Transmigrated to Ancient Times with System

Chapter 27 Academy

Seeing her mother in-law brought so many eggs, He Xiaoya was a little worried.

They only had one old hen at home. How to incubate so many goose eggs?

Li Yao said, "No need for the hen. We'll incubate them ourselves."

He Xiaoya: ...

Mother must be confused today. How can humans incubate goslings?

Sleep hugging goose eggs in bed for a month?

The biggest challenge of artificial incubation was maintaining precise temperature control. After some thought, Li Yao decided to use their heated brick bed for the task.

She procured a lot of wood, crafted it into planks, and constructed double-layered walls and a roof for the incubation room, packing the gaps with hay.

Building the incubation bed was even more challenging.

To evenly transmit heat, Li Yao spent heavily to have the blacksmith make an iron tub 1 meter square and 15 cm thick, propped up by a ring of adobe.

The tub was filled with hot water and covered with layers of grass ash, cloth, and thin quilts. Several oil lamps were placed underneath to regulate the temperature.

Once everything was set, they would even be able to incubate chicks and ducklings in the future.

When the bed's temperature matched body heat, Li Yao carefully washed the goose eggs and laid them on the bed, covering them with two thick quilts.
The incubation duty was handed to He Xiaoya.

"Check the temperature every fifteen minutes. It should be the same as your body temperature," Li Yao instructed seriously. "If it gets too hot, remove an oil lamp; if it's too cold, add one. Turn the eggs every two hours and rotate them every three days."

"Got it, Mother. I'll make sure they're properly incubated."

This was two hundred goose eggs. A failure would mean huge losses.

He Xiaoya simply moved into the incubation room and tested the temperature every quarter hour by placing a goose egg inside her clothes. She adjusted the oil lamps as needed.

On October 28, while Li Yao was examining the eggs, she received a system notification:

[Ding—Congratulations on upgrading your farm to level 9!]

[Ding—Congratulations on unlocking a new crop: Fragrant Leaves!]

Li Yao accessed the farm system, harvested the cardamom, and planted Fragrant Leaves across the entire plot of land.

Her system storage held hundreds of catties of spices.

With the ongoing drought persisting from the previous year, there had been no harvest this year, and food costs were rising.

The drought had deterred everyone from planting crops, leading to concerns about a lack of food for the next year. Li Yao decided to plant yams on her family's land.

They had collected a total of 50 catties of yams, and she will use 40 catties to plant on their two-acre plot.

In modern times, yams can yield up to 3,000 catties per acre under ideal conditions. However, given that these were wild yams, the yield would likely be much lower, estimated to be around 500 to 1,000 catties per acre due to their hardy and cold-resistant nature.

With this in mind, she and Da Zhaung went to prepare the land. They can use water from their well for irrigation.

Li Yao also informed the village head and the Old Wang family about her plan, explaining that yams are a resilient food source capable of surviving the winter.