Parents are busy farming

When Zi Zifen came to buy the gatekeeper for Fuke, she had already thought of this and bought it together.

Li Daniu felt relieved after hearing what Ye Zifen said. It wasn't that he didn't want to raise them by himself, but since he had to raise sheep, horses, and probably a few mules this year, he was a little tired on his own.

In addition, he also has to send messages to Ye Zifen everywhere.

Following the young lady's arrangements, he will only be busier this year, and he doesn't dare to take on too much of his life.

In addition, he also wanted to find a little helper. Sometimes he was really busy, but he didn't have the nerve to talk to Ye Zifendi in public.

When he went to the Luo Ke people to get people, he found that it was as he wanted, because what Ye Zifen bought was a family, a woman and two boys.

The woman was a widow. She really had no ability to support her family, so she sold her home. In fact, she still had two daughters, but they had been bought away.

Originally, the boy could be bought alone, but as soon as the woman said she wanted to buy it, she wanted to buy them as a family. When she bought the two girls, she was already heartbroken.

Ye Zifen also thought that we should buy some boys, so we bought them together.

But she didn't tell Li Daniu. Fortunately, Li Daniu could arrange several people by himself.

Seeing that no one had any objections, Ye Zifen took out the money that he had prepared in advance.

After all, buying so many ducklings requires principal.

Before everyone took the money, Xiang Zhibo said: "I suggest that we just buy duck eggs. Once spring comes, it will be easier for the chickens at home to have nests. We can just let the chickens hatch those duck eggs into ducklings!"

Zhao Youde asked: "With so many ducklings, how many chickens are needed?"

Xiang Zhibo was speechless, but when Ye Zifen heard this, he suddenly thought of artificially hatching chickens and ducks.

She heard Lu Yunduo talk about this when she was five or six years old. She was still young at that time, so she did it out of curiosity.

Not to mention, more than 20 chicks were actually hatched at that time, and the survival rate was quite high.

When Mrs. Lu saw that she had made a chick, she took it back to the Lu family to raise her when she was half-grown, and eventually she became the Lu family's chick.

Hers was taken away, and she was still sad for a few days! After that she stopped handling the chickens, ducks and geese.

Because I know I can't keep it.

What happened at that time? She wanted to go back and look through the diary to see if there was anything recorded at that time.

But she thought it was unlikely, because after all, it was something that was played for fun when she was a child.

Even if she had no memory, it would probably be feasible if she thought about it again.

"Just when Xiang Zhibo was dejected, Ye Zifen said: I have a method for artificial incubation."

When Xiang Zhibo heard this, he immediately became energetic and looked at Ye Zifen.

"Then you go back and buy some duck eggs first. You must buy the kind of duck eggs that have male ducks at home, otherwise they won't be able to hatch ducklings. In addition, I will go back to experiment and directly hatch ducklings artificially. I remember playing this when I was young. I have lived this thing and it was successful.”

After Ye Zifen finished speaking, several other people opened their mouths in surprise. They only knew that chickens could hatch ducks and goslings instead of ducks and geese, but they didn't expect that humans could also hatch.

And they secretly cursed in their hearts, ‘How to artificially hatch chickens and ducks? Could it be that he presses his body on top of the eggs to hatch them like a hen? ’

However, they only dared to think about it in their hearts, and it was obvious that this was not what Ye Zifen meant.

Then Ye Zifen thought of another thing and did not forget to remind them: "Also, the duck eggs must be fresh, so that the hatching rate will be high."

Several other people knew about this and naturally nodded in agreement.

Zhao Youde saw that Ye Zifen was deep in thought, thinking that he would go back to collect the duck eggs if he had nothing else to do, so he said goodbye.

Said: "How about we go back now and spread the news about collecting duck eggs. After all, it will take a certain amount of time to collect so many duck eggs."

Ye Zifen thought the same way and said, "If I find a method for artificial incubation here, I'll write it down on paper and ask Li Daniu to send it to you."

"Okay, let's go back and prepare."

Zi Zifen said: "I don't know how many years it will take to raise Zi Zi. If the duck makes money, Zhuangzi and I will split it 50-50. This money does not need to be recorded in the account. You can spend it on your own."

Ye Zifen gave them the money in disguise.

Several people finally became excited after hearing this.

Everyone stood up and planned to leave, but before leaving, Ye Zifen specifically warned Xiang Qiang and Xiang Zhibo.

We must take good care of the tenant farmers. As long as they stop causing trouble, we will directly provide them with some food subsidies after the river is dug.

After seeing them off, Ye Zifen was still worried, so she went to see Magistrate Su.

When I told him that the tenant farmers on Zhuangzi had begun digging river channels, Magistrate Su was also shocked.

But he also knew that this was definitely not a leak from Ye Zifen.

Hearing Ye Zifen say that they were only dredging the river and there was no water grabbing situation, I felt a little more at ease.

He knew that Ye Zifen came to him and wanted him to send someone over to keep an eye on it.

Living up to Ye Zifen's expectations, Su County Magistrate immediately ordered five people, and these days he took turns going to her village to keep an eye on these people.

"When you go to watch, just tell those people that the Yamen has taken over the task of digging that section of the river. Since they have contributed, our Yamen will pay the wages. In addition, you must keep an eye on them to prevent them from spreading any rumors. Rumors that shouldn’t be coming!”

Magistrate Su said with a serious expression, not joking at all.

The government officials also knew the importance of this matter and nodded one after another. They went over together to take a look at the situation, and began to take turns on duty in the next few days.

"Such things will definitely happen again. After all, experienced farmers can still sense changes in the weather. Maybe drought will really happen! Let's seize the opportunity to dig river channels! It can also give those people a little hope. It can block them for a while. Q."

Magistrate Su nodded, "I'll let them start preparations now. It probably won't take a few days."

Ye Zifen returned to the research team's room, holding her chin and trying to remember how to hatch eggs when she was a child. She vaguely remembered that it seemed to be on the kang.

The kang was kept burning for twelve hours, and a quilt was put on it. She couldn't remember anything else.

The only thing she remembers is that Lu Yongfu once laughed at her, "Hatching a chicken once can kill a person, why not just let the hen hatch!" ’

Finally, with the help of Ye Yongwang and Lu Yunduo, she hatched the chicks.

If it weren't for some bad memories, she might not be able to remember even a single detail. Now that she thinks about it, it's really easy to forget the happy moments, but she still remembers all the setbacks.