Zhao Minggeng quickly pulled up his pants.
He glanced around furtively and, finding no one had noticed his awkward situation, felt somewhat relieved.
Actually, they both turned their heads away, trying hard to suppress their laughter, otherwise the man would have become withdrawn.
What a kind family they are.
"Ah, I hope everything is alright. I just hope this earthquake is over."
This is terrifying! I've lived to be this old, and this is the first time I've ever seen anything like it.
Ms. Huang clutched her chest, indicating that she was frightened.
Zhao Qianci agreed wholeheartedly. Just now, the old man had put in a lot of effort to hold onto the headboard so as not to fall.
He sat shakily on the bed, his legs trembling.
"Oh dear, this could trigger the old man's heart condition at any moment."
Zhao Qianci expressed his feelings.
Upon hearing her grandfather's words, Zhao Qingyan quickly took out a bottle of nitroglycerin pills from her spatial storage and gave it to Huang Shi.
"Grandma, this is a special medicine for treating heart disease. If Grandpa feels unwell, quickly give her one or two pills."
Mrs. Huang held the medicine, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"You were really scared out of your wits by your grandpa. He's fine, he's very easygoing."
Zhao Qingyan said she understood, but her eyes remained fixed on the collapsed area of the house, and she felt a vague unease in her heart.
It's not fully light yet, and it's not convenient to take out a high-powered flashlight.
Driven by an instinctive sense of danger, Zhao Qingyan quickly sprinkled a ring of medicinal powder around the tent.
“Girl, the ground is damp, so the powder you sprinkled won’t be very effective.”
"Our yard is completely bare; everything is crystal clear," Zhao Minggeng said, puzzled.
Zhao Qingyan only replied with "better safe than sorry," and then fell silent.
The night's exertion was considerable. Having escaped his father's death stare, little Zhao Qingyang went to ask his sister for food.
Fortunately, Zhao Qingyan had put a lot of food in a box last night, including dried meat and water sacs.
He opened the box, took out a large bag of beef jerky, and distributed it to the group, while also handing each person a wet wipe to clean their hands.
The availability of food drew everyone's attention. Only Yunyou noticed Zhao Qingyan's absent-mindedness.
"Girl, what are you still worried about?"
Zhao Qingyan turned around and casually handed half of the beef jerky in her hand to Yunyou.
"I feel very uneasy. This house is very sturdy, how could it just collapse like that?"
Could there be something underground, or is it hollow? We can't rule out crustal movement causing a crack in the earth…”
Zhao Qingyan kept rambling on, while Yunyou squinted at the front of him.
In short, now is not the time to move around freely.
We can only wait until it's fully light to investigate further.
Suddenly, cries for help came from afar, "Fatty, Fatty, grab on, Mommy's coming to save you..."
The continuous crying sounds indicated that the child had fallen into a crack in the ground.
As dawn broke and everything was finally visible, Zhao Qingyan promptly changed into a pair of leather boots and put on protective gloves.
I stepped off the wooden planks and headed towards the collapsed house.
"My dear girl, what are you going to do? Just let your father and the others check it out later," Huang called out.
Zhao Qingyan raised her hand to signal that everyone should be quiet.
Before approaching the ruins, he found a bamboo pole and took it in his hand.
Zhao Qingyan had never seen what a normal house collapse looked like before, but this one was quite interesting.
The house collapsed, it really collapsed. Apart from some wooden frames and beams remaining on the ground, the bricks and stones looked as if they had fallen into a deep pit.
I poked it with a bamboo pole and could hear the sound of sand falling.
I listened carefully. I sensed movement below, and the sound sounded strangely familiar.
After standing in front of the ruins and listening to the sounds for about seven or eight minutes, Zhao Qingyan felt her legs go weak.
He quickly took two packets of medicine powder from his pocket—actually, from his spatial storage.
They scattered it on the ruins and then stirred it with a bamboo pole, hoping that this would cause more of the powder to fall to the bottom.
Zhao Qingyan now really wants to be able to produce some molten iron herself.
The snake was initially found in the elderly couple's house, but they couldn't find it. Now the case is solved. It's right under this house.
Feeling the powder had been sprinkled, Zhao Qingyan dropped the bamboo pole in her hand and quickly ran back to the tent.
"Quickly, pack up the tent, grab the food, bedding, pots and pans, we need to leave the yard, we can't stay here anymore."
Zhao Qingyan was very anxious.
"What? My dear girl, what did you say? Why can't we live in this courtyard anymore? What did you just discover?" Madam Huang asked.
Little Zhao Qingyang's face turned pale with fright.
"What's wrong, sis? Is something scary?"
Zhao Qingyan nodded, "Alright, hurry up and pack up. I'll tell you the story after we leave this courtyard."
The Zhao family packed their things very quickly.
Within an hour, everything that needed to be packed up was packed and loaded, and they caught up with the horse-drawn carriage and mule cart and left the courtyard.
Just leave the furniture in the yard as is, lock the gate and leave quickly.
What was once a prosperous place is now a scene of devastation.
Collapsed walls and houses were everywhere, and the sound of weeping could not be heard.
"Heavens above! This is a dead end! The whole house has collapsed! My grandson, it's all Grandma's fault! I shouldn't have let you go in and move the boxes!"
My grandson, please wake up...
An old woman was wailing for her grandson. Whether he was dead or alive was unknown, but she was crying her heart out.
Zhao Qingyan led the way, and the group walked with their livestock toward the prefectural government office.
"My dear girl, where are you planning to take us? What happened under our house? Tell me!"
Mrs. Huang is now very curious as to why her granddaughter doesn't even want a home.
Zhao Qingyan considered for a moment and said,
"Do you remember when the snake got into my grandfather's room?"
I suspect there's a large snake nest under our house.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be a situation where one house isn't enough to fill the landfill.
Now we will go to the prefect's office and ask the prefect to make a decision.
We can give up the house, but we must deal with this snake den.
Otherwise, if thousands of snakes were to emerge from their holes, the disaster would be no less than an earthquake.
Non-toxic ones are fine, but I'm worried about those that are toxic, especially highly toxic ones.
The consequences are terrible.
I just sprinkled some poison in, hoping it would kill one by one. There's no other way now.
I don't have the ability to wipe out all those disgusting things.
Zhao Qingyan felt a chill just thinking about it; mollusks had always been her least favorite animal.
The previously smooth road surface now has exposed stone slabs in many places, and some areas even have deep cracks in the ground, but fortunately they are not too wide.
It was very deep, and in order to get to the prefectural government office as soon as possible, the Zhao family and their party inevitably had to cross the fissure.
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