Siheyuan: Started in 1950, third-level cook

The next day, early in the morning.

Early in the morning, the third uncle Yan Bugui came to the backyard fully armed.

But what he didn't expect was that the brothers Liu Guangfu and Liu Guangtian arrived earlier than him.

However, the two brothers came to see Chen Jun so early not just to make a fishing appointment.

Chen Jun only has time to go fishing in the afternoon and evening.

So the two of them came so early to help Chen Jun wash the vegetables and pack up the things for setting up the stall in advance.

Yan Bugui couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed when he saw this.

Good guy, I was so careless!

It turns out that I haven’t thought it through as carefully as these two guys.

So he took advantage of the fact that Chen Jun hadn't come out yet and went back quietly.

With the help of these two brothers, we finished preparing the ingredients for the stall just before nine o'clock.

Chen Jun was not stingy and generously gave Liu Guangfu a ball of bait made of diluted cornmeal.

It’s just that this time there’s a little more cornmeal mixed in, so it’s not as strong as last time.

I guess these two brothers can fish until the afternoon.

It’s not that Chen Jun was reluctant to give them more super bait, but he put too much last time and the effect was too good.

It's okay once or twice, but if it happens too often, other people will notice it.

After expressing their gratitude, brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu happily went out to go fishing.

The New Year is coming soon, and they not only have to make money to buy delicious food, but also firecrackers.

During the Chinese New Year, if you don’t even have firecrackers, the other kids in the alley won’t want to play with you.

Chen Jun packed up and prepared to set up his stall.

Today is the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month. Chen Jun plans to work for two more days and then take a day off.

There is no end to making money, so you need to set aside two days to rest and prepare some New Year’s goods.

Just when Chen Jun set up the stall and started cooking, Jia Zhang on the other side had just woken up.

In the first half of the night, Jia Zhang would go to the chicken coop from time to time to take a look, which caused her to fall asleep at one or two o'clock in the morning.

After falling asleep, she dreamed of getting rich all night. She dreamed that her old hen had become a spirit. When she woke up, the chicken coop was full of eggs, so many that they were about to overflow.

Rubbing her eyes, Jia Zhang looked out the window and found that the sun had risen high.

Bad eggs!

Jia Zhangshi jumped up from the bed with a clang.

He quickly put on his clothes and went out excitedly to pick up eggs.

"Qin Huairu is so tactless that she didn't even bother to wake me up!" Jia Zhang cursed as she walked out of the door.

She was worried that she would go out late and the eggs in the chicken coop would be stolen.

He came to the chicken coop, bent over and looked inside.

Hey, where are the eggs?

How come there isn't any hour?

Unwilling to give up, she squeezed into the chicken coop and searched carefully, but still couldn't find a single egg.

"Qin Huairu, Qin Huairu, where have you been? All our eggs have been stolen!" Jia Zhang mistakenly thought that someone in the yard had stolen her eggs, and she started yelling immediately.

"Qin Huairu? Get out here now!"

After shouting several times, Qin Huairu finally came over from the front yard, holding her belly.

She went to ask the three aunts for tips on raising children.

"Mom, what's wrong again?" Qin Huairu said impatiently.

"What's wrong? Our eggs were stolen!" Jia Zhang shouted, "How can you look after your home? You didn't even know that the eggs were stolen?"

"Girls from the countryside just don't have good eyesight. I was really blind to let you into our Jia family."

Qin Huairu felt wronged when she heard this. What did the eggs have to do with being stolen?

She has been married to Jia Dongxu for so long, but she has always been despised by Jia Zhang.

"Mom, where are the eggs? Your five old hens didn't lay any eggs at all. I checked early in the morning."

No eggs laid?

How can it be!

Jia Zhang was shocked and quickly lowered her head again.

Looking at the chicken feed I spread yesterday, all the broken corn and rotten vegetable leaves had been eaten up, and the coarse salt on the ground was indeed not moved at all.

Not only did the coarse salt not move, but the water in the small sink also did not move.

This water was flushed by Jia Zhang with coarse salt, so that the hens could ingest more coarse salt when drinking water.

But who would have thought that these old hens would be so ungrateful.

This coarse salt also costs money. If the old hen doesn’t eat it, how can it lay eggs?

Thinking of this, Jia Zhang felt so heartbroken.

Ten eggs are gone just like that. These damn old hens really need to be punished.

After kicking each of the five old hens, Jia Zhang went back to the house cursing.

After a while, she came out with a bucket of coarse salt.

First, I poured out yesterday's water and replaced it with new water, then added a handful of coarse salt.

Then he felt unsafe, so he simply walked into the chicken coop, grabbed an old hen, and fed it coarse salt by pinching its throat.

"A bunch of conscienceless people, you don't want to drink a toast, so you have to drink a forfeit, right?"

"Eat, eat it all!"

Qin Huairu, who was standing by, couldn't help but twitch her eyelids when she saw this.

How do you feed chickens like this?

Putting aside whether this coarse salt is useful or not, the old hen is so frightened that it is impossible for her to lay eggs.

What a bullshit chicken-raising expert! Qin Huairu suspected that Jia Zhang made up the title for herself.

In this way, Jia Zhang strangled the five old hens one by one and fed them coarse salt.

Give each chicken a small handful, and after feeding, the old hen will cluck and automatically go to drink water.

"Hahahaha, isn't this drinkable water?"

Jia Zhang clapped her hands and walked out of the chicken coop contentedly.

She hadn't had breakfast yet, so she had to go get something to eat.

The original plan was to pick up ten eggs in the morning and fry five or six of them to satisfy my craving.

But the old hen was not strong enough, so I could only cook some rice porridge to fill my stomach.

Wait until the hen lays eggs in the afternoon and then make up for this meal.

After preparing some food, Jia Zhang went back to bed.

At around one o'clock, the aunts and old ladies in the yard gathered in the middle courtyard to bask in the sun together.

Some were making cloth shoes, some were knitting sweaters, and some were sewing clothes for the clay monkeys at home.

Jia Zhang, who was awakened, yawned and jumped out of bed.

If it were any other time, Jia Zhang would definitely join the group chat.

Although she looked down on the aunties in the courtyard, her life at home was very boring, and she and Qin Huairu had nothing to talk about.

I opened the door and walked into the yard, and the chattering of the aunties in the yard suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, Jia Zhang couldn't help but frown.

"What were you talking about just now?"

She felt like these aunties were teasing her behind her back.

The aunts looked at each other in bewilderment. In the end, the second aunt laughed dryly and asked quickly, "Aren't we talking about raising chickens? Have your chickens laid eggs?"

In fact, Second Aunt and the others were indeed complaining about Jia Zhang, as they felt that Jia Zhang didn't know how to raise chickens at all.

It's bad enough that I just wasted money, but I also had to feed the chickens with crushed corn.

I really have a lot of money to burn. It would be great if I could grind the corn into cornmeal.