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Chapter 653 Disaster Relief (Part 2)

In his sleep, Li Zhang suddenly felt a shaking. Before he could react, he felt that he was being pulled from the quilt. When he suddenly opened his eyes, he found that it was a wild dog carrying him out of the shed, and at this time he felt a shaking wave of the sky and the earth.

"It's an earthquake!" As the victims in the camp screamed, Li Zhang realized that the aftershock should have come again.

The wild dog pulled Li Zhang outside the shed. It was the first time he had experienced such a disaster in the world, so it seemed very urgent. After experiencing the initial panic, Li Zhang slowly calmed down because he found that the aftershock was not big, and even the simple shed where he lived did not collapse. Moreover, after shaking a few times, it quickly calmed down, which made everyone feel relieved.

The victims seemed to have been used to aftershocks, so they quickly calmed down after a while. Wang Dujian also brought people to comfort the victims. In addition, it was not dawn at that time, so many victims quickly returned to their respective sheds to rest after quieting down.

Li Zhang looked up at the sky and found that it was still some time before dawn, so he asked the wild dog to go back and rest. After all, he still had important tasks to do today. Then he went to the tent where Zu Zhizhou lived. The tent was originally his, but he also gave it to Zu Zhizhou to recover from his wounds.

Zu Zhizhou woke up at this time. The old woman I saw yesterday was taking care of him. The old woman was the wife of Zu Zhizhou. The two had a very good relationship. During the earthquake, Zu Zhizhou was injured because he was injured to protect his wife. At that time, Li Zhang chatted with Zu Zhizhou for a few words, and then told him to rest more. Then he left the tent to accompany Wang Dujian to comfort the victims.

"Wangdujian, do these aftershocks often occur?" Li Zhang asked the Wangdujian as he walked.

"It's much less. I just came a few times a day after the earthquake, so the Master Zu and I decided to move everyone outside the city. After all, the city is too dangerous, but now there may be no aftershocks in one day." Wang Dujian replied with a relaxed expression at this time.

Since meeting Li Zhang yesterday, Wang Dujian felt that the burden on him was much easier. After all, during this period, Zu Zhizhou and other officials were injured. The only one who could support the overall situation was him, the military commander. Now someone can finally help him share the burden.

The victims had long been used to this aftershock, so they did not cause any riots. They just had a few unsolid sheds collapsed, but no one was injured. Because when they built the sheds, they considered that aftershocks might occur, so the sheds were very simple, mostly made of thatch and light wooden sticks, and even if they fell, they would not hurt people.

At that moment, Li Zhang and Wang Dujian made a walk around the camp and found that the entire camp was quiet. It was almost dawn and neither of them was sleepy. So they came to the place where they prepared the meal and waited for the meal.

Because there were too many victims and there was a serious shortage of food, long before Li Zhang and his friends came, Zu Zhizhou and Wang Dujian began to distribute food in a unified manner. In fact, they gathered the food they found and then boiled it into miscellaneous porridge to distribute it to the victims. The place where the cooking was also located in the center of the victim camp, and hundreds of people were busy cooking.

However, because of the shortage of food, the victims mainly eat wild vegetables. Now it is the turn of spring and summer, and the wild vegetables are elders, but they can barely satisfy their hunger. When Li Zhang came to the place where he cooked, he saw all kinds of wild vegetables being chopped and poured into a large pot of boiling hot water. Add some miscellaneous grains found in the city to make a pot of green wild vegetable porridge.

When the porridge was cooked, Wang Dujian came forward to serve a bowl, and then delivered it to Li Zhang with a little embarrassed expression: "Marquis Dingbei, there is really nothing to eat in the camp. If you can't get used to it, I'll let me cook a bowl of porridge for you alone?"

"No need. I used to be hungry. At that time, my brothers and I could only pick up some leftovers from the restaurant to make a living." Li Zhang smiled and took the bowl of congee and said. He remembered the days when he and Douzi and others made a living by selling "ripped radish". He couldn't help but feel a little confused.

However, although he said it, when Li Zhang tasted the first bite of wild vegetable porridge, he couldn't help but frown. This thing was called porridge, but in fact it was made into soup with various wild vegetables. There were no grains of food at all. Therefore, after the mouth was filled with the bitterness of wild vegetables, and even had an indescribable strange smell, which was really hard to swallow.

But Wang Dujian was still standing next to him. Li Zhang was really embarrassed to vomit it out, so he could only swallow it with his disgust and grind it, and said with a thorny smile: "Although the taste is a bit weird, it can still be swallowed!"

Perhaps Li Zhang's acting skills were so good that Wang Dujian didn't say anything at this time, but smiled and served a bowl for himself, and then started eating in big mouthfuls. Now Li Zhang was even more embarrassed to stop eating, so he simply closed his eyes and swallowed it in big mouthfuls. Finally, he felt his taste numb and he couldn't feel any smell in his mouth.

At this time, the victims also came here to receive the meal. Each of them had a bowl of wild vegetable porridge. However, even for this kind of vegetable porridge that Li Zhang felt difficult to swallow, all the victims ate with relish. Some adults were reluctant to finish it, but stayed for themselves, which made people feel even more sad.

The wild dogs and the imperial guards also had a full meal at this time, and the dry food they brought was not distributed because this little food could not solve the problem at all. And they had more important things to do today, that is, to clear out the bandits on the nearby hills. These bandits were originally victims of disasters, but they gave up their hope and have now become enemies of all victims.

After breakfast, the wild dog led the imperial guards to leave the disaster camp, and the Wangdujian accompanied them. He was familiar with the surrounding terrain and had dealt with bandits many times, so this time he acted as a guide. If it weren't for the injury, the Wangdujian might go on the battlefield and kill the enemy in person.

After seeing off the wild dog, Li Zhang was not idle, but he sorted out the situation of the victims again, mainly counting the specific number of victims, as well as the age, gender, injury status of the victims, etc. These data also have an important impact on future disaster relief. He even personally treated several serious wounded people, but the lack of necessary medicines here makes the situation of the injured not optimistic.
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