Lu Ao drove the tricycle straight to the fields. Watering the vegetables, loosening the soil, and picking the crops took him only a little over an hour.
Once he was done, he did not linger. He drove the tricycle to the little river, carried the grain on foot to the goose shed, and poured it out to feed the geese.
These days, he set out fish traps every few days.
The traps often caught small fish and shrimp. Aside from a small portion that he kept for food, he crushed most of them up and mixed them into the grain to supplement the geese's nutrition.
His geese were visibly growing larger by the day.
Each goose now weighed at least six or seven jin. They looked enormous standing there, especially when they spread their wings. Any stranger who approached would have their scalp crawl at the sight of them.
When Lu Ao arrived, the flock stirred uneasily for a while before quickly settling down again.
The geese had recently been incubating goslings, making their already fierce temperaments even more aggressive. If anyone dared provoke them, they certainly would not be polite.
After feeding the geese, Lu Ao collected six unfertilized goose eggs.
He did not know whether it was because their diet had improved or because they had simply grown up, but the flock laid more eggs every day. They now produced six or seven eggs daily. Apart from the few fertilized ones, most were unfertilized and could be collected for eating.
His egg-collecting made the geese uneasy, and they kept honking beside him.
He gave them a simple reassurance, then took a picture of the goose eggs in the bucket.
Qi Yan had long wanted to buy goose eggs from him to mail to his fans. He had been