"There are still injured people. Where are they?" Zhao Xingguo frowned when he heard that there were still villagers injured in the mountains.
Now, whether in urban or rural areas, almost every place has responded to the national call. Every household has few children—mostly one or two, though some have more, though this year, only three. Many of those going up the mountain this time are young, with families full of elderly and young children. If something happens to one of them, what will happen to the rest of the family?
The three families in their village who had died in the earthquake were almost devastated, and the cries and screams never stopped coming from the threshing ground at the entrance of the village.
"Just these three." Meng Changlong waved to his subordinates behind him, and several soldiers in the team immediately brought over three stretchers along with the wounded.
Because of the darkness, the three stretchers were now hidden in the procession, and few villagers could clearly see the individuals lying on them. Before they saw the individuals, the villagers remained relatively calm, happy for the return of the injured. But now, upon seeing the injured on the stretchers, the relatives of the two villagers who had been waiting in the crowd rushed out and surrounded the injured.
"Son, my son! How come you are injured so badly?" A chubby aunt squeezed out of the crowd and threw herself beside a young man wrapped in a military coat, who was obviously seriously injured in the upper body and was unconscious with gauze wrapped around him, crying. The aunt stretched out her hand to touch her son's face, but was afraid that her rough hands and feet would touch the wound, so she subconsciously retracted her chubby hand.
"Aunt Pan, stop crying. Send Shuanzi to He Guiping first and ask someone to help take care of him. Your son has been seriously injured and needs to rest quietly!" The people next to her hurriedly advised.
Another villager, whose left leg was severely injured and whose head had been accidentally smashed to a bloody hole, was also surrounded by his wife and daughter. Fortunately, although this villager was hit on the head by a rock rolling down the mountain, he was still conscious and not unconscious like the two next to him.
Zhao Xingguo called four strong villagers and asked them to quickly send the two men to the plastic shed set up by He Guiping and take good care of them.
He then set his eyes on a young man lying on the last stretcher next to him, his face turned sideways.
The man was covered with a thin army green cotton coat that he had taken off from someone, and a pair of black trousers. He looked to be about 27 or 28 years old. Even though he was injured and his head was wrapped in white gauze several times, it still couldn't hide the man's strong and handsome face.
The other person was unconscious at the moment, with red blood seeping out from the area on the back of his head that was wrapped in gauze. In addition, there were also a lot of bloodstains on the man's back, especially on his exposed left shoulder, which was also severely injured and wrapped in thick white gauze.
Zhao Xingguo looked at the other person's exposed skin, which was covered with scrapes and bruises, as well as some small wounds. He knew without a second thought that the other person must have encountered a landslide when he was climbing the mountain, which was why he was in such a mess.
With the help of the flashlight, Zhao Xingguo looked carefully at the man's face, but he frowned and looked at it for a full two minutes without figuring out what was going on.
So, Zhao Xingguo shook his head and said, "Captain Meng, I don't recognize the man you rescued. Judging from his clothing, he doesn't look like a villager from the other villages around our village."
Although this man has a slightly darker skin color like other men who often go to the fields and do farm work.
But the smooth, cheetah-like muscles on his arms, and the serious frown on his face, made him look very different from the farmers who worked the land year-round. Especially since he was wearing so little in the middle of winter, it seemed a little strange.
"I don't know him... That's a bit troublesome..." Meng Changlong frowned and said, "We received a mission from above to come down and participate in the rescue operation. After we take care of the affairs in your village, we have to go to the neighboring village to see if they need help. There is no way we can take several people away with us... We just experienced an earthquake, and the mountain roads are difficult to walk on. I can't send a few soldiers just for this person to take him to the camp... Besides, ordinary people are not allowed to enter the military base at will. If this person is not from your village and no one in your village knows him, then it will be a bit troublesome."
"In that case, why don't we keep this person with us?" Zhao Zhengde has been dealing with people for many years. When he heard what Meng Changlong said, he immediately understood what Meng Changlong meant.
The reason why the other party said so much was simply that they didn't want to carry the injured person around. These soldiers were supposed to go to other villages to rescue people. Isn't it a waste of energy to carry this burden around?
"Yes, although our village has suffered a disaster, we can still take care of one more person. Commander Meng, don't worry. When this person wakes up, we will ask him where he is from. Then we will find someone to send him home directly." Zhao Xingguo nodded very understandingly. The other party came to them to help with the rescue, so it would be nothing to leave a wounded person here to be taken care of.
"Okay, that's decided. When this person wakes up, ask him where his family lives. We'll find a way to make arrangements then." Meng Changlong waved his hand and asked the soldiers to carry the man and two other injured villagers to the plastic shed specially built for the wounded in the village.
In order to prevent aftershocks from hurting the villagers again, Zhao Xingguo organized the villagers to build plastic sheds and tents of different sizes in the afternoon. Since their village did not have any, they could only use this simple method to deal with it for the time being.
However, since the earthquake at noon, there has not been any aftershock.
Qin Suyun had been standing next to Zhao Xingguo and had not spoken a word. However, from just now on, Qin Suyun's eyes had been on the unconscious man lying on the stretcher.
At first, Qin Suyun did not set her eyes on the other person. When she looked at the other person, it was no different from looking at a stranger. However, when the village chief took the flashlight and carefully observed the other person's appearance, Qin Suyun was really slow to react.
Then her heartbeat began to accelerate, and an indescribable, unknown emotion rolled violently in her chest.
She had clearly only met him once at the hospital gate, but He Zhennan's face kept appearing in her mind in her dream, until now the face in her dream merged with the face of the man in front of her.
She didn't expect that the man who was rescued from the mountain was actually He Zhennan!
Qin Suyun always felt a special gratitude towards the man who had helped her at the hospital gate and saved her in her dream. Putting aside other things, she felt that she should repay him for helping her at the hospital gate.
Seeing several soldiers taking the unconscious He Zhennan to He Guiping's side, Qin Suyun slowly regained her composure.
Things have their priorities. Even if she wants to thank He Zhennan, she has to wait until the remaining two villagers in the village are rescued first. Then she can bring things over and take care of them in the same way.
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Meng Changlong brought up the rescue business with Zhao Xingguo again, asking how many households in Wanxi Village had been affected by the disaster and how many people were still buried underground and hadn't been rescued yet.
When Meng Changlong heard Zhao Xingguo say that there were only two villagers in Wanxi Village who had not yet been rescued, he was extremely surprised. Although they had been delayed in the mountains for a while, it had only been a few hours since the earthquake.
Meng Changlong had been to Wanxi Village several times and knew that there were about a hundred households living there, totaling about 600 to 700 people. This included many elderly people and children. Because Wanxi Village was relatively poor, many young people preferred to work away from home.
Although many young people who had left their jobs to work have returned home as the New Year approaches, there are still nearly 20 days until the Lunar New Year. With so much time to spare, it's unlikely many will return. A rough estimate suggests there are only about 400 to 500 people in the village right now.
The fact that the other party's rescue operation went so well despite the presence of elderly people and children, injuries, and the lack of professional search and rescue dogs and professional post-disaster rescue tools was beyond Meng Changlong's expectations.
You know, if their camp was not equipped with some simple search tools, such as life detectors, they would not have been notified to come down and rescue directly.
"Commander Meng, this is all thanks to Miss Qin. The dogs raised by Miss Qin's family are all good at search and rescue. If it weren't for their help in finding the villagers underground, we probably wouldn't be able to rescue everyone so quickly." When Zhao Xingguo said this, his originally serious and ugly expression showed a little smile.
Miss Qin's dogs were so big, and they weren't in vain. They were dogs too, but I didn't know what they were like. Not only did they accurately help them find the villagers buried under the rubble, but they also helped with other things.
Zhao Xingguo, who usually thinks that his dog Huang is a good guard of the house, can't help but feel that the dog is worse than the dog, which makes the dog very angry.
When Meng Changlong heard what Zhao Xingguo said, he immediately turned his attention to the several big wolfhounds around Qin Suyun.
Because she had rested for a while before, and Qin Suyun was reluctant to let the furry children at home suffer too much, she secretly added five drops of freshly brewed Jade Dew this morning to the water they drank.
Therefore, when Meng Changlong looked over, he felt that the big wolfhounds raised by Qin Suyun were truly majestic. Looking at the dogs' moist noses, bright eyes, and shiny black fur, he really liked them with his heart.
They really are some good dogs! They look even more impressive than the three military dogs they have at the base.
"Not bad, not bad, they are indeed some good dogs!" Even though Meng Changlong was the person in charge of a small military base, he found it difficult to face the excitement of Dahei and the others. He said to Qin Suyun with a sigh on his face, and his eyebrows and eyes softened a little, "I have been in this area for several years. I didn't expect that we would have such a person like you here! Just your ability to raise dogs is much better than those two dog trainers in our army!"
Although he has not seen the abilities of these dogs with his own eyes, Meng Changlong is quite good at judging dogs.
Look at the dogs beside the girl. Not only do they look much better than the three he brought with him in terms of spirit and appearance, but the nine dogs beside the girl don't even need a leash. They just sit there obediently, not howling or barking. As soon as the girl stands up and walks forward, the nine dogs immediately follow her footsteps. Even the position of the nine dogs and their walking speed have not changed from beginning to end. It feels like they are taking it easy.
Meng Changlong smacked his lips. He hadn't been educated much, so he couldn't quite put his finger on what these dogs made him feel. But the bottom line was, it came down to one word: good!
Compared with these dogs, the three in their base have to be put in some corner.
"Thank you for the compliment, Commander Meng." Qin Suyun nodded, but a hint of embarrassment could not help showing on her face. Fortunately, it was dark and no one shone the flashlight directly on Qin Suyun's face, so no one saw the embarrassment that flashed across Qin Suyun's face.
She rarely trained the furry kids at home, and Dahei took care of them most of the time, so she felt a little unworthy of Meng Changlong's praise.
Arriving at the pile of rubble, Meng Changlong did not waste any time. He immediately commanded the dozens of his men to take tools and conduct another carpet search to find the remaining two people in the village. It was not easy to find these two people. There were dozens of young people and middle-aged men in the village, plus the seventy or eighty soldiers brought by Meng Changlong, a total of one hundred and fifty or sixty people, who were searching among the ruins.
They not only look for the two villagers buried under the rubble, they also help dig out some daily necessities buried underground, such as quilts and food.
After all, it was winter, and even though they had built plastic sheds before, everyone was freezing in such a cold weather.
Qin Suyun, wrapped in a thick black down jacket, thought of He Zhennan lying on a stretcher covered in a thin cotton coat. She frowned. It was so cold, and he was wearing so little. Even if he wasn't injured, he would probably catch a cold after being there for so long. She just hoped they could get him to He Guiping so he could find something to cover him up.
Qin Suyun commanded Dahei and the others to continue helping with the search, but her thoughts flew to the injured He Zhennan in the distance. She was planning how to send something over so that it would not appear so abrupt.
The atmosphere in the village is always more conservative than outside. She is a divorced woman, and she gave something to a stranger for no apparent reason. It would be embarrassing if others saw it, and they might even gossip about the two of them.
Qin Suyun didn't care much about these gossips, but she was afraid that He Zhennan would think too much.
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