Seeing her youngest son's expression getting richer and richer, Princess Jing was very pleased. The former son seemed to have been cast from cold iron for thousands of years, and seemed to have walked out of a city of ice and snow, without any trace of popularity. Even she sometimes felt inexplicably afraid and frightened when facing him. Perhaps because of this reason, the younger son didn't know when he was getting farther and farther away from her, and he couldn't go back to his attachment and trust in her when he was a child.
But since returning from the long voyage to the west, he has gradually become warmer, able to smile, and gradually have other expressions on his face. The attitude towards her and his father is not as indifferent as before. He also learned to bicker with others for fun—no, to be precise, the youngest son only looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in front of the little girls of the Yu family.
"Son, who did you think of at that moment just now?" Princess Jing was in a good mood because of her son's change, and the fire of gossip was burning.
Zhu Junyang smiled and said nothing while facing the sunset, his phoenix eyes turned slightly: What is she doing at this moment? Is it talking to her mother and watering the vegetable field in the courtyard with a smile? Or on the pig farm, asking about her twin sister? Still helping her elder brother calculate the price of aquatic products... This hardworking little person always seems to be so full of energy and never stops for a moment. Isn't she tired
On the contrary, at this time Yu Xiaocao was lying on the rocking chair under the grape arbor, rocking and rocking contentedly, feeling drowsy. Suddenly, an anxious voice at the courtyard door broke her leisure. Liu Huifang rushed in in a hurry, in the cool wind of late autumn, she was sweating all over her head and face.
"Xiaocao, come and have a look at our house, our chickens are sick!!" Liu Huifang was so anxious that she almost burst into tears. Raising chickens is afraid of encountering chicken plague, and now there is no professional veterinarian. If you suffer from chicken plague, it is likely that half a year of hard work will be wasted!
Yu Xiaocao opened her eyes, sat up straight, and asked, "Don't worry, tell me what's going on."
"On the evening of the day before yesterday, my mother and I brought the chickens back from the forest in a cage. When we were feeding the water, we found that some chickens were not happy. My mother and I didn't take it seriously. Who knew that they came back last night. At the time, the number increased to a dozen. My mother said that the chickens might have an infectious disease, so she put the dozen chickens in a cage alone. But today, more than half of the chickens are lying on their nests... "
Accepting Yu Xiaocao's suggestion, Liu's chickens are raised free-range. In the morning, the chickens are brought into the grove in a cage, and they are allowed to catch insects and eat grass seeds by themselves, and then take them home at night. This saves food, and the meat quality of the chicken is better than that of captive chickens. It has been more than half a year, and the more than 200 chickens raised by the Liu family have grown very well. Who knows that they have grown to more than two catties, and suddenly more than half of them are sick! No wonder Liu Huifang, who is usually steady, became anxious like this.
"Don't worry! I'll go and have a look with you!" Yu Xiaocao knew very well that the most feared thing in raising chickens in large quantities is chicken plague. Fortunately, she has Lingshi water in her hand, so it doesn't matter even if she has chicken plague.
Seeing Xiaocao's determined and confident expression, Liu Huifang's anxious heart gradually settled down. She nodded and said, "I almost forgot, Xiaocao, you are good at medicine!"
Yu Xiaocao smiled wryly in her heart: The medical skill this girl learns is to treat people, not poultry, okay? Forget it, the Liu family's chickens were originally raised to supply their braised vegetable shop, and more than a hundred chickens can be sold for more than ten days. Now my uncle and cousin go to other places to collect chickens, and it is not easy to get up early and late every day... Let them think that they will cure the chickens!
The two hurried to Huifang's house, where Shuanzhu's wife was moaning at the dying chickens.
"Auntie, don't worry, let me take a look!" Yu Xiaocao inspected the first batch of chickens that were dying of illness. The combs were dark black, their heads were edematous, their eyes were swollen, their mouths and nasal cavities were full of secretions, they had difficulty breathing, and their crops were full. Phenomena of flatulence and effusion. Look at the excrement of sick chickens again, it is yellow-green and accompanied by water... This is a typical viral chicken plague.
After checking the condition of the sick chicken, Yu Xiaocao became concerned. She said to the mother and daughter who were anxiously waiting for her diagnosis: "Don't worry, I can cure this disease! I will go to the back mountain to dig some herbs, and I will be back soon."
When Shuanzhu's daughter-in-law heard that her chicken's disease could be cured, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It's already evening, it's not safe to go up the mountain now, why don't we go tomorrow?"
Yu Xiaocao shook her head with a smile, and said, "If we wait until tomorrow, I'm afraid all the chickens in this brood will have to get down! Don't worry, the herbs I need can be found at the foot of the mountain instead of going up the mountain."
"Let Huifang go with you..." Shuanzhu's daughter-in-law was a little uneasy.
Yu Xiaocao thought about it, and said to Liu Huifang: "Sister Huifang, go dig some purslane and wash it for later use."
After finishing speaking, she walked out of Liu's house. Digging herbs is just a cover. In fact, it is just a few common anti-inflammatory herbs and wild vegetables. After the herbs were dug up, the mother and daughter of the Liu family washed them clean, mixed them with purslane, and pounded them into medicinal mud. Then add wheat bran and corn bran, and knead into soybean-sized pills. Of course, the indispensable spirit stone water is also added in it.
The pills were ready, and Yu Xiaocao helped Liu's mother and daughter to catch the sick chickens, opened their mouths one by one and fed them the pills. It was not until it was dark that the sick chickens were fed with medicine.
After thinking about it, Yu Xiaocao chopped up the remaining herbs, mixed them into rice bran and wheat bran, added a few drops of Lingshi water, and told the mother and daughter of the Liu family: "Tomorrow morning, use this to feed the chickens. Next In the next few days, don't let the chickens be free-range, and observe closely. I will come again in the evening!"
The clouds are relatively thick tonight, completely covering the moonlight. Yu Xiaocao lived at the foot of the mountain, some distance from the village. Liu Shuanzhu carried a lantern and sent Xiaocao back. Originally, the Liu family wanted to keep Yu Xiaocao for a meal, but she was afraid that her family would miss her and resolutely declined.
Early the next morning, Liu Huifang went to the chicken coop to have a look, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the isolated sick chickens were in better spirits, clucking and looking for food. Even the first batch of sick and dying chickens can move their paws and walk a few steps.
It seems that the medicine given by Xiaocao girl yesterday is the right medicine! Liu Huifang took out the herbs and chicken food prepared by Yu Xiaocao yesterday, and put them in the chicken coop. Originally, she was worried that chickens would not eat food mixed with herbs. Unexpectedly, as soon as she put the chicken food in, the chickens who had lost their appetite suddenly swarmed up like chicken blood, scrambling to eat the chicken food mixed with herbs, choking and stretching their necks.
Seeing the scene in front of her, Shuanzhu's daughter-in-law was very excited: "That's great, as long as you are willing to eat! Xiaocao is really capable, and she can't handle it without her!! Huifang, our chickens are saved!!"
Liu Huifang breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Aunt Zhou came to see yesterday morning, and said it was chicken plague! She also said that once infected with chicken plague, there is no cure!! Her family raised chickens for the first year. Because of chicken plague, there was not a single chicken left. Fortunately, she didn’t lose too much money because she fed so few chickens that year! Mother, there are more than 200 chickens in our family, and they have been raised for more than half a year. If they all died of illness, it would be a big loss!! Fortunately, Xiaocao is here!"
There were still some pills left by Xiaocao, and the mother and daughter of the Liu family sighed, and then grabbed the sicker chickens and stuffed a pill into it. I also used grass to feed the chickens, and fed the sick chickens that started to recover. These sick chickens have not eaten for two days, and the food they eat at this time is not inferior to those healthy chickens.
When Xiaocao came back in the evening, except for the first dozen or so seriously ill chickens in the Liu family, the other chickens were no different from healthy chickens. Yu Xiaocao prepared some pills and chicken food for them, and asked them to feed the chicken food with Lingshi water for another day to strengthen it, and then they can feed them as they want in the future!
Three days later, Liu Huifang took two hens to Yu's old house, and learned that Yu Xiaocao went to Fucheng with the pig transport truck, and Liu's family also went to the town to deliver clothes to Xiaoshitou. Only Yu Hang, who is in charge of collecting aquatic products, is at home.
Not very busy now, Yu Hang handed over the stall to Uncle San Tang, washed his hands and brought some melon seeds and homemade snacks for Liu Huifang to treat her.
Liu Huifang blushed, lowered her head in embarrassment, and asked softly: "When Xiaocao came to the door? I came to thank her for helping our family cure the chicken... My mother said that these two chickens have died. The eggs are laid, you can save them to eat or stew them in soup, it doesn't matter!"
The thirteen-year-old Yu Hang already looks like a young man, with handsome features, tall figure, and wheat-colored skin, just what a fisherman's girl likes. Liu Huifang was alone with Yu Hang for the first time, she looked at a loss, and her words were somewhat incoherent.
Yu Hang usually comes into contact with a lot of people, so he is much calmer in comparison. He smiled slightly and said: "Auntie is too polite! Not to mention the relationship between my father and Uncle Shuan Zhu, the folks in the village, whoever has a problem, will lend a hand to anyone who can help. These two chickens , you take it back..."
I didn't expect Xiaocao's brother, who usually doesn't talk much, is quite eloquent! When she raised her eyes and saw the gentle smile on the corner of Yu Hang's mouth, Liu Huifang felt her face became hotter. She secretly scolded herself for being worthless, she was already acquainted, so there was nothing to be shy about.
"No! This is my family's intention!! If you don't accept it, you are heresy with us!!" Liu Huifang couldn't help saying, and carried two hens to Yu's backyard.
The chicken coop and rabbit cage were separated by a fence in the backyard of the Yu family, and even Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai's nests were set up in the backyard. She has a good relationship with Sister Xiaocao, and she often comes to help pick vegetables at home, so she is familiar with the structure of Yu's backyard.
Regardless of Yu Hang's obstruction, she stuffed the two hens into the coop and closed the door. Seeing that the grass in the rabbit cage was almost eaten, she took two handfuls of green grass from the side and stuffed them into the rabbit cage.