Juhua was puzzled. It was one thing for the ducks to lay their eggs outside—after all, they spent most of their time in the river. But the chickens clearly stayed around the courtyard, and she'd even prepared five nesting boxes. Was that still not enough for them to lay their eggs? The fact that they still had to go lay them outside was just preposterous.
'If she found out which hen laid its eggs outside, she'd chop its head right off. A hen that didn't produce an income certainly couldn't be fed for nothing. Besides, the younger chicks had grown up, and the new pullets had already started laying. She wouldn't feel the least bit of heartache for culling a few of the old hens.'
She grumbled about it to Meizi in annoyance, and Meizi bent over with laughter as she listened.
But today, it seemed as though the chickens and ducks were deliberately trying to spite Juhua. One after another, they all laid their eggs in the fields. She actually found more than a dozen of them.
