Previously, Fan's mother wanted to exchange for a baby rabbit that was just a month old and could eat grass, and Shuiqing agreed.
A mother hen was traded for many baby rabbits, and Fan's mother was extremely proud, carrying the baby rabbits home.
Then they discovered they were all male rabbits!
She was so angry that she went to the old village chief to seek justice, but the old village chief scolded her severely and repeated that she was not allowed to send rabbits to her family!
Whoever violates the village rules shall go back to their parents' home and stay there.
This was a matter for everyone in the village, and everyone agreed to it. Everyone supervised each other, and even Fan's mother didn't dare to say anything.
Sun Jinhua suffered a terrible fate. She didn't get any good treatment from her husband's family, her own family failed to keep their promises, and she even lost a chicken, getting herself into a mess for no reason.
There was no point in raising only male rabbits, so Fan's mother had no choice but to send them back and wait patiently for them to be ready for market before exchanging them.
The villagers of Shanshui Village had previously seen Fan's mother go to exchange the baby rabbits, and they thought that since she was her own mother, it was understandable that she would take advantage of the situation by exchanging the baby rabbits that had come out of their nests.
So he didn't have any ulterior motives.
When Fan's mother returned with several male rabbits, she was scolded by the old village chief. The villagers were struggling to suppress their laughter!
At the same time, I'm glad that I didn't have any bad thoughts.
And so everyone waited and waited, until March.
By March, Shuiqing's rabbit population had grown quite impressive.
And it's growing at an astonishing rate!
It has to be said that rabbits reproduce too quickly. They can have another litter in just two months after giving birth, and each litter can have several or even more than a dozen offspring.
Shuiqing bought meat rabbits from the mall; there were more females than males, and it had been almost four months since the first batch was born.
The heaviest of these first batch of rabbits has grown to six pounds, and the lightest to four pounds. In another two months, these rabbits will be able to continue to reproduce.
Villagers from Shanshui Village brought their own old hens one after another to exchange them.
Aunt Li pulled Shuiqing aside, a little embarrassed, and said, "Shuiqing, I didn't bring many hens, only five. Could you weigh them and tell me how many pounds they are?"
"Could you please give me a four-pound one?"
Those with smaller weights can exchange for more.
An old hen weighs only two or three pounds. She picks the bigger ones from her house and catches five of them, which weigh at most fifteen pounds. She can exchange them for rabbits that weigh four pounds each, which will increase the number of rabbits and make them breed faster.
But she also knew, and she knew, that the other villagers knew as well, that if everyone did this, it would be very difficult for Shuiqing to do her job.
Shui Qing asked with a smile, "Is it because Sister-in-law Dayan is pregnant again and wants to keep more hens to lay eggs to nourish her body?"
Feng Dayan is Li Da Niang's eldest daughter-in-law. This is not her first pregnancy, but no matter which of her three daughters-in-law is pregnant and gives birth, Li Da Niang will try her best to feed them well to nourish their bodies.
“There’s nothing good at home. They’ve suffered a lot since they married into the family. They’re pregnant and already have poor health and no appetite. If they don’t eat something good, they might have a hard time giving birth.”
"So I'm thinking of raising a few more rabbits. The old hen at home is also incubating eggs. If we can get through this period, things will get better later," Aunt Li sighed.
Shuiqing really likes Aunt Li, her mother-in-law.
She didn't say that her daughter-in-law was precious because she was pregnant, nor did she say that her daughter-in-law was greedy. Instead, she said that her family was not good enough to give them.
They also thought that with limited material resources, they could scrape together what they could to make life a little better.
“Okay, by the way, if we have a lot of roosters, we can use them to trade, just like with hens. We don’t necessarily have to have all hens.” Shui Qing agreed readily, adding a note at the same time.
There are many people coming to exchange them, and it's impossible for each family to keep only one without eating it.
Since there's something to eat, roosters and hens are pretty much the same.
The villagers' hens can still be kept to lay eggs.
Upon hearing this, Aunt Li was delighted and couldn't help but ask for confirmation, "A rooster is fine too? But...but a rooster isn't as expensive as a hen."
What she didn't finish saying was, "Wouldn't that be even more of a loss?"
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