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Chapter 144 Earthquake
Time passed quickly. Song Qingfei found eleven places with flat terrain that were convenient for escape. He placed Shen Feifei and the others in the largest and best-looking place. The preparations were almost done, so he began to prepare people to drive to various places with loudspeakers to announce that an earthquake drill would be conducted tonight.

Everyone must participate, prepare their luggage at home, and listen for the drill alarm at night.

People from the neighborhood committee were also arranged to notify each household, and the same was true for each unit. Schools were required to suspend classes, and hospitals had to follow the arrangements and transfer half of the medicines and personnel to guard each tent stationing area.

Everyone was confused by Song Qingfei. They all wanted to know what was going on and why they were suddenly so decisive and insisted on conducting this earthquake drill. Song Qingfei said nothing and just kept giving orders.

The day was too rushed. It was already ten o'clock in the evening and everyone had to go to bed. Only Song Qingfei and some people from the Public Security Bureau were guarding outside the government building, watching the time pass by. He was worried that the earthquake would come when everyone was asleep, and then all the work would be wasted.

So he gave the order to sound the alarm, and then had all the buses and trucks take action to organize people to leave. Some people didn't want to get off, but Song Qingfei didn't let them wait. He took the people who had gotten off away and left first to stay in the resettlement area close to them.

In an hour, less than half of the people in the city had left, and most people were still in the city. Some people didn't care and were unwilling to cooperate, some were procrastinating, and some had already fallen asleep and ignored everyone's knocks on the door.

The staff were not dedicated enough. Song Qingfei looked at the time and urged them to speed up the process. Finally, at twelve o'clock in the morning, two-thirds of the people had left.

Later at one o'clock in the morning, some people were still unwilling to cooperate and those who had arrived at the resettlement site kept complaining.

"Are you sick? Why are you suddenly conducting an earthquake drill and not letting people sleep?"

"That's right. I think the leaders above are crazy. If they want to conduct exercises, they should conduct them during the day. Why do they conduct them at night?"

The people outside couldn't sleep either and were all complaining, but there were almost no complaints in Shen Feifei's tent. It was not because they knew that Shen Feifei was the mayor's wife, but because they were all family members of Song Qingfei's subordinates who were very close to them in the government department. Those people sensed that something was unusual, so they asked the family members to come over and gave them some instructions.

Shen Feifei was in no mood to listen to the complaints outside, because her heart was pounding, and her heartbeat was so accelerated that it made her panic. She saw that the people here were in normal spirits, which meant that it was safe here.

But her accelerated heartbeat meant something. She had a premonition that an earthquake was coming, but Song Qingfei had not returned yet.

She was a little annoyed, so she walked out of the tent to check the situation.

As soon as I got out of the tent, I saw all kinds of animals running towards here. Some people's dogs began to bark non-stop. It seemed that the earthquake really came. The ground began to shake slightly, and then it became louder and louder. A rumbling sound was heard, and the earth was shaking. People screamed and came out of the tent. There was a huge crowd of people, and there were soldiers around to maintain order.

Shen Feifei looked into the distance worriedly, wondering what had happened to Song Qingfei. The earthquake had already started, so why hadn't he come back yet?

Time passed minute by minute, and the shaking of the earthquake finally stopped. The people who were originally arranged to squat also slowly stood up. Everyone was grateful for having survived the earthquake drill, but many people were still terrified because some of them had no family members who came.

Shen Feifei was also so terrified. She hoped that Song Qingfei would be okay. Then the second earthquake came again. People squatted down quickly. Shen Feifei hugged the two children beside her. The shaking this time was bigger and lasted longer than the first time.

After stopping, everyone was very quiet, no one was talking, and the surroundings were very silent. Suddenly, everyone heard the sound of an engine coming from a distance, and several cars slowly appeared in front of everyone.

The car stopped and Song Qingfei ran down and found his wife and children calling out to him. He ran over and hugged them. They exchanged a few words and then Song Qingfei was about to leave for a tent used for office work at the resettlement site.

The other staff members who came back with Song Qingfei, as well as those notified by the Public Security Bureau and some of the soldiers who left with him all entered the tent. Only a very small number of citizens came back this time, and most of them were Song Qingfei's subordinates.

Before the earthquake, Song Qingfei saw that some people were still unwilling to cooperate. It was getting late, and there was nothing he could do because he was not a saint. Since those people were like this, he did not force them. Instead, he asked all the staff to return to where Song Qingfei was, and everyone packed up and got ready to get on the bus.

Not long after they got in the car, the police dog they brought started barking wildly. Song Qingfei knew that an earthquake was coming, so he arranged for the driver to drive to the nearest and flattest place as quickly as possible.

Everyone was panicked by the barking of the police dogs, so everyone cooperated quietly. The driver started the car quickly and they left quickly. Fortunately, they drove to a more open area just one second before the earthquake struck.

So, as soon as the earthquake stopped, they hurried back.

Just as he finished speaking, a new round of earthquakes began. This time the duration and amplitude were obviously much smaller, and aftershocks occurred from time to time. Song Qingfei and his team took advantage of the gaps between earthquakes to try to use the telegraph connected to their generator to send messages to their superiors, and then began to arrange personnel to wait for rescue.

The country acted very quickly. One day after the earthquake, rescue teams began to arrive. Chief Shen also came by plane in the rescue team. As soon as he got off the plane, he found Song Qingfei, asked about the situation, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that most people in the city were fine, Chief Shen knew that this would be a major political achievement for Song Qingfei.

Sure enough, after the rescue, Song Qingfei was arranged to go to the capital to report, and Shen Feifei also returned to the capital with the children.

Afterwards, Song Qingfei was commended, and then the city construction was also led by Song Qingfei. He replanned and constructed the city. After two years of hard work, the buildings destroyed by the earthquake were razed to the ground. Song Qingfei accepted Shen Feifei's suggestions and the guidance of various experts, and finally built the city more perfectly.

Most of those who did not listen to the advice and stayed in the city have died, and the country has expressed condolences.

For every household that lost their home due to the earthquake, Song Qingfei gave a new house.

Because he had some money left after building the houses, and with the help of connections and experts, Song Qingfei also built China's first subway for the city, which brought new life to the originally gloomy city.

Later in the city's development, Song Qingfei attracted investment and brought into play the city's characteristics, turning this originally ordinary small city into a very famous city throughout China.