Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

  Chapter 279 Touching the Egg

   It is a local custom that eggs are eaten on Ching Ming Festival, and some people even draw patterns on eggs to coax their children.

  Children love the egg touch game more, to see whose egg is the hardest and will not break.

  Zhou Guilan got up early in the morning and picked up more than 20 eggs and boiled them in a pot.

  At this moment, Xu Shiqin, Su Anfang, and Su Anhua took Xu Shiqin's flower-like brush and drew on the eggs.

  Xu Shiqin draws a cat, Su Anfang draws a dog, and Su Anhua draws a mischievous child who sticks out his tongue and winks his eyes and makes faces.

  Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping both sat obediently, watching their aunts and aunts painting intently.

   "Wow, it's so beautiful." Xu Jinping took the egg painted by her aunt and let out a voice of surprise.

   "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, hurry up, my sister's painting is finished."

  Xu Haiyuan saw that his sister had a painted egg, and his was not finished yet, so he urged him when he was in a hurry.

  Xu Shiqin painted the last part in twos and twos, and handed it to Xu Haiyuan, "Then, yours."

  Xu Haiyuan took the egg and was very happy. "You're so beautiful, sister, you're amazing."

   "Okay, let's go eat, the egg is left, wait for Xiaoyu to come and give it to him."

  When the weather gets warmer, Ji Yufeng often brings Yang Haoyu to Xu's house to play with Xu Haiyuan's brothers and sisters.

  Especially today, Xu Haiyuan Yuhong class is on holiday, Yang Haoyu will definitely come.

  The two brothers and sisters each held an egg in their pockets like a baby, and went to the east room for dinner with their aunts and aunts.

  In the morning, in addition to eggs, there are rice porridge, corn flour cakes, pickles, sprouted shallots that just sprouted from the ground, and miso.

  Xu Shiyan and his wife also ate here this morning. Each of them shared two eggs, served with porridge and pickles, and the food was delicious.

  Brothers and sisters Xu Haiyuan are naturally reluctant to carry the painted eggs in their pockets, they are reserved to show off to their friends.

   "Wait a minute, touch an egg before eating." Seeing that the adults were about to smash the eggs when they picked them up, Xu Haiyuan shouted quickly.

   While shouting, he quickly picked an egg from the basin, and first touched Xu Chenghou.

   "Grandpa, let's come." Xu Haiyuan and Xu Chenghou's relationship is solid, and the first thing to think about is grandpa.

  Xu Chenghou laughed without saying a word, picked up an egg casually, and turned his head towards Xu Haiyuan.

  When the two eggs touched, there was a dent in the egg in Xu Chenghou's hand.

   "I won, I won." Xu Haiyuan was so happy that he jumped up and down.

   "Grandma, grandma, come on, let's touch each other."

  Victorious in the first battle, Xu Haiyuan's confidence doubled. Taking the egg of victory just now, he went to find Zhou Guilan again.

  Zhou Guilan also followed Xu Chenghou's example, touching the small head of Xu Haiyuan's egg with the big head of the egg.

  Adults know that there is an air chamber in the big head of an egg, which is empty, where it is the weakest and easy to break.

   Sure enough, Xu Haiyuan won again, dancing for him happily, and went to find Xu Shiyan again.

  Xu Shiyan wanted to teach his son, so he touched it with the small head of an egg.

   As a result, Xu Haiyuan was dumbfounded, and the egg in his hand was broken.

   "Huh? Why did it break?"

  Xu Haiyuan was very disappointed. He thought the egg in his hand was an invincible general, but he only touched two eggs and it broke.

  Xu Chenghou saw his grandson's wrinkled and unhappy face, and suddenly became unhappy, and glared at Xu Shiyan.

   "Look at you, can't you coax the child to play for a while? You have to break an egg for him?"

  Xu Shiyan just laughed, "Yuanyuan, do you know why grandpa and grandma's eggs broke just now?"

  Little kid, not so many people spoil you, you have to recognize the cruelty of reality.

   "Because, it was your grandparents who let you go.

  Come on, let's crack open the eggs, and I'll show you what's inside. "

  Xu Shiyan started to crack open the egg, and then told his son the structure inside the egg.

  Tell him that if you touch the big head with the small head of an egg, the chance of the big head breaking is higher.

   "Let me tell you, when it comes to touching eggs, you should choose smaller ones with red skins. Most of these eggs have a little thicker shells.

  The kind of big egg white skin is the worst, it shatters when touched. "

  Xu Shiyan took two eggs, a smaller red one for his son, and a larger white one for himself.

   This time, both eggs touched their heads, the white egg was broken, and the red egg was safe. "got it?"

   "Understood." Xu Haiyuan nodded, it turned out that even an egg has so much knowledge.

   "Dad, the goose egg is white and big, why is it not easy to break?"

  The little guy remembered that the salted goose eggs were pickled at home. He tried it once last year, and it took a lot of effort to crack it.

  Everyone was taken aback for a moment, no one expected that Xu Haiyuan would ask such a question.

   "Eggs are incomparable with goose eggs. Although goose eggs are big, their skins are very thick, so they are strong."

  Xu Shiyan touched the top of his son's head and smiled.

   The little guy rolled his eyes and immediately smiled at his mother.

   "Mom, cook me a goose egg later, I'm going to take the goose egg and touch the egg with them to see who is better?"

  Everyone at the table burst into laughter.

  Is this a trick that a six-year-old can come up with? Take goose eggs to touch other people's eggs, then who can compare?

   "Don't, you don't want to harm my goose eggs, those goose eggs at home, I plan to hold goslings."

  Su Anying smiled and waved her hands, this son, there is no way to fix it, he can come up with all kinds of ideas.

   "Hug a goose? Why?"

  Children's attention is easily diverted. As soon as Xu Haiyuan heard about holding goslings, Xu Haiyuan asked curiously.

   "It is to give the goose eggs to Lao Baozi, and let Lao Baozi lay down on the nest to incubate the eggs. After thirty-one days, goslings will come out.

   At that time, you can feed the goslings with vegetables. When the geese grow up, they can lay eggs and eat meat. "Su Anying patiently explained to her son.

   There are many ways to incubate the eggs. You can let old hens come to brood, or you can artificially incubate them.

  Lay a small quilt on the kang, put eggs inside, keep the temperature constant, turn it frequently, and chicks and geese will hatch in due time.

  Most of the breeding eggs on the farm are hatched in this way.

  But not at home, because there are too many children.

  The two are very naughty, they can't guarantee that they will go to the kang one day and forget, they just sit on the quilt and break the eggs.

  Not to mention the two little ones, they are crawling all over the kang, who knows where they can climb?

   Wouldn't it be easier to crush a few eggs?

  The older ones can remind them at least, maybe they can remember, but the younger ones don’t understand at least four or six times, so reminding them is useless.

  So Su Anying still decided to use the old bunny as a hug.

  The garden at home is so big, especially the bottom of the hillside is full of grass. Raising a few big geese can eat grass and so on.

   Goose is stupid, if you can't climb the steep slope, you won't harm the vegetables on it.

  The family no longer raises chickens. His house is too close to the back mountain, and chickens are prone to yellow skin, and they can fly around, causing harm to the vegetable garden.

  Anyway, there are a lot of chickens raised on the farm, and there is no shortage of eggs to eat. The family just raises a few big geese, and it doesn't take much trouble.

   After the eggs are laid, pickle some salted goose eggs, and save them to bring food to the mountains, which is better than pickled vegetables.