The soybeans brought back by the Qingque tribe's trading team were cleaned up by Han Cheng.

The quantity is not large, only half a jar, a little over five pounds.

If there is little bean dregs in these beans and the water used to grind the tofu is of good quality, making tofu should not be a problem.

While making tofu, you can also make some soy milk or tofu pudding to drink.

After swallowing several times, Han Cheng suppressed the impulse.

Although Shang and Mao both said that the tribe still had a lot of soybeans, Han Cheng still didn't want to take the risk for safety reasons.

What if when Shang and his companions go there again, the tribe has eaten up all the remaining soybeans? Wouldn’t that be a huge loss?

If the tribe wants to grow soybeans, doesn’t that mean they have to postpone it for another year?

Moreover, there was no stone mill in the tribe at that time. Without this tool, it was quite troublesome to make the beans into pulp.

So Han Cheng forced himself to hold it back.

Even though he wanted to get the soybeans from the tribe as soon as possible, Han Cheng still did not agree to Shang and Mao's request.

Instead of allowing them to set out immediately, they were forced to rest in the tribe for seven days before they were allowed to set out again.

Although soybeans are important, the people in the tribe are more important. In Han Cheng's opinion, the lives of the people in the Qingque tribe are much more important than those external objects.

Another reason is that the five deer traveling with the caravan have reached their reproductive age and need to stay in the tribe so that Mr. Deer can help them solve physiological problems.

When they set off, Han Cheng took out the small piece of granite again and asked them to go to the tribe that had granite and bring back a few regular pieces of granite.

When the time comes, the stonemasons will chisel out some stone millstones.

Granite, which is hard and not easy to wear, is the best material for making stone mills.

If you use a large millstone to grind rice, you don't need to be so particular about the ingredients.

Shang and Mao set out again with the caravan. As they left, they beat their chests and promised that they would bring back soybeans and granite.

Chicken~chicken, twenty-one (yi); duck~duck, twenty-eight; goose~goose, thirty-one (in dialect, the fourth tone of one (yue) is not very standard. Use the fourth tone (yuo) to spell the syllables correctly, but there is no such spelling...)

These rhyming words, like cat three, dog four, pig five, sheep six, cow seven, horse eight, all refer to the time it takes for these animals to go from pregnancy to birth.

The difference is that chickens and ducks are counted by days, while cattle and sheep are followed by the unit of "month".

Time passed quickly, and ten or twenty days went by in the blink of an eye. As of today, the castrated rooster has been incubating eggs for a full twenty-one days.

So after seeing off the caravan, Han Cheng came to the chicken coop to guard it.

As soon as he arrived here, he heard the faint cries of chicks, and Han Cheng was immediately happy.

These guys came out as promised.

I lay down at the edge of the chicken coop and looked around carefully, but I didn't see any newly born chicks. I thought they were hiding under the rooster with a "loving" face, playing hide-and-seek in its feathers.

However, in front of the rooster, there was an eggshell that was taken out of the chicken coop, and inside the eggshell, there were some dried blood.

The little chick crowed for a while and then stopped. I don’t know if it felt the warmth of fatherly love or if it learned from the old rooster that there was someone outside who was not easy to deal with.

When everything around him became quiet, Han Cheng could hear some subtle 'bang bang' sounds, which were the chicks pecking at the eggshells, trying to come into this world earlier.

After watching here for a long time, there was no sign of the chicks. Although Han Cheng was a little anxious, he did not have the slightest intention of kicking the rooster out of the chicken coop.

He knew that now was the critical moment for hatching chicks. If the rooster was scrambled at this time and was exposed to the cold for a long time, the chicks that were about to break out of the shells would most likely die inside.

Each little life will not undergo any other changes except becoming a hairy egg.

Han Cheng looked here for a while and then left, went to work somewhere else for a while, and then came back here again.

Several times a day, the old rooster just lay there, and except for becoming more and more "kind", there was no other change.

He is very patient and is determined to hatch chicks from every egg.

If it doesn't move, the newly born chicks won't come out.

Egg-laying animals such as chickens are different from mammals.

The young of mammals can hide under their mothers' bodies and drink milk, but the oviparous animals can only starve.

Well, it seems that even if oviparous animals can drink milk, these newly born chicks will still starve.

Fortunately, newborn chicks are very resistant to hunger. Unlike mammals, they do not need to look for milk when they cannot stand steadily.

After checking several times, Han Cheng saw that it was getting dark and knew that the rooster would not "get out of roost" today, so he left completely.

At night, Han Cheng fell asleep after holding Bai Xue in his arms and listening to her belly for a while.

Not long after he fell asleep, he began to dream. He dreamed of two wrinkled babies surrounding him and calling him daddy. Han Cheng was surprised and happy.

But then came the shock. Somehow, the two wrinkled dolls began to grow hair all over their bodies, becoming furry and fluffy. Their mouths also became pointed, and the more they looked, the more they looked like oversized chicks.

“Huh~!”

Han Cheng woke up from his dream and confirmed that it was just a dream. His baby would not be born for several months, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The scene in the dream was so scary.

After Han Cheng reached out and quietly touched Bai Xue's body for a while, he couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep again.

“Dad is here!”

"Dad is back again!"

The two chick-like little cubs howled excitedly, then flapped their wings and flew towards the frightened Han Cheng.

Thinking of the feeling of these two chick-like cubs nesting in his arms for milk and pecking at his key parts with their sharp beaks, Han Cheng turned around and ran away.

"Where's Dad?"

"Where's Dad?"

The two chicks were flapping their wings and running behind to catch up.

"I don't have cubs like you, and I don't have milk to feed you..."

Han Cheng turned around and cursed fiercely, running as fast as he could, but in the end he still couldn't run as fast as the one with wings...

“Huh~”

Opening his eyes and feeling everything familiar around him, Han Cheng couldn't help but breathe heavily.

He shuddered when he recalled the scene in his dream.

So cruel!

Fortunately, the chicks don’t drink milk. Otherwise, wouldn’t the old rooster who just became a father be tortured to death by those chicks?

Han Cheng couldn't help but put his hands on his chest and rub it.

He was a little afraid to sleep, worried that he would dream about those two brutal little guys again.

Damn, it's really strange that a dream can be made into a TV series!