After seeing off the joyful old stonemason, Zhang Ran turned around and patted Sankui on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, go to our hatching room to check it out. I guess the chicks are about to be out of their shells!"

"What? The chicks are about to emerge? Let's go and have a look!"

As soon as he heard that the chicken was about to emerge from the shell, Sankui was even more excited than Zhang Ran. He pulled Zhang Ran up and began to run wildly in the direction where Zhang Ran’s family was.

Over the past twenty days, Sankui stayed in Zhang Ran’s incubation room every day, following Zhang Ran’s instructions every day, turning eggs, sprinkling water, and ventilating on time, and always paying attention to the temperature changes of the kang, for fear that the chicks would be hatched because the temperature of the kang was too high or too low.

It is no exaggeration to say that in order to hatch the chicks, Sankui has put in much more energy than Zhang Ran. Now, after hearing that more than half a month of hard work is finally going to see the results, Sankui's joy can be imagined.

After pulling Zhang Ran all the way to the chicken's hatching room, Sankui trembled and stretched out his big hand, carefully lifted the dried thatch covered the egg in a corner, lowered his head and carefully observed the condition of the egg.

"Huh? Why is it still the same, there is no change?"

After discovering that the eggs on the kang had not changed at all, Sankui was unwilling to accept it, so he bent down and put his ears on the egg shell, tilting his ears to listen...

About three or four minutes later, Sankui raised his head with disappointment and said with some doubt: "Brother Ran, have you made the wrong time? There is no movement at all..."

Zhang Ran shook his head, picked up the bunch of bamboo slips on the kang, looked through it, and then replied: "There is no mistake. From the hatching, until now, I will record it every day. Today is exactly the 21st day. By time, the chicks will be shelled today and tomorrow!"

After saying that, Zhang Ran closed the bamboo slips and smiled at Sankui, "Don't worry, wait a little longer, maybe these chicks will be out of their shells later!"

"Crack...Crack~"

As soon as Zhang Ran finished speaking, a slight cracking sound suddenly came from the kang. Zhang Ran suddenly threw the bamboo slip aside and said happily to Sankui beside him: "Hurry, hurry up, lift up the thatch. I heard the movement just now, it seems that a chick is about to come out of the shell!"

"Haha~, I heard it too!"

Sankui laughed happily, bent down quickly, lifted the thatch covering the egg little by little with his hands and feet, and stared at each egg on the kang with nervous face, trying to find out the source of the sound of the eggshell shattering.

"Here! I saw it!"

Soon, Sankui found the egg that had a small crack among the many eggs, then pointed at the egg happily and shouted to Zhang Ran: "Brother Ran, come and see, there are really chicks about to break their shells!"

"Um!"

Zhang Ran looked in the direction Sankui pointed, and after he found that there was a chick that was slightly bulging and about to break her shell, a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

Maybe I knew that there were people waiting for me outside, and the chick in the egg that had first moved, launched the final charge.

The place where the eggshell was originally bulging was pecked open by it with its delicate beak. The red and thin beak broke through the limitations of the eggshell and was exposed to the air for the first time.

"Click~Click~"

The sound of the eggshell shattered constantly, and the chicks in the eggshell tried hard to peck at the surrounding eggshells with their delicate little mouths. Soon the cracks became bigger and bigger, and half of the chick's body gradually revealed.

While Zhang Ran and Sankui were staring intently, a light yellow-colored chicken with furry all over the body looked out from the eggshell's head and head, with a delicate red beak and black eyes, looking out curiously, it seemed to have discovered a novel world.

"Chirky chirp~"

The chick made a cheerful cry, and it jumped out of the shell and walked out shakingly, looking cute and adorable.

Seeing that this chick was so cute, Sankui couldn't help but stretch out his hand and wanted to touch the chick.

"Don't move! Go and don't touch!"

Seeing this, Zhang Ran hurriedly stopped Sankui and said to him: "The newborn chicks are very fragile and can't be touched casually! Sankui, go and bring the wooden boxes I made a few days ago!"

"Oh, oh~"

Sankui retracted his hand like lightning, looked at Xiaoji reluctantly, then turned around and ran out of the hatching room.

After Sankui came back with the wooden box, the two of them carefully introduced the chicken that had just emerged from the shell into the wooden box.

During this period, another chicken pecked the eggshell on the kang and broke out from it. Seeing this, Zhang Ran and the others felt a little more joy.

Next, the two of them squatted beside the kang, staring at the eggs on the kang. Whenever a chicken broke out of its shell, they couldn't help but cheer for it.

We stayed until afternoon. There were 63 chickens breaking their shells on the kang. Zhang Ran and Sankui put all the chickens that had just broken shells into the wooden box.

When Zhang Ran used the method of hatching chickens in the kang to perform manual hatching, he selected a total of 100 eggs. So far, only 63 chickens have been hatched. No one has ever made any noise in the remaining twenty-seven eggs. Zhang Ran estimated that these eggs are likely to be dead eggs.

This means that the survival rate of this artificial incubation is probably only a little over 60%. If we look at the perspective of future generations, this survival rate is really low.

However, considering that this is only the first test, it has serious lack of experience, lacks basic hardware facilities, and especially lacks thermometers to control the precise temperature, Zhang Ran himself is already very satisfied with the current results.

After all the chick's feathers were dried, she came to the main house with Sankui in the wooden box.

It happened that Zhang Ran’s mother and sister Zhang Suier were all in the house. Seeing Zhang Ran and Sankui coming out each with a large wooden box, Suier couldn’t help but ask curiously: “Brother, what are you doing? What is in this box?”

"Look at the chicks that just hatched!"

As he said that, Sankui bowed, lowered the wooden box he was holding a little, and showed it to Zhang Sui'er.

"Wow! It's furry, it looks so cute~"

Zhang Sui'er stretched out her finger and poked the chick's small wings and said with a smile.

"Oh, don't poke it randomly!"

Sankui quickly raised the wooden box and warned Sui'er: "Brother Ran said that the chicks are still very fragile now and cannot be touched casually!"

"Oh oh oh"
Chapter completed!