Chapter 27: Guest Starring as a Veterinarian

  The little girl stared at Qin Yu in a daze, and after a while, she opened her mouth and said, "Are we going to investigate again?"

  "Clever." Qin Yu smiled, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "I said you wouldn't believe me naturally, but you can send someone to investigate and it will prove that what I'm saying is not false."

  Qin Yu sighed quietly after finishing speaking, "Why are all the children in ancient times so precocious?"

  The little girl nodded, and it seemed that she had really made up her mind to send someone to investigate whether what Qin Yu said was true or false.

  "Mooooo." A sudden cow's bellow came over, but this bellow was really weak.

  Qin Yu and his group naturally wouldn't find the cow's bellowing strange, and they continued eating their meals. But in the next second, a cry of surprise came, "Big Yellow, wu wu, get up!"

  Judging from his voice, he seemed like a young man. Just as Qin Yu was thinking about what this big yellow thing was - cow or dog or something else, a sigh came from outside.

  "Alas, this cow is beyond cure."

  "Yes, our family's cow was like that too, but no one could cure it and it eventually died."

  "Alas, several tens of taels of silver are gone just like that."

  "Alas, the cow is the foundation of farming. Without it, this family's life will be difficult. Big brother, please help them." Just as Qin Yu was listening intently, Little Maiden suddenly spoke up, seemingly in a spoiled tone.

  "You think I'm omnipotent, understanding everything and capable of doing anything." Qin Yu glared at the little girl with a bad temper and said.

  But the little girl seemed to have really determined that Qin Yu was all-powerful, and nodded very affirmatively. Qin Yu's face suddenly stiffened, and he sighed, "Alright, I'll go take a look, but I don't guarantee that I can cure this cow."

  "That's great!" The little girl was overjoyed, quickly got up and pulled Qin Yu to walk outside. The little girl's guards looked at each other, pretending not to see anything, but they didn't forget their duties, quickly getting up to closely follow behind the little girl, afraid that she might get hurt.

  The children of Zhangjiacun naturally understood the importance of cows and followed Qin Yu to see how he treated the sick cow.

  "Everyone, please make way. Big Brother will treat the cow's illness." The little girl shouted as she saw the crowd forming a circle and there was no place to enter.

  Qin Yu heard Xiaoyao's shout and his heart skipped a beat, his face stiffened as he stared at Xiaoyao, but he couldn't bring himself to speak up because the people who had heard Xiaoyao's shout stopped their discussions and cleared the road, looking towards Qin Yu and his group.

  Qin Yu had no choice but to grit his teeth and move forward. After walking a few steps, he arrived in front of the young man and saw the situation with the yellow cow on the ground.

  Only the yellow cow's eyes were dull, grinding its teeth and groaning non-stop, with muscles twitching from time to time. On the ground was a puddle of grayish-greenish froth. Qin Yu suddenly realized something and looked at the young man who was full of expectation, asking, "Did you feed it something sour?"

  The young man was slightly stunned, then remembered something, nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, my family's leftover wine lees are what Da Huang likes to eat. Is that what you're referring to, sir?"

  "Alright, I know, you go get some lime." Qin Yu nodded and said.

  "Lime? What's that?" The young man asked anxiously, worried about the yellow cow's body on the ground.

  "Lime..." Qin Yu was about to say what lime was, but suddenly remembered that at this time, there probably wasn't such a thing as lime yet. He then roughly described the appearance of limestone and coal.

  The young man, after hearing this, suddenly enlightened, immediately got up and prepared to go find limestone and coal. Qin Yu knew that the limestone the young man had brought back himself might be enough, but the coal would definitely not be enough. He then instructed the male students behind him, "You all go help him too, hurry up and come back quickly."

  The boy may have made a mistake, but the children of Zhangjiacun village did not. They had long known what coal was and what limestone was.

  "Yes, Master." The boys said respectfully one by one, and then followed the young man to leave this place.

  The people around who were watching the commotion still didn't leave, they also wanted to see if it was really possible to cure the cow.

  "Big brother, is that all?" The little girl looked at Qin Yu and seemed to have said something simple, asking with some doubt.

  "You think it's that easy? You still have to turn limestone into quicklime." Qin Yu said helplessly, glancing at the little girl.

  This little girl is good at finding trouble, but she can also help others casually, Qin Yu won't mind.

  "Alright, now go to the blacksmith's shop and borrow their furnace." Qin Yu said without waiting for Xiaoyu to continue asking.

  "Master Qin is going to the blacksmith's shop, I'll take you there." Someone in the crowd shouted out after hearing that Qin Yu was going to the blacksmith's shop.

  Qin Yu nodded, "Thank you, it's just as well since Qin doesn't know the way."

  A few people quickly walked out of the crowd and led the way. Qin Yu followed immediately, with a large group of onlookers following behind him.

  The young man's cow was still lying on the ground, and no one dared to take advantage of it, otherwise they would be breaking the law and would be severely punished. However, Qin Yu left behind a guard for Xiaoyu, since there were already people available, who made this little girl look for trouble?

  They arrived at the blacksmith's shop, and without Qin Yu saying a word, someone proactively came forward to ask if they could borrow the furnace. The blacksmith was very accommodating, and upon seeing Qin Yu's extraordinary identity, he didn't hesitate and directly let them use the entire blacksmith's shop.

  It took half a while, and many people got impatient and left one after another. However, there were still quite a few people waiting. Since Tang Dynasty didn't have much entertainment, these people treated this as an entertaining program, chatting and laughing with each other, making it very lively.

  Qin Yu didn't expect that this little girl seemed to have a lot of patience, not showing any impatience at all, and even took the opportunity to ask Qin Yu some other questions.

  Before long, the young man and the children of Zhangjiacun village came to the blacksmith's shop with a basket of limestone and coal on their backs.

  Without saying more, Qin Yu directly ordered the crowd to put coal into the furnace. The furnace already had fire, but it was only wood charcoal, and the temperature wasn't as high as coal. Naturally, when burning limestone, they would choose to use coal with a higher temperature.

  After the coal was ignited, limestone was thrown in. In order to burn the lime as soon as possible, the ironworker's peculiarly shaped bellows didn't stop working either. Before long, the people watching felt a wave of heat rushing towards them and hastily retreated one after another.

  Qin Yu simply instructed a few words and then ran back to the inn to continue eating, originally not much trouble, no need to stay there waiting, but that young man kept staring at the stove, expecting the appearance of the limestone Qin Yu mentioned.

  An hour later, Qin Yu came to watch. Although it was not all burned into lime, there was a part of it, which was enough to treat the poisoned cow.

  Take out the powdered lime on the stove, then bring a basin of water, put some lime in it, stir vigorously, and then set it aside. After more than ten minutes, Qin Yu took out the clear liquid from the top layer of the lime water and handed it to the young man, saying, "Give it to your cow."

  The young man took the bowl of clear liquid and hurriedly ran over to give it to the yellow cow, which was still lying on the ground. The process wasn't very smooth, but fortunately, he succeeded.

  After waiting for about ten or twenty minutes, Huang Niu finally stopped convulsing and his eyes were no longer so dull.

  "A low but powerful bellow came from the yellow cow's mouth, and after struggling for a moment, it stood up."

  "Alright, alright." The onlookers shouted out in surprise one after another.

  Qin Yu let out a sigh of relief and smiled slightly, saying to the young man who was still crying tears of joy.

  "From now on, feed it three times a day. You've seen the method, just do it yourself. It should be cured in about two or three days. But remember not to feed the cow anything too acidic again in the future. Wine lees can be fed, but wine lees cannot be left for too long, otherwise it will be like this now."

  The young man knelt down with a "thud" and knocked his head on the ground one after another, making a "ding ding" sound. He choked back tears as he said, "Thank you, thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

  Qin Yu hastily reached out and helped the young man up, saying "Just thank me, no need to kneel, it will make Qin Yu very uncomfortable."

  As the saying goes, "save people to the end", Qin Yu thought for a moment and told the young man about several reasons and treatments for cow's diarrhea, as well as some precautions.

  The young man listened very carefully, the people around him listened even more carefully, and one by one they suddenly realized, in an instant, their eyes looking at Qin Yu were filled with admiration, applause and praise echoed in their ears.

  "Big brother, can you write down what you just said and announce it to the world? That way, the working cattle of the Tang Dynasty won't get sick easily, and the common people will be able to work hard and have enough food and clothing." The little girl looked at Qin Yu with great admiration and asked.

  Qin Yu was taken aback for a moment, looking at the little girl in surprise, then smiled and rubbed her little head, saying "Of course, although I don't know what your identity is, but just because of your kindness, brother will agree to you."

  Xiao Yatou didn't get angry at Qin Yu's action, but was very happy instead. This was Qin Yu's praise, and she was delighted. In the past few days, this was the first time Qin Yu had praised her.

  The guards of Xiaoyao's all had a dull expression on their faces, then turned their heads to look around, pretending they hadn't seen anything.

  Qin Yu had asked Xiao Yatou about her identity, but Xiao Yatou just wouldn't say. Qin Yu felt that this little girl should be the darling of some high-ranking official, otherwise she wouldn't have a sword-carrying guard following her when she went out. However, Qin Yu didn't care about these things; after all, he was interacting with Xiao Yatou, not her father.

  Besides, it's impossible not to communicate with her. This girl is like a sticky plaster, sticking to you every day, and there's no place to hide even if you want to escape.