Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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03
It turned out that the condition for her to complete her mission in this life was that Hou Yi must never marry for the rest of his life!
Although the Queen Mother had kindly reminded her that Hou Yi in this life could only live to be twenty-eight years old, he was currently only twenty years old and eight years was a long enough time.
Furthermore, the difficulty had not decreased at all, because Brother Yi was an out-and-out village grass in this small and remote village. He was poor, but he couldn’t stand the ardent eyes of the girls in the village. He was not blind. When Brother Yi went out to buy a piece of tofu, a girl fell in love at first sight and secretly promised herself to him.
In order to ask him to marry the village girl, the matchmakers almost broke down the door of his house!
Brother Yi’s mother urged him to go on a blind date, but Hou Yi was very ambitious. He said to his mother: “Mom, my mind is not on this right now. I want to raise chickens well and earn more money. When we have a big house, then I will marry a wife.”
It must be said that Hou Yi was also an ambitious young man.
Hou Yi not only talked about it, but actually began to take good care of the chicks.
Chang’e was the weakest of the chickens, and because she retained her memory, she was too embarrassed to compete with these ignorant little beings for food, so her weight always lagged behind the others.
But it was a blessing in disguise, and later the aspiring young man Yi noticed her!
At first, Hou Yi only fed it alone. Later, when he saw that it was cute and had a very well-behaved temperament, he occasionally brought it into the room to play with it.
Chang’e seized the opportunity every time and tried her best to express herself. If Hou Yi said west, then she would never go east and drank only the water she was given. At the same time, she also paid great attention to hygiene. Everyone said that chickens and ducks stank. She was worried that the smell on her body would be smelt by him. So, she often cleaned her feathers secretly, and deliberately pecked at flowers when the mother hen took the chicks out, so as to rub the sweet flower juice onto his feathers.
It was clean, had colorful feathers, and exuded the fragrance of flowers. It had thus become a little fairy among the chickens, and it had also undoubtedly become Hou Yi’s favorite chicken!
Hou Yi also named it “Little Fairy”.
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04
However, what really solidified Chang’e’s position was an accident. There were too many matchmakers, and there were always one or two that Hou Yi’s family could not refuse.
“Little fairy, little fairy, the girl I’m going to see today is Wang Cuihua from the landlord’s house at the entrance of the village, but I don’t like her. You are so smart, come out and call her a few times to scare her, so that I have a reason to hide away.” Hou Yi half-jokingly put her in his pocket and actually took her on the blind date.
Chang’e took it very seriously and left no chance to disappoint him. She made a big fuss during the blind date and even pecked Wang Cuihua. Want to steal a man from this sister E? Dream on!
Sister E’s posture suddenly changed from a chicken to an eagle, scaring Wang Cuihua away on the spot. However, Hou Yi had no intention of punishing the chicken. He also said that this was his favorite fairy chicken and he would only fall in love with that girl to whom it agreed.
Everyone in the village said: The son of the wife of Hou family loves the chicken to the point of being stupid. Could it be that it is a swan?
Of course, Chang’e grew up day by day. She did not grow into a white swan in the end but grew into a beautiful… Luhua chicken[1].
Due to the trouble caused by the Luhua chicken, the stupid Hou Yi and his incomprehensible style, and the fact that his family was indeed poor, the matchmakers finally calmed down a lot.
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05
A few months later, Chang’e faced the first major event after her birth with horror.
She laid eggs!
The specific process was difficult to describe. In short, when she found the round and warm egg behind her, the whole chicken stiffened into a wooden chicken, and it seemed to be immortal. She happened to be in Hou Yi’s house when the egg was laid.
Of course Chang’e’s first reaction was to hide. What a joke, she was a fairy! How could a fairy be so vulgar as to lay eggs!
Unfortunately, Brother Yi had already seen the egg. He picked it up with great surprise and looked at Chang’e as if she had seen the great hero: “Little fairy, you have laid an egg!”
Chang’e wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in, but Brother Yi was so happy because among this batch of chickens, Chang’e was the first chicken to lay eggs!
Unexpectedly, the little fairy who was smaller than the other chicken sisters actually came out on top. Hou Yi held the egg as if he was holding his eldest son, with bright eyes!
Then that night, this precious egg entered Brother Yi’s stomach. When it was over, he rewarded the eggshell to Chang’e and said: “Little fairy, eat more eggshells to replenish your health. Try to lay another one tomorrow. Your eggs are delicious.”
“….”
Chang’e rolled her eyes and felt that her view of immortality was violently impacted. From then on, something in her soul was shattered to pieces.
She swore that if she still felt like laying eggs tomorrow, she would hold them back! If she couldn’t hold it in any longer, she would eat it secretly after finishing laying it!
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06
But Sister E’s shame was quickly shattered by another incident.
Her chicken sisters also began to lay eggs one after another not long after she laid eggs. However, one or two of them laid no eggs. Hou Yi and his mother went to touch the belly of the chickens, and his mother said: “This chicken is of no use, it can’t lay eggs.”
Then, Chang’e watched helplessly as Hou Yi simply picked up the chicken. Soon, the chicken became dinner that night.
Chicken stewed with mushrooms, very tender. Chang’e herself also liked this dish very much, but…hell now she was one of the chickens who was very likely to be slaughtered!!!
Chang’e began to panic, and the chickens seemed to have a premonition, and the entire chicken coop was enveloped in a tense atmosphere. At this time, the time to test them had arrived. Even if they ate the same grains, some chickens could lay eggs, and some chickens couldn’t, so the ones that couldn’t give birth were served to the mother and son’s dinner table again a few days later – – White-cut chicken, served with a dipping sauce made of sesame seeds, coriander, minced garlic, and soy sauce. It was also a very fragrant and delicious meat dish.
At this moment, Sister E didn’t dare to be reserved anymore. Saving her life was the right way to go!
Fortunately, her fertility was like a cheat. She laid eggs every day, and the eggs were so big and round that the mother and son couldn’t finish them, so they saved them and sold them to increase their income. Her life became much more beautiful like this.
As the saying went in the world, the mother became more valuable because of her son, but our sister E became more valuable because of her eggs. She had finally officially established herself in the position of the royal family of the chicken family, and received complete pampering in the henhouse… If I love you, I will lay eggs for you, especially since it’s not enough to give birth to one, you have to give birth to double yolk eggs. Goodbye manually!
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07
It was a pity that a drought occurred not long after the beautiful days began, and the haze of famine enveloped the entire small village.
To make matters worse, Hou Yi’s mother also got sick. Brother Yi had to sell his property in order to ask a doctor to treat her illness. The young chicken brothers and sisters were the quickest to get rid of. Later, even the mother chicken was not spared, and Chang’e because her ability to lay eggs was too strong, was kept behind to provide nutrition to his mother.
However, the old mortal failed to fight the disease in the end and was taken away by the King of Hell, leaving only Brother Yi alone.
The days without harvest were very difficult. Hou Yi lost a lot of weight. Chang’e felt sorry for him and even willingly hoped that he would kill her to replenish his body. However, for some reason, Brother Yi never did anything to her, even when he couldn’t get a bite to eat. He would leave some of his food for her, and say kindly: “You are different from other chickens, why would I let you go hungry…”
Chang’e was so moved that she gave up her moral integrity. Hou Yi had no extra grain to feed her, so she simply dug three feet into the ground to catch bugs to eat. After all, she was reborn as a chicken. What chicken doesn’t eat bugs? Snort!
Unexpectedly, those little bugs were quite nutritious. Chang’e laid several double-yolked eggs in succession. She tasted the sweetness and became fiercer. She would eat centipedes, grasshoppers and even snakes without hesitation as long as she could peck them to death!
In this way, Sister E successfully survived the three-year famine with Hou Yi through her own efforts…
I love you so I lay eggs for you, there is nothing wrong with it!
Therefore, Hou Yi did not eat this hard-working fairy chicken in the end. In the last few years, even if it stopped laying eggs and became old, he still waited on it until it closed its eyes. By the way, because he loved the chicken too much, he later became an outlier in the village, and he successfully fulfilled his lifelong mission of never marrying – after all, no girl from the family dared to marry a snake who was so doting on a chicken (funny).
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[1] Luhua chicken, raised mainly in Southwest Shandong and surrounding provinces, is one of the excellent Chinese local chicken breeds. This chicken has a unique feather color pattern which is black and white feather with transverse spots covered all over the body.