At noon, Xia Ru came to visit, at that time Xia Yuan was still in the capital to negotiate with people, saw the little girl staying at home alone, asked a few words, and saw that she hadn't eaten yet, so she called Zhao Yuerong to go to his house to solve it.

The little girl was embarrassed at first, but in the end, she didn't give up, so she rubbed her little face with a red face, and when she left, she also took a few little chicks from Xia Ru.

When the chicken grows up, it can lay eggs, the eggs can hatch chicks, the chicks can lay eggs when they are raised, and so on.

Then there will be a lot of eggs to eat.

Eggs are a rare nutrient, and reading requires nutrition.

With this simple thought, Zhao Yuerong mustered up the courage to ask Xia Ru for a chicken, originally she only wanted two, one male and one female.

As a result, Xia Ru waved his hand and gave eight.

After all, it is difficult to raise chickens, even in later generations, how to ensure the survival of chickens is a headache, not to mention this era, these eight chicks can survive half of it is good.

Xia Yuan squatted on the ground and twisted up a piece of wheat bran, turned his head and asked, "You just give this to the chicken?" ”

"And what for the chickens?"

Zhao Yuerong was squatting by the well to wash pork, and when she heard this, she tilted her head slightly and asked.

"It should be fed..."

Xia Yuan's words were half of the frustration, he saw the countryside feeding chickens in his last life, and there were those with bread worms, as well as rice and millet grains.

So subconsciously I wanted to say that these things should be fed.

But this era is the Ming Dynasty, what did the chickens of the Ming Dynasty eat, bread worms?

Where to get it?

Rice, millet grains?

If people don't have enough to eat, who would be willing to feed this to chickens?

Therefore, Daming's chickens are very miserable, and they can only eat this kind of wheat bran, which is not nutritious, that is, the shell outside the wheat.

Occasionally picking up a wild insect and eating it is a big supplement.

Frankly, Xia Yuan was a little worried about the future of these chickens.

However, these chickens are not newborn chicks, they are all half-sized juvenile chickens, which have lost the layer of fine yellow fluff and began to grow feathers, so they should be able to live, right?

I hope that there will be less death at that time, so as to save the little daughter-in-law from crying sadly.

“.... I should feed this, okay, I'll go to my uncle's house first, and I'll be back later. ”

With a word of advice, Xia Yuan straightened up and clapped his hands, and walked out of the courtyard.

The two families are not far away, and after going out and turning a corner, walking for a while, the slightly larger courtyard is Xia Confucianism.

Since the separation of the first two generations, Xia Confucianism has set up this courtyard, the area is not as small as the old house, but it is not small in the whole Xiajiazhuang.

It's still early in the morning, Xia Confucian's courtyard door is wide open, and a half-grown girl with a pretty face in the courtyard is feeding the chickens, and there is a little kid next to her, with snot on her face, squatting on the ground and looking at the chickens.

Silly Le is naturally Xia Chen, and as for the girl who feeds the chickens, she is Xia Ru's daughter, named Xia Shu, and she is also the only female relative in this family.

That's right, the only one.

Xia Ru's wife, that is, Xia Yuan's aunt, passed away two years ago, and now Xia Ru lives with three children.

In these years, it is common for scholars to be wasted, and like Xia Yuan, Xia Ru, a reader, also knows how to read.

Housework? What is that?

As for Xia Zhu and Xia Chen, one sits in the school every day and is beaten by his father, and the other is stupid and snotty all day long.

Xia Shu, who is only thirteen years old this year, contracted to cook and laundry at home two years earlier.

Seeing that Xia Yuan was coming, she sprinkled the last handful of wheat bran on the ground, stretched out her hand to wipe it on the cloth skirt, stepped forward to call the eldest brother, and shouted at the side room in the courtyard, "Dad, Dad, the eldest brother is here." ”

Xia Ru, who was reading in the room, answered, and then walked out with his sleeves flicked up, as soon as he saw Xia Yuan, he didn't wait for him to salute, and said earnestly: "Brother Yuan, there are still more than a month to go to the township test, why don't you concentrate on reading, and go to the capital to hang out?" ”

This sentence is not stingy for Xia Yuan.

What? Township test? More than a month?

In other words, there is still a month to take the township test?

Oh, just take the test.

Seeing that Xia Yuan seemed to be very calm, Xia Ru couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that you are already sure of the township test?" ”

"Sort of."

Xia Yuan replied vaguely, he was indeed very sure that he would not be on the list.

In Xia Ru's heart, this nephew is still very humble, he is a sentence, Xia Ru automatically understood that he is very sure, he can't help but show a look of old relief, stretched out his hand and patted Xia Yuan's shoulder, "It's good to be sure, you are seventeen years old this year, if you can win this year, you can call me the youngest person in the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Uh, uncle, seventeen-year-old lifting is not the youngest, as far as my nephew knows, there is a man named Yang Tinghe, who won the lifting at the age of twelve."

Xia Ru's hand couldn't help but tremble, and he said in disbelief: "There are still such prodigies in the world? ”

He is two in his Chinese New Year's Eve and has already participated in three township examinations, but failed the list every time.

For him, the township test is extremely difficult.

Now he suddenly heard that there was a person who was twelve years old and had passed the examination when he was a baby, which made him inevitably feel like he was living to a dog at an age.

"Yes, my nephew was also shocked when he first learned about this person."

Xia Yuan was really shocked when he saw Yang Ting and this guy's resume in his last life, good guy, a twelve-year-old man.

When he was twelve years old, he was still watching Ultraman on TV, and he was babbling and holding a divine light stick and transforming with Tiga.

And at the age of twelve, he had already been promoted and entered the ranks of the Ming Dynasty reserve officials.

The gap between man and man is bigger than the gap between man and dog.

The uncle and nephew were melancholy for a while, and they were not interested in mentioning the township test again, Xia Ru finally got down to business, "I have been to the Zhao family a few times with the people in the village these days, and Zhao Fugui is a sensible person, knowing that he is at a loss, and there is a lot of apology in his words, but it is Zhao Fugui's wife... Hum! ”

Xia Ru couldn't help but snort angrily, "It's unreasonable!" ”

"Sharp-toothed and sharp-mouthed, shrewd scoundrel."

Speaking of this, a little anger swelled up on his face, obviously being angry by Zhao Fugui's daughter-in-law.

In fact, the first time they came to the door to explain the law, Zhao Fugui recognized it, but his daughter-in-law refused to admit it.

He also refused to return the dowry.

"I made it clear earlier, let your bride break off with their family, this Zhao family promised to be happy, but the dowry was delayed, and I went again this morning, and finally asked for the five taels of silver, which Zhao Fugui secretly stuffed to me."

Xia Ru couldn't help but laugh, "I didn't expect that Zhao Fugui to be afraid of his daughter-in-law." ”

With that, he reached into his left cuff and pulled out a blue cloth bag, "Take the silver." ”

There were five taels of broken silver in the cloth bag, and Xia Yuan didn't shirk it, so he accepted it on the spot, and in this way, the matter was over.

It's just that when he thought of the situation in Zhao Fugui's family, he couldn't help frowning, with such a stepmother, no wonder the little daughter-in-law was thin and malnourished, and she still developed such a cowardly character.

I don't know how much I suffered during this period.

Thinking of this, Xia Yuan was a little panicked in his heart.