pastoral beggar woman

Chapter 267 Refugees Attack (1)
"What did you say? Earthquakes in the neighboring county!?" Qin Shuang looked at the buddy who came from Xi Le Building in surprise, never expecting to hear such sudden and incredible news.

She knows that in ancient times, because of the backward conditions in various aspects, many natural and man-made disasters that could have been solved could not be solved, and they would cause catastrophes in the end, and the frequency was quite high. The county and the surrounding areas have never heard of any major disasters. At most, the weather will be a little bit dry and the harvest will be less, but it will not cause a large number of people to starve to death.

She didn't expect that the first news she heard after coming to this era was actually an earthquake!That is an earthquake!

Qin Tian and Zhang Qiaoting were also stunned by the news, because Ah Chen was quite calm, thinking that the earthquake in the neighboring county was not caused by Tongfu Village or Zhuangzi, and that it had nothing to do with him if it did not affect his wife's wealth and life.

Qin Shuang really wanted to know the magnitude of the earthquake, but thought that it would be impossible to measure it in this era, so he turned a corner and asked, "Are there any casualties among the people in the neighboring counties?"

The man said: "It is said that more than half of the houses collapsed, and the ground is all cracked! There are one or two hundred people who were killed by the crush alone, and even more were slightly injured, adding up to thousands of people!" In fact, the earthquake happened for seven days. Now, if Qin Shuang didn't want to go to the county town if it wasn't necessary, as if he was going to hibernate after the winter, and Zhuangzi didn't have to go to supervise the work often, he would have gotten the news a long time ago.

Qin Tian and Zhang Qiaoting immediately gasped when they heard the words, thousands of people were killed and injured at once!This can be regarded as a catastrophe!Generally, the outbreak of a small epidemic only affects a few hundred people at most, and most of them are brought under control in time. This kind of natural disaster involving thousands of people is afraid that the entire government will be alarmed!
Even though the earthquake is only in the neighboring county, once the people in the neighboring county are affected by the disaster, is there any reason why they are not affected as the neighboring county?Sure enough, the man immediately said with a sad face: "This earthquake is said to have affected the county town of Zhoushui County and surrounding villages and towns. They were displaced, and the government couldn't solve the housing problem for thousands of people at once. During the earthquake, the granary in Zhoushui County also collapsed. More than half of the food in it was ruined, and there was not enough for the affected people. Later, I don't know who Where did I find out that this earthquake may have a follow-up, although the response will be smaller than the first time, the people who suffered were still so frightened that they did not dare to stay in Zhoushui County. It’s really spreading around.”

Qin Shuang thought to himself, generally there will be aftershocks in earthquakes, and most of them will be much higher in magnitude than the first one, but occasionally there will be an earthquake with a similar magnitude to the first one, which is called a catastrophe.

A flash of inspiration flashed in Ah Chen's mind, and he looked up at the buddy: "You said that those guarding people spread to the surrounding area. Could it be that there are already refugees pouring in from the county town?"

"Really!" The waiter knew that the four signature dishes in the restaurant were from this family, and his owner was very polite to them, so even if he heard that Chen was a beggar, he was still polite to him.

"Hundreds of refugees have come to the county in the past two days. These people are big and few, and most of them are ordinary people. The Dapan people have almost nothing left on them, and they can't afford to live in an inn, and now most of them live in the north corner of the city."

Just like there is a slum in Rongzhen, although the living standard in the county seat is several times higher than that in Rongzhen, the gap between the poor and the rich is already obvious in this era. The bigger the city, the more slums there are. Because big cities pay more attention to city appearance, slums will be more remote and cleaner than other places.

(End of this chapter)