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"Dad, dad, look! The little hen has laid an egg!" Yaya ran to Zhang Taiping and showed him a blood-streaked egg on her palm. The child said "little hen"

"The three words are a bit awkward, but I got used to it after Zhang Taiping led me to shout them.

Zhang Taiping picked up the eggs and weighed them. They were still light in weight. It was the first time they laid such heavy eggs. It seemed that these little hens were quite capable.

"Let's go, take it back and eat it!" Zhang Taiping shouted.

"Eat!" Yaya held Zhang Taiping's hand and shouted loudly.

The older one and the younger one returned to the front room and entered the kitchen when they heard someone say from behind: "What are you two doing sneakily?" Fan Ming was wiping his face with a towel when he saw the father and daughter sneaking into the kitchen.

, he followed and suddenly said loudly behind him, wanting to scare them.

As for Zhang Taiping, let’s not talk about it. Yaya, who had a strong sense of being a thief, was really shocked. She quickly hid the egg behind her back and said, “I didn’t do anything.”

Fan Ming saw Yaya's arms hidden behind her back and wanted to tease her, so she deliberately made a serious face and said: "Children lie about how tall they are. They will always be so small." As he said this, he pressed down with his hands to make gestures.

After some discussion, "Now I'll give you another chance. If you recruit me from the real side, you can still grow taller."

This is little Yaya's Achilles' heel. Yaya, who wants to grow taller, is most afraid of not growing taller. Every time Fan Ming threatens her with this word, Yaya will tell her the truth. But today is an exception. She leans towards her body.

Hou Xiao took two steps back

, secretly put the egg in Zhang Taiping's hand from behind, then took a big step forward and said, "Look, I don't have anything in my hand." As he said that, he put Bai Shengsheng's small hands in front of Fan Ming's eyes.

Shaked.

Fan Ming rolled her eyes and thought about it. She suddenly grabbed Yaya's little hand, looked at it and said, "Yaya, why are your hands bleeding?"

Yaya pulled her hand back and looked at it. Sure enough, there was a trace of red on it. She rubbed it with her thumb and it was gone. Then she raised her head and said nonchalantly: "That's not the blood on my hand, it's on the egg just now. Look, now it's on it

No."

Fan Ming didn't look at her little hands, and suddenly said loudly: "You guys stole the eggs!"

"We didn't!" Yaya retorted immediately and reflexively.

Fan Ming asked with a smile: "If not, why are you so anxious?"

Yaya was speechless, and finally shook her little hand and said, "Look, I didn't hold an egg in my hand." But her words were equivalent to admitting that what she just held was an egg.

"Hehe, but I know where the eggs are." Fan Ming said with a mysterious smile.

"Where is it?" Yaya couldn't help but glance at Zhang Taiping's hand.

"Haha," Fan Ming suddenly laughed, "It's in your father's hand."

Yaya heard this and looked towards Zhang Taiping, who also looked at her with a helpless expression. Yaya knew that she had been discovered, but with her father as her backing, she was brave enough to admit it generously: "The little hens lay eggs.

Come on, eat it!" He waved his little hand, which sounded like he was scolding Fang Qiu for pointing the river.

"You have to have my share," Fan Ming said to Yaya with wrinkled nose and gritted teeth.

Yaya didn't even think about eating alone: ​​"Since you found out, I'll give you a share." It seemed like sharing the spoils.

"How to eat it?" Fan Ming asked, this time to Zhang Taiping.

Zhang Taiping smiled and said: "How do you want to eat it?"

"Stew it and eat it." Fan Ming licked her lips and said. After arriving at Zhang Taiping's house, she fell in love with Cai Yazhi's stewed egg custard. Although the condiment was only soy sauce, the light salty taste was overwhelming.

Delicious.

"Okay. But there is only one egg here," he said, showing the eggs in his hand. "Go and see if there are any more. Find a few more."

"Yes!" Fan Ming responded and rushed out in a hurry. He came back not long after, carrying a bamboo basket with more than a dozen eggs in it. "These are just laid by the little hen.

There is another one that I took out just after it was halfway down, hehe."

Yaya opened her eyes wide with an incredulous expression. She had never heard of picking out eggs from the back of a hen, so she was a little frightened.

Fan Ming was amused when she saw Yaya's surprised expression, and cast a provocative look: "Fight me!"

Zhang Taiping looked at the fighting expressions of the big one and the small one, smiled and said nothing, washed his hands and started making egg custard.

Egg custard is actually made somewhat similar to tofu curd, but the making process is simpler than that of tofu curd. At least there is no need to grind beans. Just open the eggs and put them in an enamel bowl. In rural areas, it is called a porcelain bowl.

It doesn't work. Add a little cold water and mix evenly, then add two drops of clear oil on top. Put the bowl together with the cold water pot, and when the water boils, the egg custard will be ready.

Zhang Taiping calculated the total number of people in the room and prepared seven porcelain bowls. When the first egg was opened, two yolks came out. No wonder it was so heavy.

"This is mine." Fan Ming immediately reserved the ownership of this bowl and looked at Yaya next to him as he spoke.

Of course Yaya would not agree: "This egg was the first one I discovered and the one I got back. It should be mine."

Fan Ming was smiling beside him, and without giving any reason, he just recognized the egg: "It's mine."

"It's mine!" Yaya was a little angry at Fan Ming for being such a scoundrel.

Zhang Taiping looked at Yaya with a smile and said, "Can you give this bowl to your grandpa?"

"Okay!" As long as it's not for Fan Ming, Yaya is willing to give it to anyone in the house.

Fan Ming naturally had no objections.

Among the dozen or so eggs, there were quite a few with double yolks. After cracking seven of them, three were double yolks. Zhang Taiping washed the remaining eggs and boiled them in a pot of water.

When the water first boiled, Cai Yazhi and Xing Rushui came from outside. Seeing Zhang Taiping boiling a pot, they asked curiously: "What are you doing?"

Yaya answered first: "The hen laid eggs, daddy will stew eggs for us!"

Zhang Taiping opened the lid of the pot and waited for the steam to escape before taking out the seven bowls one by one from the boiling water and placing them on the table. The egg custard was as delicate and smooth as the tofu curd, but it was slightly yellowish and dotted with oily specks.

Pour the soy sauce over to cover it with a thin layer and serve.

"Oh? I have a bowl too?" Xingru said with a smile as he washed his hands by the water.

Fan Ming said: "No more, no less, one bowl for each person."

Zhang Taiping brought in two bowls, one for the old man who was reading a medical book, and one for Ye Ling who was sitting at the desk practicing calligraphy.

Zhang Taiping put down the two bowls and suddenly twitched the brush that Ye Ling was practicing on. He pulled the brush out of Ye Ling's hand, staining her hand with ink. With a stunned expression, she said: "While practicing calligraphy,

, I must hold the pen vigorously and forcefully, so that it cannot be drawn out when others try to draw it out at any time. I hold the pen firmly so that I can write straightly."

A thoughtful look gradually appeared in Ye Ling's eyes. Zhang Taiping said: "Okay, let's wash our hands and eat something before continuing."

When they returned to the front room, they had not done anything yet. They waited for Zhang Taiping to pick up the bowl before they each picked up the bowl. Regardless of whether the egg custard was really delicious, they all ate it happily, especially Cai Yazhi.

, with a happy smile all over his face.

Xing Rushui couldn't help but joke: "Did sister Yazhi eat eggs or honey?"

After eating the egg custard, everyone went to the chicken shed and took a look. There were a few eggs on the chicken stand. This kind of chicken stand was made by Zhang Taiping at that time and could only be used as a resting place for the chickens.

Like those chicken coops in chicken farms, everything about the lives of the chickens is in them. If it is in a chicken coop

That's okay, the eggs can't go anywhere and are just inside the chicken coop. After they are laid, they roll to the edge. But like Zhang Taiping's house, the chickens don't have an absolutely fixed place, so the place when they lay the eggs is a bit uncertain.

It's possible that some little hens with weird personalities will go down to the grass outside.

So we need to build a few special nests for the chicks to lay eggs. Simply build a pit with a few bricks, fill it with some dried velvet, and build twenty nests in a row at once.

The hard-working young hens are placed in these specially built egg-laying nests. After setting an example, people will not have to worry about laying eggs in the future. Eggs will be laid in such nests, and people will not worry about collecting eggs when they are collected.

Convenient, no need to search everywhere in the chicken shed or even the yard.

After coming out of the chicken shed, I also walked around the duck house. The ducks have not laid eggs yet. They were caught together with the chicks. After the chicks laid eggs, the ducks will not be far away. It is estimated that they will be here in a few days.

Oh my god.

After cleaning up, Cai Yazhi asked: "Now that the hens have begun to lay eggs, we will receive more eggs every day. What do you want to do with them?" Place the eggs laid by the little hens that were raised at home.

If she could save a few, Cai Yazhi would sell them to other villages, but now there is no need for this, and the quantity is also large, so she will leave this problem to Zhang Taiping, so she doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

Zhang Taiping said: "Put away the eggs for the next few days and let me think of a proper way to deal with them."

There are only two ways to deal with it, either take it out and sell it in pieces, or give it to restaurants and other places at once. If it is a one-time trip, Wang Yuhao, who came here to buy toon at that time, is a good candidate.

However, there are still a large number of eggs, duck eggs, and various eggs in Zhang Taiping's space. These also need to be processed, so they cannot be given to anyone at once, otherwise the huge amount cannot be explained. They can only find a way to sell them in bulk.

If you sell it retail, you won't arouse suspicion from others because of the huge number of eggs.

After much deliberation, he finally thought of opening a store that would not only sell eggs, duck eggs, and various eggs, but also agricultural products such as vegetables, fruits, and fish from his own pond. The store was very large.

One thing, all the crops in the village can be sold from inside.