Hu Ming and Miss Zhou were still evacuating people from the city center before the earthquake.
The fifth watch is when people are most destitute, and the people are very angry. There is a family of widowers who raise their own sons. The widowers are in the butcher business. They kill the pigs at the third watch and send them out. When they come back to sleep, they
He was woken up immediately, and his son was also woken up. He was so angry that he yelled and cursed.
The family next to him encouraged him and told him to come out with a kitchen knife and drive the person away so that he could go to sleep. The butcher was so angry that after taking his son back, he went out to confront Miss Zhou with the knife on the spot.
It was also when he ran out with the whole family holding a knife that the earthquake happened. They watched helplessly as their house collapsed in an instant, with dust billowing. There were screams next to him, and the house next door to him
It also collapsed, and people were trapped under the eaves, unable to escape.
"Son, my son!"
The widowed man remembered that he had just carried his son back, and screamed in agony. However, the house had collapsed and his son must have been pinned down. He was only three years old. This was a very bad thing.
He was tearing away the bricks as hard as he could.
Miss Zhou and Hu Ming rushed to help, but the earthquake happened in an instant. There were too many people running back, and there were many people trapped under the collapsed houses. The entire Ruodu city was in chaos.
There were shrill cries all around. These people used to always oppose the imperial court and fight against them, but now, they are so weak and helpless, and their cries and wails are so tragic that it makes people cry.
Several people helped to dig out the son of the widowed man, and they had no tools at the time, so they could only dig with their bare hands. Miss Zhou's hands became bloody and bloody, but she still didn't let go and continued to move away the bricks and push away the mud wall.
About half an hour later, Ms. Zhou came out with the child in her arms. The child's leg was crushed and she was crying miserably. The man rushed forward and hugged her. When he saw Ms. Zhou's hand, the man cried and knelt down to Qian En.
Many thanks.
Miss Zhou had no time to care about him and went to rescue him with Hu Ming and his subordinates.
After the earthquake, Zelan and Xiao Fenghuang continued to circle around, and found that the villages that were most severely damaged by the earthquake were precisely the villages where the mob lived. 90% of the houses collapsed, and there were landslides, which suppressed most of Xiaohu Liuzhuang.
There were seven to eight hundred people in the village, Xiaohuliuzhuang, and less than thirty people escaped.
When Zelan and Little Phoenix flew down, those who escaped were all dumbfounded and sat blankly in the open space. Their faces were full of anger when they were making trouble in the past, but now they are only panic, sad, and afraid.
Even when I saw Little Phoenix and Zeelan, their faces were dull.
Zelan said sternly: "Why are you still sitting there?
Hurry up and save people, one by one."
Only then did they react and hurriedly dug out soil to save people.
But to rescue, more people are needed. Although Ruodu has two thousand soldiers and horses brought by Hu Ming, they are still far from enough for disaster relief.
If there is an earthquake in the capital, surrounding cities and Jiangbei Mansion should be able to feel it, so Zelan asked Little Phoenix to notify her brothers and ask for support, while she stayed in the village to help save people.
She used her mind power to move the soil away, but she couldn't move it over a large area because she didn't know how many people were underneath, so she could only move it one place at a time.
Half an hour passed before five people were rescued. Two of them were still dead, and three were seriously injured and looked like they would not survive.
The thirty people who were alive cried loudly as they dug, and their cries were inhumane, because those buried underneath were all their relatives.
In a village, there is almost only one surname, and there are more or less relatives, so the people who die are not only members of the family, but also relatives.
Seeing that they were only focused on crying, Zelan said angrily: "Why are you crying?
Keep digging, support will arrive soon."
One villager wiped his tears and said bitterly: "There will be no support. The imperial court is eager to drive us all out. If we are all dead, the imperial court can officially annex Ruodu City, and no one will come to rescue us."
Zelan said angrily: "What are you talking about?
Didn't I come?
Keep digging!”
"You kid, who are you?"
Not many people have seen Zeelan before. The light is dim and they can't see it. Now they wonder why there is a child here?
"The lord of Ruodu City, Yuwen Zelan!"
After Zelan finished speaking, he continued to go to the place where the landslide was. His small body seemed smaller and smaller as he moved further and further away.
When they heard that she was a royal princess, the villagers were shocked. How could this be possible?
Why did the little princess come here?
She should be protected in the mansion.
But she didn't know what kind of force she had exerted. Where she was close, the soil was turned outwards, layer by layer, and someone could be heard crying and shouting for help. Everyone rushed over to help.
When Ruodu City suffered an earthquake, Jiangbei Prefecture also felt the obvious earthquake, and some houses collapsed, but it was not serious. The collapsed buildings were originally dilapidated buildings. When they learned that there was an earthquake in Ruodu City, King Wei and King An hurriedly sent people to help. At this time, they also
Not knowing that Zelan was in Ruodu City, they always thought that Zelan had left with his master.
The four brothers immediately led people to help. Twelve hours after the earthquake, more than 8,000 people arrived in Ruodu for rescue.
The people of Ruodu City never expected that the imperial court would send people to rescue them. They thought that no matter how many people were killed or injured in Ruodu City, the court would not care. After all, there were a lot of troubles in Ruodu City.
In the past, there had been troubles in the capital city, such as droughts, locust plagues, and landslides. However, the Northern Desert court did not send anyone. They just pretended to send some rice bran as disaster relief.
Ruodu has always relied on itself.
It was only after King Wei and King An arrived at Ruodu City that they found out that Zelan was still here and had been the city lord for some time. She was the one who killed the Langshan bandits, but these two old uncles were stunned and frightened.
, you have to tell Lao Wu about this.
But this thought made them feel that they had been deceived. Zeelan came to their side first, and then went to Ruodu City. If Lao Wu knew about this matter, he would definitely blame them for not reporting the matter. Therefore, this matter is still
I really can't tell Lao Wu.
Forget it, save people first, and think about these little things later.
The affected area was relatively large and supplies were in short supply. The four brothers sent supplies from their respective cities. King An also flew pigeons back to Beijing to report the disaster and asked the imperial court to order nearby prefectures to deliver food, bedding and other supplies.
The temporarily delivered supplies were uniformly distributed by Zelan, with the assistance of Miss Hu Mingzhou.
This natural disaster made the people of Ruodu City less hostile to the imperial court. Many uninjured people voluntarily joined the rescue team and followed Zelan and the others to dig out the buried people.
In emergency rescue and disaster relief, time is of the essence and there is no room for overthinking.
When they dug out the living people, everyone laughed and cried.
After digging out the dead body, everyone shed tears in silence, placed the body, and continued working.
This is also the time Zeelan has been exposed to the most casualties. As an eight-year-old child, even though she has a superior IQ, the city shrouded in death is still unacceptable to her.
In the evening, she hid in a corner, hugged Phoenix and cried.