The collapse of the Evergreen house is not the end, but a beginning.

When we were cooking dinner that evening, five or six houses collapsed one after another in the middle of the village, at the north end of the village, and at the south end of the village.

Unfortunately, I lost my money and my family was in a mess during the New Year.

Fortunately, there was no life-threatening danger. When the main room of one family collapsed, the whole family happened to go to the kitchen to eat and escaped.

The financial losses were graded according to severity, and one family was the most serious because not only did the house they slept in collapse, but the pig pen in the backyard also collapsed, crushing to death a large fat pig that weighed more than 100 kilograms and a four or five-year-old pig.

A ten pound piglet.

When Yang Huazhong rushed to the scene with the rescuers, the man in charge was squatting in the snow with his head hanging down and smoking a cigarette. The woman in charge of the house was sitting on the edge of the flattened pigsty with disheveled hair, crying and wishing she could follow the two men.

It would be better if the pigs died together...

Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang were also in the rescue team. They heard whispers from people nearby. It turned out that the boy's name was Gangzi and the girl's name was Sufen.

Gangzi is about the same age as Luo Fengtang, and Sufen is about the same age as Yang Ruoqing, and she was married from another village.

Gangzi's father had died a long time ago, and there was a blind old woman in the family who gave birth to three girls in one go before she had a little son.

Life at home was difficult, but the couple dared to work hard and took care of the crops in the fields harder than anyone else. At the beginning of the year, they borrowed money from Sufen's family to buy a piglet and raised it to more than 100 pounds.

After the rice and cotton were put into the warehouse in the autumn, Gangzi paid back the money he borrowed from his father-in-law to buy a piglet, and added some more to buy a second piglet.

The couple's original plan was to sell the pig to the Sun family in about ten days to exchange money for meat for the New Year.

The remaining piglet will be carefully raised and kept for next year.

Unexpectedly, a heavy snowfall dashed all the couple's hopes.

"My pig, my heart and soul, how are you going to live like this..."

Sufen sat on the ground and cried her heart out. The second daughter and the third daughter were squatting beside her with tears streaming down their cheeks. The eldest daughter was standing aside with her youngest brother on her back, looking at the broken home and the collapsed parents. At this age, Baobao Luo was

A similar girl also had red and swollen eyes and was frightened.

Only her two-year-old little brother on her back didn't understand what was going on at home. He grabbed his eldest sister's hair and twisted it between his fingers, playing with it.

Ever since she became a mother more than ten years ago, Yang Ruoqing has hated to see such a scene.

She walked to Sufen and knelt down, softly comforting her.

Luo Fengtang went over to talk to Gangzi.

Seeing so many rescuers coming, Gangzi endured his grief and stood up to talk to Luo Fengtang and Yang Huazhong. He told them the situation at the time of the incident, the estimate of property damage, and the approximate location of things that needed to be excavated.

The place of landing.

It happened that Xiaojie's father was also in the rescue team. Xiaojie said to Gangzi: "As long as the pig doesn't crush it into a rotten watermelon, I will accept it!"

Gangzi was so grateful that he almost knelt down to Xiaojie's father, but Yang Huazhong stopped him: "The first priority is to dig out the pig."

Gangzi nodded, and after some discussion, they determined the approximate location of the pig, so they first lowered the shovel from the pig pen.

The pigsty was not big and simple, so we quickly cleared away the snow and lifted out the big fat pig.

The big fat pig had a hole in its head and was bleeding, and it was dead.

This year, the pig was carefully raised by Gangzi and his wife. The pig was fed until its skin was white and its hair was thin, and it was fat and strong.

As she was carrying it past Yang Ruoqing, the pair of pig's hind legs caught her eye.

Duanduan looks like two big guitars, perfect for making Jinhua ham.

Looking for an opportunity, Yang Ruoqing approached Xiaojie's father and ordered the pig's two hind legs before returning to continue participating in the rescue work.

It was freezing cold, so Sufen took her three daughters and her youngest son, as well as some belongings, beddings, clothes, etc. that had just been retrieved from the ruins, to the ancestral hall to settle them down. Gangzi stayed at the scene.

Yang Ruoqing escorted their mothers over. On the way, she heard the second daughter holding the eldest daughter's hand and timidly saying: "Sister, I heard that the ancestral hall is a place where the dead live. It is haunted at night. I'm afraid..."

The eldest daughter said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, they are all just to scare you children."

The third daughter, who was carried on Yang Ruoqing's back, also said in a sweet voice: "I, I, I saw a lot of wooden plaques in the ancestral hall..."

The eldest daughter said: "That is the ancestor's spiritual tablet."

"What is the spiritual card?" the second daughter asked again.

"The spiritual tablet is the spiritual tablet with the names of the ancestors engraved on it." The eldest daughter was very patient with her two younger sisters and answered almost every question they had.

The third daughter was a little curious: "Are there ancestors living in the spirit tablets? Will they come out in the middle of the night to scare us?"

The eldest daughter's voice was a little urgent and helpless: "Children, don't talk nonsense, we are almost here."

The third daughter shrank her neck in fright, and the second daughter did not dare to ask any more questions.

Yang Ruoqing listened to the entire conversation between the three sisters, and couldn't help but turn her head to the little girl behind her and said, "Don't be afraid, our ancestors will protect you."

The third girl's eyes widened in surprise. She probably still had many childish questions to ask, but she was a stranger to Yang Ruoqing and didn't dare to talk much, so she smiled shyly and continued to lie on her back, as well-behaved as a kitten.

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Yang Ruoqing smiled kindly, and used her arms to lift up the third girl's little body to make her more comfortable.

When he turned around, he happened to catch the grateful gaze of Su Fen next to him.

"Sister Qing'er, thank you so much for being so enthusiastic about helping our family, otherwise it would be freezing cold and we wouldn't know what to do..."

Yang Ruoqing smiled: "We are all fellow villagers and neighbors, so there is no need to be polite."

Sufen nodded, glanced at the three girls Yang Ruoqing was carrying, and said, "I just said some childish words, which made you laugh."

Yang Ruoqing shook her head: "What are you talking about? We are all mothers, and my daughter often says childish things, which makes people laugh to death."

Sufen said: "Your baby is sensible."

Yang Ruoqing curled her lips.

When they were about to reach the entrance of the ancestral hall, the second daughter suddenly shouted in surprise, "There are so many people in the ancestral hall."

The third daughter said, "I seem to smell the aroma of vegetable porridge and chive pancakes."

The eldest daughter restrained the two younger sisters: "Don't just think about eating. It's most important for us to settle down first."

Yang Ruoqing said to Su Fen: "Don't be afraid of staying in the ancestral hall at night. Before you, there were already three families living in the ancestral hall."

The earliest family was the Changrong family, and later two more families came in. Counting Gangzi and Sufen's family, this is the fourth family.

There are several other houses, but because the damage was not very serious, they did not move here.
Chapter completed!