I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 92. The Egg-Laying Rooster
July 10th is the day for Chuxi Village to elect its village chief.

"Wow! A water buffalo, a big water buffalo!" On the way back to the village, Lin Wanning excitedly leaned his head against the window and kept shouting.

"That's a scalper!" Xu Qingfan corrected, amused.

"Then how does it stay in the water, duck?"

"Ningning, don't listen to this brat. That's a water buffalo. Yellow cattle don't stay in the water." Yao Jinping looked at the herd of cattle in the distance and almost laughed herself to death at her son's ignorance.

Xu Qingfan rubbed his eyes and, after refocusing, he could see clearly that the water buffalo was covered in a layer of yellow mud, which he had mistaken for a yellow cow.

"Never mind what I said." Xu Qingfan scratched his head awkwardly.

"Hahaha~ Brother Fan, you're so lame! A bull's horns aren't that big!" Xiao Ruanwen gave Xu Qingfan a thumbs-up and laughed loudly.

"I didn't see it clearly just now. I subconsciously thought it was a scalper because it was yellow." He shrugged helplessly.

Since Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi had never been to the countryside before, they insisted on coming along after learning that Xu Qingfan was going back to the village today.

When Xia Xiaoxiao heard the news, she also said she wanted to come, and she brought her good friend Xiao Ruanwen along.

Fortunately, they were all still young. The five of them were a bit cramped in the back seat, but they could still fit. Xu Qingfan wouldn't have to be crammed into the back of the car again.

"A rooster! Wow! It's flying! Brother Qingfan, look!" Lin Wanning excitedly pointed to the scenery in the distance.

The group looked in the direction she pointed and indeed saw a magnificent rooster flapping its wings and taking flight.

"How can a chicken puff out like that?"

"what!!!"

Just as Xu Qingfan was about to ask how a chicken could fly, the rooster turned around and flew to a telephone pole. Its wing touched the neighboring power line, forming a circuit. After emitting sparks, it successfully passed away.

"Chickens are naturally meant to fly. Domesticated chickens can't fly because we've clipped their wing feathers. Otherwise, we'd have to keep as many chickens as that one we just saw." Rarely when asked about his area of ​​expertise, Yao Jinping, ever the know-it-all, offered his expert advice.

"Oh~" The five little ones cooperated perfectly, showing an "I see" expression.

"Let me tell you a little tidbit: do you know what happens if there's no rooster in a flock of chickens for too long?"

"They won't be able to produce baby chicks!" Lin Wanning was the first to raise his hand and speak.

The others had the same thought, so they remained silent, waiting for Yao Jinping to continue.

"No, that's not right. If a brood of chickens consists entirely of hens, over time one of them will gradually become a rooster, and the flock can continue to have chicks," Yao Jinping said with a smile.

"Huh?" Everyone, including Xu Aiguo who was driving, gaped open.

"Really? I've never heard of this before." Xu Aiguo slowed down the car, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

"Tch~ What do you know if you've never been to the countryside? Don't make a fuss!"

"Auntie, can a hen still lay eggs after it turns into a rooster?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked curiously.

"It can lay eggs before the comb grows out, but it can't lay eggs after it grows out."

"The best egg-laying rooster ever, oh yeah!" Xu Qingfan suddenly blurted out a rhyme, startling everyone in the car.

"Wow, that was hilarious!" Yao Jinping reached out and smacked Xu Qingfan on the head. "Sorry, sorry, Mom, please continue." Xu Qingfan chuckled sheepishly, thinking to himself that in a few years, when you see Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan's skit on the Spring Festival Gala, he wonders if you'll still remember this day.

"Auntie, does a hen need to transform into a rooster?" Lin Wanning asked, tilting her head.

"Huh? Ningning, please explain more clearly, Auntie doesn't quite understand."

"Exactly, so, does a hen transforming into a rooster also involve singing, like Sailor Moon?"

"Pfft~ Hahahahaha." When Sailor Moon was released, Yao Jinping was still a young girl in her prime. She had naturally watched the anime. Hearing Lin Wanning say this, the image of a hen singing and transforming immediately came to mind, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hahaha~ It takes a long time for a hen to become a rooster. It's not something that can be done by singing one song. The comb on its head has to grow little by little." She explained with a laugh.

"Then why didn't the chickens Mom raised in the countryside turn into roosters?" Xu Aiguo still didn't quite believe it and asked stubbornly.

Yao Jinping rolled her eyes speechlessly: "None of the chickens my mom raised could survive until after the New Year. They all ended up in your stomach, so how could they become roosters!"

"Qingfan, brother!" Zhang Yiyi pointed at Xu Qingfan and said, as if she had just thought of something, "Brother, a girl!"

"What girl? What are you trying to say? I'm a boy, a real man!" Xu Qingfan scratched his head in confusion.

Zhang Yiyi tried to use sign language, but the meaning she wanted to express was too complicated. After a while, the little girl gave up and took out her pen and notebook from her pocket.

"This, this!" Zhang Yi handed the notebook he had just finished writing to Xu Qingfan.

[Qingfan is always with us, will he turn into a girl too?]

"Pfft~ I'm not a chicken, I'm a human, how could I turn into a girl!" Xu Qingfan raised his hand to his forehead, defeated by Zhang Yiyi's wild imagination.

"Hahahaha!" After the group took turns reading the contents of the notebook, the car was filled with laughter.

Yao Jinping suddenly became alert. [In the compound, almost everyone around her son's age only played with boys their own age. If Xiaoxiao was an exception, what was going on with these three little girls?]
"All the other kids your age play with a bunch of boys, you brat, how come you don't have a single boy friend?"

"Mom, stop making baseless accusations! I'm very popular. I know a ton of male friends, including Wu Dongsong, Zhao Hao, Zhao Wumian, and Wang Junze!"

Xu Qingfan silently rolled his eyes at his mother, thinking to himself: [In my past life, when I went home for graduate school holidays, someone kept implying that so-and-so's family had another big, healthy boy, and that so-and-so's family had already remarried. Now they're picking on me!]
"Then why have I never seen them come to my house to play?" Yao Jinping asked, still doubtful.

"The boys in my class are so trendy, they all meet up online. Mom, you should hurry up and learn how to use a computer, or you'll fall behind one day!"

"What's the use of learning this stuff? I don't even understand why it's so expensive. A few sheets of metal cost over eight thousand yuan," Yao's mother said dismissively.

"Auntie's computer is really useful! You can chat on it! Ningning, Yiyi, and Brother Qingfan have a group on QQ. If you want to go out and play, you just need to say so on the group and everyone will see it!" Lin Wanning chimed in.

"Really? Then Auntie will go back and learn when she has time, and Ningning, you can teach me!" Yao Jinping instantly changed her tone when talking to her little darling.

"Hehe, okay!"

Two small hands suddenly appeared on Xu Qingfan's arms and waist, and they twisted his flesh forcefully.

"Hiss~" Xu Qingfan gasped in pain.

"Brother Qingfan, what's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. This Halls mint is too cold, it's a bit too spicy for my throat!"

(End of this chapter)