Aunt Tong's family of three found it a bit difficult to manage the orchard on regular days, and now, with over a thousand chickens suddenly being raised in the orchard, six hands were definitely not enough to take care of everything.
Most of the released chickens were egg-laying hens, and Mo Yan certainly didn't want to waste these hens by not taking good care of them and causing them not to lay eggs, so she asked four well-regarded elderly ladies from the village to feed them.