Chapter 266 Earthquake 8
All the vegetation on the mountain was eaten by locusts, leaving only a layer of yellow soil.
Xia Xiaoman originally wanted to move out the RV to live more comfortably, but looking at the bare mountain without any objects to cover it, she decisively gave up her previous idea, found a flat land away from the hillside, and replaced the RV with a family-style tent.
The place where she pitched her tent was in a low-lying area, but far from the hillside. If there were another aftershock, she wouldn't have to worry about being hit by rocks falling from the hillside.
When Xia Xiaoman was setting up the tent, Maodan wandered around and peed everywhere to mark his territory. After marking the territory, he instantly turned into a Husky, jumping up and down and running around, howling with excitement.
In fact, it did howl, but before it could make a sound, Xia Xiaoman slapped it and threatened it to shut up.
In this empty mountain, if Maodan howled, wouldn't it be equivalent to exposing her location? How could Xia Xiaoman let her howl?
After setting up the tent, Xia Xiaoman took a bath in the tent. She hadn't taken a bath for seven or eight days, and she changed three buckets of water before she could wash herself clean.
After drying his hair and walking out of the tent, there was no sign of Maodan around. Xia Xiaoman frowned and was about to call Maodan when he saw the wolf cub running out of the ravine with a white thing in its mouth.
When Maodan got closer, she realized that the white thing was a steel-toothed rabbit.
"Sure! You're hunting right after entering the mountains. Where did you catch the steel-toothed rabbit?"
Maodan was so delighted by the praise that he licked Xia Xiaoman's palm with his tongue.
Xia Xiaoman patted its head and said, "Wait, we're going to eat roasted rabbit today."
She hadn't eaten well in the past few days, so she took out three rabbits from the space, peeled them, removed the internal organs, and marinated them with ginger. While marinating the rabbit meat, she took out an old hen, removed the feathers and internal organs, put the whole chicken into the stew pot, and added ginger slices, red dates, and the ginseng that Liu Mengmeng gave her.
Xia Xiaoman was reluctant to throw away the whole ginseng, so she cut a little bit of the root. After running around these days, she had some ginseng chicken soup to nourish her body.
The chicken soup was simmered on low heat for more than an hour, and the aroma became stronger and stronger. Before serving, Xia Xiaoman threw a few wolfberries into the pot and simmered it for a few more minutes before serving.
The chicken soup was ready, and the rabbit meat was roasted. There were three rabbits, one was sprinkled with chili and cumin, and the other two were plain. After throwing the two roasted rabbits with nothing in them into Maodan's rice bag, Xia Xiaoman tore off a rabbit leg and chewed it until his mouth was full of oil.
Halfway through the meal, the sky turned gloomy and it looked like it was going to rain.
It always rains after an earthquake. Xia Xiaoman wiped her hands, took out the canopy and set it up in front of the tent. This way, she wouldn't get covered in mud when she entered the tent, and she would have more space to move around.
As soon as the canopy was set up, a drizzle began to fall. At this time, sitting under the canopy, drinking chicken soup and eating rabbit legs, it was a special experience. Unfortunately, the scenery in front of me was all yellow, without any green at all.
At the same time, Sun Qing, who was far away in Yuancheng, was also staring at the drizzle outside, but she was not as comfortable as Xia Xiaoman.
"Ah Qing, stop looking and come over to eat!"
Sun Qing turned around and saw Ye Xiaojie sitting beside her, feeding her goddaughter porridge with a spoon.
She walked over and touched Zhao Mingzhu's head. "Our Zhuzhu is really well behaved and not picky about food."
Ye Xiaojie said helplessly: "If she wants to be picky about food, she has to have the capital to be picky about food."
"That's what I said. After a while, we'll dig out all the cars buried in the rubble, repair them, and make a few trips to the north. Zhuzhu will be able to eat whatever she wants in the future."
When Liu Mengmeng heard what Sun Qing said, she said, "Second Master, you should heal your wound first!"
Six hours ago, Liu Mengmeng led a convoy back to Yuancheng to find Sun Qing and others.
She thought Fucheng was miserable enough, but she didn't expect Yuancheng to be even worse.
Yuancheng did not experience a large tsunami, but it was located at the center of the earthquake, and the entire city was razed to the ground, and many unfathomable cracks appeared on the ground. The few mountains in Yuancheng also collapsed and sank, including the underground city they built in Yuancheng, which was completely destroyed.
After many twists and turns, Liu Mengmeng finally found Sun Qing and the others.
When the earthquake happened, Sun Qing happened to be going to Ye Xiaojie's house to visit her goddaughter Zhao Mingzhu. Before she even sat down, she felt the house shaking.
Yuancheng is also not located at the junction of plates. Ye Xiaojie has never experienced an earthquake, but Sun Qing has. When she was a teenager, there was a small earthquake of magnitude 5 in her hometown.
When she found the house was shaking, she immediately pulled Ye Xiaojie up and protected Ye Xiaojie and Zhao Mingzhu as they walked out. Under her protection, Ye Xiaojie and Zhao Mingzhu escaped safely, but she herself was injured in the leg.
Fortunately, most of the houses in Yuancheng were built after the tsunami, so they are not very solid, and of course not very heavy. There is no steel or concrete, but mud bricks. Sun Qing's leg was broken, and it will heal after a period of rest.
Fortunately, nothing serious happened to the fleet, and more than a dozen large ships were still floating on the sea.
However, all these boats were forcibly requisitioned by the military to treat the wounded and settle the children who lost their parents in the earthquake. When a vacant area is cleared later, the wounded and orphans on the boats will be transferred to the vacant area.
Ye Xiaojie was worried that her daughter would be infected with some diseases if she lived with so many people, so after Liu Mengmeng came back with the materials for building a greenhouse, she asked someone to find an open space to build the greenhouse and move in.
The people under Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing are different from those under Li Yu'e. The people under Li Yu'e's command were recruited by her personal charm, and the people under her are convinced by Li Yu'e and her team and follow them wholeheartedly.
But some of Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing's subordinates were recruited by themselves, some were brought from the old Ye family, and the rest were poached by Ye Xiaojie from her husband's family.
If you are not united, it is easy to get confused when problems arise.
As soon as the earthquake ended, the people from the old Ye family were not happy with the situation and formed their own group to occupy a piece of land to dig for supplies. The people from the mother-in-law's family were not happy with the situation after learning that more than a dozen large ships had been requisitioned by the military, so they stole a ship and formed their own fleet.
At present, Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing only have the elderly people who used to follow them, and there is a serious shortage of manpower.
So when Liu Mengmeng heard Sun Qing talking about forming a motorcade, she spoke out to stop her. Now, forming a motorcade at this time, regardless of whether there are cars or earthquakes in the north, is just a matter of manpower.
If all my men go to the sports car team, who will look after the base?
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