She knew that Lu Wanzheng was never the kind of person Wang Xiyou described; she was a good person, a very, very good person.
Two streams of hot tears slid down her face and dripped onto the ground.
Xiao Hua walked slightly ahead. To steady herself, she held onto the wall with one hand and grabbed Su Xiuyi with the other. When she stepped onto the stairs, a loud "boom" rang out, and the stairs collapsed instantly. Xiao Hua lost her footing and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, she was quick and agile, and she quickly let go of Su Xiuyi's hand, preventing Su Xiuyi and Lu Wanzheng from falling together.
"Xiao Hua!" Lu Wanzheng shouted. At this moment, Lu Wanzheng was scared. She was not as scared as when she felt the earthquake before. Her voice was trembling as she shouted.
This is the third floor! How painful it would be to fall from here! Su Xiuyi closed her eyes in fright, not daring to imagine the scene, worried that she would see a bloody mess when she opened her eyes.
Lu Wanzheng quickly went forward and saw that Xiaohua was tightly holding onto a steel bar extending from the stairs. It was this steel bar that prevented Xiaohua from falling.
"Xiaohua, give me a hand, I'll pull you up." Lu Wanzheng's heart was pounding so hard it was almost in her throat. She was terrified. "Su Xiuyi, come help me!" Lu Wanzheng called out to Su Xiuyi, who had her eyes closed, behind her.
Su Xiuyi opened her eyes. Now her eyes were no longer filled with snowflakes; she could see things. "Coming," she replied, nodding repeatedly, and walked towards the stairs.
Xiao Hua handed one of her hands to Lu Wanzheng, who grabbed it tightly.
Su Xiuyi also reached out a hand to Xiaohua, and the two of them worked together to pull Xiaohua up from the broken staircase.
"Sister Wanzheng, what do we do now?" The three of them swayed back and forth as the house shook.
Lu Wanzheng looked at the destroyed staircase ahead and said, "Let's retreat back and get away from here. This place is probably going to collapse soon too."
She pulled Xiaohua and Su Xiuyi back to her room.
As soon as the three entered the room, the chandelier in the hallway fell with a loud crash, and glass shards flew everywhere.
"Ah!" Su Xiuyi screamed in fright at the sound.
Lu Wanzheng, who was the last to enter the room, suddenly felt a pain in her calf. Due to the time constraints, she did not have time to check.
He gently patted Su Xiuyi's shoulder, "Don't be afraid, listen to my instructions."
“My room is the one on the very edge. Even though the house collapsed, we’re still not far from the outside world,” Lu Wanzheng said, looking around the room.
When she saw the bed, something suddenly occurred to her.
"Xiao Hua, come and help dismantle the bed! Su Xiuyi, quickly hide in the corner against the wall."
Xiao Hua looked up and found that there were cracks in the ceiling above her, and a lot of lime was falling from the ceiling.
At this point, she had no choice but to follow Lu Wanzheng's arrangements.
Lu Wanzheng threw the blankets and pillows from the bed into the corner where Su Xiuyi was standing, and then lifted the mattress.
This mattress is made of pure cotton and is very elastic. Lu Wanzheng had complained that it was too soft and too elastic when she slept on it before, but she never expected it to come in handy now.
Xiao Hua and Lu Wanzheng worked together to lift the mattress and prop it up in the corner, forming a triangle with the corner of the wall.
One end of the mattress was against the wall, and the other end was against the bedside not far from the corner of the wall.
The three of them hid under the mattress. Lu Wanzheng placed the blanket underneath and held the pillow above her head. Seeing this, Xiao Hua picked up another pillow and held it above her head as well. "Hopefully, this mattress and the pillow can help cushion the impact when the ceiling falls."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the ceiling above his head began to crack and cement began to fall.
The entire house collapsed rapidly, and Su Xiuyi screamed in fright.
Soon everything returned to calm.
The entire village fell into a deathly silence.
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