Night had officially fallen.
Yangyang squatted by the doorway and beckoned me over to look at the ground.
She pointed at an ant on the ground, then turned to me and said, "This ant is a worker from one of the queen ants' colonies."
"This one belongs to another queen ant."
"Our home has two ant nests in all."
"These two groups often fight over food."
Seeing how confidently she analyzed everything, I grew interested too and squatted beside my daughter.
"How can you tell which nest an ant belongs to?"
"It's simple. They communicate by bumping their antennae together."
"The pheromones on ants from the same nest are identical."
I had no idea whether that was true, so I just rubbed my daughter's head. "Well done."
Once you took a closer look at a child's world, you could see a landscape completely different from the one you'd known before.
It was a perspective adults could hardly ever see.
Only by looking through a child's eyes could you begin to understand it.
"You've eaten, and Mommy's played with you, so shouldn't our little kitten Yangyang go to bed now?" I asked patiently, my voice full of affection.
"Yep." She held out her arms. "Yangyang wants a hug."
I picked her up. "Let's go back. If we don't go back to incubate the eggs soon, your little sisters will start complaining."
Was it just my imagination?
I had the feeling Yangyang had grown even clingier.
Was she feeling especially insecure lately?
I was reflecting on myself.
After thinking for a while, I entered incubation mode, and my consciousness sank straight into the ocean.
Yangyang was at the center of the incubation energy. She yawned too.
Just as she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly saw the White Egg wobble.
Her