Chapter 537 Buying Insect Meat
"There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies in the world, only eternal interests. As long as we tie our respective interests together, we will be eternal friends. You no longer have to worry about your identity being exposed, because if you do, I will lose my interests..." Jing Shu smiled, revealing her white teeth. "Isn't it simple?"
"But... do we have the same interests?" Wenjun thought about it carefully and it seemed not.
"Of course there are. Think carefully about what you lack the most now. Is it daily necessities, salt, vitamins, bedding, cotton clothes and the like? It would be perfect if you could eat vegetables and white rice every three days, or even drink some milk and eggs?" Jingshu asked with narrowed eyes.
Xiaowei nodded and said, "I want to eat. I haven't eaten for a long time. There is nothing edible in the village except insects." There was still some biscuit crumbs on her mouth.
"Ah? You don't want to eat?" Jingshu was surprised.
"Yes, the Queen Gastropod eats by herself, eating the mud from the ground. She and I are one and we share nutrients, so naturally, I don't need to eat anymore. But if there is food, I would also like to eat it."
Wenjun said vigilantly: "Of course we want these, but what do you want to exchange them for?" He vaguely guessed.
Jun Bao secretly thought it was a pity that he was a step slow. He narrowed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but the result was the same. In the end, all the money would be taken to Wucheng for consumption and could feed more people.
"Of course it's a large number of gastropods. According to what you said, a batch of gastropods matures every month, and the gastropod queen is constantly eating and laying eggs every day. There should be quite a lot of gastropods by now, right? How many can your village, with so few people, consume? Wouldn't it be a waste to have so many gastropods? Why not exchange a lot of unpalatable insect meat for those delicious foods? Do you want to eat eggs? Or would you like to give up rice?"
Xiaowei swallowed and nodded affirmatively. Ever since she turned into a bug, she had a desire to eat everything.
"Then it's settled. We'll exchange with each other, help each other for mutual benefit, then we'll have no reason to expose you, right? Otherwise, it would harm our own interests." Jingshu smiled. That's great. It reduces Qian Duoduo's burden a little bit. When the time comes, people won't starve to death. Will the tyrant have any reason to reap the benefits?
Wait, tyrant... Jun Bao... Jing Shu thought to herself, there's no way these two are connected? No way, how could Jun Bao, such a weak and incompetent person, yet also gentle and gentle, talkative and nosy, loving, positive and optimistic person, be the cruel, so cold-blooded, murderous tyrant who killed hundreds of thousands of people?
Their age, personality and family background don't match. In the previous life, the tyrant should have taken office by now. After all, Jin Tianci is dead, and due to her butterfly effect in this life, the tyrant probably won't take office.
But...it doesn't look like that, it really doesn't look like that.
Before Jingshu could think further, she was interrupted.
"Wait!" Wen Jun was in a dilemma. "Who knows what you are saying now? You might go back and send people to kill us, kidnap Xiaowei, torture her, and let her endlessly lay eggs and reproduce gastropods? You can get everything without paying a price..." The more she thought about it, the more possible it seemed, and the more alert she became.
Jingshu rolled her eyes: "You are stupid. If we really do this and kill you, won't Xiaowei commit suicide? If she commits suicide, she won't be able to reproduce gastropods. What else can we gain?" Jingshu also planned that if the tyrant still wanted to reap the benefits, she would let Xiaowei threaten to commit suicide.
"That's right." Wenjun smiled, as if she had truly found a mutually beneficial situation. "But how many gastropods do you want? We don't want to overbreed them, so the eggs we lay every day are frozen in the brooding room. Only a few tenths of them hatch each time to sustain our daily needs."
"Can you take us to the worm tunnel and the egg-brooding room? That way I can determine how much worm meat you can provide and how much daily necessities we can provide you. By the way, I also want to see the pool of black water that Xiaowei mentioned. I wonder if it is convenient for Xiaowei?" Jingshu looked at Xiaowei's lower body. Her abdomen was as huge as a big bed. It might be inconvenient for her to move. Perhaps, like the queen ant, she had lost her ability to move.
"Okay, okay, I'll take you to the worm tunnel. People in the village don't dare to go there." Xiaowei snapped his fingers and saw
Four huge gastropods with giant pincers lifted Xiaowei up from all sides with their pincers.
Xiaowei's upper body is very stable and she has already adapted to it.
Here, Xiaowei is the real queen.
Wenjun followed with a flashlight, Jingshu and Junbao followed closely behind, put Yang Yang on the ground, and kindly covered him with a quilt.
There are several types of gastropods. Some are responsible for fighting to protect the queen, some are responsible for feeding the queen (if there is no food, they will feed themselves. This type of worm usually transfers sperm when feeding the queen), some are responsible for going out to find food, and some are responsible for cleaning the worm tunnels. Each type looks different.
Those that fight have giant claws and are incredibly strong, those that deliver sperm have specialized mouthparts, and those that dig tunnels have excavator-like mouthparts. They are huge in size and have great endurance.
The wormway is as huge as a maze, and the gastropods shuttle back and forth, each doing their own job, with only one purpose, everything to serve the queen.
Wenjun said, "There are currently 30 combat-type worms, over 80 sperm carriers, over 300 foraging, around 30 digging, and 50 immature worms. Some of these gastropods only live for a month or two, while the older ones are still alive..."
He looked at Xiaowei with some concern: "I don't know how long the Queen Insect's lifespan is."
Xiao Wei waved her hand and turned to console them, "A queen ant can live for twenty years." She then counted on her fingers, "I'll provide you with insect meat for foraging. They're chewy, grow fast, and have lots of meat. You can eat all thirty-six legs. One unshelled one weighs nearly 400 kilograms. By the way, do you want the shelled ones..."
"No need to remove the shell, it has to be alive." Jingshu said, the shell can also be eaten. Food is so precious now. When the time comes, just mash the shell and meat, sprinkle some salt and flour, and shape them into meatballs. It will be another meat dish. She is so smart.
Jingshu looked at the insects flying around underground and thought they were very cute.
"By the way, if you allow breeding, how many can you produce in a month?"
Xiaowei first took people to the egg-breeding room next door, which led to a small pavilion in the village.
"Normally, 450 worms can be bred in a month, but now there are 2,500 eggs in the brooding room. However, the worms have a big appetite, and the number of muddy ponds around is limited. So, we can only breed a maximum of 1,000 mature worms a month."
Jingshu began to calculate quickly. This number exceeded her expectations. It was great!
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