"Why are you looking at me? Even though I'm handsome, you can't keep looking at me. I'll get proud."

"Who did you learn this smooth talk from? Why are you making such a fuss today?" asked grandma.

"Grandma, we have a small family and we will suffer when encountering some problems. Also, I have to go to school in the future and I can't always be with you.

My younger sister is eight years younger than me and she will have to go to school in the future. I can't always follow her around.

Just like what happened today, if a few more people had helped our family, you and my younger sister wouldn't have suffered any loss.

You have also seen the performance of Heidan, Gousheng and Sanya today, although they are young and did not play any role.

However, the fact that they did not give up on my younger sister and always protected her shows that they are all good people and can get along with each other.

And they are of the same age, they can play together, go to school together, and walk long distances together.

If my younger sister encounters any problems in the future and I am not around, I have a few friends who will always have help and I don’t have to face it alone.

So I wanted to find a few more helpers for my younger sister. I will take care of these children for a while. Those with good character will stay and be carefully nurtured, while those with bad character will be sent back.

"Alright, you decide. These kids are all good. They've grown up right before my eyes, and I know them well.

These families are pretty good, none of them have any bad intentions. Enough talk, I should get back to work."

As grandma was about to go out to work, she was stopped by Zhang Xudong.

"Grandma, aren't you old enough to stop working?"

"No one asked me to work, but why shouldn't I work? No one in my family works, right?"

"From now on, I'll go to work and you can rest at home."

"You, just study hard. I'm bored when I'm idle. I feel more at ease when I go to work."

"Grandma, if you don't have to work in the fields, you can do something else! The knitting group? I'm afraid your back will hurt if you sit for too long, so you can't go.

You can just raise pigs and chickens at home. Doesn't raising pigs also earn you work points?"

"Raising pigs? Raising pigs is okay for you, but there are not even sows in several villages around us, where can we catch piglets?

Raising chickens? Have you ever heard a chicken crowing in our village? How can we raise chickens and pigs when people don’t even have enough to eat?”

"Don't worry about the piglets, I'll catch them for you. There's plenty of grass for pigs to eat over that bald mountain. As for the chicks, grandma, do you know how to pick out the eggs?"

"How many people in the countryside don't know how to pick out breeding eggs? You have to have breeding eggs for me to pick out."

"As long as you can choose."

"Little sister, I'll give you some candies. Go play with Sanya and the others! They helped you today, so give each of them two candies as a thank you."

"I got it, thank you, brother!" The little sister skipped away with the candy.

"Grandma, what's this?" Zhang Xudong waited for his sister to leave, then took out all the free-range eggs from the supermarket. There were eight baskets in total, weighing over 300 kilograms.

"Is this what your dead grandfather gave you?" Grandma asked after a moment's surprise.

"Yes, grandma, there are still many eggs in there, but they are not as good as these. It depends on your ability to choose the breeding eggs."

"To carry a basket to the door, you need to do it in the sunshine."

Zhang Xudong moved a basket of eggs to a sunny spot near the doorway and placed two empty egg baskets beside it.

Grandma moved a small stool and sat next to the egg basket. She took an egg and said while looking at the sun:

"Hold the egg up to the sun and if you see a black dot inside, it's a seed egg. If it doesn't have one, it won't work. This one has one, and it can hatch chicks."

Zhang Xudong took it and took a picture, and sure enough, he saw a black spot in the egg.

It's easy once you know how to do it. Zhang Xudong simply took out two high-intensity flashlights, which is much more comfortable than using the sun.

After teaching his grandmother how to use a flashlight, Zhang Xudong moved the egg basket back to a cool place and started picking eggs together.

He only picked out one basket and picked out more than 200 breeding eggs, which was enough. After storing the extra eggs in the space, Zhang Xudong became worried again.

"Grandma, what should we do next? How does this egg turn into a chick?" This was the first time in Zhang Xudong's two lives that he encountered this problem, and he really didn't know how to answer it.

"What should we do? Hatch the chicks?" Grandma rolled her eyes at Zhang Xudong, as if to say: You are a little stupid.

Zhang Xudong had some internal injuries and was feeling depressed.

"Grandma, I'll leave it to you. I won't take care of it anymore."

"Don't worry about it. If you want a few chicks, each family can only raise two."

Zhang Xudong thought about it and originally planned to help the team build a collective chicken farm, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait and see.

Not only is the team busy enough right now, but we also have to remind some people in the village that there will be no benefits if they don't support their own family.

"Grandma, let's prepare thirty of them in total. For the children coming tomorrow, prepare two for each family.

We'll talk about the rest later. I'll give two eggs to anyone who's close to my family, and then I'll give them four eggs in return."

"Then I'll prepare thirty." Grandma took out forty breeding eggs, put them in a basket and hung it on the beam.

The chicks can only be hatched after everything is prepared. There is no rush. Zhang Xudong put the other things into the space first. It was too hot and they would easily go bad if left outside.

"Grandma, take these tickets and money. When you have time, go to the supply and marketing cooperative. These tickets will be invalidated."

Zhang Xudong took out a stack of expired tickets and handed it to his grandmother, and gave her fifty yuan.

"Where did you get the ticket?"

"I traded wild boar meat for it. Meat is so expensive now, and I only sold wild boar meat for five yuan a catty, and you're still vying for it. Eggs are eighty cents each. Just imagine how much money our family has now!"

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