Chapter 10 Selling soil at sky-high prices and creating an ant colony
He looked at it for a while and decided to work first.
Carry the basket of humus back into the ground and pile it there.
These bud seedlings have been fertilized at least once. Wait until the middle of next month to apply another seedling-strengthening fertilizer to promote the growth of flower buds and increase yields.
A Niu, the land is well planted!
Rich Wang came over and rarely took the initiative to talk to Qin Niu.
Normally, Mr. Wang basically ignored him.
Especially when he sees Qin Niu talking to his daughter, he immediately becomes calm and calls his daughter in.
He was afraid that Qin Niu would abduct his beautiful daughter.
Uncle Wang, thank you!
Qin Niu just responded lightly.
Do you have any food left at home? If not, you can help me work in my fields and I will give you food.
Rich Wang would never care about him so much.
It was probably because he saw the growth of Qinniuzhong's corn that he was pleased with that he came up with the idea of recruiting them.
Any family with more than ten acres of fertile land, unless they have many sons, must hire someone to help farm the land.
Moreover, farming is too hard. Rich people seldom farm their own land, but hire others to do the work.
Thank you Uncle Wang for your concern. I still have food at home.
How could Qin Niu work for someone else?
Even if you have to work part-time, it must be a high-level job. For example, be an administrator like the high-level farmer with an annual salary of 30 taels.
The fat you brought back from the mountains looks good, do you want to sell it?
Mr. Wang is indeed a businessman and very shrewd.
I am afraid that Qin Niu has been secretly observing Qin Niu's farming for a long time.
Now that he saw that Qin Niu's corn was growing so well, he had already guessed that it was because of the good fertilizer.
How much can Uncle Wang pay per basket?
It would also be good to earn some money and buy a copy of the ordinary cultivation techniques.
The mountains are full of humus, and Qin Niu is very strong.
As long as the price offered satisfies him, he would be happy to sell some to Rich Wang.
How about five cents a basket?
Rich Wang is really a profiteer. He only pays five cents for a basket of fat. He really thinks that Qin Niu is a novice who doesn't understand anything.
Even the most common cow dung can be sold for about ten cents per basket.
Qinniu's fertilizer is a high-grade fertilizer prepared by itself, which is equivalent to modern chemical fertilizers.
The price will definitely go higher.
Not for sale.
He refused without thinking.
Then how much do you want for a basket?
Rich Wang's expression remained unchanged. He even walked into the field, bent down and grabbed some humus soil that Qin Niu had just brought back. He looked at it carefully, then put it up to his nose and smelled it.
For the neighbor's sake, I'll give you fifty cents per basket. If I sell it to someone else, I'll charge at least sixty cents.
Qin Niu offered a price.
Five times that of ordinary cow dung.
You, are you crazy about money? Fifty cents for a basket of fertilizer, who will buy it! Besides, this stuff is all over the mountain, you just need to use some energy to carry it down the mountain. Rich Wang was frightened by the price.
Qin Niu, however, looked confident.
If Uncle Wang thinks it's expensive, you don't have to buy it.
Rich Wang's eyes rolled rapidly but he did not answer.
Qin Niu's acres of land are poor, but the corn he grows is better than those grown on good land. Look at the growth, it's green and every plant is strong and lush, it's pleasing to look at.
I heard from my daughter that you often go to the book market to buy books to read?
Rich Wang began to trick him.
Occasionally!
Qin Niu had already picked up the empty basket and was ready to go home.
The queen ant has reached the last critical moment, and she must go to the mountains to watch.
I just happened to go to collect some loads of firewood to take home.
The corn and wheat you planted last year were not very good, but what you planted this year is so good. Did you learn it from a book?
Rich Wang did not give up and continued to inquire.
Uncle Wang, is there anything else?
Qin Niu was too lazy to talk nonsense.
Unless Mr. Wang agrees to marry his beautiful daughter, it will definitely be another treatment.
Just is this possible?
In this case, I will pay you a tael of silver for your fertilizer formula.
Rich Wang gritted his teeth and decided to buy technology.
Buy a basket of fertilizer and use it quickly. One acre of land requires at least five baskets of fertilizer to barely get enough.
If you buy the technology and hire people to collect it from the mountains, you will have an inexhaustible supply.
The abacus is very good.
It's a pity that Qin Niu is not stupid.
Not for sale!
Just two words.
Rich Wang was choked and stood there for a long time before he came back to his senses. Looking at Qin Niu's leaving figure, his eyes narrowed slightly.
This Aniu doesn't seem to be as useless as imagined!
Fifty cents per basket, that's too expensive! My daughter has a good relationship with this guy, so asking her to help negotiate the price should be a lot cheaper... Rich Wang's eyes flashed, thinking of a solution secretly.
After a moment, he shook his head again.
Forget it, it's not worth involving your daughter in order to buy fertilizer cheaper. This kid A Niu is much smarter than he looks on the surface.
Mr. Wang grabbed a handful of fertilizer from A Niu's field and took it home to study.
There are some leaves that have not completely rotted inside, and you can vaguely tell what kind of leaves they are.
These are the leaves of the dwarf pine tree, these are the leaves of the magnolia...
Mr. Wang carefully studied the composition of the humus soil and did not mention it.
Qin Niu went home and took a hatchet, a pole, and a rope, and went to the mountains to chop firewood.
After chopping a load of firewood, his proficiency in slashing martial arts increased.
Each successful slash can increase proficiency by 0.01.
Not too fast, not too slow.
Slashing three hundred times a day is 3 points of proficiency.
After chopping two loads of firewood, he went to the ant nest again to check on the young ants inside.
Wow, the first baby ant turned into a worm!
Qin Niu found that the darkest young ant had turned over and lay on the ground. Its two tentacles kept swinging, but its body remained motionless.
After metamorphosing from a larval ant to an adult, its body is still very soft and needs full contact with the air before it slowly hardens.
When its six legs and body harden, it can begin to move.
Great, we finally have an adult termite. You should go out quickly to find food and come back to feed your mother! It will starve to death soon.
Qin Niu looked worried.
Success or failure depends on this, and the queen currently relies on suspended animation to reduce energy consumption and save her life.
It is trying its best to hold on to the last bit of life.
Perhaps his urging had an effect. After about an hour, the little worker ant finally started to act.
First it touched the body of the queen ant with its tentacles, and then it probably received the extremely hungry pheromones from the queen, and then it 'quickly' crawled towards the entrance of the hole. Because it’s just like a baby learning to crawl.
His movements were clumsy and he walked crookedly.
As soon as he climbed to the entrance of the cave, he lost his footing and fell down.
Then it got up again and crawled toward the hole.
At this time, the other two young ants also made some movement. Their tentacles slowly unfolded, which was a signal that their transformation was about to be completed.
Seeing this, Qin Niu felt very excited.
There are three young ants that have transformed into adults. As long as the queen ant holds on a little longer, success is just around the corner.
The first worker ant crawled to the entrance of the hole and began to work hard to dismantle the defenses at the entrance.
Although the entrance to the hole was sealed, it successfully resisted the invasion of enemies, but now it is nothing more than a huge obstacle to the young ant that has just turned into an adult.
If it wants to burrow for food, it must dig a hole big enough to crawl out.
Because its body has just metamorphosed into an adult, it is very thin and soft, so it is a very big challenge to remove the soil blocking the entrance of the hole.
Qin Niu broke off a small wooden stick and came over, but did not immediately help them.
These young ants face many challenges, and this is just the first of them.
Just like a baby giving birth naturally through the birth canal, this process is very dangerous, but it can exercise the baby's abilities in all aspects.
Straight out, babies are weaker in the early stages.
Time passes little by little. Qin Niu got a very tender leaf and placed it not far from the entrance of the cave.
In this way, the young ants can find food smoothly as soon as they emerge.
About half an hour later, the other two young ants also successfully transformed into adult worker ants.
One of the last two young ants started to move, while the other showed almost no signs of moving.
The two newly transformed young ants also touched the queen with their tentacles, and then quickly crawled towards the entrance of the hole.
They communicate briefly with the first young ant using their antennae, and then work together to dig out.
There is strength in numbers.
The same goes for termites.
With two helpers joining in, the fortifications were dismantled much faster.
Finally, a small piece of the 'lid' at the entrance of the cave collapsed. After they continued to widen, they successfully drilled out of the hole.
The tentacles are constantly waving, immediately looking for food everywhere.
They turned a blind eye to the young leaves Qin Niu threw at the entrance of the cave.
This made Qin Niu depressed for a while.
I obviously want to help them, but I don't appreciate it.
The three young ants began to move separately.
One of them crawled towards the direction of the centipede. Qin Niu sweated violently and wanted to catch it back quickly.
Isn't this seeking death?
The other two originally crawled in the direction of the stinky ant nest, but quickly changed directions.
They seem to be able to smell the smell of stink ants and know that there is danger there.
The termite crawling towards the centipede seemed to sense something when it was about to approach the rock. He turned around and ran away without his life.
Qin Niu laughed secretly.
She has the excellent demeanor of an ant queen.
The three worker ants are trying to adapt to the environment around the nest and everything in the outside world.
To them, everything is new, but the three young ants are not playful. Instead, they look for food with a clear goal.
Only one young ant seemed to have found the 'delicious food'.
It was a small sapling that had just grown two or three centimeters tall.
A bit like a sapling of a toon tree.
The young ant climbed all the way up from the bottom of the tree. There are very small burrs on the seedlings, and it will definitely be quite painful if they prick its soft body.
But it didn't care.
After crawling past the first cotyledon, it begins to gnaw directly at the stem of the tree.
In just a moment, it bit off the tender skin on the surface, revealing the inner layer of the stem. There is fluid oozing out. This is the tree's ability to heal itself.
Just like when a person is injured, blood and lymph fluid will ooze from the surface of the wound, causing the wound to scar quickly.
Trees also have the ability to repair themselves, much more so than humans.
The young ant continued to suck the oozing liquid, and its belly gradually became larger and fuller.
It wasn't too full.
After that, we quickly returned along the original path.
The other two young ants seemed to have received the signal it sent, and they all rushed over.
They also climbed up the unfortunate sapling and sucked its sap.
The first young ant has quickly crawled towards the direction of the nest.
Every time it climbs a certain distance, it raises its head and waves its two tentacles to identify the direction. Probably fear of getting lost.
Fortunately, it was not far from the nest, so it did not get lost and successfully found the entrance to the nest.
Then got in.
After entering the ant colony, it crawls straight to the queen ant very quickly.
Qin Niu secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.
The queen ant has finally passed the most difficult level.
The young ants crawl to the queen, find the queen's mouth, and then start working hard to regurgitate the food in her belly.
Crystal liquid dripped into the queen's mouth.
As it ate bit by bit, its two tentacles gradually began to wave weakly and slowly.
Qin Niu quickly checked the attributes of the queen ant.
Female milk termite (queen)
Level: Level 2 Isoptera, upgrade experience 100.01/1000
Lifespan: 4.2 years
Energy: 0.1
Skills: The first level of reproduction is 0.05/10, the first level of suspended animation is 2/10
Talent: Moderate intelligence
Ant colony: 4 worker ants, life span 3 months
Seeing this, Qin Niu felt very excited. Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, after suffering for so long, it finally paid off.
He finally got his first pet.
Even though he was just a weak termite queen, he was still very happy.
As his planting skills continue to improve, he will definitely be able to grow advanced plants to feed the ant queen in the future and help it grow stronger.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and this most difficult level has been initially overcome.
It hatched a total of five ant eggs, and all five hatched successfully. Unexpectedly, one of them died during the transformation into an ant.
There are only four worker ants left.
I hope these four worker ants will never have any accidents again.
The other two worker ants have also returned after eating and drinking.
They also crawl to the queen ant and selflessly spit saliva to feed the queen.
Termites and all ants are social animals. They perform their own duties and do not bully the smaller ones or be selfish. When encountering an enemy invasion, soldier ants and worker ants will rush to defend themselves against the enemy as soon as possible.
Even if he is killed in battle, he will not hesitate and will not take a step back.
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