Chen Nian took Mu Feng and Mu Lin to the street to check. It was probably still an hour before dawn. The yamen runners were not on duty yet, and there was no place to call for help, so he had to go and check it out himself.
When I got to the street, I heard crying everywhere before I got close.
Shen Nian frowned, looking at the collapsed houses and wailing people everywhere on the street, feeling as if his heart was blocked by a stone.
When he first arrived in Linzhou, he was thinking about how to make people's lives better.
Later, in order to make it easier for people to keep warm in winter, people were sent to teach them how to build kangs. Later in the summer, a new method of growing potatoes was discovered, which increased the yield four or five times. Water wheels also gradually entered the fields.
He was full of energy, thinking that the people would have high-yield grain, which would slowly fill their stomachs while also allowing Linzhou to develop faster.
Unexpectedly, an earthquake made the situation in Linzhou, which had not yet fully recovered, even worse.
I wonder how many people will die this time?
Also, how large is the area affected by the earthquake?
Shen Nian took a deep breath, this Linzhou felt like his disaster!
"Someone come! Who can save my grandson?"
Shen Nian was lost in thought when he was suddenly interrupted by a heart-wrenching cry from the front.
"Let's go and take a look." After he came to his senses, he strode towards the place where the crying sounded.
Mu Feng and Mu Lin followed quickly, holding torches.
"Auntie, where is your grandson?" Shen Nian came up and asked directly.
The woman who was sitting on the ground crying, saw someone coming over and cried for help, "Master, save my grandson! Save my grandson!"
The old woman was afraid that Shen Nian would not save them, so she knelt on the ground, pulled his trouser legs with her hands, and kowtowed repeatedly.
Shen Nian's eyes were sore, and she bent down to help the old woman up, "Auntie, don't cry, we will help you save people, tell me where your grandson is?"
This will roughly give them the direction, so they can rescue faster.
The old woman finally understood, wiped away her tears, and pointed to the collapsed house in front of her, "Right here, my grandson is right here."
Most of the old man's house had collapsed at this moment. Shen Nian didn't care about anything else and called Mu Feng and Mu Lin to quickly dig up bricks to save people.
When the old woman saw that they started to help, she stopped crying and joined them in removing the rubble and bricks with her hands.
"Xiaobao? Xiaobao?" The old woman called out while rummaging around, but there was no response at all.
Shen Nian and the others quickened their movements and after digging through almost half of the material, they finally saw a glimpse of the child.
"Here, move this away quickly." Mu Feng first noticed the child's shadow and quickly called out to the two of them.
When a few people moved away the bricks and wood that were pressing on top, they saw that the old man's grandson's leg was broken by the bricks and stones. Perhaps it was too painful, the child had fainted.
Mu Lin reached out his hand and touched it under his nose, feeling a little happy, "Master, there is still breath."
When Shen Nian heard that the child was still alive, she quickly and gently carried the child out, and Mu Feng also pulled a quilt out from the kang.
Although it is now gray and tattered, it is better than nothing.
Mu Feng spread the quilt on the flat ground, and Shen Nian quickly put the child on it.
He took out the water bag from his waist and prepared to feed the child the spiritual spring water.
Mu Feng and Mu Lin both knew that this was Madam’s magical life-saving medicine, so they cooperated by holding up the child’s upper body and pinching his mouth open for Shen Nian to feed him the medicine.
"Sir, can my Xiaobao be saved?" The old woman came over tremblingly.
Seeing my grandson's eyes closed and no breath at all, my heart ached like a knife.
This is the only relative she depends on!
"Auntie, I can't guarantee whether he can be saved, but we will do our best to save him. Now give him some medicine and see if he can be saved."
The old woman also knew that it was already a great honor for these young masters to come and help save people. When she heard that they were going to be fed medicine, she immediately knelt on the ground and nodded, "Thank you, young master, thank you, young master."
"You're welcome, Auntie!" Shen Nian stopped talking nonsense and fed the child two sips of spiritual spring water.
Seeing that his leg was injured, there was no other way to treat it. Mu Feng pulled off some of the lining of his clothes, poured some spiritual spring water on it, and pressed it on the wound first.
"Old man, is there anyone else in your family?" Mu Lin asked from the side.
For half a day, I only heard the old lady asking to save her grandson, but the other family members didn't mention it at all, so I asked with some confusion.
"No more. There are only me and my grandson at home." The old woman began to wipe her tears again as she spoke.
Mu Lin did not continue asking questions.
Time is tight now, and this is not the time to get to the bottom of things.
"Old man, just hold it like this for now, don't move. Your grandson's life should be saved. We still have to save others, so we have to go first."
Seeing that the wound had stopped bleeding, Mu Feng took the old woman's hand and asked her to press it on the child's wound.
"Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir." The old lady thanked him repeatedly when she heard that her grandson's life was saved.
Shen Nian and his companions picked up torches and rushed to the next house.
Anyway, we’ll save as many people as we can!
After a while, Chen Nian brought the guards and rescued everyone in the mansion, and then went to the street to find Chen Nian to help rescue people.
There were thirty personal guards that Shen Nian brought from the capital. Except for seven or eight who were injured, the others were all fine.
With more people around, the speed of rescue increased.
As the sky gradually brightened, the scene on the street looked even more shocking.
During this hour, Shen Nian couldn't remember how many people they had rescued. Anyway, when they saw people trapped underneath, they would pull them out with all their strength. By now, their clothes had already turned gray.
The hems of their clothes had already been torn into pieces and tied around the injured legs and bodies of the people.
"Master, take a break!" Mu Feng couldn't move anymore, so he sat on the ground and gasped for breath.
The spiritual spring water in the water bag on Shen Nian's body had long been used up.
Both hands were bloody.
"Sir, why are you here?" A dusty-looking yamen runner suddenly ran over from the side.
His family lives nearby, and he didn't expect to meet the governor here.
"Save people, what else can you do?" Mu Fengshun said unhappily after he recovered his breath.
The yamen runners also reacted. Seeing that the governor looked like he had just come out of a refugee camp, they actually had tears in their eyes!
"Sir, have you been rescuing people here since the earthquake?"
He had been a yamen runner for more than ten years, and he had never seen any superior personally rescue someone.
What’s more, this is the highest-ranking official in Linzhou, the Governor!
"Well, if we can save one more person, we'll save one more!" Chen Nian looked at the yamen runner who was also covered in dust. Although he didn't know how he knew him, at this moment, there was no need to put on airs. The most important thing was to save people first.
"Are you the only one here? Where are the others?" Mu Feng turned his head and looked around, but didn't see any other yamen runners coming.
"It's my subordinate who lives here." The yamen runner explained quickly.
"Is your family okay?" Shen Nian interrupted and asked.
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