Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 46 The urgent search for cowpox, the village doctor recalled the reason
After Sun Xin and Taigong Hu discussed the matter, Taigong Hu called Sun Xin to his table to eat with everyone.

The people sitting at this table are the head of the village and some big managers. Whether Hujiazhuang can continue to operate stably next year depends on whether these people can come back after they go back.

While eating, Sun Xin saw that some of them looked strange, and he didn't want to ask too many questions. One of the 40-odd stewards burst into tears while eating.

Hu Cheng explained in Sun Xin's ear: "His father just left two days ago, and when he just received the news today that he is going back, he won't be able to see him for the last time."

Sun Xin asked in a low voice, "But it's blooming."

Hu Cheng nodded and said, "There are quite a lot of people in their village who are in trouble."

Sun Xin heard Hu Cheng say again: "This year's smallpox broke out in Laizhou. There is no sound here in Dengzhou, but the more you go to Laizhou and Yishui area, the more people have the smallpox. It is said that in Laizhou city A lot of people have left in many villages outside."

Hearing this, Sun Xin's heart skipped a beat.

"How many people in our village are from that area?"

Hu Cheng said: "There are not many in Laizhou City, but there are indeed many in Yishui."

After he finished speaking, Taigong Hu coughed, raised his head and said to the management: "This year, the annual leave will be longer, and I will come to the manor for dinner after the fifteenth day. You all go back and take care of the family affairs. If someone in the family is old Yes, taking a bucket of millet from the account before leaving is also considered one of the Zhuangshang's intentions.

Everyone thanks.

Sun Xin approached Hu Cheng and asked, "Are there many people in Zhujiazhuang from the Laishui area of ​​Yizhou?"

Hu Cheng nodded: "Naturally, many of the tenants and tenants in these two villages came together at the time and have been working for decades, most of them are from the same village."

Sun Xin was secretly surprised.

Ever since he got the news that Liang Zhongshu would transfer his birthday plan next year, Sun Xin has been silently calculating the time and development of the Water Margin in his heart. How can he calculate that it will be three or four years away from Liangshan at most three dozen Zhujiazhuang, but now Zhu Chaofeng There are also Hu Taigong and the other two, although they are physically ill, but they are still mentally burning. It seems that they will lead the two Zhuangzi for more than ten years.

But why when Liangshan attacked Zhujiazhuang, both the Zhu family and the Hu family were all young people who took the lead, while Zhu Chaofeng and Taigong Hu hardly said a word even though their names appeared in the book, just like two Like a puppet.

At this time, after hearing about the smallpox, Sun Xin finally felt that he understood what happened.

If it was because of this smallpox that the two older generations of Zhuangzi lost their original leadership positions, then this matter would be too big.

Among the three villages, Li Ying, the sky-beating eagle in Lijiazhuang, was just over 40 years old at this time, and his body was the most robust. He probably survived the epidemic. That's why among the three villages, only Lijiazhuang was not held by young people. The reason for leadership.

Hu Taigong and Zhu Chaofeng are definitely far more capable than Zhu's Three Heroes and Flying Tiger Hu Cheng!
Just looking at Zhu Chaofeng's ability to accept himself generously after his son Zhu Biao's leg was broken, Sun Xin knows that he is a person who can be extremely magnanimous for the overall situation.

The Zhujiazhuang under his leadership will never be as arrogant as in the original book when Liangshan is in front of him, and offend the other two villages, nor will he blatantly make slogans to destroy Liangshan, and he will not be so stupid as to take the initiative To capture Yang Xiongshiqian's pretext for sending troops to Liangshan.

And Hu Taigong of Hujiazhuang is not an idiot like Hu Cheng, just because Hu Sanniang was arrested, he would take the whole village to join Liangshan.

At that time, the two Zhuangzi will be under the leadership of these two old heroes, and Li Ying will have to weigh it if he wants to have an affair with the Liangshan bandits.

In addition, no matter what Sun Xin thought about it, he felt that if he wanted to use Hujiazhuang to develop Shili Pai, it would definitely be much more convenient to trade with the broad-minded Hu Taigong than the honest Hu Cheng.

That night, Sun Xin went back to Shili Pai overnight, and the next morning, Sun Xin didn't tell Hu Sanniang what he was going to do, so he rode his horse and came to the cattle and horse market.

As soon as Sun Xin entered the cattle and horse market, he called the middleman he was looking for when he bought cattle for the first time.In the autumn, Sun Xin bought more than a dozen cows in the cattle and horse market, all of which were tied to this man, and he fed the man to fat, so that when he saw Sun Xin coming, he was all smiles.

"Are the officials coming to buy cattle again? The business in the market is not good these days, and many cattle are stocked here. When the officials want to choose, they will have everything to choose from."

"Do you have any bloated cows here?"

Hearing this, the man's face immediately changed, and his head shook like a wave drum, "How can there be a cow that is blooming and will be sent to the cattle and horse market?"

"I want to buy this kind of cow. If I can find it, I will give you an extra two taels of silver."

The middleman glanced at Sun Xin in surprise, and after making sure he was not joking, he thought carefully, and then whispered to Sun Xin: "The officials come with me."

Sun Xin followed the man to a cowshed at the corner of the cattle and horse market, and saw a listless farmer sitting outside the cowshed, with a cow tied there.

The man didn't even want to enter the cowshed at all, he just pointed at the shed from a distance and said, "Officer, do you want this kind of cow? This cow was brought by his family to sell and put in the shed." I have been here for several days and dare not go to the market."

Sun Xin walked closer and took a look, only to see that the cow's udder was covered with smallpox-like pimples, and he was pleasantly surprised.

Sure enough, just as he guessed, cowpox is also a common infectious disease among cattle, and there should be cows suffering from cowpox this year.

Seeing that the two were only pointing at his cow, the farmer became nervous. He was afraid that the two were going to report to the officials that he had a sick cow, so he quickly stopped in front of Sun Xing and said: " I will not sell this cow, I will drive back immediately."

Sun Xin said: "I'm not from the yamen, and I'm not trying to steal your cow. Brother, show me your arm."

The middleman beside Sun Xin also persuaded: "This is a big owner, why lie to you with a cow?"

The farmer stretched out his hands in doubt, and showed Sun Xin.

As soon as they rolled up their sleeves, they saw that the farmer's arm was covered with scabs. The middleman retreated in fright after only one glance, and said in horror: "This man is out of hair!"

Sun Xin was relieved at last.

Although he has never had contact with smallpox patients in his previous life, Sun Xin still remembers the photos of smallpox patients and various symptoms of the disease that he saw in textbooks. The farmer in front of him is obviously left over after recovering from cowpox infection. Scars, and the cow in front of him showed symptoms of cowpox.

Combining the two, Sun Xin was basically sure that the cow in front of him was the vaccinia virus carrier cow he was looking for.

The fatality rate of vaccinia is very low, and the symptoms of infection are also very mild. Although the farmer's hands are full of acne marks now, they will disappear within a few months.

Sun Xin said with a smile to the middleman: "Do you think he is so healthy, as if he is blooming?"

He said to the farmer again, "I bought your cow."

The farmer thought that the cow was going to be smashed into his hands, but he was overjoyed when he heard that Sun Xin was willing to buy the cow. If there was any price, he agreed to help Sun Xin drive the cow to Shili Pai. .

Sun Xin paid the money again, and followed the farmer on horseback to drive the cattle home. On the way, he thought that he found a sick cow with cowpox as soon as he came out, and he felt that he was lucky.

(End of this chapter)