Chapter 26: First, Believe in Science

It's lunch time.

Originally, Grandma Wang and Grandpa Wang only prepared sweet potato rice and cold sweet potato vines and leaves to entertain their granddaughter. The sweet potato rice was cooked quite watery. The purpose was to tell their granddaughter that the Wang family was poor, that it was not easy to support a large family, and that they really could not have another girl.

Now it has changed.

Considering the waistcoat, scarf, gloves, rock sugar and glutinous rice noodles, let alone the meat, at least a few eggs and some meat should be added.

Aunt Liu Hongmei was like a worm in Grandma Wang's stomach. Grandma Wang knew what she was thinking as soon as she saw her aunt Liu Hongmei. She quickly took her two daughters-in-law to the kitchen to help.

I picked up four eggs, made two into scallion egg drop soup, and fried the other two with leeks. It happened that there were only two crops of leeks left in the field, and they might be gone in a couple of days, so this was enough for me.

Finally, add some cabbage, winter melon and sweet potato flour and steam a big pumpkin, and the dish will be complete.

In this way, the eight-immortals table in the main hall can be basically half full, which is already rich enough, but not too ostentatious, and the calculation is just right.

Ye Yu sniffed and smelled the scent of eggs. She was tempted. It was not easy to buy eggs in the city. Besides being expensive, they required egg tickets. However, she still went on two blind dates with the help of her second sister Ye Lan. Now that she was in the countryside, she had to raise a few chickens.

How many can you raise if you know more?

There seem to be three.

What a pity! If she could raise more, she would really like to open a chicken farm, a pig farm, or a duck farm... slurp slurp.

Ye Yu thought of it and asked: "Ahem, grandma, is there anyone in the village who hatches chicks to sell... No, do you want to exchange them?"

"It's winter now, and the hens don't lay eggs very often, so how can they brood?" Grandma Wang shook her head.

Elm leaves:

"Can't we hatch chicks artificially?"

When it comes to hatching chicks, we have to mention the bitter tears of people in the last days. Whether they are growing sweet potatoes and potatoes or raising poultry, people serve them like their ancestors.

When harvest time comes, a thumb-sized sweet potato will make dozens of planting and animal husbandry experts jump and dance around holding hands like children.

It's not that people with special powers can't interfere, but the mutation rate of animals and plants after the interference of special powers is extremely high, and they may not be edible. Even if they can be eaten normally, the taste is probably hard to describe. The chance of normal taste is comparable to winning the grand prize in buying a lottery.

Ye Yu is not an expert in planting or animal husbandry, but she once wanted to eat chicken so much that she dreamed of roasted chicken, grilled chicken, beggar's chicken, and slaughtered chicken for a whole month...

So she went to the Agriculture Hall at the center of Hope Base every day, claimed three precious eggs that were comparable to mid-level alien cores, and watched them hatch chicks.

After watching for many days, an egg successfully hatched, and the fluffy little yellow chicken was so cute.

So cute that it makes people drool.

However--

The future of animal husbandry exceeded Ye Yu's expectations. The little yellow chicken grew mutated and suddenly became two meters tall. All the time he had wasted in the past few days.

We can only be thankful that these artificial mutants are generally not very strong and will not cause property losses to the people in the base. Who knows if they can be eaten normally?

"Cluck, cluck!" The two-meter-tall 'little' yellow chicken flapped its wings and chirped twice, and its feathers covered Ye Yu's face.

“…”

I understand very well the despair of plant scientists pulling soccer ball-sized potatoes out of the ground.

Fortunately, we are not in the apocalypse now, and the chickens artificially hatched by Ye Yu will at least not mutate. They can be roasted chickens, grilled chickens, beggar chickens, or slaughtered chickens... hehe, hehe.

"Artificial incubation?" Grandma Wang muttered to herself. People in this city always speak in a flowery way. "I've only heard of hens sitting on their nests, but can humans actually do that?"

Artificial incubation technology has already appeared in this era. It is used in both the north and the south, especially in the north. Many families have built kangs. They all say that a warm kang is a pretty good artificial incubator.

However, due to the lack of information dissemination, many technologies that seem to be very common in the future may not be known to people in cities or villages, and the fact that many people hatch chickens is just a coincidence.

Moreover, every household can only raise two or three chickens now. Who wants to hatch chickens in winter when they can hatch them in spring? The key is whether the hatched chicks can survive. In winter, it is cold and there is little food. In spring, there are at least wild vegetables in the mountains. Naturally, no one in Wangjiagou is doing artificial hatching.

Ye Yu asked again: "If hens can do it, why can't humans? Grandma, do you have any fertilized eggs at home? Can I exchange some for them?"

Grandma Wang, who originally thought Ye Yu was making a fuss, brightened up when she heard the word "change". She immediately changed her tune: "Yes, yes, we have two male and one female chickens at home. If you look at the eggs we pick under bright light, you can definitely see black threads and black spots. Most of them are auspicious eggs."

But the number is really small. In autumn and winter, the chickens not only stop brooding, but also lay fewer eggs. This is because they keep the chickens in the kitchen. Once the first snow comes, the chickens will no longer lay eggs no matter where they are kept.

The only way is to raise a chicken in the quilt on the kang, but cloth and firewood were expensive in those days, it was not worth it for a few chickens. It would be better to wait until spring to build a nest, not to mention that each family in the team could only raise a limited number of chickens.

Ye Yu didn't care whether it was worth it or not. She didn't plan to hatch more eggs in the first place, and it wouldn't cost her anything to try: "Eight cents an egg, grandma, can you give me a few dozen more?"

The price here is one cent more expensive than the agricultural and sideline store in Pingquan Town, and a few cents cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative. Taking the middle value, she can eat as many eggs as she wants. It doesn't mean that she has to use them all for hatching. She can also eat them herself.

"How can we have so many? Ask your aunt to give you a dozen to take back home," said Grandma Wang, pausing for a moment and taking a shot of vaccination. "The eggs we give you are auspicious eggs, but if you can't hatch them, or if the chicks you hatch don't survive, it's not our fault."

"Grandma, I know."

Perhaps knowing that her last words were too polite, Grandma Wang wiped her eyes again and changed her tone to say, "If it weren't for Grandma and Grandma having to support a large family of more than 20 people, would you have taken the eggs home for free? Alas, life in the countryside is hard these days, and there is little income all year round."

Ye Yu agreed with the second half of this sentence.

Don't think that Grandma Wang and her family are pretending to be poor. Maybe the Wang family's conditions in Wangjiagou are indeed good, but poverty is the norm everywhere nowadays.

But Ye Yu was not enthusiastic enough to help alleviate poverty, and she was not a poverty alleviation cadre.

If her grandmother's family was not dominated by Granny Wang's personality, but was instead very warm and thoughtful, she would not be used to it and would rather stay away from them, because it would be very troublesome and laborious to be attached to the whole family; if they were greedy and stupid and tried to climb up the pole like a snake, her leaving would make them realize that respecting the elders would never work for her.

It's just right now, building bridges purely based on interests, and it's easier to deal with smart people.

Grandma Wang was also very satisfied with her granddaughter's "sensibleness", and was even more satisfied that she had money in her hands to support herself. From this point of view, Wang Lai Di did not dislike this daughter. It was really possible that she was young and ignorant and just wanted to be radical. She was deceived and sent to the countryside like the technicians who cut down trees and smelted steel in the 1960s.

If you ask her, how can the food in the countryside be as good as in the city where there is commercial food every month?

So confused!

The elders had almost finished talking, but as for the younger generation, Wang Dahu and Wang Erhu's families had a total of seven children. No matter which family they came from, they were all ranked together before the family split up, seven boys and one girl, a typical case of more yang than yin.

They stood in a row of different heights and rushed over impatiently.

Firstly, they were curious about the new guests, and also, this third cousin brought some delicious food. Although their grandmother quickly locked it in the cupboard, they could still eat it in the future.

Secondly, they had already heard of the reputation of this cousin. The adults in the village thought that children knew nothing, so many people did not avoid chatting with the children. They had already heard the rumors during the day. A Niu said that he saw it with his own eyes that the cousin kicked Wang Erlaizi a hundred meters away.

This is just as powerful as the cowherd Wang Xiaoer and one of the Five Tiger Generals Guan Erye in the comic books!

Unlike the adults, Ye Yu's exposed skills alone made the villagers admire him very much. Several children puffed out their chests and showed off to their friends in the village.

"This is my cousin!"

"And mine."

"mine."

Ye Yu saw that these kids were dressed cleanly but at least warmly, so they didn't run around with snot hanging from their noses like some other kids in the village.

So I answered their question: "How can a person be kicked 100 meters? You have to believe in science, right?"

As he spoke, he brought along the two bravest kids - Wang Hai and Wang Jiang, nicknamed Sanhai Wa and Sijiang Wa, a high-flying acrobat.

By the way, when you reach the next level, the 100-meter sprint will be nothing, won’t that be easy?

The other little radish heads looked up with starry eyes: "Wow!" This cousin is theirs!

In a few decades, there will definitely be parents who complain that Ye Yu abuses their children and has a poor sense of safety.

But now, not only did Ye Yu, who came from the end of the world, not think there was anything wrong, but the careless parents were just sighing in their hearts, thinking that the rumors in the village were not exaggerated. There was something special about this daughter of the Ye family. She was stronger than the strong young men in the countryside, and her strength alone was not enough to starve her to death.

"Hahaha, cousin, what you said is really interesting." A young female voice interrupted.

Ye Yu looked up and saw a young girl wearing an old dark blue cotton jacket with floral patterns. She had two long black braids with two red hair strings tied at the end.

In today's clothing colors that are mainly gray, blue and green, this kind of dress cannot be said to be unfashionable, and it is not bad in the city. At this moment, people in the city may not dare to dress like this, for fear of being reported to GWH by pink eye disease.

This is Ye Yu’s cousin, Wang Xiaomei, the only daughter of her uncle Wang Chuangen.

It can be seen that Wang Xiaomei, as the only girl of this generation, lives a good life at home. The same is true for Wang Ermao, the only girl of the next generation.

It is also possible that Wang Jiedi and Wang Laidi both married into the city and brought benefits to their families.

This made Grandma Wang realize that the girl was not completely wasted, and there were rewards. Apart from the betrothal gift, it would be nice to treat her as an ordinary relative.

Especially the eldest daughter who married to the county town. It was also with her help that the second daughter Wang Lai Di was able to marry to Yanjing, which brought many invisible benefits to their family.

Because of this, Wang Xiaomei and Wang Ermao are both among the few girls in the village who are still studying. The former is in the second grade of junior high school in town and it is her turn to go home for the monthly break these two days. The latter is in primary school in Hongqi Brigade and needs to walk an hour to and from school every day.

Of course, this also requires them to have excellent grades.

These days, there are final exams for students, and education is not compulsory. Except for ten-year-old Wang Sanhai and two younger children who have not yet started school, all the boys who studied together in the family, including Wang Xiaomei's younger brother Jiang Xiaohu, have dropped out due to poor grades.

It can be seen that not everyone can study.