flstandardbreds Chapter 119: All beings are equal under natural disasters
Chapter 119: All beings are equal under natural disasters
Outside Qingshan County, a group of refugees were driven away from the official road by yamen runners.
The yamen runners were full of impatience and directly hit the refugees who were already thin and weak with their whistles. A child of seven or eight years old was knocked down by the panicked crowd, and his tender face accidentally hit a stone on the roadside, and blood immediately flowed out.
"You bastard, you're still hanging around here, I think you're courting death!"
A yamen runner saw a child crying on the side of the road, and immediately raised the whistle stick in his hand and was about to hit the child.
"Sir, please don't hit him! He's still a child..."
A dark-faced man rushed out from the crowd and protected the child, but was hit hard on the back with a stick.
"I don't care if he's a child or an old man. Refugees' lives are worth less than grass. You're the only one who likes to stand out, right? Beat him up!"
The dark-faced man was tall, but his flesh was just skin and bones. He was surrounded and beaten by three yamen runners. He soon vomited blood and fell to the ground.
"If you do this, you will be punished by God!"
The black-faced man was a tough guy. He refused to bow his head even after being beaten like that, and even cursed the yamen runners out loud.
These yamen runners were always making things difficult for these refugees. Few refugees starved to death during these days, but several were beaten to death by the yamen runners.
"Damn it! How dare you, you bastard, curse me! Beat him to death!" The bailiffs raised their whistles again.
At this moment, a cold wind blew, causing everyone present to shiver.
They had never felt such a cold wind in their ears before. It was as if ice chips were kneaded into the air and scattered down with the cold air.
call out!
A gust of wind blew by, and a hailstone the size of an apple fell from the sky, hitting the leading yamen runner squarely on the head.
"Which bastard plotted against me?"
He covered his head and cursed, then reached out and touched the back of his head, which was covered in blood.
shhhhhh!
The sound of breaking wind rang out one after another, and hailstones of all sizes poured down from the sky. The black-faced man hurriedly hugged his head and watched helplessly as the yamen runner's head was smashed open by a watermelon-sized hailstone, and red and white liquid sprayed all over the ground.
Dangdang Dangdang!
Hailstones poured down from the sky, knocking down several people. The black-faced man was also hit several times on the back. He felt so painful that he almost cried out.
"This hail can kill people. We need to find a place to hide."
The black-faced man shouted loudly, but when he looked around, the pipe was bare, so how could it be covered?
At this moment, several more people were killed by hailstones. When he was anxious, he felt as if someone had pulled his trouser legs.
He looked down and saw the child he had just protected, hiding at the edge of a pit on the side of the road, looking at him anxiously:
"Big brother! Come... come in and hide!"
The black-faced man felt his shoulder being hit twice again. He didn't care about anything else and jumped deep into the pit, hugging the child in his arms to protect him.
Fortunately, the wind was strong and the hailstones fell at an angle. The pit where they were hiding just avoided the landing point of the hailstones. However, the black-faced man couldn't help but feel frightened when he heard the crackling sounds around him.
In this way, the horrific hailstorm lasted for about five minutes before it finally stopped.
The black-faced man didn't dare to show up immediately, and a strong smell of blood entered his nose.
He waited for a while, tentatively stood up, and saw the most tragic scene in his life.
Dead bodies were lying all over the ground in various postures.
Among them were the bodies of more than a dozen refugees and the bodies of the three yamen runners.
The two groups of people who were just opposing each other, after being baptized by hail, their bodies were intertwined together like a pool of rotten meat, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other.
"Big brother, we survived!" A child's tender voice sounded, and immediately his attention was attracted by the hailstones of all sizes on the ground.
The black-faced man looked at the devastated land, then at the corpses that had turned into meat paste, and forced himself to suppress his nausea as he touched the money bags of the yamen runners.
……
Qingshan County, Fangshi.
The originally bustling streets were also hit by hail at the same time.
Pedestrians on the street all took shelter in the shops on the roadside. The vendors on the street had no time to hide and simply hid under the shops.
There were many shelters in the city, but some unlucky people were hit on the head by hail and died on the spot.
Some people hid in their homes, but the huge hailstones broke through the roofs and killed them in their homes.
When the hail stopped, people walked onto the streets with lingering fear. Looking at the dilapidated houses, bumpy streets, and dead bodies everywhere, they were a little dazed for a while.
After a long time, a cry was heard, which seemed to have touched the hearts of the survivors, and more cries were heard one after another.
……
Chen Changfan pushed the wooden door open with great effort, only to find that it had been bent and deformed.
He took a step, making a clattering sound.
The ground beneath my feet was covered with hailstones of varying sizes. Glancing around, I could see that the wooden house seemed relatively intact. Apart from a section of the wall being damaged, the damage didn't seem too great.
Everyone walked out of the wooden house one after another, and were dumbfounded when they saw the scene in front of them.
"In my entire life, this is the first time I've seen hailstones the size of a human head. This must be God taking someone away!"
The wrinkles on Hu the bricklayer's face couldn't help but squeeze together. This scene was really too horrifying.
"This... there are hailstones as big as watermelons, which have collapsed the wall!" Old man Liu looked at the big hole on the ground and couldn't help feeling scared.
If he had not followed his boss to hide in the underground cave yesterday, he would probably have been killed by hail.
Shen Cuiyun and Aunt Liu were the most timid. They looked up at the sky from time to time, as if they were afraid that hail would fall again.
Chen Changfan had just quietly confirmed that after the hail stopped, the red words on the turtle shell also disappeared. It was obvious that this natural disaster was over.
Old Wei went out to check around and came back with a gloomy face. "Boss, a lot of trees in the mountains have fallen, and some wild animals have been killed."
Chen Changfan nodded and motioned Hu the roofer and Liu the old man to follow him. The four men prepared to go into the mountains to pick up things.
This hailstorm is sure to kill a lot of wild animals. If you don’t pick them up, they will be eaten by other creatures. It’s better to pick them up and eat them yourself or sell them for money.
Along the way, we saw countless broken trees, a large number of rabbits and pheasants smashed into meat patties, and even the thick-skinned wild boars were not spared.
"This...this hail is too scary. I wonder what the village is like, what the city is like?"
Old man Liu couldn't help but sigh, and no one said anything.
The situation at the foot of the mountain will not be better than on the mountain. Many wild animals have been killed in the mountain, and I am afraid that even more people have been killed in the city.
Under natural disasters, all living beings are equal.
No matter whether you are a human or an animal, rich or poor, male or female, once a hailstone falls, no one can stand.
"Hurry up, we can just pick up some valuable ones and take them back. I'm afraid there will be others coming soon."
Chen Changfan urged, and the four of them immediately sped up.