In the following days, the officials were busy with post-disaster affairs. Liu Jian and Cui Ying just hurried home to take a look and then returned to the yamen to get busy again.
Liu Shichu couldn't do anything else, so she donated a lot of money and rice to the court. She didn't lack these things, and she was willing to use them to help others.
In fact, if she had known about the earthquake in advance, she would have told Liu Jian long ago and asked him to find some preventive measures to avoid heavy casualties among the people.
But Liu Shichu did not know it in advance, because in the original world trajectory (that is, the life in which Cui Anhua was reborn, and in Cui Anhua’s previous life, the original owner had experienced this earthquake, but the original owner’s memory that Shichu received was after Cui Anhua’s rebirth), the original owner died before the earthquake and had no idea that an earthquake would occur, so there was no memory of this earthquake, and Shichu naturally would not know about it.
If there was anyone who could predict it in advance, it was only one person, and that was the reborn Cui Anhua. Cui Anhua had lived a lifetime and should have known about the earthquake, but unfortunately he did not seem to have warned anyone.
In Liangzhou City, Cui Anhua, who had just sent a team of troops to deal with the invading Rong people, heard the words of the messenger who had just come from the capital and asked in shock: "The earth's dragon turned over? You said that the earth's dragon turned over in the capital a few days ago, and many people were killed and injured?"
He grabbed the dishevelled messenger in disbelief, but suddenly he remembered that he had indeed heard about an earthquake in the capital in his previous life. Unfortunately, he did not take it seriously at all. Firstly, the capital was too far away from Liangzhou, so even if such a big event as an earthquake occurred, it would not cause much discussion in Liangzhou; secondly, at this time, the Rong people and bandit armies often invaded the border, and he was busy with this matter and had no time to care about the affairs of the capital.
However, because of his lack of attention and care, he is now being taught a lesson.
The messenger thought he was worried about his family in the capital, so he answered again: "Yes, the earth dragon turned over, and many people died."
"How is the family? Are the old lady and the lady okay? And how about the newborn young masters?" Cui Anhua asked hurriedly, staring at the messenger, afraid to hear bad news from him.
The messenger felt very stressed when he was looked at like this, and he stammered, "I, I don't know. But the old lady, the madam should be fine. If something happened, someone in the mansion would definitely come to look for the general. Now that no one has come to look for her, it must be nothing serious..."
Cui Anhua let him go, not knowing whether he was comforting himself or really believed the messenger's words, he murmured: "You are right, they must be fine..."
He remembered that when he died in his previous life, his mother and Jiang Wenyue were still alive and well, so he immediately felt relieved. Since they were fine in the previous life, they would definitely be fine in this life too.
As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, he felt a chill down his back. It turned out that he had just broken out in a cold sweat because of nervousness and worry. He waved his hand to let the messenger go down to rest, and then he sat alone and recalled the events of his previous life.
In his previous life, it was a long time later that he learned about the earthquake from Liu Shichu's letter. However, Liu Shichu did not describe the severity of the earthquake in the letter. She just said lightly that although some old houses collapsed, some people were injured, and several servants were accidentally killed, everyone else was safe, and asked him not to worry. She said that as long as she was there, she would protect the family well and he would have no worries.
It was precisely because of Liu Shichu's understatement and the fact that when he returned to the capital in his previous life, all the collapsed houses in the capital had been rebuilt and there were not many old traces left by the earthquake that Cui Anhua thought that the earthquake was not serious. So even if he was reborn in this life, he didn't take it to heart at all, so he didn't inform Cui's mother and Jiang Wenyue in advance and let them prepare in advance.
Thinking of this, Cui Anhua felt mixed emotions. It was undeniable that Liu Shichu was truly a good wife and mother. As long as she was around, he wouldn't have to worry about anything at home. He wouldn't have to be distracted by his family outside and could focus on making achievements without distraction.
In his previous life, Liu Shichu downplayed the severity of the earthquake, certainly because she didn’t want him to worry about his family. But it was because of her kindness that he ignored the earthquake, which resulted in him not being able to remind his mother and Jiang Wenyue in this life. So he somewhat resented Liu Shichu’s “understanding”.
If Liu Shichu knew that he was thinking this way, he would definitely think that the original owner in the previous life was so kind that his heart was taken away. People like Cui Anhua should not be too nice to him, otherwise he would blame you for some unknown reason.
And now, the head of the Cui family is Jiang Wenyue. I wonder if she can support the family as strongly as Liu Shichu did in her previous life.
Of course not. When the earthquake came, Jiang Wenyue was terrified. She was trying on new clothes surrounded by her maids and was very happy when the earthquake happened. Jiang Wenyue was so scared that she collapsed on the ground. Her legs were so weak that she couldn't move and her face was pale.
When the earth was shaking, her wet nurse had to use all her strength to drag her out of the room. Fortunately, her room was not far from the door, so the wet nurse was able to drag her out in time.
But she escaped, and her three children were still sleeping in the house.
When the nurses saw the earthquake, they only cared about escaping themselves, and didn't even think of taking their children with them. So when Jiang Wenyue escaped and thought of the children, everyone was dumbfounded because they didn't bring any of the children back...
"Hurry up and carry the child out! If anything happens to the child, you will be buried with him!" Panicked and angry, Jiang Wenyue no longer cared about being weak and shouted in frustration to the servants who had escaped.
At first, the servants were afraid of death, so naturally they pushed each other and no one was willing to go in to save the young master. But when they heard Jiang Wenyue say that someone had to be buried with him, they had no choice but to go in.
Jiang Wenyue herself did not dare to go in. She just laid on the ground and cried as if her heart was broken.
Even though the servants ran in to save the three children, it was too late and two of the three children were injured. One young master had his palm hit and was bleeding; and the only young lady had her face scratched by something and the wound was very deep. The three children cried heartbreakingly.
When Jiang Wenyue saw the injured children, she suddenly felt dizzy and almost fainted. After she recovered for a while, she rushed over, looked at the two injured children with tears in her eyes, and cried out in pain: "How could this happen? The children are injured... Woo woo... What should I do? Cui Lang, why are you not with me? The children and I need you..."
Jiang Wenyue could only cry. If a child cried, she would cry too. After the earthquake stopped, she had no idea how to organize the servants to deal with the follow-up matters. The servants were still in shock, and seeing the state of their mistress, they could not help but cry too. So for a while, the main wife of the Cui family just cried like a funeral.