrate on the spot, until midnight.

The amount of food in the oil girl iron pill is getting bigger and bigger, and she is hungry if she doesn't eat a meal, and now she misses two meals together with supper, and she is hungry.

"Hahaha."

A group of old men laughed, and the atmosphere eased suddenly.

"Alright. Tetsumaru, you go back and rest first. Let's talk about it again, old fellows. ”

"There is no need to worry so much, in the end, this is a good thing, it depends on how much benefit our family can get."

"That's right."

"That's right, at least the children in the family can eat enough."

"Tetsumaru, go back and rest."

The oil girl Iron Pill saluted: "I will retire first, elders, please pay attention to your body." ”

The old men continued to discuss how to explain to the Hokage, how to communicate with the Senju family, which family to unite, which family to pull in, and so on......

The oil girl Tetsumaru returned home, and with him were the two family ninjas, who took from his home the seventeen pairs of ants and queens in their feathered state, as well as tens of thousands of aphid eggs and scale insect eggs stuck to the cardboard.

Sending the two ninjas away, the oil girl Tetsumaru enjoyed a large bowl of noodles made by her mother, and then went to sleep.

Two days later, the oil girl Tetsumaru noticed that the food supply for the orphans in the clan had returned to three meals, and the amount was enough to feed everyone.

This is the official start of the ant candy business, although the ranch is still planning and has no output, but has received money from the partners, and the family's financial situation has improved.

It's quite fulfilling.