Chapter 260 Teaching Methods of Artificially Raising Chickens
After Yike agreed to teach the team leader's wife and the women's director how to hatch chicks, she told them to go back and prepare all the tools needed to hatch chicks. She would go to teach them at noon the next day and also teach them how to distinguish which eggs are fertilized eggs.
"Director." Yike just opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by the director of women's affairs.
“Just call me aunt, don’t call me director.” said the women’s director.
"Okay, then I'll call you Aunt Xiuyun. But you two aunts can just call me by my name from now on."
"Okay, Yike, your name is pretty nice."
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The two aunts chatted for about half an hour and then got up to say goodbye.
"Aunt, these dried mushrooms are picked from the mountains. You can take them back and eat them."
Yi Ke gave the team leader's wife and the women's director a small bag of mushrooms, about one pound in weight.
"How can this be? You keep it for yourself, but you can teach us such an important method and not charge us for it. How can we be so shameless as to accept your things? If we do that, who would we be? Take it back now." The women's director refused.
"Yes, yes, we can't take it. When the chickens grow up, I'll treat you to chicken meat. You really don't have to give this to me." The captain's wife also refused.
The two aunts refused to accept the gifts no matter what, so Yi Ke had no choice but to take them back and send them to the door.
"Just now Yi Ke asked us to ask Xiuying if she wants to learn. What do you think?"
When the women's director and the captain's wife saw that they were far away from Yike's home, they started a discussion.
"Of course we asked. Yike was willing to teach us without reservation, and we were selfish enough not to ask for help. Xiuying is really lucky to have Yike's recognition. Our lives will only get better and better in the future."
"Yes, haven't you seen that her family is living a much better life this year? I heard that she helped the Yike family raise cattle and got a lot of benefits."
"Yes, my child saw several children from her family eating meat buns. They said they were given to them by the owner. My child was so greedy that he came home crying and making a fuss to eat some. In the end, he stopped making a fuss after eating a meal of bamboo shoots fried with meat from his father."
The two of them walked and chatted as they went to find Zhang Xiuying. Zhang Xiuying was still sewing shoe soles under the kerosene lamp, unaware that a surprise was about to hit her...
The weather in June is like a baby's face, changing at any time. I have always heard people make such analogies in the past, and today I have witnessed how quickly this baby face can change.
At noon, Yike was going to the captain's house. She had made an appointment with the captain's wife and the women's director last night.
When she left home, the sky was still blue, with white clouds, and the sun was high in the sky, looking down proudly at the earth.
Yike had only been out for a few minutes when his baby face suddenly turned hostile.
It had a dark face and waved its hands to call upon the God and Goddess of Thunder. Rumbling thunder exploded right above Yi Ke's head.
The God of Wind and the God of Rain also came to show off their power. Even though Yi Ke let go of his hands, took big strides, and ran at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, he was still drenched in cold cold when he rushed into the captain's house.
When Yi Ke came out wearing the clothes of the captain's daughter-in-law, the baby-faced face changed again. It showed a victorious smile and looked very proud.
Yike snorted angrily: "This damn weather is so stupid, it rains without any warning."
The captain's wife said: "This is how the weather is in June. It changes suddenly. Sometimes you see heavy rain next door, but here it's just a little rain, or even sunny."
"Yike, have you eaten? If not, eat here." The captain's wife said enthusiastically.
"I have eaten. Auntie, haven't you eaten yet?"
"I ate too. Your uncle Wang went to the commune for a meeting, so we just ate a little."
"Aunt, you can't just do whatever you want when Uncle Wang is not at home. Your health is also important. Your health is the capital of the revolution. You can't do the work without your health."
"The body is the capital of revolution, this saying is right," the women's director and Zhang Xiuying heard Yi Ke's words as soon as they entered the room.
"Aunt, Aunt Xiuying."
"Yike, I'll call you Yike too. Thank you for asking the director and aunt to tell me that if I learn how to artificially raise chicks, this hen can lay many more eggs a year. Thank you, Yike, you've shown us another way to make money."
"Haha, from now on our Chicken Butt Bank will be open every day." The women's director also said with a smile.
"Aunt, you have to go to work in the afternoon, so we won't waste your time. Take out the eggs, and I will teach you how to identify breeding eggs first." Yi Ke didn't chat with them anymore and hurried to do his business.
The captain's daughter-in-law hurried into the house and took out a basket of eggs.
Yi Ke taught them one by one, how to point the eggs towards the light? How to tell whether it is a breeding egg? (Seed eggs are fertilized eggs.) It was not until the four people present: the team leader's wife, her eldest daughter-in-law Liu Xiaoxiao, the women's director and Zhang Xiu were able to identify them that they were taught how to keep them warm. How to turn over eggs and other methods.
After putting all the eggs from the team leader's house into the incubator, Yike went to the women's director's house and Zhang Xiuying's house, and personally watched them practice the methods they had learned, and corrected any mistakes immediately.
The eggs from the three families were put into incubators to begin hatching, and each of them showed an expectant look.
"I will come every day to check whether you are doing it right. If you can't remember, review it twice in your mind." Yike gave them a reassurance before leaving.
In the evening, the team leader's wife, the women's director and Zhang Xiuying all came to Yike's house, along with the team leader's eldest daughter-in-law Liu Xiaoxiao.
Yike took them to a tree behind the house. Yike had already dug a hole under the tree. Yike poured the earthworms he had dug in the afternoon into the hole, and then poured in a mixture of fermented cow dung and dead leaves and soil.
"That's it. The main thing is to water it every day and keep the soil moist, just like it is now. After a while you can add another layer of soil like this." Yi Ke explained simply.
"Can any soil be used?" asked Liu Xiaoxiao, the captain's daughter-in-law.
"No, it has to be this kind of nutritious soil."
"Where can we find this kind of soil? The soil here is very poor."
"Didn't you see just now? Cow dung, pig dung, or other feces, rotten vegetable leaves, dead leaves, or straw are added to the soil. Mix them together, add the right amount of water to ferment, and slowly the soil will become fertile soil."
"Is it that simple? Then we can ferment it in the vegetable garden and use this soil to grow vegetables. It will not only produce vegetables but also fertilizer."
"Yes, this kind of soil is no longer called soil, it's called organic fertilizer, a kind of fertilizer, better than the chemical fertilizer you buy."
"It's prosperous, it's prosperous. If our team also uses this kind of fertilizer, the crops will have a high yield."
"Yes, you are right, but your captain may not believe it. Let's make it first to avoid any gossip."
Yi Ke reminded them of some important matters, and after they learned how to do it, they returned to their own homes to do it...
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