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Chapter 64
Grubs don't actually bite people, but they are a bit infiltrating.It is also easy to deal with them. As long as the earth-type supernatural powers are used, all the grubs in the soil layer can be forced out.The hundreds of acres of land in Dongxiang Town are densely packed with grubs. It seems a pity to simply kill them.
The supernatural beings sat around to discuss a good way to deal with the grubs. After thinking for a while, Wang Chenggang gave an astonishing opinion: "Why don't you eat them?"
The faces of Jiang Rong and Chu Qiang became even paler, not to mention eating this thing, even looking at it, their scalps began to tingle.Chu Qiang stared with complicated eyes: "Gangzi, your taste is a bit heavy..."
Chu Qiang thinks that he is a person with a strong taste, and he can accept everything from bee pupae to bean pellets to grasshoppers.Unexpectedly, Wang Chenggang was so powerful that he could even eat grubs.He gave a thumbs up in admiration: "Amazing!"
Wang Chenggang hurriedly explained: "I haven't eaten this stuff, but I have heard the old people in my family say that they ate this stuff when they were young. Although it looks ugly, it tastes good after packing. I think there are a few of them.So much, if you can eat it, what a good protein. And it is said that grubs are a kind of medicine, which is good for the human body, Miss Chunlan, donβt you think so?β
Wang Chunlan nodded slowly: "Yes, grubs can be used as medicine, and their medicinal value is quite high." It's just that it takes a lot of steps to process grubs into traditional Chinese medicine. Wang Chunlan is not a pharmaceutical professional, so she is not very good at processing them.
Maybe soldiers have a relatively high ability to accept. Jiang Jinhu folded his hands on his chest with a relaxed face: "Isn't it good to eat? We mobilize the masses to pick it up, wash it and put it in the oil pan. After frying it, the chicken might taste crispyWoolen cloth?"
It happened that there was no meat in the Starfire base, and the meat sold at the market during this period was either hunted by the team of supernatural beings, or vacuum-packed bacon or canned food.With so many grubs, it just happens to be able to supplement nutrition for the common people.As for how to eat it, leave it to everyone to study by themselves.
Pan Pan said regretfully: "It would be great if we had chickens in our base."
Hearing Pan Pan's words, Meng Weixian smiled and said, "What's the matter, Panzi, do you want to eat chicken? Do you want to make soup with grub and chicken?"
Pan Pan waved his hand: "No, I want to say that chickens like to eat this kind of bugs very much. Especially hens, the eggs laid after eating are big and good." Pan Pan used to search for such bugs in the fields when he was a childGo feed the chickens.
It's a pity that after the new village was transformed, livestock were not allowed in the village, and now the entire base can't find a single chicken... They haven't eaten chicken or drank chicken soup for a long time.
It would be great if there were chickens in the base. With so many grubs, it would definitely be able to feed a lot of chickens.
After pondering for a while, Guan Shao said: "Anyway, let's catch the grubs first." If the grub army stays in the field for a minute longer, countless vegetable seedlings will suffer.
After the order was issued, Pan Pan quickly took the order.He led the earth-type supernatural user into the field of Dongcun Village, and as the khaki-yellow light flashed, the grubs in the ground crawled out of the ground with their clumsy bodies.
Everyone couldn't help but marvel: "Why do these things grow so big?" Most grubs are as big as a palm, the largest of which is nearly half a foot long, and the smaller ones are as long as a thumb.
Seeing the large and small worms churning in the soil, Jiang Rong's stomach also started to churn.Seeing cold sweat dripping from his forehead, Guan Shao said with concern: "Go to the car and take a rest, and leave the rest to us."
Jiang Rong apologized, "I'm sorry to trouble everyone."
Hearing that grubs can be eaten, the people in the base quickly mobilized.Everyone found a lot of plastic baskets for eggs, and the common people lined up with the baskets on their backs and followed the supernatural person to pick up grubs.The grubs were so big that everyone dared not hold them with their hands, so they had to pick them up one by one with tongs.
The picked grubs were put in plastic baskets by everyone, and the basket could be filled without walking far.After the baskets were full, everyone stacked them neatly on the side of the road and waited for the trucks in the base to take them away for centralized distribution.
Jiang Rong opened the car window to let the wind blow, seeing his companions busy in the field, he was really sorry.Isn't it just grubs?He wasn't even afraid of mutated mice anymore, how could he be afraid of such soft bugs?
After beating himself for a long time, Jiang Rong was about to get off the car.Just as he was opening the car door, two residents of Dongxiang Town passed by the car with a hand in hand carrying a basket of grubs.
There was an excited smile on the face of the villagers: "I heard that grubs are very nourishing, even more nourishing than eggs!" "Hey, yes, our family has not seen meat for a long time, and I just took it back to nourish the children. LookThe worms in this box are big and fat, they must taste good!"
Jiang Rong glanced, just in time to see a basket of grubs floating by under his eyelids.Although the grubs were playing dead, their abdomens were still wriggling slightly.
Hundreds of bugs wriggled slightly... This was a nightmare, Jiang Rong gasped and closed the car window silently.He wiped the sweat from his head and exhaled with lingering fear, forget it, let him be a little waste for a day today.
The flowers and trees in Dongcun Village have fattened the grubs, and the number of grubs produced per mu exceeds a thousand catties.There are thousands of catties of grubs rolling under the soil layer in every mu of land. No wonder Dongxiang Town can't grow anything.
According to the estimates of the supernatural beings, Dongxiang Town can produce tens of thousands of catties of grubs this time, and if it is divided equally, the people in the Spark Base will each get more than one catty of bugs.
Not everyone in the base knows how to cook at home. Jiang Rong set up cafeterias in each village. As long as the points are paid, those who can't cook can eat hot meals.
Baskets of grubs are loaded on carts and set off to the brigades of each village. Those who are willing to cook by themselves will take the grubs home and process them by themselves. Those who cannot cook by themselves will have cooks to help them cook.
This made the chefs in the villages so busy that they took the time to meet and discuss how to cook the grubs.Although the chefs have never eaten grubs before, those who can be cooks have some intuition and talent.
When Jiang Rong returned to Yuye San Village, he was greeted by a smell of meat.This smell is very similar to the smell of boiled lard during the Chinese New Year, and it smells a little like fried chicken and fried crispy meat.
On the venue of the activity center, Chef Liu set up an iron pot again.The dirty grubs in the belly were wrapped in flour, and after being deep-fried in oil, the aroma was tangy, and the grubs turned into strips of golden meat after being out of the pan.
Chef Liu gave this dish a nice name: Crispy Fried Silkworm.
In addition to fried silkworms, there are salt and pepper silkworms, braised silkworms, and silkworm ball soup... After the cooks gathered together, they brainstormed and created more than a dozen ways to eat grubs.
Seeing Jiang Rong's return, Chef Liu greeted him warmly: "Team Jiang, come and eat some delicious food later! I have prepared freshly cooked silkworms for you, and you will definitely be satisfied."
Jiang Rong forced a smile: "No, you guys should eat more, don't leave it for me."
However, not long after he sat down in the conference room, Chu Qiang entered the door with a dinner plate.On the dinner plate are fried silkworms and salt and pepper silkworms, and there is also a bowl of tender meatball and vegetable soup.Chu Qiang slammed the door shut, and said loudly, "Xiaojiang, you have to try this! It's so delicious, I tell you, you'll regret it if you don't eat it!"
Jiang Rong refused, but Chu Qiang would not let go of this good opportunity to sell: "Believe me, this taste is no worse than Doudan. I snatched it from Gangzi and the others. If you don't eat itIt's gone!"
Jiang Rong glanced suspiciously, and except for the Salt and Pepper Soil Silkworm, which could vaguely see the appearance of grubs, the other two dishes did not look like grubs at all from the outside.
If he hadn't experienced his previous life, Jiang Rong would definitely refuse to eat this dish.But after experiencing the previous life, he understood the value of these dishes, so he stretched out his fingers and pinched a strip of meat that was as long as his thumb.
Flour-coated and deep-fried, the grub looks a bit like crispy meat.The hot meat sticks exuded a delicious taste, and Jiang Rong took a bite of the meat sticks.
Chu Qiang smiled until his eyes narrowed: "Isn't it great?"
The meat strips are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. I thought it would have a strange taste, but it tastes like chicken in terms of texture and texture.Jiang Rong's eyes widened in surprise, and after a few more chews, he praised: "It's delicious."
Then he tasted the other two methods carefully, and the taste of the grub was very delicious, no less than other meats he had eaten before.
Chu Qiang smiled and sat next to Jiang Rong. He pushed the plate in front of Jiang Rong, "Eat more if it tastes good. Xiaojiang, I have something I want to discuss with you."
Jiang Rong laughed and said, "You want to ask if you can raise grubs?"
Chu Qiang patted his thigh: "Hey! Jiang Rong also knows me! Do you know the weight of the biggest grub we caught?"
Jiang Rong didn't pay attention to this, he only knew that the largest grub was half a foot long, "I don't know, how heavy is it?"
There was light in Chu Qiang's eyes: "350 grams! Do you know how long it took them to grow to such a large size?"
Without waiting for Jiang Rong to respond, Chu Qiang said excitedly: "Just now, Hanyu and I investigated the habits of grubs. In July, grubs start to lay eggs, and then undergo hatching and growth. In October, they will burrow into the soil and prepare for the winter. It may beBecause of the abnormal climate this year, this batch of grubs has only started to break out now. To put it simply, the grubs we caught today are all larvae. They only took three months to grow to such a large size."
"The most important thing is that grubs are omnivorous insects. They can eat the roots of plants and trees, as well as straw and incompletely decomposed dung. Didn't you still have a headache how to deal with the composting problem in the base? With grubs, you don't have toI am worried that the dung soil will pollute the environment. And the grubs have been digested? 0; the dung soil is a very good organic fertilizer, which is better than the chemical fertilizer we use.β
Grubs are high in protein and taste good, but the things they eat quickly are things that the common people don't use.Raising them not only adds a kind of meat to the table of the common people, but also the grass roots and bark in the base have their uses.
Jiang Rong smiled and said, "You and I have thought of a place together, first arrange some people to try to raise them. But the grubs that eat plant roots must be separated from the grubs that digest feces, and the grubs that appear on the common people's table must be clean."
The grubs that eat plant roots grow up to be food for humans, while the grubs that decompose their feces grow up and can be killed for fertilizer or fed to other animals.From this point of view, grubs are a very useful insect. Although Jiang Rong is afraid of them, as long as they are useful, he will find a way to use them.
Chu Qiang liked to discuss business with Jiang Rong so much, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll send someone to do it in a while."
The grubs that can appear on the dining table are all relatively large after selection, and there are many small grubs left. If these small grubs can grow up, the people in the base will be able to supplement a little nutrition every now and then.
Chu Qiang pinched a piece of grub meat and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed the crispy meat and said with emotion: "Xiaojiang, our base is not short of vegetables, but meat. When will we realize the freedom to eat meat?"
The base has built a farm far away from the village, but there are only some mutated livestock in the farm now.They were brought back by the supernatural beings when they went out hunting, and the base expects them to cultivate excellent next generation, so why would they be willing to eat them?
The situation of mutated domestic animals is unstable, and it is not known when they will be able to rely on them to realize the freedom to eat meat.Chu Qiang sighed: "Just now, Gangzi told me that what he misses most now is the braised hoof you gave him when he first met you."
Jiang Rong looked puzzled: "Braised hoof?"
Recalling it, he met Guan Shao in the Chenggang Gym at that time, Guan Shao introduced him to the equipment and the method of exerting force, and asked him to copy the internal materials when he left.In order to thank Guan Shao, Jiang Rong ordered takeout from a nearby restaurant for the people in the gym, and there was delicious braised hoofs among them.
The taste of the hoof was so delicious that Wang Chenggang and his party began to salivate just thinking about it.
Jiang Rong smiled and said firmly, "Sooner or later we will realize the freedom to eat meat."
The number of soil silkworms is limited, and everyone ate up the first batch of soil silkworms after only a few meals.The unsatisfied people spontaneously picked up their equipment and got off the ground to catch the soil silkworms. After a few days, some sharp-eyed people were able to judge the position and size of the soil silkworms by the state of the plants.Walking in the fields in the past few nights, can often see people wandering in the fields with lamps.
As arrogant as the soil silkworms were when they first broke out, they are now low-key.As long as three soil silkworms can be caught, everyone will light a fire on the spot and roast them.
Jiang Rong started to sweat when he first saw the silkworms. Since the base began to build a silkworm farm, his eyes on the silkworms have changed.The soil silkworm is no longer a scary-looking insect, but a protein for the people in the base to improve their food.With the blessing of the filter, the appearance of the soil silkworm has become cute.
Soil silkworms grow very fast, as long as they are given enough food, they can grow a circle in a day.The roots of weeds and rotting wood in the mountains are all delicious for them.However, the soil silkworm does not grow up all the time, and when it grows to a certain period of time, it will form a chrysalis.
The people who cultivated the silkworms have been very busy during this time. They have to record the growth habits of the silkworms so that the people in the base can eat the best silkworms.
By mid-to-late October, the vegetables in the base have grown up one after another, and some vegetables with a short growth cycle have already been served on the tables of ordinary people.The entire base is lush and vibrant, and everyone is more motivated.
During this time, Jiang Rong and the others had traveled farther, and they wanted to take advantage of the good weather to find more supplies.The more supplies you find, the better your base will be built.
Today Jiang Rong's team is going to Yunshan Lake in the southeast of the base. The water area of Yunshan Lake is more than 90 square kilometers. Before the big crisis, it was a famous scenic spot in D City just like Lingshan Reservoir.
The so-called those living on a mountain live off the mountain, those living near the water live off the water, before the Great Crisis, the people around Yunshan Lake circled a lot of water around the lake and started farming.Jiang Rong came here because he heard that there are several large breeding farms by the lakeside of Yunshan Lake.
Although livestock and poultry without human care are easy to die, if there are livestock and poultry alive, they will become the source of meat for the Xinghuo base in the future.
After leaving the range of the base, everyone was extra vigilant.Today's mutated animals and plants are even more terrifying, and if you are not careful, you will be ambushed by them.Although there are little guaiguai and little fairies who clear the way, we can't rely on these two little guys for everything.
At noon, Jiang Rong and his party finally arrived at the northwest side of Yunshan Lake.The lake was sparkling, and the reeds by the lake were swaying softly with the breeze. Seeing the beautiful scenery, Ruan Hanyu couldn't help stretching: "It's so beautiful, if I had known, I would have brought my sketchbook."
Lei Lei snuggled up to Wang Chunlan: "Mom, the scenery here is so beautiful." Wang Chunlan touched Lei Lei's soft hair: "Yes, Yunshan Lake is a famous wetland park. If we are lucky, we can see a lot of things here.waterfowl."
Meng Weixian smiled and said, "Don't, I'm most afraid of encountering birds now." It's unreasonable for many people who can fly in the sky now, if they encounter a few sturdy birds, their drones will suffer.
While speaking, several drones made a few "beep" sounds and flew into the sky, flying in different directions.With the assistance of drones, everyone can quickly know the surrounding situation.If there are mutated animals and plants squatting, they can also find their traces through the intelligent detection system.
Soon the drone controlled by Wang Ting found the target, and there was a breeding farm three kilometers in front of them.However, the fence of the farm fell down, and even if there were living things in it, they should have slipped away.
Chu Qiang was a little discouraged: "Hey, are we coming too late? There is nothing inside." Even if there are live animals in the farm, if no one feeds them for such a long time, they will starve to death.
At this time, the screen on the display screen began to shake violently, and Wang Ting suddenly raised his voice: "The drone was attacked by something!"
Everyone hurriedly looked at the screen in Wang Ting's hand, only to see that the screen shook violently a few times before turning black.Wang Ting quickly pressed the stop button, and he adjusted and zoomed in on the screen. After his processing, everyone quickly saw the appearance of the culprit who attacked the drone on the screen.
A ferocious head was frozen on the screen. This head had a big mouth, and the barbs on the beak were clearly visible.In the gap outside the mouth, everyone saw a white neck and wide-open wings.
Everyone looked at the screen in silence. After a while, Wang Ting reported with a distorted expression, "My drone was shot down by a duck."
Jiang Rong said quietly: "Maybe...he is a goose?"
As if to prove Jiang Rong's statement, a long cry of geese came from the sky.When looked up, saw fifty or sixty big white geese lined up and coming towards them aggressively.
Zheng Zhanqing looked up and saw the corners of his lips twitching: "It's really a goose. The goose said: Come on, brothers, don't let them go!" This group of geese are still talkative, and each goose has a loud voice."They said we were intruders and wanted to show us."
Blue veins popped out on Chu Qiang's forehead, he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "It's getting cold, it's time to stew the big goose."