"Giggle giggle—"
At the foot of Fuhu Mountain, a rooster from some unknown household crowed proudly.
A moment later, a scream filled with fear and dread came from the small courtyard at the end of the village.
"My goodness, have these hens gone mad?"
The shrew's roar shook the thatched roof several times. Hearing Su Bai's voice, the three Su brothers rushed into the yard without even putting on their shoes.
The next moment, everyone was stunned into place.
"One, two, three, four... nine, ten, did I count correctly?" Su Dahu's eyes widened, and he almost fell into the chicken coop. "We only have five hens in total, how can they lay ten eggs?"
"Yes, our old hens are usually all about eating and no laying eggs. Even these five laying three eggs a day is unprecedented." Su Sanhu stared at the round eggs, swallowing hard. "And these eggs are huge, probably as big as Dalang's fist. I must be dreaming—ouch, that hurts—"
The boy was speaking when he suddenly felt a pain in his shoulder.
Turning his head, he saw Su Erhu smiling as he put his hand away.
"Second Brother, what are you doing?" Su Sanhu rubbed his shoulder, his voice tinged with grievance.
Su Erhu strode over the chicken coop, picking up eggs as he grinned at Su Sanhu, "Didn't you think you were dreaming? I'm helping you determine if it's a dream or not. Anything that hurts isn't a dream."
Ten eggs filled the entire shopping basket.
Compared to the chicken eggs that were previously about the size of pigeon eggs, this is ridiculously large.
In the chicken coop, the old hens stood tall and proud, their five little eyes shining. Even their red and yellow feathers were smoother and more vibrant than usual. Their expressions and postures were like those of great heroes, utterly proud.
"These old geezers are finally putting up a good job!" Su Baishi took the basket of eggs and smiled broadly. "Dahu, later we'll prepare some snail meat for these chickens. Also, when Dalang and the others go to gather rabbit grass, they should gather some extra for these chickens!"
After saying this, the woman pondered for a while, "Don't tell anyone about the chicken laying eggs; it's enough for our family to know."
Our luck has been exceptionally good these past two days.
People are more concerned about inequality than scarcity. If word got out that a hen could lay two eggs a day, it would be hard to say whether the five hens could survive, and who knows how many troubles would arise, both openly and secretly.
"Yes, the sons know," the three Su brothers quickly replied.
They still understand the principle that good food should be left to rot in the pot.
Inside the main house, Su Hua listened to the sounds in the courtyard gradually fading away, turned over, and fell asleep again.
When I woke up again, it was already bright daylight, but the only sound in the courtyard was the low hum of boiling water; otherwise, it was extremely quiet.
"Hua'er, are you hungry?" Madam Su Bai looked at the person at the kitchen door, smiled, lifted the pot lid, examined the food for a moment, and said, "The steamed egg custard is ready, it's just the right time to eat, but the fish head tofu soup will take a little more time..."
"Mother, I'm not hungry." Su Hua took a deep breath of the fragrant fish soup.
Then Su Bai smiled and took out the key hanging from her waist, and opened the wooden cabinet above the kitchen.
Immediately, he took out a deep earthenware jar and placed it on the ground.
She proudly pulled two eggs from the jar and whispered, "Hua'er, look! These are the eggs that our five old geezers laid this morning. There are ten of them! If they stay this obedient, we'll never have to worry about eggs!"
Su Hua stared at the egg, which was about the size of a child's fist.
I was so shocked my jaw almost dropped to the ground.
Previously, five hens laid one egg, which was a "pigeon egg".
These days, a bird can lay two eggs a day, each as big as a goose egg. It must have taken the wrong medicine.
Su Bai carefully placed the eggs back into the jar, locked the wooden cabinet door, and looked at the rabbit pen in the front yard. "To be honest, our family's luck lately has been unbelievably good. Not only are the hens laying eggs like crazy, but even the most difficult little rabbits are behaving incredibly well in the pen..."
Su Hua's brow twitched.
It turns out the old hen didn't take the wrong medicine after all.
It was because they ate the water droplets in the pigeon egg space.
Yesterday, she sprinkled two drops of water into the large water vat in the kitchen. Perhaps she had added some when watering the chickens and rabbits. After a day, the yield went from zero to a large harvest. However, she really did not expect the water droplets to have such a good effect.
She should be more careful in the future and not add too much water to the water tank at home.
Otherwise, if the chickens and rabbits eat too much water droplets and they can talk, we'll be doomed.
Seeing that Su Bai was still scratching her head trying to figure out the reason, Su Hua quickly smiled and changed the subject, "Didn't we say yesterday that we wanted to catch snails? I'll get ready and go."
Su Baishi snapped out of her daze, waved her hand and laughed, "You don't need to go looking for snails. Your three older brothers can take care of the two boys, Da Lang and Er Lang. The river water is the coldest in the morning. The men are young and vigorous, so they are not afraid, but the girls can't stand the cold."
No one knows a daughter better than her mother, and perhaps she was worried that Su Hua would run straight into the river to catch snails.
After thinking for a moment, he added, "I didn't let your two sisters-in-law go to the river either. Right now, your eldest sister-in-law is washing clothes, and your second sister-in-law is taking Chunhua out to herd cattle. They're both waiting for the sun to come out before they go to collect snails."
Ever since I learned that this flavor of snails could make money.
Su Baishi arranged everything clearly. She got up early and went to the village chief's house to rent an oxcart. It cost twelve copper coins a day. The old village chief's dozens of acres of land had already been plowed. The old yellow ox was just sitting at home anyway, so renting it to the Su family would earn them some money for nothing. Naturally, no one was unwilling to do so.
The family rented the oxcart, and they were responsible for taking care of the ox's food, water, and sanitation.
In the past, the two daughters-in-law took turns cooking, but Qian's cooking skills were always questionable, and the food would take forever to appear. Now that it was time to herd the cattle, Su Bai arranged for Qian to take charge, while she took over the cooking job.
Seeing that she didn't need to collect snails and there was no other chores to do at home, Su Hua washed up, changed into a short-sleeved shirt in the main house, and started running around the village.
This body, weighing over 200 pounds, really needs to lose some weight.
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