In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

Chapter 25 Building a House

Similar conversations took place in more than one household in Chenjia Village. Soon, Chen Dao's reputation for generosity spread throughout the entire village, greatly increasing the villagers' goodwill towards him.

In today's context where every household is saving food, such generously produced aged rice is naturally loved.

Of course, Chen Dao was unaware of these things.

At this moment, Chen Dao was sitting at the dining table, his face full of satisfaction.

This was probably the most satisfying meal Chen Dao had ever had since his transmigration. White rice with chicken—a meal that would have been considered ordinary in his previous life—gave Chen Dao a completely different sense of satisfaction. He gently patted his lower abdomen, his expression seemingly still savoring the deliciousness of the chicken.

Chen Fei, sitting next to Chen Dao, had greasy lips and a happy expression on her face: "Brother, the chicken is so delicious. Can we eat chicken every day from now on?"

Li Ping, who was clearing the table, glared at Chen Fei and said, "Eat, eat, eat! All you ever do is eat!"

Chen Dao gently stroked Chen Fei's somewhat dry and yellow hair and smiled, "Brother promised Xiao Fei that you will be able to eat meat every day from now on."

"Really? Brother."

Chen Fei asked with a look of surprise and delight.

"of course it's true."

Chen Dao smiled and gave an affirmative answer. With the help of a cheat code, his family's situation would improve sooner or later, and a life of eating meat every day would definitely not be just a pipe dream.

"Great!"

Chen Fei clapped her hands happily.

As Li Ping tidied up, she said to Chen Dao, "Xiao Dao, don't spoil her too much! How can our family eat meat every day?"

For Li Ping, tonight's meal was the epitome of luxury; she ate a whole chicken in one sitting. If she ate like this every day...

Even the richest landlords couldn't afford it.

"Mom, believe me, our family will be able to live a good life where we can eat meat every day sooner or later."

Chen Dao patted Chen Fei's head, gesturing for her to go to the next room to sleep, then said seriously, "Mother, I plan to rebuild our house."

"what?"

Li Ping, who was clearing the table, was stunned and asked, "Where would we get the money to rebuild the house?"

"No money is needed."

Chen Dao shook his head and said, "Nowadays, every household in the village is starving. If we are willing to provide food, someone will definitely be willing to help us build a house."

The village has no shortage of people willing to work hard. As long as they are willing to provide meals, Chen Dao believes that there will definitely be plenty of people willing to help him with his work.

"How much grain would that require?"

Li Ping hesitated before speaking. She knew how dilapidated her house was and had considered renovating it, but her family's assets simply didn't allow it.

"Not many will be needed."

Chen Dao analyzed for Li Ping: "Our family probably only needs to hire 4 to 5 people to help. Assuming each person has 2 jin of grain per day, we will only need about 10 jin of grain per day. Our family can afford this amount of grain consumption."

Chen Dao brought back a total of 50 jin of rice and 200 jin of sorghum flour. If rice bran is included, the total is 750 jin.

When hiring villagers to help with the work, it's impossible to feed them white rice. They only need to cook a mixture of sorghum flour and rice bran for them.

It wasn't that Chen Dao was mistreating the village's laborers, but rather that for many villagers, this kind of food was already quite good.

As for the building materials...

Chenjia Village is located at the foot of the Cangmang Mountains, where there is an abundance of timber available for felling, so there is no shortage of building materials.

"10 jin a day..."

Li Ping frowned in thought. Renovating the house would take at least a month, which meant she would need at least 300 jin of grain...

Li Ping still found this number hard to accept.

However, she did not refute Chen Dao's suggestion, but simply said, "Xiao Dao, you decide for yourself."

Li Ping already regarded Chen Dao as the backbone of the family, and she would not refuse any decision Chen Dao made unless it was too outrageous.

"Then I'll go find someone tomorrow."

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The next day.

As Xiao Hei's chirping rang out, Chen Dao also got out of the warm bed. He first brushed his teeth hastily with a willow twig, and then took out some food and scattered it on the ground to feed Xiao Hei.

"Giggle!"

Little Blackie happily pecked at the sorghum (unhulled sorghum) and rice husks on the ground.

Chen Dao stroked Xiao Hei's soft feathers, and then went to the chicken coop to observe the condition of the six white-feathered chickens.

"It actually laid an egg?"

Chen Dao looked at the two eggs under the chicken coop with some surprise, and was secretly delighted.

These six white-feathered chickens consist of four hens and two roosters, with each coop containing two hens and one rooster.

Chen Dao did this so that the chickens could mate and hatch new chicks.

Therefore, Chen Dao was pleasantly surprised to see eggs in the chicken coop.

"I just don't know if these two eggs are fertilized?"

Chen Dao suddenly remembered some jokes he had seen online in his previous life. Once, while scrolling through Douyin (TikTok), he saw a video about egg fertilization, and the comments section of that video left him completely astonished.

The fact that many people in the comments section didn't even know that an egg needs to be fertilized to hatch into a chick shows a lack of common sense among many people.

Chen Dao was certainly not someone who lacked common sense, but he was not a professional chicken farmer, so he could not accurately determine whether the two eggs were fertilized.

"Let's put it here and let the hen incubate it first."

After thinking for a moment, Chen Dao decided not to take the two eggs away, but instead placed them under the hen so that she could try to incubate them.

After scattering enough grain around the two chicken coops as feed, Chen Dao returned to the house, took out sappanwood flowers and chicken heart grass, and prepared materials for raising yellow-feathered chickens.

He put the sappanwood flowers and chicken heart grass into a bowl, then took out a round wooden stick and started pounding it in the bowl.

Soon, the sappanwood flowers and chicken heart grass were crushed by Chen Dao and turned into a paste-like juice.

"Would chickens really eat this?"

Chen Dao hesitated for a moment before placing the bowl of broth next to the chicken coop.

"Giggle!"

The white-feathered chickens in the coop let out loud cries, poking their heads into the bowl and pecking at the juice inside.

Upon seeing this, Chen Dao was immediately relieved.

"It seems that there are no problems with the Yellow Feather Chicken's advancement."

Chen Dao smiled. The description of advancing to yellow-feathered chicken on the cheat device was very clear: just feed the white-feathered chicken a mixture of sappanwood flowers and chicken heart grass for three days, and there is a 90% chance that the white-feathered chicken will advance to yellow-feathered chicken.

Yellow-feathered chickens undoubtedly have more advantages than white-feathered chickens, not only producing more meat but also laying more eggs. If all six chickens could be upgraded to yellow-feathered chickens...

Then my family will probably never lack eggs again.