Chapter 24: Rescue
Xie Xianhua slowly opened his eyes, and his memory returned.
Since discovering that Ji Jie has become excellent, she has revealed that she is unwilling to marry him again......
Whether it is from the man's self-esteem or not, he admits that he is not reconciled!
He was desperate for a change!
But what can he do as a long-term worker?
Hearing that miners can earn a lot of money, he wants to get back to his freedom as soon as possible!
What he didn't expect was that on the first day of work, he encountered the collapse of the mine!
Xie Xianhua smiled bitterly, not knowing whether to say that he was lucky or unlucky.
At the moment when the mine collapsed, he saw the workers who were smashed on the spot.
When two boulders fell from the sky, he felt that he was dead.
But he accidentally got stuck in the gap between the stacks of two boulders and escaped his life.
Xie Xianhua sighed, wanting to turn his stiff body.
Suddenly, his pupils shrank, his hands trembled, and he groped for his unconscious legs in the dark.
It was wet, and a stone pressed tightly against his calf.
His heart sank, his fingers trembled slightly, stretched out to the tip of his nose, sniffed lightly, and a smell of rust came.
It's-
It's the smell of blood!
Xie Xianhua twisted his eyebrows and rationally analyzed the current situation.
After half a pillar of incense, Xie Xianhua clearly realized that he was afraid of ......
Can't live!
He closed his eyes weakly, and the taste of waiting quietly for death was not pleasant.
He opened his eyes halfway, and his family's faces kept flashing in his mind, and finally, Ji Jing's chubby face was frozen in his mind.
"Whew-"
Xie Xianhua laughed self-deprecatingly, he thought, maybe in this way, Ji Jie will be able to marry a man he likes in the future.
Having lost too much blood, he fell asleep in a drowsy state.
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Outside the mine.
Ji Wan looked at Qian Ergongzi angrily.
"Now it's important to save people, Qian Ergongzi is not even willing to give out the money to hire nearby villagers, wouldn't he let the people buried in it wait for death?"
Second Prince Qian frowned, a village girl dared to speak to him in such a tone?
He was a little displeased.
"Second son, the Lang Zhong we brought said that if it weren't for Miss Ji's action, maybe more people would die here."
After checking the casualties, Steward Qian came back and whispered in the ear of the second son of Qian.
Qian Ergongzi's face was slightly pale when he looked at Ji Wan.
He patiently explained: "How I don't want to save them, but depending on the time, the people inside are not saved at all." β
"If you don't save it, how do you know that you can't save it?" Ji Wan was so angry that she choked back.
"It is better to spend this money to invite people, it is better to add more silver and give more compensation to the family of the deceased, and their lives will be better, which is precedent."
Qian Er Gongzi felt that Ji Wan was unreasonable!
A mean-looking lady smiled flatteringly at the second son of Qian, and then glared at Ji Wan fiercely.
"Yes, girl, don't you have a backache when you stand and talk? They are all dead, but we who are alive must live well, right? β
Ji Wan laughed happily, and rushed over the news with sharp eyes, waiting for the villagers to receive the compensation, their voices were cold and sarcastic.
"People don't know life and death inside, as his family, you come here, you don't want to race against time to save people, the first thing you think about is how much silver can you share?"
She shook her head and sighed.
"You say, 'If the people inside know, will they be cold?"
Ji Wan saw that someone had a look of shame on her face, and asked even more sharply.
"Take this money, and sleep at night? Aren't you afraid to open your eyes and see him standing at the head of your bed with his face covered in blood? β
Many people's faces are black and white, and they are uncomfortable with their faces.
"Mother's third sonβ"
Suddenly, Aunt Xie's heart-rending cry and chaotic footsteps came.
Ji Wan turned around and saw that most of the Qinglu villagers, carrying hoes, shovels and other tools on their shoulders, hurried over.
She went up, supported the crumbling Aunt Xie, and silently checked the pulse with her hands......
Half-ringing, Ji Jing's brows furrowed slightly.
Fortunately, in the past few days, she often quietly mixed the spiritual spring water for Aunt Xie to drink, otherwise with the situation of great sorrow and misery after Aunt Xie was seriously injured, her life would be damaged.
Ji Wan, who was relieved, bowed deeply to the villagers of Qinglu.
"Thank you for coming to help, in the future, whenever you need Ji Wan, just speak."
"Hey, human life is a matter of heaven, we know it, why do we have to run."
"Yes, our Zhuang people don't have anything, but we don't lack strength."
"Don't be polite to everyone, it's all from the same village, and everyone has a time of difficulty."
Bai Youfu beckoned everyone to work, while sighing and comforting Ji Wan.
On the way here, he asked Bai Duowang about the situation, and he already felt in his heart that the hope of rescuing Xie San was almost equal to zero.
But how can he bear it when he sees it?
The rescue team has dozens of young adults from Qinglu Village, plus the villagers who were previously squeezed by Ji Wan and came to receive compensation, also silently joined the rescue operation.
The speed of the rescue is visibly faster.
"It's out, another one, and it's still angry, come on!"
"I have one too!"
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More and more people are being dug up.
The survivors who survived the death and saw their relatives again, after waking up, hugged their relatives and cried like children.
The villagers who came to receive the compensation money and firmly believed that their relatives were dead looked more and more embarrassed.
Behind Ji Jing, a shadow quietly followed.
After she finished bandaging the injured, she got up, looked at the second son of Qian behind her helplessly, frowned, and asked angrily.
"Second son Qian, don't you see that everyone is busy saving people?"
Qian Er Gongzi saw the disgust in Ji Jing's eyes, he touched his nose and coughed dryly.
"My dad and brother are both away from home, it's the first time I've dealt with something like this, I made a wrong decision and almost hurt someone, thanks to you standing up to stop it."
His voice paused, "I want to say thank you to you." β
Ji Wan looked at Qian Ergongzi in surprise, this person knows that mistakes can be changed, his attitude is modest, and his quality is not bad.
She looked up at the slightly westerly sun, and asked in a deep voice, "Can the second son send some food to everyone?" β
"Oh, I didn't even think of it if you didn't say it, I'll do it." Qian Ergongzi patted his head in annoyance, and hurriedly went down to order.
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In the deepest part of the pitch-black mine, there was a faint breath, which seemed to be there and nothing.
A pair of dark eyes opened in vain, and Xie Xianhua was already able to adapt to the darkness here.
It was still a small space, and he sighed at the foul smell of corpses nearby.
"Gollumβ"
In the abdominal cavity, hunger struck, and the stinging sensation of the stomach walls grinding against each other made Xie Xianhua twist his sword eyebrows.
Are you going to die here?
He covered his eyes and rubbed his burning stomach weakly with his hands.
Suddenly, his hand touched his arms, a bulge the size of an adult's fist.
He paused for a moment, and suddenly remembered that he had taken a tomato from Ji Wan's hand, which had grown extraordinarily watery......
Huge surprises suddenly fill my heart!
He took the tomato out of his bosom and put it in his mouth and took a small bite......
The sweet juice instantly fills the entire mouth, and the tomato juice enters the stomach, and a warm feeling rises from the abdomen, making people's desperate hunger no longer unbearable.
Hallucinations?
Xie Xianhua twisted his eyebrows, the reaction to a mouthful of tomatoes was so big?
Even the numb calves pressed by the huge boulder are sentient!
He thought about it, but finally reluctantly put away the rest of the tomatoes.
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Seven days have passed since the accident.
In the deep night, the clouds are dense and the weather is hot, and the rain is coming.
Outside the coal cave, several bonfires were lit, and the orange light shone on the busy people, and sweat soaked everyone's clothes.
The movement of people swinging pickaxes and hoes becomes heavy.
Recently, more and more people have been dug up, but the atmosphere is getting more and more sluggish......
"Another corpse, carry it over, vomit-"
The stench of decaying corpses came to the nostrils, and the freshly excavated corpses were already highly decomposed.
"Hey, I don't think there's any living people in there anymore."
"On such a hot day, I haven't dug up any living people for two days, and I guess there is no panting in it."
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More and more people are muttering.
Bai Youfu sighed and patted Daddy Xie's shoulder, all without saying a word.
Aunt Xie sobbed, Qiao and Bao had sad faces, and Xie Da Xie and Xie both had red eyes.
"Forget it, it's all fate to delay everyone for so many days, thank you, thank you......"
Father Xie looked at the exhaustion on everyone's face, his back was a little more stiff, his voice was choked, and he accepted his fate.
Ji Wan frowned, is this about to give up?
Reason told Ji Wei that a person was trapped in a closed place, without food or drink, for seven days......
Even in the case that the person may be injured, the probability of living is equal to zero.
But it's been so hard for so many days, and she can dig to the deepest part and let her give up, Ji Wan always feels unwilling.
She bit her lip and looked up, "I want to stay here tonight." β
"My old wife will stay too." Aunt Xie was short of breath and had a low-grade fever.
"I'll stay too." Xie Da said in a sullen voice.
Qiao Shi stood up and walked behind Xie Da, the meaning was obvious.
Immediately afterwards, Xie Er and Bao Shi also stood up.
Xie Dazhuang, Xie Hutou, and Xie Xiaohua stood silently beside the adults, holding hands.
"Ahem, cough, then we will stay at the Xie family, and you all go back, everyone has worked hard these days."
Father Xie, who relieved his emotions, suppressed the itchy cough in his throat and made a final decision.
"It's-"
Bai Youfu let out a "hey".
He wanted to say that everyone stayed, but looking at the villagers who insisted on helping for a few days and nights, and were exhausted, he couldn't open his mouth.
"Let's all go back, the old village chief, you can also go back, you can't delay everyone so much because of the Xie family."
Aunt Xie wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said gratefully.
Bai Youfu nodded helplessly, smoked a dry cigarette, and waved everyone to clean up their things.
He walked up to Ji Jing and sighed.
"Girl, I still have a matter, although it is a bit inappropriate to say it now, but this matter cannot be delayed, in case the fish are smashed on their hands, Wangshui Village is not a good stubble......"
Ji Wan nodded: "No matter what the result of Ming'er is, I will go back, and I won't make it difficult for everyone." β
Bai Youfu heard Ji Wan's assurance, and the pressure in his heart suddenly lightened.
After sending off the villagers of Qinglu Village, the people of Qianfu also went back to rest one after another, and only the Xie family was left in the entire coal mining area.
They silently waved their pickaxes and hoes, carrying rocks and dirt......
Xie Xianhua woke up from his slumber again, hungry, hurt, and waiting for death, making every breath extremely difficult for him.
He even had suicidal thoughts, but when he thought of his family, he was reluctant to let him persevere.
Xie Xianhua touched his arms, there was a mouthful there, he saved and saved, and only a small bite of tomatoes remained.
With a sigh, Xie Xianhua took out the last small bite of the tomato, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.
"Are there miracles in this world?" He muttered.
"Bang-bang, bang-"
Suddenly, there was a dull sound, looming.
Xie Xianhua's spirit was shocked, and there were still people who were rescuing?!
He excitedly grabbed a stone beside him, and knocked it again and again, knocking on the stone beside him.
"Bang-"
"Bang-"
"Bang-"
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