Chapter 878 - 878: Can't Bear to Look

"Name your price." Xiao Feng got straight to the point.

Grandma Fang turned around and went into the house, calculated for a moment, and said, "It's such a mess, hiring a cleaner would cost fifty yuan at least. Plus the broken items, two hundred yuan will do."

The price seemed fair enough.

Even though it felt a bit like bringing trouble upon oneself, at least Xiao Xiangzhu was found, and they had caused some inconvenience, so Xiao Feng directly counted out two hundred yuan and handed it over.

Grandma Fang took it and pointed at Xiao Xiangzhu, saying, "Hurry up and take it away."

Xiao Feng and the little girl nodded, but noticed Xiao Xiangzhu's actions were quite bizarre.

The rooster being chased by it seemed rather exhausted and was trembling in the corner.

Xiao Xiangzhu, on the other hand, was back to the rooster, nestled on the ground, occasionally looking back as if waiting for something.

"Brother Xiao Feng, what's going on here?" The little girl asked, puzzled.

Xiao Feng shook his head, indicating that he hadn't quite figured it out either.

At this moment, Grandma Fang took a look and suddenly said, "It's trying to reproduce."

"Reproduce?" The little girl wondered, "Isn't a hen capable of laying eggs on its own?"

At this point, she couldn't help but think, their Xiao Xiangzhu is also a hen, why has it never laid an egg?

Then Grandma Fang explained, "It's different. Eggs laid by themselves won't hatch chicks. A rooster is required to cooperate.

Usually, when a hen behaves like this, it means it has reproductive needs. The rooster will seize the opportunity to jump on the hen's back, usually this process only takes about five seconds to complete."

Xiao Feng frowned slightly. So Xiao Xiangzhu is alone, no, a lonely chicken looking for some excitement?

The little girl's face was equally peculiar, didn't expect their Xiao Xiangzhu with its bushy brows and small eyes to have such sly intentions?

"Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"

Xiao Xiangzhu looked back and crowed twice, as if urging the rooster to hurry up, otherwise it would be taken away.

However, the rooster was frightened, flapped twice, and shrank further into the corner.

Xiao Xiangzhu shook its head and dashed towards the rooster at the kitchen door.

Seeing Xiao Xiangzhu charging at it, the rooster turned and ran away.

Yet Xiao Xiangzhu remained nestled, back to the kitchen door.

The meaning was clear, no action, no leaving!

Xiao Feng held his head and sighed, this is truly embarrassing.

"Move it, move it, quickly move it!" Xiao Feng showed a "can't bear to watch" expression.

The little girl walked over, gently nudged Xiao Xiangzhu, and said in a grumpy tone, "Let's go, this kind of thing can't be forced. If he's not into you, are you trying to coax him into doing something against his will?"

But Xiao Xiangzhu seemed unwilling to give up, wiggled its rear, and glanced back at the kitchen for one last effort.

Reaching the door, Xiao Feng couldn't stand it any longer, quickly rang the bell indicating he was already impatient.

Only then did Xiao Xiangzhu reluctantly withdraw its gaze, looking dejected, and followed the little girl out.

"You tell me, aren't you ashamed, or should I say embarrassed?" The little girl lectured while holding Xiao Xiangzhu, "To put it nicely, you look quite pretty, you shouldn't fail at flirting.

Could it be... among your kind, you're considered a strange-looking one?"

Xiao Feng checked the time; it was nearly one o'clock, clearly past lunchtime.

After thinking for a moment, he sent a message in the group chat: "Xiao Xiangzhu found, wrap it up!"

Quickly, the other four teams replied "received" and caught taxis to head back.

After notifying his team, Xiao Feng sent a message to Hua Ling, indicating that they could retrieve the bell.

In the taxi, the little girl thoughtfully said, "Brother Xiao Feng, should we find a companion for Xiao Xiangzhu?"

"Where to find one, Anping Temple back mountain?" Xiao Feng laughed, "Better save it, it can't even lay an egg normally, what's the use of a companion?"

"Now that you mention it, it reminds me, it not only doesn't lay eggs, but it doesn't seem to poop either. The coop has been clean for so long," the little girl said, puzzled.

The driver's mouth twitched in front, thinking to himself: what are these two people up to, are they chicken farm professionals?

They walked out initially, didn't go far, so it took less than ten minutes to return to Jinyue Garden.

Upon returning home, just as they were about to put Xiao Xiangzhu back in the coop, Lu Yao stopped them: "Wait a minute."

"What's wrong, Sister Lu Yao?" The little girl asked, confused.

Lu Yao approached, holding a tiny black chip, about five millimeters in size, and said, "To prevent it from getting lost again, I made a tracking chip, so even if it runs off, we know where it is."

Then she spread the feathers behind Xiao Xiangzhu's neck and stuck it on using the side with glue.

"You have this skill?" Xiao Feng said, surprised.

Lu Yao smiled shyly, "It's not a complicated craft, not difficult to make."

"Since that's the case, make more," Xiao Feng said seriously, "Prevent someone from slacking off on missions, showing up but not working."

"Brother Yanhuang, you forgot that everyone's phone already has such chips, besides, these chips aren't suitable for sticking on humans," Lu Yao explained.

As they spoke, Zhao Guo'an entered with a short-handled shovel, looking like he was here to start an argument, "Old Xiao, has the chick called Xiao Xiangzhu been found?"

"Talk properly, stop yelling," Xiao Feng said, annoyed, "Why are you bringing a shovel here?"

Zhao Guo'an pointed to a sticky mess on the shovel, "Look at this, this is the good deed done by Xiao Xiangzhu, it didn't poop in your yard but messed up my herbal field.

If you don't believe it, go see, in the area it pooped, no herb grows anymore."

Xiao Feng exchanged a glance with the little girl, so the mystery of Xiao Xiangzhu not pooping is solved.

"Is it that exaggerated?" Lu Yao asked, baffled, "Logically, chicken manure is fertilizer, mixed into the soil should make both crops and plants grow better, shouldn't it?"

"How would I know what's going on!" Zhao Guo'an said angrily, "That chicken is different from others, its poop is naturally different too."

Xiao Feng annoyed, "Alright, alright, isn't it just a small matter? We'll tighten management and education."

"So it's been found?" Zhao Guo'an perked up, "Great, bring it here. I must teach it a lesson; it's destroying our herbal cultivation results!"

As soon as he finished speaking, rapid footsteps were heard from outside like someone was running.

Two seconds later, Sun Shijie stopped abruptly at the door, rushed in, grabbed Zhao Guo'an's collar and desperately asked, "Where's the chicken manure?"

Zhao Guo'an was stunned, pointed to the shovel, "Here it is."

Sun Shijie breathed a sigh of relief, "Good, good, it hasn't been tossed."

Everyone looked at each other, they all saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

Listening to the conversation, does chicken manure have significant value?