Chapter 36: The Great Shift

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More than a month is not a long time, but after all, there are more than 30 townships and towns in Hengyang County, and Chen Dayong organized all the four or five hundred people of his subordinate construction team to repair and consolidate the school buildings in each township, but the manpower is still a little insufficient. In order to speed up the construction and complete the construction before the arrival of Typhoon No. 17, Chen Dayong paid out of his own pocket and hired a large number of casual workers in various towns and villages. Chen Dayong rode a motorcycle every day in various towns and villages in the county to check the construction progress of each school building, and urged the construction team to complete the construction with quality and quantity.

In this way, until the end of August, most of the more than 30 townships and more than 30 school buildings in the county were finally completed. And Chen Dayong's already blessed body has successfully slimmed down to the level he did when he was a mason.

On August 9, Typhoon No. 14 swept through most of the coastal areas of the province from south to north after turning along the coast of a neighboring city, but Xiuzhou City was once again spared unharmed. But this is not a good thing for Xiuzhou City, because this typhoon is like the usual experience in the past few decades, the vast majority of people are safe and sound, and once again Xiuzhou City, from the government officials to the common people, has a contempt and paralysis for the typhoon that comes every year, and has no mental preparation for the upcoming disaster.

On August 15, the depression that had been lingering in the northwest Pacific for four days was finally upgraded to a typhoon, and "Fred" was born, which is the name of Typhoon No. 17.

Chen Feng and Chen Dayong pay attention to the typhoon news on the TV media almost every day, but judging from the official reports, they only say a few words, and they do not pay any attention to this "Fred", who is about to take thousands of lives.

On the 20th, Fred, who has become a super typhoon, is about to arrive in Taiwan, and at this time the National Meteorological Bureau does not pay much attention to it, because according to the "convention", the typhoon will make landfall in Taiwan, with the natural barrier of Taiwan, and when it reaches the coast of the mainland, the wind will not be so strong.

But then something unexpected happens, just like a football is round, the earth is also round, and anything is likely to happen before the end. When Fred was about to land on the treasure island, and the treasure island authorities were facing a great enemy, Fred suddenly braked suddenly, and suddenly turned around at the moment when he was about to step on the line, and spared the treasure island to the north. The world never expected such a situation, Baodao escaped by luck, but the entire Xiuzhou City was in a catastrophe.

The relevant government departments routinely issued typhoon warnings, but apparently at this time, they still obviously underestimated the imminent damage of Typhoon No. 17, so they did not organize effective disaster relief measures and response strategies, let alone evacuate and transfer the masses in time, and even before the typhoon came, there were still many ordinary people who did not receive accurate news and warnings, and did not know that the catastrophe was coming.

Early in the morning of the 21st, Chen Feng's family got up early.

Chen Feng and his father Chen Dayong went out together. The sky was dripping with rain, but the wind speed was not large, only thunder and lightning flashed from time to time, and the heavy clouds that kept rolling and moving made people feel the unique solemn atmosphere before the typhoon.

As early as a few days ago, Chen Dayong spent money to rent dozens of propaganda vehicles throughout the county, and gave gifts and personally visited the leaders of various township governments in Hengyang County A large number of township cadres, on the 20th when the 17th typhoon turned around in Baodao, Chen Dayong urgently convened a general meeting of the company, mobilized all the company's manpower and material resources, and temporarily set up more than 30 propaganda teams, divided into each township, so that they went to all towns and towns in the county to exaggerate and publicize the 17th typhoon that was about to land in Xiuzhou, so that everyone knew its danger, and called on local residents to take refuge in various schools before the typhoon officially landed on the 21st. Of course, he had informed the government leaders of the various townships and towns in advance of this move, and they had acquiesced in it. In their opinion, Chen Dayong, a farmer-entrepreneur nouveau riche, since he is willing to do this thankless job, let him do it well, and it is completely his responsibility to go wrong and mess up, and it is not too late to settle accounts with him at that time, but if this typhoon is really strict, then the credit and achievements of organizing and transferring the masses to protect the people's property and life safety in advance are of course completely due to their leaders. Chen Dayong did what he didn't want to do on their behalf, let him do the hard work, and they shared the credit and political achievements, so why not do it.

Chen Dayong organized and publicized the act of transferring people from various towns and villages to schools for refuge, and of course offended many people in a certain way. Soon after Chen Dayong's dozens of propaganda vehicles drove out, the township police stations and governments received a lot of complaints from locals, saying that Chen Dayong was completely misleading the public and disrupting the normal social order, and should be arrested and detained. Fortunately, Chen Dayong's preparations in advance were very well done, in addition to the government leaders of various townships and towns, he also met with his father, Liu Deputy County Magistrate, who is in charge of the county's economic, political and legal work, and gave gifts worth almost 100,000 yuan. Afterwards, it turned out that his investment was completely correct. When these reports were reflected in the county, they were all suppressed by Deputy County Magistrate Liu's understatement. Otherwise, Chen Dayong would have been arrested that day.

In a wealthy town that Chen Dayong arrived with the propaganda car, a well-known local wealthy businessman poked Chen Dayong's face and scolded in front of everyone: "You are really Chen Fool, the government didn't say that you want to transfer, are you more powerful than the government? Lao Tzu will die in his own house even if he dies. ”

Of course, Chen Dayong did not have the strength, the time, or the interest in confronting such diehards who "bit Lu Dongbin" and were very stubborn, and "it is still possible to violate the evil of nature, and it is impossible to live if they do evil for themselves." After repeated persuasion was ineffective, he left them to fend for themselves.

Under the personal organization of Chen Dayong, and the company's security team, business team, and the construction team, hundreds of strong men or covert "assistance", the residents of various towns and towns, especially those with difficult families, and the people with outdated houses were still relatively cooperative and moved to the local major school buildings, and by the evening of the 21st, when the wind became stronger, at most about one-third of the people in the townships and towns who were very resolute did not go to the school for refuge. In Yuyang Township, where Chen Dayong had the greatest influence, and several nearby towns, except for a very small number of diehards, all of them were safely transferred to the school in response to Chen Dayong's call.

At more than ten o'clock in the evening of the 21st, Typhoon No. 17 arrived as scheduled, and the storm mixed with the torrential rain poured into the entire land of Xiuzhou, and the unstoppable tragedy was officially staged.

Even in the renovated townhouses, when the wind blows, you can still feel the tremors of the school building, and with each sudden wind, the fear in people's hearts will not help but deepen. In the end, the classrooms, which were still lively and lively like vegetable markets, became silent, except for the crying of children from time to time.

When many people, including Chen Feng, saw through the glass windows of the classroom, a three-story house near the school had been swept away like confetti from the upper two floors, they were shocked and speechless. From time to time, from outside there was the sound of roof glass shattering, or the dull sound of some buildings suddenly collapsing, and each face had a mixture of fear and joy written on their faces. In the face of irresistible natural disasters, everyone seems very vulnerable.