As soon as Heng'er finished speaking, a deafening roar came from afar.

Everyone turned around.

The doors and windows on both sides of the street seemed to be gripped tightly by a giant's hand and were being shaken violently.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, houses in the distance began to collapse one by one.

"Ah! That's my house!" someone in the crowd shouted.

But the shouts were only half-finished when a violent tremor reached everyone's feet.

Even though it was an open and flat area, some children and elderly people lost their footing and fell to the ground.

Many people gasped in surprise.

The prince held Gu Jiangli tightly in his arms, while Heng'er held her three younger siblings close.

Finally, someone in the crowd belatedly shouted:

"It's an earthquake! It's an earthquake!"

They supported each other, covered their mouths, and wept as they watched helplessly as their house collapsed.

“My house…my money…it’s all gone, all gone…” a man said, his eyes red and his voice choked with sobs.

The earthquake stopped, and in that brief moment, the house they had lived in for over a decade or two turned to dust.

“Money can be earned back, but if you lose your life, you lose everything…” his wife comforted him.

In the pitch-black night, the sound of sobbing gradually increased.

All the accusations and doubts against Heng'er vanished in an instant.

A sense of lingering fear gradually rose from the bottom of my heart.

"If the young master hadn't insisted on waking us up and getting us to a safe place, wouldn't we be the ones buried under the house now?"

A woman, holding her husband's hand, said through teary eyes.

“I usually sleep very soundly. If I hadn’t been here tonight, and if the earthquake hadn’t started so quickly and the buildings hadn’t collapsed, I probably wouldn’t have even had time to get out of bed before being buried under the rubble,” another man said.

"So the Crown Prince wasn't playing us; he really did foresee the disaster tonight!"

"It was the Crown Prince who saved us!"

Having survived the ordeal, they finally realized that the reason they were still able to stand here and speak was because of Heng'er's divination.

"The Crown Prince is like a god descended to earth, here to save the lives of us suffering people!"

"If it weren't for the Crown Prince, we would all probably be dead tonight!"

The man who had initially pointed at Heng'er and demanded an explanation from him was now also flustered and said to Heng'er:

"Your Highness, you saved my whole family's lives! I'm a rough man, please don't take my disrespectful words to heart!"

Heng'er shook her head. Seeing that these people were only haggard but still alive, her unease finally subsided.

"It's good that everyone is alright. My divination was able to save everyone's lives; that's already the greatest blessing!"

After Heng'er finished speaking, the people knelt down in a rush.

They wept and thanked the crown prince for saving their lives.

Heng'er couldn't persuade them otherwise, so he could only let them kowtow.

When the emperor saw everyone kowtowing to Heng'er, he was not angry at all; instead, a smile appeared on his face.

What happens today will be a mythical history for future generations.

A major earthquake struck the capital, causing hundreds of houses and shops to collapse, but there were almost no casualties.

Seeing the people before him treating the crown prince with the utmost reverence, as if he were a deity, he knew that the time had come...

The following day, after discussing it with the prince, Gu Jiangli decided to use money to help the disaster victims.

The Prince's Palace will bear part of the costs of rebuilding houses, as well as providing daily food and temporary shelter for the disaster victims.

The other part was resolved by the royal family.

Heng'er almost personally participated in the disaster relief efforts.

Although there were no casualties, they were still doing their best to rescue the people's property.

During the rescue, many lucky chickens, ducks, cats, and dogs were also saved.

Every time something new was unearthed, it drew cheers and applause from those around.

Mu Qing, along with Du Yurong and other doctors, provided free pulse diagnosis services to the disaster victims.

Although no one was injured or killed, among those who lost their homes were pregnant women, elderly people with mobility issues, and infants still in swaddling clothes.

They all desperately needed the doctor's help, and with Mu Qing and the others, many of their ailments were brought under control.

Mu Qing has exceptional talent and has even cured many people of chronic illnesses that had not been cured for many years.

Almost everyone in the capital knew of Mu Qing, a genius female doctor.

Whenever her name is mentioned, it is met with praise and admiration.

The two brothers, Cheng Yi and Cheng Yun, would follow their older siblings around during the day, serving tea and helping out. At night, they would paint and carve wood in their room.

Gu Jiangli once saw the two's unfinished product by chance, and it almost made her jaw drop.

The canvas is so large that it could hold ten of her.

The log is so large that it could easily be carved into a rockery.

The two small bodies looked so tiny compared to these two things.

To complete such a large work requires a significant amount of time.

But Cheng Yi and Cheng Yun said:

“Mother, we must record the events of the day of the earthquake and place them in a prominent place for the world to see. Even if hundreds or thousands of years pass, people will never forget our elder brother’s great deeds in saving the people that day.”

Gu Jiangli was deeply moved. His two younger brothers were both trying to preserve their eldest brother's dazzling image, without ever considering using his work to save their own lives.

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