After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

Looking at the weasel he had just killed, a villager immediately used his iron spade to scoop up the weasel's carcass like he was shoveling garbage and threw it onto the tractor.

Seeing that the trouble had been resolved, Song Chunping was about to turn around and leave.

The villager who knew her somewhat glanced at Chunsheng and then asked Song Chunping with a smile, "Your brother is really lucky! You came back specifically to see him after learning about what happened at home, right?"

Upon hearing this, Song Chunping turned to look at her younger brother and asked the man with a curious expression, "What... happened at my home?"

"Don't you know about Chunsheng's drowning incident a couple of days ago?"

The man's tone and eyes clearly showed surprise as he spoke.

"Chunsheng, when did you drown?"

Song Chunping immediately looked at her younger brother and asked in shock.

Chunsheng frowned slightly. "Sis, don't be so alarmed. I just choked on some water a couple of days ago, and I'm fine now."

"Alright, let's go home!"

As Chunsheng spoke, he pulled his sister along and headed home.

He didn't want his sister to hear outsiders talking about his drowning, who knew what other things that person might say in a moment.

If I were to tell my sister all those messy rumors in the village, wouldn't that just make her even more upset?

"Chunsheng, tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"

As soon as Song Chunping entered the house, she immediately began to ask questions.

Chunsheng smiled helplessly, "Sis, it's really nothing. I just choked on the water and got dizzy!"

"Where is it? Tell me in detail right now!"

"It's right here..."

Chunsheng really didn't want his third sister to know about this, afraid that she would be upset if she heard it, so he thought about how to brush it off.

Just as he reluctantly uttered two words, he saw his mother enter the house one after the other with Chunzao and Chunmiao.

"Chunping is here!"

Upon seeing her third daughter, Liu Yan'e immediately put down her hoe and hurried over to greet her, asking, "When did you arrive?"

"I just got in not long ago. By the way, Mom, I heard that Chunsheng drowned a few days ago. What happened?"

Liu Yan'e sighed, "Oh well... how should I put it..."

Just as Liu Yan'e was telling her third daughter about her son Chunsheng's drowning, Chunsheng came to the backyard.

He suddenly remembered that when he closed the chicken coop door earlier, he seemed to have seen only two chickens in the coop.

But we clearly have three chickens at home. Could it be that one of them has already been eaten by a weasel?

When he carefully examined the chicken coop, he found not a single drop of blood on the ground.

This surprised him even more!

So he quickly turned around and ran to the front yard, heading straight for his mother who was talking to his third sister, wanting to tell her this important matter as soon as possible.

Those three chickens were my mother's lifeblood; she took care of them like treasures every day, afraid that something might happen to them.

At that moment, however, his mother was whispering to his third sister about the events leading up to his drowning.

At this moment, he didn't want to disturb his mother.

So he went to the kitchen and told his two older sisters, Chunzao and Chunmiao, about the missing chicken.

When the two sisters learned that a weasel had just entered their house, they were both shocked and widened their eyes. They immediately dropped what they were doing and ran straight to the backyard.

"Wow! When did such a big hole appear next to the chicken coop?!"

As Seventh Sister Chunmiao spoke, she squatted down and carefully examined the fence around the hole with her hands. "It turns out that the bamboo poles stuck in the ground were loose. No wonder such a big hole was made."

At this moment, Sixth Sister Chunzao asked Chunsheng with a curious look, "How did you chase that weasel away?"

Chunsheng shook his head. "It wasn't me, it was my third sister!"

Chunzao couldn't help but laugh, "I also thought it wouldn't be you. With Third Sister around, how could it be your turn!"

Chunsheng sighed in self-reproach, "Third Sister is really amazing. I struggled for ages but couldn't catch that weasel. As soon as Third Sister arrived, she used fire tongs to pull the weasel out of the chicken coop."

Upon hearing this, Chunmiao immediately turned and asked, "And then what happened to that weasel?"

Seeing that his two older sisters were interested in the matter, Chunsheng immediately recounted how the weasel had been beaten to death by two villagers at the garbage dump.

After hearing the weasel's tragic end, the two sisters fell silent.

Chunsheng looked at the hen and rooster resting on the bamboo frame in the chicken coop and asked with a puzzled expression, "Tell me, there's not a drop of blood on the ground, so how did the weasel eat the hen?"

Upon hearing this, Chunzao and Chunmiao exchanged a smile and said, "Who said that hen was eaten by a weasel!"

"If it wasn't eaten by a weasel, then where did it go...?"

Chunsheng stopped halfway through his sentence.

Judging from the tone of Sixth Sister's voice, the hen, though not in the coop, was probably not dead.

So, he asked with a curious look, "Where is it?"

"Come with me, let me tell you!"

As Chunmiao spoke, she led Chunsheng to the front yard.

As the two passed by their mother, Liu Yan'e, Liu Yan'e asked curiously, "Chunmiao, where are you taking Chunsheng?"

Chunmiao smiled mysteriously at her mother and said, "Take him to see the treasure!"

After saying that, she pushed open the door of a west-facing room and went in with Chunsheng one after the other.

"Sis, why did you bring me here?"

Just as Chunsheng was speaking, Chunmiao walked to the corner of the room and reached out to lift a clay pot that was half-upside down on the ground.

Chunsheng immediately looked closely and saw the hen he couldn't find was quietly nestled there.

"Is it incubating chicks there?"

Chunmiao nodded and smiled, and immediately restored the earthenware pot to its original state so as not to disturb the hen.

My mother always wanted to raise more laying hens so that everyone in the family could get some extra nutrition from time to time. Unlike now, when we have to think long and hard about whether to eat an egg today or tomorrow, or who to give it to and who not to give it to.

Sometimes, over something as trivial as an egg or two, she, as a mother, would feel that she had neglected her two daughters.

If you have a lot of chickens at home, it's not a big deal to eat eggs every day.

The reason she didn't raise so many chickens before was mainly because she wanted to store more grain in case of a poor harvest, so that her family wouldn't go hungry.

But now she doesn't think that way anymore. Since the day Chunsheng had his accident, many of her thoughts have changed dramatically overnight.

She felt that planning for the future was certainly not wrong, but compared to the unpredictable future, living well in the present was the most important thing.

Therefore, after discussing it with her husband, she decided that they would raise more chickens this year no matter what.

So starting yesterday, they moved the hen that hadn't been laying eggs well lately to that vacant shed and let it try being a mother hen!