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Chapter 447: The veteran is out

In the ears of Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Wang, Chrysanthemum said a lot, but she herself felt that she had just told a rough idea. Because at the beginning, there were few chickens, and they couldn't remember too much, and they couldn't think it through, so they went back to draft a charter to stipulate it, and continuously improved it according to the problems found in the breeding process, which is the long-term policy.

explained some more things before sending the two away.

Grape came over and pleaded, "Young grandmother, can I hatch the chicks?" I'm pretty good at watching fire now, too. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "You think it's cooking rice: the fire is bigger, and the pot is more burnt; The fire is smaller, and the skin of the pot is softer, but it can be eaten. Hatching chicks, if you cook the eggs with a fire, what else will you hatch? ”

She didn't want to toss these, it is against nature to hatch chicks by manpower, because she has seen and heard in her previous life, she hates things that violate nature, so she has never thought of studying out-of-season vegetables, and some technology is not necessarily a good thing.

But this chicken has been raised too much, and it is too slow to rely on hens to hatch chicks.

Look, as long as she is involved in business, she can't help but think about how to make money quickly, and she is no exception. If he forgets his righteousness for the sake of profit, he will inevitably do lawless things.

She persuaded herself that she still had to do a real job of free-range when hatching the chicks artificially, and there was no too much trickery. Besides, she doesn't know how much work it will take to experiment and hatch chicks with a clay kang!

At this time, He came back from Zheng's house with the twins, and the grapes were busy spreading a reed mat on the ground, and the chestnuts and shallots were thrown up, and the mats were rolling and crawling; Xiaojing'er was also brought in by Grandma Liu, and the three babies were piled together.

Chrysanthemum talked about hatching chicks, and He Shi fussed and said: "You think of something weird, how can you hatch chicks by burning a fire?" ”

Chrysanthemum said: "Mother, isn't that hen just covering the eggs all day long, and it doesn't do anything." Then let's cover the eggs with cotton wool, and then warm them with a small fire, as long as the heat is similar to that of the hen, neither hot nor cold. I'm sure I'll be able to hatch chicks. ”

He laughed at her, she had never heard anyone say this, "The hen covers the eggs all day long, and does not eat or move." How easy should it be for you? What more do you want it for? Warm over the fire, then the eggs are not cooked. ”

Chrysanthemum said, I haven't heard of it, but I read it.

She smiled: "So to be optimistic about the fire, of course this thing is not easy." Let's try more, one time not ten times, ten times not a hundred times. I don't believe that I can't succeed in trying for a year, so I'll try for two years, anyway, our family is not short of eggs now. ”

Grape coquettishly pulled the chrysanthemum sleeve and said, "Young grandma, will you let me try it!" She is now very close to Chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum said: "Your time to burn the fire is still a mile, let's talk about it in a few days." Mother, you're in a hurry, or you can try it. Mother, don't laugh, I'm not worried about letting others do this. Mother thought, if this thing is really done, it will be kept secret. You can't tell anyone. Think about it or I'll do it myself. ”

Grandma Liu smiled and said, "Young grandma, you are very busy every day, and you still have to watch them cook those dishes at night, or I will hatch them." I heard what the young grandmother said seems to have some truth. ”

Chrysanthemum shook her head and said, "Although this is not tired, it is very annoying." Grandma Liu is old, so she can't do this, and she has to get up at night to watch the fire. ”

Grandma Liu said: "That's why I said I'm here to hatch." We are old and patient; Besides, when I'm older, I can't sleep at night. Easy to wake up. If you slept until dawn, wouldn't the eggs freeze to death? It's not a big deal, I asked Kuroko to build an earthen stove, no pot on it, and use adobe to prop it up. Then spread the mattress, put the eggs on top and cover with cotton wool. I often touched it, shoveling some ashes into it when it was cold, and retreating some when it was hot—I guess I couldn't burn an open fire. Anyway, I just walk around the yard every day, and I don't go out, and there is something I think about, and I'm still happy. It's definitely better than your juniors. ”

He clapped his hands and smiled: "In this way, it is really the most suitable for Grandma Liu." But chrysanthemum, is this method possible? If it doesn't work, it will cause Grandma Liu to hatch a nest of eggs one by one, and it will be in vain. ”

Chrysanthemum said hesitantly: "It can definitely be done, but I'm still afraid that Grandma Liu will be tired." It's not like one or two tries, it's going to take many miles. ”

Grandma Liu looked at her lovingly and smiled: "I'm more careful, maybe I'll try it twice, so why do you keep trying?" I'll just teach Grape and Grandma Young. ”

The old man was full of confidence, as if she had succeeded in a try.

He also said: "Young grandma is worried, I go around the house all day long, this touch, that move, this chick hatching work no one is more suitable than me." ”

Grape blinked and smiled, "Grandma, if you can't be busy, just ask me to help." ”

Grandma Liu said, "I'm afraid you want to eat boiled eggs." ”

Everyone laughed.

Grandma Liu talked a lot about her experience in taking care of hens and hatching chicks, and Chrysanthemum nodded again and again, so she agreed to let Grandma Liu try it first.

She couldn't help but look forward to it: the patience of the elderly is not comparable to them, maybe Grandma Liu can really try it easily. Because she said that when she hatched chicks in previous years, she often touched the nest, then let the hens come down to drink water and eat, and then carried them up. The interval between this should not be too long, otherwise the eggs will be easily frozen; You also have to turn the eggs over and so on often.

At least in terms of feel, they are not as experienced as the elderly.

So, just do it, Chrysanthemum went to tell Liu Heizi, who was busy working in the backyard, about it.

He laughed and said, "This is easy, I see that there are some leftover adobes piled up in the pig pen house, and I will go to the house to build an earthen stove in a while, so that my mother can watch the fire." ”

In the evening, Huaizi took Liu Xiaosi down from the mountain, and the earthen stove in the west chamber had been set up and was baking with fire.

Chrysanthemum was very ashamed, she just took it for granted, in fact, what to do, it was a black eye. But Grandma Liu listened to her words, but when Liu Heizi was building the stove, she pointed and pointed, what stove hole should not be too big, what adobe on it should be thinner, according to years of experience in fire, put forward a lot of requirements.

Huaizi smiled: "It's really fast." Is this incubated? ”

Grandma Liu said with a smile: "It's not possible today, tomorrow will start hatching chicks." Young grandma, hatch ten eggs in one nest, right? ”

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "I see what Grandma Liu said, if the first nest is hatched into miles, and there are only ten eggs, wouldn't it be a pity?" Let's hatch twenty of them. ”

Grandma Liu nodded, turned to Liu Xiaosi again, and asked some words for working to get by.

Liu Xiaosi is the cousin of the black skin, who is fourteen years old this year. After Huaizi came back from the set, he asked Liu Heizi to bring him over, stay by his side to train him, and let his sister come back in the autumn.

These days, he took him and the two youngest sons of the Wang family to look for tree roots in the mountains, and he was very busy every day.

In the evening, Chrysanthemum asked Huaizi: "Is Ming'er still going to the mountain?" ”

Huaizi said: "Just go for a trip." I helped Dr. Qin choose a tree root, and Ming'er went to dig it up and plant it, and then I and Aoki helped Dr. Qin clean up the yard. The yard had not been inhabited for a long time, and seeing that the day of their marriage was approaching, they had to clean it up quickly. I don't know what Carpenter Li's bed and household belongings are like. ”

Yun Ying drew the drawings of the stepping bed and household goods, handed them over to Li Carpenter to build, and asked Liu Ershun to make some exquisite bamboo utensils; The family was handed over to the He family and the Yang family to lead the arrangement, which was also worry-free.

Chrysanthemum said: "The mother in the house has already been cleaned, that is, the front and back yards must be hoeed well, and the flowers and trees must be repaired, otherwise it will be too messy." Tomorrow, I'll go to Carpenter Li to have a look. ”

Huaizi hurriedly said: "It's better to wait for me to come back, I can come back in the morning." ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and nodded, and the two of them did not mention it.

Li Gengtian was asked by Qin Feng to help him get married, and he seemed very happy; There are also many people in the village who have stepped in to help, so there are plenty of people.

Because their brothers and sisters are not luxury people, as long as they are simple and natural, there are not too many cumbersome things to buy, nothing more than arranging various marriage ceremonies.

After a busy few days, it was Qixi Festival in a blink of an eye, Qin Feng and Yunying got married, Qingnan Village was lively for a day, and even many rich and noble families in Xiatang came to have fun, and they didn't care about Qin Feng's repeated excuses and rudeness, so they came over to eat the banquet directly.

Of course, Li Gengtian couldn't drive people out, so he had no choice but to accept their congratulatory gifts. Afterwards, he persuaded Qin Feng not to accept it, and it was also good to accept it to supplement the medical center.

Qin Feng smiled and nodded happily. There is no need to recount everything during this period.

When the farming was busy, Zhang Dazhuan and his son did not personally go to the field to cut rice and threak rice, but handed it all over to Wu Cheng for arrangement, and they were in charge of paddy fields and dry land and breeding.

Under the scorching sun, the men carried the rice into the yard one by one, and Heipi and Liu Xiaosi kept turning it over, occasionally stopping the rice scraper in their hands, and looking at a few babies wearing small shorts under the eaves of the main porch and laughing.

Xiaojing'er, chestnut and shallots stepped on the reed mat, walked a few steps and sat down with a weak leg, sat down and got up and walked a few steps, laughing non-stop.

Chrysanthemum is talking to Grandma Liu in the West Chamber.

"Look, the chickens in this egg have grown, but I don't know what's going on, and they're dead again. I guess it's been too hot these days, and the stove shouldn't be filled with ashes. ”

Grandma Liu smashed a hatched egg to show Chrysanthemum, and sure enough, there were chicks curled up inside, not egg whites and yolks, but they were already dry.

Chrysanthemum thought about it and felt that it was also, on this hot day, the room temperature in the west chamber was probably higher than that of the hens, or those chickens were so hot that they hid in the chrysanthemum bushes under the shade of the trees, dug a pit in the wet ground, and did not want to move when they lay on it.

She didn't know how to describe the room temperature and body temperature to Grandma Liu, so she had to say: "Grandma Liu, I think that on this day, there is no need to add fire ashes to the stove during the day, and only a little at night, maybe not at all." In this weather, the hen is bare-chested and hotter than the first month and February. ”