Chapter 90: Saving The Donkey
But these days there aren’t many veterinarians, so when donkeys get sick, everyone has to rely on experience. However, without professional training, most of the time everyone can only worry but can’t do anything.
Liu Dashun’s donkey was visibly nearing its end, and the whole family was looking glum.
Qin Wanwan ran up to the donkey and whispered to it.
After a while, she told the Village Chief, “Something is stuck in its mouth, that’s why it’s not eating because eating hurts.”
Hearing this, the Village Chief and Liu Dashun didn’t pay attention to the fact that it was a child speaking and quickly asked for details.
“Where is it?”
Qin Wanwan: “Inside, on the left side, by the teeth.”
“Big silly donkey, open your mouth so we can see.”
They didn’t even need the two of them to pry open the donkey’s mouth; it opened it itself.
“Wow, that’s truly amazing!”
The Village Chief already thought the young lady was as good-looking and fortunate as the immortal child from legends, and now he was even more certain that this might truly be an immortal child!
“It’s really there, I found it!”
Liu Dashun, not afraid of the smell, directly reached his hand into the donkey’s mouth to feel around.
He was surprised when he felt the foreign object in his donkey’s mouth.
But it also hurt the donkey, causing it to cry out and bite his hand.
Liu Dashun didn’t mind at all.
“Uncle, help me hold the donkey down, and I’ll take out that accursed thing!”
The donkey was in a lot of pain when it touched that thing, and the two of them couldn’t hold it down.
In the end, it was only after Lang Ya and the soldiers helped hold the donkey down that they managed to pull out the object.
It turned out to be a sharp wooden thorn.
“Good heavens, such a deep piece stuck in its teeth, how could it not hurt?”
Tooth pain can sometimes be life-threatening; if humans can’t stand it, let alone a donkey.
“The flesh around this donkey’s teeth has rotted, what can be done about this?”
Qin Wanwan’s little head spun as she checked her inherited memories, and she actually found a solution: “Wash it with salt water.”
Now the Village Chief and Liu Dashun didn’t doubt Qin Wanwan, a three-year-old child, at all, and immediately went to mix some salt water.
The donkey didn’t want to drink it because the salt water would sting the wound and hurt.
But if it didn’t drink, how could it get better?
This time, Liu Dashun didn’t dare to trouble the officials for help; he found his family members to hold the donkey down and pour salt water into its mouth.
His family members were also overjoyed to hear that the wooden thorn had been removed from the donkey’s mouth and that it might get better.
After the salt water was poured in, everyone was so excited that they knelt before Qin Wanwan and thanked her repeatedly.
Qin Wanwan: “No need to thank me, no need to thank me…”
It was the first time she had encountered such a situation. Why did people keep kneeling? The little girl felt quite embarrassed.
With the foreign object gone from the donkey’s mouth and its wound cleaned with salt water, it recovered and felt very hungry, starting to look for food.
Seeing the donkey eat, Liu Dashun’s family was overjoyed and wept with happiness.
They also enthusiastically invited them to their house for a meal.
Qin Wanwan shook her head, declining the offer, as Daddy was waiting for her to return home for dinner.
After dealing with the donkey’s issue at Liu Dashun’s house, Qin Wanwan returned to Shahe City.
Sitting on the horse, she saw that her Merit Points had increased by thirty.
Qin Wanwan’s Merit Points for doing good deeds were generally higher, and she would receive rewards immediately after completing a good deed.
The Merit Points she got from her Daddies or for good deeds done in her name were only a portion, and her daily Merit Points would only refresh at midnight.
Although she hadn’t done many good deeds, Qin Wanwan had enough money to buy snacks.
Upon returning to the General’s Mansion, Qin Wanwan immediately took out the egg tarts and coconut milk tofu for her Daddies to share.
There were ten egg tarts and one box of coconut milk tofu.
Both snacks were desserts and were widely popular.
Even Xie Chong, a rough and burly man, enjoyed sweet things.
In this era, there were very few sweet foods available, so many people were particularly fond of sweet things.
“This is delicious, I like this coconut milk tofu.”
“Is this made from coconuts?”
Shang Wuyang skewered another piece of coconut milk tofu with a bamboo stick and put it in his mouth.
The white fuzz on the surface of the coconut milk tofu really looked like coconut flesh.
Shangyang City’s oasis had a special climate, and there were coconut trees there.
However, people mostly drank the coconut water, and many who couldn’t get used to it found the taste strange.
Coconut flesh was dry and tasteless, so most people didn’t eat it.
Qin Wanwan: “I don’t know.”
The little girl, not knowing, asked Keke.
Keke puffed up with pride, his tail feathers sticking up: “Do you know how important this Bird Master is now? I tell you, this family would fall apart without me sooner or later!”
Shang Wuyang: “Stop talking nonsense.”
Keke’s tail feathers drooped under his gaze with his purple eyes.
“That’s desiccated coconut, which is what happens when you shred coconut flesh and drain the moisture.”
“Let me tell you, coconuts are good things; coconut water can be drunk directly, and the flesh can be pressed for oil!”
“Oh?”
The two adults immediately became interested.
“It can be pressed for oil?!”
Xie Chong didn’t expect that bulky fruit could be pressed for oil.
“That’s right, you can try it yourselves.”
Shang Wuyang actually planned to have someone try it.
He directly sent a carrier pigeon to Shangyang City, instructing the butler to start working on it.
Qin Wanwan would sleep with Daddy Xie tonight.
Lying on the bed, her snowy white feet dangled as she chattered about the day’s events in the countryside.
“Daddy, they say they want to fertilize the land, does that mean using fertilizer?”
Xie Chong: “They don’t know how to make fertilizer, but they could simplify the current fertilizer formula and spread it out. That way, next year’s harvest will be good.”
Xie Chong was currently troubled by the drawback of the wheat Qin Wanwan traded for; the advantage of a yield of 3000 jin per mu was too tempting, but the fact that it easily attracted locusts was a real headache.
If vast fields were planted, wouldn’t that inevitably cause a locust plague?
Xie Chong suddenly thought of Qin Xiao’e.
Qin Xiao’e loved eating locusts in the pasture grass, and would catch a few to eat every day.
He wondered if large-scale farming of chickens, ducks, and geese could suppress locusts.
The more he thought about it, the more feasible the method seemed.
The pasture grass at home attracted locusts, so the pasture grass they were planting now might attract even more in the future.
Raising chickens, ducks, and geese on a large scale in the army would not only allow them to eat locusts but also gain weight.
He thought about it more and more intensely that night, falling asleep very late. However, he got up early the next day and went to the military camp.
He needed to find someone to discuss the feasibility of this matter with.
The pasture grass grew quickly, so if it worked out, they would need to act fast.
Qin Wanwan woke up to find her Daddy Xie gone.
At the breakfast table, only Daddy Shang was present.
Shang Wuyang: “Eat quickly. After breakfast, I’ll take you to see my place.”
Qin Wanwan buried her head and dug into the sweet tofu pudding: “Daddy, is your house finished?”
“Yes.”
Shang Wuyang was rich and arrogant; the house he built was not just a house, but a very large manor.
Because it required land, it wasn’t built inside Shahe City, but in a suburb in a quiet village by the mountains.
There was little mountain forest here, but it wasn’t entirely absent.
Shang Wuyang’s manor had mountains and water, and was a short distance from the local village, making it very peaceful.
The road wasn’t very good, though.
But for the immensely wealthy Shang Wuyang, this was not a problem. As the house was nearing completion, he had his subordinates hire workers to build a road.
