Chapter 122: Chapter 122

"Hurry up and get inside! Xiao Shan and Little Chuan! Come out and help!" Bai Ruxue shouted towards the house.

The two who were already heading out immediately ran out.

One helped steady the bicycle, while the other carefully took over carrying the eggs.

Bai Ruxue took out a flashlight and walked inside with it in hand.

"Big Sister, you bought so many eggs again? We haven’t finished the ones at home yet!" Bai Rushan raised the eggs higher and asked.

"Be careful with them! These aren’t for eating! I’m planning to hatch chicks!" Bai Ruxue was startled, afraid Bai Rushan might smash the eggs. There were fifty eggs, and although there were plenty in the space, getting that many eggs all at once in this era was rare. She couldn’t just bring back fifty or a hundred eggs every time!

The eggs for eating at home, she would only take out in tens or twenties each time.

"Hatch chicks? Big Sister, do you know how?" Bai Ruyun, carrying her Dacron fabric, didn’t miss out on being curious.

"I don’t, but Mom should know! Let’s go inside!" Bai Ruxue touched her nose and walked in first.

"Mom, look what Big Sister bought!" Bai Rushan was a bit restless, carefully carrying the eggs as he ran inside.

"You, child, why are you as rash as your third sister now?" Bai Ruxue laughed, looking at her big younger brother.

"No way, I’m just happy!" Bai Ruxue retorted, but quickly bypassed her Big Sister in front and entered the room, presenting the fifty eggs like a treasure on the kang. Latest content published on novel⸺fire.net

"You bought so many eggs! Xiao Xue, I see we already have more than ten eggs at home, why did you buy so many?" Wang Cuihua looked at so many eggs, quite curious.

Because at this time, each household was only allowed to raise three chickens, and eggs were usually sold before they could accumulate too many, otherwise, they’d spoil and there’s no refrigerator now.

"Mom, do you know how to hatch chicks? I want to use these eggs to hatch chicks, but I can’t tell which ones can hatch!" Bai Ruxue sat at the edge of the kang, laying down the flashlight and battery.

"Big Sister, is this a flashlight? I saw it at Uncle Quanzi’s house!" Bai Ruchuan stepped forward to pick it up and look at it.

"Mom can hatch chicks, but it depends if they can hatch. Use the flashlight to check; eggs with spiderweb-like veins can hatch, those without can’t!" Wang Cuihua laughed, seeing her eldest daughter even bought a flashlight.

The family’s eldest daughter is reliable, even prepared a flashlight.

Few rural women couldn’t hatch chicks, because all the chickens they raised had to be hatched by themselves. There weren’t any chicks for sale at this time anyway, and even if there were, they’d be taken away quickly, it was speculative, very serious.

"That’s great, Mom, quickly check if these eggs have spiderwebs!" Bai Ruchuan, not waiting for Bai Ruxue to speak, hurriedly gave the flashlight to Wang Cuihua.

Wang Cuihua took the flashlight and started checking carefully.

After about half an hour, she determined which ones had spiderwebs and which didn’t.

She found that as many as forty of the eggs could be hatched.

Bai Ruxue didn’t expect that so many, one-fifth, could be hatched.

But thinking about it, it’s not surprising. These were all farm eggs collected from the countryside and sold in the supermarket, also collected by her parents for her.

In the countryside, free-range chickens are certainly raised with roosters and hens together, so the hatching rate is higher.

"Give it to Xiao Yun! Take these eggs and fry them for dinner!" Bai Ruxue generously gave the non-hatching eggs to Bai Ruyun.

"Big Sister, eat all these at once?" Bai Ruyun looked at the ten or so eggs, asking Bai Ruxue. Her little face showed distress.

"Eat them! If we run out of eggs at home later, Big Sister will buy more! Big Sister met an old woman who sells eggs! Otherwise, how could I buy so many at once?" Bai Ruxue spoke generously.

Honestly, there’s been no shortage of eggs to eat at home lately!

She was eager to nourish her family’s health back, serving meat every meal and eggs every morning.

"Xiao Xue! There are forty eggs that can be hatched! But each household is only allowed three chickens, can we hatch so many?" Wang Cuihua worriedly said.

"Don’t worry, Mom! As long as no one reports us, the authorities won’t know how many chicks we have! When they’re a bit bigger, I’ll figure something out! Even selling them to villagers is fine, right?" Bai Ruxue said.

"But, selling them to the villagers is considered speculative! You’d be caught and criticized!"

Why say people in this era were easy to manage! A session of criticism scared her mom! If it were modern times, who’d care about criticism, as long as there’s no fine.

"Don’t worry, Mom! Later, just hatch the eggs! I want to check the hatch rate! Once hatched, we don’t even know how many chicks will come out, why worry! If not, we can give some to Third Granny, Grandma Zhao, Grandma’s house, Uncle’s house, three each, wouldn’t that solve it?" Bai Ruxue comforted her mom.

She didn’t bring back these fifty eggs just to hatch a few and be done.

The current situation is, they can’t enter the city to live! So they can only improve living standards in the countryside.

The problem is, if only their family is doing well, they’ll be on the spotlight! One oversight, they might be harmed by someone jealous.

Better to lead the whole village to do well! Not only for a good deed, but also their own family can live well!

"That works! Then Mom will start hatching! Chicks take twenty-one days to hatch, I’ll start tonight! By the time they hatch, it’ll be warmer! Perfect!" Wang Cuihua’s enthusiasm was sparked, she smiled broadly.

"Alright, Mom! Keep this flashlight and batteries, they’ll come in handy later!" Bai Ruxue helped put away the eggs and handed the flashlight to her mom.

"Okay, okay! Mom will lock them in the cabinet!" Wang Cuihua swiftly got up and locked the flashlight in the kang cabinet.

"Xiao Yun, Xiao Xia, you cook later! Big Sister’s going out for a bit!" Bai Ruxue stood up and headed out.

"Xiao Xue, where are you going?" Busy with the chick hatching, Wang Cuihua called out as soon as she heard Bai Ruxue was going out.

The little ones all looked at Big Sister, puzzled.

Normally, Big Sister doesn’t wander around after coming back from town; she stays home to cook or something. Why’s she going out today?

Actually, the original owner would go out to find An Liangliang or Wang Xuehua, two girlfriends to play with, but after Bai Xue arrived, she rarely went out, so the siblings got used to it.

"Mom, I’m going to Xuehua’s house for something!" Bai Ruxue said this, so Wang Cuihua stopped asking.

With little girls, it’s usually just those things. Daughters with girlfriends, like the daughter of the team leader’s house, Xuehua, chat with friends; what’s a mother supposed to manage?

"Then go! Remember to come back for dinner! Don’t let the food get cold!" Wang Cuihua could only advise.

No matter how old the daughter is, in her eyes, she’s still a child, and she’s worried.

"Big Sister, what do you want to eat tonight?" Bai Ruxia asked.

"Just... make stir-fried eggs with wood ear mushrooms! And you can make something else if you want! I’m off now!" Bai Ruxue waved her hand and went out.

At this time, you can’t bring out cucumbers or carrots, or else making moo shu pork would be delicious!