I traveled back to ancient times, but I was able to lie down and relax.

Everyone started talking at once.

The village head simply let them speak for a while, and only signaled for everyone to be quiet when their voices gradually subsided.

"Nan Jia, you tell me the specifics."

Liu Nanjia stepped forward and said in a generous manner, "Hello uncles and aunts, grandpas and grandmas. As you all know, our family is currently running a food business and needs a lot of chicken every day. Right now, we buy it in town every day, but it's very inconvenient to transport it back from town every day. Besides, it doesn't matter where we buy the chicken, so I thought I'd buy it from people in our own village."

"Hey, Nan Jia, why didn't you want the chickens I sent over before? Now you're saying you bought them from the village."

The speaker was a shrewd woman from the village. Every day when Liu Nanjia returned home, there were more than ten chickens on his cart. This did not escape the eyes of the villagers, so she had the idea to sell her own chickens, but she was refused.

She was very unhappy about it, and she still often complains about it to other people in the village.

"Auntie, don't be anxious. There's a reason why I asked the village head to talk about this. Otherwise, I could just shout in the village to buy chickens. The chicken I need is special. I don't want fully grown chickens. They must be half-grown chickens that are no more than three months old. That way, the chicken meat will be more tender."

Actually, this is part of her fried chicken recipe, but she buys chickens from town every day, and observant people have already noticed it. There's nothing wrong with revealing it now.

"Moreover, I have a limited amount of vegetables I need each day. Everyone still remembers the vegetable harvesting in the village before, right? At first, you were able to supply enough, but if it went on for a long time, it simply wouldn't be enough."

Not long after Feng Mazi bought vegetables at high prices, he was beaten by the townspeople. In addition, he caused quite a stir by making a scene with Fang Shi, which everyone still remembered. Thinking about it this way, they all understood and quieted down to listen to what Liu Nanjia had to say.

"So, to ensure we can collect chickens every day and to maintain the quality of the meat, those who want to participate must start raising them now, and they must be different from your existing chickens. I will provide the chicks, in batches of ten households, each receiving thirty chicks to raise. When the time comes, I will have Aunt Wang notify you to bring the chickens. For each qualified chicken, after deducting the cost of the chick, I will give you twenty coins. Of course, if any household raises chickens that are not good, too thin, or even sick, I will definitely not accept them. They will not only have to compensate me for the cost of the chicks but also for my losses, because if the daily chicken supply is insufficient, I will need to buy more, but it won't be much, ten coins per chicken."

After Liu Nanjia finished speaking, the villagers remained quiet, each lost in their own thoughts.

You don't have to pay for the chickens yourself. After raising them for almost three months, you can sell them for 20 coins. Thirty chickens would be 600 coins. Although the price you get is lower than that of fully grown chickens, the time is also shorter, less than half. Moreover, the amount of food a chick eats is not comparable to that of a three- or four-month-old chick. You have to feed the chickens quite a lot every day when they are raised. But if you only raise them for a little over two months, the amount of food they consume is not that much.

When you calculate it that way, it's still a good deal.

All you need is some grain and a separate chicken coop. Even if you spread 600 coins over three months, that's 200 coins per month.

Those with quick minds who calculated the figure were already pounding with excitement. 200 coins a month was equivalent to half a month's income working in town. Now, they could earn that just by raising chickens. This was an incredible stroke of luck!

As for Liu Nanjia's claim that the substandard product would incur a 10-wen penalty, most people didn't take it to heart at the moment. No one would think that someone who couldn't even raise chickens properly must be incredibly lazy.

After Liu Nanjia finished speaking, the village head announced, "Alright, now that both things have been said, let's start registration. Those who want to go to school, go to my son's place. Those who want to raise chickens, go to Liu Yanxi. Everyone, go when you've decided."

As soon as the village head finished speaking, some people couldn't wait to go over. The quick-thinking ones went to find Liu Yanxi first. He had heard that raising chickens should be done in batches. If they fell behind, wouldn't it be too late to make money?

As for the school, you can enroll either early or late.

So, the table in front of Liu Yanxi was quickly surrounded by people. The village head, seeing the situation on both sides, also ran over to maintain order: "Don't push, don't push, everyone can get a turn."

Liu Nanjia had calculated that Dushui Village had fewer than a hundred households. Even if every family participated, one family per day, the rotation would be completed in three months. Basically, once one batch was raised, the next batch would start being raised, with no intervals whatsoever.

Of course, there are also greedy ones: "My yard is big, and there are many people in my family. Can my family raise sixty at a time?"

"Don't worry, ma'am. We need to see how many households actually registered in the end. All you need to do now is register."

Aunt Wang and the village head were also supervising from the side. Aunt Wang was there because Liu Nanjia said that she would be in charge of management in the future, so it would start with the households that had registered.

The village headman is doing this to prevent anyone from cutting in line. It's been agreed that the order in which people take the chickens home to raise will follow the order in which they registered.