Cheng Ruyi's aquaculture business is developing very smoothly.
Currently, both female rabbits are pregnant. However, these two female rabbits are just ordinary rabbits and cannot give birth to two litters every month like Zhui Feng. Anyway, it has been more than ten days now and there is still no sign of labor. Even if they give birth, it is unknown how many kittens they will have in each litter or how long it will take for them to mature. However, there will be more than before.
What makes everyone happiest is that both Caiyu and Sujin have started to incubate, which means the eggs are pregnant. Jinfeng is really something!
However, this also brought another problem: after the hens started brooding, there were two fewer hens producing ten eggs a day, and the Cheng family's egg shortage suddenly became very serious!
Although the new hen has started laying eggs after being cared for, it only lays one or two eggs a day, which is far from enough.
However, the Cheng family members still learned from their mistakes and decided to avoid coinciding with Caiyu and Sujin's pregnancies in the future. Fortunately, they had saved some money before, and the price of eggs in the city had also dropped back to what it used to be.
I wonder how long it will take for this chick to brood. The hatching time for a normal chick is about twenty days. I hope that this phoenix-tailed chicken can be like the wind-chasing rabbit, laying three broods a month.
Yes! After adding the spiritual spring water, Zhuifeng finally achieved the remarkable feat of giving birth to a litter every ten days!
Ruyi decided to wait until the offspring of Zhuyun and ordinary rabbits were stable before letting Zhuifeng breed with ordinary rabbits. This way, she could ensure the monthly supply and distinguish the bloodlines. Later, she could rely on the hybrid rabbits to breed with each other for sale, while the purebred Ling rabbits could be kept for her own consumption or given to relatives and friends.
Perhaps it was because Zhui Feng's achievement of having three children in one month was a bit beyond everyone's expectations, Ru Yi clearly felt that Cheng Yan and Xu Cui had discovered the problem. Every time they looked at her, their eyes were full of doubt, but they tacitly did not ask her.
After much deliberation, Ruyi decided to use her deceased husband as a shield again. She said that she had once heard him talk about a top-secret feed formula that would make all animals grow up healthy and reproduce well. This secret formula was recorded in a secret letter left by the imperial physician of the previous dynasty. If it were leaked, she might be beheaded!
After hearing this, Xu Cui expressed shock and swore she would never reveal it, clearly believing him completely.
As for Cheng Yan, after listening, he stared at Ruyi for a long time, so long that Ruyi was almost ready to come up with a second excuse, when he finally nodded and then left silently.
This... I guess I believed about 30% of it, right?
Now that they have the spirit spring water, everything can be attributed to it. Ruyi still plans to wait for the right time to tell everyone that ever since she hit her head, a white jade water bottle has appeared inside it, producing only one drop of water each day. This water, she claims, not only helps people eliminate impurities and strengthen their bodies, but also produces miraculous effects on plants and animals…
This combination of reality and fiction can explain the various strange phenomena that happened in the house recently, without being too far beyond their understanding.
Amidst this undercurrent of tension, the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived once again.
During this first holiday after the lockdown was lifted, shops across the city went all out, launching a variety of festive goods and activities, with flowers, lanterns, and mooncakes being the most popular.
The variety of styles, the gorgeous patterns, and the exquisite craftsmanship completely exceeded Cheng Ruyi's expectations. To be honest, they were basically no different from modern ones. Ruyi felt that she had no room to make any moves, and everyone in the Cheng family was busy right now, so she decided not to cause any trouble and to enjoy the holiday in peace.
Zhiwei Restaurant also offers Mid-Autumn Festival moon-viewing banquets. The "Smooth Sailing" banquet costs only five taels of silver and allows you to enjoy delicious food in the first-floor hall. The "Five Blessings" banquet costs fifteen taels of silver and allows you to book a private room on the second floor. The private room has a great view and a quiet environment, which is most suitable for families with a little wealth. The "Perfect Ten" banquet is only open to regular customers and is limited to one table, occupying the entire third-floor terrace. It can be said to be the best choice for moon-viewing and drinking. As for the price, it is not expensive. Fifty taels of silver to buy a unique view is definitely worth the money.
The reason Ruyi knew so much was because she was the one who suggested all of these things.
In early August, when Manager Huang came to pick up the rabbit, he gave Ruyi an invitation, inviting them to eat at Zhiwei Restaurant for their newly launched Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.
Actually, Zhiwei Restaurant's original Mid-Autumn Festival banquet didn't have any categories or set menus. It just offered a few seasonal specialties, and everything else was the same as usual.
Since Ruyi was enjoying the cooperation, she gave Manager Huang this "brilliant" idea. After all, who among us hasn't been tricked by unscrupulous merchants?
This Zhiwei Restaurant originally had three floors, but the third floor was an open-air platform with only a pavilion in the middle. Although the decoration was quite simple and elegant, it was unfortunately not open on weekdays. With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, Ruyi felt that the third-floor platform was definitely the best choice for enjoying a meal while admiring the moon.
Manager Huang, being an experienced man, immediately understood the ins and outs. He even forgot to return to Zhiwei Restaurant to make arrangements, and finally managed to get everything sorted out three days before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The banquet sold out on the very day it was offered. Many people who arrived late couldn't get a reservation and hoped for another round of bookings. Manager Huang made a fortune for the restaurant, earning both fame and profit. He gained the boss's praise and was on the verge of a promotion and a raise. So, he very considerately gifted a private room on the second floor to the Cheng family as a thank-you gift for Ruyi's suggestion.
The Cheng family was overjoyed. This was the first time they had dined at such a high-class restaurant as Zhiweiguan, and they hadn't even been to the main hall on the first floor. Instead, they had gone straight to a private room on the second floor!
Only Cheng Yan felt very worried after hearing this. He thought that his Cheng family had only cooperated with Zhiwei Restaurant two or three times, with the amount being only ten or twenty taels. Now, a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet worth fifteen taels was being given away so easily. There must be something going on behind the scenes.
"Dad! You can rest assured. Zhiwei Restaurant is one of the biggest restaurants in the whole county. The combined value of our entire family is less than what they earn in a day. What could they possibly want from us?"
"The reason Manager Huang invited us to attend is because I gave him an idea that made his restaurant a lot of money, much more than the mere fifteen taels! So he's just returning the favor!"
After Ruyi explained, Cheng Yan was finally relieved. In fact, he had lived in the county town for decades and had never been to Zhiwei Restaurant before. Thinking about it, he was still quite excited.
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