Each family could raise a maximum of five chickens, and each educated youth could raise two. Apart from being simple, they were all people who lived their lives and didn't miss the opportunity. Just then, new educated youth arrived, and the four old educated youth discussed it and decided that they could raise all of their chickens together. They asked Liu Guangming to make a long chicken coop, and to avoid being disturbed by the elusive little animals at night, they specially made it so that a section of the legs was not close to the ground.
Four people and eight chicks, which have grown to about half-grown, are not crowded. The group divides the work: the female educated youth feeds the chickens, and Chen Jianguo is in charge of cleaning, so it is quite clean.
The new educated youth were not to be outdone. Except for Lin Dongfang, each of them brought back two. None of them had ever done any manual labor, so they didn't know how to do this. They learned from the old educated youth and made cages.
However, they didn't know anything about it. The older educated youth fed them, and they fed them without much care. They staggered around, and in such a short time, only two of the ten chicks remained, and they were so thin and skinny. Judging from their appearance, they would have to be patient and wait a long time to get an egg.
When Li Yan talked about the chickens she raised herself, she couldn't stop smiling.
"Jian Zhiqing, our chicks are growing so fast, I reckon they'll be laying eggs soon."
At this point, the question of whether to eat or sell the eggs no longer matters. After all, the saying "the bank is under the chicken's butt" has been around for many years, and almost every family has done it this way, so no one thinks it's wrong.
"Really? Then you'd better feed them well, and try to eat eggs from the animals you raised yourself during the New Year."
Lin Zhaodi and Tan Yajun were speechless. Ever since they raised the chicks, Li Yan had been showing them off quite a bit. However, their chicks were indeed quite good-looking. Not only had they all survived, but they were also much fatter than the two chicks raised by the new educated youth.
They were caught almost at the same time, so they were on a similar starting line, which means they weren't fed properly.
Li Yan, Lin Zhaodi, Tan Yajun, Chen Jianguo, and Lin Dongfang, who just joined today, plus Jian Dan, make up the six of them. The meat that Lin Dongfang brought over was made into braised pork, but a lot of potatoes were added to it.
I simply grabbed some eggs and fried them, adding two scallion segments for extra flavor.
In addition, the eggplants, cucumbers, and peppers from Li Yan's garden were all harvested, which also made up a table full of them.
Jian Dan didn't comment on Lin Dongfang's joining, since she didn't live here and wouldn't be eating with them. After finishing her meal, she told Li Yan and the others, then strolled back, secretly thinking to herself that there were more male educated youths here, and she would have to be more careful next time she came.
At the doorstep, Tiger and his group of children suddenly ran off in one direction. I briefly called out to Tiger to stop them.
Where did you all go for fun? Have you eaten yet?
There were about twelve or thirteen children in the group. She glanced at them and recognized only one, Heidan. Some of the others looked familiar, but she couldn't place them.
"Sister Jane, let's go play by the river."
Simple frowned. Yes, at this time, every family's policy towards their children is to let them grow up freely, and they pay even less attention to safety. I seem to have heard someone say that several people drown in the village every year.
Moreover, the saddest thing is that most of them can swim.
The saying that those who drown are usually good swimmers isn't entirely unfounded.
Seeing Jian Dan frown, Xiao Hu couldn't help but scratch his head.
"Sister Jian, what's wrong?"
Do you often go to play by the river?
A group of children nodded haphazardly.
"It's cooler by the river,"
"You can even catch small fish,"
Tiger also said,
"Sister Jane, let's go play by the river for a while, take a bath, and then go home."
"bath?"
A simple scream—don't blame her for being ignorant. More than ten children with an average age of less than seven years old went to the river to bathe together. These parents are really a bit too careless, aren't they?
Seeing Jian Dan's increasingly dark complexion, Hu Zi also felt a little scared.
"Sister Jian, what's wrong? Can't we go swimming in the river?"
Even other parents didn't take it seriously, and Jian Dan didn't know how to talk to them about the dangers of playing in the water. She forced a smile, a half-smile on her face.
"I don't like kids who go to play in the water by themselves without adults."
This put Tiger in a dilemma.
He naturally didn't want Sister Jian to dislike him. He liked Sister Jian; she spoke to him gently and always gave him delicious food.
But looking back at the group of underlings behind him, he was torn between two options: go or not go?
If other children had said those words, they wouldn't have cared at all. But they all knew that Sister Jane was willing to share her treats with them and even gave them candy. In their hearts, she was still the kind person she was talking about.
Before he could make up his mind, the black egg inside popped out, looking quite pleased with itself.
"Sister Jian, I don't want to go. Grandpa and Grandma won't let me go. They say the flood will eat the children."
The children started discussing it first.
"My grandma also said that the water would pull the child down,"
"My grandma said there are water ghosts in the water who like children,"
"Huh? Then I can't go home?"
Black Egg nodded vigorously.
"Yes, yes, you dragged me away and didn't even give me any food."
Some children were eager to go and play, but they didn't believe it.
"Then we've played this game so many times and nothing's happened, it's all a lie."
Black Egg bared its little teeth.
"No, someone was dragged away last year."
"Is he Erdan's second uncle?"
Jian Dan looked completely bewildered, genuinely surprised that Hei Dan had single-handedly turned Hu Zi's underlings against him.
Immediately, some of the children remembered.
"Ugh, I'm not going! I want to go home!"
“I want to go home too. I’m never going back. I don’t want to be dragged away.”
One child wanted to go home, and this emotion was contagious. In less than half a minute, only Tiger and Blackie were left out of more than ten children. Some of them left crying. Jian Dan felt that the village chief might come looking for her soon, so she couldn't let these two little witnesses go.
Reach out and open the door.
"Come in, I have a puppy, would you like to take a look?"
Boys are powerless against this, and before they could even say no, they went into the hospital with him.
The two children immediately exclaimed in amazement.
"Several puppies?"
Blackie is still too young to count, but Tiger has picked up a few from the old folks and is acting like a little adult, counting with his fingers.
"One, two, three, four, four puppies, right, Sister Jane?"
With a simple, smiling expression, Black Egg immediately became very adoring.
"Uncle Tiger, you're amazing!"
Third Master Liu is a generation older than Liu Weimin, so his grandson is naturally a generation older than Liu Weimin's grandson. It's only right that Heidan calls him "Uncle." Even Liu Jianshe would have to respectfully call Liu Guangming "Uncle."
Tiger stood with his hands behind his back, a happy look on his face.
"Come, sit here."
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