There was nothing left and right, Zhang Zian listened very patiently, until he was sure that Guo Dongyue had finished speaking, he asked, "I don't know what I can do to help?"
Guo Dongyue calmed down his thoughts, and said slowly, "When I was in elementary school, there were two parrots at home."
Zhang Zian glanced sideways at Richard, feeling worried that if Guo Dongyue offered to borrow Richard now, how could he refuse
"It's not a gray parrot." Guo Dongyue seemed to sense his thoughts, "It's a pair of peony parrots."
"Oh." Zhang Zian felt relieved, but at the same time felt guilty about the fact that he would feel at ease. If Richard was an ordinary gray parrot, he wouldn't mind lending it to Guo Dongyue, but no...
Peony parrots, also known as love birds, are known for their affection and loyalty among birds. When they find a mate, they are best kept in pairs, otherwise they will be unhappy.
It is not uncommon for people to raise birds in cities, and parrots are also very popular among birds. Knowing that Guo Dongyue still had more to say, Zhang Zian asked, "The pair of parrots, are they dead? Or did they fly away?"
Guo Dongyue shook his head, "I didn't die, and I didn't run away, but gave it away."
Many people keep pets on impulse, and when they find out that they don't like pets, or that pets are not suitable for them at home, they give them away. This situation is not worth advocating, but it is indeed very common.
"The pair of peony parrots were also given to my mother. My mother likes them very much and often teaches them to talk. But..." he touched his throat lightly, "but I have a problem with my respiratory system..."
Zhang Zian was stunned for a few seconds, unable to connect these two things.
At this moment, a figure flickered outside the door, and someone walked into the store with brisk steps.
"Is it psittaosis or pbl?" said a familiar voice.
Zhang Zian looked over subconsciously, and it was Sun Xiaomeng who walked in. She didn't change her clothes, she was still wearing a white coat, with her hands in her pockets, the mask was hanging on one ear, her face was slightly tired, she seemed to have wandered over from the clinic.
The calmness on Guo Dongyue's face turned into astonishment, he looked at Zhang Zian, waiting for his introduction.
"Wait a minute, what the hell is psittaosis? What is pbl? Don't play charades, can you say something that ordinary people can understand?" Zhang Zian didn't rush to introduce, but chose to satisfy his curiosity first.
"It's a pity that you still sell pets. You don't even know this kind of common sense?" Sun Xiaomeng was not polite, pulled the four-legged steel chair Guo Dongyue sat on just now and sat down, took off the mask and stuffed it into the pocket of the white coat, saying to himself Said like a language: "I'm exhausted."
"What common sense?" Zhang Zian thought about it and couldn't remember what psittaosis or pbl common sense he had learned before.
Guo Dongyue looked at Sun Xiaomeng slightly, and remained silent, seemingly unwilling to explain.
When Zhang Zian saw that Sun Xiaomeng was going to betray him, he decided to make a living by himself. He took out his mobile phone and searched for the three letters "pbl", trying to find out what the abbreviation was, but unfortunately the search was fruitless, and the things he found were wrong at first glance.
Sun Xiaomeng smiled, "Don't look it up, pbl is a medical term, it's hard to find it from ordinary search engines. It means 'pigeoner's lung'."
Guo Dongyue nodded indistinctly.
"Fourth brother and fifth brother?" Zhang Zian was at a loss, and didn't even understand the words.
"It's not the fourth brother, it's the pigeon-breeder's_lung, and there is also the bird-breeder's_lung," Sun Xiaomeng explained, "It literally translates into Chinese as 'the lung of the pigeon breeder', which is a kind of lung that is caused by raising birds. Respiratory allergic reaction."
She is not a good teacher, but when it comes to her professional field, she immediately opens up the chatterbox.
Seeing that no one interjected, she continued: "psittaosis is 'parrot fever', which is a kind of epidemic pneumonia. Cases often appear in the homes of bird keepers, and adults have higher resistance to it. Younger children are much more likely to be infected. Although named after 'parrots', both domestic pigeons and parrots can actually cause this pneumonia... ”
Just as Sun Xiaomeng was talking, he was startled when he heard a hoarse cry of "ga".
Richard couldn't bear it when he heard this, "Quack! Is it true?"
Sun Xiaomeng had just finished two operations in a row, and she was exhausted physically and mentally, so she went out for a walk, passed by Zhang Zian's pet shop, and came in to have a look. When she heard Guo Dongyue's last words at the door, she was eager for a moment, so she didn't invite herself in. After she came in, she recalled the knowledge in her mind while talking about it. She didn't notice that there was another parrot in the pet shop at all, and she spoke in a straight-forward manner, but her tone was a bit frivolous.
She looked at Richard who was jumping up and down on the cash register table in surprise, and asked Zhang Zian, "Is this your parrot?"
"...well." Zhang Zian said cautiously, "Don't pay attention to it, this parrot talks a lot of nonsense, I'll tell you after I finish what you said."
"Eh..." Having said that, Sun Xiaomeng still couldn't take his eyes off Richard, after all, what he said just now was really the same as what someone said.
Guo Dongyue had already seen the magic of Richard, so he just raised his eyebrows and didn't speak.
"Where did I go?" Sun Xiaomeng's thinking was interrupted, and he couldn't catch up for a while.
Zhang Zian reminded helplessly: "Pigeons and parrots may cause pneumonia."
"Oh, yes, so is it psittaosis or pbl?" Sun Xiaomeng asked Guo Dongyue in a doctor's tone.
Guo Dongyue nodded, and spoke for the first time since Sun Xiaomeng came in: "It's psittaosis."
"Speak Chinese to me!"
Zhang Zian showed the majesty of the shopkeeper. He was speechless. Of the two present, one is a designer who has studied abroad, and the other is a practicing veterinarian with a high level of English. Only his English was mediocre before. Afterwards, almost all of them were returned to the English teacher. For example, the word psittaosis was twisted and almost bit his own tongue.
Sun Xiaomeng couldn't help but glanced at Richard again, and said, "Parrot fever... Humans and pet birds, especially pigeons and parrots, may be infected after long-term close contact. The infection rate is not very high. Healthy adults are generally fine. Only immunocompromised persons and young children are more susceptible. In addition to feces, pigeons and parrots are more lively, always like to flutter, and often scratch their chest feathers when they are bored, and there are a large number of dust feathers that are hard to see with the naked eye. Therefore, children should not stay with pet birds in a relatively closed space for a long time."
As if to prove her point, Richard poked his beak into the feathers on his chest again and scratched.
Zhang Zian couldn't help feeling very embarrassed.