Lin Jinyue couldn't stop laughing at her father.
She's still small; she just turned nine and is quite thin.
Her father simply carried her on his shoulders and took her around the farm like he did when she was a child.
Lin Jinyue immediately felt that her vision had improved a lot.
She must grow taller!
Drink more milk!
Lin Jinyue sat on her father's shoulders and saw a vacant lot in the corner, simply fenced off.
It was full of chicks.
It was also because Lin Jinyue acted impulsively that she hatched all the eggs she had been saving up for a long time with a single click.
She thought that with such a large farm, raising a few chicks would be a piece of cake.
But what she didn't expect was that the chicks had a 100% hatching rate, and the time flow inside the space was five times that outside, so the chicks had already grown quite a bit.
It can be used to make young chicken.
Lin Jinyue then thought, "More than two hundred chickens... let's give ten to each household, and say that we bought them with the money we made from the business these past few days."
If we don't deal with this soon, the chickens won't even have a place to put their feet.
She also wanted to quickly process the chickens and plant medicinal herbs on them.
However, fearing a warning from the system, Lin Jinyue went to Shawan County with her father the next day to inquire about the price of chicks.
The profits from selling snails have been quite good these past few days, with a daily income of over ten taels of silver.
She then went to ask about the price of chicks.
I asked at several places, and they quoted about 15 to 20 coins for a chick that had just hatched.
Lin Jinyue thought of the virgin chickens in the space.
The village only had forty taels of silver left. Let's say each young chicken cost thirty coins, so we could buy one hundred and thirty chickens.
After calculating the costs, Lin Jinyue didn't buy chickens, but instead bought a lot of cages.
Made of bamboo strips, Lin Jinyue took out all the chicks after sitting on the boat, worried that there wouldn't be enough.
Lin Jinyue went to her space and stacked more than two hundred chickens in the chicken coop. She only kept a few on the farm, and she still felt it wasn't enough. She wanted to build a large breeding farm. She didn't dare to take the chicks out until she was almost at Yunhe Village.
She was terrified that the chicks wouldn't survive and would die.
When Lin Jinyue and her group returned, they couldn't even lift the more than two hundred young chickens.
She stood by the boat and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Uncle Fugui, Brother Gou Dan! Quickly call someone to help!"
She was genuinely afraid that the chicks inside would suffocate.
But there was no other way to get the chicks over.
Her shout attracted a lot of people from the village.
The villagers were startled when they saw so many chickens.
Lin Youcai was stunned: "Er Ya, where did you get so many chickens?"
Lin Jinyue: "We bought them because they were cheap in town. The money from the village, plus the money from the dairy cows, was basically all used up. We bought some ourselves."
There were seven cages in total. Lin Jinyue took three, and said to Lin Fugui about the remaining four, "Uncle Fugui, the village has forty taels of silver and one hundred and thirty chickens left. You can calculate the cost per person. These two baskets were bought with money from my family."
Lin Fugui was taken aback: "Huh, split it by headcount? No, we can't keep taking advantage like this..."
Lin Jinyue said with a smile, "What's this about taking advantage? From now on, the money in the village's public account will be used to buy things for everyone, such as road repairs and boat building. It's just that it's too far away, so we'll buy some chickens and ducks for now."
Lin Jinyue had a sudden inspiration and said to them, "I'll draw a blueprint. These chickens, first... just put them somewhere, we need to get the chicken coop ready."
Regarding the chicken coop, Lin Jinyue felt it would be best to keep them all together.
This way, all you need to do is collect the chicken droppings at a fixed location every day.
These chicken droppings can also be composted, and there are enough chickens to provide sufficient fertilizer.
With so many chickens, Lin Jinyue wasn't worried about not being able to finish them; she even planned to start a food business in the future.
In that very instant, Lin Jinyue had hundreds of ways to cook chicken in her mind: fried chicken, braised chicken, roast chicken, lemon chicken feet, chicken stew with mushrooms, spicy diced chicken...
Lin Jinyue still felt that there weren't enough chickens.
Lin Jinyue drew up a simple blueprint; she planned to use bamboo to build a simple chicken coop.
The chicken coop wasn't very big, and there were fences separating each family's section. Each family had their own section, and a wooden sign hung at the entrance of each section, indicating whose name it was.
This way, the eggs laid later won't be mixed up.
Lin Jinyue also told them, "These will be your own private property from now on. Those who want to keep them can continue to do so, and those who don't want to can sell them for other jobs."
Everyone is saying they definitely won't sell it and will keep it themselves.
Lin Jinyue just smiled and said that if there were more lucrative jobs in the future, they might not waste their time raising chickens.
Her ideal scenario is that there is a large-scale chicken farmer in the village who can provide her with a continuous supply of chicken meat.
Of course, everyone is still poor now, so it's impossible for them to engage in animal husbandry; they can't even feed themselves.
After Lin Jinyue handed the blueprints to Lin Fugui, the village's strong young men put together a simple chicken coop in just one afternoon.
After thinking about it, Lin Jinyue decided to arrange for someone to clean the chicken coop.
The main task is to sweep the chicken coop every morning and evening and collect the manure for composting.
Compared to tilling the land, this is an easy job, and many people are eager to do it.
A few days later, Lin Jinyue watched the chicks grow up slowly, and the mother hen began to brood.
The entire Yunhe Village appeared thriving.
Everyone often had a smile on their face.
Magistrate Ding arrived at this time as well. Looking at the scene of Yunhe Village, he saw a dramatic change from the simple and impoverished state it had been when he first came here half a month ago.
What were they doing two weeks ago?
They seem to still be arguing with Chen Da and the others about the land issue, and they could be kicked out of Yunhe Village at any time.
Look at them now, they're all ready to settle down here.
Looking at the conspicuous chicken coop, Ding Ruiming couldn't help but ask, "Why did you build the chicken coop like that?"
Lin Jinyue explained: "It's like this, we found that most of the reclaimed land was not suitable for planting, so I thought that using fertilizer to improve the soil could increase the yield of some crops."
Magistrate Ding was astonished, "You know how to make fertilizer?"
Magistrate Ding had only heard that some people in the capital used fertilizer to increase crop yields, but he had never actually seen it.
Lin Jinyue then said, "Yes, I saw it in an agricultural book. Magistrate, please come and see!"
Lin Jinyue took him to the cabbage experimental field. The half of the cabbage that had been fertilized was growing much faster and had more lush leaves than the other half, which looked like it was malnourished.
The contrast is particularly striking when they are placed side by side.
Seeing this comparison, Magistrate Ding felt even more that the fertilizer was miraculous.
He stared intently at Lin Jinyue: "Can you teach me how to make fertilizer? I want to promote fertilizer, so that the food problem in Lingnan can be solved."
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