Under the careful care of the Sankui brothers and sisters, the new chicks soon emerged from the shell. The survival rate of this group of chicks was much higher than Zhang Ran expected. One thousand eggs hatched more than 700 small ones. If the chicks purchased from Xinfeng and hatched by themselves before, the number of chicks in Zhang Ran's family was almost about thousands.

With so many chicks, the chicken coop that was built originally must not be put down. In order to make enough space for the chicks to move, Zhang Ran enclosed more than acres of land in the backyard and asked someone to lay a fence around it to use it as a new chicken farm.

After two days of sampling the chicks in the greenhouse, when the chicks became slightly stronger, Zhang Ran put the chicks in a cage and moved them to the chicken farm with Sankui.

After more than ten trips, Zhang Ran and the others transported more than 40 chicken cages to the chicken farm, Zhang Ran did not immediately take out the chicks, but turned to Sankui and said, "Sankui, go get a pair of scissors!"

In fact, our ancestors had already created the prototype as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In the Qin and Han dynasties, scissors evolved further. Craftsmen used the principle of metal elasticity to hammer the two ends of a long copper and iron block into a knife shape, and then sharpened the sharp blades, and then bent it into a "8" shape to make the blades at both ends correspond. This shape is called "Jiefeng".

When using it, you can cut things by just pressing the blades at both ends. Once you let go of your hand, the scissors rely on the elasticity of the metal and return to their original state, just like modern people using tweezers.

"Scissors? OK! I'll take it for you now!"

After hearing Zhang Ran's words, Sankui didn't think much about it, turned to Zhang Li's place and took the scissors for Zhang Ran.

After Sankui left, Zhang Ran turned around and went to the kitchen to find a small kitchen knife, carried a bundle of wood, took out the flint, and returned to the chicken farm, lit a bonfire in its original place.

Not long after, Sankui ran over with a pair of scissors panting, handed the knife to Zhang Ran and said, "Brother Ran, the scissors you want!"

"Yes!" Zhang Ran reached out to take the mow knife, pointed to the bamboo stool next to him, and said to Sankui: "Sit there and help me grab one of the chicks in the cage."

“Oh oh ~”

After hearing this, Sankui grabbed a furry chick from the cage beside him, and carefully placed it in his palm and handed it to Zhang Ran.

Seeing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but give Sankui a blank look and said speechlessly: "Just catch it with a little light. There is no need to be so cautious, which makes me a little nervous!"

As he said that, Zhang Ran grabbed the chick directly from Sankui's hand, then gently pulled out its wings, "Crack" and "Crack" two scissors, cutting off several feathers on its wings.

"Hiss~"

Seeing this, Sankui took a deep breath and couldn't help but shouted with distress: "Brother Ran!! What are you doing? Why do you want to cut such a good chick?"

After hearing this, Zhang Ran was unmoved and did not even raise his head. He reached out and took out the kitchen knife that had been burned red from the top from the fire, grabbed the chick's little head, and gently pressed the chick's pale yellow beak on the kitchen knife.

Then, a burnt smell quickly spread around...

"You still burn it with a soldering iron!?"

Seeing this scene, Sankui was shocked, widened his eyes, stood up angrily, and shouted: "Brother Ran, are you crazy? Why do you torture these chicks? This was something we had worked hard to keep for more than twenty days and finally hatched!"

Zhang Ran calmly grabbed the chick, flipped her wrist, then gently squeezed the abdomen with his hands, looked carefully, then put it on the ground, turned to Sankui and said, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand! I'm not stubborn, let alone crazy!"

Sankui asked back with a angrily voice: "Not stubborn? Then why did you cut off the feathers of the chicks and burn them with a soldering iron?"

"Listen to me!" Zhang Ran said to Sankui with a very calm expression: "The feathers of the chicks are cut off to prevent them from flying away secretly in the future!"

When Sankui heard this, the anger on his face stagnated and said blankly: "Chicken? Fly away?"

"Yes! Although the chickens raised in this family are not as good as pheasants, they can fly hundreds of meters in one go, but they are still fine if they rush on the ground, fly more than ten meters, and jump out of the fence. I cut off my feathers just to prevent them from flying away by accident!"

"That soldering iron..."

"That's called "Black Blade!"

Zhang Ran looked at Sankui and asked back, "Don't you know? Chickens are also very combative. Whether they are roosters or hens, once they grow up a little, they will fight each other for food or territory. Even between hens, they will be very fierce. At the least, they will be bleeding at the head, and at the worst, there may be a risk of death! I iron the tip of their beaks with a soldering iron, and the attack power of the chicken will be greatly weakened. In this way, even if the chickens fight, they will not be able to hurt the other party!"

After a pause, Zhang Ran asked Sankui again, "Do you want to be pecked by the hens when you come to the chicken farm to pick up chickens in the future?"

"Uh..." After hearing Zhang Ran say this, Sankui's face collapsed and he lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, Brother Ran! I misunderstood you!"

"It doesn't matter..."

Zhang Ran shook his head, then picked up the scissors beside him and handed them to Sankui, "Don't be stunned, you come and cut the wings of the chicks, I'll cut the beak, so that the speed is faster!"

"Oh" Sankui sat back on the bamboo stool dejectedly, and couldn't help but feel aggrieved: "Since you knew it a long time ago, why didn't you tell me earlier..."

Zhang Ran said helplessly: "You didn't ask either! Come up and argue with me! Remember this lesson and ask if you don't understand it in the future!"

......

After listening to Zhang Ran's explanation, he knew that Zhang Ran was not torturing the chicks for fun. Sankui knew that he was in the wrong, so he honestly followed Zhang Ran's instructions and grabbed the chicks from the chicken cage, cut off their feathers one by one with scissors, and then handed them to Zhang Ran to cut off their beak.

After the two divided the work, the speed of cutting the wings and cutting the beak for the chicks was greatly accelerated.

But not long after, Sankui accidentally discovered Zhang Ran's strange behavior, so he couldn't help asking: "Brother Ran, why did you put some of the chicks on the ground and throw the other part back into the chicken cage?"

Zhang Ran pointed to the chicks on the ground and smiled, "Because the chicks on the ground are hens, and the chicks put back in the cage are roosters!"

"Ah?" Sankui couldn't help but open his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Don't these chicks all look exactly the same? How did you distinguish between male and female?"

As he said that, Sankui grabbed two chickens from the chicken cage and put them in their palms. After taking a closer look, he showed Zhang Ran and said, "Look, it's exactly the same, there's almost no difference between people!"
Chapter completed!