While busy working, Lin Yumei came over, followed by an old man carrying a load on a pole. Seeing the two large and flat boxes covered with cloth, Yan Fei knew they were selling chicks.
Lin Yumei came to ask him how many chicks he wanted to buy, and Yan Fei said to buy as many as she wanted, ten or eight were okay, even thirty or fifty were fine, given the large space available there.
Surprisingly, the old man somehow persuaded Lin Yumei to buy as many as thirty to fifty chicks. Usually, in the countryside, each batch of chicks is raised by one mature hen. After rooting around his farm, Yan Fei could probably still find two or three feathers in some corner's garbage heap, but as for living chickens, there were none.
In other words, these large groups of chicks had to be taken care of by humans as there were no hens to lead them.
Anyway, it was Lin Yumei who bought them; it would be good to keep her busy.
