Chapter 145 Epilepsy
Mr. Zhao muttered to himself very seriously, as if no one was around.
Gu Xixi stood beside him and couldn't make any noise to disturb him, so she could only wait.
Mr. Zhao turned up the sheep's eyelids and pulled out its tongue to look at it.
Then he shook his hands and stood up with an unhappy look on his face, "Nothing's wrong."
The cook and Meng Chengping repeated in unison, "No illness?"
Mr. Zhao said impatiently, "Yes, it's not sheep plague."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Meng Chengping quickly grabbed him and asked, "Then what exactly do you think is the reason why these sheep are like this?"
Mr. Zhao stopped and said, "Poisoned, but the poison is very weak. To be more precise, he just ate something bad."
"But I don't know what exactly causes these symptoms."
When Meng Chengping heard that the cause of the disease had been found, he said happily, "It is just as Boss Gu expected."
He looked at Mr. Zhao expectantly, "Why don't you prescribe some medicine for these sheep?"
Mr. Zhao stared at Meng Chengping breathlessly, "I've already said that I don't know what they ate to become like this."
"Besides, they don't eat any particular medicinal herbs, so how can I prescribe medicine?"
"I'm a doctor, not a veterinarian!"
"Tell your general that it's better to kill the sheep as soon as possible so that it won't affect your meat!"
Meng Chengping was stunned by Mr. Zhao's yelling and had no power to fight back.
Mr. Zhao left angrily with his medicine box on his back.
Meng Chengping saw the smile on the cook's lips, and raised his eyebrows. "Laugh, laugh, laugh. Is it funny?"
"You are a sheep farmer, don't you know that people are different from sheep?"
The cook almost couldn't hold it in again.
His lips were trembling and his face looked a little grim as he was trying hard to hold back his laughter.
"General Meng used to be a sheep farmer. I didn't hear you say that just now..."
Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao both glanced at Meng Chengping with amusement in their hearts.
It turns out that General Meng, who was highly valued, had a past as a shepherd boy.
Meng Chengping blushed inexplicably and raised his foot as if to kick the leader of the group, "Get lost! If you don't go back to work, be careful that your leader will punish you!"
The cook covered his mouth and ran out of the sheepfold, and only laughed out loud after he had run far away.
Meng Chengping was a little embarrassed, "Brother Mu, Boss Gu, you all know about it."
Gu Xixi was already squatting where Mr. Zhao was just now, checking on the sheep.
But that didn't stop her from talking, "Yeah, got it."
"General Meng has risen from being a sheep farmer to his current position. It shows that he has been tempered over the years. His future is limitless."
Meng Chengping was startled and actually became shy, "Really?"
"The general said I'm still a long way from that."
Meng Chengping was embarrassed to tell others before that when he first joined the army, he was assigned to the cooking battalion.
And because he was a newcomer at that time, the work of providing grass for the sheep, feeding the sheep, and taking care of them naturally fell on him.
In fact, the general later said that he was attracted by the fact that Meng Chengping was the son of a wealthy family in the county, had a lively personality, and was eager to go to the battlefield to gain military merit.
Such reckless and unstable behavior is unacceptable in the military.
So even though the general saw Meng Chengping's strength at a glance, he still threw him to the cook camp.
Everyone has seen the final result.
Meng Chengping really lived up to expectations. He seized opportunities step by step, made military achievements and climbed up from the cook camp.
After looking at one sheep, Gu Xixi went to look at a few sheep that were about to fall down and some that had not yet fallen down.
When Mu Nanzhao saw her standing up, he understood and asked, "Did you figure out the reason?"
Gu Xixi didn't answer directly, and said to Meng Chengping, "Let's go to the place where the grass is cut and take a look."
Meng Chengping secretly gave Mu Nanzhao a sympathetic look and hurriedly led the way.
There is a large area of weeds outside the east side of the military camp.
Meng Chengping said, "It's right here. I used to feed the sheep here and cut grass here."
Gu Xixi has stopped talking.
She walked towards the grass, bent down to observe, and could still see the stubble left by mowing the grass nearby.
Meng Chengping also sensibly stopped disturbing her.
After a while, Gu Xixi said calmly, "Found it, epilepsy."
Meng Chengping took two steps at a time and moved over to look at the blade of grass in Gu Xixi's hand.
The grass looks very inconspicuous, with thin stems and tender opposite leaves. If you don't look closely, it looks a bit like shepherd's purse.
"Epilepsy? Isn't this a disease that people get? We have a relative who has it."
Gu Xixi smiled and said, "This epilepsy is real epilepsy."
"As the name suggests, if sheep eat it, their limbs will become paralyzed, and then they will become limp and convulse."
Meng Chengping was puzzled, "But don't these animals know how to tell what they can eat and what they can't eat?"
Gu Xixi said, "This grass is not actually poisonous. It doesn't smell like poison. On the contrary, it tastes pretty good. General Meng, do you want to try it?"
Meng Chengping said with a bitter face, "I'll just forget it."
Mu Nanzhao had been looking thoughtful since just now.
He suddenly asked Gu Xixi, "The boss said this thing is not a poison, why do these serious symptoms appear?"
Gu Xixi said, "It just paralyzes the peripheral nerves of the whole body. As long as you don't eat too much at one time, you won't die."
Meng Chengping nodded, "Mr. Zhao also said it was a slight poison and there was no way to detoxify it."
Mu Nanzhao pondered and said, "There is no way to detoxify it, which means that conventional methods of testing for poison cannot detect it."
"Plus, the sheep can eat..."
Gu Xixi blurted out, "War horses can only be eaten!"
The two looked at each other at the same time, with calculating smiles on their lips, and they saw the same excitement in each other's eyes.
Meng Chengping stared blankly at this and that, and suddenly realized, "Oh! I see! It's not for our war horses, but for..."
He jumped three feet high with excitement, "Great, maybe there is a way to resolve the crisis of our army!"
"You two walk slowly, I'm going to find the general first!"
Watching Meng Chengping walk away, Mu Nanzhao said quietly, "This kid is really good at taking credit."
Gu Xixi also shook her head and sighed, "Isn't he going to save those sheep? How cruel."
Half an hour later, Gu Xixi stood outside the sheep pen, watching the soldiers feeding the sheep with soapberry water.
Men in the army often use dried soapberries to wash clothes and take baths, and they can be found in any tent.
The poor sheep didn't know what was happening yet. They were held down by people, their mouths were pried open and soapberry water was poured into them. After a while, they started to retch and spit bubbles.
After they have vomited out all the food in their stomachs, fast for two days and only give them clean water, they will gradually recover.
When leaving the sheepfold, Mu Nanzhao asked, "Didn't you say you don't know medicine or veterinary medicine? How do you know such a method?"
Gu Xixi smiled lightly, "I happened to have seen it once, it's just experience."
In her previous life, she collected sheep in the wild, and there was sheep grass nearby. In the village where she temporarily lived, sheep would occasionally fall to the ground and not get up. The villagers had seen it many times and were familiar with handling it.
It is said that later on, the sheep in the village evolved and knew how to avoid epilepsy.
A soldier trotted over to the two of them and said, "General, please come into the tent to discuss matters!"
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