"Wow! Mom! Big brother! You're both amazing! You caught three chickens and even brought the house back with them!"
Lin Chaobei touched the three chickens, then the chicken coop and the eggs inside, and kept swallowing his saliva frantically.
"Mom, brother, should we sell these chickens and eggs? Let's go to town and sell them before it gets dark. I guarantee we'll get a good price!"
Lin Chaonan's first reaction was the same as Lin Chaodong's: he wanted to sell it for money.
Upon hearing this, Lin Chaodong refused:
“Our mother said that these eggs are for hatching chicks, and the chickens are for laying eggs and hatching chicks. They’re not for sale.”
Yue Jiuyue: ...
These words don't seem to be what she said, do they?
"Wow! Then we'll have countless chickens and eggs at home!"
Upon hearing Lin Chaodong's words, Lin Chaobei stopped swallowing and his eyes gleamed, looking as if he was about to strike it rich.
"Dad, chicken, egg."
Hearing what the adults were saying, Xiaoman became even more anxious. She tried to climb up her father's leg, but she remained rooted to the spot.
"Xiaoman, be good and go find your mother."
Lin Chaodong patted Xiaoman's head and gently pushed her.
Seeing that her father ignored her, Xiaoman went to tug at her third uncle, Lin Chaonan.
"Big, chicken, egg."
Lin Chaonan looked down and saw Xiaoman standing at his feet, her big eyes curiously staring at the chickens they were carrying and the chicken coop they were holding. He put the chickens down, bent down and picked up Xiaoman.
"Come on, Xiaoman, take a look at the chickens and eggs. Once these eggs hatch into chicks, our Xiaoman will have an endless supply of eggs to eat!"
None of them objected to these words.
Although, this seems unlikely to come true.
How could we possibly not be able to finish all the eggs? Even if we couldn't finish them, we could sell them. Who would be willing to eat all their eggs? They all save them to exchange for small items like needles and thread.
"Mom, our rabbit's belly seems a little swollen. Can you come and take a look? Is she pregnant?"
Perhaps because she had given birth before, even though it was her first time raising rabbits, Ms. Liu was able to tell whether a rabbit was pregnant or not.
To be honest, Yue Jiuyue really didn't understand this matter.
"Maybe, I've never raised rabbits before, so I don't really know. Just keep a close eye on it during this time. They say rabbits can give birth every month, so feed it good food during this period. If it's not good enough, add some of the food you bought to its diet."
When Yue Jiuyue was a child, she heard some rhymes about animal reproduction, something like "dogs give birth every three months, cats every four months, pigs every five months, sheep every six months, and rabbits every month." It's been so long that she can't remember them very clearly anymore.
Such a small rabbit, yet it has to give birth to several baby rabbits in a month. Yue Jiuyue was simply worried that the mother rabbit wouldn't get enough nutrition; she really didn't know anything about raising small animals.
Although she lived at her maternal grandmother's house when she was a child, apart from working in the fields and doing housework during the busy farming season, she never actually touched or paid attention to the work of raising chickens, sheep, or rabbits.
At that time, her grandmother was most concerned about her grades. In order not to be scolded during the two days of the New Year, she studied very hard.
"Mom, I'll be careful."
Lady Liu agreed.
Although Liu felt heartbroken that the rabbits were eating food that even people wouldn't eat, she thought that once the rabbits had babies, they could be sold for money, and the money from the sales would definitely be more than what was needed to feed them, so she was willing to give it up.
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