Chapter 126 - Chapter 126: Chapter 121 Complete Resolution i (2/2)

Miss Wang looked at him with an expression and gaze of seeing a true confidant.

In the entire Shuangfeng Village, only this taciturn All Niu truly understood her.

“I was foolish before, deluded. From now on… daughter, whoever you wish to marry, that’s your decision to make.”

Wang Furen had weathered the crisis and had finally come to terms with the situation.

Upon hearing Qin Niu’s advice, he came to his senses.

“Thankyou, Father!”

Miss Wang was overjoyed when she heard her father finally relent.

Wang Furen, on the other hand, took out two taels of silver from his sleeve.

“Master Qin spent a significant amount dealing with the official envoy. I would like to offer twice the amount to express my gratitude,” he said.

“One tael is enough,” replied Qin Niu, accepting one tael of silver and refusing to take the rest.

It wasn’t that he was not in need of money now, but even if he was short on silver, he would not take Wang Furen’s money.

He had never forgotten the kindness that the Wang Family showed him during his most lonely and helpless days.

Bonds of affection were far more precious than silver money.

Watching Qin Niu walk away, Wang Furen gritted his teeth and called out loudly, “Master Qin is currently constructing a new house. If it’s not too much trouble, I can make two rooms available in my house for you and your servant to stay in.”

Having completely given up on the idea of using his daughter to climb the social ladder, Wang Furen thought it wouldn’t be too bad for his daughter to marry Qin Niu.

At least, her standing in the village would be secure.

Moreover, Qin Niu was a man who valued old friendships and loyalty, a man worthy of trust.

“No need, I’m quite content living in the shack!” Qin Niu flatly declined.

Had Wang Furen extended this offer when he was just about to start building a house, Qin Niu might have considered it.

Now that his house was half-built and he, along with Xiao Qing, were already settled, why would he move to someone else’s home?

Moreover, with his many secrets, he certainly felt more comfortable living in his own place.

He carried his basket on his back, with Xiao Nui puffing and panting as he followed behind.

Unlike other people’s cattle, his did not need to be tethered.

They never idly grazed on others’ crops.

And they never got lost and couldn’t be found.

He deliberately detoured to check the fields. In the fields of others, locusts could be seen everywhere.

In just one night, the leaves had been severely devoured.

He even saw locusts of a golden hue.

The few he had caught the day before were all green, as they were still in their ‘youth’.

These golden locusts had molted three times or more and had reached adulthood.

Like humans, they were entering middle age.

They now had the ability to reproduce.

Locusts generally do not lay their eggs on leaves, but rather in moist soil.

Qin Niu had not yet figured out an effective way to eliminate these locusts.

His termites did have the ability, but unfortunately, their numbers were too limited.

They were only enough to protect his own acre of corn.

And termites had one flaw: they were quite averse to sunlight.

If there was sunlight during the day, they could not operate.

This was why Qin Niu always carried his termites to eliminate pests at night.

After visiting his own field, he found many more locusts had migrated over from the adjacent plots.

There’s no saving eggs under an overturned nest.

When locusts are numerous enough, it’s impossible to keep oneself unharmed.

Nor can one create an area free of pests.

Unless his termites could fight day and night, relentlessly eliminating any locusts that crossed the boundary.

Fourth and the Tiger Striped Iron Armor Ghost Ant seemed to have acquired this capability. Other termites, even the Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants or the Grade Two Tiger Striped Ants, still feared the sunlight and couldn’t take part in pest control during the day.

This indicated that only those termites of Grade Three or above could adapt to harsher environments.

However, breeding Grade Three termites was exceedingly difficult.

After all, an ordinary person only needed control over one Grade Three creature to be certified as an Insect Master.

If Grade Three creatures were so easy to breed, Insect Masters would be everywhere, not as rare as they are now.

“First, let’s go up the mountain and see the evolutionary abilities of the bees,” Qin Niu decided, heading straight for the mountains.

Passing by the front of Xie Laizi’s house, where Xie Laizi, who had to crawl on the ground, saw him and struggled to muster a smile and greet, “Master Qin, you’re heading up the mountain so early!”

Qin Niu grunted in acknowledgment and briskly walked past.

Deep down, he despised this man.

It was truly regrettable that Wang Haikun had not killed Xie Laizi last time but only crippled him.

Perhaps there is a divine purpose in the workings of fate.

To let such a scourge live and suffer more.

Arriving at the Ant Nest, he first released over a hundred termites back into their nest. Then he fed the Worker Ants with insect eggs, allowing them to feed the Ant Queen, thereby enhancing her breeding skill.

So far, he had only discovered two ways to enhance the Ant Queen’s breeding skill.

One was natural laying of eggs, and the other was feeding with insect eggs.

Every time he saw the Ant Queen’s increasingly plump body, and her growing difficulty in movement, Qin Niu felt the urge to feed her with Banyan Tree Blood.

But each time, he would forcefully suppress this impulsive thought with reason.

He wanted to wait until the success rate of breeding termites using Banyan Tree Blood reached one hundred percent before he would feed the Ant Queen.