Chapter 140 Chapter 140
Without bothering to ask more questions, Ye Qing called a few of his disciples and jumped into the car. The military truck did a beautiful drift and headed straight for the military farm.
When we arrived at the pig farm, Zhao Yuliang was already waiting anxiously. When he saw Ye Qing, he quickly came over to him:
"Xiao Ye, go and have a look. The sows are all having diarrhea. The situation is not good."
Ye Qing frowned and quickly rushed into the sow pen.
Sure enough, I saw many sows lying sickly in the pigsty. Some of them could hardly stand up. Others were thrashing around in the pigsty due to physical discomfort. They were irritable and looked very uneasy.
There was a strange smell in the pigpen, and the ground was covered with loose feces. It was obvious that the sows were suffering from diarrhea, and the situation was quite serious.
At this time, the sow has been pregnant for nearly three months and will give birth in another month. Having a stomach upset at this critical time is no small matter.
There was no time to find out what was going on. The first thing Ye Qing had to do was to restore the intestines of these sows to normal as soon as possible. They couldn't go on suffering from diarrhea like this. If they continued to have diarrhea for a long time, their bodies would become severely dehydrated and their physical strength would continue to decline. If one of them couldn't hold on and caused amniotic fluid loss or rupture, it would be troublesome.
Ye Qing quickly asked people for help, and they carried out the sows one by one, and performed acupuncture on them in batches. He also secretly transferred some wood-type supernatural powers into them to quickly restore the physical fitness of the sows to normal. At the same time, he stimulated the stomach and intestines to move quickly, prompting the sow's digestive system to excrete the remaining food in the body as quickly as possible.
There are a total of eighty sows, and each one needs to be injected. The injection position must be adjusted appropriately according to the severity of the sow's diarrhea. It takes at least seven or eight minutes for each one.
The workload was not small. Ye Qing was busy in the pigsty all day and had no time to eat. His apprentices fed him lunch and dinner. He just chewed a few pieces of pig meat in this smelly pigsty.
At this time, there was no time to care about cleanliness and hygiene. Even when she was gnawing at the nest, Ye Qing's hands never stopped moving. She worked every second. In the end, she felt that the fingers on her right arm were not her own, and her waist could hardly straighten up. She was busy until eight or nine in the evening, and finally saved all the sows by injecting injections.
When Ye Qing came out of the pigpen, all the workers on the pig farm looked at him with gratitude and admiration.
Seeing with their own eyes how Ye Qing raced against time all day and saved the lives of so many sows and piglets single-handedly, all those present were shocked beyond words. Some of them had originally been dissatisfied with the fact that Ye Qing was so valued by Captain Zhao, but now everyone was convinced and no one could find fault with Ye Qing's skills and character.
Put yourself in their shoes. Even if they had the skills, they might not be able to do it as efficiently and tirelessly as Ye Qing, without a single complaint throughout the process.
Zhao Yuliang's eyes also turned slightly red, and he immediately arranged for someone to take Ye Qing to take a bath and have a good rest, and asked someone to go to the cafeteria to fry a few dishes and send them over quickly.
Ye Qing had been in the pig pen for the whole day and knew that she must look very shabby now. However, she had been smelling the odor in the pig pen for too long and her nose had stopped working. She could not smell the odor and could not think about taking a bath for the time being. She just waved her hands at Zhao Yuliang with a serious face:
"There is no rush to let the sows rest. It is not enough to just stop their diarrhea. This method can only save their lives temporarily. Ultimately, we still have to find out the cause of the diarrhea as soon as possible. Only by finding out the cause can we prescribe the right medicine and eliminate the hidden dangers in time to avoid this situation from happening again next time."
"I also observed the sows during the treatment process. Based on their feces and diarrhea, I initially speculated that they may have eaten something abnormal. However, how they ingested it and where the problem occurred require a detailed investigation by you."
Zhao Yuliang nodded, his expression extremely gloomy and solemn, and motioned Ye Qing to follow him:
"The problem may have been found. Come with me and you will know."
Zhao Yuliang's words made Ye Qing stunned for a moment. She followed Zhao Yuliang out without knowing why, and then met an acquaintance in the livestock grain and hay storage room next door.
It was Fang Xiaotao, the daughter-in-law of the old lady from the Zhang family whom Zhao Yuliang had brought to her house before.
Seeing Zhao Yuliang and Ye Qing coming in, Fang Xiaotao looked very reserved. She tugged at the corner of her clothes, stood there timidly, and didn't even dare to raise her head.
Ye Qing looked at Zhao Yuliang in confusion, asking him what was going on with his eyes.
Zhao Yuliang pointed at Fang Xiaotao:
"You checked the sows a while ago and told me that they were pregnant with dozens or even hundreds of piglets. I then assigned a group of people to strengthen the guard duty in the sow pen, fearing that something might go wrong."
"Fang Xiaotao is a relative of Zhang Jianguo. She is hardworking and diligent, so she was recruited into the volunteer team. When she heard that the pig farm needed people, she took the initiative to sign up."
"Thanks to her presence, she discovered the problem in time, so nothing serious happened. This batch of green fodder was harvested from the surrounding wild hills and rivers in the fall when you said you wanted to practice scientific farming. I had the soldiers on the farm dry and store it to ensure that the sows would not be starved of food during the lean period before the spring."
"The hay had been fed well before and there had been no problems, so no one noticed anything wrong with the dried hay."
"As a result, last night, the pigs in the sow pen started to have diarrhea one after another. It was not very obvious at first, but by this morning, many pigs were lying on the ground and unable to get up. Then, early this morning, when Fang Xiaotao went to cook pig food for the sows and cut fodder, she found that there was something wrong with the green fodder, so she hurriedly found someone to report it."
As he spoke, Zhao Yuliang pulled out a few bundles of dried green grass from the side, untied the hemp ropes that tied them together, spread out the grass, picked up a few dry grass leaves from among them, and handed them over to Ye Qing, motioning him to look at them.
"Fang Xiaotao said that this grass cannot be fed to sows. It is because eating this stuff will cause sows to have diarrhea."
As soon as Ye Qing saw the fodder in Zhao Yuliang's hand, his expression changed immediately:
"This is senna, a Chinese herbal medicine that is used to treat constipation caused by heat accumulation and abdominal distension. In traditional Chinese medicine, this herb is usually used to relieve constipation and moisten the intestines, but pregnant women should not use it. In mild cases, it may cause miscarriage or premature birth, and in severe cases, it may even kill the pregnant woman. The same applies to feeding it to sows."
"How did this thing appear here?"
Ye Qing looked at Zhao Yuliang nervously:
"Has this batch of hay been checked? Is this stuff in it?"
Zhao Yuliang shook his head:
"As soon as Fang Xiaotao reported this, I immediately sent someone to search all the green grass in the storage room and confirmed that only these bundles of grass had this stuff mixed in."
"It should be that we didn't pay attention when we were harvesting fodder, and this thing got mixed in accidentally. Mainly because our people didn't know Chinese medicinal herbs, and didn't know that eating this thing would cause diarrhea. I guess they saw that this thing was growing lushly, so they harvested it."
Ye Qing's eyes flickered slightly, and he directly denied Zhao Yuliang's guess:
"That's impossible. Although senna is a small herbaceous shrub, it is a tropical plant. It can't grow in the Northeast. There's no possibility of it being accidentally picked up in the green grass."
Zhao Yuliang was stunned by these words, and his face turned pale in an instant:
"You mean, this wasn't an accident, it was man-made?"
Ye Qing nodded: "It was definitely intentional. I guess someone knew that our sows were pregnant. In order to prevent them from giving birth smoothly, they deliberately mixed these senna leaves into the fodder, hoping to ruin our scientific breeding plan!"
When Zhao Yuliang heard that someone was behind this, how could he tolerate it? He was immediately furious, his face flushed with anger, and he immediately asked someone to investigate when these senna leaves got in.
Ye Qing couldn't help but look sideways at Fang Xiaotao who was standing nervously in the corner, and asked curiously:
"Comrade Fang is from the south? From Guangdong or Yunnan?"
Fang Xiaotao was stunned and shook her head subconsciously.
Zhao Yuliang didn't know why Ye Qing asked this question. Knowing that Zhang Jianguo's wife was dull, he simply answered for Fang Xiaotao:
"She's not from the south, she's from Shenyang next door, but it's normal for you to misunderstand her. She doesn't talk much, and her personality is as soft as cotton. She does look a bit like a southerner, but if you heard her speak, you wouldn't think so. My goodness, she smells like corn when she opens her mouth, she's definitely from the three provinces of Northeast China!"
Being teased by Zhao Yuliang, Fang Xiaotao felt a little uncomfortable. She pulled the corners of her mouth and gave Ye Qing an awkward yet polite smile.
Ye Qing smiled and said, "Since you are from Shencheng, how did you know about senna, Comrade Fang? Do you also know about Chinese medicinal herbs?"
When Ye Qing said this, Zhao Yuliang's expression froze and he suddenly turned around to stare at Fang Xiaotao.
Fang Xiaotao's smile was immediately frightened away. No matter how dull she was, she realized that the question Ye Qing asked her was wrong. Her face turned pale and she waved her hands repeatedly, stammering to explain:
"No, I don't...I don't know, I don't know what it's called, I, I just had it before..."
She spoke haltingly and was unable to fully express her meaning. She was also afraid that Ye Qing and Zhao Yuliang would suspect her. In the end, Fang Xiaotao's eyes turned red with anxiety and she danced with joy, fearing that her superiors would mistake her for the suspect of poisoning.
Seeing Fang Xiaotao's reaction, Ye Qing breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhao Yuliang, and shook his head slightly.
Fang Xiaotao didn't notice Ye Qing's actions and thought she was in big trouble this time. She was so anxious that she immediately knelt down in front of the leader and even spoke more fluently:
"I didn't put it there. I really ate it before. My mother-in-law can vouch for me! She once got a folk recipe for having a baby from outside and made a soup for me to drink. I had diarrhea as soon as I drank it and became dehydrated. Later, my husband Jianguo took the medicine package to ask someone and found out that the leaves inside would give you a stomach upset if you eat them!"
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