Zhao Baogen, with a group of people who either wanted to help or watch the fun, went straight to Gu Dali's house.

The Gu family is now in chaos.

At around 3 o'clock last night, there were signs that the house was tilting slightly, and they initially thought they were seeing things.

Later we found out that the foundation of the house had sunk and half of the back wall was wet, so it was impossible to save it.

So they could only watch the house collapse, burying half of their body and blood inside.

It was raining heavily at the time, so only a few valuable items were taken out. None of the other valuables and furniture were rescued.

Gu Dali sat on the ground, staring blankly at the mess in front of him. He couldn't understand why such a thing happened to him.

Zhao Dani was covered in mud. She knelt on the ground where the house had collapsed, digging out handfuls of mud, trying to dig out something buried under the soil.

But after trying for more than half an hour, I only opened a small part of the area around me and didn't find anything.

"Oh, my God, what sin have I committed?"

When Zhao Baogen brought his men here, he saw this scene.

Zhao Baogen sighed and walked forward until he came to the traces of collapsed houses.

He looked at them sullenly for a few moments and said, "Didn't I ask you all to clear the waterways around the yard yesterday? Why didn't you do it?"

Everyone turned their heads and saw a large pool of mud and water gathered near the back wall of the collapsed house.

Zhang Qiaomei, who had been sitting expressionlessly on a wooden block not far away, stood up when she heard Zhao Baogen's voice. She asked Zhao Baogen again in a hoarse voice, "Captain, you said that you had already notified everyone yesterday to clear the waterways around their yards?"

Zhao Baogen glanced at Zhang Qiaomei in confusion. "I've notified everyone who's going to work, and I've sent word to everyone who hasn't. How come your family doesn't know?"

Others standing near Zhao Baogen spoke up to testify for him: "Yes, the captain emphasized this yesterday."

"Yes."

Hearing everyone say this, Zhang Qiaomei looked at Gu Mancang expressionlessly.

Gu Mancang was already feeling guilty, and now that he saw that he had been exposed, his eyes wandered around and he didn't dare to look Zhang Qiaomei in the eye at all.

"Why didn't you say it yesterday? Why didn't you say it?" Zhang Qiaomei questioned Gu Mancang hysterically.

No one had ever seen Zhang Qiaomei like this before, and they felt a little sad for a moment.

Gu Mancang naturally didn't dare to say it. He thought the team was just talking about it, so after he got home from work yesterday afternoon, he and his son took a quick look at the roof to make sure it was fine, and then he hurried to find Widow Zhao in the village.

But he would never tell anyone about this kind of thing even if he was beaten to death.

Gu Mancang stiffened his neck and blushed as he said, "I thought the captain was just talking, but who knew it would really rain heavily."

Who knew that what that little bastard Gu Zhan said was actually true, Gu Mancang added in his heart.

"Snapped!"

When the crisp sound of slap was heard, everyone was stunned for a moment. No one expected that Zhang Qiaomei would slap Gu Mancang in public.

Gu Mancang was also stunned. He vaguely sensed that Zhang Qiaomei looked down on him, but he didn't expect that Zhang Qiaomei would dare to slap him in public.

Suddenly, Gu Mancang's blood began to gather in his head. How dare this woman hit him?

He stretched out his hand and raised his arm high. Just as the slap was about to land on Zhang Qiaomei's face, another hand firmly grabbed his arm.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Baogen grabbed Gu Mancang's arm as he was about to hit someone.

After hearing Zhang Qiaomei's questioning, what else did Zhao Baogen not understand?

All this must have happened because the unreliable Gu Mancang did not properly clear the water pipes in his home.

Gu Mancang was so angry that he screamed and wanted to continue beating Zhang Qiaomei, but Zhao Baogen didn't give him face and directly scolded him: "Gu Mancang, are you still a man?"

Zhao Baogen's words completely awakened Gu Mancang's rationality.

He tugged at Zhao Baogen's sleeve in panic and explained, "Captain, I really didn't mean to disobey you. I just... just..."

Gu Mancang couldn't explain it for a long time.

Everyone was eager to watch the fun, and around five o'clock yesterday afternoon, someone with sharp eyes spotted him coming out of Widow Zhao's house.

But at this moment, even if everyone knew clearly why Gu Mancang did not open the waterway and repair the house in time yesterday, they would not choose to say it at this time.

Zhao Baogen sighed and directed everyone to help clean up the mud on the ground to see if they could salvage some things. These days, cloth was bought in half-foot pieces, and it was really not easy for the family to save up some money.

Gu Jun stared blankly at the busy scene in front of him, feeling as if he were in a dream. How could his home become like this overnight?

The houses in the village are older than his house, so why haven’t they had any accidents?

He followed Zhao Hongmei blankly, imitating the actions of others and began to clear the soil on the original foundation bit by bit, and pull out the things buried in the soil bit by bit.

Seeing that everyone started to clean up the silt, Zhao Dani hurriedly stopped what she was doing and stared at everyone's actions with her cloudy eyes, fearing that someone would take away something.

Gu Zhan didn't sleep for long after all. At around ten o'clock, An Qing rushed from the commune to Shanghe Village. After asking along the way, he finally found the location of Gu Zhan's house.

Anqing saw the locked wooden gate and tried to call out, "Comrade Xiao Gu, are you home?"

The sound insulation of the adobe house was not very good. Gu Zhan was awakened by the noise. He glanced at the person who was sleeping soundly in his arms, gently released his arms around Liu Xiaoxi, and turned over and got off the kang.

An Qing originally thought that no one was at Gu Zhan's house. When he was about to leave with his bicycle, he heard the sound of the door opening.

When he turned around, he saw Gu Zhan, who had a stubbled face and looked a little tired.

"Comrade Xiao Gu, are you at home?" Anqing greeted Gu Zhan through the fence gate.

"Stationmaster An, you're here? Come in!" Gu Zhan hurried over, opened the lock, and invited An Qing into the house for a chat.

An Qing waved his hand hurriedly: "Comrade Xiao Gu, I finally found you!"

Gu Zhan smiled as he listened to An Qing excitedly talk about how serious the situation was last night.

"In short, I want to thank you very much, Xiao Gu. If you hadn't discovered the reservoir leaking, I'm afraid we would have caused a big disaster last night." Anqing said fearfully.

"It was discovered accidentally, thanks to Stationmaster An's quick decision."

Anqing found what he heard very comforting and liked the young man Gu Zhan even more.

"Okay, Xiao Gu, I have other things to do, so I'll leave first. If you need any help in the future, just let me know. As long as we can help, we will do our best to help."

Anqing did not express too much gratitude, but left a promise to Gu Zhan. He believed that in rural areas where resources are scarce, it would be very practical and useful to receive such a promise.

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