With the silver in his hand, Zhang discussed with Liu Chengfang to demolish the cowshed in the west and rebuild the wings, and planned to build two south-facing houses.

She had already planned that the two newly built south-facing rooms should not be separated by a wall and used to hatch chickens; The wing on the west side is used to raise chickens.

The craftsman team who built the house was from Ben Zhuangzi, and the team leader was called Liu Chenggui, who was Liu Chengfang's cousin in the next room. The house was completed before the freeze a year ago, and the Zhang family saved one or two hundred eggs, bought some from the Zhuangzi, and gathered five hundred, spread wheat straw on the kang, put the eggs on it, and covered them with quilts.

It is said that it is a kang, but in fact, there is no fire under the kang, but when building a house, the position around the house against the wall is dug into the hollow, and coal is burned from the outside, so that the heating can be poured in by itself.

At this time, even Wang Jing had to admire Zhang's family.

She only said that she could use the kang to hatch chickens, and she could think so long-term.

You must know that there is no thermometer in the era she is in now, and if you really use the kang, the temperature will definitely be very difficult to grasp, and it is possible to bake the eggs, but now it is equivalent to using "heating", and the temperature is relatively much easier to adjust.

In order not to make the Zhang family suspicious, Xiao Tuanzi specially asked Qiao Chaoyang to help, "Cousin, someone helped me inquire about how to hatch chicks with kang." ”

Qiao Chaoyang came to Liu's house for this purpose, "I haven't heard anyone say that chickens are hatched with kang, people say that hens hatch chicks." ”

"Oh, I guess I misheard, but it caused my cousin to run away in vain." Xiao Tuanzi was very shy.

"It's okay, my cousin happens to be tired from studying, and he wants to come out to relax." Qiao Chaoyang said.

"My cousin is about to die, so it's good to relax." Xiao Tuanzi said.

Everyone else persuaded him to work harder, but only this little group knew that he had worked too hard recently, and persuaded him to rest, which shows that the longevity peach in the past few years has not been given away in vain.

"That cousin is gone, I'll come to play with you after the exam." Can't stay too long, or he'll have a opinion.

Xiao Tuanzi sent Qiao Chaoyang away, turned back to Zhang's and said: "My cousin asked someone to inquire, and said that the room should feel a little hot when wearing single clothes, and the eggs should be turned over every six hours, and some water should be sprinkled on them, and after more than ten days, put the eggs in warm water, and those who can't float up are widows, and they can't hatch chicks." If it can float, it is good, and it can be put under the lamp at night, and those with chickens can see it......"

Zhang was very moved, "This cousin of your fifth aunt's family is really a lucky star for our family." As she spoke, she stared at Wang Jing several times, and just when Wang Jing thought that she was revealing her stuff, she smiled again, "I guess I want to take advantage of your luck to win the championship in one fell swoop." ”

Wang Jing was shocked and asked her mother curiously: "Borrow my luck?" ”

"Casually listening to another word or two, I cured those cockfights, and let my mother make money, isn't this lucky? A treasure of money, without that life, you can't get it. Zhang said.

In Zhang's opinion, it is all due to luck that this little girl in his family knows so many things. Because she saved the child in the broken temple, the gods and Buddhas saw her kindness and wanted to repay her. How strong self-confidence it takes!

"Don't all say that good deeds are rewarded." Xiao Tuanzi said with a smile.

These words hit Zhang's mind, and he became a little closer to Xiao Tuanzi in his heart.

Unexpectedly, he was really hit by Zhang's words, Qiao Chaoyang really became famous in one fell swoop this time, and he took the third place in the county exam. He has become a household name in the entire Haozhou Mansion and a young talent known to all children.

Qiao Chaoyang suddenly became someone else's child in the Zhang family, and even the two cousins who usually revolve around Liu Yongan no longer pay attention to him, and focus on Wu Mingzhu, hoping to see Qiao Chaoyang through her relationship.

Liu Chengfang didn't care about this, he only remembered the chicken race on March 3, "Fat is usually very sensible, but somehow, this time he proposed to race chickens with the Zheng family." He said to Zhang.

"Don't you have to compete with Zheng Qingwen once? Isn't that what you want? Zhang glanced at him.

"That was before, Hongguang lost to his family's dark clouds and snow, I'm not convinced." Liu Chengfang said, "His father-in-law used to be the best in Tokyo. ”

The so-called chicken handle style is a person specially invited by rich people to train and raise cockfights.

Liu Chengfang thought that he was also a "veteran" in the cockfighting world, but he wanted to become a fledgling nobody compared with the Zheng family.

"Then you still bet with him!" Zhang said, "For this cockfight, our family's land deed is gone, and the silver is gone." ”

Of course, she didn't say anything about her husband's face, this is not obviously being wronged by others, but I'm afraid that if I don't have to say anything from others, he will be embarrassed in the first place.

"Zheng Qingwen didn't play cockfighting before, his chicken had never fought with others before, and they worked together, my position was higher than him, and I couldn't respond because I was entangled by him. At that time, Pavilion Chief Nie often fought cocks with us people. As soon as I agreed, he said that he would have something exciting, so he took out three hundred taels of silver tickets and said to me, "If you don't want the pavilion chief, you will take a dozen taels of silver to come out." ”

It's all people who run outside, and face matters. The man was so provoked by his subordinates that he didn't gamble all his family money at once. When Zhang heard this, he realized that he had fallen for someone else's agitation.

"Zheng Qingwen is really not a thing! He's obviously stepping on you to make a name for himself! directly gave him his official rut to see if he could make it bad. Zhang said angrily, "Come back and don't say anything, it's okay now, and I have to pay some more on March 3." ”

"Remove him now, people will think that I have a personal vendetta." Liu Chengfang sighed, "His house is close to the Nie family, and the clothes in Nie Tingchang's house have been washed by his daughter-in-law and sister-in-law for thirty-nine days, but Nie Tingchang later promoted me, and his family is not satisfied." ”

The more Liu Chengfang spoke, the more frustrated he became.

Such a faceless thing, he didn't want the Zhang family to know at all, but now Wang Jing has made an appointment for him to fight cocks with the Zheng family, if he loses again, he is afraid that the Zhang family will really make a fortune.

"What then? I heard that many people fought cocks with Zheng Qingwen and lost their money. Zhang frowned.

Xiao Tuanzi took out the book from the bookcase, flipped it to a certain place, and read it to his father: ""The Twenty-fifth Year of Zhao Gong in the Zuo Chuan" cloud: Ji and Yun's cockfighting, Ji's Ji's chicken, and Ji's is the golden distance. ”

This is translated into the vernacular, that is: when Ji Pingzi and Yun Zhaobo were fighting cocks, Ji Pingzi sprinkled mustard on the chicken wings, and Yun Zhaobo put sharp claw sleeves on the chicken feet.

Zhang didn't understand this, but Liu Chengfang knew, and after a pause, he said: "As a father, I always feel that I am not bright enough." ”

Zhang had already guessed that Xiao Tuanzi's words were to remind her father how to win the Zheng family, so he sneered, "Zheng Qingwen is so idle, he has scooped so many people with cockfighting, you are above him, you should have been in charge of him." ”