Mortal Mirror

Li Ergou was dumbfounded, not expecting the space inside the mirror to be so vast. Judging by his feeling, in this quarter of an hour, it could hold hundreds of large barrels that three people could hug.

After waiting another quarter of an hour, the mirror still wasn't full, as if it were a bottomless pit. By this time, it should have held over two hundred barrels of water. He quickly picked up the mirror, thinking that this amount of water would last him a year, so he should just stop here.

Strangely enough, the water's quality changed after being stored in the mirror, becoming more refreshing and even a bit sweet, even better than the water from the Longevity Well.

Returning home, he released some of the water and poured it on the seeds.

After watering the ground, he began to give the chicks water. After a few days, he discovered something very interesting: the copied chicks were growing much faster than the original ones.

In the following days, he went to the yamen to report for duty, but there were never any important matters, just chatting and joking for a while before being allowed to leave at any time.

About a month and a half passed like this. The original chickens became half-grown chickens, but the copied chickens had already become large chickens. These chickens were nearly twice the size of normal large chickens. They were smarter and more combative than the original chickens.

To distinguish these copied chickens, Li Ergou called them Generation One chickens.

They caught insects on the mountain, ate acorns, and even caught mice and other small animals. Even wildcats were no match for them.

As evening approached, they would return on their own and obediently go into the house to sleep.

The Black Beard Goat helped Li Ergou herd these chickens and sheep every day, acting like a watchdog, lying at the entrance, preventing any wild animals from entering.

As for Black Cat Thirteen, Li Ergou only saw it at night. This fellow was even smarter than Black Beard. It could understand everything Li Ergou said. With it and Black Beard around, he didn't have to worry about things at home at all.

After another ten days or so, the copied chickens began to lay eggs. These eggs were as big as duck eggs. Perhaps because the copied chickens were so large, their eggs were also astonishingly large.

These eggs tasted delicious, much better than ordinary eggs. Furthermore, eating these eggs would produce a mysterious gas that would change a person's constitution, making them healthier.

What made him even happier was that the sheep he had copied from the landlord's house also began to give birth. Seven of the thirteen sheep were ewes, and they all gave birth on the same day. These lambs were very strong from birth and could run right away.

Unfortunately, the pigs were boars, so they couldn't have any offspring. But that was fine, since pigs were different from sheep and chickens, which could be let out to find food on the mountain without him having to worry too much.

So, he gritted his teeth and directly killed the pigs, otherwise who would have time to feed them? And it had to be said, the pork tasted incredibly delicious after the pigs had stayed in the mirror for so long.

Li Ergou was like a diligent farmer, managing his little plot of land.

But these chickens laid too many eggs. They could lay three eggs a day, so a hundred chickens would lay three hundred eggs. And after copying, that would be six hundred eggs. Li Ergou couldn't eat that many even if he tried.

Furthermore, after a few days, he even hatched some chicks from the eggs. He discovered that these chicks had brighter eyes and were smarter, but he didn't dare to make too many, only making a hundred chicks. After copying, it became two hundred.

This time he was experienced and directly humanely destroyed the original chicks, saving space since there were too many of them.

More importantly, Bitter Mountain wasn't big enough to accommodate too many chickens. Doing this saved resources and allowed for better management.

For this reason, all the original Generation One chickens were also killed and placed in the bronze mirror for nourishment, to be eaten later when he had time.

What he wanted now were these copied chickens, because they would become even more excellent. Li Ergou also called these chickens Generation Two chickens.

To his surprise, the Generation Two chickens grew much slower than the Generation One chickens, taking a full two months to become large chickens.

What surprised Li Ergou was that he was right, this Generation Two chicken was even stronger, even twice as big as Generation One, standing there was half a meter high, the wingspan is more than one meter.

They were all muscle, and because of their huge size, they laid even larger eggs, each the size of a goose egg. However, the Generation Two chickens laid fewer eggs, only one egg a day.

Li Ergou felt that his dream seemed to be coming true. Chickens lay eggs, eggs hatch chickens, an infinite loop, endless. Wouldn't he not have to work hard in the future?

As his chicken farming scale expanded, he felt that one thing could no longer be delayed: he had to quickly dispose of those eggs. If it weren't for the treasure mirror, these houses probably wouldn't be able to hold them all.

He himself couldn't eat them all even if he ate until the end of time. So, he had to sell them to exchange for some silver to spend. With money, he could buy more things.

To prevent his eggs from being hatched into chicks, causing market chaos and affecting his monopolized business, Li Ergou had already raised the breeding chickens separately. The eggs he took out to sell were not fertilized at all, thus preventing the chicken breed from flowing out.

After thinking everything through, Li Ergou went and bought three large carts. The carts were pulled not by horses, but by his sheep. These Generation Two copied sheep had already grown up. They were as big as Black Beard, about the size of a small calf. It would be a waste not to use them to pull carts. Most importantly, they were obedient and not naughty.

As for the landlord's twelve sheep and their original lambs, Li Ergou had killed them all and thrown them into the bronze mirror to eat the meat later. So, now he only had seven copied sheep, which was not only easier to manage but also saved a lot of resources, since sheep ate much more than chickens.

And so, Li Ergou set off with three large carts of eggs, nearly five thousand eggs.

Arriving in the county town and finding the market, he found a good spot and set up his stall. He was wearing a constable's uniform, so no one dared to charge him money, nor did anyone dare to drive him away.

Soon, someone saw his duck egg-sized eggs. Everyone asked, and it turned out that these were actually chicken eggs, and they were all shocked, after all, these eggs are too big, each duck egg size, round and unparalleled, the shell is white, shining a faint light.

Li Ergou wanted to laugh in his heart, thinking, if I take out eggs the size of goose eggs, wouldn't I scare you to death, how should you deal with it.

He snickered in his heart, and everyone asked the price, Li Ergou was a little embarrassed, the normal egg is three cents each, his egg is not normal, because this egg is not only better than normal eggs, after eating it will change your physique, let you all diseases are gone, more and more strong.

So, he naturally couldn't sell it at a loss. After thinking for a while, he decided to price each one at ten cents.

One egg for ten cents, ten eggs for one hundred cents, one hundred eggs for one thousand cents, one thousand eggs for ten thousand cents, five thousand eggs for fifty thousand cents, ten thousand cents equals one tael of silver, fifty thousand cents is fifty taels of silver, which is also a huge sum of money.

You know that the first generation of chickens has 600 eggs produced a day, 600 eggs is 6,000 cents, which is 6 taels of silver, which is half a month's salary.

This does not include the eggs of the second generation of chickens.

Most importantly, silver can be copied, 6 taels of silver is 12 taels, he has so much money coming in a day just sitting there, even the county lieutenant has to envy him.