Chapter 21 The Chicken Laid an Egg
Ye Li no longer felt the tension of pregnancy, and now only felt the tension of childbirth.
Although she is only six months pregnant, Ye Li has already torn the book about childbirth into pieces.
I heard that giving birth is very painful, the kind that can make one faint. That's the end of it. If she faints, won't she bleed to death and die with the baby?
Such worries continued until winter came and snow fell in the city.
Ye Li built a snow-proof roof and a warm chicken coop for the chickens, and also built a greenhouse for his vegetable garden so that the vegetables in the garden could continue to grow.
Roughly speaking, it’s almost Chinese New Year.
According to Ye Liji's records, she has been here for more than eight months.
Looking out the window, the whole city was covered with snow. Only the sounds of wind and rain could be heard in the city, and no one had ever entered the city.
The zombies have disappeared as well. I don’t know where they went to spend the winter. I wonder if they can still feel the cold?
Ye Li wrapped the blanket tightly around him, but still felt cold, so he used the wood he had chopped from the broken table to light the brazier. After the fire started and he roasted himself for a while, he felt his body gradually warming up.
There is underfloor heating in the safe house, but it has been in disrepair for a long time and is no longer used.
Ye Li leaned on the sofa, flipping through a book about childbirth. The firewood was burning brightly, and from time to time there was a crackling sound of firecrackers. Suddenly she felt a little hungry, so she got up and went to the storage room to get two sweet potatoes, and buried them in the iron basin by the fire to simmer. Then she felt that the surroundings were too quiet, so she turned on the old computer and played cartoons. Finally, there was some sound around her.
Of course, every time she played the sound of cartoons, she didn't dare to turn it up too loud; a little bit was enough.
After the sweet potatoes were roasted, Ye Li heated up the soy milk he had squeezed in the morning. While drinking the soy milk and eating the roasted sweet potatoes, the cold and loneliness of winter gradually disappeared from his heart.
The ice and snow melt, winter goes and spring comes.
The wheat planted in the fields by Ye Li began to sprout and grow.
The rest of the fields that were not planted with crops also grew tender green grass. When spring came, wild flowers bloomed in the fields.
But in the blink of an eye, Ye Li's balcony was covered with greenery, and it was full of vitality everywhere.
"Cluck, cluck..." The chickens on the balcony began to crow, and their calls were very loud.
Ye Li supported her big belly with her hands and slowly walked out to the balcony. She smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, just a few shouts are enough. If you keep shouting, you'll attract the zombies."
"Cluck, cluck!" The hen crowed twice obediently, then flapped its wings and jumped into the field to catch insects to eat.
Ye Li smiled and shook her head. She was about to turn around and go back when she suddenly caught a glimpse of something unusual. She walked over in surprise and reached out to take the thing out of the haystack in the chicken coop. It turned out to be an egg!
The hens she raised started hatching eggs!
It was freshly harvested and is still hot in my hand.
"That's great!" The chickens she raised finally started laying eggs, and her miserable life as a pregnant woman could finally improve a little.
Ye Li took the eggs and put them in a basket, planning to wait until there were a few more eggs before boiling one to eat.
Supplies were scarce, and she was reluctant to eat the only egg.
The next morning, another hen also laid an egg. In the evening, the hen that had laid an egg before also laid an egg.
In the following days, Ye Li would pick up two eggs from the chicken coop every day. Sometimes the hen was very helpful and would lay two eggs at a time, so Ye Li would sometimes get three or four eggs.
As the days passed, her basket of eggs gradually became fuller.
(End of this chapter)
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