MTLNOVEL Chapter 593: A Problem
Of course, Bai Meiyue was not pleased with the situation. She knew that the reproductive abilities of these mutated species were really good. But if this went on, they would have so much livestock that they would have a hard time finishing everything and the more livestock they collected, the more she would have to work. After all, without her detox powder, this meat cannot be eaten.
Bai Meiyue decided that she would look for Doctor Cui and relay the formula of the detox powder and have him make it. She couldn't make so much powder. But more than taking care of the medicinal powder, she needed to first deal with the problem of the extreme rate of reproduction. She couldn't bear the thought of such a good mansion being turned upside down by these animals.
Today, they had toppled pots of rice and water; who knows what they might do the next second?
Bai Meiyue shuddered even thinking about it; she certainly couldn't allow these beasts to cause any more trouble. A glint flashed in her eyes, and she turned to look at the pigs, chickens and goats that were running around. Since it had come to this, she might as well do that.
CLUCKKK!!
The agonising scream of a rooster echoed through the entire mansion. Lei Qian, who was helping Mother Bai in drying the rice, turned around and rushed out to see what was going on. He was worried that this time something else would happen. But just as he bolted out of the doors, she saw Bai Meiyue sitting on a chair with a pig butcher table in front of her. There was a sharp cleaver in her hands, and from the looks of it, she was just done finishing turning the chicken into a eunuch.
All of a sudden, a chill climbed between his legs, and Lei Qian squeezed his legs together tightly. With a slight quiver in his voice, he asked Bai Meiyue, "What are you doing?"
"I am castrating them." Bai Meiyue raised her head and looked at Lei Qian with a calm look on her face as she raised her hand and wiped the blood off her face. She then dumped the rooster in the arms of the nurse, who had learned some veterinary skills. Bai Meiyue was about to drop this matter in the hands of a vet, but unfortunately, there was none, and the nurse was way too squeamish.
She refused to cut the things of these beasts, so Bai Meiyue had no other choice but to take matters into her own hands.
"But–"
"Don't worry; it doesn't hurt them," said Bai Meiyue as she picked up the acupuncture needle that was sitting on the table. She said to him, "I block their pain receptors before cutting their things off, and then nurse Xu here will inject them with the pain reliever. It's fine."
As she spoke, she calmly cleaned off the thing of another male goat.
Lei Qian: "..."
It's not that. It's just that your expression looks way too pleased while cutting their things off; I suspect that there is something that you are not telling me.
Bai Meiyue took care of the castrating job for two days, but by the third day, she realised that it was not going to work anymore. There were too many mutated animals for her to deal with. In the end, she taught the men under Xiao Wu how to castrate without causing much pain to the animals, but unfortunately, even when they had castrated more than hundreds and hundreds of animals, more just kept turning up.
Bai Meiyue realised that it was due to her letting more than ten of each species live with their things. Annoyed with their population still rising, she reduced the number to only one pair each.
The men under Xiao Wu were stifled with some annoyance and complaints. What kind of status was this? They have really fallen, haven't they? Now they were turning pigs, chickens and goats into eunuchs?
Of course, Bai Meiyue was also not comfortable with this; she had never done such a thing in her past life, but what could be done? These mutated species were simply too strong when it came to producing offspring. Doctor Cui couldn't even make detox powder as quickly as these species gave birth and their children grew up.
She thought that she would be done once the old ones were castrated, but who would have thought that Bai Meiyue thought too optimistically? When she woke up on the fourth day, she heard from her mother that some young lambs had eaten all the vegetables that she had grown in the greenhouse. Because it was too late, she forgot to lock the door, and some of the livestock snuck inside the greenhouse.
"Where are these young ones coming from?" Bai Meiyue spoke through gritted teeth. She looked at the chickens, goats and piglets that were running around in the garden of the mansion. She couldn't understand how so many chicks, lambs and piglets were still being born. She had clearly cleared up all the mature ones.
Mother Bai was also worried. She turned and said to Bai Meiyue, "If this goes on, then I am afraid that we will end up getting overwhelmed by the waves of the new livestock. We can't have that."
Of course, they cannot have that!
Bai Meiyue felt something snap inside of her, and she commanded, "From now on, we will butcher an entire pig, chicken and lambs. There is no need to hold back on cooking; share everything that you can with everyone in the team. Even the guards will get a whole roasted chicken, and those who do a good job in building the wall around the city, they can have lambs; as for the hunting teams, they will be given a pig."
Until they cannot find the reason why the population of these beasts is increasing, they might as well try to control them in some other manner. And what else was there for them to do other than eating them!?