After teaching the group members, Zhou Ziwen took some time off.
He walked around the various workshops of the mushroom cultivation base, learned about the growth of mushrooms, said hello to the Chen sisters and left the base.
Going to the black market yesterday, he had no free time because of leopard skins.
Originally, he wanted to see what good things there were on the black market. It would be better if he could come across some Feng Shui books.
He planned to go shopping in the black market again tonight. After shopping, he would leave early and return early.
He came back late last night and didn't even exercise with Chen Shiying and Shen Zhaodi.
"Ziwen, don't leave yet, come with me quickly, something happened in the silkworm breeding group."
Just when Zhou Ziwen was about to go home first, Li Lei ran away in a hurry come over.
"Something happened to the silkworm breeding team? What happened?"
Seeing Li Lei's anxious look, Zhou Ziwen followed him to the silkworm room.
"The silkworms in the silkworm breeding group are sick. Uncle Wu asked me to come over and ask you to come and have a look."
On the way, Li Lei explained.
When Zhou Ziwen heard the news about silkworm illness, his heart tightened.
Sericulture is one of the more important industries in the village. The health of silkworms is directly related to the income and livelihood of the villagers.
"Why do silkworms get sick? Have you noticed anything unusual recently?" Zhou Ziwen asked Li Lei as he walked.
Li Lei shook his head, looking a little anxious: "I don't know for sure. I just heard from the people in the silkworm breeding group that the silkworms suddenly stopped eating mulberry leaves, and their bodies became thinner. Some of them have begun to die."
The two soon arrived at the silkworm house, where Wu Dagang and several other villagers were already waiting anxiously.
Seeing Zhou Ziwen arriving, Wu Dagang hurriedly greeted him.
"Ziwen, you're here, let's take a look at what's going on with the silkworms." Wu Dagang pointed to the situation in the silkworm room.
In fact, when Zhou Ziwen was called, he also treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
In any case, Zhou Ziwen is also a doctor and knows a lot. Now that the silkworm is sick, who should we turn to if not him?
Zhou Ziwen walked into the silkworm room and carefully observed the sick silkworms. He found that the silkworms were indeed as Li Lei said, no longer eating, their bodies were thin, some were dead, and their bodies were shriveled.
Zhou Ziwen frowned. Because of his medical skills, he knew a little bit about everything. It made no difference to him whether he was treating people or animals.
He doesn’t know much about sericulture.
"Have there been any changes in the temperature and humidity of the silkworm room recently? Is there any problem with the source of the mulberry leaves?" Zhou Ziwen asked the sericulture team members present.
"The temperature and humidity are normal, and the mulberry leaves are picked from our fixed mulberry trees, so there should be no problem." A member of the sericulture team replied.
Zhou Ziwen nodded, and he decided to look for clues from the silkworm's body first. He reached out and picked up a sick silkworm and carefully observed its physical characteristics.
“Ziwen, did you see anything?” Wu Dagang asked anxiously.
"It's hard to say now. I need further examination." Zhou Ziwen replied, "Let me take a few sick silkworms back to study and see if I can find the cause."
< br>He already had a general understanding of the silkworm's condition, but he was not sure of its treatment.
Fortunately, although there was no cure, he was sure to stabilize Silkworm's condition.
Next, he planned to go to the county town to buy a few books on sericulture, and on the premise of stabilizing the sericulture situation, he would also hang up his sericulture skills.
Leave professional things to professionals.
After you improve your silkworm raising skills and combine it with medical knowledge, I believe it will be solved soon.
Of course, Zhou Ziwen did not discuss these thoughts with Wu Dagang.
"Okay, okay, just take it and ask if you need anything." Wu Dagang agreed quickly.
Zhou Ziwen packed a few sick silkworms in a small box, and then said to Wu Dagang: "Uncle Wu, I will go back and do some research first. I will inform everyone immediately if I have the results."
"Okay, Ziwen, we are all counting on you." Wu Dagang patted Zhou Ziwen on the shoulder and said.
Zhou Ziwen returned home with the sick silkworm, and then began to study the condition of the silkworm. He knows that time is of the essence when it comes to treating silkworms. The earlier the cause is found, the less losses can be reduced.
He first placed the silkworms on a clean plate and carefully observed their skin, mouthparts and other parts, looking for possible lesions or abnormalities.
At the same time, he is also thinking about possible causes, such as viral infection, parasitic infection or environmental factors.
After his observation, he noticed that there were some tiny spots on the skin of the silkworm, which may be the early manifestation of the disease.
After careful observation, Zhou Ziwen decided to take some preliminary treatment measures.
Using his medical skills, he made a potion that increased the resistance of silkworms, and then let the silkworms absorb it.
After a while, all the silkworms he brought back were given medicine.
“The next step is to see how the silkworms react.”
After carefully feeding the medicine to the silkworms, Zhou Ziwen breathed a sigh of relief.
According to his medical theory, this method should have some effect, but whether it is actually effective or not will not be known until it is tried.
Next, Zhou Ziwen put away a few silkworms and rode his bicycle to the county seat.
He is going to the bookstore to buy some knowledge on sericulture.
Fortunately, the books in the bookstore are quite comprehensive.
It took a while, Zhou Ziwen came to the county seat, and then went straight to the bookstore.
In the bookstore, he selected several professional books on sericulture. After paying, he rode his bicycle home.
After returning home, Zhou Ziwen immediately began to study these materials.
After reading a book, Zhou Ziwen's silkworm-raising skill appeared on his idle panel.
He didn't waste any time. He temporarily removed the fishing skill from the shelves at a thought, and then hung up the silkworm raising skill.
After this was done, he carefully studied the contents of the book.
Combined with his own medical knowledge, he gradually gained a certain understanding of silkworm diseases.
He discovered that the silkworm disease may be an infectious disease caused by a virus and requires specific antiviral drugs for treatment.
At the same time, he also realized the importance of hygienic management of the sericulture environment in preventing diseases.
He decided to make suggestions to the village to improve the sericulture environment, such as regular disinfection, maintaining appropriate temperature and humidity, using fresh mulberry leaves, etc.
In the next few days, while Zhou Ziwen continued to observe and treat the sick silkworms, he began to practice the knowledge he learned in the books.
At the same time, he also used the hang-up panel to start improving his silkworm-raising skills.
After a few days, his silkworm raising skills reached level one, close to level two.
【Wu Qinxi LV10(761/1000)】
【Medical Skills LV3(1501/3000)】
【Dog Training LV10(286/1000)】
【Cooking Skills LV9 (884/900)】
【Planting LV2(1771/2000)】
[Growing mushrooms LV10 (128/1000)]
[Bow and arrow making LV6 (553/600)]
[Management LV5 (173/500)]
[Raising Silkworm LV1(88/100)】
【Feng Shui LV0(210/500)】(End of this chapter)