Looking at her youngest son's increasingly rich expression, Princess Jing was very relieved. The previous son seemed to be forged from 10,000-year-old cold iron, and he seemed to have walked out of the ice and snow city, without a trace of popularity. Even she sometimes feels inexplicably frightened and scared in the face of him. Perhaps because of this reason, the youngest son is getting farther and farther away from her at some point, and he can't go back to the attachment and trust he had for her when he was a child.

But since he returned from his voyage to the West, he has gradually become warmer, can smile, and has other expressions on his face. The attitude towards her and his father was not as cold as in the past. also learned to quarrel with others for fun - no, to be exact, the youngest son only looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in front of the little girl of the Yu family.

"Son, who did you think of at that moment?" Princess Jing was in a good mood because of her son's change, and the fire of gossip was burning.

Zhu Junyang smiled at the sunset and said nothing, his phoenix eyes turned slightly: What is she doing at this time? Is it to laugh with her mother and water the vegetable patch in the yard? Or on the pig farm, ask her twin sisters something? is still helping her eldest brother calculate the price of aquatic products...... This hard-working little man always seems to be so energetic, and there is no time to stop. Won't she get tired?

On the contrary, at this time, Yu Xiaocao was lying on the rocking chair under the grape trellis, shaking and shaking happily, drowsy. Suddenly, an anxious voice at the courtyard gate broke her leisure. Liu. Hui Fang rushed in in a hurry, and in the cool breeze of late autumn, she was sweating all over her face.

"Xiaocao, come and see our house, our chickens are sick!!" Liu. Huifang was so anxious that tears were about to come out. Raising chickens is afraid of encountering chicken plague, and now there is no full-time veterinarian, if you suffer from chicken plague, it is likely that most of the hard work of half a year will be in vain!

Yu Xiaocao opened her eyes, sat up straight, and asked, "Don't worry, what is the situation, tell me carefully." ”

"The night before yesterday, my mother and I brought back a cage of chickens from the woods, and when we were feeding the water, we found that some of the chickens were not happy. My mother and I didn't take it seriously. Who knew that when I came back last night, it would increase to a dozen. My mother said that the chickens might have an infectious disease, so she put the dozen chickens in a cage alone. But today, more than half of the chickens are lying in the nest......"

Accepting Yu Xiaocao's suggestion, Liu's chickens all adopt the free-range method, using cages to bring the chickens to the grove in the morning, let them catch insects and eat grass seeds by themselves, and then take them home at night. This not only saves food, but also has a better taste of chicken meat than captive-bred meat. It's been more than half a year, and the more than 200 chickens raised by Liu's family have grown very well, who knows that they have grown to more than two catties, and suddenly they are more than half sick! No wonder the usually steady Liu. Huifang was in a hurry to look like this.

"Don't worry! I'll go with you to see it! Yu Xiaocao knows very well that the most feared thing about raising chickens in large quantities is chicken plague. But fortunately, she has spiritual stone water in her hands, even if she has chicken plague, it doesn't matter.

Looking at Xiaocao's determined and confident expression, Liu. Huifang's anxious heart gradually settled down, she nodded, and said, "I almost forgot, Xiaocao, you know how to heal!" ”

Yu Xiaocao smiled bitterly in her heart: The medical skills that this girl learned are to treat people, not poultry, okay? Forget it, the Liu family's chickens were originally raised to supply their family's braised vegetable shop, and more than 100 chickens can be sold for more than ten days. Now my uncle and cousin go to other places to collect chickens, and it is not easy to get up early and be greedy for darkness every day...... Let them think they will cure the chickens!

The two walked quickly to Huifang's house, and the daughter-in-law was sighing at a few dying chickens.

"Auntie, don't worry, let me see!" Yu Xiaocao examined the first batch of chickens that were dying of illness, with dark black crowns, edema of the head, a lot of oral and nasal secretions, difficulty breathing, and flatulence and fluid accumulation in the sac. Look at the excrement of the sick chicken, which is yellow-green and accompanied by watery matter...... This is a typical viral chicken plague.

After checking the situation of the sick chicken, Yu Xiaocao had a plan in his heart. She said to the mother and daughter, who were anxiously waiting for her diagnosis, "Don't worry, I can cure this disease!" I'll go dig up some herbs in the back mountains and I'll be back soon. ”

When the daughter-in-law heard that her chicken's disease could be cured, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's evening, it's not safe to go up the mountain now, why don't you go again tomorrow?" ”

Yu Xiaocao shook his head with a smile and said, "If I wait until tomorrow, I'm afraid that all the chickens in this nest will have to lie down!" Don't worry, I don't have to go up the mountain to find the herbs I need, I can find them at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"Let Huifang go with you......" The daughter-in-law was a little uneasy.

Yu Xiaocao thought about it for a while. Huifang said: "Sister Huifang, you go dig some purslane and come back, wash it and set aside." ”

After speaking, she walked out of the gate of Liu's house. Digging herbs is just a cover, in fact, it is just a few common anti-inflammatory herbs and wild vegetables. After the herbs were dug back, the mother and daughter of the Liu family helped wash them, mixed them with purslane, and pounded them into medicinal mud. Then add the wheat bran and corn bran and knead it into soybean-sized pills. Of course, the indispensable spirit stone water is also added to it.

After the pills were ready, Yu Xiaocao helped the mother and daughter of the Liu family to catch the sick chickens out, and fed them into the pills one by one. It wasn't until it was dark that the sick chickens were fed medicine.

After thinking about it, Yu Xiaocao cut the remaining herbs into minced pieces, mixed them into rice bran and wheat bran, added a few drops of spirit stone water, and instructed the mother and daughter of the Liu family: "Tomorrow morning, use this to feed the chickens." For the next few days, don't let the chickens go free, just keep an eye on them. I'll come back in the evening! ”

The clouds were thick tonight, covering the moonlight tightly. Yu Xiaocao lived at the foot of the mountain, some distance from the village, and Liu Xuanzhu carried a wind lantern and sent Xiaocao back. Originally, the Liu family wanted to leave Yu Xiaocao for a meal, but she was afraid that her family would worry about it, so she resolutely refused.

Early the next morning, Liu. Huifang ran to the chicken pen to look, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the sick chickens who had been isolated were much better, and they were clucking and looking for food. Even the first batch of chickens that were sick and about to die were able to move their paws and walk a few steps.

It seems that the medicine given by Xiaocao girl yesterday is symptomatic! Liu. Huifang took out the herbs and chicken food that Yu Xiaocao prepared yesterday and put them in the chicken pen. Originally, she was worried that chickens would not want to eat the food mixed with herbs. Who knew that as soon as she put the chicken food in, the chickens who had lost their appetite suddenly swarmed up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, scrambling to devour the chicken food mixed with herbs, choking and sticking their necks.

When the daughter-in-law saw the scene in front of her, she was excited: "Great, just be willing to eat!" Xiaocao really has the ability, there is nothing she can't do!! Huifang, our chickens are saved!! ”

Liu. Huifang breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Yesterday morning, the aunt of the Zhou family came to see and said that it was chicken plague!" He also said that once he contracted chicken plague, there was no cure!! In the first year of raising chickens, her family had chicken plague and there was not a single chicken left. Fortunately, she fed fewer chickens that year, so she didn't lose too much money! Mother, we have more than 200 chickens in our house, and we have been raising them for more than half a year, and if they all die of illness, we will lose a lot!! Luckily, there's grass! ”

There were still some pills left by Xiaocao, and the mother and daughter of the Liu family sighed with emotion, and then grabbed those chickens who were more seriously ill and stuffed a pill into it. He also fed the sick chickens that were beginning to recover with the chicken food that was given grass. These sick chickens have not eaten for two days, and at this time they are not inferior to those healthy chickens.

When Xiaocao came back in the evening, the chickens of the Liu family were no different from the healthy chickens except for the dozen or so seriously ill chickens at the beginning. Yu Xiaocao prepared some more pills and chicken food for them, and asked them to feed them another day of chicken food with spirit stone water tomorrow to consolidate it, and how to feed it in the future!

Three days later, Liu. Huifang took two hens to the Yu family's old house, and learned that Yu Xiaocao followed the car transporting the pigs to Fucheng, and the Liu family also went to the town to deliver clothes to Xiaoshi. Only Yu Hang, who is responsible for collecting aquatic products, is at home.

Not too busy now, Yu Hang handed over the stall to Uncle Santang, washed his hands and gave it to Liu. Huifang brought some melon seeds and home-made snacks to entertain her.

Liu. Huifang's face was red, she lowered her head a little embarrassed, and asked softly, "Xiaocao left when he came to the door?" I'm here to thank her for helping our family cure the chickens...... My mother said, these two chickens have already laid eggs, you can keep the eggs to eat or stew soup, you can do it! ”

Thirteen-year-old Yu Hang already looks like a young man, with handsome facial features, a long figure, and wheat-colored skin, which is exactly what the little girl from the fishing family likes. Liu. Huifang spent the first time alone with Yu Hang, looking at a loss, and the words in her mouth were a little incoherent.

Yu Hang usually comes into contact with many people, but he is much more relaxed in comparison. He smiled slightly and said, "Auntie is too polite!" Not to mention the relationship between my father and Uncle Zhuzhu, the villagers, whoever has a problem, as long as they can help, they will lend a hand. These two chickens, you take them back ......"

I didn't expect Xiaocao's brother to talk a lot, but he was quite able to speak well! As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw the gentle smile on the corner of Yu Hang's mouth. Huifang felt her face get hotter. She secretly scolded herself for being unproductive, she was a big acquaintance, what was there to be shy about.

"No! This is the heart of my family!! If you don't accept it, you're going to talk to us!! "Liu. Huifang couldn't help but say something, and carried the two hens to the backyard of the Yu family.

The backyard of the Yu family is separated by a fence from the chicken pen and the rabbit cage, and even the nests of Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai are also located in the backyard. She has a good relationship with the Xiaocao sisters, and often comes to the house to help pick vegetables, so she is familiar with the structure of the Yu family's backyard.

Ignoring Yu Hang's obstruction, she stuffed the two hens into the chicken pen and closed the door. Seeing that the grass in the rabbit cage was almost finished, she took two handfuls of grass from the side and stuffed them into the rabbit cage.