In order to improve his food, Tang Zhidong not only caught fish, but also often took people to touch snails and hunt voles. The dishes at home are abundant. Su Ying often laughed at Tang Zhidong as a hungry ghost reincarnated, and he had to rob everything he ate.

After feeding the chickens with small grasshoppers for half a month, the effect came out, and the three hens in the family laid an egg almost every day. The chickens of the three little friends Ah Si, Xiao Wu, and Seventh Sister are the same.

Tang Zhidong then told them a big plan, which was the secret of the five of them. Tang Zhidong steals an egg from home every day, Su Ying didn't find out, two eggs a day, she thinks it's normal. Ah Si, Xiao Wu, and Seventh Sister also take an egg out every day. When there were enough eggs for twenty, Tang Zhidong began their operation of artificially incubating chicks. First, I made a small wooden box and added old cotton and rags to the wooden box. Place the eggs in a wooden box.

In order to ensure that the temperature can be maintained at the optimal incubation temperature, 37-38 degrees, it is necessary to find a way to increase the temperature. This also did not bother Tang Zhiqiang, he first roasted some stones with fire, and put the hot stones around the incubator at night.

Ah Si, Xiao Wu, and Seventh Mei, like Tang Zhimei, wanted to open the wooden box every day to see if there were any chicks hatching, but they were stopped by Tang Zhidong, who was very confident in his 'high-tech' method.

On the 24th day, the chicks hatched, and twenty eggs hatched fourteen chicks, and the success rate was relatively high. When Tang Zhidong showed the fourteen chicks to his mother Su Ying in a cardboard box, Su Ying asked Tang Zhidong seriously where he stole the chicks. Tang Zhidong was speechless for a while, Tang Zhimei rushed to tell his mother about their hatching plan, and took Su Ying to see their 'high-tech' incubator, the eggshells left by the hatching, and the six rotten eggs that could not hatch chicks.

Su Ying told Tang Liuhua about Tang Zhiqiang's children artificially hatching chicks that night, and Tang Liuhua asked Tang Zhidong why he thought of hatching chicks in this way. Tang Zhidong excused himself by saying that he heard it while listening to the radio at Uncle Jiu's house. Tang Liuhua didn't ask much. Su Ying discussed with Tang Liuhua whether all the eggs in the family should be hatched in this way. In the end, Tang Liuhua agreed. Of course, the new incubator made by Tang Liuhua is much better than Tang Zhidong's first-generation products.

The task of feeding the chickens was handed over to Tang Zhidong and his sister Tang Zhimei, and there were too many chickens at home, and the little grasshoppers caught by Tang Zhidong and his sister were not enough to eat, so he had to take his sister to dig earthworms and feed the chickens.

Before the start of school, the incubator made by Tang Liuhua hatched the first batch of chicks, and twenty-five chicks hatched from thirty eggs, which was much higher than Tang Zhidong's success rate.

The family couldn't feed so many chickens, so Tang Zhidong asked his mother Su Ying to take the chickens to the town market to sell, and used the money from selling the chickens to buy back a lot of eggs. Then the family is ready to start the new batch of incubation. That night, in order to praise Tang Zhidong's contribution, Su Ying specially fried a few poached eggs, and Tang Zhidong and his sister ate it really deliciously.

In September, the primary school opened, and the primary school in the village was not far from home, and it was only a six- or seven-minute walk. On the first day of school, Tang Zhidong took his sister with him. This is a normal thing in rural primary schools, where half of the more than 20 students in the class go to school with their younger siblings. The teacher doesn't care, if there is a child crying, he will ask the elder brother or sister to take the child out and come back when it is quiet.

In the first grade of primary school, doing homework is not a problem, writing is a problem, and it is a little difficult to ask Tang Zhidong to write the words of a six-year-old child, even if he writes with his left hand. It took several days of trial to determine the right font. This also made Mr. Li, who teaches Chinese, praise Tang Zhidong and say that his writing is very good.

It's really boring for a forty-one-year-old uncle to go to the first grade of elementary school with a group of six or seven-year-old children, and a group of little brothers and little sisters.

Now the work of hatching chicks is all done by Su Ying, and Tang Zhidong and his sister just catch grasshoppers or dig earthworms to feed the chickens every day after school. There are more than 10 big chickens in the family. Su Ying said that when it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, she would kill a chicken and eat it. In previous years, you could only eat chicken during the Chinese New Year.

After the start of school, Tang Zhidong's body is not as thin as it was more than two months ago, and now he has some muscles. In order to have a good body in the future, he will exercise by himself for more than half an hour every day, and his sister Tang Zhimei saw it and exercised with it.

After Ah Si and Xiao Wu's family saw that Tang Zhidong's family began to artificially incubate chicks, their family also began to follow up, and soon the chicks in the town were not easy to sell. After discussing with Su Ying, Tang Liuhua decided to expand the amount and way of raising chickens at home. In the past, the family only kept a maximum of ten chickens, and they were free-range.

Now Tang Liuhua has decided to expand the number of chickens to 50, and to change to captivity. In order to learn how to raise chickens scientifically, Tang Liuhua also bought a book on scientific chicken raising at Xinhua Bookstore, and studied how to prepare chicken feed by himself.

Tang Zhidong can only take his sister to school now, and he can't take care of other things.

After three or four months of research, Tang Liuhua has preliminarily determined the formula of chicken feed, the first batch of more than 40 chickens, only used more than five months, feeding is their own feed, and finally reached the standard of slaughter. The first batch of big chickens was sold and got more than 100 yuan.

Tang Liuhua calculated that after deducting various expenses, the family made a net profit of more than 60 yuan for this batch of chickens. In '84, a primary school teacher's monthly salary was only more than 30 yuan. A batch of chickens is equivalent to two months' salary.

After tasting the sweetness, Tang Liuhua expanded the scale of chicken raising again, and Su Ying's day was even busier, but she was so busy that she felt that life was rushing.

One day when Tang Zhidong saw the stamps on other people's letters, he remembered the legendary zodiac monkey stamps that had risen in value 10,000 times 20 years later. He inquired that a version of the monkey ticket cost more than six yuan, but his father Tang Liuhua was unwilling to give money. Tang Zhidong had no choice but to negotiate with Tang Liuhua, he put forward the method of artificially incubating chicks was his original, and he had to charge royalties, so Tang Zhidong had to charge five yuan for each batch of chickens sold.

In the end, Tang Liuhua was told by Tang Zhidong that he had no choice, so he had to agree to Tang Zhidong's plan. After selling chickens for the first time, Tang Zhidong got five yuan, borrowed two yuan from Tang Liuhua, and immediately went to the post office to buy a version of the monkey ticket. Tang Zhidong put away the stamps very carefully, this thing is worth more than one million in 30 years, and a version of the monkey stamp can be exchanged for a house. In the next few months, Tang Zhidong would buy a version of the monkey ticket every time he had enough money, until he couldn't buy it. In the end, Tang Zhidong had a total of eleven versions of monkey tickets in his hands. That's a lot of money.

Tang Zhimei didn't understand her brother buying stamps, what was the good of spending so much money to buy things that could only be seen. Tang Zhimei helped feed the chickens, she also began to receive wages from her father, she got two yuan for each column of chickens, she took one yuan out to buy various snacks each time, and saved the other yuan.

The family's money is relaxed, and the food has begun to make great progress, in addition to eggs often eaten, there is also chicken to eat from time to time. This is how happy it is for Tang Zhidong and his sister Tang Zhimei, who are growing up.

Tang Zhidong was only 1.66 meters tall when he became an adult in his previous life, and this time, he felt that he should be at least 1.7 meters tall when he became an adult. With nutrition, he can exercise with confidence. I lifted bricks fifty times a day, made a small sandbag by myself, hung it up, and beat sandbags a hundred times a day. Ah Si and Xiao Wu saw it and practiced along.

A year later, Su Ying's younger brother Tang Zhi'an, who was on his back, was running around on the ground in a blink of an eye. Tang Zhian went to work with his mother during the day and slept with Tang Zhidong at night. Tang Zhidong has the feeling of raising a child by himself again. Every night, Tang Zhidong would tell his sister and brother about nature, and then tell a little story. Tang Zhidong's image in the hearts of his sister and younger brother became tall for a while, and his intimacy surpassed that of his father and mother.

After more than a year of development, the family's chicken business has developed steadily, raising three batches of four months each year, and raising 200 chickens in each batch. The income of raising chickens is several times higher than Tang Liuhua's salary as a teacher, but Tang Liuhua still insists on teaching and does not transfer to professional chicken raising.

In the village, seeing that Tang Liuhua's family made money raising chickens, everyone also followed the chickens to sell.

Tang Zhidong thought that after two years, there would be more people raising chickens in and around the village, and his family would be able to do a feed business. In the southwestern SC province, the future richest man who raised quails also started his career as a feed king.

Tang Zhidong doesn't want to be the richest man, but at least he wants to be a little rich.