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

Chapter 222 A blessing in disguise

Huang Yue thought that the support Fan Jianjun mentioned was that the public society would help them coordinate the visits and investigations here.

Unexpectedly, after they got off the car, the Agricultural Bureau's car had just left when Shi Min'an, director of Donghe Commune, came out jogging.

Seeing the people carrying luggage, he hurried over to them and said with a smile, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't mind, you can stay in our commune dormitory for the next few days."

Huang Yue didn't react and looked at Shi Min'an suspiciously.

Shi Min'an explained, "Director Fan just told us to help you carry out your work here. I thought you were all from Beijing, and our commune doesn't have a guesthouse. Would you be willing to stay in our staff dormitory? Our conditions are simple, but otherwise it's fine."

Shi Min'an's proposal made several people very excited.

How could it be more convenient to stay in a local resident's home than to live in the commune's staff dormitory?

Huang Yue thought for a moment, then responded with a smile, "Thank you, Director Shi. I really appreciate your and Director Fan's support for our work."

Shi Min'an smiled and said, "That's nothing. Compared to this, you guys have really helped us a lot."

As he spoke, he took the luggage from Huang Yue's hand, walked in front, and led a few people to the staff dormitory.

The staff dormitory was very simple, with four wooden beds and simple bedding on each bed.

"This is our commune's flood prevention duty room during the summer evenings. The weather has been nice these past few days, so we don't have to be on duty. You can stay here for now."

"Okay, thank you, Director."

After Shi Min'an left, the three began to discuss today's events in the flickering candlelight.

Huang Yue was very puzzled by Gu Zhan's prescription today. After thinking it over for a moment, he asked, "Student Gu Zhan, I saw that you only picked up those chickens and took a look at them today. How could you determine what disease they had?"

Nowadays, people don’t know much about poultry diseases. Generally, when poultry get sick, they call it plague, but in fact it includes many kinds of epidemic infectious diseases of poultry.

Gu Zhan pondered in the darkness for a while before saying, "I'm from Ontario. Jing City, a city under Ontario, imported a batch of agricultural books from abroad. I helped them translate those books. I've mentioned it above, so I have some basic understanding of them."

Gu Zhan's words were vague, so Huang Yue naturally didn't ask which book Gu Zhan had translated. He was just surprised that Gu Zhan could understand so much professional English at such a young age.

"Did you know English before you went to college?"

"Yes, I studied with a high school teacher who was sent down to the countryside for a while. Later, I became interested and learned some on my own."

This statement was so perfect that even Huang Yue believed that Gu Zhan really mastered English out of interest.

"Oh, Xiao Gu, you are the treasure of our group. You can apply the theoretical knowledge in books to practice. This is the real application of knowledge. Old Li has been selecting for so long, and this time he finally found the right person."

After a while, Wen Chunming, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up: "Gu Zhan, you said that our first stop should be here. Is this direction correct?"

In the group, Wen Chunming and Feng Jiayu are of similar age, and they have been competing silently for a long time. This time, Li Ruguang separated the two when dividing the groups, which made the competition seem more obvious.

Wen Chunming came here with great joy, hoping to make a great discovery and breed a new breed of chicken. However, he encountered chicken plague at his first stop, which increased his sense of crisis and frustration.

In the dark night, Gu Zhan smiled softly, then said with a sigh, "In scientific research, there is no such thing as overnight success. Right now, we are just groping in the dark."

Including Gu Zhan himself, he is now groping for a path that is somewhat different from his previous life. In his previous life, he started out by following behind a giant, but in this life, he wants to be the leader who leads everyone to a good life.

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent for a long while before Gu Zhan continued, "I've carefully examined these chickens today. Yangxian Yellow Chickens have certain excellent properties, such as a good meat yield and disease resistance. This plague is also a good test. If this type of chicken has an innate advantage in resisting plague, it will naturally be our first choice for breeding resources."

"Right!" Wen Chunming suddenly understood when he heard Gu Zhan say this. This chicken plague is a test for this population. If they can resist it, then it proves that they have found the right direction."

"A blessing in disguise, hahahaha... Mr. Gu, I now think what Professor Li said is right. You are a natural born scientist. This... is great. By the way, what are we going to do tomorrow?"

Gu Zhan thought for a moment and said, "What we need to do tomorrow is to buy a few chickens that have been infected with plague, as well as some that are not infected, and divide them into three groups for simple observation."

After saying that, he tilted his head and fixed his gaze on Huang Yue's face: "Teacher Huang, do you think this is okay?"

Huang Yue naturally had nothing to say. As a freshman who had just enrolled, Gu Zhan had such meticulous thinking. As a teacher, there seemed to be nothing he could do except be happy and supportive.

"You kid, you know everything in your heart, and you still ask me, an old man."

Huang Yue glanced at Gu Zhan and said unhappily, but the pride in his tone did not sound fake at all.

The next morning, the group got up early and went to the Yunli Production Brigade, which they had visited the day before. The main reason for choosing Yunli Brigade was because of the inconvenient transportation. Yunli Village was very close to the commune office compound.

Huang Yue took the two of them directly to find the team leader Wu Youfu.

Wu Youfu saw Gu Zhan and the others coming over, and with a grin on his face, he welcomed them into the brigade office and asked enthusiastically, "Three experts, what's going on today?"

Huang Yue took out a cigarette, handed one to Wu Youfu, and lit it himself. As he puffed away, he said, "Brother Wu, we're doing research and want to use our Yangxian yellow chicken as a research subject, so I have a favor to ask."

Because these three people helped them a lot, Wu Youfu thought about it for a moment. Although he was suspicious, he smiled and said cheerfully: "Just tell us what you want, and we will do our best to meet your requirements."

"Well, we want to buy a few chickens. Our requirements are as follows: two sick ones and one healthy one. We only want roosters, but they must be caged separately."

Hearing Huang Yue say this, Wu Youfu breathed a sigh of relief. He thought it was some excessive request, but it turned out to be this?

"Okay, I'll ask you right away."

He called over the brigade cadres and said, "Ask around here. If anyone has a sick rooster, buy two. If anyone else has a healthy rooster, buy one. Remember to cage them all separately."