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"Second sister, what are you doing?"

He Jiahuan's arrival startled He Jiawen, and he quickly let go of Qin Hao and moved away.

"Oh, the chicks are hatched?"

Seeing that his fourth sister didn't notice anything unusual about him, He Jiawen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Hao was very unhappy that He Jiahuan disturbed his good time, and slapped He Jiahuan's hand that was trying to touch the chicken.

"The chicks are very fragile when they just hatch, and there are a lot of bacteria on your hands, so don't touch them."

He Jiahuan quickly retracted her hand. In her eyes, these were no longer little chicks, but old hens that laid eggs for her every day. She could not afford to make any mistakes.

"1.2.3..."

In one afternoon, six chicks hatched one after another.

"Brother Hao, they look very cold. Do you want to get some more cotton to keep them warm?" He Jiahuan asked worriedly.

Qin Hao took out a new cardboard box from the side. It was filled with hay, old cotton, and a hand warmer he had made the previous winter. It was wrapped with several layers of wool to avoid scalding the chicks.

After moving the six chicks to the new nest, they stopped shaking and became more energetic.

After a while, three more chicks hatched. He Jiahuan was worried that the chicks would starve to death without food.

"Go get some millet, soak it in warm water until soft, and bring it over."

"okay."

Seeing He Jiahuan's unusual diligence, He Jiayi complained: "Old Four is such a greedy girl, only eating can make her work harder."

He Jiawen was amused: "How dare you say that to her? You are not diligent enough even when there is something delicious. Be careful that the fourth child will snatch the eggs from you."

He Jiayi pouted and said, "Old Four is still too naive. How many eggs can these five chickens lay? We will definitely give them to our mother first. Most of the rest will be saved to exchange for sugar, industrial coupons, etc. We will be lucky if we can eat one a month."

Qin Hao smiled secretly, this third brother was really shrewd, no wonder he could do business.

After a while, He Jiahuan came over with a bowl of millet, and Qin Hao took out a can lid, crushed a grain of potassium permanganate, dissolved it in warm water, and put it into the cardboard box.

Watching the chick stumble over to the can lid to drink water, the three He Jiawen sisters all smiled with relief.

As we were talking, it was almost dark outside and the adults in each family had returned from get off work.

He Changsheng and Liu Meixin became interested when they heard that Qin Hao had actually hatched chicks. They just went out to take a look, but they ran into Liu Ma who lived opposite.

"Auntie Liu, are you planning to raise chickens as well?" Liu Meixin couldn't help but feel a little worried. With an additional competitor, would there still be five chicks to share with her family?

Aunt Liu rubbed her hands and said, "Raising chickens is good. Eggs are so hard to get now, right?"

With a competitor, the two families rushed into Qin Hao's house, and after entering the house, they looked at each other with vigilance.

"Lao Qin, Guilan, your Haozi is really capable. He has good academic performance, can fish, shoot sparrows, and even hatch chicks. He will definitely have a bright future. You just wait to enjoy his life." Aunt Liu said with a smile.

Liu Meixin got anxious when she heard this, and quickly praised Qin Hao: "Of course not, I have always liked Haozi since he was a child, he is smart and filial..."

Qin Hongqi and Zhou Guilan were humble in words, but they were very happy in their hearts.

As they were talking, two more chicks hatched.

Qin Hao put them in a new cardboard box. In order to prevent them from running around and being taken away by mice or weasels, he also made a simple anti-theft door for the cardboard box. He made two small holes at the opening of the box, and glued a piece of cardboard of the same size to the surface of two small branches, which were then inserted into the small holes. He then poked dozens of holes on the cardboard box to prevent lack of air inside.

"Wow, there are so many chicks. Are they all just hatched today?"

He Jiali had also gotten off work. When she heard her grandmother say that the chicks had hatched, she hurried over to watch the fun.

"8 eggs now. Now we have eggs to eat." He Jiahuan was still thinking about his eggs.

Liu Meixin was afraid that the night would be too long and she wanted to take the chicks back home. When Liu Ma saw this, she became anxious and also wanted to take five chicks back home.

"Aunt Liu, don't worry. The chicks have just hatched and are still very fragile. If you don't take good care of them, they will die. Besides, it's hard to tell the gender of the chicks right now. If you take them back, what if all of them are male?"

After hearing what Qin Hao said, Liu Meixin and Liu Ma could only look at each other and smile bitterly.

"Brother Hao, you said that we can't tell the gender of the chicks yet, so when can we tell?" He Jiahuan was very anxious. A family could only raise five chickens. One more would be capitalism, but raising one more rooster would be a waste.

"It will take at least a week, and it may not be accurate. It also depends on a bit of luck."

"Ah, does it still depend on luck?" He Jiahuan looked disappointed.

Qin Hao was amused: "I'm not a god, how can I guarantee that I'm 100% correct?"

Two days later, more than a dozen chicks hatched. As for the others, they were either dead eggs or eggs that had never been fertilized. In the end, they were all given to Zhou Guilan to collect.

There are twenty-three chicks in total. The chicks that hatched the day before have already started chirping non-stop. In order to give them a better space to grow, Qin Hao made a new cardboard box to raise them separately to prevent the chicks that hatched the day after from being unable to get food.

By the third day, the chicks had grown feathers. In fact, you can roughly tell whether they are male or female from this point on. The hen's main wing feathers and covert feathers have obvious differences in length, and the feathers are uneven, while the rooster's feathers grow more evenly and look neater.

However, this folk method has a relatively high error rate, so Qin Hao didn't mention it before, to avoid someone blaming him for bringing back too many roosters.

After all, in this era of material scarcity, raising chickens is also a considerable burden. We all rely on the hens to lay eggs, and the roosters are useless except for crowing and being eaten for meat.

In the past few days, the person who went to Qin Hao's house the most was the fourth child, He Jiahuan. If the male and female had not been distinguished yet, she would have started making reservations in advance.

On the seventh day, He Jiahuan hurried to Qin Hao's house early in the morning.

"Brother Hao, can you tell the difference between male and female today?"

Qin Hao smiled and tapped her forehead gently: "Look at your greedy look, be careful not to scare the chicken."

"hey-hey."

He Jiahuan acted like a spoiled child and begged Qin Hao to quickly distinguish the male from the female.

Qin Hao grabbed a chick, pressed it gently under her anus, and then began to put them into two small cardboard boxes. Soon, there were more than a dozen chicks in the left box, while there were only three or four in the right box.

"Brother Hao, which one is the female?" He Jiahuan asked nervously.

It wasn't until Qin Hao pointed at the many cartons that He Jiahuan breathed a sigh of relief.

He Jiawen also happily showed his two rows of white teeth.

"Brother Hao, how do you tell which is male and which is female? Why can't I tell?" He Jiayi asked curiously.

Qin Hao explained as he identified them: "Look here, these are their reproductive organs. The small granular protrusions are the hens, while the roosters have rice-sized protrusions. Don't try them out of curiosity when you get home. If you're not careful, you might crush the chicks to death."

"Oh." He Jiayi shrank her neck. Just now, she was thinking about going back and trying to see if it was really the same as what Qin Hao said.

It was quickly identified that there were 17 hens and six roosters in total.

Three families each had five and some left over.

Liu Meixin and Liu Ma only wanted hens, so the family picked five hens and took them home happily. Originally, Zhou Guilan also planned to raise only hens, but was persuaded by Qin Hao.

"Raise a rooster to make it crow, so that it can be bred later. Otherwise, if it dies, it will be a hassle to get eggs from it."

Zhou Guilan was still a little reluctant: "A hen can lay a lot of eggs."

In the end, it was Qin Hongqi who made the final decision: "Just listen to your son. When has your son ever let you suffer any loss?"

The remaining three hens and five roosters were taken by Qin Hongqi as favors. Anyway, he couldn't raise more chickens at home, so he might as well give them to other families to raise and get a favor, killing two birds with one stone.

Now the situation is very lively. The Qin, He and Zhang families all raise chickens. Every day there are nests of chicks chirping, which inevitably leads to reports from jealous people.

But when the market inspection team came and took a look, they found that each household only raised five chickens, which was not considered a violation.

"Who is this? Why is he so rude? Can't stand seeing others doing well?"

"That's right. If you have the ability, you can raise your own child. What's the point of being jealous of others?"

Even Liu Ma and Zhou Guilan, who were both very good-tempered, were very angry, and Liu Mei Xin also kept complaining.

"What's wrong with the social atmosphere now? People get jealous when they see others living a better life. They fight over this today and that tomorrow, and don't think about how to improve production quality at all."

He Changsheng sighed: "Who said it wasn't true? Now the leaders above don't dare to do anything. They are always worried about making mistakes. How can this continue?"

He Jiahuan doesn't care about all this mess. She only knows that she will fight to the death with anyone who dares to touch her chicken.

In order to make the chicks grow faster, she not only ran to the fields to catch grasshoppers and dragonflies, but also went to the farmers' market to pick up rotten vegetable leaves to feed the chicks.

As a result, after a month, she found that the chicks she had taken good care of were not growing as fast as the chicks from Qin Hao's house next door.

Zhang Qiufang, who lives next door, was also confused about this issue. She worked in a supply and marketing cooperative and often got some bran and other things to feed the chickens. However, after a month, the chickens in her family were obviously smaller than those in Qin Hao's family.

"Do you have any secret to raising chickens?" He Jiawen was also very curious.

Qin Hao smiled and said, "There must be a secret, but since it is a secret, it cannot be said casually. The law cannot be passed on lightly, do you understand?"

"Can't you even tell me?" He Jiawen looked at Qin Hao tenderly.

"This is our family's secret recipe, passed down from generation to generation. If you want to know, you must..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you marry into our family."

He Jiawen was shy and was about to lower her head to avoid Qin Hao's gaze, but she saw a sly smile on Qin Hao's lips and suddenly came to her senses.

"You're so annoying. You lied to me again."

Qin Hao grabbed He Jiawen's soft little hand and said, "The ancestral inheritance is just a lie, but the secret is real. How about it? Do you want to consider it?"

"Hmph, you liar, I don't believe your lies." He Jiawen glared at Qin Hao fiercely.

"You really don't want to know?"

"Forget it. Is it strange?"

Qin Hao smiled evilly and said, "Okay, don't come to beg me when the time comes."

"Huh, no way."

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. It was March, the season of lush grass and singing birds. Suddenly, in the Qin family's yard, there came a burst of "cluck~~~" sounds of hens.

Liu Meixin from next door perked up when she heard this: "The chicken next door has laid eggs."

At this point the chicks have already grown up and appear to be about the same size as an adult hen.

He Jiahuan immediately ran to the chicken coop and said, "The sisters next door have already started laying eggs. You guys should work harder!"

Although He Jiayi is not as naive as the fourth child, he is also full of expectations: "The family next door has laid eggs, and our family will probably be soon."

So, for the next week, He Jiayi and He Jiahuan went to clean the chicken coop every day, and they would do it two or three times a day. Unfortunately, their own chickens showed no signs of laying eggs at all.

"That's not right. All the chicks hatched one after the other. How come his chickens lay eggs so early?"

Another week passed, and the chickens of the He and Zhang families were still silent. The hens of Qin Hao's family had already laid several rounds of eggs. The four sisters of the He family and Zhang Qiufang could no longer sit still, and ran to Qin Hao's house to "watch".

It turned out that there was nothing special about Qin Hao's chicken coop, and there was nothing special about the food they fed them, just ordinary rice bran.

"Hey, what is this?"

Until Qin Hao took out a canning glass bottle and poured a ball of "mud" into the chicken coop.

“It’s an earthworm!”

He Jiawen suddenly came to his senses when he saw the earthworms wriggling in the soil being snatched away by several hens.

"Can chickens lay more eggs if they eat earthworms?" Zhang Qiufang asked doubtfully.

Qin Hao smiled and said: "The vast majority of eggs are protein, and earthworms are not only rich in protein, but also contain a variety of amino acids and trace elements, which can effectively promote the growth of poultry and effectively increase the egg production rate of poultry."

After saying that, he looked at He Jiawen again: "Scientific breeding is also a science."

He Jiawen's lips moved slightly: "Okay, I won't give up studying."

At this moment, Zhang Qiufang and her brother were also deeply touched. When they returned, Zhang Qiufang gave her brother some instructions.

"Qiulin, you must study hard in the future and don't be influenced by other people in school. Even if the college entrance examination is not resumed in the future, you can't give up studying."

Zhang Qiulin nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I understand, sister."

After using Qin Hao's method, several hens from the He family and the Zhang family started laying eggs within a week, which made both families very happy.

He Jiahuan was so greedy that his mouth was watering: "Mom, there were three eggs yesterday and four eggs today. The fifth child is still young, so it's just right for each of us to have one. Let's make boiled eggs to eat?"

He Jiayi's eyes also lit up.

However, Liu Meixin's words were like a bucket of cold water that poured down on them.

"What are you thinking? One boiled egg per person. What kind of family can eat like this? The second child can just use one egg to make egg drop soup to satisfy his craving. The rest can be saved. You can use it to buy oil or sugar later."

"Ah~~~" (End of this chapter)