Chapter 83 Treatment
The burden on the two of them now is much heavier than before.
In addition to supporting himself, he also has to feed four dogs and twelve sheep.
Huhu and Xuebing are now able to hunt, so let them fend for themselves. It is not the case that we favor one over the other. After all, they are still clouded leopards and belong to the mountains and forests. They will return to the forest one day and cannot lose their ability to hunt.
The biggest difficulty now is the disease of the twelve sheep in front of us.
It's not just a disease.
The two of them studied overnight, taking the sheep breeding and prevention manual and studying it all night long, before they were able to match all the symptoms.
Some suffered from sheep nose flies, some had diarrhea, and some suffered from heat stress, pica, and mouth sores...
Fortunately, almost all commonly used medicines are available in the tool room.
What we need to do next is to cure the diseases one by one.
Other symptoms may occur in one or two sheep occasionally, but heat stress and mouth ulcers occur in almost all sheep.
Heat stress is a heat stroke reaction caused by sheep being unable to withstand such a hot summer. Mouth sores are oral ulcers, which are not very serious diseases, but they are contagious.
Before dawn in the morning, Mu Xi went out hunting, while Zhao Yeqing prepared the medicines needed for the sheep at home.
Oral diseases need to be treated with Bingpeng Powder, sheep nose flies need to be treated with oral anthelmintics, diarrhea requires antibiotic injections, and the syringes in the tool room are also ready.
There were also two sheep with pica. Zhao Yeqing saw them always opening their mouths to nibble on the wool on other sheep's buttocks, and they were almost plucking the sheep's baldness.
Sheep with pica need to be fed calcium tablets, vitamins and cod liver oil.
This man eats less than a sheep.
As for heat stress, it is the simplest yet the most difficult. As long as the sheep are cooled down, the disease will be cured without treatment. The difficulty lies in how to cool them down in such hot weather.
The book says that sheep should be fed baking soda, salt and vitamins, and mint is also okay.
In addition to these, another thing that needs to be improved is the sheepfold.
The top of the sheep pen is now an ordinary straw hut, which is empty on all sides, with only a fence made of thick wooden sticks. It looks ventilated, but there is almost no wind in this weather.
To cool the sheep pen, the book said that water spray can be used for cooling, or wet curtains can be installed. She guessed that this wet curtain should be similar to the water curtain she had made for the greenhouse before.
Another thing is shearing the sheep.
By the time she had listed all the rules, Mu Xi came back with the prey.
A pheasant and a rabbit were prepared for the dogs. They were a little malnourished and needed to be well nourished. Huhu and Xuebing had already eaten their fill outside.
Zhao Yeqing lit the fire, cooked the rabbits and chickens, and then fed them to them.
The big dog was lying next to a few children. When he saw Zhao Yeqing coming in, he quickly stood up and stood in front of the children.
Since they were not that familiar with each other yet, she didn't force it. She put the meat down, went out and closed the door.
Mu Xi was already applying medicine to the sheep in the sheep pen. When she walked past the white bones next to the sheep pen, she still felt a little uncomfortable.
"Let's bury the old man's body first." She thought so yesterday, but she was afraid that Gouzi would not agree.
After applying medicine to the sheep, Mu Xi came out, washed his hands, pulled off the cloth that was covering his mouth and nose, and let out a long breath.
The smell of the sheep pen is hard to describe.
He thought for a moment and said, "We can build a tomb right next to the house. Are you afraid?"
Zhao Yeqing shook her head. If it were in the past, she would have been a little scared, but now she has adapted well. What's more, this was his home.
The two men dug a pit next to the house. Mu Xi called the dog out, put on gloves in front of the dog, put the bones in, and then filled the pit.
I want it to watch, its owner is sleeping here and not leaving it.
The dog did not move at all during the whole process. It only dug with its two paws and gently covered the soil on top.
There are no wooden boards at home, so after they are busy these few days, they will come and erect a tombstone for the old man.
Neither of them slept nearly all last night, and the bedding in the house was of little use. Zhao Yeqing planned to go down the mountain today and go back to the village to see if he could find clean sheets and bedding in any house.
Mu Xi's leg injury had not fully healed. It was okay for him to walk on the flat ground of the meadow, but she was afraid that his wound would be torn if he went down the mountain, so she planned to go down the mountain by herself.
The road down the mountain used to be walked on all year round, and no animal would set up its territory in such a place, so it was relatively safe.
Mu Xi handed her the shotgun and taught her how to use it before letting her go.
Zhao Yeqing went down the mountain carrying a hunting rifle. There was nothing in his backpack and he just wanted to fill it up later.
Mu Xi followed quietly behind, and only turned back when they were less than 500 meters away from the foot of the mountain.
In the current situation, he couldn't say that he had to do everything by himself and let her stay at home. He was afraid that if something happened to him one day, Zhao Yeqing would have to adapt and live a good life on her own.
Relying on his memory from last time, Zhao Yeqing found a few clean houses and found a few sets of unused sheets and quilt covers in the closets.
The bed in the wooden house was also made of wood. The quilt underneath had turned yellow and hard, and so had the pillow.
Zhao Yeqing found an old and thin cotton quilt, which was better than nothing, but it was clean.
I found a summer quilt.
It was so hot that she wouldn't cover herself, she just wanted to sleep in my arms.
One backpack couldn't hold all the things, so I found a basket to put them in. I put the backpack in front of me and carried a large plastic bucket full of things in my hands.
By the time she climbed to the meadow area, it was already dark. Mu Xi was waiting for her at the intersection. When he saw her come back, he came forward and took all her things.
On the way home, I heard her chattering away.
"A family had a cellar, and I thought there were some good things in it. Wow, when I opened it, I saw two skeletons... I also saw a newly fluffed cotton quilt, which was big and soft, and looked comfortable. Unfortunately, it was too hot to cover it..."
She likes cotton quilts the most. Although they are a bit heavy, the weight of them makes people feel inexplicably safe and makes it easy to fall asleep.
When she got home, she found the house was already filled with the smell of food.
On the only small wooden table in the kitchen, there was a large pot of wild mushroom chicken soup and a few soft pancakes.
Mu Xi put the things back into the house, walked into the kitchen and said, "The owner still has some dried mushrooms in the storeroom. I set a few traps when I went to hunt rabbits this morning, and I found a pheasant when I went to check in the afternoon. The flour was what we brought back from the foot of the mountain."
Generally, many soups with wild mushrooms will have a grayish color, but Mu Xi didn’t know how he cooked it, but the chicken soup was golden and fragrant.
She reached out and touched the bowl. It was no longer hot but warm, just the right temperature for drinking soup.
Taking a bite of the pancake and a bite of meat, drinking it down with the soup, I felt that most of my fatigue disappeared.
The texture of dried mushrooms is chewy, but the aroma is richer than that of fresh mushrooms, and they are full of soup.
She thinks mushrooms are more delicious than meat.
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