Courtyard House: My Time Travel is a Bit Too Strong

Free-range chickens are hard to find now, and old hens are even rarer.

Three pounds of meat and a bowl of soup, 100 yuan, worth it.

Jiang Yong went home and put the basin on the table.

"Where did you buy this? It smells so good!" His wife, Xu Wei, asked, leaning closer.

"Linquan's place."

"He's stopped acting? He's selling chickens now?"

"He wasn't selling it; he cooked it himself and insisted on giving me a bowl. I felt bad refusing it."

Xu Wei picked up a piece of chicken, took a bite, and then drank a couple of sips of soup. Her eyes immediately lit up: "This chicken is so delicious! I haven't tasted this good in years!"

"I'll ask him where he got it later, and I'll buy one too," Jiang Yong said, scooping up another spoonful of soup.

Two hours later, Lin Quan poured the stewed chicken bones and broth from the bucket into the main chicken coop, completely clearing the area.

Turn off the fire, load the empty buckets onto the tricycle, and pedal straight to the film studio.

A gust of wind carries the fragrance along the wheels of the car.

"Braised eggs, two yuan each..."

Others were selling it for 1.5 yuan, but he insisted on 2 yuan.

With no one watching him or any city management officers around, he shouted several times at the top of his lungs.

"Lin Quan? You're not auditioning?"

"Audition? That kind of work isn't for me."

Two dollars? That's highway robbery!

"Genuine free-range eggs, two yuan, you can't make much profit."

"It smells really good, give me two."

In Xia Kingdom, mobile payment wasn't yet available; people exchanged money for eggs.

"The chicken broth flavor has completely permeated it, and the braising sauce still clings to it."

Less than a hundred had been sold when two people in uniforms appeared in the distance.

He pedaled his tricycle hard, turned into another street, set up his stall again, and started shouting at the top of his lungs.

After several trips, the entire bucket of eggs was sold out.

"Let's save up some capital first, and once we rent a shop, we won't have to keep hiding from others."

Back in the rented room, Lin Quan emptied loose change and coins from his backpack and laid them out on the table to count.

"Three for one hundred dollars, four for fifty dollars... seven hundred and thirty-six."

"A deal with no capital comes quick, and it's still early, let's do one more job."

He entered the ordinary chicken coop in the system space, used rice to create ordinary chickens, and slaughtered a hen and a rooster.

After collecting two large buckets of eggs, they got busy again.

After the hen was butchered, it weighed a little over eight pounds, while the rooster weighed around twelve pounds.

Blanch two whole chickens, add ginger slices to make soup, and then pour in all the hard-boiled eggs with cracked shells.

"This time, more than 500 were sold out, and it's guaranteed to exceed 1,000."

Just as I was making plans, there was a knock on the door.

"Brother Yong, next month's rent is five hundred." Lin Quan handed over the money.

"Ah Quan, where did you get these chickens?" Jiang Yong asked.

"The wet market," Lin Quan answered readily.

"Stewed it again?"

"Braised eggs, we'll set them up at the night market tonight."

Are you buying chicken again tomorrow?

"Buying depends on whether you can find a genuine breed of chicken."

"Original breed chicken? Really free-range chicken?"

"Roosters are twenty, hens are twenty-five."

"So expensive?" Jiang Yong raised an eyebrow.

"I'm talking about the original species, not the improved one."

"If you happen to see one, please bring one for me."

"Male or female?"

"Either is fine... braised rooster, broth made from hen," Jiang Yong laughed.

"Okay, I'll save some for you if I have any."

Jiang Yong nodded, turned and went out, his figure quickly disappearing around the corner of the corridor.

At 7 p.m., Lin Quan, having eaten and drunk his fill, hopped on a tricycle and headed straight for the night market.

During the day, the city management officers keep a close eye on things, so people don't dare to show their faces; only after six o'clock can the stalls truly be settled.

Pay five yuan for sanitation, and as soon as the car stops, the lid of the bucket is lifted... and the aroma immediately spreads.

"Wow, it smells so good, I can't even walk past!"

"Boss, how much are the braised eggs?"

"Two yuan each."

"Other stores sell items for 1 to 1.5 yuan."

"These eggs were laid by purebred hens, and I even threw a whole purebred hen into the soup... See this layer of oil? It's chicken oil, pure chicken oil. Can factory-farmed or hybrid chickens produce this flavor?"

"Can purebred chickens grow this big?"

"The original breed is divided into several groups, this one is called the original breed big hen."

"Are you selling this hen?"

"My purchase price is 25 yuan per jin, how much are you offering?"

"It's all cooked, so give me a discount."

"Two hundred, take it."

"One hundred and eighty?"

"Okay, deal."

Lin Quan quickly packed the chicken into a bag and charged 150 yuan. The young man took the bag, broke off a chicken foot, took a bite, and his eyes lit up immediately.

More than 500 braised eggs were sold out in less than two hours.

Lin Quan was in a good mood and rode his bicycle home.

We went back into the chicken coop and killed three females and one male.

The braised rooster meat is tender and flavorful, perfect for a meal. Any leftovers can be tossed back into the coop.

After collecting over five hundred eggs, I took a cold shower and went straight to sleep.

The next morning, after washing up and changing into clean clothes, I called the landlord.

Not long after, Jiang Yong arrived.

"Brother Yong, we only found four today... three hens and one rooster."

"Ah Quan, can I have one male and one female?"

"become."

"How much?"

"The hen weighs over eight jin (4.5 catties), and the rooster weighs over twelve jin (6.5 catties), totaling four hundred and fifty jin (225 kg)."

"How about I pay you one month's rent?" Jiang Yong asked with a smile.

"OK."

Jiang Yong carried the two chickens and walked away with light steps.

Seeing him come in carrying a chicken, Xu Wei casually asked, "Where did you get this?"

"Linquan's place."

"How much?"

"It was used to pay the rent."

"How can free-range chickens grow so robust?"

"We'll know once it's cooked." Jiang Yong himself wasn't sure either.

"Hurry up and start cooking, I'll call my parents and ask them to come over for dinner." Xu Wei took out her phone and dialed.

Lin Quan has stewed a hen and steamed rice.

Before 10:30, breakfast and lunch were already taken care of together.

"It's hot, and there's no refrigerator, so we dumped the rest into the chicken coop."

After resting for a while, he got on his tricycle and headed straight for Hengpu Film and Television City.

I bought two packs of cigarettes and a large bottle of mineral water, continuing my guerrilla-style shopping spree.

The easy-going security guards would offer a cigarette and nod to let people pass; the difficult ones would ride their electric bikes around people who approached.

His eyes scanned quickly, and his ears were perked up. He spotted someone in uniform in the distance, turned the wheel, and the person had already disappeared into the alley.

The old hen used for stewing soup was bought for 180 yuan.

In less than an hour, all 500-plus eggs were sold.

"A little over three thousand two hundred. It's a business with no capital, and the money comes in fast."

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"This chicken soup smells so good. I haven't smelled this strong aroma in over a decade." Jiang Hua took a deep breath.

"Dad, is this really a free-range chicken?" Xu Wei picked up a piece of meat.

"It's definitely a free-range chicken, and it's an old hen that has laid eggs," Jiang Hua asserted.

"Can an old hen grow to over eight pounds?"

"The person who raises the child feeds him honestly."

"Dinner's ready." Zhou Lan brought out a plate of green vegetables.

"The soup is clear and the meat is tender and juicy, not dry at all." Jiang Hua drank two bowls in a row.

"Dad, Mom, I also bought a rooster. We'll braise it tonight." Jiang Yong put the plastic bag on the table.

"Okay." Zhou Lan glanced at her son and daughter-in-law, without asking any further questions.

"If the hen is this big, the rooster must weigh more than ten pounds."

"Twelve catties and eight taels, two taels short of thirteen catties."

"How much did it cost?"

"A hen costs 25 yuan a pound, and a rooster costs 20 yuan. Two roosters are worth a month's rent."

"The rent is 500, so it's not a bad deal."

"After careful calculation, I'm still thirty short." Xu Wei flipped through her phone's notes.