Rescue efforts in the village were urgent, and villagers on the mountain were organized to look for those who had gone missing while cutting firewood and had never returned.
All post-disaster rescue efforts in Wanxi Village were arranged in an orderly manner by the village chief and the village secretary. As the orders were implemented one by one, Qin Suyun could see clearly how strong the cohesion of Wanxi Village was because of the village chief and the village secretary. No wonder Wanxi Village was able to develop much better than other villages after the end of the world.
If the government troops did not come to rescue, Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Zhengde would immediately lead the villagers to rescue the people buried under the rubble, and let the uninjured women and elderly people in the village do what they can, such as building a few temporary shelters and collecting usable supplies from the rubble.
Many of the rice and noodles we had for dinner today were found in the ruins.
Although this was all the villagers' own food, they were willing to help find the food and supplies buried in the rubble. Without help, if they relied solely on themselves, they wouldn't be able to find even simple supplies, let alone the food buried under the rubble.
As a result, the villagers whose houses collapsed and their belongings were buried underground, and those families whose houses did not collapse and who provided kitchens for everyone were also happy.
It wasn't that they didn't want to help, but there were simply too many people in the village. If they were to eat their food directly, they would run out of it in two days. But if they could just borrow firewood, stoves, and the like, that wouldn't matter.
Stoves and other things were already available, and as for firewood and other things, they were short of everything in this mountain area, except for the firewood that was everywhere in the mountains!
Qin Suyun followed Zhao Xingguo, wondering where the last two people were buried. She wondered if Dahei and the others would be able to find them later...
On a small road in the distance, the lights of more than a dozen flashlights appeared on the road section heading from the mountains to the village. On this mountain road where it was almost night, the appearance of more than a dozen white lights was impossible to ignore. Everyone subconsciously stopped what they were doing, and even Zhao Xingguo, Qin Suyun and his group who were about to go to the ruins stopped.
"What's wrong? What's going on over there?"
"Is someone coming?! Did someone from above come to rescue us?!"
"Are those the government's rescue team? But why are they coming down from the mountain? Shouldn't they be coming in from the main road ahead?"
"Could it be that the main road ahead is completely blocked? But didn't Zhao Laowu and the others go to the county hospital to find a doctor for Zhao Fugui and the others?"
The vague figures on the path and the flashing white light of flashlights made all the villagers gathered in the village excited. They stared at the group of people coming from the path, talking and discussing who these people were who came to the village.
It didn't take long to walk from that path to the village. The other group walked about seven or eight minutes. When the group of people arrived at their village, the crowd that was originally in an uproar seemed to be suddenly paused. Everyone stared at the group of people with wide eyes in surprise!
The next second——!
Suddenly, there were bursts of exclamations from the silent crowd!
Many villagers suddenly rushed out from the silent crowd and pounced on some people in the team.
"Dongzi! Dongzi! You're still alive? You're still alive?... You scared me to death! Wuuuuu! You scared me to death! Wuuuuu!"
"Dad, Dad! You're back! You're back! It's so great... Woohoo, I thought I would never see you again!"
"Brother! Our house collapsed, wuwuwu, but the most important thing is that you can come back. Mom is over there, I'll take you there! Because of what happened to you today, Mom didn't eat dinner tonight, and she was there the whole time with red eyes wiping away tears!"
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Qin Suyun looked at the group of people coming and counted carefully. There were about 20 of them, of whom seven or eight were villagers who had gone up the mountain and had never returned, and the remaining seventy or eighty were a group of soldiers in camouflage uniforms.
Qin Suyun looked carefully and saw that there were people carrying three stretchers in the dark crowd. From her angle, she could see that there was a person lying on each stretcher.
The leading soldier was a dark-skinned man who looked to be in his 30s. He was tall and burly, with a serious face. His eyes swept back and forth among the collapsed houses in the village, passing over the collapsed houses, the standing villagers, and the big black dogs that had been standing around Qin Suyun, and finally fell on the village chief Zhao Xingguo.
"You must be Zhao Xingguo, the village chief of Wanxi Village. I am Meng Changlong, the person in charge of the military base next door. I received a notice from above that we are responsible for coming to Wanxi Village to help with the rescue. We are a little late, and I am really sorry." Meng Changlong and Zhao Xingguo shook hands and talked about why their group came to the rescue so late.
It turned out that when the earthquake struck, their military base was hit by a landslide, destroying two-thirds of the base's building area. The original road leading out of the mountain was very narrow, usually only able to accommodate one car, but this landslide directly destroyed the entire road, and even the vehicles originally at the military base were crushed to rubble by the rocks falling from the mountain.
Their military base was originally relatively small, with only more than a hundred people in the entire base. The landslide caused serious damage to the base. Not only were the houses and supplies destroyed, but many people in the base were also seriously injured. Three of them were directly buried by the sudden landslide and their lives were unknown. Dozens of soldiers were injured during this period.
After he finished dealing with most of the things in the military base, he left a platoon leader with his men to handle the follow-up matters, and then he immediately brought the rest of the people to Wanxi Village.
However, what was unexpected was that the originally healthy mountain actually had a crack several miles long because of the earthquake. The crack was seven or eight meters wide and more than ten meters deep!
With no car and the only way to go was on the mountain road, and then encountering such a situation, the group had no choice but to take a longer detour again...
This is also the reason why they wasted so much time and only arrived at Wanxi Village after dark.
However, their long journey was not in vain. They encountered these trapped villagers on the way. Meng Changlong and his team spent some time to rescue these trapped villagers.
These people in the village said they were going to the mountains to chop firewood, but in fact, when the earthquake struck, only a few people actually went to the mountains to chop firewood, and they had already rushed back to the village long before that.
The remaining few all wanted to take advantage of the winter to hunt some prey and exchange it for money. However, hunting in the mountains is illegal these days. Once someone reports it, they will be detained by the police station, and if they are unlucky, they may even go to jail.
Therefore, these people always say that they go to the mountains to chop firewood, but the villagers all know this little thing.
Only when Qin Suyun saw the things that the villagers who had returned were carrying did she understand what Cao Shufen had said about the firewood cutters not coming back.
Cao Shufen was rolling on the ground and crying!
But she never expected that before she finished crying, her son and husband actually came back with baskets on their backs! Behind them were a large group of soldiers in camouflage uniforms!
"Hey! Cao Shufen, didn't you say earlier that your son and your husband were killed because of Sister Qin? You were even crying and making a fuss, demanding compensation... In the blink of an eye, it hasn't been that long, and your son and your husband are back! Why are you still throwing a tantrum and crying on the ground? Do you think Sister Qin is easy to bully?"
Zhao Xingguo and Meng Changlong were talking nearby, but some nosy villagers on Cao Shufen's side began to take notice of her sarcasm.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Cao Shufen's son Zhao Yu was originally very happy to have returned to the village safely with other people. However, when he arrived at the village, before he had time to be surprised by the collapsed houses in the earthquake, he saw his mother lying on the ground, crying and making a fuss, surrounded by a large group of villagers who were watching the excitement.
Among them, Aunt Yu Lan, who lived next door to his mother and who had the worst relationship with his mother, was looking at his mother with a teasing look on her face.
How could that woman lying on the ground, covered in dirt, look anything like his mother who usually looked smart and capable?
Zhao Yu was filled with surprise and embarrassment, and was somewhat at a loss as to what to do. However, Zhao Zhen knew his wife's true nature very well. Just by listening to a single word from his neighbor Yu Lan, he already knew almost everything that had happened.
Zhao Zhen frowned, grabbed Cao Shufen, and shoved her up, yelling, "Get up! Stop throwing a tantrum and embarrassing me!" Didn't he see the person in charge of the neighboring military base was here? Seeing so many outsiders watching his wife throwing a tantrum, Zhao Zhen felt a little embarrassed.
Facing her man, Cao Shufen didn't dare to say much. Amidst everyone's teasing gazes, she quickly stood up from the ground and followed her man like a quail, not daring to say a word.
Although she is domineering outside, she still has to listen to her husband at home so that her husband will not control her. Otherwise, she cannot live a carefree life. The most important thing is that Cao Shufen is very happy to see her son and husband come back. She stopped crying, wiped her face with her sleeve, and asked her son with a happy face if he was injured anywhere?
However, after seeing Qin Suyun, Cao Shufen still glared at Qin Suyun fiercely. If it weren't for this woman's sharp tongue, how could she have lost so much face just now?
Qin Suyun didn't take Cao Shufen's glare to heart at all. She didn't care about her eyes at all and still stood beside the village chief listening to the conversation between Meng Changlong and Zhao Xingguo.
Meng Changlong saw these trivial things happening in the village, but he didn't care much. He just took a look and then talked to Zhao Xinguo next to him about the three people on the stretchers behind him.
"We rescued these three people from the mountains. Two of them are from your village. We don't know which village the other one, wearing a camouflage vest, is from. The people in your village said they didn't know him... Village Chief Zhao, you've met a lot of people. Can you help me take a look and see if you recognize him?"
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