Professor Gu's daily life in the countryside after his rebirth

Chapter 221 Mutual Benefit and Win-win

Seeing this, the old man hurriedly pulled Gu Zhan towards his home. The others followed him.

She walked very fast with a cane and arrived home in just a few minutes.

Pushing open the door, the old man led Gu Zhan in and went straight to the chicken coop: "Young man, you must help me take care of these chickens. I absolutely cannot let them die."

Gu Zhan supported the old man's frail arm and said solemnly, "Don't worry."

The old lady's chicken coop is in the southwest of the yard. She takes good care of the two chickens. The chicken coop is very clean and the two chickens look quite heavy.

Gu Zhan opened the wooden fence and crawled in. He grabbed one of the two chickens by the wings and pulled it out. He carefully observed the physiological condition of each part of the chicken, tested its body temperature, and then put the chicken back into the chicken coop.

The captured chicken was in a very depressed state. Even when Gu Zhan put it into the chicken coop, it just stood there without moving at all.

Gu Zhan clapped his hands and stood up. Before he could say anything, Wu Youfu ran up to him and asked, "How is it? Is there any solution?"

Shi Min'an looked at Wu Youfu's anxious expression, glared at him with disappointment, and moved forward to listen to what Gu Zhan had to say.

"From now on, all sick chickens will be moved to another place. Regardless of whether there are sick chickens or not, all chicken coops will be sterilized with quicklime. As for sick chickens, grind the herbs realgar, cactus, isatis root, honeysuckle, scutellaria, and forsythia into powder in a 1:1 ratio and mix it with the feed."

"Okay." Shi Min'an agreed immediately.

But when the old lady heard Gu Zhan name so many herbs in one breath, she felt like the sky was falling: "Oh, what should I do? Nowadays, even people don't have medicine to treat their illnesses. I have to spend money to buy herbs for two chickens. Where can I get the money?"

Wu Youfu felt embarrassed when he heard the old lady crying. He angrily scolded her, "Auntie, why are you crying in public? The team will find a way to deal with it after this is over. Hurry up and stop crying."

When the old lady heard the captain say this, she knew that the team would definitely pay for the medicine, so she stopped and wiped her tears with her sleeves.

After leaving the old lady's house, Wu Youfu took Gu Zhan to several more houses. The situation was basically the same, and Gu Zhan gave instructions to the owners one by one.

It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon when Shi Min'an, the director of Donghe Commune, felt really bad and quietly walked over to Fan Jianjun and said, "Director, should we go back to town for dinner?"

Fan Jianjun glanced at Gu Zhan, who was still carefully instructing the team members on precautions, and said, "Okay, I'll call for help."

After Gu Zhan finished explaining the precautions to everyone, Fan Jianjun trotted over to Huang Yue and said, "Let's pack up and go back to the commune for a quick meal?"

Huang Yue saw that Gu Zhan had finished his work, so he nodded and agreed.

They had just had some light porridge in the morning and were now dizzy and hungry.

On the way back, Fan Jianjun asked Gu Zhan, "Comrade Gu, I'd like to ask, can the prescription you just mentioned really save our chickens that have fowl plague?"

Gu Zhan frowned and said after a long while, "I think we can save more than 70% of the sick people."

Fan Jianjun paused and thought to himself, more than 60% is already very good. If it were in the past, those chickens infected with fowl plague would have only waited to die.

In later generations, antibiotics were used more frequently for many diseases. Most chickens with fowl plague needed to be treated with interferon. However, in that era, there was a shortage of doctors and medicines, so where could interferon be found for chickens? Therefore, after much hesitation, Gu Zhan decided to use Chinese herbal medicine.

Now, I just hope to minimize the losses.

After lunch, the group went to another commune. As expected, the chickens showed the same symptoms as those in Donghe Commune. Gu Zhan followed the prescription of Donghe Commune and gave all the instructions again.

When they set out from the county town, Fan Jianjun knew that the three people were planning to stay there and not return to the county town for the time being.

After what happened during the day, Fan Jianjun had a good impression of them and was willing to lend a hand in their work. So when they were on the bus returning to the county town and passing Donghe Commune, Fan Jianjun asked the car to stop on the pretext of something and went to find Shi Min'an alone.

"Director! Why are you here?" Shi Min'an started coordinating and preparing the Chinese herbal medicine that Gu Zhan mentioned in the morning in the afternoon, but the herbs are not easy to find now, and it took him a whole day to barely get them all together.

"How's the herbal preparation going?"

A smile appeared on Shi Min'an's tired face, and he said, "God has always been willing to help those who work hard. I finally found everyone. I'm exhausted today."

Fan Jianjun patted Shi Min'an on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard, Director. As long as the chickens in our homes are saved, that's more important than anything else."

Fan Jianjun glanced at the car parked on the side of the road and whispered to Shi Min'an, "Those three experts from Beijing have been a great help to us. They came here to study the chickens in Yang County. They will probably stay at your place tonight. Please help take care of them when the time comes."

When Shi Min'an heard this, he thought it was a good thing. The chicken plague had not been cured yet, so staying here would be a good opportunity to help them with guidance.

So he quickly agreed: "Okay, Director, absolutely no problem."

Fan Jianjun patted Shi Min'an on the shoulder, turned around and strode away.

Gu Zhan watched all day and basically determined the breed of chickens in these two communes, which were the Yangxian yellow chickens that Fan Jianjun mentioned this morning.

Now that these chickens have contracted fowl plague, this period of time is a perfect opportunity to observe the disease resistance of the Yangxian yellow chickens. Therefore, after Fan Jianjun got off the car, Gu Zhan and Huang Yuewen Chunming discussed it and decided to stay here tonight.

Looking at the sky that was beginning to darken, Wen Chunming hesitated and said, "This is indeed a good opportunity, but where should we stay? We are unfamiliar with this place."

Huang Yue smiled lightly: "If we have nowhere to stay, we can stay at the homes of fellow villagers."

This scene reminded him of his work scenes when he was young. At that time, he was just like now, racing against time, fearing that if he was a step late, he would not be able to catch up with the advanced countries.

Now, he saw that spirit again in Gu Zhan.

"When Director Fan comes back, we'll say goodbye and get off here," said Huang Yue.

As they were talking, Fan Jianjun opened the car door and got in.

Huang Yue coughed lightly and said goodbye to Fan Jianjun according to the plan they had just discussed. "Director Fan, thank you very much for coming here today. We are fortunate to have seen our Yang County yellow chickens. We also need to carefully inspect our Yang County yellow chickens, so we don't plan to return to the county tonight."

Fan Jianjun had anticipated that they would come to say goodbye upon his return, so he smiled and said, "Thank you three experts for your help. I've already contacted Director Shi of our Donghe Commune, and he will support your work here."

Having achieved the expected results, Huang Yue smiled and thanked Fan Jianjun: "Thank you for your support, Director."