After entering mid-July, the scorching heat gradually dissipates, the weather turns cooler, the sun is no longer as fierce, and the cicadas are less chirping. The hot summer has come to an end, and autumn is coming soon.

In the late summer morning, the air is refreshing and pleasant, and the sun shines on the earth, making people feel refreshed. Zhang Ran got up early as usual, took water and washed his face, and cleaned his teeth and mouth with fresh willow branches.

After washing up, Zhang Ran hummed an unknown little tune and took out two wooden barrels from the warehouse, then took some bran and mixed some flour and rice bran, poured them into the wooden barrel and stirred evenly, and then some clean water and continued to stir...

It was not until the bran in the wooden barrel became a ball that I took another wooden barrel and made it again as I looked just now.

After filling the two wooden barrels with chicken food, Zhang Ran took the wooden barrel to the chicken farm in the backyard.

"Dong, dun, dun~"

The wooden stick gently tapped on the wooden barrel, making a dull but very loud sound...

Then there were bursts of "cuckling" sounds in the chicken farm, and then half-large hens rushed out from all corners of the chicken farm, instantly surrounding Zhang Ran...

“Go and go~”

Zhang Ran habitually raised his feet, gently pushed the chickens on his legs to one side, poured the chicken food in the wooden bucket into the long wooden food trough, and used a wooden stick to spread the large balls of chicken food and spread them evenly, so that most of the chickens around could eat the bran in the food trough...

Afterwards, Zhang Ran added some clean water to the sink, and took the wooden barrel to the place where the little rooster was next door, and fed the rooster.

After feeding the chickens, Zhang Ran took advantage of the fact that the chickens gathered together to eat the feed, and took the time to pick up the broom, cleaned the entire side of the chicken farm, and brought out the cleaned dead leaves, feces and other debris from the chicken farm.

Then, I came back and picked up the two empty wooden barrels and went to the front yard.

As soon as I walked to the front yard, I happened to see my mother walking out of the kitchen with a small wooden barrel. When I saw Zhang, my mother, Zhang Li, waved to Zhang Ran and said, "Ran'er, the rice is ready, come and have a meal~"

"Yeah~"

Zhang Ran nodded gently, then rinsed the basin of the chicken food with clean water, washed his hands, and then brought a small bamboo stool to the small wooden table to prepare for dinner.

Breakfast is very simple, a bowl of minced meat cooked by my mother, a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, and a small pot of leeks and eggs. The combination of meat and vegetables is balanced.

After breakfast and packing the dishes, Zhang Ran and his sister Sui'er started preparing for daily morning classes.

Generally, when it is Chenshi, the Sankui brothers and sisters, Zhang Shan and other teenagers will arrive at Zhang Ran’s house on time.

When everyone arrived, Zhang Ran asked the young man, his sister Zhang Sui'er and Zhang Cui'er to bring a small bamboo stool each, and sat in the yard neatly, and then formal teaching began.

The first class in the morning was a mathematics class. First, Zhang Ran asked everyone to talk about the nine-nine multiplication table behind their backs, and then explained to everyone the use of addition and subtraction and multiplication in real life.

The math class didn't last long, and it lasted about half an hour. The next one was the text class. At this time, Zhang Ran would usually take a wooden board, tap the words on the board with a wooden stick, and start to recite it word by word.

The words on the wooden board were written by Zhang Ran himself in a brush, and they were all commonly used characters. Zhang Ran’s task for everyone is very simple. You can just recognize ten words within five days and learn to write these ten words in ten days.

The study time is about half an hour every day, and it is not very long, and it basically does not affect everyone's normal life and work.

After morning class, it is usually at the beginning of Si Shi (around 9:00 am). At this time, the tribesmen in Lijue will almost deliver the flour processed yesterday to Zhang Ran’s house.

At this time, Zhang Shan, Zhang Ying and others were about to start working. Their task was to weigh, count the flour sent by the people of the tribe, then record it with wooden calf, and finally get the corresponding wages to Zhang Ran.

The acquisition work is usually done in the morning. If necessary, Zhang Shan and others will use donkey carts to accumulate a certain amount of flour to transport to restaurants in Xinfeng and the other two county towns.

If the amount of flour is insufficient, Zhang Shan and others will usually temporarily store the flour in the warehouse in the backyard.

Then go to the mill and drive a donkey to push the mill or sift the flour.

As for Sankui, after morning class, they usually go to the hatch room to take care of the eggs that are being hatched.

As of now, Sankui’s main job is to hatch chicks.

Under the careful care of Sankui and his sister, the third batch of chickens hatched manually was about to emerge from the shell. Because the hatching room and manpower were limited, Zhang Ran and Sankui only chose one thousand eggs. If calculated based on the survival rate last time, about 700 chickens could be hatched.

However, Zhang Ran did not plan to keep this batch of chicks at home.

According to Zhang Ran's plan, most of this batch of chicks will be sold to the tribesmen of Zhangli at a low price, and the remaining part will be temporarily fed in the chicken farm of Zhang Ran's family.

The reason why Zhang Ran did this was not only because he maintained his original idea, so as to seek benefits for his tribe members, and lead everyone to get rich together, but also because he was worried that the scale of breeding would be too large, management would be very difficult, and there would also be epidemic problems.

In this era without professional drugs, if a chicken plague comes, the chickens at home may all fall down, and then you will suffer a lot.

Taking risks and blindly expanding the scale of breeding is worse than scattering chicks to villagers for breeding. In this way, it will also allow everyone to make some money. Secondly, it can also diversify breeding risks and reduce breeding costs.

When the chickens are raised, they will spend money to purchase chickens or eggs from the locals, which will also avoid the unsalable sales problems that may arise from the locals raising too many chickens.

As for the eggs purchased or their own eggs, Zhang Ran plans to send them to Zhang Erniu’s restaurant or to sell them directly to vendors in the market.

Now the price of eggs is basically one qian per qian. Zhang Ran only needs to lower the price a little, for example, eight qian or ten qian or seven qian, and a large number of people will rush to ask for it.

In addition to selling eggs, Zhang Ran can also be used to wheat chicks. The artificial hatching technology can hatch a large number of chicks in batches, which can bring considerable benefits to Zhang Ran, so Zhang Ran can also make a lot of money by selling chicks, and there is basically no risk. It is a business that is stable and profitable.
Chapter completed!