Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 236 - 235: Let Her Go to the Commune Less

Chapter 236: Chapter 235: Let Her Go to the Commune Less

In the Cooperative Society, Lin Nianhe stood in front of a pile of eggs on a small stool, contemplating a very serious issue—

If she slipped and fell into the pile of eggs, how would she count and compensate for the broken eggs? Should she count the yolks or piece together the eggshells?

The sales clerk next to her watched Lin Nianhe’s contemplative face with curiosity, and couldn’t help but comfort her: "Comrade, are the eggs particularly hard to select? Do you need my help?"

The introduction letter Feng Yuanshan provided was very detailed, and the leaders of the Cooperative Society didn’t care whether the eggs sold were fertilized or anything else. As long as the numbers were correct, that was fine, so they waved her off, letting Lin Nianhe go directly to the storeroom to choose her eggs and avoid causing a crowd at the counter.

Lin Nianhe snapped back to reality and quickly said, "No, no, it’s not difficult. I can choose them in a moment."

While speaking, she stuffed a few White Rabbit creamy candies into the clerk’s hand and asked tenderly, "Sister, can I buy some more eggs?"

The sales clerk hesitated a bit: "This..."

The eggs in the Cooperative Society were in short supply; without enough luck or chance, you might not be able to buy even one egg in a month.

Lin Nianhe blinked, her moist eyes shimmering as if with tears: "Sister, I know this might be difficult for you, I am really sorry... I just thought I could buy some eggs to supplement the nutrition for the children in our village. Starting last week, our principal began to exchange for eggs, and only today did one student get one-fourth of an egg..."

"Alas, we really have no other choice, being poor in the rural areas, the kids are all so skinny. I teach first grade; our six or seven-year-old kids come to school on an empty stomach, walking miles in the early morning, and I’m truly afraid they might not make it..."

The tears of the sales clerk fell faster than Lin Nianhe’s: "Young girl, stop it, you buy them. I’ll go and apply with the leaders right now!"

Having said that, and not giving Lin Nianhe a chance to refuse, the clerk ran off with her braids flying.

Lin Nianhe looked around to make sure the coast was clear and then sighed in relief.

She had to watch carefully here; it wouldn’t be easy for her to secretly switch the eggs.

Counting carefully, Lin Nianhe picked thirty eggs from the basket in the storeroom to place into her space, and then replaced them with fertilized eggs from her basket.

When the sales clerk came back with the director’s approval slip, Lin Nianhe was scrutinizing the eggs with a flashlight, as if she was doing it by the book.

She waved the slip and said, "Young girl, go ahead and buy. The director has approved fifty eggs for you!"

"Really? Thank you so much!"

Lin Nianhe carefully set down the eggs and gave the clerk a deep bow: "I thank you on behalf of the children!"

"No problem at all, it’s just a minor matter." The clerk waved her hand offhandedly, "If you need to buy eggs again in the future, just come to me."

"This... it’s too much trouble for you..."

"No problem, the director is my uncle."

"Uh..."

What else could Lin Nianhe say?

She could only quietly count out fifty eggs and carefully place them in the basket with straw dividers.

After paying, and having a casual chat with the director’s niece, Lin Nianhe then left the Cooperative Society with her basket.

On the way back to Ten Miles Team, Lin Nianhe seized a moment when there was no one on the road to quickly replace the eggs in the basket with fertilized ones.

When she returned to the school, it so happened that her class students had just finished their PE class.

Wen Lan stood by the water jar, calling out with a ladle in hand: "Come over, wash your hands properly before going to play."

Lin Nianhe, carrying the basket on her back, went over to ask Wen Lan, "Are they being obedient?"

Wen Lan gave her a look that seemed to say: ’In front of me, you have to behave, let alone your students.’

Lin Nianhe cracked a smile and casually ruffled the hair of Qu Xia, who was closest to her, and instructed: "Listen to Teacher Wen, wash your hands clean before going back, okay?"

"Okay."

The children’s little faces were flushed from running, their eyes exceptionally bright.

Lin Nianhe, in a great mood, carried a basket on her back to Principal Wu’s house and upon seeing her writing said, "Principal, I’m back."

"Mm."

Principal Wu responded first, finished writing a sentence, then capped the steel pen before asking, "What did Old Feng say?"

"Uncle Feng said, as long as we can get the chicks, we can raise as many as we want," Nianhe said, as she placed the basket down on her back, "Look, these eggs are all fertilized, hatch them and we’ll have our chicks."

Principal Wu was flabbergasted.

She widened her eyes, looking at the basket brimming with eggs, and asked, "How many are these?"

"Eighty," Lin Nianhe wiped the sweat from her brow, "Principal, let’s get this straight though, I don’t know how to hatch chicks, you’ll need to ask Uncle Team Leader about which auntie knows how to do it."

Principal Wu didn’t catch the second half of what she said, as she carefully picked up an egg with both hands, cradling it as if holding the future.

She asked, "Did Old Feng really say we can keep so many chickens?"

"Uh-huh, he said raise as many as we can, if the commune has any objections, he’d go sit-in at the leader’s door."

Lin Nianhe, with her hands on her hips, exclaimed, "Uncle Feng really is such a good man!"

Principal Wu’s lips twitched twice.

She was certain that Old Feng didn’t mean for them to actually raise eighty chickens.

No, she thought Old Feng would never even guess that they could raise eighty chickens.

Even then, Lin Nianhe was still saying, "Tomorrow morning I’ll make another trip to the Cooperative Society, pick up another twenty fertilized eggs to make it an even hundred."

Principal Wu looked at her with a complex expression: "Nianhe, are you sure?"

"Yes, I’m sure," Lin Nianhe nodded.

"How are we going to raise them?" Principal Wu smiled wryly, "Even just feeding them is no small task, how do we manage?"

A hundred chickens, she would be worn to death trying to take care of them all.

"Well," Lin Nianhe said, "when we build the chicken coop, divide it into six sections, assign chicks per class based on the number of students, everyone takes responsibility for their own chickens, and the rest is for you to look after."

"Won’t they catch chicken cholera?" Principal Wu was still somewhat worried.

They had never raised so many chickens before, she was very anxious.

"Principal, you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater," Lin Nianhe reminded her with a laugh.

Principal Wu paused, then slapped her forehead, "Right, we’ll deal with that if it happens, as long as they grow up to lay even one egg, it’s not a loss."

Principal Wu subconsciously ignored the labor cost because at that time, human labor was truly the least valuable.

Lin Nianhe smiled and said, "Well then, you discuss the matter of hatching chicks with Uncle Team Leader, I have to go teach a class."

"Okay, off you go."

After watching Principal Wu leave, Lin Nianhe smiled and went to the kitchen to pour herself a cup of hot water, leisurely returning to the classroom with an enamel mug in hand.

As it turned out, it wasn’t just Principal Wu overthinking it; even Li Dahe nearly tumbled off his kang bed when he heard the news.

"Good lord, this is, this is... how can this be allowed? Miss Lin’s courage is just too immense!"

Li Dahe ran his hand through his hair, his face crinkled like walnut skin.

Now it was Principal Wu’s turn to reassure him. After she repeated Feng Yuanshan’s words, Li Dahe’s mouth also began to twitch.

After a long moment, he murmured softly while fiddling with his tobacco pipe, "This leader really has bad luck... In the future, we should keep Miss Lin from visiting the commune too often. Those old men aren’t in the best of health, we can’t have her scaring away a couple of them."