Chapter 171： Chicken hatching

The first thing Yingbao did when he woke up the next day was to scoop out water and feed it to the chickens.

Seeing that the hen had no abnormality after drinking it, he fed some more to the fawn.

Youyou seemed to like the water very much. She drank it all in one go and licked the bottom of the bowl.

"Okay, okay." Yingbao took the bowl away, touched the deer's head, and took out some bean sprouts from the cave to add to the trough.

It’s strange to say that these things are obviously in the cave and you can use them at any time, but you can’t get the Wudingzhi on the top of the cave.

Yingbao closed her eyes and concentrated, trying to get water from the pupil pool, but she actually got it out.

She looked at the water in the pottery bowl thoughtfully.

Does it mean that as long as you reach the top of the cave once, you will be able to move freely in the future?

It is possible.

It's like the top of a luminous body. Before you go up there, you don't know what's on top, and you can't touch anything on it.

But now you can take whatever is on top of the luminary.

Then I thought about it, can the book inside the luminous body be taken out and read at will?

I don’t know why. She hasn't been able to enter the luminous body to read the book for a long time, and she doesn't know what will happen next.

Yingbao calmed down and tried to use his consciousness to enter the luminous body, but it still didn't work.

Forget it, that’s it.

Maybe I didn’t touch on the important characters in the book, or maybe the current plot of the heroine and the heroines has nothing to do with me, so I won’t show the book to her.

If you don’t look, don’t look. If you don’t see something, if you don’t mind it, you will feel relaxed and can live a stable life.

At the end of March, the villagers in Dongchen Village became even busier.

Not only did golden ears begin to divide, but cotton was also planted one after another.

During the banditry, fortunately Yingbao took all the cotton seeds stored by the villagers in Jiang's house into the cave, and those cotton seeds were saved. Otherwise, the people of the East Village would not have cotton to plant in the fields this year.

When I came back from school that day, I saw Chun Niang smiling and waving to her: "Bao'er, come and see, our chickens are about to hatch."

Ying Bao quickly ran over to watch.

I saw a small hole pecked in the eggshell, and the chick would knock it twice with its sharp beak from time to time.

Finally, the hole in the eggshell got bigger and bigger, and finally it broke, and a wet chick struggled out of the eggshell.

Chunniang quickly stuffed the chick under the hen's belly and asked the hen to dry up the chick's feathers.

“There are a few more eggs that are about to break, and they can break out of their shells in half an hour at most.”

Chun Niang brought an old quilt and said, "When the chickens come out, put them under the quilt to cover them. The next day, the hen can take the chickens to the ground to look for food."

Ying Bao blinked and said, "With so many chickens, can the hen bring them here?"

Auntie put more than 30 eggs in each henhouse. If they all hatched, it would be a big group. One hen can't hold more than 30 chicks under its belly. If they don't get warmth at night, , it is estimated that many people will freeze to death.

Chun Niang smiled and said: "When they all come out of the nest, your Granny Tang will bring a rooster over, and then the chicks will be divided into nests."

“How to separate nests using roosters?” Yingbao was curious. “Do roosters raise chicks?”

Chun Niang: "Of course, the rooster can protect its young. Just blindfold the rooster and stuff some chicks under its belly. After one night, it will take the chicks to look for food like a hen the next day."

Can it still be like this?

Yingbao became even more curious, "Why doesn't Granny Tang use hens in separate nests?" That would save trouble. “There is only one rooster left in her family, and the hens she just bought don’t want to go home yet, so you can’t bring them in, otherwise the chicks will be pecked to death by the hen.”

Chun Niang then checked the belly of the other two hens to lay eggs, and saw that there were also a few eggs that had broken their shells. The fur on their bodies had dried up, and they were very cute and fluffy.

"Tomorrow, all these eggs will be shelled. Later, you can ask Mrs. Wen's nanny if our family will help raise the chickens left for her, or if she should take them back and raise them herself."

"Yeah." Ying Bao responded, "I'll talk about it in the afternoon."

Xiao Wu ran back, sweating all over his face, followed by his brother Jiang Jie with his schoolbag under his arm.

When Chun Niang saw that her children were back, she went to the kitchen to load the food.

“Daddy isn’t coming back for dinner?” Yingbao washed her hands and helped carry the bowl and chopsticks.

"Your father was invited by Nishimura Muramasa today. I guess they have to leave food." Since my husband became the village leader, he has become even busier. He is either going to the town or being invited to various villages. He can't even take care of his own land. kind.

Fortunately, my brother and nephews helped me, and people in the village also helped me, so my farm work was not delayed.

Yingbao and Aniang’s brother sat down around the dining table to eat.

Today Chun Niang made three dishes and one soup, including scrambled eggs with leeks, tofu braised with garlic, a dish of cold garlic courgette, and a bowl of vegetable soup.

Nowadays, vegetables in the vegetable garden are growing up and bearing fruit one after another, such as garlic, shallots, courgettes, cantaloupe, etc., they are all springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain, which is really shocking.

Other people’s melon vines have just grown a foot long, while all kinds of melons at my own have already blossomed and bear fruit.

Even the gourds planted on the edge of the vegetable garden are climbing and blooming. Each small gourd is like a small pendant, hanging on the bamboo fence. Many children want to pick it, but Xu Kun stops them.

Chunniang glanced at the little girl but didn't say a word.

The little girl takes time to take care of the vegetables in the vegetable garden, and she even takes her two brothers to do the work in the orchard, so are these really related to the girl?

Today, Second Aunt Wang is still muttering in front of her, saying that she is indeed a little fairy boy, and the things she grows are different from everyone else. He also asked Chun Niang for two handfuls of green vegetables, saying that if he went back to make soup and drink it, it would cure his illness.

Chunniang was also speechless, but could not refute.

Second Aunt Wang is absolutely right. Her family has never been sick, including Xiaojie and Xiaowu.

Some children would have runny noses, fever, and chills from time to time, and their faces would be covered with yellow mucus all day long, but her children never had it.

Even if you sneeze and cough once in a while, you will be fine soon.

Including the children’s grandparents, I haven’t seen them cough and wheeze once in the past few years. This was not the case in previous years. The old man loved smoking cigarettes and would cough and wheeze non-stop in winter. Since Yingbao arrived at home, everyone seems to be getting healthier and healthier.

After dinner, Chun Niang asked her daughter and son to go to rest quickly. Good afternoon, she went to school. She packed up the dishes and went out.

The vegetable garden can't be left to my daughter to clean up. I have to loosen the soil and weed it myself, so as to save others from gossiping and saying that these vegetables are all because of my daughter's magical powers.

There is also the orchard, where I have to water and fertilize it frequently.

Chunniang walked into the fruit forest and saw that her fruit trees were full of fruits.

It is clearly April, and the small fruits on the apricot, peach, pear, and apple trees are so densely hanging on the branches that they are too numerous to count.

If you wait until the fruit matures, won't you break the branches?

Chunniang walked around the orchard and then went to the vineyard to have a look.

Oh my God! She hadn't been here for a few days, and the grapevines had already climbed to the newly planted bamboo trellis, becoming lush and green.

I went to the pepper garden again and saw that the pepper seedlings had become pepper vines, which were more prosperous than the grape vines.

No wonder a few women kept telling her about pepper planting. It turned out that they had been paying attention to their pepper gardens.