It’s not rare for a hen to produce an egg with two yolks, but Zhang Ermu had never heard of a hen producing an egg with three yolks.
Noticing his confusion, Li Jingqian’s eyes flashed and he quickly said, "Actually, it’s not that often. Maybe only one egg with a double yolk appears every few months. As for three yolks, it’s only happened once since we raised the old hen."
When Dong Huang heard her cousin’s words, she realized that she had made a mistake. Her brother had reminded her not to talk about their old hen’s magical egg to others before he left for the capital, and now she had let it slip due to her excitement.
She glanced at her cousin gratefully. Fortunately, her cousin was very smart and knew how to cover for her. Otherwise, she would get spanked on the butt by her brother again if he found out when he came back.
Zhang Ermu didn’t find anything wrong with their words. After all, children often like to brag about the good things in their families. So, he took Dong Huang’s words as exaggeration and didn’t think too much about it.
After a moment of surprise, he patted Dong Huang’s head and said with a smile, "Dong Huang’s family chicken is great."
Li Jingqian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and said, "Uncle Zhang, let’s go eat first and we can move the vegetables."
Since he had been invited three times, Zhang Ermu no longer refused. He would just help them with work to repay them for the food.
In the kitchen, Li Jingxu beat the eggs and made them into steamed eggs. Since the eggs produced by his third uncle’s hen always had three yolks, he couldn’t make them into boiled eggs or it would be exposed.
When he first found out about this a few days ago, he was so shocked that he thought the old hen was a demon like the one in Journey to the West. Because the old hen not only laid one egg with three yolks, but she also laid five eggs at once. Every day, he saw his little cousin take out ten eggs from the chicken coop.
But after he visited his third uncle’s house several days, he discovered that the hen was the same as the one raised by his family. It didn’t take him a long time to realize that what made the hen in his third uncle’s house different was the food.
There was once when he asked for a small bag of chicken feed from Dong Huang and fed it to his chickens. After eating the chicken feed, the old hen in his family also laid an egg with a double yolk.
Li Jingxu knew that everyone had secrets. Therefore, he never pried into his third uncle’s family’s secrets. No matter what secret they had, they were family, and as a family, it was his responsibility to help them protect those secrets.
While he didn’t tell his parents, he couldn’t hide this matter from his noisy brother. When he shared his findings with his brother, the two had a long discussion in their bedroom that night.
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