Chapter 88
Because she had slept for several hours during the day, Yang Qiujin couldn't fall asleep at night.
I finally fell asleep, and it was late at night. But I didn't sleep for more than two hours before I woke up because I had to pee. I had to get up in the dark to go to the bathroom.
She is now eight months pregnant, and the baby is gradually growing into the pelvis, compressing her internal organs and bladder, making her want to go to the toilet at any time. She cannot hold it in when she feels the urge to urinate, and must urinate before she can sleep.
The troops closed the gates and turned off the lights after nine o'clock, and it was pitch dark in the middle of the night. Chen Shengqing heard her getting up, and was afraid that she would bump into him in a daze, so when she moved, he got up, took out a flashlight from the cabinet next to the pillow, turned it on, illuminated the area, and helped her to go to the toilet.
Yang Qiujin looked helpless: "Why did you get up? I just went to the toilet. I won't fall down."
Chen Shengqing helped her through the dark courtyard, "Don't be afraid of a thousand things, just be prepared for the unexpected, if you fall, the consequences will be disastrous."
"I have to get up several times every night now. If you want to accompany me, you don't have to go to bed during the day, right?"
"No matter how many times you get up, I will stay with you and won't delay my work." Chen Shengqing said without hesitation.
Yang Qiujin couldn't persuade him, so she had to let him do what he wanted.
The result was that Yang Qiujin got up three times that night, basically once every two hours, and Chen Shengqing got up as many times as she did.
The next morning, Yang Qiujin was still drowsy, so Chen Shengqing got up early, washed up, and kissed her forehead gently. "Qiujin, I have to go to the army first. I don't have time to take you to the farm to work today. Please go slowly on your way to work."
"Okay." Yang Qiujin responded in a daze.
Chen Shengqing saw the bruises under her eyes and that she was sleep deprived, and he really wanted her to stop working at the farm and wait until she had the baby. But he knew that even if he told her, Yang Qiujin would not listen.
Before he left, he placed the round metal eavesdropping device next to Yang Qiujin's pillow and said, "Put this thing in Xiang Anfu's bag when you have the chance. It may come in handy."
"knew."
Chen Shengqing left the yard and went to the army to conduct routine exercises with his soldiers. He wrote a report on the Fly Plan and handed it to Political Commissar Liao. Then he went to the military service center, bought some nutritional supplements, and carried them to the army hospital.
The military hospital was still bustling with people. Chen Shengqing was walking in the hospital building carrying nutritional supplements.
He had tall shoulders and long legs, a handsome appearance, and was dressed in a neat military officer's uniform. Every step he took was powerful and resonant, attracting the attention of some patients and nurses.
Even though they knew he was married with a wife and children, some unmarried nurses and lesbians couldn't help but steal glances at him.
Chen Shengqing ignored their gazes and strode to the intensive care unit of the hospital. He knocked on the door politely and heard someone say, "Come in." Only then did he open the door and go in.
This is a single room. Ruan Xiangming is lying unconscious on the bed with a bandage around his head and an oxygen tube in his nose.
Sitting next to the bed was a woman in her fifties with gray hair. She was Ruan Xiangming's mother, Aunt Cui.
Aunt Cui was wiping Ruan Xiangming's body with a handkerchief in her hand. When she saw a military officer coming in, she put down the handkerchief awkwardly and said, "Comrade, are you here to see our Xiangming?"
Ruan Xiangming has been in the hospital for more than half a month. Aunt Cui received the news and rushed to the hospital a few days ago. She has not seen Chen Shengqing.
"Yes, I'm here to visit Captain Ruan. My name is Chen Shengqing, and I'm Captain Ruan's direct supervisor." After introducing himself, Chen Shengqing placed the nutritional supplements on the cabinet next to the bed, turned around, saluted Aunt Cui, and said, "On behalf of the military and the organization, I salute the heroic mother! You have nurtured such an outstanding child like Captain Ruan, and saved the country from immeasurable losses. Thank you for your hard work!"
Aunt Cui was shocked by his actions and words. It took her a while to react. She raised her hand and gave Chen Shengqing a not-so-standard military salute. With red eyes, she said, "This is what Xiang Ming should do. It has nothing to do with me. I'm not tired."
Chen Shengqing put down his hand and stood in front of Aunt Cui, saying with great guilt: "Aunt, Captain Ruan was injured this time because of my wrong decision. Before Captain Ruan wakes up, if you need anything, just tell me."
"So you are the Deputy Commander Chen who promoted Xiang Ming, whom Xiang Ming often mentioned in his letters." Aunt Cui wiped her eyes and said, "I don't need anything special. Thank you for your concern, Deputy Commander Chen. Xiang Ming is a soldier. I have been prepared since he joined the army. He was injured for the country. It has nothing to do with you."
Chen Shengqing didn't expect that Aunt Cui was so conscious and didn't mean to blame him at all.
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Aunt Cui, you have been on guard all night, you must be tired, go and rest, I will watch over Captain Ruan."
“No need.” Aunt Cui refused: “Before I came, the hospital arranged two nurses to take turns to look after Xiang Ming. I didn’t stay long, and they were the ones who took care of Xiang Ming.”
As she was speaking, a young nurse in formal attire opened the door and came in, holding two medicine bottles in her hands. She walked to the bedside and changed the intravenous medicine for Ruan Xiangming.
Chen Shengqing thought she looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who she was after thinking for a long time.
It was Aunt Cui who asked, "Comrade Xiang, you are here again today to change Xiang Ming's dressing?"
A name popped up in Chen Shengqing's mind, and he finally recognized the nurse in front of him. It was Xiang Yuxiang, who had a conflict with Yang Qiujin when she first arrived at the army a few years ago.
"Yes, Aunt Cui, Nurse Li has to make rounds today, so I will be the one to change Captain Ruan's dressing."
Xiang Yuxiang did not expect Chen Shengqing to come suddenly. Facing Chen Shengqing's cold and inquiring eyes, she felt like a thorn in the side. After changing the medicine for Ruan Xiangming, she smiled and said a few words to Aunt Cui, then hurried out of the ward.
After she left, Chen Shengqing couldn't help but ask Aunt Cui: "Aunt Cui, are you familiar with the nurse just now?"
"Are you talking about Nurse Xiang? I know her quite well. Before I came, our Xiang Ming had always been taken care of by her and another nurse named Li. This girl was very careful and responsible in taking care of Xiang Ming. She even took the trouble to stand guard over Xiang Ming every night so that I could go to sleep. I heard from a soldier who came to see our Xiang Ming that our Xiang Ming used to like Nurse Xiang very much. Oh, I was worried that our Xiang Ming would never find a wife. If Xiang Ming could wake up and they could get together, it would be God's blessing." Aunt Cui said with anticipation.
Chen Shengqing nodded without saying anything. He stayed in the ward for a while, whispered a few words into Ruan Xiangming's ear, said goodbye to Aunt Cui, and left the hospital.
Xiang Yuxiang hid in the nurse's pharmacy and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as she watched him leave.
Who would have thought that the silly squad leader who was interested in her back then, whom she looked down upon, has now been promoted to the rank of company commander.
Xiang Yuxiang always wanted to be a military officer's wife, so in the past few years she refused to obey her parents' orders and marry a country boy. She worked hard to learn medical knowledge, and with the help of her cousin, who was a military officer's wife, she entered the military hospital.
She originally thought that by entering the military hospital, she would be able to meet more military officers and have a greater chance of marrying one. However, she did not expect that the officers who came to the military were either married, of low rank, or had ugly facial features that did not appeal to her.
She finally fell in love with the military doctor who looked good in every aspect. She didn't mind that he was divorced. However, the military doctor never even looked at her. She tried to please him for a long time, but he remained indifferent. She was also ridiculed by her colleagues in the hospital.
Just when she wanted to give up, Ruan Xiangming and others were sent to the military hospital for treatment.
As soon as she heard the patient's name, she remembered the passionate look Ruan Xiangming had given her before, and her heart suddenly became lively.
Since he couldn't hook up with a high-ranking military officer, nor a good-looking military doctor, it would be good to hook up with Ruan Xiangming.
He is not ugly, has a good temper, and is now a company commander. I heard that he is a sharpshooter in the army and is highly regarded by his superiors. As long as he can wake up, he will have a bright future. It will be a great honor to marry him.
She made up her mind to make a good impression in front of Ruan Xiangming's mother, and she has been taking care of Ruan Xiangming without hesitation.
At this time, she suddenly met Chen Shengqing. She was afraid that Chen Shengqing would expose what she had done in the past, so she could only avoid him. Only after he left did she dare to go back to the intensive care unit.
On the other side, Yang Qiujin arrived at the farm in a horse-drawn cart. Before she got off the cart, she was invited to Secretary Zhai's home.
Secretary Zhai's home is in a three-bedroom red brick building at the farm headquarters.
In his living room, several senior officials of the farm were there. When they saw Yang Qiujin, the farm director Lu Xingxian said, "Little Yang, you are finally here. You see, all the members of the revolutionary group have returned to the capital, except Xiang Anfu, who has been staying in our farm for more than a month. He has been wandering around our farm, causing trouble and misleading production. Do you have any way to get him to go back?"
Yang Qiujin's stomach was a little tight after the bumpy ride. She sat on an empty seat on the sofa in the living room and took a cup of brown sugar water from Secretary Zhai's wife. After drinking half a bowl, she felt much better. She spoke slowly, "Director Lu, I'm just the director of the farm that is a subsidiary of our farm. I have no power to get the revolutionary group from the capital to go back. If he wants to do something, let him do it."
Lu Xingxian and other officials in the living room looked at each other, and Lu Xingxian said: "Xiao Yang, you can't say that. Your breeding farm and farm are one and the same. If Xiang Anfu doesn't leave, it will also affect your production. Besides, those robbers back then..."
He hadn't finished his words when the robbers came in a strange way. Although Yang Qiujin did not admit it, everyone present knew it well. Yang Qiujin and her husband must have been involved.
After all, before the revolutionary group came, Yang Qiujin proposed the "self-torture plan" when they were meeting with a group of farm cadres.
Sure enough, after a series of painful measures, some troublesome revolutionary radicals died. The revolutionary group from the capital was grateful to their farm cadres and stopped bothering the farm. They all went back, except Xiang Anfu, who stayed in the farm like a piece of cowhide that could not be pulled off.
Whenever they were tortured by Xiang Anfu, they would wonder why Xiang Anfu didn't die at the hands of the desert robbers.
On second thought, Xiang Anfu was the leader of that revolutionary group. If he really died at the hands of those robbers in the desert, that would be a big deal.
The higher-ups will definitely send more people to investigate the Tianshan Farm, and the entire Ava region will be implicated, and more people will be tortured. So no matter how much we hate Xiang Anfu, we have to keep him alive and find a way to bring him back.
They were helpless against Xiang Anfu, so they placed their hopes on Yang Qiujin.
Yang Qiujin said calmly, "He has been struggling on the farm for more than a month. He has been struggling as much as he should be. He won't cause any big trouble. When he has been struggling enough, he will leave. Why are you in such a hurry?"
Having said that, Yang Qiujin also knew that if Xiang Anfu stayed in the farm forever, he would be like a time bomb. He would not be willing to leave the farm unless he killed a few professors.
After thinking for a while, she said, "Minister Han, since you have resumed work, you have not encountered any obstacles in carrying out your work on the farm recently, right?"
"What kind of work is Director Yang referring to?" Han Yongxin asked while sitting on a stool.
"In addition to protecting the farm property and the safety of employees, we must also cooperate with the border defense department to arrest all reactionaries, revolutionaries, factions, and spies who may be hiding in our farm. We must not let go of any enemy agents who may have collusion with the Soviet Union." Yang Qiujin said solemnly.
Han Yongxin was very happy: "You mean..."
"I didn't say anything." Yang Qiujin stood up and said to Secretary Zhai, "Secretary, there are some things that require your intervention. It is not appropriate for me, a pregnant woman, to intervene."
She handed the round piece of iron given by Chen Shengqing to Secretary Zhai and said, "Put it in Xiang Anfu's pocket. It may be of great use."
Secretary Zhai was formerly the political commissar of a certain regiment, a soldier who was engaged in political work. He recognized it at a glance: "A bug?"
Yang Qiujin nodded and said without hiding it: "My wife did it."
Secretary Zhai knew what was going on. "I will find a chance to put this thing on Xiang Anfu, but I don't know if the other end of the connection can hear it if the distance is too far."
"I don't know about that either. I'll ask my lover when the time comes."
After leaving Secretary Zhai's house, Yang Qiujin hurried back to the farm in a horse-drawn cart. As soon as she entered the farm, she saw Fan Hui, who had been promoted to the head of the production team of the farm, standing at the gate of the farm, looking around in a daze.
"Sister Fan, what are you doing at the door?" Yang Qiujin walked over and asked.
"Director Yang, you are here. The twenty half-grown fat pigs in the No. 7, No. 10, No. 9, and No. 12 pens of our pig farm have all shown signs of loss of appetite, red and purple skin, bleeding from the mouth and nose, vomiting, limb convulsions, etc. I am waiting for Comrade Ren, the veterinarian, to come and treat these sick pigs."
"How come so many pigs are sick all of a sudden, and the illness is so serious?" Yang Qiujin was surprised.
In fact, it is very normal for livestock to get sick. In the first two years of the farm's operation, a large number of half-grown chickens, ducks and geese died of disease due to immature breeding technology, which made Yang Qiujin very distressed.
All livestock will get sick. In the past, pigs on the farm would get sick every year, but never like now, with twenty pigs sick at once.
Yang Qiujin could not stand it any longer and immediately went to the pig farm to check the situation.
The farm is very large after construction. The pig farm alone covers nearly 20 acres and has more than 50 pig pens. Except for five pens for feeding sows separately, the remaining pig pens are quite large. Each pig pen can hold more than five pigs. At least 200 pigs must be sold by the end of the year.
Now twenty pigs are sick, affecting the task of shipping them out by the end of the year. How can Yang Qiujin not be anxious?
No matter how anxious she was, Fan Hui stopped her and said, "Director Yang, you'd better just stand outside the pig pen and watch. Don't go in. Comrade Ren told us that livestock diseases can often be transmitted to humans and animals. You are pregnant, so don't go in and get infected."
Yang Qiujin knew that no matter how reasonable she was, she would not insist, "I'll just stand in the aisle and watch."
The huge pig farm was built like a nine-square grid, with several large passages connecting to square pig pens in all directions. Hundreds of half-grown pigs were grunting and groaning, making people's eardrums buzz.
When Yang Qiujin entered the passage, she felt her stomach tighten. The child kicked her belly several times. It must have disliked the noise of the pig.
Several workers were wearing gloves and masks, cleaning up feces with wicker brooms in their hands. The air was filled with a strong stench of pig feces.
Yang Qiujin smelled the odor, suppressed the discomfort in her stomach, and came to the several sick pig pens that Fan Hui mentioned. Sure enough, she saw those half-grown pigs lying against the wall of the pig pens, dying.
In another pen near the sick pig pens, there was a pregnant sow that was about to give birth. She was trying to stand up from the ground with all four legs trembling, trying to eat the feed that was being poured into the trough in her pen.
But no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't stand up from the ground. Its heavy belly hit the ground heavily every time it stood up slightly and sat down again.
Yang Qiujin felt extremely distressed when she saw this. The sow was carrying the production target of their farm. It would be a disaster if it fell like this.
A middle-aged female worker in charge of feeding the sows was very worried when she saw that the sow had no strength to stand up and eat. "Director Yang, what should we do? Could this sow have the same disease as the sick pigs in pen number seven?"
Yang Qiujin bit her lip and said, "Don't panic yet. Wait until the veterinarian comes to see you."
In the beginning, she spent a lot of money to buy two sows for the farm from the quartermaster of the border defense cooking company. In the past few years, she gradually bred more sows. She and the staff worked tirelessly to reclaim wasteland and cultivate sweet potatoes, pumpkins, corn, beans, etc., and fed the sows with feed and grass for several years, just waiting for the sows to give birth to increase the income of the farm. Now one of them fell ill, and Yang Qiujin would be lying if she said she was not panicked.
Seeing that the sow could not stand up again and collapsed to the ground, her limbs began to twitch, and her eyes began to roll back, the female employee could not help but shout: "Team Leader Fan, hasn't the veterinarian come yet? I think this sow can't hold on any longer!"
“I’m coming—”
As Fan Hui's voice fell, Ren Ying, a petite girl with short hair, a much fuller figure than before, and carrying a veterinary medical kit, ran over breathlessly.
Ren Ying saw Yang Qiujin and greeted her: "Sister Yang, long time no see."
He turned to the others and asked, "What's going on? Tell me briefly."
Fan Hui pointed to several sick pig pens and said, "The pigs in these pens have been losing their appetite and having diarrhea since the past two days. We thought it was because the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and they might not be able to adapt to the climate, so we fed them some medicine for clearing away heat and dysentery. Unexpectedly, their condition became worse and worse after taking it. Today, they can't even stand up to eat. We had no choice but to ask you to come and take a look."
Ren Ying has now become a full-time female veterinarian at Tianshan Farm, responsible for treating the livestock of the Second Company.
The farm was geographically remote and was under the treatment of the veterinarian of the Third Company. However, the veterinarian was often invited by local herders to travel far away to treat their sheep, and was often not on site. Whenever the livestock and poultry on the farm got sick or had any problems, Yang Qiujin would basically ask Ren Ying to help.
Ren Ying's child is now half a year old, and she can leave her to the neighbor next door to help take care of her when she is working. So when she heard that there was a problem at the farm, she rushed over without stopping.
After listening to Fan Hui's description, Ren Ying put the veterinarian's box on the ground, opened the box, took out a mask from it and put it on her face, then took out a pair of rubber gloves, took out alcohol and sprayed it on the gloves and shoes, and climbed into the half-man-high pigpen fully armed. She squatted in front of the sick pigs, reached out to pull their eyes, mouths, and noses, checked their limbs, tails, and feces, and finally reached out to touch their stomachs. Then she checked one pigpen after another, and finally stopped in front of the paralyzed sow to check.
After more than half an hour, Ren Ying climbed out of the pig pen, disinfected her whole body with alcohol, took off her gloves and said, "Sister Yang, the situation is not good. I think these pigs have swine fever, which is highly contagious. The entire pig farm needs to be disinfected immediately. These sick pigs are already terminally ill and there is no medicine to save them. I hope you can bury them on the spot and burn them to prevent the spread of the bacteria to the entire farm."
Yang Qiujin was shocked: "Are you sure? Are these sick pigs really hopeless? Where did the swine plague come from?"
"I'm sure. When I went to visit the nomadic tribes nearby with my master to treat their livestock, I encountered a similar disease in their sheep. This kind of plague is probably caused by the pens not being cleaned properly, or by other sick pigs or creatures from outside. In short, those sick pigs cannot be kept now."
Yang Qiujin fell silent. The pens in the farm were always kept very clean. The only possible infection was swine fever, which might have been caused by the new breed of pigs that Yu Cong brought back a few days ago after hearing others bragging about it.
His grandfather had vowed that the new breed of pigs would grow to over 400 kilograms, which would be 100 kilograms heavier than the current breed of pigs, which weighed only 300 kilograms at most in a year. He asked her to cultivate and raise them vigorously.
In the end, the profit did not go up, and instead, she harmed so many pigs. She would come back to settle the score with him!
Yang Qiujin gritted her teeth and gave orders: "Sister Fan, put on masks and gloves, call a few strong men, carry all the sick pigs to the Gobi Beach, dig a pit, burn them to death, bury them, and then clean the entire pig farm and disinfect it."
"So many pigs were burned, did they burn the sow too?" Fan Hui was heartbroken. "We raised that sow with great difficulty and let her give birth to piglets."
“Burn them. If we don’t, other pigs may also get infected with swine fever, which will result in greater losses. It’s better to suffer a short pain than a long one.” Yang Qiujin was reluctant to do so, but for the long-term interests of the farm, she had to make this decision cruelly.
She was the farm manager and had the final say in the farm. No matter how distressed Fan Hui was, she could only call a few male comrades to start cleaning up the sick pigs after receiving her instructions.
The men jumped into the pigsty and reached out to grab the sick pigs. Perhaps they realized that their lives were coming to an end and that danger was imminent. Many of the sick pigs actually had a moment of life before death, howling and struggling desperately.
For a moment, the howling of sick pigs could be heard throughout the pig farm.
Two hours later, two large pits were dug on the Gobi Desert far away from the farm. Several male and female comrades who raised pigs pushed the sick pigs into the pits for cremation in accordance with Yang Qiujin's request.
As the fire burned, the air was filled with the fragrant aroma of roasted pork.
One worker couldn't help swallowing and said, "It's a pity to burn so many pigs like this. If they were eaten, I wonder how delicious it would be."
The other employees looked at each other, and a female employee said, "It is said that high temperatures can drive away viruses. The pigs were burned in a big fire, so any viruses or plagues should be burned away. If we eat them, there should be no problem."
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