After the last aftershock, the situation in Lingcheng was basically stable, and the official secondary rescue operation went smoothly.
There are now more than 400 homeless victims living in military tents in the Lanshan Villa District.
Chen Guodong asked Lu Yuan and Li Zheng to be responsible for managing these newly moved-in victims.
The earthquake has just happened, and it will take a long time for post-disaster reconstruction to be put on the agenda. The main reason is that the government is very poor now, and the construction of the Lanshan base has exhausted all financial and material resources.
The government needs some time to slow down now. It may take at least a year or two to recover.
Therefore, these disaster victims will have to stay in the Arashiyama villa area for a long time, and if no one is to manage it, there will definitely be trouble.
Du Huairen went to Chen Guodong's office several times in the past few days to ask them how long they would stay. The villa area is very messy now and many owners have complaints.
However, Chen Guodong had no other choice for the time being but to send more people to garrison there to prevent any major chaos from happening.
The first tent at the gate is also used as an office for medical staff, the second tent is a temporary lounge for Lu Yuan, Li Zheng and the official patrol team. The third to sixth tents are for the injured in the earthquake.
There are about sixty tents from the seventh tent to the innermost one, and all of them are homeless disaster victims.
The government provides the most basic three meals a day. The food for the wounded is slightly better, with an extra soup. As for what kind of soup it is, it depends on what the vegetable department has grown recently.
There is a saying that goes, where there are many people, there are many conflicts. Although men and women live separately in the tents, conflicts still continue to arise.
Many people were complete strangers to me. Now six people had to live in one tent. The military tent looked big, but after laying out six single beds inside, there was only enough space left for one’s feet.
Just then, two women in one of the tents started arguing.
The reason was that a woman was raising a child of four or five years old. The child was very naughty and would often step on the bed next to him without taking off his shoes. Sometimes when he cried, he would wipe his snot and tears on the other person's bed.
The person in the next bed had just returned from the shared tent with a basin of hot water and saw the child wiping the snot on her bed.
"Ah! My quilt!"
The woman put the basin in her hand on the ground, splashing water all over the floor.
He ran over in two or three steps, grabbed the naughty child's wrist and yelled at her, "You will be spanked for being so naughty, do you know that?"
As he said this, he actually spanked the child on the butt.
In fact, the beating was not severe, but the naughty child did not mind the incident and started crying loudly.
The people on the other beds around looked at each other, waiting to see the fun.
"Why did you hit my daughter? The child is young and doesn't understand. You, as an adult, are so petty."
"Look at how you beat my child. He's crying so loudly. Can you please tell me what's right? Is it okay to beat other people's children like this?"
The child's mother started yelling excitedly, and the two people nearby who were watching the fun actually said a few words to help.
"Oh! How can an adult argue with a child?"
"You can tell at first glance that you have never raised a baby. You have no patience with the baby. Don't let it get hurt!"
These two people added fuel to the fire, which made the woman next door so angry that she turned around, picked up the basin on the ground and poured it on the child's mother's bed.
"Oh... I'm going to die... Ah, you shrew, how are we going to sleep at night?"
The child's mother simply rubbed the woman next door with her fingers, as if she was going to fight her to the death.
Unexpectedly, the woman next door was not one to swallow her anger. She simply pried open the mother's fingers with one hand, and the mother's face changed immediately due to the pain.
I cursed myself in my heart for being careless. This woman was so strong. I should have asked the dad of the kid next door to come over and beat her up.
"Bring your child to apologize to me!" the woman glared at the child's mother and said loudly.
"You are right to hit the child! Ouch! Help! Someone is hitting here!" The child's mother had one of her fingers bent and she screamed in pain.
The naughty child also cooperated and continued to cry loudly by sitting on the wet ground.
The commotion was so severe that even the two people on the outermost beds couldn't stand it anymore, so they ran out to find the patrol team.
After the patrol team came and criticized the two quarreling women, they asked the child’s mother to coax the child first, and then go to Tent No. 2 to get a new quilt.
The two women developed a grudge against each other, and after receiving the new quilt, the child's mother went to the child's father's tent next door to complain.
She wiped her tears and said that she and her daughter were bullied by others, and then she exaggerated the matter, which made the child's father so angry that he was about to go over and beat them up.
At this time, the child's mother suddenly grabbed him and said that a gentleman should not be in a hurry to take revenge. The patrol team had already reprimanded them, and if they made trouble again, it would probably not end well.
"Dad! Let's find an opportunity next time and drag that woman to the woods across the street and beat her up. This way no one will notice. Let's see if she will break my fingers again in the future!"
"Anna! That's a good idea! I'll listen to you!"
The mother of the child is called Anna. She was a hairdresser before the natural disaster. She was very charming and had attracted many middle-aged greasy men.
The man's name is Ma Xiangyu, and he and Anna are not a serious couple. To be more precise, they are just lovers, but they later had a child.
Before the disaster, the man's wife had money, and he would coax some of it from time to time for himself and his lover to spend.
After the natural disaster, the man's wife and children suddenly disappeared. Without their long-term meal tickets, the two were too lazy to go out scavenging, and too tired to grow vegetables or catch fish. They usually lived on government emergency food and fraud to get by.
After sending his lover and daughter back, Ma Xiangyu wandered around outside the tent alone.
As soon as they arrived, they were told that they could only move around near the tents and not to go to the villa opposite to disturb the owners.
"It's the end of the world, why are these rich people still so high and mighty?"
Ma Xiangyu pouted in the direction of the villa opposite, thinking that being rich is not a big deal! Just like his brother-in-law, because his family is rich, every time he looks at him, his nose is not a nose and his face is not a face, very arrogant.
But his silly wife was still very easy to deceive. Every time he coaxed her, he gave her money if she asked for it, and she couldn't be stopped if she asked for freedom.
It was this damn natural disaster that caused his long-term meal ticket to disappear, and now he lives such a miserable life.
Ma Xiangyu complained about the natural disaster, but his feet unconsciously walked towards the middle of the road.
"Hey! There seems to be someone talking in the yard of the villa opposite. Why does this voice sound familiar?"
Ma Xiangyu became more and more excited. Everyone living in this villa has points and supplies. If he met an acquaintance here, at least he would be able to have a good meal!
Thinking of this, Ma Xiangyu didn't care about the rules or not and quickly ran over to take a look.
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