Xia Lunong’s family had caught ants before.

He had smelled them carefully from a close distance and was very familiar with the smell of ants.

There were definitely ants around here, no mistake.

Xia Lunong’s emerald cat eyes looked around, his head poking around, and after a while, he determined that the smell mainly came from a certain wind direction.

He walked over on all fours, took a few steps forward, walked to Kong Zhi’s feet, and looked up at him, “Meow.” Kong Zhi

lowered his head, “What’s wrong?”

Xia Lunong scratched the ground with his paws, writing: There are ants Kong Zhi

bent down and picked him up on himself, “It’s normal, there are ants everywhere now.”

Xia Lunong rubbed his arm, his head passed over his shoulder, his round eyes turned around, looking around.

He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was.

Kong Zhi was standing guard at the side, while Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian checked along the river, carrying the peanuts and the basket into the river.

The two jumped into the river and rubbed the peanuts directly in the basket.

The basket was woven with thin bamboo strips, and water could easily pass through it.

The muddy soup rubbed out by the two was easily carried away by the river, revealing the original light yellow color of the peanut shells.

The two were strong, and they could rub a basket clean in a few minutes by bending over and rubbing.

The rubbed peanuts were lifted up together with the basket and placed on the grass by the river bank. After the water in the basket was soaked dry, they were carried back to the truck.

Washing peanuts is a strenuous and delicate job, and it basically does not require any technical skills.

The two of them scrubbed and washed, and time passed by.

Kong Zhi stood in the sun and kept watch, and soon beads of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose.

Xia Maomao was held in his arms, and he felt that every inch of his fur had absorbed enough heat. The whole cat was so hot that his pads were about to burn.

Later, he couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply kicked his hind legs, jumped out of his arms, and lay down in the shade of the tree next to him.

It was quite cool under the shade of the tree, and there was a breeze. Xia Maomao's head slowly rested on his two front paws and slowly fell asleep.

There was still a strange smell in the air. Xia Maomao fell asleep and dreamed of countless candies, cakes, and small pastries. The intoxicating sweet fragrance kept lingering in his nose.

When he woke up, he still had a sweet breath in his nose, as if the sweet fragrance really existed.

This made him a little confused.

He looked up and saw that the person on guard had been replaced by Yan Xinian.

He stood up from the ground, walked out from the shade of the tree, turned his head and looked around.

Yan Xinian heard the noise from his side, took two steps forward, squatted down and stroked his chin, "Are you awake?"

"Meow." Xia Maomao raised his paw and licked his fur subconsciously. He quickly reacted and pouted, "Meow."

Yan Xinian couldn't help laughing, "We're almost done washing, we'll go back after washing."

Xia Maomao poked his head and saw more than a dozen baskets of white and clean peanuts placed by the river. The surface of many peanuts was almost dried.

If they could finish washing this morning, take these peanuts back and spread them out to dry, they would still have time to dry the moisture on them when the sun was at its strongest at noon.

Xia Maomao stood up and walked over to the peanut baskets to check.

When they reached the river, a breeze carrying moisture blew over, bringing the smell of the upper reaches of the river.

"Meow?" Xia Maomao tilted his head, with a puzzled look in his eyes. Why did he feel that the wind was really sweet?

Xia Huoqu had just finished washing a basket of peanuts. He lifted the whole basket to the shore with both hands. Seeing his brother standing at the edge of the basket, he said, "Go play over there."

"Meow." Xia Maomao looked very serious. Kongzhi tilted his head

when he heard the sound, straightened up and asked, "Did you find something?"

"Hey." Xia Maomao tilted his head and thought for a while, then wrote on the

slightly muddy ground with his paws: Feng Tian "The wind has a sweet smell?" "It's August, there must be ripe wild fruits. Aren't there a lot of wild fruits nearby? I just took a look, and many of them are completely black and can be eaten. " The cat raised one of its front paws and tilted its head to stand in the sun, as if it was deep in thought. Xia Huoqu grabbed him with his big hands, directly picked up his front paws, supported his back, picked him up, and gently put him under the shade of the tree, "Okay, you take a rest first, after washing the peanuts, I will take you to pick some wild fruits nearby." "Meow." Okay, let's see later. The sun was already high in the sky, Xia Huoqu and Kong Zhi quickly scrubbed the remaining peanuts clean, and then carried the peanuts that had been drained into the cart. When carrying the peanuts, Yan Xinian also helped, and only Xia Maomao squatted on the roof of the car to keep watch. Soon, all the peanuts were picked, and Xia Maomao, who was squatting on the roof of the car, was almost cooked. With a "meow", he jumped down from the roof of the car and jumped into his brother's arms. Xia Huoqu looked at the sky and said to Kong Zhi and Yan Xinian, "You go back first. I'll take Xiao Nong to pick some wild fruits and then I'll carry him back in my beast form." Xia Huoqu was very skilled and there was no danger near the base. Yan Xinian said, "Okay, be careful and come back soon. We'll pick the peanuts and dry them first." Xia Huoqu waved his hands, holding Xia Maomao in one hand and a sack with a hatchet in the other, and went upstream along the river. Now the weeds are growing, and there are weeds and vines everywhere, many of which are thorny. Xia Maomao saw that there was almost no road under his brother's feet, so he cleared the way with his legs and slowly waded through. He was worried, "Meow." Xia Maomao jumped onto his brother's shoulder, leaving his brother with a free hand to use a stick to explore the way. While walking, Summer Cat has seen many ants walking by the river. These ants are not the same species as the black ants that we ate last time. Their shells are more yellow and their bodies are much smaller, only as big as the longhorn beetles before the catastrophe. This is already very scary.

Especially when the ants go out, they always go out in groups. A long string of ants is like a yellow and black line, swimming along the river. It feels like it can pollute people's spirit.

I don't know when the hair on Xia Maomao's body exploded. His whole body became bigger in the air, and his eyes were fixed on the ants on the ground.

If these ants dare to cross the line, he will definitely run up and use cat boxing.

Ants will not attack people actively. As long as they don't walk into the ants' route, the ants and them will have a sense of not interfering with each other.

"There are thornberries here." Xia Huoqu's voice called back Xia Maomao's consciousness.

He looked over with wide eyes and saw that there was indeed a large cluster of thornberries by the river.

The cranberry vines were covered with yellow or red fruits, each of which was as big as a quail egg.

Xia Huoqu slowly walked over, observed it, pinched a bright red cranberry with two slender fingers, put it to his mouth and took a light bite.

The cranberry was sweet and sour, and the abundant juice burst in his mouth, and he couldn't help squinting.

"Meow." Xia Maomao hooked his clothes with his two paws, leaned his head forward, and his eyes were full of curiosity.

Xia Huoqu picked another one and put it to his brother's mouth.

Xia Maomao licked it out of habit, and after tasting the sweetness, he bit the whole thing into his mouth, chewed it left and right, and soon tasted the sweetness and sourness.

The sourness and sweetness of the cranberry were equally prominent, and Xia Maomao's eyes squinted because of the sourness.

Xia Huoqu asked: "Pick some?"

"Meow." Pick.

Xia Huoqu specially picked a small bag of big, red or big, yellow thornberries, and then continued to move forward with his brother on his back.

There were many bamboo forests by the river, and they dug several bamboo shoots.

While digging bamboo shoots, Xia Maomao also saw bamboo shoot worms, but there were not many. They were too lazy to catch them, so they didn't catch them.

The two of them walked forward, and Xia Huoqu also picked a lot of mountain spinach seeds.

Shantou seeds are big and sweet, but they also contain a lot of seeds. After eating, your tongue will turn purple.

This is already a rare fruit, and it is more delicious than thornberries. Xia Maomao ate it with a happy look on his face.

Xia Maomao ate a few, but his brother wouldn't let him eat more, "Eat so much, be careful of constipation."

"Meow?"

Xia Huoqu said, "You are still in the shape of a cat. You probably don't want to go to Dr. Ou for an enema because of constipation, right? "