As soon as she entered the kitchen, Cao'er was startled by what she saw. "Oh dear, what happened here?"

Just now, Su's mother told her not to go out, and she didn't know that Liu Huan had gotten into this state.

Liu Huan lowered her head and sobbed, staring blankly at the straw sandals on her feet.

Grass knew exactly what had happened at a glance and quietly asked her, "Did Stone insult you?"

Liu Huan shook her head. It's better if he scolds you; if he doesn't, it means he's really angry.

She's the kind of person who's impossible to appease once she gets angry.

"Shitou, boil some hot water for her to wash up, so she doesn't catch a cold." She was busy washing vegetables and cooking and didn't have time, but her father and older brother would be back to eat soon.

Liu Huan watched as the stone scooped water and started a fire.

Once the water was hot, I scooped it into a basin and carried it into the next room before speaking to her: "Aren't you coming over?"

Liu Huan sniffled as she went inside, and Shi Tou found her clothes and placed them beside her. "Wash them and change into them."

After saying that, he went out.

It's not summer yet, and it's a bit chilly in the morning.

She shivered as she took off her clothes, which were covered in mud. She went in to take a shower, then put her clothes back on and rubbed them in the muddy water.

It can't be rubbed.

Shi Tou came in when he heard the noise, holding a comb in his hand. Liu Huan stood obediently beside him, letting him comb her hair.

He combed Liu Huan's hair, and in just a few strokes, two adorable buns appeared.

I washed her face with a handkerchief again, and her fair and tender face returned to normal.

Her doe-like eyes stared at the stone, but when she was ignored, they drooped back down, like an unwanted puppy.

Shi Tou took the clothes out to wash and hang them to dry, while she stayed in the room, too afraid to go out.

A little while later, she started wiping away tears, silently.

Xiao Shi quietly slipped in and, seeing her crying so sadly, quickly asked, "Huanhuan, what's wrong? Did you hurt yourself when you fell?"

Liu Huan shook her head, crying, "No, it's because Shi Tou is angry and ignoring me."

In the three years she's been here, she's treated like a child living her life all over again. Naturally, she's afraid and sad when she makes mistakes and upsets Shi Tou.

Xiao Shi's eyes widened. "How could that be? Wait for me, I'll go call him." He ran off quickly, and Liu Huan couldn't call him in time.

When Shi Tou arrived, she was still crying, her eyes were swollen from crying. She glanced at him and said indifferently, "Let's eat."

Liu Huan followed them to the kitchen, and everyone pretended not to see her reddened eyes. They never interfered when Shi Tou was disciplining his two younger siblings.

Seeing her pick up her own bowl and eat half-heartedly, not even picking up her favorite lichen, I noticed she was not eating.

Cao'er felt sorry for her and put a piece of her chopsticks on her plate, but she ate it listlessly.

Helpless, he could only give Shi Tou a wink: That's enough.

Shi Tou picked up an egg with his chopsticks and gave it to her, his tone softening, "Eat your food properly."

Liu Huan looked up, tears sliding down her cheeks like pearls into the bowl. Without wiping them away, she smiled and nodded, "Mmm."

She happily picked up some vegetables and put them in her mouth, chewing with a smile. Stir-fried eggs with lichen was the best dish she had ever eaten.

After the meal, she voluntarily climbed onto her little stool to wash the dishes; only by standing on it could she reach the height of the stove. Cao'er couldn't bear to see her like that, and upon hearing the roosters crowing outside, she quickly called her to come out.

"Go and collect the eggs, Xiao Shi will collect them soon."

These words were a threat to her; she and Xiao Shi could break off their friendship for an entire day over picking up an egg.

Xiao Shi wasn't there when I arrived; I guess she saw that she had just cried and was being lenient with her.

She pulled a warm egg from under the hen and muttered to herself, "One penny."

Carefully take it inside and put it in the basket.

The family only had two hens, and they could collect two eggs a day, which was worth two coins. This was the main source of income for the Su family.

Sometimes, if we don't feed them well, they won't have any eggs for a day. In addition, we need to supplement their nutrition from time to time, so eggs are especially precious.

This is why Liu Huan wants to collect eggs every day.

When they went to another one, they searched for a long time but couldn't find any testicles; she was almost inside him.

"Xiao Hong, why didn't you have anything today?"

The hen named Little Red is clucking, but she hasn't laid an egg and refuses to come out.

Liu Huan asked Cao'er, who was washing clothes nearby, "Sister, do you know why Xiao Hong didn't lay any eggs today?"

Su's mother came out to explain, "It's springtime, the time for hatching. It will probably take about ten days before they lay eggs."

"Let's hatch a baby. Let's give it an egg to hatch."

Cao'er wrung out her clothes and said, "It's not that simple. This is a skill. People in the village tried to hatch them before, but they ruined the eggs and none of them hatched. These two hens of ours were bought from town, and they were very expensive."

What?! You don't know how incubation works?!

Eggs without a rooster will never hatch. That's why there are so few chickens in the village. It turns out there are no chicks in the village.

So... if I hatch the chicks myself, can I sell them in the village? Chickens lay eggs, eggs hatch into chickens, and then they lay more eggs...

Wouldn't that be a windfall!

She was already dreaming of becoming a large-scale chicken farmer, and that she could replace the thatched roof with tiles so that when it rained heavily outside, it wouldn't just drizzle inside.

Hahahaha

"What are you doing? Why are you acting like a fool?" Her fantasy was shattered by the stone, but she wasn't angry at all.

Instead, she stopped giggling, cleared her throat, and sweetly called out, "Stone~"

Seeing her acting cute, Shi Tou couldn't resist pulling her hair: "Be good, don't be naughty."

Shi Tou picked up a hoe and prepared to go to the field. In spring, weeds grow faster than crops, and the whole family was getting ready to remove them.

Liu Huan muttered defiantly, "I'm very well-behaved, okay? It was Sister Cuihua who provoked me first."

Changing the subject, she asked, "Where's the guy?" After looking around for a while, she still couldn't find him.

"I'm here, and I'm here to remove the weeds too."

Little Shi's small body carrying a huge hoe looked comical as he swayed from side to side.

"I'll go too, buddy, I'll help you."

The two cobblers, each carrying an adult's hoe, followed behind Su's father.

Big Stone came out and searched everywhere, "Stone, have you seen my hoe?"

Stone shook his head helplessly and said, "The two younger ones took them."

Cao'er chuckled as she recalled that scene, "You guys go and keep an eye on them, make sure they don't get hurt by the hoe."

Cao'er is ten years old this year and no longer needs to work in the fields.

In the Zhou state, girls could marry at the age of fifteen after reaching the age of hairpin. Many families would prevent their daughters from getting tanned and would not allow them to work in the fields after the age of ten.

She stayed home to do laundry and simple needlework, so that her daughter wouldn't be mistreated in her husband's family after marriage, thinking she wasn't doing well in her parents' home.

Stone nodded: "I understand, sis."

...

Looking at the grass, which was taller than corn seedlings, Liu Huan found it tender and easy to pull up. She recalled that in her previous life, when she was herding cattle with her grandparents in the countryside, she would take such good grass back to feed the cattle.

I couldn't help but sigh, "Sigh, such good grass, if only we had cows."

Su's father rarely joked when he heard this: "You silly girl, that ox is a treasure. Only your uncle's family in the village has one. It costs ten taels of silver. Our family can't afford it."

Yes, our family's savings combined don't even amount to two ounces, so buying a cow will take at least ten years.

Forget it, feeding the chickens is more practical.

However, she still made empty promises to her father: "Dad, we'll have them in the future. Cows, sheep, and horses, I'll have Shi Tou buy them for you."

Father Su grinned from ear to ear and replied perfunctorily, "Alright, alright, I'm just waiting for you to show your respect to me."

Liu Huan became even more motivated, as if she had been injected with chicken blood, and just wanted to finish quickly so she could go back to hatch chicks and earn money.

Before she knew it, something slippery landed in her hand. "Ah!"

Xiao Shi ran over with her eyes wide open, "Huanhuan, what's wrong?"

Liu Huan wiped her hands with grass in disgust and said, "The earthworm fell on my hand, how disgusting."

She hates hairless mollusks and invertebrates like earthworms, finding them slimy and unsettling.

Stone reminded him from the side, "If you're disgusting, just watch out. You're always making a fuss."

Su's mother scolded, "How can you say that to Huanhuan? She's still young, she'll get angry later."

Liu Huancai wasn't angry; she suddenly thought of a way to feed the chickens.

Boil the cages, chop them up, and feed them with vegetable leaves. The chickens raised from this method are all very fat and lay double-yolk eggs.

This is how my grandparents fed me in my past life.

Looking at the earthworm again, she no longer felt disgusted; these were all treasures!