Chapter 28: First update: Artificially hatching chickens

Ye Yu ate and drank his fill, and on his way back he cut some straw and chopped a lot of firewood, filling up his backpack which was mostly empty. He was very tired.

The most troublesome thing about firewood is not chopping and cutting it, but drying it. This worry does not exist in summer, but the problem is that it is already autumn now, so chopping and drying it early is also for this year's cold winter.

If it really doesn't work, try again and exchange firewood with grandma's family. She sees that they have a lot of firewood.

When we got back to the educated youth point, the other three had already returned. They were covered in mud and looked listless. They were eating, but they didn't enjoy the meal very much.

Make someone wish he could take his place.

Han Jing handed over the things he had helped buy in the town and said, "The salt is at the bottom. There's no meat, no offal, no chicken, no rice. The Fuqiang flour is limited to two packets. We bought three servings for you as you asked. The sugar coupons you gave us have been used up. Here are the remaining coupons and money. I almost forgot that the supply and marketing cooperative happened to have fish today. You don't need coupons to buy fish. We bought four, one for each person. They are tied with straw ropes and hung there."

"Thank you, that's a great help!" Ye Yu took the things and simply sorted them out along with the food and vegetables in the basket. He left the kitchen, took out the fish list, looked up and asked them, "How about I help you catch the fish?"

The four fish were not the salted or smoked fish she had imagined, but fresh carp. They looked like they were wild and local. They were not big, about two to three pounds. They had been through a bumpy journey and must have died by now. If they were not processed further, they would probably stink tomorrow.

With simple processing, it should be able to be kept until tomorrow morning or lunchtime in the current low temperature weather.

Han Jing knew that Ye Yu was so enthusiastic because of the food. The journey was indeed tiring, even more tiring than the day when he came back with the captain. Only then did they realize that the captain and his team had actually helped a lot in invisible ways.

He thought about it and nodded: "Thank you."

Xu Fei also thanked him while munching on a biscuit. Hua Feifei was still immersed in her own thoughts, chewing on corn intermittently, and it was obvious that she was not listening to the sounds around her.

Ye Yu couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong? You look like the sky is falling?"

This girl had a low mood a few days ago, but she was still full of energy. Now she can be described as lifeless, which is not a good adjective.

Han Jing glanced at Hua Feifei and whispered, "Not long after she sent the telegram, her family came back and told her to take good care of herself and not to worry about her family. After receiving her address, they sent her two bags of things. It may take ten or twenty days to get to us, so she was told to remember to pick them up when the time comes."

This telegram contains quite a lot of content.

Nowadays, the price of telegrams is calculated by word. Even if the telegram description is briefer than what Han Jing wrote, the content is not less, so it must be more than 10 yuan. It can be seen here that Hua Feifei's family conditions are indeed good, but it can also be heard that her family was reluctant but firmly rejected her.

Hua Feifei was not only despairing that she had to go to work again tomorrow, but also that it might always be like this in the future. What was even more despairing was that the family she had relied on since she was a child would no longer be her support. She couldn't tell which of the two was more terrifying.

Judging from the performance, it is more due to the latter.

Xu Fei said vaguely: "It's very chaotic outside. People are trying to break the old culture and customs everywhere. The better off people are, the more careful they have to be."

His family was poor and of good origin, but his neighbor and high school teacher almost suffered.

If there hadn't been a document issued a while ago to purge the Little Red Soldiers and investigate those bastards with bad intentions, several high school teachers would have been dragged out and criticized. It would have been very difficult to live a peaceful and stable life these days.

"My grandfather, my father, and my mother all told me to have less contact with my family," Han Jing nodded with a lingering fear, and then sighed, "Hey, what's going on?"

When they arrived in the town, they found out that Hua Feifei was not the only one who wanted to go home. Other educated youth also wanted to go home. But at the moment, there was little hope, at least in the near future.

Moreover, the commune leaders noticed that they were not as enthusiastic as they were in the previous two days, because the educated youth in the commune near Pingquan Town had already caused trouble and some even fought with the villagers. The residents of the town were now talking about the educated youth.

It is obvious to the naked eye that the next batch of educated youth who will go to the countryside, or even in the future, will not be as welcomed as they are.

Elm leaves:

"Did they win?"

Han Jing and Xu Fei: "What?"

"Ahem, ahem, it's nothing." A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Ye Yu could predict without even thinking about it that basically 90% of the locals would win. If they offended the locals, the future of these educated youth would surely be difficult. They are still too young. But what's wrong with being young? He just hoped that they could overcome the difficulties.

"Since you can't leave, then adapt to the environment as soon as possible. Survival of the fittest," Ye Yu patted their shoulders. "This sentence seems to come from the Chinese translation of a foreign book. If it's my words, please ignore it. Thank you!"

Buddy Han Jing and buddy Xu Fei: ...This is definitely the first time for us to be buddies with female comrades.

Ye Yu had already taken four fish to deal with them.

I saw one hand grabbing the fish's tail and the other hand picking up a kitchen knife, scraping off the scales with a few swipes. Then he took out the dirty internal organs from the fish's belly and peeled them off cleanly. His technique was very skillful.

It was really fast, as if if it was any slower, the fish would have gone into her stomach.

After all, Ye Yu is not so big as to be unable to eat a fish now. She can stuff these four fish into her stomach.

But today she really ate very little, and it would be a waste to eat the fish like this. It would be better to make a dish to eat with some mixed-grain cakes. Unfortunately, rice is not available in the northern town now. She can eat seven or eight bowls of fish soup with white rice.

By the time Hua Feifei woke up from her self-pity, the four fish had already been cleaned up and Ye Yu had finished taking a bath in the small bathroom separated by a straw mat.

Hua Feifei looked at Han Jing and Xu Fei who were worried about her, and pursed her face in embarrassment: "I'll wash the pot, and give me your lunch boxes. You guys go wash up first. I really trouble you to accompany me on this trip today."

"Nothing, just helping each other."

"If we hadn't gone to the town, we wouldn't have been able to add these things, and we could have gotten a lot of useful information."

While the three educated youth were exchanging pleasantries, Ye Yu had already come out of the bathroom.

Her hair was still wet. Since her hair was short, she was too lazy to wipe it with cotton cloth, so she tried to wipe it like cats and dogs, and the water droplets flew far away.

"Rude."

Hua Feifei snorted.

"...It's actually quite fun, and I like it this way too." Han Jing laughed.

Hua Feifei disagreed: "You are stinky men, but we are girls."

"It didn't fly onto you," Ye Yu reached out and touched it, feeling that he had done a lot, and continued, "Gentle and considerate, frank and open-minded, strong and brave, cute and lazy pig girl, comfortable and unrestrained fairy, different types of girls have their own unique charm, not all the same."

Even Hua Feifei had to admit that what he said made sense. Xu Fei's eyes lit up and he stared at him as if he saw a piece of flesh and bones. He was a normal person at ordinary times, but he was obsessed with all kinds of literature and was always obsessed with words.

only--

"What is a pig girl?"

Hua Feifei was caught in a tangled loop: ...Did I hear that correctly? She wasn't talking about me, was she?

It can only be said that the information explosion in the future has been delivering a lot of things to people. Ye Yu, who accidentally made a slip of the tongue again, confirmed that his hair could not be thrown into the water, waved his hand, turned around and left.

Seeing that Ye Yu did not return to her room but walked towards the empty room in the east where the male educated youth lived, Hua Feifei was puzzled: "Has Ye Yu changed her mind and doesn't want to live in the shabby room in the west with no kang or windows?"

"Um, no, Ye Yu didn't plan to move," Han Jing helped explain, "She wanted to use the warm kang in this empty house to artificially incubate eggs. You nodded when I said that just now."

I just didn't listen and clicked it blindly.

"Artificial hatching?" This involved Hua Feifei's blind spot, but she was quite interested in eggs and chickens and wanted to eat them. However, she didn't think they could eat Ye Yu's chickens, even though the quota to raise chickens was actually for the three of them.

Ye Yu had no idea that Hua Feifei was also greedy, so he went to the east room and started setting up the chicken nest.

The reason why she chose to try artificial incubation was because there was a spare room in the educated youth center. This room was vacant and had a kang, so she could use it temporarily.

At most it would waste some thatch and firewood.

These are not a big deal for Ye Yu. He can even use this as an excuse to go to the mountains in the future, or use this as an excuse when he meets villagers on the way up or down the mountain.

Kill two birds with one stone.

After the chicks hatch and grow to half grown, move them to the customized chicken coops and nests, and then you can sit back and wait for the meat and eggs to eat, right?

If we clean this room thoroughly, there will probably be many educated youth coming here in the future.

The temperature when incubating chicks is very important, usually between 35 and 40.5 degrees Celsius, and in most cases a little higher, but not too high.

Ordinary people cannot hatch chicks with their bodies. First, the hatching process takes more than ten or twenty days, and few people have the patience and time to do it. Second, the body surface temperature may not meet the requirements.

Ye Yu had no problem fulfilling the second condition, as the three eggs chosen from the ten were protected in her arms all the way back. However, there was a problem with the first condition. Under the given conditions, it was impossible for her to go without a bath for more than ten days.

I had to give up.

In fact, Ye Yu really has the desire to hatch chicken legs, no, little yellow chickens himself.

With regret on his face, he took out the warm egg from his arms, put it in a thatched nest on the kang at a suitable temperature, and covered it with old clothes. It couldn't be airtight, it needed a certain amount of ventilation.

Add two more basins of water to increase the humidity.

Ye Yu did not return to his room after building the nest. Since his hair was not dry yet, he started to practice his supernatural powers in this room, once, twice, and three times.

After three times, she opened her eyes and gently touched the three lucky eggs happily.

They are really lucky stars!

Not only because they were the hatched eggs picked out from a dozen eggs, but also with their company, Ye Yu's supernatural power seemed to be loosening, which also meant that her supernatural power was about to break through and upgrade.