Chen Guijia’s crying did not stop until midnight, while Chen Liejiu was stewing chicken.

This chicken, just as Chen Guijia thought, had been raised with grain for several years, and there was a thick piece of chicken fat inside.

Xu Huaiqian not only used it to stew soup with red dates and wolfberries, but also refined the chicken fat and made a bowl of chicken oil and scallion noodles, which made the three members of the Chen family very satisfied.

Each of them touched their round bellies and thought that the chickens raised by other people’s families are delicious.

But even after eating the chicken, Chen Xiaomei was still very unhappy: “It’s a pity that the chicks can’t be hatched.”

“It’s okay, the road to success is always tortuous, and we will start again if we fail,” Xu Huaiqian imitated Chen Liejiu and pinched the two little buns on her head, “Second brother will accompany you to the village to collect eggs tomorrow, and hatch them again.”

Don’t be scared by the failure of five eggs.

“Okay!” Although Chen Xiaomei was still a little unhappy, things had already come to this, and she had to accept reality.

 The next day, after breakfast, Xu Huaiqian read a book for a while. He estimated that every household had finished breakfast at this time, so he and Chen Xiaomei took a basket and went out to collect eggs.

Because of his bad complexion, Xu Huaiqian had always been reluctant to have contact with the villagers. Recently, he found that his complexion was much better and he didn’t look so sick anymore. It was just that maybe because he was still sick, his lips and face looked a little pale, but he was already at the point where he could meet people, so he went out boldly.

Not many people in the village raised chickens at home. Most of them raised a few chickens, waiting for them to lay eggs to nourish their families, or saved them to sell in the city.

Xu Huaiqian wanted to find a family that raised both hens and roosters, preferably a little more, so that there would be fertilized eggs in the past seven days.

 However, when the two of them were carrying eggs and collecting them from house to house in the village, the villagers looked at them with an indescribable expression, and then said that they had no eggs at home and asked him to look for them at other houses.

How could there be no eggs? Xu Huaiqian could hear the sound of hens laying eggs!

Just when he was puzzled, Chen Zhushi, who was learning to make clothes with her children in the village, saw him and hesitated for a while. She thought of the bowl of braised pork that Chen Liejiu gave them that day, which made their family linger on the taste. She felt that this man who could read and cook and looked gentle and refined was not like what the villagers said, that he was sick and stupid.

She quietly pulled him aside and told him the truth:

“Chen Gui’s wife came to the village early in the morning and cried, crying that your Liejiu got angry yesterday and came to her house with a machete and beat her and Sanzhu. He beat Sanzhu so hard that he couldn’t get off the ground…”

“She also cried that his younger sister would ride on boys and scratch and bite them at a young age, and no one would dare to propose marriage to her in the future…”

“She also cried that you, a sickly boy, never said a single clean word, saying dead child left and right, and you kept talking about death every day. No wonder you were born short-lived and killed your parents…”

“She also told the villagers that you had to use quilts to hatch chicks, and asked the villagers not to sell eggs to you, fearing that if you would hatch  no chicks, Liejiu will go to the egg seller’s house to make trouble, saying that their eggs are not good…”

“And your aunt also came out to help, saying that you are stupid and that it was a blind cat catching a dead mouse to pass the examination. If you can really hatch chicks with a quilt, your parents won’t be killed by wolves while cutting wood in the mountains…”

“Finally, he threatened that if you are not afraid that the bully Chen Liejiu will come to their house to rob the house and beat people, they will sell eggs to you at will!”

Chen Zhushi muttered to herself, imitating the faces of Chen Guijia and Xu Huaiqian’s aunt Ma Cuifen. It is conceivable that he and Chen Xiaomei came out to collect eggs in such a big way, which just fell into the hands of the two. How could the villagers sell eggs to him?

Even Chen Zhushi wanted to persuade Xu Huaiqian after hearing this, otherwise you should not hatch chicks? It was unheard of to use a quilt to hatch chicks. Don’t let the chicks not hatch in the end and become a joke for the whole village.

Just when she was about to persuade him, she looked up and saw that Xu Huaiqian’s usually gentle eyes were full of anger, and she took back her words instantly.

Forget it, it’s better not to say anything about other people’s affairs.

Even clay people can get angry. Xu Huaiqian didn’t get angry, but it didn’t mean that he didn’t have a temper.

In the past, he had seen villagers who were talkative and kept talking about the neighbors, but it was the first time he saw people like Chen Guijia who turned the tables and threw dirty water everywhere.

Why didn’t she say that she didn’t educate the child well and let him run to someone else’s house to be a humiliator?

And his aunt, he didn’t go to her house to make trouble for her, but she came to his house first.

At that moment, he didn’t take the eggs, and turned around with Chen Xiaomei: “Let’s go home and find someone to build a kang!”

Only facts can break rumors.

 Didn’t they think he couldn’t hatch chicks with a quilt? He had to hatch them and show them!

When the time comes, all the things they said will be broken without a fight. He hope that when the evil power of rumors is fed back to them, they can be as calm as he is.

After returning home, Xu Huaiqian changed his usual slow and unhurried attitude and directly gave Chen Liejiu ten taels of silver. He asked him to find someone to build a wider house on the open space in the backyard. He didn’t need anything in the house, just a big kang.

The rest of the money was all exchanged for breeding eggs!

If he couldn’t get them in the village, he would go to the town to buy them. There would be no one that won’t sell them to him, right?

 Chen Liejiu was frightened by his generosity of ten taels of silver. He paused and took only five taels from him: “It’s just to build a house and buy some eggs. It doesn’t cost so much money. I only need half of it. The rest should be saved to buy medicine for you.”

Xu Huaiqian looked at the five taels he took away, and paused at his shocked expression. He was stunned: “Don’t you think I’m impulsive and spendthrift?”

“It’s a good thing for young people to be aggressive,” Chen Liejiu patted his shoulder, “Besides, you’re not spending money recklessly. Don’t feel pressured. You can make money again if you lose it. Don’t exhaust yourself just to make money.”

Chen Liejiu took the money and went to do things. Xu Huaiqian was still stunned by his words about young people.

Then he suddenly remembered that the original owner seemed to be three years younger than Chen Liejiu, and the actual age of this body was only seventeen years old.

So he thought he was tolerating Chen Liejiu, but in fact Chen Liejiu was accommodating him, a child?

 “Cough cough cough cough cough——”

Xu Huaiqian coughed a few times. He changed time and space. His soul age did not change, but his body age became younger. Are they older or younger?

Before Xu Huaiqian figured out this question, the house in the backyard grew like mushrooms after rain.

It was just a house for hatching chicks, not a house for living, nor a blue brick and tile house. Mud bricks were everywhere. Chen Liejiu bought the materials without much effort and called his younger brothers to build the house.

 Chen Guijia next door saw that Xu Huaiqian went to the village to collect eggs but failed, and asked Chen Liejiu to mess up the house instead. She pouted in dissatisfaction and gossiped with the villagers who were watching the fun: “See, I said that his quilt would not hatch chicks, and now it’s not done.”

“Speaking of which, he should thank me very much. If I hadn’t stopped the villagers from selling breeding eggs to him, I don’t know how long he would have messed around.”

Chen Guijia tied her waist while saying this, but it was pitiful for her old waist. That night, her husband found out that not only did she fail to exchange rice but she also angered Chen Liejiu. He pressed her on the bed and beat her for half a night. Until now, the bones in her waist still hurt, and the bruises on her body have not disappeared.

 Originally, she wanted to stop everyone from selling him eggs so that they could laugh at him, but she didn’t expect him to mess up the house and divert his attention instantly…

While she was thinking, Xu Huaiqian’s gentle laughter came over: “Aunt Gui is right, I have to thank you very much. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have made up my mind so quickly.”

Chen Guijia looked over and saw Xu Huaiqian’s pale face smiling at her. No matter how she tasted it, she felt that Xu Huaiqian’s smile had a creepy taste.

Before she could figure it out, Chen Liejiu drove a cow and pulled a cart of eggs over, stopping right in front of them.

Someone with sharp eyes and good eyesight said: “It seems that they are all breeding eggs.”

The people watching the fun exploded:

“What’s going on?”

“Didn’t we agree not to hatch chicks?”

“Why are you buying so many eggs?”

“Who said we won’t hatch chicks?” Xu Huaiqian pulled everyone’s doubts aside. “Not only do we hatch chicks, we’re also going to open a chickling workshop. In the future, if anyone wants to raise chickens, they can come to my house to buy chicks at any time. We’re from the same village, so I won’t charge you a high price.”

It just so happened that there were quite a few people in the village who had gathered around to watch him build a house, so Xu Huaiqian took the opportunity to advertise.

“Are you still hatching chicks?”

“It’s not just a small thing, you’re going to open a workshop.”

“Can this be successful without a brooding hen?”

Everyone has been raising chickens for so many years, and they only know that hens will brood when the season arrives. They just need to wait for the hen to brood, and then pick some eggs and put them in the nest. They have never heard of chicks that can be hatched without a brooding hen.

 Therefore, Chen Guijia went to the village and begged everyone not to sell eggs to Xu Huaiqian, and they agreed. But now that Xu Huaiqian bought so many eggs and vowed that they could buy chicks from him in the future, and they became uncertain again.

“The villagers are afraid that I can’t hatch chicks, so they don’t want to sell eggs to me. I understand,” Xu Huaiqian coughed lightly and expressed their doubts, “I had no choice but to go to the county to collect two taels of silver of breeding eggs. You might as well wait a little longer to see if I can hatch them.”

The villagers didn’t remember anything else Xu Huaiqian said, but they only remembered two taels of silver!

Two taels of silver! How many breeding eggs would that require? !

One penny for two eggs, two thousand pennies means four thousand eggs!

If this is shared among the villagers, each family will earn at least ten or twenty pennies!

With this money, you can buy some needlework for your family, a pound of meat, etc. Wouldn’t it be delicious? Why give it to others? 

After everyone made the calculation, the villagers, who felt that they had made a huge loss, looked at Chen Guijia with hatred, who urged them not to sell eggs to Xu Huaiqian.

Xu Huaiqian, who kept his achievements to himself, smiled and asked Chen Liejiu to move the eggs into his newly built incubator.

He also enthusiastically wiped the sweat off his face with a handkerchief.

He must not let his wife get too hot.