Zhang Hulan pointed to a chick that was hatching and said, "You see, when the chick hatches, it can train itself through struggle and effort, and gradually adapt itself to the outside world.
If you help to open the eggshell suddenly, it will scare the chick. And the chick is particularly vulnerable at this time. If you are not careful, it will be injured and it will easily get infected and inflamed. "
Zhang Hulan pointed at the chick's belly and said, "Look at its belly. The skin is so tender that the eggshell breaks with just a scratch."
In fact, Zhang Hulan didn’t know whether what she said was right or not, so she just explained it to the children according to her own understanding.
While they were busy here, Yuan Gang suddenly shouted at the door: "Madam, the county magistrate and his wife are here."
Zhang Hulan immediately went out to greet him.
Wu Deyong and his friends first went to the village home. The villagers said that Zhang Hulan had moved to a new home and they had just come here.
As soon as Ye Hongyun saw Zhang Hulan, she scolded him, "This is your fault. You didn't even inform me when you moved to a new place. Are you looking down on me?"
Zhang Hulan stepped forward to apologize, "How dare I, I didn't hold a housewarming party, I just invited the villagers to a meal. They are all country folk, it's a mess, I'm afraid Madam Ye won't be used to it."
Zhang Hulan led Wu Deyong, Ye Hongyun and their son Wu Yunyang into the yard. There was another person who came, whom Zhang Hulan did not know.
As soon as he arrived at the yard, Ye Hongyun heard several children screaming from the house next door. Ye Hongyun asked, "What are your children doing? Why are they so happy? And it seems like there are so many children?"
Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "There are quite a few children, eight or nine of them, big and small, they are watching the chicks hatch."
"Why do you have so many children in your family?"
"Well, there are seven of us from my family, my brother's family, and my younger sister's family. My little daughter's two friends are also here, so our house is very lively."
"Is it convenient for us to go and have a look?" Ye Hongyun wanted to go and have a look. She wanted Wu Yunyang to go and play with Zhang Hulan's children. Her son was too withdrawn. He only knew how to study every day and didn't play with other children.
"What's the inconvenience?" Ye Hongyun was about to take Ye Hongyun into the house.
Wu Deyong said, "Madam, how about letting me talk to Zhang about the serious matter first before we go and see it?"
Song Yuzhang, the man next to Wu Deyong, said, "Brother Wu, it's okay. Let my sister-in-law go first. We are not in a hurry anyway."
"That's right, we have nothing to do today anyway." Ye Hongyun held Wu Yunyang's hand with one hand and Zhang Hulan's hand with the other and walked towards the house where the chicks were hatched.
Wu Deyong and Song Yuzhang followed into the house.
As soon as Ye Hongyun entered the house, she saw a lot of children, and then she was shocked. She thought she was watching a hen hatching chicks, but she saw a full kang of eggs, and there were chicks hatching on the kang.
"Hu Lan, you..." Ye Hongyun couldn't find words to describe the scene he saw.
Wu Deyong and Song Yuzhang also widened their eyes in surprise; they had never seen chicks hatched in this way.
Wu Deyong asked: "Zhang, weren't your chicks hatched by a hen?"
Zhang Hulan replied, "No, it was artificially hatched."
Zhang Hulan then explained, "I want to do breeding, and there are a lot of chicks and ducklings that I need, but they are not easy to buy. So I asked someone to buy the eggs and then hatch them myself."
"These are the first batch, they just hatched today." Zhang Hulan pointed at the duck and goose eggs on the kang and said, "Those are duck and goose eggs, and they will take a few days to hatch."
Zhang Hulan pointed to another kang and said, "That one is the second batch, which will be more than ten days later."
"You can hatch chicks without a hen?" Ye Hongyun was still surprised. "How did you hatch the chicks?"
"They just light up a kang underneath, and then cover the eggs with a quilt to simulate the temperature of a hen, and then the chicks will hatch."
"Hey, your brain is full of weird things." Ye Hongyun stared at Zhang Hulan in amazement.
At this time, Zhang Xinyue walked up to Wu Yunyang and asked, "Little brother, who are you?"
Ye Hongyun immediately looked down at Zhang Xinyue, and then asked Zhang Hulan, "Is this your little daughter?"
Ye Hongyun had never met Zhang Xinyue before, and thought the little girl was very smart.
Zhang Hulan replied: "It is my youngest daughter..."
Zhang Hulan then introduced them to Ye Hongyun, "These two are my youngest daughter's senior brothers, and they are also disciples of Taoist Priest Xuanzhen of Ziyang Temple."
"My eldest daughter, second daughter and Madam Dahuaye have all met them." Zhang Hulan pulled Zhang Xiaojun, Zhang Xiaobing and Shanzi in front of her and introduced them: "This is my eldest brother's son, named Zhang Xiaojun; this is my younger brother's son, named Zhang Xiaobing; this is my nephew, his full name is Zhou Shan, we all call him Shanzi. These three are studying at Weixin Academy."
Zhang Hulan then said to the three people, "This is the county magistrate and his wife. The county magistrate helped you to go to the academy."
The three of them immediately knelt down and saluted, "Greetings to the County Magistrate, and to the County Magistrate's wife. Thank you for your help, County Magistrate!"
"Good, good, good, they are all good kids!" Ye Hongyun helped the three of them up, and then said to Zhang Hulan enviously: "Your family is really lively, unlike my place, where it is quiet all day long."
Zhang Xinyue said, "Madam, you can come to my house and play! My house is very lively."
Ye Hongyun smiled and said, "Okay, then I will live in your house from now on, okay?"
"Okay, my family has a lot of houses, the county magistrate's wife can stay as long as you want..."
A few people stayed in the house for a while, and then Zhang Hulan took Wu Deyong and the others to the living room for tea.
Wu Yunyang was dragged by Zhang Xinyue and the others to play in the farm.
Zhang Hulan poured tea for Wu Deyong and the other two, and then asked, "I wonder what brings you here, sir?"
Wu Deyong pointed at Song Yuzhang and said, "I have invited the person you want. His surname is Song and his name is Yuzhang."
Zhang Hulan's eyes lit up, and she immediately stood up and saluted, saying, "Hello, Mr. Song."
Song Yuzhang nodded slightly, "You're welcome, Madam Zhang."
Zhang Hulan sat down and asked, "Mr. Song agreed to come to our village to teach?"
Song Yuzhang said: "Teaching is also good. It's easy to deal with children, and there are not so many tricks."
"Then what are Mr. Song's requirements for repairing gold?"
"I don't have any requirements, just don't let me starve to death."
"No, no..." Zhang Hulan said hurriedly, "Mr. Song, how about this? All the tuition fees paid by the students belong to you, and I will give you another ten taels of silver every month. How about that?"
“Not so much.”
"Yes, yes." Zhang Hulan said, "I will arrange food and accommodation for you. But you are a scholar and you must like to buy books, so you must pay a lot for buying books."
Wu Deyong glanced at Zhang Hulan and thought that this woman was really good at speaking.
If it was about paying Song Yuzhang, he would definitely leave. But it was about buying books for Song Yuzhang, which sounded good.
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