There were two daughters-in-law rushing to help, and the screws in this basket were hammered quite quickly, but there was a fishy smell.

Ye Yuran asked Mrs. Li to take the pigweed that she had specially asked Mrs. Liu to keep, mixed it with the screws, and poured it into the place where the chickens were usually fed.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck..."

"Cackle, cluck..."

Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Li greeted them, and soon the group of skinny chickens came back.

It was as if he had discovered a new world. The chicken, which usually wasn't very active in eating, suddenly became active and ate with great enthusiasm.

Mrs. Li exclaimed in surprise: "Mom, eat it, eat it, they eat it."

"Of course I'll eat it, no matter how little it is, it's still meat." Ye Yuran said.

"Ah, chickens also need to eat meat?" Ms. Li looked confused.

Obviously, Mrs. Lin next to her also looked surprised.

"Chickens eat bugs, but grasshoppers are not meat, right?" Ye Yuran said.

"It's true." Ms. Li looked like she suddenly realized, "So, our chickens are so thin because we only feed them pig grass and not meat, so they are so thin?"

There was no way, the family's eldest and second treasures were too small, so even if they caught grasshoppers, they wouldn't be able to catch a few.

Therefore, most people don't feed many chickens, just two or three, which can still have some meat, but if they feed more chickens, it becomes difficult to say.

There are chickens in every house, but it is difficult to let them out because there is a vegetable garden in front of and behind the house. If you let them out, the vegetable garden will suffer.

There have been a lot of quarrels over this matter, so if you let the chickens out, you have to be careful. Not only will you have to pay for other people's vegetable gardens, but your family may also lose the chickens.

No one is willing to sacrifice other people's vegetable gardens, so keeping two or three in the backyard is enough.

But the original owner was different. He only wanted to make more money so that he could send Zhu Bamei to a better Gaomen compound, so he raised a few more animals.

It's just that she seems to have forgotten that you can't feed chickens and they'll eat them, especially when there are so many of them in such a small place...

People in ancient times were relatively simple and didn't think too much. If they couldn't figure out the reason, they just thought that this chicken was not good and this batch didn't work. Just change to a better batch next time.

The original owner changed several batches of chickens, but still failed to raise any.

"But how can we have so much meat to feed the chickens?" Mrs. Lin muttered, "If we had that meat to feed the chickens, we could eat it ourselves."

"Yes, the fifth brother and sister are right." Mrs. Li said, "If that's the case, we might as well raise a few less and just lay eggs."

Ye Yuran glanced at them and said nothing.

Ms. Lin and Ms. Li talked happily there, talking about their own experience in raising chickens and how to raise them well in order to raise them well.

Seeing that the chicken was almost eaten, Ye Yuran had an idea in her mind, so she didn't delay in the backyard and let Mrs. Lin continue working. She called Mrs. Li and went to the creek with her.

"Mom, what are you doing there?" Mrs. Li didn't forget to bring her clothes.

Although there is nothing in Xiaohegou, if there is anything to eat, the kids have already finished it, but what if?

"Mom, do you want to bring the bamboo basket with you so that we can get some more screws? If we are lucky, we might be able to pick up a larger snail."

The snails that Li mentioned are large screws that grow on the edge of the pond. They are as big as half an egg. They are not the kind that are as thick as a little finger.

Although the shell of this kind of snail looks big and there is not much meat, compared with the kind caught by Dabao and Erbao, it is obviously much meatier. When the farmers were working in the fields, they encountered water snails.

I will pay a little attention to any place to see if I can find a "bargain".

"Take it with you." Ye Yuran naturally knew that this kind of snail was difficult to pick up, but she was not going for it, but for the small fish, shrimp, or crabs in the river.

She clearly remembered that when she was a child, she and some children from the village went to the river to catch crabs.

In the memory of the original owner, Ye Yuran had seen similar ditches, but she did not have the memory of flipping crabs, so she suspected that it was not necessarily that there was no such thing. It was also possible that people in this era did not know that it was edible.

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Crabs are no different from fish and shrimps. They are covered with shells. If they are not handled cleanly, they can easily breed bacteria and cause death.

If people of this era do not know this, and whoever takes the risk of eating this kind of thing in the wrong way, it is likely that everyone will mistakenly think that crabs are inedible.

In the memory of the original owner, no one had ever mentioned anything similar to this, whether it was when she was a maid in a wealthy family or when she married into Zhujia Village.

There is a big river at the foot of Taidang Mountain called "Taidang River".

It surrounds half of the mountain, distributes some branches, and then flows to the big river in the distance.

The small river ditch near Zhujiacun is called "Zhujiagou". Except for one that has been dug manually, most of the others are covered with cobbles of varying depths.

All adults will tell their children that except for the artificially dug river, they are not allowed to bathe in the river privately, for fear that the children will be ignorant and drown in it.

Children from all over the country come here every year.

Soon, Ye Yuran and Li left Zhujiacun and found a small river ditch that was usually not visited by people and was relatively quiet.

Anyway, they were not fishing, and Ye Yuran didn't want to run into other people in the village, which would cause trouble.

Compared with other places, this small river ditch is more steep. It is covered with dense cobblestones. At intervals, the ditch may become wider, narrower, deeper, or shallower. If it is not a familiar area,

Even adults dare not go down easily.

Ye Yuran found a relatively flat and shallow place, and started flipping in the ditch according to the method in his memory.

I don't know if it was the golden finger that was working, or if this thing already existed in this river ditch. Ye Yuran found a green crab as big as a palm within a short time.

Ye Yuran, with quick eyes and quick hands, pinched both sides of the crab and threw it into the bamboo basket.

"Mom, what is this?!" Mrs. Li's eyes widened, knowing exactly what this was.

"You don't know him?" Ye Yuran raised his head and asked her.

Li shook his head: "I don't know. Is there something like this under the stone?"

"Not every stone has it, it has to be like this..." Ye Yuran said, then realized that she was a pregnant woman and asked her to stay by the river and not come down to cause trouble.

These pebbles are no different than others. They are easy to slip on your feet. If this slips a bit, how can Mrs. Li, who is pregnant, be cured?

Ms. Li usually didn't run to the river very often, so she still knew the importance of this. Even if Ye Yuran didn't say it, she would dare to step on those pebbles that were usually slippery and just stay on the bank.

However, she didn't stay completely idle. She looked around to see if she could find some edible wild vegetables or fruits.

"Mom, look, there are water shields here. I can pick up some of these and make a soup or something. What do you think?"
Chapter completed!