After transmigrating, he supported his family by working at a garbage dump.

Zhang He also wanted to ask about matters at the yamen (government office) on behalf of her husband!

But now that he knows Hu Da hasn't returned yet, Li Quanfu probably won't know any more information. Besides, Zhang Xiaolin is locked up and probably won't be out anytime soon.

After pondering for a while, he ultimately didn't ask the question.

As the group hurried along, they could vaguely see other people coming to the market, all walking in groups of two or three.

Coincidentally, this section of the official road winds through the mountains and forests. Although the road is relatively narrow, it is still quite lively.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. They were traveling on the official road, and the people coming and going weren't just going to the town market. It's normal for there to be a lot of people; it would be abnormal if there were few.

The sounds of passersby talking could be heard from time to time, such as stories about robbers beating people recently, but Xu Zhuzhu and her group didn't say much.

From the beginning to the end of that heavy topic, the group of people who had happily strolled through the market and returned home with a full load of souvenirs all felt a bit somber.

Although the conversation ended, the group's annoyed mood did not immediately improve. Instead, they were all lost in their own thoughts and did not start any new topics, continuing their journey in silence.

Xu Zhuzhu felt that the eerie atmosphere wouldn't last long, and she was also a little afraid that the overly delicate atmosphere might become uncomfortable.

She thought she should talk to her brother to ease the tension.

No matter how eloquently she spoke, Xu An had no interest in engaging in a back-and-forth exchange. After several exchanges, her brother only responded with a few words and barely paid any attention.

Seeing everyone's dejected expressions, Xu Zhuzhu immediately lost her spirits.

Forget it, let them think it if they want to, why make them laugh at this time?

She let it go.

Thinking this way, Xu Zhuzhu simply ignored it and lay directly on her mother's body, pondering her next plan.

The bead's energy was insufficient this time, delaying the treatment of Old Man Mi. Once we get back, we must find a way to properly nourish the bead and ask the AI ​​for a quick way to restore its energy...

That way, the next time I go to town, I can go directly to help Uncle Mi heal his wounds. Thinking about this, I wondered what excuse I should make and so on.

When Xu Zhuzhu is thinking about a problem, she always likes to stare at one thing and keep looking at it.

Just like now, she is staring blankly at the flowers, plants and trees on both sides of the road, lost in thought.

Suddenly, a loud "boom" rang in their ears, accompanied by a slight tremor, which startled everyone.

The group was immediately terrified.

Xu Zhuzhu, who was concentrating on her thoughts, was so frightened that she kicked her legs several times on her mother's back.

What happened? Could she have been caught in an earthquake?

Even though she was lying on her mother's back, she could clearly feel the ground shaking, which made her heart jump into her throat.

Without thinking, she immediately grabbed her mother's shoulders tightly and instinctively called out softly, "Mother."

At that moment, she could clearly feel her mother's shoulders trembling slightly.

Xu Zhuzhu knew that her mother was afraid.

Looking at Zhang He again, she was half-squatting, tightly hugging Xu An.

Noticing her daughter's movements on her back, she reached out her other hand and gently patted Xu Zhuzhu's little hand that was gripping her shoulder.

Even though her own hands were trembling, she gently comforted her youngest daughter: "Zhuzhu, don't be afraid, Mommy's here, everything will be alright."

Xu Zhuzhu is not afraid.

Fortunately, it was just a slight tremor, and it doesn't seem to be very strong. There were no aftershocks either.

This relieved him.

She wasn't afraid of small earthquakes, but right now they were walking through the mountains along the official road, with mountains on both sides. If a slightly larger earthquake happened, and things rolled down the mountain, let alone survive, they might not even be able to keep their bodies intact.

"Was that an earthquake?"

Hu San Niang gripped her husband's shoulder, looking around nervously and with a puzzled expression.

Before Li Quanfu could answer, she turned back to Zhang He to ask if she was alright, "If the ground really moved, that would be terrible!"

Zhang He quickly shook her head, indicating that she was fine, but no one knew that her palms were covered in sweat.

She wasn't very clear about earthquakes; she had never actually experienced one.

Hu San Niang did know something about this.

But he had only heard his father say that an earthquake was a cataclysmic event, where the earth seemed to come alive, rising and falling, and with each breath, it could destroy countless lives.

For example, decades ago, when my father was still very young, he heard that an earthquake had struck a county in the neighboring prefecture, causing countless deaths and injuries...

Therefore, she was a little scared, and in that instant, she subconsciously grabbed her husband's arm.

Zhang He was also panicked, but at this moment she was still concerned about her two children and had to make sure they were not hurt, so she was just pretending to be calm.

But Li Quanfu, who was always honest and simple, disagreed at this moment.

"It doesn't feel like an earthquake; it's more like a landslide."

"A landslide?" Hu Sanniang looked around, somewhat incredulous.

"I didn't see any landslides."

Most importantly, this section of the road is surrounded by dense forests, with no soil exposed above ground. No matter how much landslides occur, this section shouldn't have collapsed.

Li Quanfu shook his head, saying that there was no fixed rule as to which parts would collapse and which would not.

"...Didn't we hear a really loud noise when the ground shook just now? It sounds like the collapse we heard before."

Xu Zhuzhu found Li Quanfu's analysis to be reasonable and well-founded, and thought it made a lot of sense.

He then shared his thoughts.

"Mother, the sound just now seemed to come from the front."

Xu Zhuzhu pointed to the bend in the road ahead, and it was less than half an hour after that bend that the fork in the road led to their village.

Hearing her daughter's confident tone, Zhang He was very surprised: "Really? Zhuzhu really heard it?"

There was another layer to her words, which was whether Xu Zhuzhu had secretly borrowed some kind of prop given to her by the fairy to find out.

Xu Zhuzhu nodded solemnly. She had just carefully recalled the source of the sound and was quite certain that it came from that bend in the road.

This is roughly in line with Li Quanfu's prediction.

Before the others could speak, Li Quanfu had already gone ahead to take a look.

Upon arrival, it was indeed confirmed that what he had said earlier was a landslide, but it was not as simple as a typical landslide.

Seeing that there was no major danger, Li Quanfu called everyone over to take a look.

When Xu Zhuzhu and the others arrived, they found a rather narrow place where the path was blocked by the huge tree.

Upon closer inspection, the tree appears to be several decades old, but half of its trunk is hollow, which is why it has been cut in half and is blocking the road.

"I've seen this tree so many times since I was a child, and I guess it must be almost a hundred years old. It's such a pity that it broke like this."

Standing in front of the broken tree, its dense branches still reaching the treetop, Hu Sanniang grabbed a handful of leaves and sighed with emotion.

Xu Zhuzhu had never paid attention to this tree. She had walked past it so many times, but she had never noticed it. Or perhaps she was always out early and back late, so she didn't have time to see how tall or big the tree next to her was.

"Perhaps the snow that has been falling for days weighed it down?" Zhang He replied.

Hu Sanniang nodded, then exclaimed in surprise, "It wasn't here when we came, how did it suddenly stop? How are we going to get out of here?"

If it were just a broken trunk, it would be fine, but when this tree broke, its branches and leaves were too dense, and the lower part of the broken section was still connected to the root system of the other side of the trunk. Because of this break, the soil on the mountain simply could not bear the weight.

This caused half of the hillside to collapse, which is what Li Quanfu referred to as a landslide.