There were people kneeling in front of them, leaving Xinyou with nowhere to hide.
"Neighbors, get up quickly and eat some porridge to satisfy your stomach. Don't go home yet."
After Xin You finished speaking, Liu Zhou shouted again at the top of his lungs.
People got up one after another. Some people just threw the basket away because they were frightened, and more people subconsciously protected their things, but the porridge was still there.
But at this time, no one was in the mood to eat porridge. They looked around blankly and started talking.
"Was it an earthquake just now?"
"Probably, I felt the ground move."
"But why are the houses in our area the only one that collapsed? Look over there, everything is fine." Someone pointed to the distance.
There seems to be no change there, except that more and more people are coming out of their homes to check what's going on.
"I know!" A young man pointed at the collapsed house and shouted, "It's snow, it collapsed under the weight of snow!"
"It's actually snow!"
After a moment of silence, many people in the crowd burst into tears.
"Oh my God, we are already too poor to survive, and we have to take away the house we live in..."
"Uuuuuuuuah, the poorer we are, the harder it will be for us..."
Several carriages dragging wooden barrels drove slowly, leaving deep indentations on the snow.
The aroma of roasted meat spread as the lid of the wooden barrel was opened. People's cries subsided when they smelled the aroma of meat.
"Neighbors, people are better than anything else, eat meat first!" Liu Zhou said loudly.
Perhaps the long-term poverty has made these people accustomed to seeing sad things, and they have tempered their toughness. After a brief moment of losing control of their emotions, they quickly accepted the facts and lined up skillfully to wait for their meat to be divided.
"Thank you, Miss Kou."
"Thank you, Miss Kou!"
Everyone who received the roast pork expressed their sincere thanks to Xin You.
Gu Yu stood in the crowd, looking at the girl who was attracting everyone's attention, and resisted the urge to ask her.
He was studying in the Imperial College, and she opened a bookstore near the Imperial College. After that, she had many opportunities to ask.
By the way, Imperial College!
Gu Yu's expression changed and she said to Gu Yuniang, "Mom, I want to go back to the Imperial College to take a leave of absence first."
The Imperial College has regulations that points will be deducted for unexcused absences, and students who reach a certain number of times will be expelled from school.
"go quickly."
Gu Yu was worried and warned her mother again: "Mom, I will come back immediately after I take leave. Don't rush home to look for things. Wait until I come back."
"Mom knows, please go quickly."
Gu Yu ran away, from her ruined home to row upon row of shops. The more she ran towards a prosperous place, the more things looked the same as usual.
If anything, more and more people are taking to the streets, talking about the shaking on the ground just now.
In the Imperial College, teachers and students were also discussing this matter.
"Gu Yu, you came back late today." A supervisor was very surprised to see Gu Yu running in a hurry.
In the eyes of the supervisors, Gu Yu is a good student who is never late.
"Excuse me, where is Inspector Wen?"
Someone who saw Wen Jiancheng pointed out the place to Gu Yu.
Gu Yu ran over and found that in addition to Wen Jiancheng, there were also Meng Jijiu and others.
Meng Jijiu was instructing Wen Jiancheng and others: "You guys comfort the good students, I'll go make inquiries."
Although the earthquake just now was so slight that people thought it was an illusion, Meng Jijiu's expression was solemn.
Although he has never experienced it, the books he has read let him know that when they only feel a slight shaking, there must be landslides and earth-shattering, and it will be hell on earth.
Gu Yu saluted Meng Jijiu and the others, and walked up to Wen Jiancheng: "Sir, student Gu Yu would like to take a leave of absence."
"Why are you asking for leave?" Inspector Wen asked warmly.
The Imperial College is strict about personal leave. Most students asking for personal leave are because something bad has happened to them.
Gu Yu lowered his head and said, "The ground shook this morning, and all the houses in the student's area collapsed under the weight of the snow."
Meng Jijiu was stunned after hearing this.
Turn around and strode to Gu Yu.
"Where do you live?"
"The student lives in the Beiloufang area."
"You came from home? So... what are the casualties?" Meng Jijiu asked this, feeling like a stone was weighing on his heart.
Gu Yu hesitated and said, "There may not be any casualties."
"How is that possible!" Several gentlemen present shook their heads.
Meng Jijiu looked strange: "Are there no casualties?"
"The students are not sure either." Gu Yu hesitated for a moment, but still told what Xin You had done, "When the house collapsed, the neighbors were waiting for the roast meat, and no one went back...but there may be some who didn't go out. Students don’t know.”
Meng Jijiu's face looked much better.
If what this student said is true, even if there are people who don't go out, they are very few. Compared with the large number of casualties, this is an excellent result.
"Is that Miss Kou from Qingsong Bookstore?"
"Exactly."
Meng Jijiu approved the leave for Gu Yu on behalf of Wen Jiancheng, and got on the carriage and went to Beiloufang with Gu Yu.
When he saw the ruins, Meng Jijiu was shocked.
The house collapsed like this. If people had been at home at that time, it is unimaginable how many people would have died.
"Where's Miss Kou?" Meng Jijiu asked as he recognized Liu Zhou, the boy from Qingsong Bookstore.
"My boss is going back first and asked us to stay and see if there is anything we need help with."
Meng Jijiu nodded and silently looked at the collapsed houses.
After waiting for a period of time without any further ground shaking, the neighbors had returned to their homes and began to rummage through the rubble for usable items, almost all with their bare hands.
Meng Jijiu didn't stay long and went into the palace.
There were many ministers entering the palace at this time. They gathered together and discussed today's changes while waiting for the emperor's summons.
Emperor Xingyuan's expression was extremely serious when he saw his ministers, and he immediately arranged for various government offices to go to understand the situation in Beijing.
At this time, the students in the Imperial College were not aware of the significance of the small shaking in the early morning. As the news of Gu Yu's leave spread, their attention was focused here.
[In view of the general environment,
"Have you heard that all the houses in Gu Yu's area collapsed? Fortunately, Miss Kou was there to help with porridge, so many people escaped the disaster."
"Why did Miss Kou go to Gu Yu's house to give porridge?"
"Who knows..."
"Brother Duan, aren't you Miss Kou's cousin? Do you know why Miss Kou is giving porridge there?"
Duan Yunlang, who was surrounded by people, looked confused: "What are you giving porridge to? I don't know."
In a room, Zhang Xu slapped his thigh: "I know!"
Several boys quickly asked: "Why?"
Zhang Xu's voice trembled with excitement: "Have you forgotten what Miss Kou said?"
"She said there was going to be a bloody disaster in Gu Yu——"
"That's right! Think about it, if Gu Yu hadn't been giving porridge to Miss Kou, she would have been at home at that time, and the house would have been crushed when it fell!"
"Hiss, wouldn't that mean you're dead!"
"So, Miss Kou went there to give porridge just to save Gu Yu?"
"It's not important!" Zhang Xu doesn't care about Gu Yu's life or death, "What's important is that Miss Kou really knows how to read faces!"
