Chapter 048 A Shocking Case
"Xiao Liao, please move aside. This is Doctor Ye from Kaoshantun next door. I asked him to help with the delivery!"
Seeing that the technician was holding Ye Qing back from taking action, Zhao Jinliang, who followed in from behind, shouted quickly.
The technician wearing glasses was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhao Jinliang in disbelief:
"Manager, are you mistaken? The cow is already dying, and you still hired a quack doctor from who knows where to waste time. Is this girl an adult? How can she know how to deliver a cow? Are you being fooled?"
"I've said it before. Don't think about those unnecessary things at this time. You just have to hurry up and dissect the calf. As for the cow, there's nothing we can do if we can't save it. If we delay any longer, it will be a double loss. Believe it or not! But if you keep looking for some random people to get involved, I won't be in charge of this rotten stall anymore. Don't blame me if anything goes wrong later!"
Having said that, the technician glanced at Ye Qing, then jumped out of the fence, stood outside with his arms folded across his chest, and watched coldly, as if he was waiting for Ye Qing to make a fool of himself.
Ye Qing didn't care about the man's attitude. She squatted down and touched the cow, and was basically sure that her guess was correct.
This cow gave birth normally at full term, so the calf inside her body was even bigger than the one in the belly of the cow in Kaoshantun that gave birth prematurely.
The cow's birth canal is now completely open, but the calf has no way of sliding out of it normally. If it continues like this, the calf will probably suffocate to death from lack of oxygen in the stomach.
At this moment, Ye Qing didn't have time to ask more details about the cow's diet during pregnancy. Her most important task now was to get the calf out of the cow's body first.
Fortunately, after delivering a cow in Kaoshantun before, Ye Qing was already very familiar with handling this kind of situation. In addition, she had specifically looked through the Chinese veterinary acupuncture atlas sent by the county agricultural bureau during this period of time. As for the acupuncture points of cows, she could almost feel the exact location with her eyes closed. So this time she inserted the needles quickly, accurately and ruthlessly, and the speed was amazingly fast.
Dozens of silver needles were inserted, and after only ten minutes of waiting, the dying cow finally began to move and raised its head again.
"Manager, please feed the cow some salt and sugar water as soon as possible. Her water has broken and she has lost too much body fluid. She needs to be replenished with water and energy as soon as possible."
The situation of this cow in the military farm is slightly different from the one in Kaoshantun. Because the calf is a lot bigger, it is difficult to get it out by dragging it externally, and the only way to widen the birth canal is to cut from the side.
Ye Qing had used the episiotomy method on Wang Chunhua before. This time, when using it on a cow, Ye Qing had even less to worry about.
After the cows were fed with salt and sugar water, Ye Qing started to work.
Seeing her take out the animal scalpel from the box, the technician surnamed Liao started to shout again:
"What are you doing? You want to operate on it? You are crazy. Without anesthesia, I don't know if the cow can bear the pain. Even if she can, the wound will bleed profusely. How can the cow survive? What's the difference between what you said about cutting open the cow's belly and taking out the calf?"
Ye Qing raised his head, not looking at the technician, but only at Zhao Jinliang:
"Director Zhao, since you have come to me, it means you trust my skills, so you have to listen to me on how to deliver the baby. I don't want anyone to yell and make comments next to me, as this will affect my judgment and the way I perform the operation!"
Zhao Jinliang had seen Ye Qing's ability. The female educated youth whose internal organs were almost broken by the collision took more than an hour to die after being given acupuncture by Doctor Ye. Even the veteran detectives who came to investigate the case that day were amazed and said it was unbelievable.
So at this moment, seeing Ye Qing's determined expression and confident attitude, Zhao Jinliang had no doubts about Ye Qing's medical skills and nodded directly:
"I'll listen to you, Ye Zhiqing, just follow your method, don't take other people's opinions to heart!"
As he spoke, Zhao Jinliang looked at the technician Liao next to him with a serious face:
"Liao Dong, get out of my way. This cow has been working for almost six or seven hours, and you still can't figure out a solution. Now I finally hired someone to help, and you're still here yelling at me. What do you mean by this? Do you really think you have the final say in this farm? Without you, there will be no one left, right?"
Liao Dong did not expect Zhao Jinliang to be so harsh and to lose face in front of so many people. This made him feel angry and embarrassed, and he could not help but sneer:
"Okay, good advice won't persuade a damned ghost. You'd rather believe a young girl than me. Just wait and see how this country girl from nowhere kills all the healthy calves! I don't think I need to work as a technician in this farm anymore. You should find someone else who can do it!"
Having said that, Liao Dong angrily took off his white coat and threw it on the ground, then walked out with a gloomy face.
Unexpectedly, Liao Dong even dared to contradict Zhao Jinliang. There were several staff members and soldiers in the farm. For a moment, the whole place was silent. Several people dared not to say a word. It was so embarrassing.
Ye Qing, on the other hand, looked calm and composed. She didn't care whether Liao was venting his anger or not. She just wanted this troublesome guy to get out of here as soon as possible. If he continued to stand by and whine, she was afraid that she would not be able to help herself and would just give him a few shots to shut him up.
After making sure that all the acupuncture points around the cow's birth canal had been blocked as much as possible and the pain had been reduced to the lowest level, Ye Qing reached out to explore the condition of the cow's birth canal. Finally, after determining the position for the side incision, she took the knife and cut it cleanly.
After the episiotomy, the birth canal suddenly expanded, and the calf's forelimbs and head were finally exposed. Ye Qing quickly pulled it out of the mother's body in just a few moves, and the whole process took less than ten minutes.
The calf had been trapped in the mother's womb for too long, and did not move for a long time after it was born. Seeing this, Ye Qing quickly gave the newborn calf a few injections with a needle, and quietly passed on some supernatural powers.
After waiting for several minutes, the calf finally responded. It struggled and squirmed, then slowly tried to stand up from the ground.
Seeing that the calf had finally recovered, it would only take a short time for it to stand up, so Ye Qing stopped caring about it. She quickly used needle and thread to sew up the cut on the cow.
Because the acupuncture points were blocked, the amount of bleeding from the incision in the cow's birth canal was greatly suppressed, and even the pain was almost non-existent, so the cow cooperated very well throughout the whole process. Even until Ye Qing sewed dozens of stitches with needle and thread, she did not show any abnormal movements or irritability.
By the time everything was cleaned up, more than half an hour had passed. After falling down and trying again and again, the calf finally stood up tremblingly.
"I'm standing firm, I'm really standing firm!"
It was not until this moment that the people around, who had been holding their breath, finally couldn't help but cheer excitedly.
Zhao Jinliang's first reaction was to eagerly ask about the cow's condition:
"Ye Zhiqing, how are the cows?"
Ye Qing smiled and said:
"It's not a big problem for now. I will remove the needle after the afterbirth falls off. If its vital signs are stable by then, there won't be any big problem."
"But after the episiotomy, the incision of its birth canal is prone to infection. During this period, the delivery room must be kept clean and ventilated. If conditions permit, feed it some chlortetracycline or gentamicin to reduce inflammation, which may help the incision heal faster."
Zhao Jinliang's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.
However, just as he felt at ease, Ye Qing's words the next second shocked Zhao Jinliang.
"But I have to explain one thing to you. This cow's dystocia was not accidental, but man-made."
As soon as these words came out, everyone present looked at Ye Qing in unison, and Zhao Jinliang's eyes widened:
"What did you say? Man-made?"
Ye Qing nodded and pointed at the calf behind her:
"The calf was too large, which was the direct cause of the cow's dystocia, but the key question is why the cow eating grass will cause the fetus to be large."
"I am so sure because the cow in Kaoshan Village also had a difficult birth due to a large fetus, and the cow's physical condition was exactly the same as yours."
Zhao Jinliang sensed something was wrong with these words, and he immediately interrupted Ye Qing:
"What did you say? Exactly the same? What do you mean?"
Ye Qing pointed at the cow and said, "The mother is thin, but the fetus is very large, which is beyond the tolerance of a normal cow's natural delivery. This is an unnatural disease. It is normal for a cow to have this condition, but it is too coincidental for them to appear at the same time!"
Zhao Jinliang's mind worked quickly and he quickly grasped the key points:
"You said before that this was not an accident but a man-made one, so you mean that you already know the specific cause of this situation?"
Ye Qing nodded and shook his head:
"It's just my guess, because we have found evidence in our village that the woman who was in charge of raising pigs and cows believed in the folk remedies of a liar outside and gave the cows medicine at random when they were sick, which led to this situation."
"The folk remedy is suspected to contain hormones and opium powder. We have already sent the medicine package to the commune. Once the specific ingredients are tested, we can determine whether this is the cause."
Zhao Jinliang is not Wu Yongbing. When he heard the word "poppy powder", his face instantly darkened.
Anyone with a junior high school education and knowledge of modern history knows that most of the suffering that the Xia Kingdom has endured over the past 100 years was caused by "opium powder". As the commander-in-chief of a construction corps, Zhao Jinliang is certainly not unfamiliar with this thing, and even hates it deeply.
But he didn't expect that in today's daily life, no one dares to smoke this stuff openly, but some people have set their sights on livestock.
This made him extremely angry, and he immediately turned his head and looked at the farm managers standing behind him.
"Who is in charge of this cattle farm? What have you fed the calving cows during this period? Have you recorded it? Show it to me!"
Those responsible persons were all terrified at this moment. As they could enter the Construction Corps and become officials of the farm, they were not stupid. When they heard Ye Qing mention the word "poppy powder", every one of them was afraid of being associated with this thing.
Then, someone immediately sold out Liao Dong, who had just lost his temper and ran away:
"Technician Liao and his wife Wu Fang are responsible for the cows' pregnancy. Wu Fang is responsible for the cows' daily feeding, while technician Liao is responsible for the cows' health monitoring, inspection and delivery. This has always been done by the couple, and they never let outsiders interfere!"
When Zhao Jinliang heard this, he immediately ordered someone to find Liao Dong and Wu Fang.
This was no small matter. If it was confirmed that the cows were fed with "poppy powder", Liao Dong and Wu Fang would be seriously injured if not dead. The farm managers did not dare to delay and someone immediately ran out to look for the person.
Liao Dong still felt angry and humiliated when he returned to the dormitory. He cursed in the room while waiting for the bad news from the farm with a gloating look on his face.
His wife Wu Fang had just finished preparing lunch and was a little puzzled to see him coming back:
"Didn't the cow have a difficult birth? Why are you back? Has the birth been completed? How is the calf?"
When this was mentioned, Liao Dong couldn't help but sneer:
"Why give birth? If the baby is born today, my name will be written upside down on it! I don't know what kind of magic potion Zhao Jinliang was fed. I don't know where he found a liar. He wants to operate a cow to give birth, and he refuses to listen to my advice. It's ridiculous. I have been a technician for so many years, and I am not more experienced than a yellow-haired girl? Wait, if something bad happens, the gang will definitely come to me for help!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Fang couldn't help but frown, but soon she seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes suddenly sparkled:
"It's not a bad thing. The farm didn't take me seriously before. I asked the farm manager for a quota several times so that Liangzi could come to our farm, but Manager Zhao always made excuses and refused to show us any mercy."
"Isn't this a good opportunity? If they leave you alone and invite us again, we won't be so easy to talk to. This time, we must make Director Zhao give in and assign us a quota in the Construction Corps. And we must go to the farm right after we get in, not to reclaim wasteland and work on the river!"
"Once you get the quota, you can send a telegram back home and ask Liangzi to come to our farm!"
Wu Fang had a nice idea. Although life in the Construction Corps on the farm was a bit hard, she received a fixed allowance every month. When her brother-in-law came, it would be like there were two men in the family, each with a fixed salary to hand over to her. She would then send an extra five yuan back home every month, and she could keep the rest in her own hands, and life at home would be much better.
Liao Dong didn't know what Wu Fang was planning, but he was certainly comforted by his wife's words. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Wu Fang's idea was a good one. He was no longer angry at the moment, but instead happily crossed his legs, picked up his chopsticks, and sat down leisurely to prepare for lunch.
As a result, he had only taken two bites when, just as he expected, there was a knock on the door. Someone from the farm really came to invite him.
Liao Dong suddenly felt proud and secretly happy. After signaling Wu Fang to open the door, he couldn't help but cast a sidelong glance at the visitor, and pretended to start asking for Qiao:
"Is it still impossible to give birth? I've already said it, it's useless, but the director just doesn't believe it. That little girl is so young, it's strange that she can figure this out. If the director -"
Before he could finish his words, the man who came in interrupted him:
"The baby was delivered successfully, and the calf can stand and walk a few steps."
"——If you had believed me earlier, it wouldn't have happened. Wait, what did you say?"
Liao Dong was halfway through his words when he suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the person who came in disbelief, wondering if he had overheard something.
The person in charge nodded. Thinking of the "opium powder" mentioned by Ye Qing, he looked at Liao Dong and Wu Fang with vigilance and scrutiny, and said meaningfully:
"Don't eat yet, Technician Liao, Comrade Wu, the director wants you to come over. I have something to ask you."
These words immediately stunned both Liao Dong and Wu Fang:
"Come and question us? Do we both have to go? Did the manager tell us what it's about?"
The person in charge was cautious and did not dare to say a word about the shocking information he had just heard. He only said that he would know after the two people passed by.
Liao Dong was relatively familiar with his colleagues at the farm. He had dealt with the clerk who came to inform him many times. Although their relationship was not very good, the other party's attitude towards him was definitely not so cold.
This gave Liao Dong a bad feeling.
The couple looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
But no matter what, the director wanted to question them, so they had to go. After quickly packing up their things, they followed the clerk back to the farm.
Over there, Zhao Jinliang had taken advantage of this time gap to arrange a squad of soldiers to search the hay room, rest room and warehouse on the farm, but no suspicious items suspected to be "poppy powder" were found in these places.
Zhao Jinliang felt a little annoyed and wanted to find someone to urge them immediately. Fortunately, Liao Dong and Wu Fang arrived after a while.
Seeing with his own eyes the cow that had a difficult birth lying in the fence in the cowshed, with a calf nuzzling against its side, wagging its tail and sucking milk, the little bit of luck in Liao Dong's heart disappeared in an instant.
After realizing that he really underestimated this female educated youth who came from nowhere, Liao Dong immediately regretted it. He felt that his previous anger and even his behavior of deliberately giving the director the cold shoulder was a bit rash and inappropriate. He probably pissed off the director.
Liao Dong was just thinking about how to flatter the manager and make up for his recent public outburst, but before he could even open his mouth, he heard Zhao Jinliang ask:
"You two took care of the cow during her pregnancy. Tell me the truth, what kind of mess did you feed her?"
Liao Dong was stunned, not quite understanding why Zhao Jinliang asked this.
"It's just regular grass feed, with corn, bran and soybean meal added occasionally, nothing else."
Wu Fang also nodded, agreeing with her husband's words.
Seeing that the two of them didn't understand the situation at all, she couldn't help but ask:
"Have you ever used any folk remedies that contain crushed Chinese herbal medicine powder?"
The couple still looked confused, especially Liao Dong:
"Why use a folk remedy? I'm just a technician at the farm. I've been a veterinarian for many years. I'm not particularly skilled in this area, but at least I'm good enough for our farm. I've never prescribed any Chinese medicine. It has no scientific basis and is far inferior to Western medicine."
Is Chinese medicine far inferior to Western medicine? Ye Qing didn't like to hear this. In the end times she knew, Chinese medicine had saved countless survivors from the virus several times and was highly praised by medical workers all over the world. How come this technician despised and despised it as a worthless and fraudulent discipline?
This technician is not only arrogant and ignorant, but also a Chinese medicine critic?
Ye Qing's expression suddenly turned ugly, and she stared at the couple:
"Are you sure it hasn't been used? You guys have always been in charge of the cows, no one else has touched them?"
Liao Dong did not say anything, but Wu Fang beside him, after thinking for a while, shook his head and added:
"That's not the case. I had a miscarriage some time ago due to overwork, so I asked a relative of the director of the women's department at the Corps Family Compound to help me take over for half a month. At that time, she helped to raise all the cows in the cowshed."
Zhao Jinliang hadn't reacted to these words, but Ye Qing's heart was beating wildly, and he raised his head suddenly:
"All the cows? Are there any other calving cows here on the farm? How many are there?"
Ye Qing's reaction was so big that it scared Liao Dong and his wife, and also made Zhao Jinliang, who was standing next to them, suddenly realize something.
He stood up suddenly, his face turned pale and his lips trembled uncontrollably.
"There are more than 100 cows in the farm, and more than half of them are pregnant and about to give birth. There are about 30 cows about to give birth, and about 50 cows in the early and middle stages of pregnancy."
After barely steadying his body, Zhao Jinliang's tense throat took a while to produce an answer.
Even though Ye Qing knew that the number of livestock on the military farm might be a bit too much, he did not expect that so many cows would give birth together.
If the cows had not suffered from dystocia, Ye Qing would only be happy and give blessings for the data provided by the military farm.
After all, a pregnant cow means that new calves will be born soon, and the farm can quickly add dozens or even hundreds of calves. In another one or two years, they can all be put into labor production, which can accelerate the expansion of the military farm again, and it will be just around the corner to become the country's leading large-scale farm.
But now, Ye Qing couldn't laugh anymore.
She didn't have time to ask who the relative of the maternity matron was, where he came from, or whether he was still on the farm. What she had to do now was to see those dozens of cows about to give birth and find out the physical health conditions of these cows!
Zhao Jinliang also understood the importance of the matter, and after asking a few soldiers to look after Liao Dong and his wife, he could not wait to lead Ye Qing to the hayfield.
The other young and strong cattle on the farm are now working in the fields. Only the pregnant cows and those about to give birth do not have to work. These cows are now walking around in the hayfield, grazing and leisurely nursing their pregnancies.
After Ye Qing was brought over, he immediately found a number of cows with problems. After checking the stomachs of these cows one by one, Ye Qing's expression became more and more solemn. In the end, he was so scared that his back was almost soaked with cold sweat.
Zhao Jinliang's eyes were also filled with shock and fear. Even if Ye Qing didn't say it, he could understand the meaning from the little girl's eyes.
"How many? Just tell me straight out, don't beat around the bush."
Zhao Jinliang took out a cigarette with trembling hands, but he was not very skillful in lighting it. He even broke several sticks of firewood but still couldn't light it.
Ye Qing's face looked uglier than ever before:
"More than 90% of the pregnant cows have been infected. I can't tell whether the rest of the cows and calves that are still in the early stages of pregnancy will be infected as well."
That is to say, among the thirty or so cows that are about to give birth within two months, nearly thirty of them will give birth to giant calves. Once they give birth, they will have a difficult delivery like today. This data ratio can be said to be quite terrifying!
This is no longer a minor incident; it can be described as a horrifying case!
At that time, agricultural machinery had not yet become popular in the country. For a large-scale farm like Qingshan Farm, in addition to the manual labor of tens of thousands of soldiers from the Construction Corps, the rest basically relied on production tools such as cattle, horses, mules and donkeys.
But now, someone has actually set their sights on the most important cattle among the livestock, and is directly targeting the cows. Once all these cows are dead, it will be difficult for new blood to join the herd on the farm in a short period of time, and the Construction Corps' plan to expand the scale of the farm will inevitably be hindered.
This move is completely like cutting off the source of the problem, it is insidious and vicious to the extreme!
Ye Qing had heard all sorts of bizarre news since she was a child, but this was the first time she had heard of someone attacking livestock on such a large scale.
She subconsciously looked towards Zhao Jinliang.
She felt that there were only two possibilities.
One possibility is that someone was jealous of Zhao Jinliang and wanted to do something behind the scenes, frame him and bring him down, so that they could replace Zhao Jinliang, and Kaoshantun just happened to be the one who suffered the consequences.
If this is the reason, then this matter is just about personal grudges. We just need to find the person and it won't be a big problem.
But if the situation is another one, someone wants to cause trouble and deliberately attacks the cows in order to prevent the farm from expanding further, or even intends to destroy the entire farm, then it will be troublesome.
Zhao Jinliang seemed to have thought of this as well. He really couldn't remain calm anymore. He had to report the situation to the division headquarters as soon as possible and ask the leaders above to send someone to investigate.
It was no longer appropriate to keep Ye Qing on the farm at this time, so he quickly asked Zhu Jingang to send Ye Qing back to Kaoshantun.
"Ye Zhiqing, thank you very much for delivering the cow today, but now I have to report this emergency to my superiors, so I can't entertain you for the time being. Please go back first. When I'm done here, I'll come to thank you in person!"
Having said that, Zhao Jinliang left in a hurry.
Gu Weidong had been following Ye Qing from the moment she arrived at the farm to deliver the baby, watching from the sidelines. Now that Zhao Jinliang was about to leave, he slowly walked up and asked:
"What happened?"
He was quite far away and only knew that Ye Qing seemed to have discovered some big problem with the group of cows about to give birth, but Gu Weidong had no idea what Ye Qing had said to Zhao Jinliang.
Although the curtain was not broken, both Ye Qing and Gu Weidong were well aware of each other's identity as reincarnated people/travelers. After confirming that neither side had any ill intentions and no calculations, Ye Qing was no longer so wary of Gu Weidong.
She even vaguely felt that Gu Weidong was a smart and capable man, and was the same type of person as her. If they had known each other in the apocalypse, they might have become comrades fighting side by side.
So when Gu Weidong asked, Ye Qing did not hide anything and told Gu Weidong about the discovery of poppy powder in Kaoshantun and the situation at the military farm.
Gu Weidong couldn't help but pause.
He turned his head suddenly and looked at the cows grazing on the hillside, and seemed to remember something in a trance.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Gu Weidong's expression was not right, Ye Qing couldn't help but ask.
Gu Weidong's eyes were deep. He only vaguely remembered that when he retired from the army and joined the county steel plant, he did hear vaguely that something had happened at Qingshan Farm for a while. It seemed that a lot of cows had died. In the end, the investigation did not find the cause. They just removed several senior positions of the farm and demoted the people, but the case of the dead cows was left unresolved.
At that time, rumors of rinderpest were spreading throughout Jiaotan County, causing panic among the people in the communes. Even his former father-in-law went to the county to find him and asked him to help the people from the county agricultural bureau to investigate in Kaoshan Village to see whether the cow that died in the village was also killed by rinderpest.
Yes, if it weren't for Ye Qing, the cow in Kaoshantun would have died of dystocia half a month later, and both the cow and the calf in her belly would have died.
"The Ma Shi Po that Mrs. Zhao mentioned is in the deep forests of Changbai Mountain. You have to cross the Lao Ren Gou, and it is at least dozens of miles away from Kaoshan Village. The people there used to make a living by logging, and later became bandits. After liberation, they became good citizens again, but they basically make a living by hunting, and have almost no contact with the outside world."
This made Ye Qing blurt out: "'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy'? There shouldn't be a mountain eagle in this horse shit slope, right? Passing through the sea of forests, crossing the snowy plains, with a fierce momentum -"
Listening to Ye Qing singing those few lines in a weird opera tune, Gu Weidong's mouth twitched and he said helplessly,
"I mean, if you grow poppies in this deep forest, basically no one will know."
Ye Qing suddenly stopped.
Gu Weidong's tone was firm, and even though he didn't say it explicitly, his meaning was already very clear.
He told her that someone was growing poppies in Mashipo! And they were growing poppies on a large scale!
This made Ye Qing couldn't help but gasp.
The information that Gu Weidong revealed to her so confidently must be 100% accurate, because this guy was reborn, so he has relevant memories about growing poppies in Ma Shipo!
No matter how Gu Weidong knew about this before his rebirth, at least at the moment, this information is absolutely crucial intelligence. The person who grows poppies must be found as soon as possible and controlled. If the news leaks out, that person might destroy the poppy plants and leave no evidence at all!
Ye Qing suddenly became anxious:
"In the morning, that Aunt Zhao was dishonest and kept scolding me. In addition, she deliberately did something bad last time and secretly released the wild boar kid, causing the cow to be hit and give birth prematurely. So I deliberately frightened her and stabbed her several times with a silver needle."
Gu Weidong immediately understood what Ye Qing meant:
"Are you afraid that Mrs. Zhao will go and settle accounts with that kiln woman and then startle her?"
Ye Qing nodded: "It's my fault for not thinking it through. I just wanted to ask the captain to take the medicine package for inspection, but I didn't expect this matter to be so serious. No one in the village cares about Aunt Zhao. What if she really runs to Ma Shipo in anger?"
Gu Weidong looked serious:
"I think the key is not the people who grow poppies here, but the people who came up with the folk remedy and used poppies to do harm! You and Comrade Xiao Zhu go back to Kaoshan Village now. If that old lady Zhao is still in the village, find a way to keep her stable. If not, get Comrade Xiao Zhu back quickly!"
"I will go to Director Zhao to explain the situation and ask him to send someone to Ma Shi Po to arrest the man right now!"
Ye Qing was clear-headed and knew that Gu Weidong must be familiar with the exact location of Ma Shipo, and he might even know where the poppies were planted in the mountains. If she continued to stay here, she would only be a hindrance, so she immediately nodded to show her agreement with Gu Weidong's plan.
Without further ado or lingering, Ye Qing climbed up the military card and was escorted back to Kaoshantun by Zhu Jingang.
It was also a coincidence that Ye Qing was just about to go look for that old lady Zhao Si. Unexpectedly, as soon as the military car turned into the village, he saw old lady Zhao Si rushing into the mountains.
It was noon, and every household was having lunch or taking a nap at home. Where else could Mrs. Zhao go to the deep mountains and forests at this time? She must be planning to cross the mountains and ridges to Ma Shipo!
Ye Qing's expression froze. After asking Zhu Jingang to stop the car, she rushed straight into the mountain. After chasing for several minutes, she finally caught up with Mrs. Zhao in the woods halfway up the mountain.
Before Fourth Madam Zhao could even react, Ye Qing swung the rattan in his hand and tied up Fourth Madam Zhao tightly in just a few seconds.
Even until she lay on the ground, Mrs. Zhao was still confused and had no idea what Ye Qing, the hellish woman Yan Luo, was doing.
She tried hard to recall in her mind, making sure that she had not done anything bad in the past few hours and had not offended this person, so why was she tied up again for no reason?
Thinking of the power of Ye Qing's silver needle, Mrs. Zhao was so frightened that her face turned pale and her whole body began to tremble unconsciously. She stammered in a hurry to explain:
"Ye... Ye Zhiqing, I-I don't want to run away. I just want to go to Houshantun to do some work. I remember the self-criticism meeting tonight. I will definitely apologize according to your request! If you tell me to go east, I will never dare to go west!"
Ye Qing didn't believe that the old woman would be so honest. She guessed that she planned to run away if she could, and delay if she couldn't. She didn't care whether the old woman went to Houshantun or Mashipo. In short, she must not allow the old woman to leave Kaoshantun today or tomorrow. Otherwise, who knows if the old woman would talk nonsense and leak the matter of the folk remedy?
Thinking of this, Ye Qing felt that it was not safe enough, so he simply took out a silver needle from his bag and poked it into Mrs. Zhao Si's body a few times without saying a word.
After just a dozen seconds, Mrs. Zhao found that she could not speak. She could only mumble when she opened her mouth. She was unable to express what she wanted to say clearly.
This situation shocked Mrs. Zhao Si. She burst into tears on the spot, tears streaming down her face. She looked at Ye Qing with fear and terror in her eyes, and she no longer had any evil thoughts in her mind.
The girls in this city are so vicious. They stab people with needles if they don't agree with them. They are really insane and have no humanity at all!
Fortunately, the drama "My Fair Princess" had not been released at that time, and the image of Madam Rong had not yet been deeply rooted in people's hearts, otherwise the fourth wife Zhao would have to compare Ye Qing with Madam Rong to see who was more cruel and ruthless.
Ye Qing didn't care what Mrs. Zhao complained about. After dragging the man down the mountain, she stuffed him into Zhu Jingang's military truck and asked him to take the man back to the military farm and hand him over to Zhao Jinliang.
As a result, she had just sent Zhu Jingang away when Captain Wu, who had gone to the commune, came back on his 28-inch bicycle. When he saw Ye Qing, he rushed to Ye Qing impatiently, panting and saying:
"Ye girl, the situation may not be good!"
"In addition to our village, Houshan Village and Majia Village also experienced sow dystocia this month!"
As soon as these words came out, Ye Qing was shocked.
"What?!"
Wu Yongbing thought Ye Qing was surprised by the news, so he continued to explain:
"The cows in Houshantun and Majiatun all died of dystocia after the launch this month. The production brigade reported the situation to the commune, but the commune just regarded it as an isolated case and did not take it seriously."
"As a result, when I went to Secretary Lai to deliver the medicine package today, the commune realized something was wrong. Secretary Lai has already sent people to investigate. I suspect that the cows in Houshantun and Majiatun may have been fed with the big smoke, which led to the dystocia!"
Ye Qingren was almost dumbfounded.
She originally thought that the ultimate goal of the person behind the scenes was to destroy the military farm, and Kaoshantun suffered because it was relatively close to the military farm.
But now, the news brought by Captain Wu once again overturned Ye Qing's previous guess.
Even Houshantun and Majiatun were affected. The area of the villages involved is too large. It is not as simple as just innocent people being implicated. Instead, it seems more like someone did it deliberately!
In other words, the mastermind behind the scenes was not only targeting the troops, but even the production brigades under the commune were not going to be spared!
This is definitely not done to vent personal anger, there must be a bigger conspiracy behind it!
Attacking the cows was probably just a small test, and the next step might be to attack other livestock!
Ye Qing immediately thought of the tens of thousands of pigs raised on farms and in major production brigades.
Pigs are different from cows. They are meant to be slaughtered for meat. What consequences will it have if people eat pork containing opium?
This is really a perfect entry point!
Starting with livestock, if cows are killed, no new calves will be born, and agricultural production will be paralyzed by half;
If something goes wrong with live pigs, it will not only destroy the foundation of the rural breeding industry, but also make it difficult for meat-eating city dwellers to defend themselves!
If this matter is allowed to develop and spread, the humiliating history of a hundred years ago might come back again!
The more he thought about it, the more horrified he became. Ye Qing felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and he shuddered uncontrollably.
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