Upon hearing that the village was severely affected and most of the villagers were buried, the commune leaders rushed over to see the casualties of the villagers.
"Captain, tell us about your situation." The commune leader called the captain aside and talked to him about the situation.
As the team leader reported, he brought the commune leaders to the scene. Pointing to the area where most of the village had been buried by the mudslide, he said, "Over seventy households are buried, with a population of approximately two hundred. Over eighty injured have been rescued and are in the tents over there. Some of the dead are over there. Leader, would you like to go over and take a look?"
"Let's go and have a look." The commune leader was in a very heavy mood and followed the team leader to see the injured. Seeing that they had received treatment, he felt better.
But when they saw the dozens of bodies of villagers who had died in the disaster laid out in a row, they couldn't help but feel sad.
After they had fully understood the situation in the village, they rushed to the next village.
Because of yesterday's heavy rain, more than one village was affected.
The eighteen villages under the entire commune had all been affected to varying degrees. They had to go and take a look, otherwise they would be worried.
As for this side, they are very relieved because the People's Liberation Army is here.
Their main task now is to compile statistics on the disaster situation and report it.
After work, Commander Qi was not idle either. He immediately reported the disaster situation and the disaster relief situation to his superiors.
He knew that Si Nanzhao and his colleagues were working hard to carry out disaster relief work, and it was impossible for the villagers to prepare food for them.
So he directly instructed the kitchen staff to prepare their breakfast first, and then send a car to deliver it to the village.
Si Nanzhao was worrying about how to deal with breakfast. When he saw the food delivered by the army, he immediately asked his soldiers to stop and eat.
Because many villagers are still buried under the mudslide, they have to rescue them as soon as possible.
As for those who were rescued, those with minor injuries stayed in the village, while those with serious injuries were sent to the hospital for treatment.
Yunbei was not so busy now that she had help. She asked her colleagues to go to eat in batches, and she stayed until the end.
Unexpectedly, Si Nanzhao personally delivered her food.
"Have you got a meal yet?"
"No."
"Then let's eat together." Yunbei washed his hands and sat down to eat with Si Nanzhao.
After being busy for most of the night and morning, both of them were a little embarrassed and didn't care about much, so they just found a place that was not wet and sat down.
"I'm not sure if we can rescue all the villagers today. The further we go back, the thicker the soil becomes, making it harder to dig."
Si Nanzhao was not in a very good mood. He knew that the more time passed, the greater the casualties would be.
But this is also inevitable.
“Do your best and leave the rest to fate.”
After saying that, Yunbei continued to offer an idea: "How about asking the chief to send more people over? That way it will be faster."
"More people won't help, mainly because we don't have the tools. We have enough people in one group, what we lack is the tools."
"Then ask the chief to help coordinate with the agricultural machinery factory to get some digging tools. Whether it's a hoe or something else, as long as it can dig, send it here."
"That's a good idea. I'll go find the chief right away."
After Si Nanzhao finished speaking, he didn't even eat. He found the political commissar to give instructions and then went back to the army to find Commander Qi.
Upon learning that Si Nanzhao was short of tools, Commander Qi immediately called several machinery factories and asked them to deliver the tools as soon as possible.
By the time Si Nanzhao returned to the village, the nearest agricultural machinery factory had already delivered several tractors.
Although tractors cannot dig, they can pull soil.
With the tools, the digging speed was faster. It took only more than an hour to dig out all the buried villagers in the village.
However, most of the villagers who were dug out later did not survive.
Looking at the rows of corpses, everyone felt very heavy-hearted, especially the villagers, who burst into tears when they saw their loved ones lying on the ground without a sound.
Si Nanzhao and Yunbei were also very sad, but they could only ask the villagers to mourn.
The leaders of the commune came back here again, looked at the crying villagers, and immediately began to arrange the aftermath.
They spent the whole morning visiting all the villages. Except for the village in front of them, the disaster in other villages was not so serious.
Therefore, they reported what they had learned to their superiors while coming here to deal with the aftermath.
With the commune leader taking over, Si Nanzhao and his men quickly evacuated the village, while Yunbei returned to the hospital with several colleagues.
There are still many patients in the hospital waiting for their treatment.
Although the situation in other villages was not as serious as here, many houses collapsed and many villagers were trapped under the houses.
Because they were discovered in time, they were only injured and were not in danger of life.
Yunbei was so busy that she didn't even have time to go home. She was a little worried about Fuguang, so she called the family compound and asked the guards to help her go home to check on Fuguang.
Fuguang was a sensible child. Knowing that neither his sister nor his brother-in-law was available to take care of him, he stayed home obediently. He was either doing homework or reading. When he was hungry, he would eat the snacks Yunbei had left for him.
After seeing the guard coming to understand his situation on his sister's orders, he immediately said to the guard: "Brother, please tell my sister that I can take care of myself and let her rest assured."
"Okay, I understand. If you have any questions, you can come to us."
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After the guards left, Fu Guang prepared to lock the gate, but he was home alone and didn't dare leave it open.
Although this place was relatively safe, he was still afraid that bad guys would come in. Moreover, he didn't want to worry his sister and brother-in-law.
However, just as he locked the door and was about to go back to the house, he heard a voice outside the yard: "Fuguang, Fuguang, are you home?"
Fu Guang felt the voice was familiar, so he opened the door and saw that it was Wang Meihua.
"Sister-in-law, aren't you going to work today?"
"The roads are flooded today and difficult to walk on, so I've asked for leave. By the way, have you eaten? I brought you some food."
"Thank you, sister-in-law, but I have already eaten."
"Have you really eaten?" Wang Meihua looked unconvinced, because she didn't see Fu Guang making a fire, nor did she see Fu Guang going to the cafeteria to get food.
"Really, my sister left me some food when she left."
When Wang Meihua heard this, she knew Fu Guang was just eating snacks. So, she stuffed the food she had brought into Fu Guang's hands and said to him, "Fu Guang, you can't just eat snacks. You have to eat."
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