Chapter 119 Gourmet Ants, Striving for Excellence
It took half a month to build the blue reservoir dam, raising it by 2 meters and increasing the water storage depth by 0.5 meters.
It was almost time. Long Bai and Mo Lan packed their bags and set off to Yinbai Mountain in the north to complete the transaction with Shanshi.
The evolution and growth of Yamashita at the advanced stage also left hidden wounds. The remaining white rice ant king honey worth 1,500 rough stones was arranged for Yamashita.
This year’s traveling merchant trade is over.
Return to Pandan Mountain.
Long Bai began to cultivate giant blue soldiers and intelligent blue ants.
The two special ant eggs are placed in two separate nest chambers, and two teams of worker ants are assigned to take care of them full-time.
This winter, Long Bai still stayed in Xianglan Mountain. Through the messenger function of the throne, he produced a sufficient amount of 7 ant eggs in batches every four days. Enter the ant nest regularly every day, release pheromones, stimulate the differentiation of various ant eggs, and focus on growing the strength of the ant kingdom.
This year, more than 40 kinds of berry ant honey were collected, and more than 60 kinds of dried fruits were collected.
Through years of experience in consuming ant honey, Long Bai discovered that the more types of ant honey, the better the taste.
Some berries and dried fruits will affect the overall aroma and taste, such as durian, mango...
Some flavors and aromas will conflict, and they taste good when eaten separately. It feels awkward together, even unpalatable.
Longbai and Molan turned into gourmet insects and tried to combine and taste different types of ant honey every day.
There seems to be no pattern, at least Long Bai and Mo Lan didn't find any pattern.
It’s all about intuition and even mixing and matching as you wish.
After countless tests and inspections, Longbai initially set four flavors and fragrances for ant honey: fresh fruit fragrance, fresh fruit strong fragrance, dried fruit mellow fragrance, and mixed mellow fragrance.
And we have set exclusive labels for different fragrances.
Fresh fruity aroma is marked by a raspberry pattern.
For fresh fruit and strong aroma, use mango pattern.
Use green torreya for dried fruits.
As for blending the aromas... draw a big circle with three smaller circles inside.
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The essence of the Blue Ant's 'refining' ability is to remove all useless impurities and retain only the ingredients that can be absorbed by the Zerg.
A large spider silk bag of force food may not even be able to fill a metal can after refining.
After refining ordinary original food, blend ordinary ant honey with different flavors and fragrances, and dilute it to make "original ant honey" with different flavors and fragrances.
For mass production in the future, wood can be cut into an oval leaf shape, polished smooth, punched, tied with a spider silk string, and engraved with icons corresponding to the flavors and fragrances.
Each jar produced will be labeled with its fragrance type, which is simple and clear, making it easy to distinguish.
The brand has two sides. The other side can also depict the enhanced type of Force Ant Honey in the jar.
There are too many types of Force strengthening to inherit memory and are too complicated.
Long Bai made a summary and simply divided it into four general types: elemental type, comprehensive physique, sensory, and carapace.
Other types will not be considered for the time being.
For the element types, for the water type, draw a few wavy lines as marks for strengthening; for the earth type, draw a mountain; for the wood type, draw a tree; for the fire type, draw a flame symbol...
To strengthen the crustacean, draw a pair of elytra as a symbol.
Sensory enhancement, draw a pair of dragonfly compound eyes as a symbol.
To strengthen the overall physical fitness, draw a thick and powerful hind leg of a mantis as a symbol.
There is also the pricing of goods.
In the early stage, there are only three grades: 1,000 rough stones/jar, 2,000 rough stones/jar, and ant king honey made from God-given seeds.
Currently, Dragon Cypress and Mo Lan have 8 god-given seeds, including Fruity Orchid, Azure Blue, Southern Gorgon, Northern Gorgon, Southern Ziziphus, Scarlet Fruit, Ghost Fan Wood, and White Rice Fruit.
Among them, five gods-given seeds, including Fruity Orchid, Azure Blue, Southern Gorgon, Southern Ziziphus, and Scarlet Fruit, are planned to be sold to the caravan.
Among them, pandan seeds and gorgon seeds require no extra operations and are sold directly as dried fruits.
Zhanlan fruit, southern jujube, and crimson fruit are fresh fruits, part of which is pickled with honey to maintain the original shape of the fruit and try to achieve the 'original taste'.
However, with the method of honey-pickling, the fruits take up too much space, and one can cannot hold too much. Taking blue fruits as an example, one can can only hold about 300 rough stones.
The Flame Spider's back armor has limited space, and the cargo it can carry is limited. It's okay when the quantity is small. But once the quantity becomes huge, the total price of the goods will be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and Bai Wei will definitely not be able to transport it. .
Honey pickling is not only laborious to transport, but the production process is also troublesome, and the taste is not as good as ant honey.
Therefore, Long Bai prefers to make the god-given fruit into ‘Ant King Honey’.
The pulp and core are refined and mixed into 'King Ant Honey', and then an appropriate amount of ordinary ant honey with different flavors and fragrances is added for seasoning, and the concentration is also diluted according to needs.
Finally packaged into jars of blue ant king honey, southern jujube ant king honey and crimson ant king honey.
In terms of pricing, it cannot be too high for the time being. It is divided into 1,000 rough stones/can and 2,000 rough stones/can.
Each can is hung with a wooden sign and the price is clearly marked: 1,000 rough stones are carved with a groove the size of a rice grain; 2,000 rough stones are carved with grooves the size of two rice grains.
Bai Wei's calculation skills are not good, so one jar after another, the price is calculated in whole numbers. When the things are sold, count the number of rice grains on the wooden sign, which is thousands of rough stones.
The simplest counting, you can’t go wrong with this, right?
Bai Wei is really not a smart partner.
Long Bai spent a month pondering these issues and finally settled on a highly feasible plan. Midwinter.
Sunny morning.
Shanbei Restaurant.
Long Bai brought hundreds of special, large, medium and small blue ants with his brain memory ability to the extreme, and tried the ant-honey combination plan again and again.
"Long Bai, I have lost my sense of smell and taste..."
Mo Lan, who was in charge of the tasting, had lost his initial interest due to too many attempts. The combination makes the whole insect numb.
"I'll go down the mountain and have a look..."
Mo Lan said, leaving the restaurant as if running away, and first went to inspect the territory of the god-given fruit orchid, which was not yet mature.
It flapped its wings and took off again, hovering and landing towards Beiqi Reservoir.
"Bei Gorgon, aren't your fruits ripe yet?"
"I don't know...it's going to be soon..."
"Then hurry up."
"I know."
"Do you need top dressing?"
"No. Mo Lan, please leave me alone. Go ahead and go ahead. . ”
The fruit has not yet matured, and Mo Lan is chasing him and asking questions every day, and Beiqi can’t stand it.
"I'm not busy."
Mo Lan flew at a low altitude, circled twice around the God-given Bean Gorilla Seed, checked it once, confirmed it was correct, flew away slowly, and circled twice around Fanglan Mountain , stand on the top of the mountain and watch the scenery for a while, breathe fresh air, and fly two more times.
At noon, we came to Shanbei Reservoir again.
"Beijing, your fruit..."
"It's ripe. It's ripe. It'll be ripe soon."
"Is it about to enter the mature stage?"
"Yes. It's ripe. Mo Lan, please bring the original stone quickly!"
"Okay!"
Mo Lan Cheering, he flapped his wings and flew into the air, rushing towards the mountain.
"..." Beiqian wanted to cry but had no tears.
Don't you mean twins? Why am I the unlucky one to end up with such a praying mantis?
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Long Bai plans to make ant honey into a luxury high-end raw food, and strives to improve the taste of ant honey.
There are certain differences in fragrance and taste preferences between insects.
There is a difference between Long Cypress and Mo Lan.
There is a difference between juniper and juniper.
What Longbai needs to do is to try its best to match ant honey that can satisfy the taste preferences of most insects.
The Juniper leads the soldier ants and is stationed under the peak on the west side of the mountain range for a long time.
The giant cypress guards Beiqi Reservoir.
High-level worker ants are not so afraid of the cold and are still active in winter, leading juniper to dig Shanxi reservoirs.
Mo Lan, the only one without a mission, ran away.
Long Bai moved out the green cypress and incense cypress that were still in the larval stage and used them to taste the ant honey.
The larvae can release simple signals through pheromones: hungry, full, delicious, unpleasant, like, hate
These two guys are natural foodies and can distinguish between good and bad. I have my own likes and dislikes about eating and unpalatable food.
While he was busy, Mo Lan suddenly rushed in.
"Long cypress!"
"Good news!"
"The fruit of Begonia is finally ripe!"
"Hurry! Raw stone! Raw stone!"
Finally entering the final stage of maturity?
Long Bai calmly waved his tentacles and signaled the worker ants to move the green cypress and incense cypress back to the ant nest, and then issued an order to arrange for the worker ants to send 400 rough stones.
Take 20 large worker ants, control the throne, and float toward the reservoir at the foot of the mountain.
Thanks to Qianxing Xiaoyao, Piao Acri, and Bai Fe for their rewards.
(End of this chapter)