Chapter 165 This is a secret
"There are also a lot of centipedes on the top floor." Yang Qing said through the door, "Do you want me to open the door and let you in?"
Li Liang looked up and smiled, "Sister-in-law, no need, I can just climb up. This height is not a problem for me."
Li Liang said something to his parents, climbed up the drainpipe nearby, and soon reached the top floor.
"Dad, throw the bamboo broom to me." Li Liang poked his head out from above.
Father Li picked up the broom and threw it up with force. Li Liang reached out to take it and started slapping the centipede. Yang Qing and the others on the first floor could hear the slapping sound.
After working for a long time, all the centipedes on the rooftop and in the yard were killed. There were also many people catching centipedes outside, and gradually no centipedes came into the yard anymore.
Yang Qing walked out the door and handed a few snakeskin bags to Li Liang. "Xiao Li, pack up all the centipedes and weigh them to see how many kilograms they are. I'll give you the food."
"Oh!" Li Liang was overjoyed. He didn't expect to get food so soon.
Yang Qing gave him a shovel so that he could shovel all the centipedes into the bag.
Father Li held the bag while Li Liang shoveled the centipedes into the bag one by one.
Lu Lin took out the scale and weighed all the centipedes, and they weighed a total of 500 kilograms.
"Give him the new rice." Yang Qing whispered to Lu Lin.
Lu Lin nodded, took out five kilograms of grain and handed it to Li Liang, weighing it out for him to see. "Here are five kilograms of grain. Keep it safe!"
"Thank you!" Li Liang looked at Lu Lin, and seeing her looking at him with a smile, his face suddenly turned red.
"Xiao Li, tell your colleagues and others that I can exchange centipedes for food. Everyone is welcome to come and exchange." Yang Qing said.
"Oh, I get it, sister-in-law. Thank you!" Li Liang nodded with a smile.
"Wait." Yang Qing stopped him again and whispered, "I gave you new rice. Others might have exchanged for broken rice. Don't tell anyone."
"Sister-in-law, then I..." Li Liang was surprised.
"It's okay. You and Leng Yi are comrades-in-arms, and you helped me clean the yard. It's my duty." Yang Qing smiled.
"Thank you, sister-in-law!" Li Liang thanked her again and again, then told his parents about it and asked them to keep it a secret, then quickly put the food away.
The three of them walked out of the yard, Yang Qing closed the iron gate and turned on the electricity.
I brought five large bags of centipedes into the house and immediately threw them into the space, otherwise it would be too smelly.
After a while, when I entered the space again, the centipede no longer had a bad smell. When I opened the bag, I saw that all the yellow spots on the centipede's head had disappeared.
Looking at the space, it seems that nothing has changed.
Suddenly, Yang Qing saw a small yellow ball floating in the air, emitting a faint light.
Hmm, could this be the energy absorbed from the centipede?
Yang Qing was very sure that this small ball did not exist in the space before, and it must have come from the centipede.
If you collect more centipedes, will the ball get bigger and bigger, and will the space be upgraded to a certain extent?
Yang Qing is looking forward to it.
Leng Yi came back around noon, followed by a lot of people, many of whom were holding centipedes in their hands to exchange for food.
They want to see if they can really exchange it for food.
Yang Qing temporarily turned off the power to the iron gate, but did not let them in. He moved the scale outside and weighed everyone one by one.
Then, Lu Lin and I packed the broken rice in the space into bags, one kilogram into one bag. One hundred kilograms of centipedes could be exchanged for one bag of grain, and several hundred kilograms could be exchanged for several bags. This made it easier to calculate.
Leng Yi was outside helping everyone weigh the centipedes. After weighing, he wrote on a piece of paper how many kilograms of food they could be exchanged for. Yang Qing looked at the note inside the iron gate and gave them food.
If she comes across something that is not exactly 100 jins, Lu Lin will weigh it out and give it to others so that they won’t suffer a loss.
They still have several hundred kilograms of broken rice in their space, which can be exchanged for at least tens of thousands of kilograms of centipedes, and they can afford it in a short time.
If you don’t have any broken rice, just go to Haozi to exchange them.
In the afternoon, the three were busy when Hao Zhiguo suddenly came with a few people.
"Xiao Leng, I heard that you are exchanging food for centipedes? Why do you want to exchange for centipedes?" asked Hao Zhiguo.
The others also looked at the three of them, they also wanted to know the reason.
Yang Qing smiled and said, "Leader, please come in and sit down. I'll talk to you slowly!"
He turned to Lu Lin and said, "You help here. I'll go into the house and talk to the leader."
"Don't worry!" Lu Lin nodded.
Yang Qing invited Hao Zhiguo into the house and closed the door, not wanting people outside to see what was going on inside.
Hao Zhiguo walked in and took a look. It was not as luxurious as he had imagined. There was just a floor, a dining table and chairs, nothing else.
Of course he couldn't see it in the room.
Yang Qing took out a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Hao Zhiguo, "Leader, please have some water."
Hao Zhiguo took a look, picked up the mineral water and opened it to drink. To be honest, they seldom get to drink mineral water. They all drink purified seawater. It’s good enough to have some.
After drinking half a bottle of water, it tastes so sweet and delicious.
"Leader, the reason we exchange food for centipedes is because these centipedes are edible." Yang Qing said.
"Is it edible?" Hao Zhiguo was shocked.
Centipedes started appearing last night at midnight, injuring many people. Some people even died after centipedes entered their mouths and nasal cavities.
They were already so busy that they had no time to study whether the centipede was poisonous or what harm it could cause. How did they know that centipedes were edible?
"Have you eaten?" Hao Zhiguo asked.
"Well, not really." Yang Qing smiled awkwardly. She didn't want to eat that thing, so she made up a lie. "It's like this. We killed a centipede and it was accidentally eaten by our dog. We found that the dog was fine, so we guessed that centipedes are edible."
"Is that so..." Hao Zhiguo frowned, seeming not to believe it.
"Boss, I did an experiment. When I dried and ground a pound of centipedes into powder, they lost almost no weight, only about 10% at most. If all the centipedes were ground into powder, our future food problem would be solved."
"You can make centipede powder cakes by adding a little bit of flour as a binder. Then you won't have to worry about running out of food."
"But can people eat this thing? It smells so bad." Hao Zhiguo frowned.
Yang Qing snorted, "Leader, don't you see what time it is? The high temperature has been going on for so long, and the trees on this mountain are almost dead. If this continues for too long, not only will the grass be eaten, but even the tree roots will be eaten."
"No matter how smelly centipedes are, aren't they tastier than tree roots? Besides, Chinese medicine books used to record that centipedes can be used as medicine, of course, mainly for their toxicity. These centipedes are not toxic, but they are edible."
"I heard that the official base in Mingcheng has a good environment for growing crops, but if the temperature continues to rise and there's no water, when will the crops be grown? Even if they are grown, when will it be our turn in Xia City? Have you ever thought about it?"
"We can only help the people of Xia City if we save ourselves."
"I've calculated that one hundred kilograms of centipedes can be exchanged for one kilogram of grain. Excluding a small amount of loss, the profit is almost a hundredfold. When the day comes when we run out of ammunition and food, we still have centipede cakes to eat, so we won't starve to death."
"Then our hope of survival will be greater, and our hope of surviving the apocalypse and rebuilding our home will be greater!"
Hao Zhiguo was shocked when he heard this. Indeed, the little girl was thinking too far ahead. They had inside information that the end of the world was far more than this, and there were many disasters waiting for them. Without food reserves, it was impossible for them to survive to the end.
Whoever has the most food has the greatest hope.
I didn't expect that they could come up with such a good idea of making pancakes out of centipedes.
"Also, I found a way to remove the centipede smell. Without the smell, the centipede powder won't be so hard to swallow."
"Wait a minute!" Yang Qing pretended to go to the room to get something, took out a small bag of centipedes from the space and handed it to Hao Zhiguo, "Leader, smell it, is it not smelly anymore?"
Hao Zhiguo smelled it and found that there was indeed no odor. He was shocked and asked, "How did you do that?"
Yang Qing smiled and said, "This is our secret, I can't tell you!"
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