Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

The layout of the shipailou is similar to the Shandi Bo in the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes. The upper nine in Shandi Bo is the first lane, the right of the six five is the second lane, the left is the third lane, and so on.

The sinkhole started at Alley 3 and ended at Alley 5. Thirteen houses fell into the pit in the sudden collapse, and seven of them were buried underground.

"Everyone, get out of my way!" Li Tianliu flew over, pushed the crowd aside, walked a few steps to the edge of the sinkhole, grabbed two of the people's hands, pulled them out, and quickly jumped into the pit. While digging the soil, he ordered the Yulin Guards who followed him, "Save them!"

The Yulin Guards jumped into the pit and started digging people out.

As the dust and smoke rose, the people around who heard the news also wanted to rush into the pit to rescue people. Chen Shao, who rushed over in a hurry, immediately stopped them and said, "Wait a moment!"

"Yang Erwa's entire family is buried inside!"

"The Wednesday family is in there too!"

“So does the Sun family!”

Listening to the chattering, Chen Shao shouted coldly to quiet everyone down. He quickly glanced at the tightly blocked pit, and pointed at thirty or forty young men with forced calmness, saying, "Fu Jiu, take them and get the tools immediately, enter the underground energy passage from Ma San's house, and start rescuing people from the bottom perimeter!"

After Fu Jiu led her people away in a hurry, she pointed at thirty or forty young men in a row and said to one of the Yulin guards behind her, "Take them and get the tools, then go in through Uncle Fang's house!"

After the Yulin Guards also took their people away, Chen Shao instructed another Yulin Guard: "Go to Huimin Pharmacy immediately and tell Master Qi to arrange five or six doctors and more than ten assistants to come here to rescue people. In addition, prepare a few more wards!"

After the people left, she pointed out seven or eight smart-looking women and said to Chan Yi, "Before the doctors and shop assistants from Huimin Pharmacy come, you take them to save people first, and save the seriously injured first!"

After Chan Yi left, Chen Shao called Li Tianliu out and said, "Don't save anyone yet. Pick some quick-witted civilians and have them guard the houses along the passageway! If there are any troublemakers, warning them is useless. Kill them first and report later!"

Li Tianliu said nothing, but called out to the onlookers, "If you are willing to help, follow me immediately," and then strode towards Alley 7. The people who were eager to help immediately followed him.

The noise caused by the ground collapse was so loud that a group of people who had come to watch the fun left, and another group immediately came up to replace them.

Chen Shao selected more than 40 people, divided them into two groups and arranged them to help under the passages on both sides. Then he slowly walked to the edge of the sinkhole and checked the cause of the sinkhole.

Judging from the cross-section of the edge of the ground subsidence, both Alley 3 and Alley 5 are more than seven feet thick. This thickness, without the support of beams, is indeed not very solid, but if there is no external force, it will not collapse suddenly.

Alley 3 and Alley 5 were not dug as hard as Alley 11, Alley 13 or Alley 15 because they were next to Alley 1. Alley 11, Alley 13 and Alley 15 are still intact, while Alley 3 and Alley 5 have no signs of flooding, but they collapsed first... Chen Shao stood up, looked at the seven people who had been rescued and cried out, and ordered Chan Yi: "You should go down there and take a look more."

"I'll go down after I deal with this one." Chan Yi agreed, without stopping. After confirming that the child she had just rescued was not in danger of death, she quickly stood up, asked the women who helped to stay where they were according to her previous instructions, and then pointed out a few women among the onlookers and took them to Ma San's shop in a hurry.

"Come on, a few more people," Chen Shao pointed at a few people, "move all the furniture and soil they dug out to the side. A few people will be enough, not too many."

After stopping the people who wanted to rush over to help, Chen Shao asked, "Does anyone know the people from these families who fell in?"

"I know!"

"I know him too!"

Four or five people stood up in succession.

Chen Shao asked them to speak slowly one by one. After the comparison was correct, he recorded several households one by one, and then asked: "Is there anyone living next door or opposite them?"

Seven more people stood up.

Chen Shao first asked the seven people's names, and then asked about their specific residences, and then continued to ask: "Have you seen any strangers or relatives entering or leaving these families in the past few days?"

One of the short and thin women immediately said, "Old Sun's family has it."

The other two elderly men also echoed, "Not just these few days, this relative of theirs has been coming every now and then for the past two or three months."

Chen Shaoxian asked, "What kind of relatives are they?"

The woman replied: "It's about some cousin from my mother's side, and some distant relative from my uncle's side."

Chen Shao asked again: "Except for the past two or three months, have you ever been here before?"

The woman shook her head, and the two elderly men who had agreed with her earlier also shook their heads.

Chen Shao then asked: "How many relatives are here?"

"I see quite a few," the woman said. "All together, there must be more than a dozen."

"I think there are more than that," one of the men who agreed earlier pouted and shook his head, "There must be at least 20 or 30 of them, right? And they said they were cousins ​​from my mother's side or some distant relatives from my uncle's side. I don't think they are. None of those people look like good people."

Chen Shao followed up by asking, "Are all these distant relatives here men?"

"That's right," another man agreed, curling his lips. "Since they came, there has been a lot of noise all day long, either drinking or playing finger-guessing games, or gambling. Anyway, we haven't had a single day of peace and quiet."

Chen Shao continued to ask: "Are the twenty or thirty people coming together or separately?"

"Let's split it up. Today there are six or seven of them, and tomorrow there will be another six or seven," the woman said, glancing at the man who complained about the noise. "In the first month, they were very noisy, and he even went to their house to complain, but they chased him out."

Chen Shao glanced at the crowd, seeing the simple faces, then retracted his gaze and asked, "Have they been here these days?"

The woman nodded, and the other two men nodded at the same time.

Chen Shao asked: "Were you there before and after the house collapsed?"

The woman nodded again.

One of the men replied: "They ran out just before the house collapsed, and no one knew where they went after that."

As he spoke, he looked around, but after a few glances he looked away, obviously not seeing them in the crowd.

Although he knew they must have left the Shipailou, Chen Shao still called Wang Cong, who had hurried over, to his side and asked them, "Do you remember what they looked like?"

"I'd recognize you even if you turned into ashes!" The person who spoke was the man who disliked the noise.

"Okay!" After briefly explaining the situation to Wang Cong, Chen Shao asked again, "Did you hear any banging noises like those from hitting the wall in Sun San's house in the past two days?"

The woman looked at the two men. After the two men looked at each other, they shook their heads and said, "They quarrel day and night. It's not surprising to hear bang bang bang noises."

Forget it. Chen Shao gave up asking any more questions and said, "Then please take them to look for them inside and outside the Shipailou. If you find them, there will be a big reward. If you can't find them, it doesn't matter."

"I saw them run towards the second lane after they escaped." The woman said immediately when she heard there was a big reward.

Wang Cong was also straightforward: "Then let's go to Alley 2 to find them first!"

After Wang Cong and his men left, Chen Shao saw that the rescue work was going well, so she turned around and went to Ma San's shop. She entered the underground passage through Ma San's shop and came to the collapsed area of ​​Lane 3. Because the collapsed area was large and the height was not low, the rescue work was not going very smoothly. From the time she arranged the rescue order to the time she found out the whereabouts of Han Zihou and others, at least three cups of tea had passed, but so far, no one had been rescued.

Looking at the people who were involved in the rescue, they were busy and talking. Three people worked in groups of two, and they speculated on the cause of the collapse. As they got more excited, their movements became slower and slower. Fu Jiu was busy with a shovel and his hands, sweating profusely, and he had no time to direct them. Chan Yi would say a few words to them from time to time, but she could only manage for a while.

After observing for a moment in the dark, Chen Shao pursed his lips and walked quickly forward, took a shovel and joined the rescue team.

When the people participating in the rescue saw her, they fell silent and their movements became faster unconsciously.

Soon, an arm was found under a newly excavated beam.

Fu Jiu and two Yulin guards came over quickly, and using the beam as the center, they carefully cleaned up the broken walls around it and carried the person out.

Chan Yi quickly stepped forward, first checked the other person's breath, then quickly felt the other person's pulse. After a moment, she shook her head at Chen Shao in pain.

Chen Shao took a deep breath: "Continue!"

Now is not the time to be sad.