After finding out from Gu Xihe that Ji Danqing knew about Shu Huan's whereabouts, Gu Xiran finally made up his mind.
We haven't met each other for long, but he still understands Ji Danqing's personality, and knows that he won't leave Shu Huan alone. Since he is taking care of him, things won't be too bad. Maybe he can reunite with Shu Huan once he leaves the house. .
With this slightly lightened mood, he even felt light in his running steps.
All the way out, the servants of the Gu family didn't know what happened in Songhetang, and no one came to stop him, but when he was about to walk outside the door, suddenly the ground under his feet shook violently, and he could only spin around, his center of gravity was unstable. , almost fell to the ground.
The shaking continued, and there were screams and panic all around immediately, and many people were shouting: "The earthquake, the earthquake!"
Gu Xiran's heart trembled, he didn't think about his own safety, but Shu Huan's first.
Regardless of the shaking of the ground, he rushed to the door of Gu's house like flying—
At this moment, Shu Huan had just had supper, lit an oil lamp, and was teaching Liang Chen and Mei Jing to learn calligraphy. She had just written the word "I" on the paper, when the dog outside the door suddenly barked crazily.
Shu Huan was startled, threw down his pen and stood up, then saw the lights in front of him start to flicker, and then heard the doors and windows slamming against each other.
"earthquake"
This time, Meimei reacted quickly and jumped up directly.
Unexpectedly, it really came and the degree of shaking was obviously much more severe than the foreshocks of the previous two days
For a moment, Shu Huan felt an almost hopeless fear, but fortunately he calmed down immediately, and said in a trembling voice, "Take the backpack and get out quickly."
As soon as she finished speaking, she blew out the oil lamp on the table, for fear that the earthquake would knock down the lamp and cause a fire.
Fortunately, it blew it off, and as soon as it was blown out, the oil lamp was shaken and fell on the table, then rolled to the ground, smashed to pieces, and the oil splashed all over the ground.
In a panic, no one paid attention to such small details, and the three servant girls followed Shu Huan and ran towards the door in a panic. Before running two steps, Liang Chen was knocked down to the ground.
Shu Huan had already run outside the door at this time, and when he heard the exclamation, he looked back and saw that Liang Chen was struggling to climb out of the house, so he gave her a hand. As soon as the two of them staggered into the yard, a large piece of roof tiles fell from the eaves, and there was a loud sound of shattering. They were also coughed by the raised ashes, and their eyes were too dazzled to open, so they could only grope and escape.
The prepared escape bag was thrown in the small firewood room closest to the door. At this moment, Meijing and Xinxin had already brought it out. Shu Huan took the backpack that belonged to her and carried it on her body, and then picked up the bag that she had already sewed. Putting the padded jacket with a hidden bag on his head, he rushed out the door.
All of this actually happened within tens of seconds. As soon as their front feet stepped over the threshold, the vibration of their rear feet stopped.
In the dark night, it is difficult to see clearly, and after the shaking stopped, the dust in the sky has not yet fallen, and it is even more difficult to see everything in front of you, but there are crying, calling for help, cursing, crying, and various unidentifiable sounds mixed in. One piece, coming from all directions like a tide.
Standing there, Shu Huan still felt slightly dizzy and shaking, but when he felt it carefully, he knew that the ground was no longer trembling.
The others, like her, had rapid heartbeats and were in shock.
After a while, Meijing came back to her senses, looked around, and said in a trembling voice: "Girl, it seems that a house collapsed over there... I don't know if someone was buried..."
Liang Chen was a little calmer than her: "It's so dark that I can't see anything clearly, I'll go to the room and find a lantern to come out."
Just as she was about to leave, Shu Huan grabbed her and said, "Don't go, it's too dangerous."
It's really dangerous. Just after the first earthquake, the originally strong house looked extremely unstable. Besides, there are usually aftershocks after a major earthquake. Who knows if the house will collapse after two more earthquakes.
Fortunately, she caught Liang Chen, and not long after the words fell, the ground shook again, and the four of them were shaken like a small boat in the ocean, shaking their feet unsteadily, and after a few seconds, they heard a rattling sound , I don’t know what broke, and then the whole house collapsed in half in front of them
Such noises continued one after another, and the ears of the four people were so shaken that they could no longer hear any sound. They could only feel the debris of bricks and stones flying around, hitting their faces and bodies with extreme pain.
Shu Huan covered most of his head with a padded jacket, then moved the backpack in front of his body to protect his vitals, then pushed the other three people who were frightened and stupid, dragged one at random, and felt in the dark, with one foot higher than the other. He ran out of the alley with his feet low.
The earthquake was stronger than she had imagined. The most important thing was that she couldn't tell whether it was the foreshock or the main earthquake. Run to an open area to take shelter.
I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune. During the earthquake, many places were on fire, and the fire was blown by the wind, and the fire became more and more fierce. See the way to escape under your feet.
Shu Huan was out of breath and kept coughing. She didn't know how many times the ground shook, when it was shaking, and when it stopped shaking. What are those sometimes hard and sometimes soft things, she has only one thought in her mind——
run
Get up after falling down, stop and run when you bump into someone, grit your teeth if you can’t run anymore, and continue to insist on escaping from here as soon as possible, and running to a relatively safe place
She hasn't exercised for a long time, and her body's load capacity is extremely limited. If it wasn't for her desire to survive and her belief in wanting to see Gu Xiran again, she would never have been able to run with a heavy load for so long. Her throat was already smoky from the smoke. Her breathing was dry and cracked, and a strong smell of blood spread in her mouth. Every time she took a breath, she felt that her lungs might be clogged and burst due to the inhalation of a large amount of dust.
However, no matter where she went, she could see half-collapsed ruins everywhere, and there were raging flames, and what she heard were crying and cries for help pouring in like a tide. In front of her eyes is the super destructive power of nature, as if God's punishment came
She couldn't control her body trembling, it was extreme fear and extreme shock. She has always known that earthquakes are extremely destructive, but she has never experienced it personally, and she can't imagine such a tragedy and horror. She doesn't even know if she can escape from this hell on earth.
Suddenly a thought popped into my mind-
Thank God, Gu Xiran is not here, so she doesn't have to experience all that she has experienced, but she also hates that Gu Xiran is not here, making her feel so helpless and terrified at this moment