When Village Chief Liu saw this, his face changed and he hurried to a collapsed area.

I saw that the original three mud houses of this house no longer existed, and the yard was full of mud and debris.

After entering the door, they saw an old lady lying on the ruins and digging the soil with great effort.

Village Chief Liu asked hurriedly: "Auntie, who is down there?"

When the old lady saw someone coming, she cried out, "My son, my wife, and my grandson are all trapped inside!"

When Township Chief Liu heard this, he ran over without saying a word and shouted, "Come and save them!"

No one dared to delay and went forward to start digging the soil.

Since there were no suitable tools at hand, everyone could only rescue with their bare hands.

However, because there was too much mud accumulated, the speed of digging the soil by hand was too slow.

At this moment, Li Mancang, the village chief of Lijiazhuang, came running over with his men. When he saw the township head and others were rescuing people, he ran over immediately.

As he ran, he shouted, "Village head, we are here!"

Village Chief Liu looked up and saw that it was Li Mancang leading the group. He hurriedly said, "Come and save them!"

Those people carried shovels and other tools and quickly joined the rescue work.

Half an hour later, the three people were finally rescued.

Looking at them again, their faces were all covered with dirt and dust, and they looked like no one.

Village Chief Liu quickly arranged for someone to send them to the hospital, and then asked, "Village Chief Li, what happened? Why did the house collapse?"

Li Mancang hesitated for a long time and said, "I, I don't know either!"

Village Chief Liu continued to ask: "How many houses collapsed this time? Do you know?"

Li Mancang immediately reported: "Yes, there are six families, but our villagers are rescuing them."

"What on earth do you do for a living!" Village Chief Liu scolded angrily.

Then a few people rushed to the next house, and when they arrived there, they saw someone was already there rescuing people.

Soon two people were dug out from the pile of earth and were carried away.

Then they went to several other houses, each of which had people buried under the soil.

After half a day of intense rescue work, all these people were sent to the hospital.

Everyone was busy and sweating, and the weather was hot, so many people couldn't hold on any longer.

During the rescue process, Zhou Bin discovered that the families whose houses collapsed were all in a row.

Moreover, the collapsed houses were all old houses that had been in disrepair for a long time, while the new houses did not collapse.

Then the group of people came under a big tree and took a rest for a while.

Village Chief Liu asked with a dark face: "Why did the house collapse? Was it because of the rain?"

Li Mancang nodded hurriedly: "Yes, it rained heavily these days, and those people's houses are too old, so they couldn't hold up and collapsed."

As he said this he lowered his head, his eyes flickering, not daring to look at Village Chief Liu.

Village Chief Liu blamed him: "What do you usually do? You know those houses are not safe, why don't you let everyone take shelter when it rains?"

"This...this, I didn't think of it at the time." Li Mancang said timidly.

Zhou Bin spoke up: "Village Chief Li, you said it was because of the rain, but I saw two other rows of old houses, why didn't theirs collapse? And only that row collapsed?"

Li Mancang was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly: "This... this I don't know, it's God's business, who knows."

Zhou Bin stood up and said, "I don't think so. I noticed that the soil behind this row seems to be new soil. What are you doing here?"

Li Mancang shuddered: "No, I didn't do anything!"

Mayor Liu also stood up and asked, "Where is it? Let me see."

Zhou Bin immediately led everyone to the back of the house. Sure enough, there was a patch of soil behind the house. It was all new, as if it had been filled in not long ago.

Zhou Bin jumped up without saying a word.

But as soon as he stepped on it, the soil collapsed and a deep pit appeared underneath.

Zhou Bin finally managed to stand on his feet and looked to the side, only to see that the pit was full of sand.

Zhou Bin immediately said: "Leader, this pit is full of sand."

Township head Liu and deputy township head Li hurried over to check, and they were all shocked when they saw that there was a very deep pit under the soil.

And this deep pit extends far away, just behind everyone's house.

Township Chief Liu was stunned and immediately asked, "Village Chief Li, what is this?"

Li Mancang was so frightened that his face changed drastically and he stammered for a moment: "This... this is..."

Zhou Bin grabbed a handful of sand and said, "This looks like a sand pit for digging sand, right?"

Li Mancang shuddered all over and stopped talking.

Village Chief Liu asked seriously, "Sand pit? What's it for?"

Zhou Bin explained: "I heard that sand is very valuable now, and houses are being built everywhere, so there is a great demand for it, so some people specialize in digging sand and selling it."

Township Chief Liu understood immediately and asked, "Village Chief Li, did you dig sand and sell it?"

Li Mancang realized that he could no longer hide the truth, so he confessed: "Yes... yes, we were digging sand here at the time, there was no sand anywhere else."

Village Chief Liu was immediately furious: "You are so stupid! This is right in front of everyone's house! How dare you dig a hole!"

Li Mancang hurriedly explained: "No, it's not the place I chose, they said there is sand here."

Zhou Bin grasped the point and asked, "They? Who are they?"

Li Mancang realized that he had let the cat out of the bag and hurriedly covered it up: "No, no one."

Zhou Bin sneered: "Is it Li Lunku and Li Shuangzhao? And that Brother Hong?"

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