When Su's mother came back with the eggs, Liu Huan asked her to catch Xiaohong, and he found some unwanted clothes and straw to spread on the clothes.

Holding the eggs in the sun to look at them, Su's mother asked indulgently, "But have you figured out anything?"

Liu Huan nodded seriously: "They are all good eggs."

She remembered to check with a candle. If there were black spots inside, it meant the eggs were fertilized. Only such eggs could hatch chicks. She checked all ten of them and found black spots inside.

Xiaohong in her hand began to resist, and Su's mother told her to hurry up: "You can still tell good from bad, put it in quickly."

In order to let Xiao Shi feel involved, Liu Huan specially left five for him: "Brother, you can release these five."

Xiao Shi, who was originally envious, smiled and stepped forward, carefully placed the egg inside and asked, "Huan Huan, is this right?"

"Yeah, that's awesome, bro."

“Huan Huan is also great”

Su's mother also took one out from her own basket and put it in, probably to prove whether what Liu Huan said was correct.

Interrupting their mutual flattery: "Okay, you two move away, I'm going to let it in."

After Su's mother let the chicks go, the two little ones still gathered around Xiaohong and watched, wishing that the chicks would come out tomorrow.

Xiao Shi propped his chin with one hand and asked, "Huan Huan, when do you think the chicks will come out?"

"It will probably take another twenty days." She couldn't remember the exact time.

Xiao Shi pursed his lips and said, "So long?"

Liu Huan comforted him: "Soon, we will be there in a blink of an eye. What we need to do now is to find food for the chicks. Otherwise, what will they eat when they come out?"

Liu Huan didn't want to appear too different, so he brought Xiao Shi along, so that the adults would think that the child just happened to do it by accident and wouldn't be suspicious.

Xiao Shi tilted his head to look at Xiao Hong's mouth, opened his eyes wide and asked, "But what do chicks eat?"

Liu Huan pretended to think and guided Xiao Shi, "I don't know. I saw Xiao Huang eat an earth dragon the other day. How about we dig it up and try?"

The two men took hoes and went to the vegetable garden next to them and dug around. After making a mess, they finally dug out a few ground traps.

Cao'er came out to pick vegetables and was startled when she saw this: "What are you two doing? Come out quickly. If you damage the seedlings, I won't teach you a lesson."

Xiao Shi grabbed a ground dragon and said, "Let's prepare food for the chickens."

Cao Er gently taught her: "Even if this is the case, you can't come here next time, you know? If you spoil the food, we won't have anything to eat."

The two men admitted their mistakes and took the earthworms to feed the chicken, but they didn't expect the chicken to swallow one in one bite.

Xiao Shi swallowed unconsciously, his eyes sparkling, "Huan Huan, it really ate it, let's go find it again."

The two of them went out again with the basket and stayed there for the whole day.

Even when the workers came back, they were still missing. Shitou washed his hands and looked around, "Where's Huanhuan Xiaoshi?"

Usually at this time the flatterer would come running over and say thank you for Shitou’s hard work.

Cao'er wondered: "Didn't they go to look for you? I saw them go out with shovels."

Dashi shook his head: "No, I haven't seen it."

Shitou didn't even wash his hands and went out to look for them. When he saw two people carrying baskets and talking and laughing a hundred meters away from his home, he felt relieved.

"Where have you been? Why are you back so late?"

The sudden sound scared Xiao Shi so much that he dropped the basket, and the earth dragon inside fell out, and he quickly scooped it back with his hands.

Liu Huan ran up to him, holding up the basket and said happily, "Shitou, look at the earth dragon we dug, isn't it amazing?"

Shitou took the basket without saying a word and walked home carrying it.

Mother Su was about to suffer from intensive phobia when she saw so many traps. "Oh my God, what are you catching these for?"

Xiao Shi stepped forward to take credit, "This is what Huanhuan and I caught to feed the chicks. We'll give it to them when they come out."

Father Su was skeptical: "Can this chicken be eaten?"

Liu Huan said: "Yes, we caught Xiao Hong and ate him just now, right, brother?"

Xiao Shi nodded proudly, "Yes, Huanhuan and I caught it together."

Cao'er was far away, covering his eyes and asking, "We don't know when the chicks will come out, can they be left there for so long?"

Liu Huan had already thought of a solution. "Dry it in the sun. Aren't all the vegetables we eat in winter dried in the sun? This earth dragon should work too. Let's dry it in the sun now so we can feed it to them later."

Before going to bed that night, Su's father and mother were still discussing, "Huanhuan is smart, if he were a boy, it would be amazing."

Su's mother disagreed: "What's wrong with being a girl? She can still do anything."

"If it really works, then we will raise more. When we have money, we will send Shitou to school. He is smart and will definitely be a good student."

The eldest cousin from the uncle's family is studying in the town. He is the only educated person in the village. Su's mother has an obsession in her heart, which is to hope that there will be an educated person in the family.

Father Su sighed. He didn't even dare to think about studying, but he didn't want to pour cold water on his wife: "Well, let's read it. I'm going to sleep."

In the next room, Shitou's eyes were wide open with a gleam in them. Next to him was Liu Huan, who was sleeping but not yet fully awake. Seeing that she was restless and turning over, he reached out to pat her and comfort her, spending a sleepless night.

The chicks hatched on the twentieth day after being laid down.

During these twenty days, everyone in the Su family would tacitly put the earth dragons in bamboo tubes when they saw them, take them home, cook them in a broken iron pot, and then put them in the sun to dry and preserve them. They have already collected a small bag.

Liu Huan would go to see if Xiaohong was inside every day and put all the water and food in front of her, for fear that she would come out and leave the eggs cold.

In the last few days, she went to listen every morning to see if there were any chicks.

On the twentieth day, she overslept. Xiao Shi got up early and saw a furry little head underneath the hen. He excitedly ran into the house to tell her.

"Huanhuan, the chicks are out."

Liu Huan was suddenly awakened from her sleep. She was not angry that Xiao Shi interrupted her from chewing the chicken leg in her dream. She put on her shoes and ran towards the chicken coop.

I reached my hand towards Xiaohong's belly, like taking out an egg. Xiaohong pecked my hand, but fortunately it was through my clothes, leaving a red mark.

"Hiss" She withdrew her hand in pain, she was careless.

Xiao Shi shouted nervously, "Mom, Huanhuan was pecked by a chicken."

Mother Su put down the wild vegetables in her hand and pulled her up to check, "Where did you peck at?"

Seeing no bleeding, he heaved a sigh of relief. "Being pecked by a chicken will also make you sick. Someone in the village died a few days after being pecked by a chicken. You should stay away from it in the future."

The two nodded seriously, it was really horrible.

Mother Su stared at Xiao Hong and said happily, "I heard chicks crowing last night, but I don't know how many there were, but it wouldn't let me see them."

"I didn't expect you guys to figure it out. Your father went out to cut bamboo early in the morning with rocks and stones, saying he wanted to prepare a nest for them."

"Your sister has gone to catch earth dragons. Now that you two are up, go wash your faces. I won't let you see it if I'm watching it."

After saying a lot of things, Su's mother went on to pick wild vegetables.

The two of them quickly went to wash up, and then squatted in front of Xiaohong to watch tacitly.

They didn't get up until Su's father and his men came back carrying bamboos.

Liu Huan couldn't wait to show Shitou the damaged parts of his body, "I was pecked by Xiaohong."

Shitou took her hand and frowned and asked, "How did you do that?"

Xiao Shi answered for her: "Huan Huan went to catch the chicks, and Xiao Hong didn't want to, so she pecked her."

Shitou pressed her lightly with his hands and she cried out in pain, so he had to let go. "Are you stupid to provoke it?"

Liu Huan was unhappy and pouted: "It hurts~"

Shitou lowered his head and blew on the red spot twice, "It doesn't hurt anymore, go ahead."

Liu Huan chuckled twice and finally felt satisfied.

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