Immortality: Raise an ant queen and add some immortality

Chapter 4 Efficiency tripled

It is the monks who dominate this world, and there are many ways out for ordinary people.

For example, if you take the imperial examination and become an official, you can get some basic cultivation techniques and cultivation resources taught by the government, and you will get a monthly salary that is not low.

Or you can tame bugs or wild beasts, improve your taming skills, and make your pet stronger.

Even if the pet only evolves a little special ability, it is enough to double the owner's worth.

There are numerous successful examples of pets becoming popular and popular.

Hu Laizi in this village raised a mouse. Not only did he often dig up gold and silver treasures buried in the soil for him, but the mouse also had a particularly sensitive nose. If someone loses something or a child, just let him smell the scent left behind, and he can find the lost property by following the scent.

Because of this little mouse, Hu Laizi, who was originally poor, not only had enough food and clothing, but also became a probationary member of the Animal Tamers Association.

Everyone who meets him will respectfully call him Master Hu, and no one dares to call him Hu Laizi anymore.

Even local powerful people would give him three points.

Today, Hu Laizi has become a successful person that everyone in the village envies. I heard that he has considered taking the mouse to the city to work hard.

There was also a farmer in the next village who improved his planting skills and became a high-level farmer. A big landowner offered him an annual salary of 30 taels of silver to become an administrator. Specialized in directing ordinary farmers to work, only some important technical work requires him to do it himself.

You know, an ordinary farmer can only earn two or three taels of silver after working hard for a year.

Including reward money and salary money, it will not exceed four taels.

His income is ten times that of an ordinary farmer.

There are really thirty-six lines, and he will be the number one scholar in every line.

Qin Niu now has two ways out. The first is to improve your planting skills and become a high-level farmer. By then, even if you just work for a landlord, you can earn more than 30 taels of silver a year.

For ordinary people, they are definitely successful people.

He relies on labor to improve his planting skills and believes that this wish will be realized in two or three years.

Another way out is the raised female termite.

As long as it can survive long enough to successfully establish a termite kingdom, it will surely bring even greater surprises to Qin Niu.

Qin Niu will also work hard to find ways to help it evolve and continue to advance.

If you can evolve some special abilities, you can completely rely on a termite to embark on the path of cultivation.

He checked the status of the female termite and found that its energy had decreased by 3 points, leaving only 168 points.

Everything else is normal.

It is estimated that it is still trying to build a nest.

I hope nothing happens.

If he fails this time, if he wants to raise enough money to buy a contract talisman, he may have no choice but to work as a long-term laborer for a landlord.

That was not the day he wanted.

Early the next morning, he got up and ran into the mountain with a piece of meat pie sent by Wang Wanyan.

This time, he held a sickle and a small hoe.

The female termite has already chosen a nesting location. Although releasing it in the wild will train her ability to survive in the wild, there are some potential threats near the nest that must be solved for her.

After all, it is still in the state of giving birth and does not even have a single worker ant, let alone a soldier ant.

When it encounters an enemy, it doesn't even have the power to fight back.

When we came to the dark slope where the female termite built its nest, from the outside, it seemed that it had almost completely sealed the entrance to the cave.

The advantage of this is that it can greatly reduce the probability of being discovered by enemies.

Qin Niu did not alarm it, but leaned down and carefully observed the clues around the termite nest to help it detect potential threats.

You can see an obvious mark on the slope on the upper right side of the nest.

All the grass along the road fell to both sides.

Rows of dense pinhole-like footprints can be seen.

Judging from the width of the path, it should be a multi-legged insect such as a centipede, millipede, or centipede.

He lay down, put his hands on the ground, put his nose close and smelled.

There is a very light sour smell.

Look carefully at those pinhole-like footprints, which look like hooks, lifting the surface of the soil a little.

This should be the centipede's footprints.

[If you learn to identify insect traces, you can identify the traces of common insects through some obvious traces. 】

As the prompt text appeared, he checked his personal attributes, and sure enough, a new skill appeared.

Skill:

For planting, 10/100 for sowing proficiency, 0/10 for beginners of loosening soil, 0/10 for beginners of fertilization, 0/10 for beginners of watering, and 0/10 for beginners of weeding.

Insect control, identifying insect traces for beginners 0/10.

This was also the first insect control skill he learned.

I am still a beginner and can only identify some obvious traces of common insect traces.

He still felt happy.

Learning the skill of identifying bug tracks will be of great help in catching some expensive and scarce bugs.

For example, tiger-spotted crickets have been priced at five taels of silver each in the insect market.

It is not big in size, but it is powerful in combat, agile in movement, and very powerful in fighting. When fighting crickets, the 'general' among various crickets will either die or be maimed in front of it.

However, if you want to catch such precious and rare bugs, you may have to improve your bug identification skills to another level.

Qin Niu followed the footprints left by the centipede all the way to its nest.

It's hidden under a rock.

When it came time to get rid of the centipede, he hesitated.

Centipedes have a variety of food habits, are ferocious, are covered in armor, and are highly poisonous. As long as they guard this area, they can't kill any number of other insects.

It is both a huge threat to female termites and a patron saint.

Keeping it for now should do more good than harm.

Not far to the left of the female termite nest, on a low tea tree, there is a gray-brown nest like a hornet's nest.

You can see black stinky ants crawling in and out one after another, extremely busy.

This is a more ferocious black-bellied stink ant with a medium size.

Any one of them can kill Qin Niu's female termite.

They only move in the left area, looking for food, and do not dare to cross the boundary to the right.

Bugs are also spiritual. They must know that the area on the right is the centipede's territory. Come here to die.

It is precisely because of the existence of this nest of black-bellied ants that other small ants dare not settle in this area.

After observing the terrain, Qin Niu couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the female termites even more.

Finding a place to live between the two major forces may seem dangerous, but in fact it is safer than many places.

The most dangerous place may actually be the safest.

Qin Niu was secretly thankful that he didn't act recklessly.

This area has formed a delicate ecological chain balance. Once it is broken, it may cause disaster for the female termites.

Judging from its excellent performance, it will only be enough to visit it once or twice a day.

It would be better to be a hands-off shopkeeper.

The most anticipated thing now is to wait until it lays eggs and hatches the first batch of worker ants. By then, its food source will be guaranteed.

The queen ant cannot forage for food herself, so the worker ants can only feed her.

When going down the mountain, Qin Niu saw a place where the firewood was lying down and messy. He looked carefully and found that there were stains of blood that had solidified and turned black.

It seems that there was a fight here last night, and a medium-sized beast was hunted.

Before you become stronger, it is better not to come to the mountains after dark.

Back in the village, he carried a hoe to his own acre of thin land and prepared for a day of hard work.

Compared with other people who have no land, he is considered happy.

The landless poor either rented other people's fields and became tenants, or became heirs to wealthy families.

This acre of land is considered bad farmland. It is full of rocks and there is no way to clean it.

Because the soil layer is very thin, it cannot retain fertilizer and water, and it is easy to compact. People often call this bad land thin land.

Similarly, by planting corn, the yield of the best farmland can reach more than 2,000 kilograms.

The output of this kind of bad land is up to five to six hundred catties, and the workload is much greater.

The worse the field, the more trouble there is.

Fertilizer and watering must be applied diligently. The crops are not yet growing well, and weeds begin to grow wildly at this time. Just weeding is a huge headache.

Then you have to loosen the soil every once in a while, because it tends to compact into lumps.

Looking at the patches of weeds in the field, he had a headache.

Weeding and turning the soil will become a particularly difficult task.

I don’t have any cows at home, but it would be much easier if I had one.

It is impossible for ordinary poor families to have cows, only landlords' families do. It is expensive livestock. The cheapest ones cost more than 5 taels of silver, and a better adult buffalo costs 78 taels of silver per head.

He threw away his arms, swung his hoe and dug in hard.

Labor points +0.01, weeding proficiency +0.01, soil loosening proficiency +0.01.

With this hoeing, three attribute points were obtained.

Full-turn loosening is a heavy physical activity and is rarely done manually.

They all use oxen to plow the land.

If he works as hard as he does, it will take at least nearly a month to plow this acre of land and organize it into ridges.

This will definitely delay the planting of corn.

Thinking that labor points can quickly improve planting skills, he tried to add 9.99 labor points to the weeding skills.

Weeding proficiency 10/100.

When he looked at the field of weeds again, he found that it was much more organized.

This is cowgrass, with deep roots and no branches, strong vitality, and resistant to drought. This is foxtail grass. It grows quickly and will mature quickly after setting seeds. It will scatter in the fields and be inexhaustible...

Improving weeding skills can only improve weeding efficiency, but it does not help with soil plowing.

He wanted to improve his soil loosening skills to a proficient level and give it a try.

As a result, there are not enough labor points.

Only 9.64 left.

Fortunately, it was almost the same. He waved his arms and started sweating profusely.

After a while, a small piece of land was dug up.

The proficiency in the two planting skills of labor point and weeding and soil loosening has increased a lot.

Try to upgrade the soil loosening skill to proficient as well.

This time it worked.

Loose soil proficiency 10/100.

After successfully upgrading, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the improvement in soil loosening skills not only allowed him to master many labor-saving techniques for turning soil, but was also of great help in loosening soil for crops, which could reduce damage to crop roots and allow him to know more accurately. The depth to which the soil needs to be loosened.

This will be of great benefit to crop growth.

I tried turning the soil again and it became much easier.

It is still extremely difficult to dig up this acre of land.

…

By the time he was busy until evening, he had already dug out three ridges of land.

Because the loose soil has been upgraded to proficiency, the efficiency has been significantly improved.

In the past, I could only dig one field a day, but now I have to dig three times more. And it seemed to consume less energy. At this moment, he still felt that he had some remaining energy.

If it had been before, I would have been exhausted.

This also means that after his soil-turning efficiency has tripled, the work that originally took a month to complete can now be completed in just ten days.

I checked the properties subconsciously.

Qin Niu

Cultivation level: First level mortal 17/100, farmer low level 51/100, insect master low level 3/100

Lifespan: 51 years

Skills: None

Skills: Planting, sowing proficiency 10/100, soil loosening proficiency 36.2/100, fertilization for beginners 0/10, watering for beginners 0/10, weeding proficiency 36.2/100

Insect control, identifying insect traces for beginners 0/10.

Talent: None

Supernatural powers: none

Labor Points: 26.2

Skill proficiency in scarification and weeding has been raised to 36.2.

Labor points have accumulated more than twenty points.

The harvest is quite good.

There is no change in the farmer's level experience. It seems that turning the soil does not increase the farmer's level experience.

After looking at the sky, he prepared to plant the first batch of seeds.

Sowing in batches has the advantage of reducing labor intensity.

Otherwise, sowing and harvesting an acre of land can all be done in one day, which is simply not something that one person can accomplish.

Plant each corn into the dug soil at a certain distance.