Actually, it wouldn't matter if it were three to five days later.
The books he had read contained snippets of information related to earthquakes.
The cold, impersonal written descriptions did not evoke much emotion in him.
However, seeing these scenes before him, especially those related to himself, made him realize how insignificant humans are in the face of natural disasters.
How powerless he was in the face of natural disaster!
If he had come back a few days later, his parents and everyone else would be at the threshing ground right now, and perhaps they wouldn't have been buried alive.
Were they dead?
Still not dead, but almost dead?
If he dies, he will have to observe mourning, and he will definitely have no hope of taking the imperial examination this year.
The next exam won't be until three years later.
In that case, would the Xue family still take advantage of the mourning period and marry Xue Mengyu to him?
Without the Xue family's financial support, how will he survive?
And how are we going to repay the hundred taels owed by our clansmen?
With the earthquake this bad, even if he were willing to sell the land his family depends on for survival, he probably wouldn't get much money from it.
Just as Qi Mingyu was feeling flustered and helpless, his mother's heavenly voice came from the cleared ruins not far away.
"Is anyone there? Help, help me..."
Qi Mingyu's left hand is broken, and he dares not move it at all right now.
Looking at the ruins, and being weak and powerless, he couldn't climb up at all.
Hearing this sound, he hurried to the ruins and said anxiously:
"Mother, I'm here, don't worry."
My hand is injured, so I can't go over there and can't bring you out.
Are you alright? Can you get up by yourself?
"Where's my dad? How is he?"
Shen, whose mind was extremely foggy and whose hands and feet had been smashed, woke up to find herself lying on the ground surrounded by ruins.
Thinking of the shaking she felt before she fainted, she knew it was an earthquake.
Previously, she really didn't take the earthquake disaster to heart.
However, everyone else had gone to the threshing ground, and she and her husband had to rely on everyone's help to go with the flow.
Today, when she went home with her son to discuss marriage, she didn't take the earthquake seriously either.
They even felt that the government and the villagers were making a mountain out of a molehill.
After all, there hadn't been any earthquakes in Anping County for many years, at least not during her lifetime.
Since it hadn't happened in years, she naturally assumed it wouldn't be anything too serious.
Unfortunately, she found out too late, and it was too late for regrets.
She can't move her hands and feet, and it's unknown if there's any chance of recovery.
If it can be cured, that would be fine; at most, it will require someone to take care of it for a short period of time.
She just needs to be patient and wait for her to fully recover!
But if she can't get better and has to spend the rest of her life bedridden, that would be worse than killing her!
If I had known there would be an earthquake today, and that the disaster would be so severe, I would never have let her come back, even if you killed me!
The threshing ground is so spacious, with no obstructions around it.
If she had stayed there, why would she have had to suffer like this?
At this moment, compared to her own safety and the days to come, Shen resented Qi Mingyu.
But she only has one son now, and the kind of life she can live in the future depends on him.
So even if they harbored resentment, they dared not express it.
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