The wealth of rebirth is deep in the mountains

Chapter 178
After thinking about it, Xiaomi ran back and stuffed the bag of jewelry, the account books and gold and silver notes in the cabinet into a bag, and then let Gao Ren jump up and hang it among the branches of the uncle in the yard.

Big trees have deep roots, no matter how powerful the earthquake is, they are not easy to dig down and easy to find.

At this time, the earthquake came again.

This time it was not as strong as before, but the lingering sound was rumbling and long.When it is far and sometimes near, it is like thunder in spring.

Xiaomi put on a hat and wrapped it around his head. Without caring too much, he took Chuyi and Gao Ren out the door.

Aunt Han didn't dare to go back to the room, she pulled the crying blue and white jade and hid in the kitchen.The kitchen is relatively small, and the fire is close to the door, so it is convenient for heating and running.

All the houses in the village are now lit with torches, and people are flickering in the dark night, as if there are panicked villagers everywhere.

Uncle Liu and Uncle Guo saw that there was no way out of this chaos, so they quickly found a big stone and stood on it, shouting loudly that all the villagers gathered in front of them.

The families found together, and finally found that two villagers had disappeared.You have to wait to find it, but you will find it soon.

It turned out that when the earthquake hit, I ran too late, and my leg was hit by the collapsed gable of the greenhouse.

After all, Old Master Feng was getting old, and he was also very scared this time. Seeing that everyone was fine, he was relieved.

When everyone was about to study the resettlement, Mr. Zhao ran up from the mountain with his two sons.

"Dear family, something is wrong! Our Zhaojia Village seems to have been buried by heavy snow!"

"what?"

Everyone was shocked. Old Master Feng thought of the village next to the cliff, and even slapped his thigh and shouted, "The earthquake is so strong, the heavy snow on the cliff will definitely fall, if there are any more rocks, then It's over!"

"Oh, then you have to save people quickly!"

The hunters are simple and live close to Zhaojia Village on weekdays. During the autumn hunting, they even drank a pot of wine and ate a piece of meat. Now they are in distress, so how could they not help?
"Women and children all go to the Lu's compound. The Lu's compound is strong, and it won't collapse even if it is shaken. The rest of the men take their shovels and quilts and follow me."

Uncle Liu yelled a few words, and everyone responded with a bang.The men ran back to find things, and Aunt Liu was not to be outdone, and shouted, "At this time, we women can't just watch. Send the children to Xiaomi's house, leave a few people to look after them, and the rest follow me to the foot of the mountain." After rescuing someone, there must always be a hot kang and hot water.”

"Okay, aunt count me in, I'll go down the mountain."

"Me too, me too!"

Soon, more than [-] children and girls arrived at the backyard of the Lu family.

The two earthquakes caused some damage to the houses of every family in the village, but only two handfuls of ashes fell from the roof of the Lu family, and the rest were fine.It can be seen what kind of person Xiaomi's grandfather was at the beginning, and the family business left to his children and grandchildren is so reliable.

But even so, Xiaomi did not dare to relax. The west wing of the school, which is usually used as a school, opened its doors wide.

Fearing another earthquake, Aunt Han would overturn the brazier and ignite the house, so she persuaded Xiaomi, but Xiaomi refused, "It's okay, the house can be rebuilt, but at this time, the children should not be frightened and then exposed to the cold. "

The women were grateful for what they heard, and took the initiative to guard the brazier.

After Xiaomi had arranged everything, he was still wandering around, always feeling uncomfortable, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and secretly searched for Gao Ren, "Can you take me to Zhaojia Village?"

Gao Ren was never afraid of big troubles, and relying on his good skills, he naturally nodded, "This heavy snow can't stop me, so I'll carry you on my back."

Compared with Gao Ren's height, Xiaomi ruthlessly lay down on it, and Gao Ren ran out the door.

It was too late when Aunt Han saw it, and she stomped her feet angrily, but Father Lu and Chu Yi also went to Zhaojia Village to rescue people, and no one in Lu's family could stop Xiaomi.

On the first day of junior high school, I didn't know how much elixir I ate since I was a child. I was really strong. I carried the millet on my back and took a shortcut and ran directly to Zhaojia Village on the other side of the mountain.

Looking at the light of the torch from a distance, in the coldest winter dawn, it looks so fragile and helpless.

Laoxiongling No. 40 people threw away the sledges and horses, desperately planed with shovels, dug with bucket shovels, or simply held them with their hands, but the snowdrift in front of them still did not shrink in the slightest.

When Xiaomi arrived, he jumped off Gao Ren's back and pulled a villager and asked, "Why didn't you save him? Snowdrifts blocked the way?"

The villager didn't expect Xiaomi to come, but he didn't have the time to estimate. His face was full of anxiety, "No, Xiaomi, Zhaojia Village is under this snowdrift. Half of the cliff has collapsed, and it's all below!"

"What!" Xiaomi gasped in shock, no wonder she didn't recognize it just now, it turned out that the cliff was broken due to the earthquake.This is really bad news. Compared with falling rocks from a cliff, an avalanche is a trivial matter.

"This is impossible, we are not enough people. Hurry up and send someone to the next village to call for help!"

"Hey, that's right, call for help, hurry up!"

Several villagers ran down the snowdrift, hit the horses and sledges, and ran to the nearby villages.Seeing that Uncle Guo dug up a beam but couldn't move it, Xiaomi hurriedly called Gao Ren to help.

It was rare for Gao Ren to be obedient, and he didn't evade a word. He stepped forward and struggled, and the beam as thick as the big pottery bowl was lifted off, revealing a man covered in blood soon.

"Come on, let's move together, there are people here!"

The villagers used it and worked hard together, and quickly dug the man out of the broken bricks, rubble and heavy snow.

Mr. Zhao approached him and found that this man was a stranger. He was very disappointed and shouted loudly, "Hey, brother, wake up! Is there anyone else here?"

The man lived up to expectations, pointed his finger down and passed out again.Everyone hurriedly carried him to the side sledge, Xiaomi stepped forward to help check the wound, and then continued digging after another villager.

This man didn't know where he came from, even though he was in such a catastrophe late at night, he was still dressed neatly, and he must have put on his clothes and slept together at night.This reminded Xiaomi of the four guards brought by the old dean. According to the gossip of the villagers, they never took off their clothes when they slept at night and were ready to protect the master at any time.Is this person also a guard?
Xu was hit on the head by the beam of the house, his arms and legs were unharmed, and he was the first to be rescued, so he was lucky enough.

Xiaomi thought about it, pulled out the quilt of a plain quilt, and bandaged the bleeding wound on his head, but nothing else could help him.

Just when she was thinking about sending people back to the village, another exclamation came from the snowdrift, "There are people, there are people here!"

Soon, two women, one old and one young, were dug out and sent to Xiaomi.

Xiaomi quickly helped to check. Neither of them saw any injuries, but their faces were pale and gray. It was obvious that they had been stuffy under the snow for a long time, lack of oxygen and cold.

A villager called out to Xiaomi anxiously, "Grab the snow and rub them all over!"

Xiaomi stared at him, "No, it's easy to toss people to death that way. Hurry up and cover the quilt and send it to the kang at home to warm up!"

The villagers were still arguing, and someone shouted over there, "Come and help, there are people here!"

The villagers had no choice but to turn around and run away.

Mi hurriedly covered the quilts for the three of them, and finally ran to look for Old Master Feng and told him, "Old Master Feng, you must listen to me. People who are frostbitten cannot be rubbed with snow. That is useless. Hurry up and send them back warm." Our family."

"Okay, okay." Old Master Feng's hands were as red as cold radishes, and he didn't have time to ask why.

Xiaomi turned around and jumped on the sledge and ran home on the first day of the lunar new year. The two villages were already close, but they were outside the mountain gate in a short while.

The woman guarding the gate had already opened the gate together, and the sledge drove in directly.

Xiaomi yelled, "Find a bathtub, pour hot water quickly, and help me soak people in!"

"Okay, quick, hurry up and help!"

The women shouted, but everyone who had no work in hand ran over, hurriedly lifted the three men on the sledge into the gatehouse.

Soon, the big basin was also found, and hot water was poured in. Xiaomi felt that it was not too hot to touch, so he called the women and threw the two women into it.The man was wearing a padded jacket, and the women were hesitant to do anything. Just as Xiaomi was about to step forward in a hurry, Aunt Liu came in from the outside and said angrily, "What time is it, and you are still thinking about those useless rules? You are all married." If you don’t want to do it, let a girl like Xiaomi do it!”

The women all blushed, and hurriedly stripped the man down to his shirt, and then threw them into the bathtub.

The water in the bathtub cooled down quickly, and the women added hot water, which was always kept higher than body temperature.

Soon, the bruises on the faces of the three of them faded away, and the blood color returned.

Before everyone could rejoice, another villager brought the wounded from Zhaojia Village back outside the door.

Xiaomi hurriedly ordered the women to fish out the three of them, wipe them clean, move them to the kang and continue to cover them, and the bathtub was filled with people who were unconscious from freezing.

When some people arrived, they were still wounded like that man, and after recovering, they had to bandage and apply medicine, and the busy women walked around in circles.

Fortunately, the earthquake never happened again.Later, the women who stayed at Lu's house to take care of the children also entrusted the children to Aunt Han and went down the mountain to help.

In such a hurry, I don't know how long it has passed, the sky outside has already brightened.

Fewer and fewer people were sent back by Ma Paoli, but everyone's mood became heavier and heavier.Because this means that fewer and fewer people survived.

Aunt Liu counted the number of people from the porter's room all the way to Lu Erer's yard, and there were only seventy or so people, old and young, who were sent over.Some of them were too cold, no matter how soaked in water, they couldn't survive under the warm quilt.

There are more than 200 households in the entire Zhaojia Village, more than [-] people, and only one third of them lived...

A woman couldn't bear it and began to cry, "This is too pitiful..."

Especially Zhao Sanya's two old mothers and sister-in-law cried the most. After all, they lived in the same village for so many years, and a few days ago they were grinding tofu together with the soles of their shoes, but they were gone in a blink of an eye.If their family didn't move in early with Old Master Feng, they might die right now.

On the big kang in the house, the people of Zhaojia Village, who had been relieved of frostbite, didn't know what happened. Hearing the sound of crying, he wanted to ask questions in a daze, and fell asleep again.

(End of this chapter)