[Qing Chuan] The Empress Dowager Raising Cubs Daily

Qi Shou, Long Xi and Yong Gan all shuddered.

Like chicks just hatched, they curled up tremblingly, making soft chirping sounds.

Qiqige really couldn't do anything.

She had no choice but to pretend to be stern, and said coldly, "Do you dare to do it next time?"

Qi Shou, Long Xi and Yong Gan lowered their heads with guilt.

Qiqige crossed her arms, but before she could say anything serious, the Empress Dowager hurried over, "What happened? Where did the smell of rotten eggs come from?"

Qiqige urged in a deep voice: "Don't tell me why?"

Qi Shou looked left at Long Xi, who was drooping with his small head hanging down, and at right Yong Gan, who was tearful and pitiful, and finally had no choice but to bite the bullet and answer: "The grandchildren...just want to hatch chickens... ..."

Qi Shou let out a sob.

He rubbed his eyes with his small hands, while secretly looking at the Empress Dowager and Qiqige, he explained, "Woo... grandson, grandson didn't do it on purpose, grandson wanted to raise chicks and give them to Huang Mama." , Give it to Huang Erniang, so that Huang Mama and Huang Erniang will always have fresh eggs to eat!"

Sounds like a good enough reason.

Qiqige had already seen through Qishou's little thoughts, and chose to puncture it without hesitation: "If you want to eat fresh eggs, you only need chickens from grass reeds. Why do you need to incubate eggs yourself? To put it bluntly, you Just want to play, right?"

Qi Shou's heart was pierced: "Um..."

He looked left and right, up and down, but he didn't dare to look at Qiqige.As for Longxi and Yongqian, they lowered their heads, stared straight at the ground, and looked at the aggrieved ones.

The Empress Dowager smiled helplessly.

As the so-called intergenerational relatives, although the Empress Dowager did not pay as much attention to the other grandchildren as she did to Xiao Kangxi, she still loved her a lot.

Seeing that the three children were as pitiful as little cabbages, she quickly rolled her eyes at Qiqige, and then comforted her in a gentle voice: "If you have such filial piety, Mama Huang will be satisfied."

"Imperial Mama!"

"Huang Mama, woo woo woo!"

The eyes of all three children lit up.

They rushed to the empress dowager's side, and shared their grievances and hardships one by one: "We have worked hard to incubate the eggs, but the eggs have not grown chicks and are broken. The grandchildren are really serious." It really wasn't intentional..."

The Empress Dowager listened to the children's troubles with a smile.

Why all the fuss about this little thing?She glanced at Qiqige, and then said softly: "Where is someone who never fails? We must never say never, get up from where we fall, and try again, twice or thrice, there will always be success."

Qishou, Longxi and Yongqian burst into tears and laughed.

They nodded heavily: "Well, the grandchildren will definitely hatch chicks!"

The spirit was relaxed, and the three children immediately dozed off.

Little by little, their little heads yawned one after another.After the Empress Dowager ordered the nanny to take the three elder brothers to rest in Longxi's room, she stopped smiling and slashed at Qiqige: "Look at what you've done?"

Qiqige: .........?

She was stunned for a moment, and then cried out: "Your servant is wronged!"

The empress dowager's face was dark: "If you didn't raise chickens in the reeds, where would such a thing come from?"

Qiqige was terrified, and the words "wronged" were rolling in her mind.

She pursed her lips and muttered softly: "It's obvious that they did it secretly. If you ask Erchen, Erchen will teach them how to hatch eggs. How can such a thing happen?"

The empress dowager was in a complicated mood: "You are the only one who can still hatch eggs?"

The empress dowager believed that she was the only one who had a ghost, and she complained angrily: "Aijia sees that you can eat, drink, sleep, and hatch eggs? I'm afraid you know the thirteen ways to eat eggs?"

It's about Qiqige's previous egg feast.

Qiqige's cheeks were slightly flushed, and she was somewhat unconvinced: "Erchen really knows how to hatch eggs!"

The empress dowager smiled, "You said that."

She poked Qiqige on the forehead: "Then you will hatch a brood of chicks yourself, if you can't hatch chicks..."

Qiqige pricked up her ears.

The Empress Dowager smiled and used her big move: "This year's winter ice play, you should stay in the palace!"

Now Qiqige is really in a hurry.

In the first year of Kangxi, due to the serious illness of Emperor Shunzhi, the Ice Play Conference was not held.

In the second year of Kangxi, due to the serious illness of Empress Xiaokang, the ice play meeting was not held.

Seeing that this year is finally a year of peace, the Ice Play Conference must be held, but I can't go?

Qiqige took a deep breath.

She squatted deeply and saluted, taking over the task with confidence.

The Empress Dowager glanced at her: "I remember it was in person."

The Empress Dowager always felt that if she didn't say this, Qiqige would be able to let the eunuchs in charge choose eggs and raise eggs.

Qiqige's cheeks bulged.

The Empress Dowager could only show her distrust on her face, she answered with a stern face: "I know."

The bet between the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager soon spread throughout the harem.

The toffees are still a little worried, it's just such a thing as hatching eggs... No one has done it?Little Fujin Dong Eshi scratched his cheek: "I tried it once before, but I accidentally crushed the bird's egg that day!"

Not to mention Qishou, Longxi and Yonggan.

They followed Qiqige curiously, like three little tails.

The strange thing is that not only did they not see the Queen Mother hatching eggs for two days, but they also found that the Queen Mother had been busy with other things.

In the end, Qi Shou couldn't bear it anymore.

While circling around Qiqige, he wondered, "Emperor Niang, haven't you started hatching eggs yet? If you don't start, it will be too late!"

Qiqige waved her hand: "No hurry, no hurry."

The official start was the third day, and she asked the palace servants to fetch the eggs that the hen had brooded for about three days, and then called the three Qishou over.

Qishou looked at the eggs, which were the same, and then at Qiqige.

Qiqige held up an egg high, allowing sunlight to penetrate directly through the eggshell: "Look, if there are black spots or bloodshots that cannot see through the light, it means that it is an egg that may hatch a chick."

The faces of the three children were blank: "Hey...?"

Qishou, Longxi, and Yongqian hurriedly lifted up the eggs to examine them, and were surprised to find that just like what Huang Erniang said, the seemingly thick eggshells could pass through light, and they could still see lumps of color inside.

Just seeing it is enough to make the three children excited.

Their eyes widened in surprise, and they screamed excitedly holding the eggs, and the exclamation even alarmed Xiao Kangxi, Fuquan and Chang Ning who came to pay their respects.

Little Kangxi, Fuquan and Chang Ning also took a look at the eggs.

After the light passes through each egg, everything is different. Some have obvious blood streaks, some can see mottled black spots, and of course most of them are yellow-red halos that mean that fertilization has not been successful.

"I can really see it." Fuquan showed surprise.

"Awesome! So amazing, Queen Mother, I can really see it!" Chang Ning held an egg in one hand, his eyes sparkled.

Little Kangxi pursed his lips tightly.

Just by looking at his equally sparkling eyes, and the quickening of the egg replacement, you can tell that Xiao Kangxi also finds it all very miraculous.

With three more assists, the progress of checking the eggs was instantly accelerated, and it took only half a cup of tea to pick out a basket of eggs.

After choosing the right eggs, it is not easy to hatch them.Qiqige asked the palace servants to fetch bamboo charcoal, wheat stalks and grass powder, spread them in the bamboo basket in a decent manner, put the eggs one by one, and then covered them with a quilt to keep warm.

Of course, it is difficult to maintain a constant temperature in this way.

Two days ago, Qiqige originally wanted to make a simple thermometer to measure the temperature, but firstly, the palace staff needed to make glazed bottles and hollow tubes, and secondly, it was difficult to maintain a constant temperature by this method. In the end, Qiqi Grid still thought of the easiest way.

The constant temperature of the human body is between 36.7-37.7°C, while the temperature for egg incubation is generally around 37-38°C.

Therefore, Qiqige left a vacant room among the grass reeds, lit a fire inside to raise the temperature, and made the palace servants wear thin shirts to enter the room until they were slightly sweating but not profusely sweating.Of course, there is also a basin of water to control the humidity in the room.

Not to mention Qishou, Longxi, and Yongqian staring at it for a while, even Xiao Kangxi, Fuquan, and Chang Ning were also stunned: "So there are so many requirements in raising chickens? But I saw Caolu's hatching eggs are also ..."

Qiqige nodded: "If there is no artificial breeding, the hen will not hatch chicks frequently under natural circumstances, and the eggs produced are ordinary eggs, which usually start to hatch in spring, such as when the temperature is too high in autumn and winter. Low, it is naturally difficult to improve the survival rate of chicks.”

Little Kangxi's eyes lit up.

He looked around thoughtfully: "According to what Er Niang said, as long as the temperature and humidity are controlled, chicks can be hatched all year round?"

Qiqige thought about it.

Under Xiao Kangxi's scorching gaze, she nodded: "That's right."

Little Kangxi was shocked.

If chicks can be born all year round, will it increase the production of chicken?After the chicks grow up, can they increase the production of eggs even more?Thinking of these things made his breathing quicken a lot.

At the same time, Xiao Kangxi had another idea.

His cheeks were slightly flushed, and he asked excitedly: "Mother Huang, what about duck eggs and goose eggs? Can they also hatch?"

Qiqige smiled and said, "Although Huang Erniang has never tried it, it should be similar, right?"

Little Kangxi's original three-point curiosity rose to seven or eight points.

He was gearing up, and in the days that followed, he actually had to wander around the greenhouse every day, seeing that he was even more diligent than Qi Qige.

Not only that, Xiao Kangxi has countless problems.

For example, he wants to record the daily development and changes of each egg, and even draw simple images, and has different opinions on temperature, humidity, and the number of times to turn eggs.

At the same time, Xiao Kangxi also suggested that more control groups should be used for experiments, and even proposed to register the age and physical condition of the hens that laid eggs.

Just...how should I put it?

The original relaxed and happy parent-child time, the happy time that would have been complained about by others, was inexplicably and wonderfully changed under the whim of Xiao Kangxi.

Little Kangxi was still chattering.

Qiqige put on a blank face, the filter she once had for Xiao Kangxi has been completely shattered.Now there was only one thought on her mind: to gag him.

Just this mouth.

In future generations, it is likely to be the most annoying Party A!