Chapter 161 Weird Phenomenon
Xu Ying's first impression of the Miao village chief was that he was honest and frugal. She respected him and said, "There's nothing I need help with right now. I've even brought an assistant with me, but he should be enough."
Xu Ying showed the village chief and other villagers the photo on Liu Kai's work ID. "He hasn't arrived yet. When everyone sees me later, please tell him where I am."
"Okay!" Village Chief Miao nodded with a smile. "Why don't you go to the village committee for a cup of tea before starting work? It must be hard for you, a little girl, to come all this way."
"It's not hard. I'll just get right to work and finish early so I can call it a day." Xu Ying smiled and asked everyone, "Does anyone have sick poultry or livestock at home? You can take them to me and I'll prescribe some medicine."
However, after Xu Ying asked this question, the villagers did not respond to her immediately. Instead, they looked at each other and exchanged glances.
There were more than ten people here, but none of them said anything was wrong or uncomfortable with their livestock.
Xu Ying clearly remembered that a young man had just said that there was something wrong with his cow. It walked in a strange way, as if it was drunk.
Xu Ying immediately noticed something was wrong.
Do these villagers not trust her medical skills?
Xu Ying also wanted to see whether the cause of the sick poultry and livestock in the village was related to fertilizer pollution?
Xu Ying took the initiative to ask, "Whose family is that boy in the blue coat?"
Everyone's eyes turned to a thin middle-aged couple.
The middle-aged couple looked at each other and said to Xu Ying hesitantly, "It's our child, his name is Yin An."
"Comrade Veterinarian, what's wrong?"
"Your child said your cow is sick, right? Can you take me to see it?"
Seeing the middle-aged couple still had concerns, Xu Ying added, "What if it's a contagious disease? That could affect your other livestock."
The other villagers panicked when they heard about the infectious disease, adding fuel to the fire and urging, "Let's get the veterinarian to take a look. It won't cost you any money anyway."
"Yes, Master Wu hasn't been to your house yet. Why don't you let this young man take a look at it for you first? Then we'll see what both sides have to say."
When Xu Ying heard the name "Mr. Wu," she narrowed her eyes, a look of curiosity on her face: "Fellow villagers, who is Mr. Wu?"
"He's the master who helps us to invite the land god."
An older woman spoke a few words to help Xu Ying resolve his confusion: "Our village's grain production has declined. We would like to invite the master to come and perform a ritual."
"This master can not only see the land, but also show the animals—"
The eldest sister wanted to continue speaking, but was interrupted by the village chief.
"Okay, okay, why are you telling this girl all this? Young people don't understand our traditions. We do this just to feel at ease. If you go into so much detail, this girl will definitely think we are feudal and superstitious old antiques."
The village chief had an innocent smile on his face. "Right, little girl, you all are into science, right?"
"Yin Anjia, I'll show you the way this way."
Xu Ying met Village Chief Miao's enthusiastic gazes and nodded politely, "Thank you for your help."
She felt that Village Chief Miao didn't really want her to know that the village had asked Lang De to perform a ritual.
Village Chief Miao smiled awkwardly and said, "It's just a small favor, showing you the way."
Xu Ying followed the village chief and the Yin couple to the Yin family's cowshed.
Crescent Oasis is worthy of being an ancient oasis with developed agriculture. The village infrastructure and housing conditions of the residents here are much better than those of Dahuyang Village.
Most of the houses here are built with sun-dried mud bricks, and the walls are painted with grayish-white clay, which emits a soft sunlight under the scorching sun.
Some of the walls in better condition are inlaid with geometric patterns made of broken pottery pieces, which are beautiful and attractive.
The most luxurious thing is the water source. A man-made shallow canal surrounds the village, and the edge of the canal is covered with blue-gray slate.
This is all thanks to the gift of the ancient Crescent Lake and mature groundwater exploitation.
Xu Ying sighed as he entered the cowshed. Large-scale farming villages were different. "Your houses are so beautiful and neat!"
"Of course not. They were all built by people our village chief helped find. In the past, when our village had a good harvest, we had a lot of dividends, and we could use some of them to build beautiful houses like this. It's not like now... Alas."
The villagers shook their heads as they spoke.
Yin An's parents and Xu Ying talked about their cows: "The milk production of our cows has dropped sharply recently, and the cows that plow the fields have a strange gait..."
As they were talking, they had already arrived at the cowshed.
At this time, many cows in the cowshed were doing an incredible action - licking the wall with their tongues, as if the wall was covered with some grass juice or honey.
A noticeable dampness had formed on the plastered walls.
The cows seemed completely unaware of the situation and mechanically scraped the mud on the wall with their tongues.
The villagers frowned when they saw so many cows showing this symptom.
"Is it possible that these cows are possessed by evil spirits?"
"Yeah, licking the wall all of a sudden, is that a hint that something's going to happen at the Yin family's house?"
"Yin family, why don't you ask Master Wu to come over and take a look?"
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When Yin An's parents heard the villagers' discussions, they looked frightened and hesitated, unable to make up their minds.
Some cows mooed.
Xu Ying exchanged with the system for the ability to speak cow language. After the skill took effect, all the mooing sounds became easy to understand in Xu Ying's ears.
[Burning... There's a fire burning in my stomach...]
[The wall... the wall can provide relief... but it's so salty and bitter...]
Their eyes are dull and their noses are breathing hot air, giving people the overall feeling of being in a state of anxiety.
[I can't control myself from licking the wall. Moo... I feel so uncomfortable all over.]
Although the cattle's behavior was funny and bizarre, Xu Ying could feel their pain from their cries.
"Are they trying to tear down the Yin family's house?"
"Farmland is land, and houses are also on land. Could it be that the Yin family has offended the land god?"
"Old Yin, you should quickly invite Master Wu over!"
These few words made the troubled Yin couple make up their minds: "Let's go find Master Wu to take a look now."
“This phenomenon is so scary!”
--"etc!"
Xu Ying watched the villagers chattering about this metaphysical phenomenon, which had even managed to frighten Yin An's parents. She quickly called Yin An's father to stop and explained to the villagers, "No! It's not possessed by evil spirits."
"Cattle exhibiting this pica are likely trying to supplement their mineral intake."
"They are sick and will be fine after taking medicine."
——"Will the milk produced by taking medicine be unhealthy?"
"Also, after the cows plowing the fields eat the medicine, will their mouths pollute the land?"
After hearing what Xu Ying said, the villagers immediately asked many questions with distrust on their faces.
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