In fact, Zhao Weizhong guessed correctly. He had not seen the money yet and the transaction could not be considered truly completed.

Many villagers who were still digging in the ruins were getting restless.

Everyone's faces were filled with envy and regret, and even their digging slowed down. If they had known Qin Suyun would come here to buy meat, they should have laid out the animals that had been dug up and pounded to death for her to choose from. While some people's pigs, cattle, and sheep had been smashed beyond recognition, the bloody mess was a horrifying sight, but Miss Qin must have bought so much meat to feed the dog. How could one person possibly eat all that?

Since it’s for dogs to eat, it doesn’t matter whether it’s scary or not, it’s meat anyway!

It is a blessing for a dog to eat such good meat. Who cares whether the meat looks good or not?

The earthquake trapped everyone in the village. In addition, too many livestock, chickens and ducks were killed in the village, and the villagers did not have much cash, so most people did not think of selling these things.

After all, instead of waiting for people to come and buy the livestock and poultry killed by the earthquake, it is better to find an opportunity to dig out the valuable things at home first.

Who would have thought that Zhao Weizhong's family could sell two pigs, a sheep and a cow so quickly!

With that much money, I can buy a lot of things!

Many people looked at this with envy, and some of them were smart, so they thought of finding a chance to go to the Qin family and ask Miss Qin if she still needed the chickens and ducks that were smashed to death at home.

Now that the earthquake has just occurred, the state machinery is still functioning and the entire social order is not in chaos. It is impossible for people to rob Qin Suyun just because she has money, not to mention that she has so many dogs at home. A wolfhound that big can bite her and break her bones!

Therefore, the villagers were just thinking about using these dead livestock and poultry to make more money! Otherwise, they would leave them at home and become smelly and not be able to eat them all. They didn't have any other bad thoughts at all.

"Remember to go to Miss Qin's house later. After they come out from the village secretary, we will go to ask her. The dog that eats meat will definitely eat other chickens and ducks. I heard from my daughter before that many dogs in the city are fed directly with chickens!" An aunt stood in the ruins and whispered to her man.

"Okay, I'll do whatever you say!" The man next to him nodded. He would obey whatever his wife said.

Qin Suyun brought He Zhennan to the village chief. After a day of adjustment, the situation in the village had basically stabilized. Zhao Xingguo also had time to continue discussing with several elderly people in the village and Zhao Zhengde what to do with the village next.

What they had discussed before were all temporary expedients, and the details had not been discussed. Now, sitting in Zhao Zhengde's house, they needed to discuss what to do next? Should they continue to send people to the county town to inquire?

Zhao Xingguo smoked a cigarette, frowning as he spoke, "Laojiu and the other two haven't returned since they went to the county town yesterday. We don't know what the situation is like there. If we send someone to the county town to inquire about the situation, I'm afraid the other families in the village won't agree. Laojiu's wife was crying to my wife last night, so I'm afraid this thing won't work out."

"But if we don't go to the county, we won't be able to know the instructions from above. Do we have to solve such a big thing in the village by ourselves?" Zhao Zhengde frowned with some dissatisfaction. Although he is the village secretary, which sounds very glorious, he is actually no different from an ordinary villager. He also makes a living by farming like other villagers. How can he have the ability to help all the villagers affected by the disaster in the village?

This kind of thing can only be helped by the state!

Even if earthquakes broke out simultaneously across the country, Zhao Zhengde believed that the country still had the ability to help them. At most, the help they provided would not be as strong as the one they received during the Sichuan earthquake.

After all, spreading the country's resources among so many disaster areas is naturally not as good as the national effort to rescue one place.

The atmosphere in the room became very depressing because of Zhao Zhengde's words, but there was a crackling sound floating in the room, affecting the atmosphere.

Zhao Zhengde frowned, somewhat helpless, and said to a skinny old man sitting at the table fiddling with a radio, "Uncle Jiu, I tell you to stop fiddling with that broken radio. You've been tinkering with it since last night, and it seems you can't fix it... Let's find a way to send someone to the county town to take a look. The earthquake affected such a wide area that most of the signal towers have collapsed. Even if you can fix this broken thing, it may not work! Let's discuss how to deal with the current situation."

"Tsk! How can this be called tinkering? In the past, when there were no mobile phones, did everyone use this radio? The radio signal is much better than the mobile phone signal. Who knows, it might even work!"

The skinny old man called Uncle Nine waved his hand and said to Zhao Zhende, "Mind your own business. There's no point in telling an old man like me. Once you've made up your mind, just tell me. I'm telling those little bastards in our family... Alas, this earthquake has caused such severe damage to the village. We're already poor here, and I don't know if everyone can build new houses. It's so cold in the middle of winter without a house. People must be freezing to death..."

Uncle Jiu's words caused sighs from the others around him. Even if they could stay in someone else's house temporarily, there would be more problems over time. If no one was sent down to help, there might be some unnecessary conflicts in the village.

"This is exactly one of the major issues we need to consider right now." Zhao Xingguo took a deep drag on his cigarette. "No one has been sent down to help from above, so what we can do is very limited. We don't have the manpower, and we don't have the money. It's extremely difficult to restore the village to its original state."

Everyone frowned and looked worried. They had just encountered this natural disaster that only happens once in a century. How unlucky they were!

This morning, after organizing a village inventory, we found that of the 14 houses that hadn't collapsed, they were still usable. The other dozen or so houses were more or less in danger of cracking and collapsing. If they wanted to continue living there, they had to repair them properly, otherwise, one day, the roof would collapse while they were sleeping!

"Knock knock knock--" A crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded, attracting the attention of everyone present.

"It looks like someone is here again. I'll go open the door and see what's going on." Zhao Zhengde stood up and went to open the door. They had already agreed with other people in the village that if anything happened, they could come here to find them.

When the door opened, a man and a woman were seen standing at the door. The people in the room looked closely and saw Qin Suyun and He Zhennan. Seeing them, Zhao Xingguo stood up and took a few steps forward to ask, "What's wrong, Sister Qin? Is there something wrong?"

The words were addressed to Qin Suyun, but Zhao Xingguo's eyes were warily looking at He Zhennan beside Qin Suyun, as if he was looking at a terrifying and dangerous person.

"There is indeed something. He has something he wants to talk to you, the village chief... Eh?!... What are you doing?" Qin Suyun pointed at He Zhennan and was about to finish what she said. However, she didn't expect that He Zhennan, who had been standing beside her obediently, seemed not to see Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Zhengde, the two living people standing in front of the door. He stepped forward through the crowd and went directly to Uncle Jiu. When everyone was stunned and stepped forward to stop him, thinking that He Zhennan was going to do something to Uncle Jiu.

The man actually picked up the radio next to Uncle Jiu. It was a very old, black radio. It was hard to tell how many years old it was. It was very inconspicuous with a dusty appearance. Both the buttons and the radio speakers were covered with a thick layer of dust.

Nowadays, everyone has a TV at home, even in a poor village like Wanxi. However, old radios like this one have long been sold as scrap or thrown into the junk pile. Furthermore, with the earthquake, many things have been buried and destroyed.

Uncle Jiu also searched for a long time at home before he found this old radio. Unfortunately, he tinkered with it for an entire night but still couldn't fix it.

When He Zhennan saw the radio, it was as if his entire soul was attracted by it. He walked straight over, reached out, took the radio and started tinkering with it.

When everyone saw that He Zhennan did not intend to attack Uncle Jiu, but picked up the old and broken mobile phone next to him and fiddled with it, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief and let him do what he wanted.

This young man looked strong and healthy. In the whole room, only Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Zhengde still had some strength. The others were all old men, and they could not withstand a punch from this young man.

Therefore, no one stepped forward to stop He Zhennan from tinkering with the radio. Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Zhengde were also afraid of He Zhennan's reputation last night. Even if this man did not take action last night, the gunshot wound on his body alone was enough to scare ordinary people like them.

The radio had already been disassembled by Uncle Jiu, and He Zhennan didn't have to spend any effort to open the radio.

Qin Suyun stood aside, watching He Zhennan tinkering with the radio. She didn't see him make many movements, and he didn't even use the tools beside him. He just fiddled with it a few times with his fingers, and the already broken radio actually made a series of rustling sounds.

Everyone looked at He Zhennan in amazement. They didn't expect that this dangerous-looking young man would have such ability!