Zhang Hulan pointed to a chick hatching and said, "Look, when a chick hatches, it struggles and works hard to train itself and gradually adapt to the outside world.

If you suddenly open the eggshell, it will frighten the chick. Also, the chick is particularly vulnerable at this time, and if you are not careful, you can easily injure it and cause it to get infected or inflamed.

Zhang Hulan pointed at the chick's belly and said, "Look at its belly. The skin is so tender that the eggshell breaks with just a slight scratch."

In fact, Zhang Hulan didn’t know whether what she said was right or not, so she just explained it to the children according to her own understanding.

While they were busy here, Yuan Gang suddenly called out at the door: "Madam, the county magistrate and his wife are here."

Zhang Hulan immediately went out to greet him.

Wu Deyong and his friends first went to the village home. The villagers said that Zhang Hulan had moved to a new home and they had just come here.

As soon as Ye Hongyun saw Zhang Hulan, she scolded him, "This is your fault. You didn't even inform me about the move. Are you looking down on me?"

Zhang Hulan hurried forward to apologize, "How dare I? I didn't have a housewarming party, I just treated the villagers to a meal. They were all country folk, it was a mess, I was afraid Madam Ye wouldn't be used to it."

Zhang Hulan led Wu Deyong, Ye Hongyun and their son Wu Yunyang into the yard. There was another person who came, whom Zhang Hulan did not know.

As soon as Ye Hongyun arrived in the yard, he heard several children crying loudly from the house next door. Ye Hongyun asked, "What are your children doing? Why are they so happy? And it seems like there are so many children?"

Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "There are quite a few children, eight or nine of them, big and small. They are watching the chicks hatch."

"Why do you have so many children?"

"Well, there are seven of us here, including my family, my brother's family, and my younger brother's family. My little daughter's two friends are also here, so our house is very lively."

"Is it convenient for us to go and take a look?" Ye Hongyun wanted to go and take a look. She wanted Wu Yunyang to go and play with Zhang Hulan's children. Her son was too withdrawn. He only knew how to study and didn't play with other children.

"What's the inconvenience?" Ye Hongyun was about to take Ye Hongyun into the house.

Wu Deyong said, "Madam, how about I talk to Zhang about the serious matter first before we go and see?"

Song Yuzhang, the man next to Wu Deyong, said, "Brother Wu, it's okay. Let my sister-in-law go first. We're not in a hurry anyway."

"That's right, we have nothing to do today anyway." Ye Hongyun held Wu Yunyang's hand with one hand and Zhang Hulan's hand with the other and walked towards the house where the chicks were hatched.

Wu Deyong and Song Yuzhang followed into the house.

As soon as Ye Hongyun entered the house, she saw a lot of children, and then she was shocked. She thought she was watching a hen hatching chicks, but she saw a full kang of eggs, and there were chicks hatching on the kang.

"Hu Lan, you..." Ye Hongyun couldn't find words to describe the scene he saw.

Wu Deyong and Song Yuzhang also widened their eyes in surprise. They had never seen chicks hatched in this way.

Wu Deyong asked, "Zhang, weren't your chicks hatched by a hen?"

Zhang Hulan replied, "No, they were artificially hatched."

Zhang Hulan later explained, "I wanted to start a breeding business, and there were so many chicks and ducklings needed, they weren't easy to find. So I asked someone to buy the eggs and then hatched them myself."

"These are the first batch, they just hatched today." Zhang Hulan pointed to the duck and goose eggs on the kang and said, "Those are duck and goose eggs. They will take a few days to hatch."

Zhang Hulan pointed to another kang and said, "That's the second batch, it will be more than ten days later."

"You can hatch chicks without a hen?" Ye Hongyun was still surprised. "How did you hatch the chicks?"

"They just light a kang underneath, then cover the eggs with a blanket to simulate the temperature of a hen, and then the chicks hatch."

"Hey, your brain is full of weird things." Ye Hongyun stared at Zhang Hulan in amazement.

At this time, Zhang Xinyue walked up to Wu Yunyang and asked, "Little brother, who are you?"

Ye Hongyun immediately looked down at Zhang Xinyue, then asked Zhang Hulan, "Is this your youngest daughter?"

Ye Hongyun had never met Zhang Xinyue before, and thought the little girl was very smart.

Zhang Hulan replied, "It is my youngest daughter..."

Zhang Hulan then introduced them to Ye Hongyun, "These two are my youngest daughter's senior brothers, and they are also disciples of Taoist Master Xuanzhen of Ziyang Temple."

"My eldest daughter, second daughter, and Madam Dahuaye have all met them." Zhang Hulan pulled Zhang Xiaojun, Zhang Xiaobing, and Shanzi in front of her and introduced them: "This is my eldest brother's son, Zhang Xiaojun; this is my younger brother's son, Zhang Xiaobing; and this is my nephew, Zhou Shan, whom we all call Shanzi. These three are students at Weixin Academy."

Zhang Hulan then said to the three people, "This is the county magistrate and his wife. It is the county magistrate's help that enables you to study at the academy."

The three of them immediately knelt and saluted, "Greetings to the County Magistrate, and to the County Magistrate's wife. Thank you for your help, County Magistrate!"

"Good, good, good! They're all great kids!" Ye Hongyun helped all three of them up, then said to Zhang Hulan enviously, "Your family is really lively, unlike mine, where it's quiet all day long."

Zhang Xinyue said, "Madam, you can come to my house and play! My house is very lively."

Ye Hongyun smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll live in your house from now on, okay?"

"Okay, my family has a lot of houses. The County Magistrate's wife can stay as long as she wants..."

A few people watched in the house for a while, and then Zhang Hulan took Wu Deyong and the others to the living room for tea.

Wu Yunyang was dragged by Zhang Xinyue and the others to play in the farm.

Zhang Hulan poured tea for Wu Deyong and the other two, then asked, "I wonder what brings you here, sir?"

Wu Deyong pointed at Song Yuzhang and said, "I've got the person you want. His last name is Song, and his given name is Yuzhang."

Zhang Hulan's eyes lit up, and she immediately stood up and saluted, saying, "Greetings, Mr. Song."

Song Yuzhang nodded slightly, "You're welcome, Madam Zhang."

After Zhang Hulan sat down, she asked, "Mr. Song agreed to come teach in our village?"

Song Yuzhang said, "Teaching is also good. Dealing with children is worry-free and there are not so many tricks."

"Then what are Mr. Song's requirements for gold cultivation?"

"I don't have any requirements, just don't let me starve to death."

"No, no..." Zhang Hulan said quickly, "Mr. Song, how about this? All the tuition fees paid by the students belong to you, and I will give you an additional ten taels of silver every month. How about that?"

"Not so much."

"Yes, yes," Zhang Hulan said. "I will arrange food and accommodation for you, sir. But you are a scholar and you must like to buy books, so you must pay a lot for your books."

Wu Deyong glanced at Zhang Hulan. This woman was really good at speaking.

If it was about paying Song Yuzhang his wages, he would have definitely resigned, but if it was about buying him books, that sounded very nice.

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