Chapter 11 Chapter 11 The Poisoned Animal

Chapter 11

Qin Ye greatly underestimated the speed at which gossip spread in the village.

Before she returned to the village from the county town, the news that she had become a police officer in the police station spread all the way from Waping Village to Juexing Village like wings.

As Shen Dahong was the central figure in the gossip circle of Juexing Village, he naturally did not miss this news.

She cursed Qin Ye for being lucky, but it didn't affect her. When she encountered something, she would bring up Qin Ye's identity to scare people: "My Ye Ye is a police officer now, I will catch you and shoot you! You stinky old man!"

Qin Ye followed the sound and walked out of the Qin family yard, only to see Shen Dahong standing on the millstone at the intersection, with her hands on her hips, pointing at the man in the corner, cursing.

"Hey! Ye Ye! You're here!"

When Shen Dahong saw her coming out, her eyes lit up, and she quickly jumped down from the millstone and hugged her affectionately, "Ye Ye, you've come at the right time, come and help your aunt catch that stinky old man Zhang!"

Both her words and her intention were to show others that they had a close relationship, as if the vicious remarks cursing Qin Ye to death were not said by her.

Qin Ye dodged and prevented Shen Dahong from hugging her.

The smile on Shen Dahong's face froze and his arms hung in the air awkwardly.

Qin Ye was unwilling to cooperate with Shen Dahong in acting, she had no good feelings towards Shen Dahong at all. If she hadn't heard Shen Dahong using her identity to make a big deal, she would never have come out.

"What are you arguing about?"

Qin Ye asked.

Shen Dahong pointed at the corner and gnashed her teeth: "He! Old Zhang killed my chicken! My poor old hen - it lays an egg for my family every day!"

After saying that, she sat down on the ground and started crying and howling.

Qin Ye followed the direction Shen Dahong pointed and saw a gray-haired man squatting in the corner. He was wearing a red vest with frayed edges, and his glasses were missing one of the temples. He held a book in one hand and strangled a dead chicken with the other.

She searched through the original owner's memory and finally found some fragmentary memories about the man in the corners.

The man's real name was Zhang Zhongjian. He was a professor at Capital Agricultural University and was sent down to Juexing Village during the movement. Logically speaking, he would inevitably be criticized and struggled against, but the village chief of Juexing Village was kind-hearted and never made things difficult for him.

Later, when the limelight had passed, he was found a job raising livestock for the production team so that he could earn some work points and at least have enough food to eat.

Zhang Zhongjian has always been a loner, eating and sleeping in the barn. As time went by, the villagers got tired of his stinking stink and were unwilling to get close to him. Those who are slightly nicer call him Old Zhangtou, while those who are rude call him Chou Laojiu.

After Qin Ye finished his recollection, he didn't think that Zhang Zhongjian was the kind of person who would casually kill other people's chickens.

So he walked forward and asked, "Zhang Zhongjian, why did you kill Shen Dahong's chicken?"

Zhang Zhongjian hasn't been called by his real name for many years.

His heart trembled, and he slowly raised his head to meet a fair and quiet face. He stammered for a long time before explaining in a low voice, "I think this chicken has chicken plague. If we don't kill it, all the chickens in the village will suffer."

He quickly opened the book in his hand and pointed it to Qin Ye: "It says here that the body temperature of sick chickens rises, the comb is dark purple, the crop is swollen, the crop is filled with sour and smelly liquid and gas, mucus flows from the mouth, and green loose feces are discharged. In the later stage, the legs and wings are paralyzed, and the mortality rate is high. [Note 1]"

Qin Ye could naturally understand it, as it was indeed written in the book. But the original owner didn't know many words, so it was impossible for him to understand these.

There were many villagers watching around, so in order not to arouse suspicion, she had to pretend to be confused and shook her head: "I'm sorry, I don't know many words, and I don't recognize many of the words you showed me."

Zhang Zhongjian's hand holding the book froze, and he couldn't tell what he felt.

It would have been fine if the group of villagers who came to watch the fun were illiterate, but unexpectedly, the girl herself was also illiterate. The literate students in the village all go to school in the county town. So how can he explain to these people that he really had no choice but to kill the chicken? ! !

"I can't read very well, but I think I understand what you mean. Please listen and see if I understand you correctly."

Qin Ye knew that the villagers could not understand Zhang Zhongjian's written language.

She seemed to be asking Zhang Zhongjian, but in fact, she was explaining to the villagers in everyday language: "You said you killed this chicken because it had an infectious disease? Chickens with infectious diseases have purple combs, drool from their mouths, and green excrement?"

After her explanation, the villagers finally understood.

At that moment, someone slapped his forehead and interrupted: "Oh! Look at Dahong's chicken, that's right! Every one of them is right!"

"Infectious disease? I know about infectious diseases! The other chickens will be infected by the sick chickens, and then all the chickens in the village will be doomed!"

"That old man Zhang was right to kill the chicken. If he didn't, Shen Dahong's chicken would have brought trouble to my family, right?"

"That's a good thing! If you ask me, Old Zhang is really something! He keeps reading nonsense from the book for a long time, but Qin Ye can't explain it as clearly as he did in two sentences. I think he has become stupid because of reading too much!"

Zhang Zhongjian scratched his head after listening to the villagers' words, and responded to the villagers' accusations with a good temper: "Everyone is right. Is it my fault? Comrade Qin Ye explained it clearly..."

Qin Ye could roughly see that Zhang Zhongjian was a kind-hearted person, and was a little confused. With his personality, how could he have the courage to break into Shen Dahong's house and kill a chicken on the spot?

She simply asked, "Even if you found out that Shen Dahong's chickens were infected with chicken plague, you shouldn't have barged into her house and killed her chickens, right?"

"I, I didn't."

Zhang Zhongjian sighed, fumbled around for a long time, and took out a few crumpled one-dollar bills from his pocket. "I had agreed with her that I would spend one dollar to buy this hen from her family. But she saw that I still had money on me, so she raised the price and insisted that I pay three dollars before selling it to me."

In a hurry, he snatched the chicken from Shen Dahong's hand and strangled it to death.

Qin Ye: “…”

Very good, raising the price arbitrarily is consistent with her usual impression of Shen Dahong.

She turned her head to look at Shen Dahong, who shrank his neck guiltily and defended himself somewhat guiltily: "Even if I change my mind at the last minute and want more money, he can't strangle my chicken to death!"

Qin Ye sneered: "Aunt, the most important thing you should do now is to go home and check your other chickens to see if they have the same symptoms. If so, get rid of them immediately."

Fortunately, Zhang Zhongjian discovered the abnormality in time. Otherwise, with the current backward medical conditions, we would have to wait until all the chickens in the village showed symptoms before the problem was discovered.

Shen Dahong didn't move, his eyes still fixed on the chicken in Zhang Zhongjian's hand: "Then... then Old Zhang has to compensate me for my dead hen!"

Even now, you are still thinking about asking for money.

Qin Ye once again refreshed his perception of Shen Dahong's shamelessness.

She was about to speak, but Zhang Zhongjian waved his hand to stop her, then got up from the ground and handed a crumpled dollar to Shen Dahong: "Here's a dollar. This is what we agreed upon at the beginning."

Shen Dahong quickly took out the money and put it close to his chest, fearing that Zhang Zhongjian would go back on his word.

This old Zhang is such a fool. What does it have to do with him whether her chickens are dead or alive? Hehe, that’s great, the chicken that was going to die of the disease made her earn one dollar, and the other chickens were not infected, so she made a fortune!

Shen Dahong felt happier the more she thought about it. She twisted her waist and prepared to go back to check the other chickens.

"Aunt."

Qin Ye called out to Shen Dahong, and while she turned her head, she took the money out of her arms and returned it to Zhang Zhongjian, "If you want money, why not go directly to the village party secretary and see if he agrees that Zhang Zhongjian will give you the money."

Historically, chickens in the village that were infected with fowl plague would be disposed of collectively, and there was no possibility that the village would give money.

Zhang Zhongjian discovered that the chickens in Shen Dahong's family were sick. It would have been fine if she didn't thank them, but why did she even ask for money?

Shen Dahong felt extremely sad when he saw that the one dollar he had was gone.

She rushed forward and wanted to fight Qin Ye, but was scared away by Qin Ye's cold eyes: "Okay, okay, look at you, Qin Ye, you are really promising. You are so stubborn and join others in bullying your aunt! You are a police officer. I think they are blind to want you..."

"Don't talk about the police."

Qin Ye interrupted Shen Dahong and said, "The police only follow the rules when handling cases, not relationships. Don't even think about showing off in my name."

Shen Dahong curled her lips and thought, the mouth is on her body, she can say whatever she wants when she goes out.

Unexpectedly, the second half of Qin Ye's words scared her so much that she almost lost her life.

"Aunt, I'm not a formal police officer yet. I need to solve a few more cases before I can get a chance to become a regular police officer. As I recall, your son-in-law is the production team leader of the brigade next door, right? Why don't I check on my brother-in-law? Maybe he has done something bad and hasn't been discovered!"

Qin Ye raised the corner of his mouth and showed Shen Dahong a meaningful smile: "When the time comes, I will be promoted to a regular employee, and my aunt will be very happy. Then, you can show off your power under my name, and the effect will definitely be better than it is now."

What Shen Dahong is most proud of is that she has a son-in-law who is a production team leader.

She didn't know whether her son-in-law was clean or not, but if Qin Ye really found out something... she didn't even dare to think about how serious the consequences would be.

"No more, I won't say any more!"

Shen Dahong was afraid that Qin Ye would really use her son-in-law as an excuse, so she hurriedly distanced herself from their relationship, "From today on, I am not your aunt, and you are not my niece! I will never say a word against you, Qin Ye, again!"

Qin Ye got the result he wanted and was finally satisfied. He said loudly to the villagers who had not left yet: "Everyone heard it. From now on, Shen Dahong and I have nothing to do with each other. If you hear her bullying others under the banner of my being a police officer again, you can go to the county public security bureau and sue her."

The villagers had long been fed up with Shen Dahong's arrogance, and they all responded with a yes.

Shen Dahong was so angry that her face turned the color of pig liver. Before she went back, she didn't forget to curse her: "Qin Ye, you bully your elders, just wait for the villagers to stab you in the back!"

Qin Ye spread his hands, indicating that it didn't matter.

If she lets Shen Dahong bully people in her name, she's more likely to get scolded, right?

Besides, from past lives to present, there have been so many criminal suspects who have cursed her, so she doesn’t care what others say.

…

The farce was over, and the villagers who had come to watch the fun dispersed one after another, and dusk completely enveloped the entire Juexing Village.

Zhang Zhongjian stomped his numb feet and prepared to carry the dead chicken to a secluded place to bury it.

"Comrade Zhang Zhongjian, please wait a moment."

Qin Ye called out to him.

Zhang Zhongjian was stunned for a moment before he realized that the word "comrade" was addressed to him. He waved his hands in panic and said, "Qin Gongan, don't call me that. I haven't taken off my 'hat' yet. If you call me comrade and someone with ulterior motives hears it, you will be in big trouble!"

Qin Ye felt indescribable feelings when he heard Zhang Zhongjian's kind warning.

People may fall into poverty, but the kindness in their bones will never change.

Just from the fact that Zhang Zhongjian was willing to pay to buy Shen Dahong's chickens infected with fowl plague for the sake of the villagers, we can see that he is also a very kind person.

She recalled the timeline in her history textbook from her previous life and began to comfort Zhang Zhongjian: "I heard in the county today that there are many professors like you who went to the countryside. They have been rehabilitated. I think it may be your turn soon."

Zhang Zhongjian has been in the countryside for many years and does not hold out much hope for rehabilitation and return to the city: "Let it be, let it be. I think it's good for me to stay in the village and take care of the livestock for the team."

Animals are often stronger than humans. They know who is good to them and will not bite back.

"Uncle Zhang, I see you are about the same age as my father. Can I call you Uncle Zhang?"

Qin Ye felt that it was impolite to call him by his name. Zhang Zhongjian's identity was sensitive, so calling him by anything else seemed inappropriate. "I'm worried that the chickens in the village that are infected with fowl plague are not limited to Shen Dahong's. Why don't you go find the secretary tomorrow and ask him to send someone to check all the chickens in the village."

If the chicken plague spreads, the loss to the village will be huge.

When she goes to work at the county tomorrow, she will have to tell her colleagues at the police station to find someone to notify other villages in the county and ask them to find someone to check on them.

Zhang Zhongjian had originally thought so, and when he heard that Qin Ye had arranged everything in an orderly manner, he nodded.

Qin Ye cast his eyes on the agricultural book in Zhang Zhongjian's hand: "Since your book records chicken plague, does it also record how to prevent chicken plague?"

Zhang Zhongjian flipped through the book and, in the dim moonlight, was about to read it to Qin Ye: "It says here, prevention and treatment of fowl plague..."

"Okay Uncle Zhang, you don't have to read to me for now."

Qin Ye suppressed the smile on her lips and stopped Zhang Zhongjian from reading to her.

Zhang Zhongjian has a kind heart, but perhaps because he has never interacted with the villagers, he does not quite understand their level of cognition. Few people could understand the professional terms he read out from the book. Since they couldn't understand him, they naturally thought that what he said was nonsense.

She thought for a moment, opened the Qin family's door and called Zhang Zhongjian: "Well, Uncle Zhang, come to my house and read it to me first. Just like before, I will repeat it to you in my understanding, and you can see if it is correct. If it is correct, you can follow my words and publicize the prevention methods of chicken plague to the villagers."

Zhang Zhongjian looked at the shabby but warm courtyard behind Qin Ye and hesitated.

"Uncle Zhang, we can't delay the chicken plague. We have to spread the word as soon as possible, right?"

Hearing Qin Ye's question, Zhang Zhongjian finally moved.

The two sat on the steps in the yard. Qin Ye waited for Zhang Zhongjian to read a sentence, and then "translated" it into popular words. She also pretended not to understand and asked Zhang Zhongjian whether she understood it correctly.

After reading the page about preventing fowl plague, Zhang Zhongjian looked at Qin Ye and was so excited that he was speechless.

After a long while, he managed to utter: "Qin Gongan, why don't you go to school? You have a strong ability to understand and can recognize quite a few words. If you read more and study, you might be able to take the college entrance examination and go to university!"

Qin Ye couldn't say that he had studied in his previous life, and now he was just pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.

She had no choice but to bring up the reason why the original owner didn't go to school: "My family didn't have the money to send my brother and me to school. The only words I know are learned from An Chuqiang, who almost drowned me."

An Chuqiang used to teach the original owner how to read and write, but the original owner felt tired after studying for a while and stopped learning.

Zhang Zhongjian closed the book and looked at the house in front of him. It was only slightly better than the barn where he lived. No wonder he had no money to go to school.

He has always valued talent and after suffering many setbacks over the years, he thought he had gotten rid of this "bad habit".

After talking with Qin Ye today, I realized that he had never encountered a pearl covered in dust in the countryside. Now that he has met one, his love for talent is unconsciously revealed again.

He bit his lips, and after a long struggle, he finally said, "Qin Gongan, if you don't mind, I can teach you Chinese, math, physics, chemistry, etc.... Hey! Look at my broken mouth, what am I talking about?!!"

Zhang Zhongjian stood up suddenly and slapped his face hard: "I am just a livestock farmer now. I'm sorry, I..."

"No, no, no, Uncle Zhang, don't do this."

Qin Ye didn't expect that Zhang Zhongjian would actually offer to teach her.

She has been worrying about what reason she should find to study and take the college entrance examination. Now that Zhang Zhongjian had offered to teach her, she was overjoyed.

She quickly stopped Zhang Zhongjian from belittling himself and said sincerely, "Thank you, Uncle Zhang, no, I should call you Teacher Zhang. I am willing to learn from you."

…

It was decided that Qin Ye would study with Zhang Zhongjian.

Just after sending Zhang Zhongjian away, Qin's mother came out from the inner room, holding the cabbage dumpling soup she had left for her: "Ye Ye, eat."

Qin Ye looked at the lumps of cornmeal and sorghum flour in the soup and groaned inwardly. She really couldn't stand eating coarse grains every day. Soup was okay, but the steamed steamed corn bread always irritated her throat.

Now she holds the food coupons and cloth coupons rewarded to her by the system, but she cannot take them out yet. She can only wait until she receives her first month's salary from the police station. At that time, she could take out part of the food coupons and cloth coupons in the name of salary.

"Ye Ye, what did you say just now? Do you want to study with Old Zhang?"

Mother Qin held it in for a while, but couldn't help asking.

Qin Ye nodded and took the opportunity to tell his plan: "I heard from the comrades of the Public Security Bureau today that I can apply for the Public Security University after the college entrance examination! I want to study and take the college entrance examination. If I can be admitted to the Public Security University, I will have a stable job after graduation."

Mother Qin was silent for a while before she said, "I heard that before Old Zhang was sent down to Juexing Village, he was a professor at a university."

Qin Ye thought that Qin's mother was worried that Zhang Zhongjian's identity was sensitive and would involve her family.

Just as she was about to persuade him, she heard Qin's mother continue, "Old Zhang is a cultured man. He recognizes him as his teacher. Shouldn't we show some appreciation to not humiliate him? But mother has no money now. Can we wait for a while..."

Qin Ye didn't expect that his mother would say such a thing. He was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and hugged his mother: "Mom, have you forgotten that I have a job in the police station now and I get paid every month. When I get paid, I will spend it on you first!"

At that time, she can also prepare a gift for Zhang Zhongjian to become his apprentice.

…

Over the next half month, all villages in Wuning County carried out chicken plague prevention and control work under the propaganda of the police stations in their respective jurisdictions.

At the beginning, some villagers found it troublesome and cursed every time they disinfected the chicken coop according to the steps announced on the village loudspeaker.

Until the chicken plague swept through several neighboring counties, most of the chickens in each household died.

The villagers in various villages in Wuning County realized how important the prevention work promoted by the police station is.

"Qin Ye, you have done a great job this time!"

In the police station, Li Quan teased, "If the director doesn't give you a banner, I'll go and make trouble with him!"

He Gongan nodded and agreed with Li Quan's statement: "Because of the chicken plague, the public security in the neighboring county has been in chaos recently. Some people insisted that their chickens were infected by the chicken farm in their county. Yesterday, a group of people went to smash the chicken farm and heard that someone was beaten to death. The provincial leaders were furious, and just now they received a notice-"

He handed the notice to Qin Ye.

Qin Ye opened it and found that it said that in the next two days, the Provincial Public Security Department would send special investigation teams to various counties to inspect and direct the work.

There was no trouble in their county, so whether the special investigation team came or not would not have much impact on them.

Qin Ye no longer paid attention to the special investigation team. He put the notice aside and said seriously: "The prevention of chicken plague this time is not my credit, but the credit of Zhang Zhongjian, the livestock breeder of our brigade."

A few people were chatting casually when Qin Zefei rushed into the police station.

"Sister! It's bad! All the livestock in our village have been poisoned to death!"