After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

Zhang Hulan was amused by Xiang Chunhua, and she didn't know whether to say that Xiang Chunhua was stupid or that she had a big imagination.

Zhang Hulan said, "Let's make a warm kang and use it to hatch the chicks."

"Using a heated kang to hatch chicks? How do you do that?" Xiang Chunhua had never heard of hatching chicks without a hen.

Zhang Hulan didn't say much to Xiang Chunhua. She found Luo Changqi and asked him to call a few people to set up two warm kangs.

The kang has been built in the new house, and the new house is almost completed, with only some furniture left to be made.

There are plenty of rooms, just find one in the yard.

Zhang Hulan didn't care about setting up the heated kang. She and Li Xiangchunhua went to see the chicks, ducklings and geese.

Zhang Hulan asked Xiang Chunhua to get some unwanted vegetable leaves, chop them up and scatter them on the ground. The chicks, ducks and geese all came to grab the food.

Zhang Xinyao and Zhang Xinyi squatted on the ground, looking at the chicks and ducklings and liked them very much. Small animals are cute, but they are not so pretty when they grow up, especially when they start to poop everywhere and there are chicken and duck poop everywhere, so they start to hate them.

Xiang Chunhua said, "Sister, you have to be careful here. Watch out for rats and weasels at night, and watch out for hawks and kites in the sky during the day. They'll be caught if you're not careful."

That's right, there has to be someone watching day and night.

There aren’t many now, but when there are thousands or tens of thousands of them, it will be too much for one or two people to keep up.

But for this kind of work, you can just ask children to do it.

Zhang Hulan went to the field where lotus roots were planted. She looked around for a while and saw four children carrying dry manure with a dustpan.

Zhang Hulan waved at them, "Come here, all of you."

The four children quickly put down their dustpans and ran over. They were all a little nervous and stood in front of Zhang Hulan very politely.

Zhang Hulan asked, "What are your names?"

There were two children, Mingying and Gou Zi, who were in Liu Cong's group, and the other one was probably the child who was questioned by Wu Deyong, and another child who was a little older.

Mingying was the first to answer: "Ma'am, my name is Mingying."

"My name is Gouzi." Gouzi replied.

The child being questioned by Wu Deyong immediately replied: "My name is Ah Shui."

The last child said, "My name is Ermang."

Zhang Hulan nodded, "Come with me."

The four children followed Zhang Hulan towards the fish pond.

When they arrived at the fish pond, Zhang Hulan pointed at the chicks and ducklings and said to Mingying and the others, "I'll give you a job. You'll be responsible for taking care of these chicks and ducklings."

"Mingying, Gouzi, you're in charge during the day. You have to feed them during the day. Just chop up some vegetable leaves and feed them. And make sure the chicks and ducklings don't get caught by hawks or kites."

"A Shui, Er Mang, you're in charge at night. Your main task is to keep an eye on the rats and weasels."

All four of them nodded immediately, "Okay."

Zhang Hulan added, "There are rooms over here. You can move in. Mingying will have a room to herself, and you three boys will have another."

The four of them nodded immediately again, "Okay."

"Then Ah Shui and Er Mang, you can go to sleep now and come back to watch over us at night."

"Okay, ma'am." A Shui and Er Mang agreed immediately, then went back to move their quilts and clothes to this room.

Mingying asked, "Madam, where can we get vegetable leaves to feed the chickens and ducks?"

Zhang Hulan said, "You can use any unwanted vegetable leaves from the fields to feed the chickens. When we have more chickens and ducks, I'll ask the villagers to bring us all the unwanted vegetable leaves."

Zhang Hulan immediately said to Xiang Chunhua, "Chunhua, I'll leave this to you. Tell the villagers to bring in any unwanted vegetable leaves. I'll give them a couple of cents for a basket. The unwanted leaves are going to be thrown away anyway, so if they can exchange them for money, they're sure to be willing to give them away."

"Okay, sister!"

Zhang Hulan continued, "The Gao family will send rice bran or other things in the future, and you and your sister-in-law will be the ones to hand them over."

Xiang Chunhua felt that she had been entrusted with an important task and immediately assured her, "Don't worry, sister. I will definitely get it done for you."

The warm kang was set up in the afternoon. Firewood was burned overnight to dry out the moisture in the adobe bricks.

The next day, Zhang Hulan spread a layer of straw on the warm kang, placed the breeding eggs on the straw, and then covered it with a quilt.

The main thing is to control the temperature, and then turn the eggs over every day to ensure that the eggs are heated evenly.

Zhang Hulan took care of it personally in the past few days.

On the seventh day, Zhang Hulan asked Li and Xiang Chunhua to get an oil lamp, close the door, and shine the oil lamp one by one on the eggs that had been incubated for seven days.

Zhang Hulan held the egg with both hands and held it facing the oil lamp. She could vaguely see blood and embryos in the egg.

Xiang Chunhua asked, "Sister, what are you looking at?"

Zhang Hulan asked Xiang Chunhua to take an egg, and then imitated her by holding the egg up to the oil lamp.

"Did you see anything inside the egg?"

Xiang Chunhua was incredulous, "Sister, why can I see inside the egg?"

Li also held an egg to the oil lamp and looked at it, but she saw nothing.

"Big sister, Chunhua, what did you see? I didn't see anything, just a dark shadow inside."

Zhang Hulan took the egg from Li's hand, looked at it against the oil lamp, and said, "Sister-in-law, this egg of yours is a bad one. It won't hatch a chick. So we have to check each one like this and pick out the bad ones."

Xiang Chunhua also took the egg and looked at it. It was indeed different from the one she had.

Xiang Chunhua asked, "Sister, how do you know so much? How do you know everything?"

Zhang Hulan said without any guilt: "Because I am smarter than you."

Xiang Chunhua smiled and said, "Yes, I am indeed the smartest one in our family!"

Zhang Hulan and Li Xiang Chunhua checked the breeding eggs one by one. Aunt Tao was also helping. She was also quite surprised that chicks could be hatched in this way.

There are more than a thousand breeding eggs, and more than a hundred of them cannot be hatched. It is not a lot. It seems that Gao Guangtian carefully selected them when purchasing them.

Xiang Chunhua asked: "Sister, what should we do with these eggs?"

"Eat it. Let's take some home and stir-fry some leeks."

Zhang Hulan then said to Aunt Tao, "Aunt Tao, go call Yang Xiaohui over and ask her to bring the remaining eggs over. She can boil an egg for everyone tonight."

"Yes, ma'am."

At this time, Zhao Guoliang came over and asked Zhang Hulan, "Hulan, the carpentry work is all done today. We can clean the house and move in tomorrow."

"When are you planning to move? You didn't hold a housewarming party yet, so you should have one, right?"

Zhang Hulan shook her head decisively, "No, no, I'll just move here on a better day."

"Uncle Lizheng, you've worked hard lately. When I move, I'll just invite you to my house for a drink."

Zhao Guoliang said, "Why don't you like to have a banquet? This is a big wedding, you should have one."

"Well, what's the big deal?" Zhang Hulan whispered, "Uncle Village Head, I'd rather not be disliked. If I hold a banquet, people will definitely think I'm showing off. Forget it."