Ning Xiyue smiled and shouted, "Brother, it's time to eat."
"Here I come."
Ning Qingyuan patted the dust off his hands, filled a basin with water to wash his hands and eat. Sitting at the table, he proudly took credit for it: "Sister, I did a good job, didn't I? Even when the chicken grows up, it shouldn't be able to fly away."
Ning Xiyue scooped a spoonful of egg custard onto the rice, nodded and replied, "Very good, now all we need is something to feed the chickens. I think we can get two rough bowls, one for water and one for food."
Ning Qingyuan handed over his bowl and scooped a spoonful of egg custard, waving his hand and saying, "That's not necessary. I've already asked the team's stonemason to make two small stone troughs. You can put it in there and use it later."
Ning Xiyue was so surprised that she stopped eating her chopsticks. She was very impressed with her second brother: "Oh, second brother, you are so thoughtful. You thought of this and even made the stone trough. Amazing."
Ning Xiyue suddenly became full of confidence when her second brother said that he would take care of the chickens from now on. Just because her second brother was so thorough, she completely believed that he could raise these three chickens to be fat and lay eggs.
"Just wait for the endless eggs in the future. When the chickens are fattened up, you can eat delicious chicken." Ning Qingyuan was not modest at all and said while patting his chest.
"I've been waiting for this. Now let's eat seriously. We'll have some activities after dinner."
The two siblings ate their meal seriously. After the meal, Ning Qingyuan washed the dishes, while Ning Xiyue fed the three chickens with a handful of corn grits for pigs.
The three chicks were still in good spirits. They had been locked up in the small space of the backpack all the way, but they didn't show any sign of wilting at all when they arrived at the new place.
He finished eating the corn grits and drinking the water that Ning Xiyue fed him, then walked back and forth in the fence, occasionally lowering his head to peck at the food, looking for it to eat.
There didn't seem to be any sense of strangeness at all, which made her inexplicably feel that this chicken was easy to raise.
Ning Xiyue was curious and squatted outside the chicken coop for a long time, until Chen Yechu from next door called her. Then she shook her numb legs and limped to the place where the two kitchens were connected.
I pinched my legs and couldn't help but yelled: "Oh, my legs are so numb, they're killing me, hiss-"
"You've been squatting there for so long, you must be numb now." Chen Yetu joked with a smile, then added, "Shall we leave now? I'll go call someone upstairs."
Ning Xiyue agreed without hesitation: "Let's go now. This duck is not that easy to catch. We can have more time if we go earlier."
"Okay, let's go now."
After Chen Yetu finished speaking, he walked towards the Youth League House in front.
Ning Xiyue shook her legs, which were still a little numb, and ran to the kitchen to call her second brother.
......
One o'clock in the afternoon.
By the river, there is a lush and endless reed marsh, and the long leaves sway in the river breeze, making rustling sounds.
In the reed marsh, there was a louder rustling sound, and five heads wearing straw hats popped up.
They were the five people, Ning Xiyue, Ning Qingyuan, Chen Yechu, Liu Yao, and Yu Zhiyu, who had taken their things and sneaked into the lush reed marsh to catch wild ducks while avoiding others.
After wandering around in the reed marsh, the five people met in a place where there were fewer reeds and no water on the ground, all sweating profusely.
Ning Xiyue sat on the ground, took off her hat to fan herself, wiped the sweat off her face, unscrewed the lid of the kettle, drank a big sip of water, then held the kettle without the lid, looked at others and asked.
"How's it going? Any new discoveries? Did you see any wild ducks or duck eggs?"
"I didn't see any big wild ducks, but I did see a few wild duck eggs. However, only one was good. The others were bad." Ning Qingyuan took out a single duck egg and shook it.
"Not bad, I also got a duck egg, which is better than mine. I was unlucky and didn't pick up any."
Liu Yao put down the backpack, spread her hands, shrugged her shoulders with a look of despair, then picked up her water bottle and took a few big gulps to quench her thirst.
"My comrade Liu, I didn't pick up any eggs either. Haha, we are in the same trench." Ning Xiyue held the water bottle and hugged Liu Yao, the little cutie who shared the same plight as her.
Liu Yao pretended to sob and cried a few times: "I finally found the organization."
The show is over, just sit back and listen to what others are saying.
"I found a nest of good duck eggs here, ten in total."
Yu Zhiyu took off the backpack on his back and placed it in the middle, revealing ten duck eggs surrounded by straw in the basket, some of which were white-shelled and the other two were green.
"That's great." The four of them gave thumbs up and praised at the same time.
"I found twenty eggs." Ning Qingyuan took out a few eggs from the basket and looked at Ning Xiyue and Liu Yao, two brothers in distress, and said with a smile: "How about I give five to each of you, so that it won't be zero eggs."
"No, I want to be self-reliant and find eggs by myself. I believe I can find them." Ning Xiyue proudly refused the duck eggs in her second brother's hand. They were just duck eggs. She would have them.
Liu Yao also refused. She was still looking forward to having her backpack filled with duck eggs that she had picked up.
Ning Xiyue looked at the only person who hadn't announced yet: "What did Ye Chu gain?"
Chen Yetu smiled faintly, put down the backpack, reached in with both hands, and took out a little wild duck with its eyes closed and its head dozing off.
She held the wild duck in her hands, her head drooping on her left shoulder. She looked at everyone and snorted helplessly, "Little duck."
This furry little duck was so carefree that it didn't make any sound and continued to sleep soundly.
The four of them looked at the little duck in her hand in silence for three seconds, then chuckled and said in unison, "This is amazing, this is amazing."
"Ye Chu, you are definitely the best!" Ning Xiyue couldn't help laughing anymore after she said that.
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