Chapter 120 Heaven's Arrangement
Ignoring the jolting motion of her body, Jiang Ruzhen rushed out.
As soon as I rushed out of the hospital, I bumped right into a man.
"Ah Zhen, I've finally found you."
The man breathed a sigh of relief and hugged Jiang Ruzhen tightly.
"Lu Mingzheng, what are you doing here?"
"After I finished my mission, I wanted to find you, but when I called you I found out you had arrived in Liu Province. I had just caught up with you when I heard you were in danger."
I rushed here without stopping, and almost missed you.
The two had only exchanged a few words when the shaking stopped. Jiang Ruzhen grabbed Lu Mingzheng's hand anxiously.
“Xin Xin went to the mountains with those hat-wearing uncles to help those women. I wonder how she is doing. I want to go and save her.”
"In the mountains?" Lu Mingzheng's heart sank.
Given the strong tremor just now, mudslides are particularly prone to occur in mountainous areas. If you're in higher ground, it's manageable, but if you happen to be walking at the foot of a mountain, you might...
He dared not think any further. He knew all too well how much Xin Xin meant to Jiang Ruzhen; she was probably more favored than any of the other children.
If something happens to Shen Shuxin, Jiang Ruzhen will probably be devastated.
"Let's go, I'll go contact someone."
Lu Mingzheng didn't dare to delay for a moment. He pulled Jiang Ruzhen through the crowd and used the hospital's phone to make an internal call to the military.
In the face of natural disasters, soldiers are always at the forefront of the battle.
While they were feeling the tremors, the military had already begun gathering information on the damage in various locations.
At the same time, a disaster relief team was dispatched immediately.
A jeep used by leaders stopped in front of Lu Mingzheng, and he pulled Jiang Ruzhen into the car.
Although Jiang Ruzhen did not feel the earthquake very strongly in the county town, the mountain road was still blocked by falling rocks on her way to the disaster relief site.
Jiang Ruzhen got out of the car to check the situation. Dark rocks blocked the road ahead, and no one knew what was happening on the other side of the rockfall.
"What should we do, Lu Mingzheng?"
Lu Mingzheng heard the suppressed sob in Jiang Ruzhen's voice. He gritted his teeth and rushed to the communications soldier, arguing with someone on the phone for a long time.
Finally, five minutes later, a military helicopter landed in the open area.
Lu Mingzheng covered Jiang Ruzhen's head and led her onto the plane, which quickly circled and took off.
In the pitch-black night, the plane flew aimlessly over the mountains.
Jiang Ruzhen leaned against the window and looked down. The dark, rugged mountains looked like a group of demons lying on the ground, waiting for the right moment to open their bloody mouths and devour everyone who passed by.
This aimless search left her bewildered and helpless, her eyes filled with anxious tears.
Lu Mingzheng sat next to her with his arm around her shoulder, offering her silent comfort.
Just as the plane was circling for a long time without finding its target and was about to turn back, a faint fire on the mountainside caught Jiang Ruzhen's attention.
"There, there!"
Jiang Ruzhen pointed to the faint light with great joy, and the helicopter quickly flew over the fire.
The area below was all sloping hillsides, making it impossible for the helicopter to land. They had to lower a rope ladder to rescue the people.
Lu Mingzheng led two soldiers from the plane to land first, and directed the people on the ground to tie ropes and climb up.
Jiang Ruzhen lay on the doorway, her eyes wide open, searching for Shen Shuxin's figure. A few people climbed up first and untied the ropes around their waists.
Jiang Ruzhen then realized that they were each carrying a emaciated woman on their backs. After they put the woman down, Jiang Ruzhen hurriedly asked...
"Where's Xin Xin? Have you seen my daughter Xin Xin?"
Who is Xin Xin?
"That's the female reporter who helped you rescue people!"
"Oh, Reporter Shen, she's alright."
The men in hats who came up looked relaxed and chatted with Jiang Ruzhen, saying, "Your daughter is truly our lucky star. Whenever we encounter a fork in the road, she guides us forward with her intuition."
Every choice she made was correct. After rescuing the abducted women, we felt an earthquake and wanted to escape, but she overruled everyone's objections and led us to hide on this hillside.
Strangely, while all the mountains were experiencing landslides, the spot where we were hiding remained completely undisturbed.
We had just escaped when we heard the planes, and we had just started a fire when you came to rescue us.
Hearing what the others were saying, Jiang Ruzhen finally felt relieved.
"Then why doesn't she come up?"
"Reporter Shen said that the abducted women and the comrades with minor injuries should come up first, and that she was not in a hurry."
Jiang Ruzhen turned to look at the cabin; only about ten people could be saved at a time.
There are about twenty people below, and her daughter will definitely wait until the end.
This is her daughter's true nature; no matter how strong she becomes, she always thinks of others and gives hope to the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled.
After everyone had climbed up, Jiang Ruzhen tied a rope around herself and climbed down.
The moment she landed, her eyes first fell on Shen Shuxin, and she rushed over to hug her tightly.
"It's alright, Xin Xin, it's alright, Mommy's here."
Shen Shuxin knew her mother must be terrified, so she let her hold her for a while before raising her head and giving Jiang Ruzhen a silly smile.
"Mom, I'm fine. I'm not hurt at all."
"Yes, Mom knows, my daughter is amazing! My Xin Xin is the best reporter."
Shen Shuxin thought Jiang Ruzhen would scold her for being stupid, but unexpectedly Jiang Ruzhen only praised her positively. Her eyes gradually brightened, filled with dazzling starlight.
"Ah Zhen, why did you come down?" Lu Mingzheng ran over, tugged at Jiang Ruzhen's arm, and asked anxiously.
"You go back with them first. It's dangerous here; we don't know if there will be aftershocks."
“I’m not leaving. I want to stay here with my Xin Xin and wait for the next rescue team.” Jiang Ruzhen was incredibly stubborn.
Seeing the mother and daughter clinging to each other and refusing to separate, Lu Mingzheng could only sigh and arrange for another person to board the plane.
The helicopter roared away, and the remaining people on the ground sat together around a fire, chatting and laughing.
"I heard that your intuition helped a lot?" Jiang Ruzhen asked in a low voice.
Shen Shuxin's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she leaned close to Jiang Ruzhen's ear and whispered.
"Yes, Mom, I really feel very strange. As soon as I entered this place, I felt like I had lived here in a past life."
I knew every road, every tree, every stone, and every blade of grass intimately. I led them and they quickly found the woman who had been trafficked.
The feeling at the moment I saved them was very strange, as if my body and soul had been redeemed.
Hearing her daughter's bewildered yet excited words, Jiang Ruzhen was deeply moved.
Most things in the world are governed by cause and effect; the cause in the previous life leads to the effect in this life.
The one who tied the knot must untie it; everything is God's arrangement.
By the time the helicopter returned and circled above them again, the sky was already beginning to lighten.
The harrowing night was finally coming to an end. Jiang Ruzhen and Shen Shuxin sat side by side by the window.
The two looked down at the rolling mountains, each lost in their own thoughts. Bathed in the golden light of dawn and the sunshine, the mountains had lost the eerie, demonic aura of the previous night.
They became as gentle and adorable as little lambs.
Jiang Ruzhen let out a heavy sigh of frustration, when she suddenly heard the people around her shouting.
"Look! Look! The entire Wayaocun village has disappeared!"
"My God! Was the epicenter of yesterday's earthquake in Wayaocun? The entire village has sunk underground."
“Look, the surrounding mountains have been split in half, and almost all the rocks have rolled down to Wayaocun, completely burying the village.”
Hearing what everyone was saying, Jiang Ruzhen also focused her attention and looked down.
Sure enough, the village full of evil that we had visited yesterday had completely disappeared from sight.
Instead, there was a pit buried by fallen rocks.
From a distance, it looks like a newly erected tomb...
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