As the old saying goes, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you. Hua Qianyi, as well as the owners of the two cottages in the north of Taihang Bacheng, ignored their opinions, and Hua Qianyi even had a very unpleasant quarrel with his old man because of this incident, and they would soon taste the bitter fruit.

As for how many brothers in the Lion Village and those two cottages can survive in this upcoming snowstorm, that is something they should worry about.

Cai Dao only needs to protect the people who have been following him all the time.

However, as his own descendants, the pass of Flying Fox is the most important in the Taihang Eight Cottages, and its status is on par with Taihang Village. Therefore, Cai Dao had to prepare all the necessities for Wang Kang's group to survive the winter - grain, salt and coal before the real winter began.

Therefore, he ordered Bai Xianyong to immediately gather all the brothers in Taihang Village to dig coal in the open-pit mine he found. Zhao Hu led the people sent by the Flying Fox to escort the dug coal, and traveled back and forth on the mountain road between Jing Cheng and the Flying Fox Cheng.

And he himself took the group of children next to the mining area, set up dozens of cauldrons, and led a group of children to prepare food for these desperate minions.

There are not many tricks, and the preparation is very simple, nothing more than noodles, green onion flatbread and rice, and Cai Dao also pulled almost all the sheep given to him by the Fold family here. In winter, if the snow is too heavy, the cottage does not have enough forage in time. Those cattle have to be kept for the next year, so they naturally become treasures. But those sheep are raised for meat.

If Cai Dao insists on raising these 500 heads until next year, even if all these sheep can survive.

However, the consequences of this are simply not worth the cost.

On the one hand, the flock is bound to waste more food to feed the animals without enough forage. On the other hand, if these surviving sheep only eat grain, without mussels to supplement nutrition, they will definitely lose a lot of fat after wintering, and their reproductive ability will definitely be greatly affected next year.

Therefore, Cai Dao decided to give these sheep, of which 200 were given to the four cottages in the south, and 300 were left in Taihang Village. Taihang Village kills two heads every day to distribute them to the brothers in the village.

As for those haggis, let Zhao Hu and them transport them to the Flying Fox.

The Liao border troops along the way naturally looked down on these things.

A sheep looks quite big, but in a large cottage, it only adds a little bit of meat to the meals of these makeshift miners and little cooks.

Due to the willingness of the personnel to be nervous, Cai Dao took a great risk and did not leave any reserves for Taihang Village. Therefore, these days, he has been acting very calm, but in fact, he is very worried in his heart.

Because, Zheng Xia is a madman at all, and he can't use ordinary people's ideas to predict the next move of this anti-bone boy.

However, Cai Dao was obviously overthinking this time.

When it first snowed, Zheng Xia, a Fujian son, was actually the same as Cai Dao, and when he saw the snow, he had a very ominous feeling in his heart. He has just arrived in Hedong, so there will be no heavy snowstorm at this time! To this end, he also specially convened officials in Taiyuan Mansion and asked them about the situation around Taiyuan Mansion and the weather changes on Hedong Road in recent years.

However, among the other officials of Taiyuan Prefecture, there are many officials who have been rooted in Hedong Road for more than ten or twenty years, and they all think that Zheng Xia is doing this, but they all persuade him not to worry. Hedong Road is mountainous, and it is common for snow to fall early in the mountains. These veteran officials think they are well-informed, not to mention the snow in August, they have also seen snow in July in Taiyuan Province.

Zheng Xia was also relieved by the persuasion of these people. After all, he is a southerner, and naturally he does not have a clear understanding of the geography and weather here.

What no one expected was that in the next half month, the snowflakes that began to fall were getting bigger and bigger.

On September 1, I finally looked forward to a sunny day.

The people of Hedong Road believe that this is a sign of better weather.

However, in the turn of the day, the goose-feather snow wrapped Taiyuan Mansion in layers in the middle of the night, and the development of things has exceeded everyone's expectations.

After Zheng Xia woke up, he looked at the thick snow outside, and his heart was cold.

In the following days, this transfer envoy with a political ability of no more than 65 did not transfer, and he braved the wind and snow to do errands, but he has achieved little success. Hedong Road is not a large producer, and it has always relied on Bianliang City to help here.

Previously, among all the roads in the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the situation of the Northwest Roads was much worse than that of Hedong Road.

However, since Sun Jue arrived as the prefect of Chang'an Prefecture, the grain output in the entire northwest has been gradually increasing dramatically, rather than increasing year by year.

In the second year of Sun Jue's arrival, the Northwest Zhulu had already gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of importing grain from other places. Guarding the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, the entire northwest has always been short of food, which is unimaginable in the Han and Tang dynasties.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the reason why the food in Guanzhong was not enough to eat was because Chang'an was the center of the world, not only the large number of people in the Tang Dynasty, but also the number of business travelers from all over the world.

Hedong Road has become a big problem because of this. Li Xian and the straw bag prefect have naturally made no achievements in the past few years in office. However, he can't stand the luck of others, Li Xian is the same as Chong Ge, although Mingsheng secretly degraded to Hedong Road, he has never given up his intention to make contributions, so he has always liked to toss on the border.

However, it is also strange to say that when this eunuch was on Hedong Road, there had never been a natural disaster above the county limit.

Zheng Xia took over, and immediately the snow flew all over the sky, and the moon was the season of autumn harvest! However, the heavy snow in the mountains has completely ruined the grain harvest on Hedong Road this season.

Helplessly, UU Reading .net Zheng Xia had no choice but to send urgent documents to Bianliang City.

In this kind of big scene, Zheng Xia, the new transport envoy and the prefect, already feel that they have no skills to return to the sky, and they can't hold it at all.

Before Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu received Zheng Xia's urgent documents, someone reported to them the heavy snow on Hedong Road, and this person was Zhang Shangying, who took the initiative to resign, but had been relying on Zhang Shangying outside Bianliang City.

It is said that when Zhang Shangying left Hezhong Mansion slowly, it was already snowing. Although the snow fell very lightly, he listened to the merchants along the way talking about the heavy snow in Taiyuan Province.

Therefore, as soon as he entered the Beijing Division, Zhang Shangying immediately reported the matter to the imperial court.

For this sudden thorn, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu naturally chose to ignore it.

However, in the next day, Zheng Xia's urgent request for help made the faces of these two Zaifu spain.

Face, these two old and refined Zaisuke don't take it too seriously, but then, they have a pain in the flesh.