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As time ticked by, the people of the mountain and the soldiers stationed there felt an increasing sense of oppression. When the clock struck three forty in the morning, all the leaders who were aware of the situation turned their gazes toward the mountain. Their eyes were filled with an unprecedented gravity. As the second hand reached fifty-three seconds, they seemed to hear a dull sound emanating from beneath the ground.
Suddenly, they felt as if they were being violently thrown up into the air before crashing back down. The buildings behind them began to shake! An earthquake! It had truly come, precisely as described in books! Just as the leaders regained their footing, they urgently instructed, “Quick, find out how much damage has occurred in the direction of the mountain!”
Even from a distance in Kyoto, they could feel such tremors; one could only imagine the devastation at the epicenter of the quake! At that moment, the situation on the mountain was indeed dire. The forcibly relocated villagers stared blankly toward their homes, which had been reduced to ruins. If they hadn’t been taken away by the soldiers, they might have ended up buried beneath the rubble! All their pent-up resentment over these days suddenly turned into gratitude for these soldiers.
However, these soldiers had no time to accept their thanks. As soon as the earthquake subsided, they rushed into action to conduct searches and prevent any trapped civilians from being left behind. They had already performed countless inspections before this; doing so again after the quake was merely precautionary! After all, it was impossible to monitor every single person’s movements—there would always be a few oddballs who acted unexpectedly!
Just days before the earthquake, they had often caught villagers sneaking back into the area. The signs leading up to this earthquake had frightened those oddballs enough that they didn’t dare return! This also saved the soldiers a great deal of effort.
In Wang Jiefang's courtyard, they felt the tremors as well. His family was living in a tent and remained completely unharmed; his house had been renovated and suffered no significant damage! Yan Bugui's house only had some cracks in the walls; everything else was fine. However, Liu Haizhong's house in the central courtyard collapsed entirely! They hadn’t set up a tent at all; Liu Haizhong and Wu Bilian were sleeping inside when they were both crushed to death on the spot!
Strangely enough, when Liu Haizhong died, he wore a smile on his lips! It seemed he had grown tired of life and felt that death was a form of liberation! Tragically, Liu Haizhong never got to see his eldest son again before he passed away.
As a result, the director of the neighborhood office received a reprimand. What was going on? In an area at the epicenter of the earthquake where no one died, yet someone was crushed to death in a courtyard far away in Kyoto! This reflected poorly on you as the director of this neighborhood office!
Aside from Liu Haizhong's family, Qin Huairu's house also suffered structural damage due to the earthquake. Looking at their cracked walls, Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi dared not stay there any longer. They noticed that Shazhu's house remained completely intact and decided to move in with him instead.
Several other houses in their courtyard also sustained varying degrees of damage! The neighborhood office was busy trying to assess property and casualty losses while also providing assistance to those affected by the disaster.
All of this had nothing to do with Wang Jiefang, who was just a cook!
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