Chapter 57: Do your best and leave
the rest to fate Yi Chichi was very helpless about this, especially after arriving at the pigpen, the captain said -
"Yi Zhiqing, please help take a look first."
Yi Chichi was confused. No, she couldn't even look after people, so why did the captain think she could look after pigs? "Uncle, I can't."
"I know, take a look first."
Yi Chichi realized that the captain didn't mean to let her watch the pig, but really wanted to use her as a mascot to give him peace of mind.
"Okay, let me take a look."
As a result, she really found a problem in the pig trough.
"Uncle, do you usually feed your pigs moldy corn and potatoes with tusks?"
"No, it's impossible. We feed them normal corn. Potatoes are even more impossible. There's not enough for humans, how can we feed them to pigs?"
"So what's with all this moldy corn and toothy potatoes?"
She pointed at the corn in the pig trough and the potato pieces with sprouts sticking out from them and looked at the captain and the others.
With a whoosh, the crowd rushed over.
Aunt Ma didn't mind the dirtiness. She directly took the corn out of the pig trough, looked at it first, then smelled it. Then she said with a heavy face, "It's really moldy."
Without waiting for everyone's reaction, she took out another piece of potato and frowned deeply.
"Where are the potatoes?"
No one can answer this question.
Ma Yong and a few widows and orphans in the village raise the pigs, and they are also responsible for providing the pigs with food.
"Can't pigs eat moldy corn and potatoes with tusks?"
The team leader was extremely anxious, but he also knew that now was not the time to worry about where the corn and potatoes came from. The most urgent task was to find out the cause of the pigs' diarrhea and then find a way to solve the problem.
"cannot."
"Why?"
The captain and his colleagues were puzzled because pigs have a very diverse diet and eat everything.
Corn and potatoes are very good foods for humans, and should be the same for pigs. How come eating them would cause problems?
"Moldy corn and potatoes alone can cause fungal poisoning in pigs, with a variety of symptoms, including diarrhea, and eating them together..."
She sighed and pointed at the two pigs that had fallen to the ground and could no longer stand. "Anyway, these two are in the worst condition."
The captain and his men followed her gaze and felt as if the sky was about to fall.
One of these two big pigs is the village's annual pig, and the other is a mission pig. Once the pig dies...
"Yi Zhiqing, find a way to keep them alive until the veterinarian arrives."
The secretary spoke pleadingly, his eyes full of sorrow.
Yi Chichi wanted to refuse, but before she could say anything, Aunt Ma and the others began to ask her for help.
“I can’t watch a pig.”
When these words were spoken, everyone looked disappointed.
"but……"
Is there a way? Instantly, everyone's dead hearts came back to life, and they asked with burning eyes, "But what?"
"There is a desperate measure, but I cannot guarantee its effectiveness."
The implication is: Whether you can hold on until the veterinarian arrives depends on whether you can do your best and leave the rest to fate.
"try."
The captain was able to stabilize the situation at the critical moment, and he made the decision almost as soon as Yi Chichi finished speaking.
Yi Chichi emphasized again, "You can't blame me if I can't make it. I can only try."
"I know. I don't blame you. Stop wasting time and get down to business."
Okay, the captain's words are enough.
"I want salt and water."
The captain was so anxious that his forehead was covered with sweat, but he responded decisively when he heard the voice.
Soon, Aunt Ma and the others left in a hurry to prepare salt and boiling water.
Yi Chichi shouted, "Be more prepared."
Pigs are big, so if the quantity is too small, it won’t be enough.
"knew."
The voices of Aunt Ma and the others could be heard from afar. Seeing this, Yi Chichi went into the pigpen and began to check the pigs' feces.
There are a total of six pigs in Kaoshan Village, two big pigs, two half-grown pigs and two piglets.
The piglets may be young and small in size, and cannot compete with the adult pigs for food, so they eat less. Their diarrhea is the mildest, and their feces are a little watery, but it's not a big problem.
I can definitely hold on until the vet gets here.
The condition of the two medium-sized pigs was more serious, but not to the point of being watery.
Only the big pig that fell down had watery feces.
"Does anyone know how many times they pooped today?"
After checking the two big pigs, Yi Chichi looked at the villagers who were looking anxious.
"Many times."
An old man wearing a patched cotton jacket came out. This was Old Man Zhang, one of the orphans in the village.
He is also a pig farmer.
After hearing Yi Chichi's words, he stood up and explained the situation in detail.
"They start to poop when we get up in the morning. These two..."
He talked a lot, and Yi Chichi grasped the main points from his words.
"Does that mean these two pigs have defecated more than ten times?"
"right."
"Start taking water samples from the fifth time?"
"It seems so."
The two asked and answered each other, and Yi Chichi's face suddenly turned ugly when he heard this sentence.
The team leader and his companions were looking at Yi Chi Chi with expectation, but when they saw her expression change, they were shocked. Is it hopeless? The branch secretary looked worried, "Xiao Yi, is the pig hopeless?"
"……I have no idea."
Salt mixed with boiled water can be quickly absorbed by the body, increase gastrointestinal motility, and has a certain anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect.
It has a certain effect on diarrhea.
But the premise is that the diarrhea is mild. For severe diarrhea, such as watery stools more than 10 times a day, salt water will not work and you need to see a doctor immediately.
"If the veterinarian had come in time, these two big pigs might have been saved."
Hearing her answer, everyone felt chilled.
Bai Chen and his friends are no exception, they also have a share of this pig.
Although they got less meat when the New Year pig was slaughtered than the villagers, they still got some.
"Uncle, I'll ride my horse to see where Uncle Ma and the others are."
Bai Chen couldn't sit still anymore, so he volunteered to go to the commune to find a veterinarian.
The captain's mouth twitched, "Can you ride a horse?"
Without waiting for Bai Chen to answer, he looked at the young man in the village, Yang Tiezhu, and said, "Zhuzi, you go."
"good."
Yang Tiezhu nodded, turned around and walked out of the crowd quickly.
"Go and get some boiling water and salt. Bring as much as you can get."
"I'll go."
"Two men come and clean up the pigsty."
“Let’s do it!”
Soon, the group was led around by Yi Chichi.
Just then—
"Here comes the water and salt."
Liu Yichang, the fastest runner in the village, came running over carrying two thermos bottles.
Behind him was Liu An holding a basin and salt.
"Give me."
Yi Chichi rushed over quickly, snatched the thermos and basin from their hands and started working.
“Isn’t this just boiling water mixed with salt?”
The villagers who were watching her every move originally thought that she was going to do some high-end job to save the pigs, but they didn't expect that she was actually making salt and boiling water. They immediately talked about it in surprise.
Yi Chichi didn't pay attention to these voices. After she mixed the salt water according to the proportion, she held the basin and said, "Come two people, follow me into the pigpen."
(End of this chapter)
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