Chapter 36: Two Eggs
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
There were people talking along the way, but they didn’t feel that ti was slow. It felt like they hadn’t walked for long when they got ho.
By the ti they reached the village, it was already noon.
At this ti, many people in the village ca out for activities. There were n and children who went up the mountain to get firewood, and won who ca to visit everywhere.
It was natural for people from the sa village to greet each other.
The n exchanged a few words with Gu Shouxin, while the won exchanged a few words with Cai Xiaolian.
The host and his wife were not the kind of people who were isolated from the world. They would also walk around the village.
Along the way, Gu Nian had t quite a few people. She had a good mind and mory. She could rember people without even saying that she had t them once. However, there were only a few people in San Cha Kou Village. There were only a few dozen households and more than 200 people. She had t more than 20 people today, so Gu Nian had morized all of them.
Gu Shouxin and Cai Xiaolian, who had the original owner’s mories, didn’t let anyone notice any difference between them.
On the way ho, the few of them noticed that the chickens were chirping non-stop.
“Oh my, I forgot to let them out. They must be hungry. I have to go dig for wild vegetables!” Gu Xin heard the hens clucking and rembered that she hadn’t gone to dig for wild vegetables today.
“Let’s just pick so cucumber leaves and feed them. You’ve walked so much today, don’t be busy!” Cai Xiaolian stopped Gu Xin.
“Oh, then I’ll go pick the cucumber leaves!” Gu Xin rolled up her sleeves and went to pick the leaves.
Gu Xin went forward to help, while Gu Shouxin squatted in front of the vegetable field and looked at the watery vegetables in the field. He was at a loss.
“Did you see anything?” Cai Xiaolian went to the kitchen to put away the things she had bought and ca out to ask.
When they had escaped from the alley just now, they had not forgotten the things that had fallen on the ground. The rice bags and salt bags had all been wrapped and not scattered.
“No,” Gu Shouxin answered truthfully.
“Oh my!” At this mont, Gu Xin, who had already cut the cucumber leaves and was carrying a basin to feed the chickens, suddenly shouted.
“What’s wrong?” The couple looked up at Gu Xin, who was beside the chicken coop.
“Father, mother, eggs, so many eggs!” Gu Xin turned her head, looking at a loss.
“Eggs? Have all the hens laid eggs?” Cai Xiaolian walked over.
Gu Nian, who had gone back to the house to drink water, heard the sounds outside and walked out as well.
The Gu family had fed a total of ten hens and two roosters. The chicken coop was quite big, and even the pigsty, which was supposed to be fed to the pigs, had been turned into a chicken coop.
The three of them walked to the chicken coop and looked at the eggs lying in the straw with so chicken feathers and chicken feces.
“One, two, three, four... seventeen... Wait, that’s not right! There are ten hens in our family, and the hens lay one egg a day, right? Why...” Gu Nian thought it was very funny. She had fed chickens before, but she had never seen chickens lay eggs before. As she counted, she realized sothing was wrong.
“Sister, it’s been cold recently. I didn’t dig up many earthworms and only fed them vegetables. So recently, they only lay one egg every other day. It’s rare for them to lay one every day,” Gu Xin explained in a low voice.
She was the one feeding the chickens, and Gu Nian usually didn’t care about them, so Gu Xin explained.
Gu Shouxin pushed open the pen door and said, “I’ll go see how many there are! Gu Nian, go get the baskets.”
The chickens in the pen were happily eating the chopped cucumber leaves. They had no ti to bother with Gu Shouxin, who had gone in to pick up the eggs.
Soon, Gu Shouxin ca out with the basket. There were a total of twenty eggs in the basket. In other words, each chicken laid an average of two eggs.
This was not common sense!
No chicken in the village could lay two eggs every day.
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