Gu Changning moved swiftly to fry the vegetables, and when she heard the "sizzling" sound made by the dish touching the oil in the pot, she felt a little hungry, and even more neatly stir-fried the vegetables, added salt, and then beat them out and put them away, and then removed the small iron pot, put the soup pot she cooked chicken bone broth yesterday on the small stove, and used the little sparks left over from the stir-fry and the residual heat of the stove to simmer the pot of chicken soup, and then brought the prepared meals to the main hall of the South House again and again, and went to call A-Niang out to eat.

"Ning Ning's cooking skills are getting better and better, this dish is fried in a good way, and you know that it must be delicious at a glance." Yang Huiyun walked to the main hall, saw the food on the table, and smiled at Gu Changning and praised it, his smile was full of praise.

"That's it, A-Niang doesn't look at who I am!" Gu Changning said proudly, "It's rare to be as smart, clever and hardworking and capable as me, it will never be wrong for A-Niang to hand over the stove to me to take care of, and my cooking skills will be better!" Maybe when A-Niang gives birth to her younger brother, my cooking skills will be comparable to the chefs in the restaurants in the town! ”

"Okay, then A-Niang is waiting to look forward to Ning Ning's cooking." Yang Huiyun looked at her proud daughter and couldn't help but smile.

"Hmm!"

"By the way, A-Niang, Xing'er has just sent eggs that can hatch chicks, what are we going to do?" Gu Changning had just picked up the rice bowl and was about to take a bite when he suddenly remembered this stubble and asked.

"Don't be in a hurry for this matter first, the sun is big, the heat is heavy, and I'll teach you how to do it when the mountain sets."

"Okay."

Gu Changning has never done this thing to let the hens at home hatch eggs, and it is also because the original place in the house is small, just the place in the front yard, on weekdays, you have to dry things and clothes, and you have to open up a vegetable garden, there is not enough space, and you can't raise chickens at all, Yang Huiyun only opened a small place in the corner, and it was good to raise two hens to lay eggs.

When building a new house last year, Gu Shan bought a large piece of wasteland full of stones at the back of the house, made it into a backyard, and moved the vegetable garden and chicken coop to the backyard, so that the front yard area was more spacious.

The backyard area is spacious, and Yang Huiyun wants to catch a few more chicks to come back to raise, so the chicken coop is several times larger than the original, and the ventilation is smoother than the original, everything is ready, just wait for a few chickens to go in.

As a result, before the chickens were caught, she was checked out of the happy pulse, and the matter of raising a few chicks was temporarily put aside, and the fetus was firmly seated at home first.

Later, when the news of Gu Shan's death came back, the matter was over.

At this time, Yang Huiyun heard Gu Changning mention it, remembered her original plan, and thought of taking this opportunity to teach her daughter how to raise chickens.

After all, if a farmer doesn't raise one or two hens to lay eggs, some common sense of raising chickens should still be taught.

So after the meal, Yang Huiyun taught Gu Changning to clean the chicken coop, clean the grooves for feeding and watering, and put them in a darker corner, and then moved the straw nest needed for hatching eggs to near the grooves, avoiding bright places.

When the sun was about to start setting in Shenshi, she put the nest of eggs sent by Xing'er and the four eggs laid by Dahua Xiaohua in the past few days, and she held Xiaohua and gently put it on the egg, and then stood aside to watch its movements.

After the little flower was put into the dry straw nest, she shook her wings, put the eggs under her one by one under her wings, gently covered them with her body, and then put away her wings and squatted steadily above the nest of eggs.

Gu Changning looked at it for a long time, and indeed did not find any trace of an egg on its side.

"Okay, then it's time for Xiaohua to hatch the eggs, during this time, you just need to add water and chicken food to it on time, and don't worry about anything else." Yang Huiyun said.

"Is that all right?" Gu Changning was very surprised, "Don't you need me to turn the egg or something?" ”

"No, Xiaohua will turn the eggs over by herself, and when it comes to hatching eggs, it is more than what you can do." Yang Huiyun smiled and teased her daughter.

"That's just as well." Gu Changning quickly accepted this statement, nodded, and said again, "Then how long does it take to hatch chicks?" ”

"About twenty days is fine, and if it is faster, it may not take twenty days, not necessarily."

Gu Changning let out an "oh", and suddenly remembered something, twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Then what if some chicks come out early, and some chicks come out late?" Will the floret leave the chicks out of the hatch and ignore the rest of the chicken? ”

"No, the hens don't come out until all the eggs have hatched." Yang Huiyun looked at the little flower that was quietly hatching eggs and said.

"But...... Isn't it said that some eggs can't hatch chicks? If it can't hatch all the time, the floret will sit all the time? Gu Changning was still a little puzzled.

"Why do you always have so many strange questions?" Yang Huiyun stretched out her slender finger and pointed at her daughter's forehead, "There is time for the hen to hold the nest, if the chick has not hatched after this time, it will not hold the nest." ”

"That's it......" Gu Changning finally figured everything out, so he didn't continue to ask.

Seeing that it was still early, she said to Yang Huiyun and prepared to go to the forest near the village to cut some thatch and come back.

The thatch, dried leaves, etc., which were used to light the fire at home, were almost all used, and she had to go and collect some more.

As soon as Gu Changning took the sack and walked out of the house, she saw Gu Huai'an's figure appear on the village road, and she was shocked to realize that her brother came back much later today than before, and it was a full hour later than the time when the school ended.

"Ning Ning, it's you." Gu Huai'an was in a hurry to come back, and when he was about to arrive at the door, he raised his head and took a look, and at this glance, he saw Gu Changning, was stunned for a moment, and said.

"Well, brother, why did you come back so late today?" It's half an hour later than yesterday.

Gu Changning frowned and looked at him.

"Oh, the master had something to do in the afternoon and kept me, so I came back late, is A-Niang worried?" Gu Huai'an explained briefly and changed the topic.

"In the afternoon, I was tidying up the chicken coop with A-Niang, and I was busy until this time before I rested, and A-Niang didn't find out that you didn't come back." Gu Changning said honestly.

"Chicken coop?" Gu Huai'an was slightly surprised, "What do you do with a good chicken coop?" ”

"I forgot to tell my brother, yesterday I went to Aunt Chunhua, bought a nest of eggs with her, and brought it back to hatch a few chicks by ourselves, and today at noon, Xing'er brought the eggs, so I was cleaning the chicken coop all afternoon." Gu Changning thought of this and never told his brother about it, so he hurriedly explained to him.

"So that's the case, it's good to ...... like this" Gu Huai'an hadn't thought of this stubble before, but now he heard what Gu Changning said, and he also felt that his chicken coop was too big, and it was a pity not to raise something.

"And where are you going?" Gu Huai'an swept his eyes casually, and found that his sister was carrying a burlap bag in her hand and was about to go out, so she asked unconsciously.

"I'm running out of things to start the fire, so I'll go and pick up some in the woods."

"Then you wait for me, I'll go with you." Gu Huai'an said that he was about to walk to his study and hurriedly put down the things on his body.

Gu Changning leaned against the door and waited for his brother to come out, and did not stop his proposal.

Although she also hopes that her brother can copy more books to supplement the family, but she also does not want her brother to put all his mind on copying books, these days she saw her brother copying books day and night, and never stopped writing until the last moment, afraid that he would burn his body, and now he took the initiative to accompany him to pick up the materials used to start the fire, so he simply nodded and agreed.

Anyway, it doesn't take much effort to pick these up, and it's almost time to cook, so two people can shorten the time and come back early to cook.

Gu Huai'an quickly came out of the room, picked up a backpack from the wall, and went to the forest with Gu Changning.

Xinghua Village is not big or small, there are about one or two hundred households, surrounded by mountains and forests, no matter which direction of the village you go out of the village, you can have a dense forest.

Gu Changning's family lived near the west side of Xinghua Village, and it was natural that they were going to the west forest closest to them by cutting thatch and picking up dried leaves.

As soon as the brother and sister entered the forest, they began to work hard, they divided labor and cooperated, and each arranged their own work, Gu Changning because he was small and had little strength, Gu Huai'an asked her to find some dead leaves and knuckle-thin dead branches on the ground, and he cut the thatch and put it in a basket to load, and when he brought it back, he could tie it into a bundle and put it in the yard to dry.

These are needed because the preserved fire needs to be used to ignite the acquisition fire.

The fire is charcoal burned out of wood, and the surface of the charcoal is covered with ash, which can be kept for a day or two.

When you need to use it, remove the ash from your face, cover the dried weeds or dead leaves on the tinder, blow it with a blow torch, and the weeds and dead leaves will soon be ignited by the residual heat of the charcoal, and then put in the shortened small dead branches, and the fire can be burned.

Because it is impossible for a farmer to burn wood all the time, the materials used to start the fire are indispensable.

Gu Changning and Gu Huai quietly collected the materials they were responsible for, maybe it was quiet, Gu Changning couldn't help but talk while picking up the dead branches, "Brother, why do you seem to be a little late when you come back these days?" Is there something going on in the Academy? ”

Gu Huai'an bent down to cut the thatch for a moment, and then said casually: "It's nothing, it's just that the new master requires more texts to be memorized every day, so I will stay in the school and read it a few more times, and then come back when I am familiar with it." ”

"Oh, that's right." Gu Changning did not doubt him.

Of course, she didn't put the cart before the horse and forgot that her brother should focus on the schoolwork, and now that she heard him say this, she nodded with a little relief.

It's good that my brother has this momentum, as long as he has this momentum, it will be a matter of time before he is admitted to the show, and she has this confidence in her brother!

Gu Huai'an glanced at his sister, who was unnoticed, sighed silently in his heart, and continued the movements in his hand.

Ah Niang and his sister have high hopes for him, and he can't let Ah Niang and his sister down.

Gu Huai'an pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and cut the thatch without saying a word.

Soon the sacks were filled with weeds, dead leaves, and small twigs, and the baskets were filled with thatch, and the siblings took them home together.

Yang Huiyun also felt strange about Gu Huai'an's late return, but he explained it well, so they didn't ask again.