Yi Mingxue and others quickly rushed to the commotion.

I saw a group of women with children and the elderly, holding wreaths and memorial tablets, kneeling in front of the collapsed mountain and crying loudly.

"Dog officer! Give me back my husband!"

"My son...my poor son..."

Because those who came were a group of old, weak, women and children, and they were all crying.

It made many people moved for a while.

The sweat that Hu Xianjun had just wiped off immediately covered his forehead again.

"Folks, what are you doing? No one died here! And we just rescued more than 20 people. We are also rescuing the remaining few inside."

However, the crying group ignored him.

Instead, he cried louder and louder.

"Don't listen to this bitch, my man is still buried inside."

"Master Hu, aren't you telling lies? The husbands, sons, and brothers of so many of us are missing, but you say that only a few people are buried inside?"

"Ask the villagers whether they believe that no one will die in such a huge mountain disaster? I'm afraid you are deliberately concealing it, or you are afraid of losing your reputation!"

Among the crowd, there were three or four women who were very articulate and good at exploiting the sympathy of others.

In just a few words, the public opinion was steered in their favour.

"No, everyone listen to me..." Hu Xianjun was so anxious that his back was soaked with sweat, and he quickly stretched out his hand to appease everyone.

But the people who made the trouble were ignorant and didn't listen at all.

Unfortunately, these were all a group of old, weak, women and children, and Hu Xianjun did not want to be too tough.

Especially there are many local folks around here who come to help.

"Don't worry, haven't we compiled a list of the trapped people? Let's see if the people who haven't been rescued can match their husbands and sons."

Yi Mingxue saw that Hu Xianjun was confused and quickly reminded him.

But she always felt that there was something fishy about this matter.

Hu Xianjun received her reminder and responded immediately.

He called the foreman to his side, "Hurry up and count how many people are still trapped in the tunnel?"

The foreman also looked confused at this time, "This... the number of people doesn't seem to match up!"

According to their initial statistics, there are still seven people missing.

But there are at least 17 or 18 families crying for help.

Yi Mingxue and Hu Xianjun naturally discovered it too.

But the top priority is to control the situation and not allow them to continue to make things worse.

So Yi Mingxue added, "We need to collect more information about their family members. Name, age, place of origin, physical characteristics, etc., the more detailed the better."

Hu Xianjun understood what she meant and immediately called two more people to follow her instructions.

"Miss Yi, what do you think about this?" Hu Xianjun asked Yi Mingxue in a low voice.

Yi Mingxue did not hide her suspicion.

"These people seem to be old, weak, women and children, but some are responsible for speaking out, some are responsible for inciting others' emotions, some are responsible for inciting hatred for the government, and the rest are basically just responsible for crying."

Being so well-trained, you can tell that you are well prepared.

Hu Xianjun's face looked a little ugly now.

Because he offended Shangfeng, he was sent to take charge of road construction.

This is a tough rock to crack, and now something like this has happened.

Hu Xianjun was extremely irritable for a moment, "Then what do you think they want to do?"

Yi Mingxue was not sure, "Let's wait and see. If it's not really the victim's family, then there are only two possibilities: one, extorting money; two, harming people."

"Harming people?!" Hu Xianjun couldn't help but exclaimed.

But he quickly looked around cautiously, lowered his voice and asked, "Who are you harming?"

Yes, who is harmed?

If someone loses his life, Hu Xianjun and himself will be the first to be held accountable.

Either he is Hu Xianjun's political enemy, or he is his own enemy.

Taking on road construction matters was the main condition for her to obtain road administration jurisdiction.

If something went wrong while building the road, Magistrate Zhu would be the first to let him go.

It is even possible to directly take back the jurisdiction over the road.

Yi Mingxue frowned slightly, already having a vague answer in her mind.

She quickly darkened her face.

It seems that the people he sent out to collect evidence of Yan Shizhong's crime need to be speeded up.

Seeing the endless troublemakers, Yi Mingxue, Hu Xianjun and others had no choice but to move to the temporary headquarters shack.

Soon, the statistics person came back.

As the foreman expected, the number of people did not match.

There are currently eighteen families who have come to ask for help, but according to their statistics, only seven people have not been rescued yet.

"This is impossible!" Hu Xianjun was the first to question in the temporary shack of the headquarters.

"Each of our workers has registered information, and the number of people entering the tunnel for each round of construction is also fixed. How could there be more than a dozen people coming in for nothing?"

Yi Mingxue said nothing, but raised the curtain and looked at the crowd watching.

Sure enough, there were a few suspicious people inside.

They were always sneaking around and whispering to each other.

"Master Hu, first send a few people to secretly catch the ghosts in the crowd."

Yi Mingxue put down the curtain and said coldly.

At this moment, news came from the rescue office on the mountain.

"Found it! All the remaining people have been found!"

Yi Mingxue and Hu Xianjun quickly walked out of the shack.

I saw people carrying the injured one after another on the mountain and moving them down the mountain.

The foreman who came to report had a pretty face, and his tone was even more panicked.

"Sir, everyone... everyone is dead..."

"What?!" This news was like a slap in the face, which made Hu Xianjun dizzy.

On the contrary, Yi Mingxue only had one thought in her mind.

--really!

She thought quickly and immediately ordered people to stop the women who were crying and shouting to rush forward.

He spoke first, "Only seven people have been found so far. Please ask the seven family members whose names were read to come forward and identify them."

As soon as she finished speaking, the foreman immediately read a few names out loud.

The group of "family members" didn't understand what the fuss was about.

Several family members whose names were called were quickly isolated from other people.

Yi Mingxue immediately discovered this distinction.

Those who made the most violent noise were all isolated outside.

On the side where the body was claimed, even more mournful cries broke out.

The seven corpses were lined up in a row, and the family members were led by the foreman to identify them one by one.

Some of the deceased's heads and faces were smashed beyond recognition, making it difficult to distinguish them.

Comparisons can only be made based on the physical characteristics, birthmarks, scars and other special marks previously provided by the family members.

Eventually, all the family members of the seven deceased were found.

The information they had previously provided was consistent with the actual situation of the deceased.

It can basically be determined that these seven families are the real families of the victims.

As for the other dozen...

Yi Mingxue didn't talk nonsense to them and gave the order directly.

"Catch these troublemakers for me!"

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Chapter completed!