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

However, Gu Zhan's work did not stop there.

Because Guo Zhida was not very proficient in the chicken farming industry, he approached Sun Yuan again.

Sun Yuan is old now and doesn't do many things personally, but he was as kind as ever when he saw Gu Zhan.

"What are you doing here, old man?"

Gu Zhan touched his nose and said, "Please stop making fun of me."

"Hahaha, kid, tell me, what are you doing here today?"

Gu Zhan repeated what he had just said to Sun Yuan. Sun Yuan frowned after hearing it. "According to what you said, it's not impossible. But why haven't I heard about it last year or in the past few years?"

"Dean, the problem is generally the scale of the farming. When chickens were raised on a small scale, any outbreak of an epidemic was limited to a small area and received little attention. But now we are raising chickens on a large scale. If a large-scale infection occurs, it will be a devastating blow to the industry."

To put it bluntly, it is hard to say whether foreign breeding institutions that have been eyeing domestic white-feathered chickens will make a comeback.

Hearing Gu Zhan's words, Sun Yuan's face turned serious. "Your concerns are not without reason. We should strengthen prevention and early warning monitoring. If there are any problems, they must be reported as soon as possible."

Gu Zhan nodded: "That's the best."

"Okay, I'll go see the director. It would be best if the animal quarantine agency issued a notice as a reminder."

With Sun Yuan's words, Gu Zhan felt relieved.

Back at the research institute, Gu Zhan looked at the information in front of him and fell into deep thought.

Generally speaking, the symptoms of chicken plague and avian influenza are highly similar. The vaccine they have developed now is only for avian influenza, but does it also have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on chicken plague?

After thinking it over, Gu Zhan decided to verify it through experiments, otherwise he would not feel at ease.

Qu Hongbo has recently finished a major project and is relatively free.

Seeing Gu Zhan sitting at his desk in deep thought, he walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "Gu Zhan?"

Gu Zhan came back to his senses, looked up at Qu Hongbo, and said, "Dean, do you think the avian flu vaccine is effective in preventing and treating chicken plague?"

Gu Zhan's sudden question caught Qu Hongbo off guard. He hesitated and said, "It should be useful."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Zhan jumped up from his chair and said, "I think we need to verify it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Zhan stood up and walked towards the laboratory.

Gu Zhan is usually a person who remains calm even when faced with a huge crisis. Therefore, at this moment, Qu Hongbo did not understand Gu Zhan's sudden initiative. After thinking for a while, he also walked towards the laboratory.

He wanted to see what kind of medicine Gu Zhan was selling in his gourd.

Gu Zhan arrived at the laboratory, changed his clothes and began to immerse himself in the experiment again.

At first, Liu Xiaoxi was quite resentful of Gu Zhan's behavior of staying in the laboratory for several days at a time, but now she has gotten used to it and sometimes even takes her daughter to the outside of the laboratory to bring Gu Zhan food.

By eight o'clock today, she knew that Gu Zhan was probably busy in the laboratory again.

She packed the food in the pot into a lunch box and asked her daughter to take the meal to Gu Zhan.

"Xinxin, let's go take food to Dad!"

"Okay!" Gu Xinxin, who is already eight years old, now has more or less a certain understanding of what her father does.

Although her father missed a lot of her growing up because of his work, she is still proud of him.

When Liu Xiaoxi delivered the meal to the outside of the laboratory, Liu Xu, who was also in the laboratory, gently nudged Gu Zhan with his arm and said, "Teacher Gu, your wife brought you food."

When Gu Zhan turned around, he saw Liu Xiaoxi waiting outside with her daughter.

He changed his clothes and walked out of the lab: "Why are you here so late?"

Liu Xiaoxi was very angry at Gu Zhan's disregard for eating. She said unhappily, "Is it because you don't want to go home for dinner?"

Gu Zhan had no choice but to take the meal from Liu Xiaoxi's hand, glanced at his daughter, gently covered his daughter's eyes with one hand, pecked Liu Xiaoxi's lips, and said softly, "Thank you, daughter-in-law."

Liu Xiaoxi was particularly helpless.

"Are you going back tonight?"

Gu Zhan frowned: "We need to see the progress. You and Xinxin can rest first. You don't have to wait for me."

When leaving, Gu Xinxin said goodbye to her father reluctantly.

Gu Zhan was eager to verify the facts and stayed in the laboratory for almost a week. He finally came up with a very disappointing answer, which was that the avian influenza vaccine was not very effective in preventing traditional chicken plague.

Gu Zhan told Qu Hongbo the answer, but Qu Hongbo felt that it was all within his expectations.

Thinking of the upcoming avian influenza virus, Gu Zhan put forward his own suggestion: "Dean, I suggest that we combine the research of traditional fowl plague and avian influenza viruses to explore a new method of one drug, two systems.

Gu Zhan's words shocked Qu Hongbo, especially after he had experienced the extreme difficulties in developing the avian influenza vaccine. Gu Zhan's idea today was undoubtedly challenging the impossible.

"I don't recommend this, Gu Zhan." Qu Hongbo refused decisively.

Gu Zhan could probably understand a little bit of Qu Hongbo's thoughts, but now that the crisis was before him, Gu Zhan had to take it into consideration: "Dean, if one day, traditional chicken plague and avian influenza viruses cross-infect, it will be a fatal blow to Ontario's breeding industry. We still need to come up with a response plan as soon as possible."

Qu Hongbo paused and said unhappily, "Do you think I'm unwilling to do this? Our research funding is tight right now. How can we get the money to do this?"

Gu Zhan remained silent. Funding was an inevitable problem, but he didn't intend to give up. "Let's apply again. If the school doesn't approve, I'll go find the principal."

Finally, Qu Hongbo had no other choice but to try to apply for funding from the school again and again. Unexpectedly, he actually got the money.

With the arrival of funds, Gu Zhan will continue the new phase in the laboratory.

Liu Xu did not understand Gu Zhan's persistence in researching drugs to treat poultry diseases. In his opinion, vaccines could solve most of the problems, and the rest were beyond human control.

Time in the laboratory flows faster or slower as the experiment progresses. Gu Zhan looks at the time on the calendar and becomes more and more anxious.

He secretly hoped that if Ontario's farming industry could hold on a little longer, new drugs would become available.

However, things always go against one's wishes. In November, Sun Yuan received feedback that a full-scale outbreak of avian influenza had occurred in a farm.

For a time, this news caused collective panic among farmers, and they began to stockpile large quantities of avian influenza vaccines just in case.