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Odysseus castle is located on a hill on the edge of the town of miconos. The standard "facing the sea in spring".

But although it's called "Castle" in its name, it's really not big. It's only two and a half stories. The top floor is a large terrace with only eight rooms. But on miconos Island, it's a big building.

Because miconos island is a granite, it's a bit difficult to build a house here.

When Xiao Peng arrived, he found that oshenas was squatting in the yard, looking down at something. Xiao Peng went over and asked curiously, "ocean, what are you looking at here?"

Oshenas saw Xiao Peng come over: "Dad, I'm looking at ants. Look, ants are moving."

Xiao Peng said with a smile, "it means it's going to rain. What about your mother and Amelia?"

"Talking to a real estate agent about buying this place." O'shenus.

"Do you like it here?" Xiao Peng asked

After hearing this, oshenas thought and said, "in fact, I don't like here. It's far worse than Qianli rock. There are no bears or tigers. But my mom loves it here. "

Xiao Peng said with a smile, "I've made an agreement with your mother. When you go back to China, you will go to Europe or Singapore for a few years to learn, broaden your horizons and learn languages after you have studied in China for a few years and established a correct outlook on life and values."

"What about my mother? Will she be alone here O'shenus.

Xiao Peng thought for a moment: "don't worry, now the network is so developed that you can chat with your mother on video at any time. If you miss your mother, we will fly to see her. If you are not afraid of being tired, you can come back once a week."

"Just like I live on campus now?" Asked oshenas.

Xiao Peng nodded: "yes, it's the same. Since your mother likes it, how about buying it for your mother

Oshenas shook his head: "Dad, I still don't recommend you do this. Aunt Amelia is here. What do you think of buying my mother a house? My mother is not without money now, so don't care about these things. Is your EQ so low? "

After hearing this, Xiao Peng laughed angrily: "yes, you are very good! OK, I'll listen to you if you teach dad to pick up girls. Come on. Don't look at ants here. "

Why did the ant stand up so hard? These workers work so hard every day to find food to help the queen nurse their children. What other creature in the world is so selfless as them? "

Xiao Peng blinked: "well, first of all, I want to explain a misunderstanding to you. These workers help the queen ant raise children not for the continuation of race, but for their own survival. If they don't, they will die."

"What?" Oshenas blinked: "Dad, are you kidding me? It's different from what we learned in school. "

Xiao Peng shook his head with a smile: "the things in the textbook are not necessarily correct. In fact, the larvae of ants are the food and clothing parents of the workers. They are feeding the workers. If there is no food provided by the young ants, the workers will starve to death

Oshenas's eyes widened: "Dad, don't tease me, will you? Are you right? How to provide food for the workers when the young ants don't go out in the nest

Xiao Peng said with a smile, "don't worry. Come and have a look." Xiao Peng found a dry branch, grabbed an ant and put it in front of oshenas: "ants belong to the order Hymenoptera, and are related to wasps. The biggest feature of this insect is that it has a super thin waist. If you look at his body proportion, do you think that such a thin waist food can pass through? "

Oshenas looked at it carefully and said, "can't such a thin waist pass through?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "most of the Hymenoptera insects, such as wasps and so on, can't digest solid particles more than one micrometer. But their stomach and other digestive organs are all in the back of the waist, so solid food can't pass at all. In ants, only larvae have the ability to eat solid food because they don't have such a thin waist. So you see, the food these workers look for is actually for the larvae. What's more, workers can't digest protein, but the larvae have protease to digest them

"What does that mean?" Asked oshenas.

Xiao Peng explained: "this means that the young ants are not waste lying there waiting to eat and drink. On the contrary, they are the canteen of the whole ant colony. I use a figurative metaphor to tell you that the whole ant colony is a person, and the young ant is the intestinal tract of this person, responsible for digesting food, and then feeding back the nutrition to all organs of the human body. They eat the food brought back by the workers and spit. This saliva is the food of workers, soldiers and queens. You're like a queen ant, you need protein to reproduce, and that protein comes from the saliva of the young ant

Oshenas blinked. "Is that the truth?"

Xiao Peng nodded his head and said: "yes, the position of the young ants in the ant colony is very special. Without the young ants, the ant colony can not function normally. They can only feed on the haemolymph of other insects, but the content of this blood sample is relatively low, so the workers will starve or even starve to death. So workers feed their young to feed themselvesAfter hearing this, oshenas said to Xiao Peng, "then why can the young ants feed all the ants? Because they have no waist? "

Xiao Peng nodded: "the most important thing is that they have a special talent. That is, when you see food, you can't help but saliva, which is rich in nutrients, has become an important food in the ant colony. Well, you can imagine that Julia cooked you a meal, but she didn't eat it herself, and then she watched you eat it and collected your saliva as a drink. Well, that's basically what it looks like

Oshenas shrugged after hearing this: "your metaphor is very inappropriate. My mother's cooking can't be eaten at all. I can't even drool when I eat her food. Dad, according to your opinion, this worker ant is so hard-working that it's all for themselves? "

Xiao Peng nodded: "you are right. And sometimes the truth is more cruel than you think. If you open an ant nest, you will find that the workers will put their baby ants in the air, and the body of the young ants will be curled up like shrimps, so that the belly is up, and the saliva can be stuck between the head and the buttocks. For the workers, this is a ready-made canteen. "

Oshenas frowned: "imagine it's disgusting."

Xiao Peng said with a smile, "is this disgusting? That's good! Some ants are even more cruel than you think. For example, there is a kind of blunt fierce ant, which directly tears off the skin of the larva's stomach and sucks its gravy. Another kind of ant will squeeze the larva like milking until they spit. When the red imported fire ant wants to eat, it will directly lift the young ant, and then pinch the larva's ass and suck it The nutrient solution coming out of it

Oshenas thought for a moment and said, "this is really the food for the young ants."

Xiao Peng nodded: "if the young ants die, if not because of infection, they will be quickly used as food. If there is a famine in the ant colony, a large number of young ants will be killed and eaten. If the queen ant is hungry, people will feed him with larvae or pupae. They can be used as emergency protein energy packs at home. If they are hungry, they can be taken out to eat directly. "

After hearing this, oshenas was stunned, and Xiao Peng said with a smile: "and the function of some young ants is not only food. For example, why are weavers called weavers? It is because their young ants will spin cocoons to help build their homes, and the black brown ants, when there is a flood at home, the young ants will connect together and become rafts. After all, they grow fat and have high buoyancy. Then all the adult ants will lie down on them and move to a safe place. In other words, you should feel lucky that you are not that young ant. You seem to eat and sleep all day long. In fact, they are the worst. Well, it's going to rain. Let's go back and see your mother. How are they talking? "

"OK!" Oshenas put the twigs of the ants on the ground: "move quickly, don't let the rain rain rain on your house!"

Xiao Peng touched oshenas's head: "ocean, you remember, to make friends, you must make love to animals."

"Why?" Oshenas didn't understand.

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "people who love animals are kind-hearted. Let's go and find your mother and them. The woman is in trouble when shopping, and she is not short of money. Take care of it and buy it. Ocean, you can not learn from your mother, remember, men must be more generous, otherwise no woman likes. Of course, this generosity is not Huo. Forget it, I can't tell you. I'll teach you this when you grow older. "

"But I have grown up."

“。。。。。。 Wait until you get hairy

"You mean beard?"

"Mm-hmm, I mean beard!"

At this time, on the rooftop of Odysseus castle, several pairs of eyes were staring at Xiao Pengye.

Julia sighed: "Emilia, you are right. In the eyes of boys, father can never be replaced. Just as you said, let oshenas live in China."

Emilia said with a smile: "don't worry. The traffic is so convenient now. When you want to see a child is not always available. I promise you, I will take Xiao Haiyang as my own child and take good care of it...... But to tell you the truth, I can't usually turn to me. After all, his grandmother is there. Chinese people pay more attention to blood relationship than you think

Julia nodded and said to a middle-aged man behind her, "OK, I'll buy this house!"

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