Traveling Through Farmhouses: Taking the Baby on a Famine Escape

Lately, it's been sunny every day, with the bright sun shining on the earth.

Chen examined the collected duck eggs against the sun. Those that were hatching eggs were put into the tent, while the edible ones were made into salted duck eggs. Dozens of duck eggs were already placed in one corner of the tent.

That day, when Zhang Xixi entered the tent, she saw several fluffy, round little ducklings walking around on the ground, chirping and quacking. They had already hatched!

Zhang Xixi excitedly ran out shouting, "Mom, the ducks are out!"

"What ducks are out? Weren't they all in the pot?" Chen asked, puzzled.

"It's like ducklings hatching from their shells!"

Chen rolled her eyes at Zhang Xixi, "Can't you explain yourself more clearly? I thought the duck had come back to life!"

Zhang Xixi scratched her head, thinking to herself, "My imagination is really wild!"

Chen instructed, "Go and fetch some water. The newborn ducklings need to be swum in the water first."

"okay!"

Chen and Zhang Xixi fed the duckling water and then fed it food.

"Winter is just around the corner, what will we feed these ducks? Why didn't we think of this problem before?" Mrs. Chen said worriedly.

“Mom, I have a way to feed the ducks. The sweet potatoes we planted will sprout soon. There are plenty of weeds in the sweet potato field, and the sweet potato leaves can also be used to feed the ducks!” Zhang Xixi said quickly.

"Then we'll go out and find more ducks to eat these next few days to get through this period."

Zhang Xixi nodded, then looked at the little ducks running around on the ground. "Mom, should we move them to that wooden house? They're disturbing our rest too much in here!"

After thinking for a moment, Chen realized that the kang (heated brick bed) in the wooden house should be able to be heated, so she took Zhang Xixi to the wooden house to take a look and lit the fire in the kang hole.

Zhang Xixi brought the water trough in and set it up, then poured in some spiritual spring water to boost the ducks' immunity and prevent them from dying.

After finishing her work, Zhang Xixi had some free time and suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen the two tigers, Xiao Jin and Xiao Hua, for several days and wondered where they had gone.

Speak of the devil, and he appears; not long after, the roar of a tiger echoed from the hillside!

Zhang Xixi looked up and saw that Xiao Jin and Xiao Hua had returned, each tiger carrying a deer on its back. They roared at the encampment before walking down the mountain path.

No one knows how far they ran, but they still managed to hunt a deer. Zhang Xixi kept one, and cut off the antlers of the other one to give to Xiao Jin and his wife as food.

"Ding! Rare treasure detected! Host, would you like to sign in?"

The long-absent electronic noise started again, and Zhang Xixi thought to herself, "Check-in!"

"Check-in successful! Congratulations, host, you have gained 3000 luck points!"

"System, can I sign in again, Deer Antler?"

"No, deer antlers are naturally grown on deer; they are an integral part of the deer!"

"All right!"

After successfully checking in on the other deer, Zhang Xixi left it alone, letting it lie on the ground for a while.

After taking stock of the medicinal herbs in her storage bag, Zhang Xixi realized that if she sold them all, she would really be a little rich woman.

She decided that once she found a stable place, she would exchange these medicinal herbs for land, hire a few cooks, and become a comfortable and happy landlady.

Zhang Xixi also found a type of duck feed called wheat bran in the system shop. Five hundred luck points could buy five hundred catties, which was a great deal. It seemed that she would have to contract out the ducks herself in the future so that she could smuggle the feed.

Zhang Dacheng and his group were overjoyed to see the deer when they returned. It was a highly nutritious food, and they were in for a treat!

The father and son put down their things and carried the deer to the river to process it. They skinned the deer, removed its internal organs, and cleaned it very quickly!

In the afternoon, Zhang Xixi asked Zhou Yujie to deliver some venison to Zhou Dashan and Zhou Dahai's family, and kept the rest for her own family to eat.

She couldn't share everything with the villagers; otherwise, it might turn into a situation where a little kindness is appreciated but too much kindness is resented, which wouldn't have been Zhang Xixi's original intention!

In the wooden house, the kang (heated brick bed) was almost heated, and the house became warm. Zhang Xixi and Chen Shi spread a layer of dry grass on the kang and gently placed the ducks and duck eggs on it.

"Why is this egg smaller than the others? Is it mutated?!"

Chen glanced at the egg in Zhang Xixi's hand; it was indeed smaller than a regular duck egg, and its color was different.

"This egg is probably a chicken egg, let's put it aside for now!"

As soon as Zhang Xixi put the egg down, it moved slightly. A small head pecked through the shell and crawled out, and slowly the whole body emerged.

"It doesn't look like a chick came out!"

Chen leaned closer, examined it for a while, and then hesitantly said, "This looks like some kind of bird!"

“It looks like a bird, but I don’t know what kind of bird it is!” Zhang Xixi replied.

When birds are first born, they wait for their mothers to feed them. Now, no one feeds them, so whether they survive depends on how resilient they are!

Although Zhang Xixi thought this way, she still carried it to the water trough, scooped up some water with a leaf and fed it to the bird, hoping that the diluted spiritual spring water would be of some help to it!

"Let's go back!" Chen urged.

"Mom, wait a minute, let me let Xiao Jin and the others come in and see if they'll scare these little creatures."

After Zhang Xixi finished speaking, she let Xiao Jin bring Xiao Hua in. She watched them walk around and saw that the ducks were not frightened, so she was relieved!

"Xiao Jin, from now on you will live in this house. Don't harm these ducks. Get along with them peacefully, understand?"

Little Jin glanced at the weak cubs with its big eyes, then barked at Zhang Xixi, "Yes, Master! This little bit of meat isn't even enough to fill my teeth! I have no desire to eat it at all."

"Aren't you afraid they'll eat these ducks?" Chen looked at the two tigers, and the more she looked, the more uneasy she felt.

“Mom, Xiao Jin and the others are very obedient and won’t eat them,” Zhang Xixi said with a smile.

"Fine, anyway, you're in charge of taking care of this duck from now on, so you can handle it yourself!"

"Mother, if you still don't believe in your daughter's abilities, just wait and see what happens!"

Mrs. Chen laughed and said, "Alright, stop joking around, it's time to go back and cook dinner!"

That evening, Zhang Xixi specially prepared an iron rack and a few small ones, prepared all the available dishes, made the seasoning sauce, and enjoyed a lively barbecue feast!

It was delicious, but it caused a lot of internal heat. The next day, Zhang Xixi and several other children developed mouth ulcers.

Because she couldn't eat spicy food, Zhang Xixi ate sweet potato rice for every meal. She felt that her life was not enjoyable at all and regretted it very much!