At this time, the sky was dark, black as ink, a trace of starlight or moonlight could not be seen, the two people walked together a meter apart, if there was no torch lighting, I am afraid that they could not see each other. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this kind of night, people's senses are all restricted, and it only feels as if the sky has fallen, and the depressed person is out of breath.

If you are familiar with the weather, you will definitely notice that this change in weather is a sign that the weather is about to turn cold.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, there was a sudden gust of wind in the whole Caozhou, which blew the branches of the leaves and rattled, and also lifted the thatched roofs of many poor people's homes.

This night, I don't know how many people have no intention of sleeping, and I don't know how many people sigh helplessly.

The wind continued until the morning of the second day, and by noon, although the wind had gradually subsided, it began to rain in the sky, and it was soon discovered that the temperature had dropped considerably again.

As night approached, the light rain turned into hail and crackled to the ground, and although the hail particles were not large, it once again added a catalyst to the falling temperatures.

Suddenly, people slept at night with two quilts, but they still didn't feel warm enough.

The governor of Caozhou quickly sensed the abnormality and was surprised, took out the spare materials from the official warehouse overnight, and at the same time found officials of all sizes to discuss the disaster relief plan for the next day.

After the big and small officials entered the lobby, they expressed their opinions and quarreled endlessly, and did not make plans until very late, and went to rest one by one yawning.

Disaster relief, a term that no one wants to mention in peacetime, but now the officials in Caozhou have to struggle with it, because in the eyes of experienced people, this hail is only the beginning of the cooling, and in the following days, the territory of Caozhou is bound to be even more cold.

Caozhou has been a big state since ancient times, the people are rich and strong, and the harvest in the past few years is also very good, so there are no Caozhou people among the displaced people who go to Kaifeng Prefecture, on the contrary, there are many displaced people in Caozhou, which also indirectly proves that the surplus grain of the people of Caozhou is quite abundant.

But even if there is more surplus food, if the weather starts to be cold from the winter month, it will be difficult for some people in Caozhou to survive this winter.

For no other reason, it is a well-known fact that there are many mountains and forests in Caozhou, which means that there are a lot of wild animals in Caozhou, and there are naturally many hunters here, and their number accounts for almost one percent of the total number of people in Caozhou, as many as tens of thousands of people.

Correspondingly, there are many businessmen who make profits by recycling prey, once the weather is suddenly cold, hunters can not go up the mountain to hunt, livelihood naturally becomes a problem, they do not farm much, the family is afraid that there will soon be a surplus of food, and the merchants who rely on them to make money are difficult to buy for a while, which will inevitably affect the overall merchant income of Caozhou.

Another point worth noting is that in normal years, some poor people do not have enough to eat, and they will always go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, and in the autumn and winter, some wild vegetables grow wildly, which is indirectly regarded as the rations of some people in Caozhou, and now the weather is suddenly cold, the land is frozen, these wild vegetables are difficult to grow again, and the families of this part of the people will soon run out of food.

What worries Caozhou officials even more is that the rich side of Caozhou has attracted displaced people to vote, although they are very relieved, but if even the people of Caozhou run out of food, how can the government have the energy to take care of these displaced people?

Once a homeless person dies of cold and starvation in Caozhou, these officials will not be able to think about their official evaluation this year, and even if there are homeless people making trouble or rebelling, Caozhou officials will inevitably be affected.

If it really comes to that time, the idle officials in the court will not care if you have food in Caozhou, they only pay attention to how many homeless people have froze to death, and there have been several chaos.

The officials of the Caozhou government were uneasy, and the bandits on the Tiger Mountain in Lixian County were not living much better.

In any era, but all short-sighted people who are greedy for small profits will not live well, and bandits are the representatives of this kind of people, they do not like to work, reluctant to endure hardship, but they are greedy for enjoyment, greedy for cups and lust, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, there is wine today and drunk today, tomorrow is sad to come tomorrow, they always like to pay a small amount (robbery), in exchange for a large amount of income, and it is precisely because the income is too easy, so they do not know how to cherish.

They never cherish ordinary things such as food and clothing, and naturally they will not be idle to hoard these things.

So, in this increasingly cold night, there were countless bandits who were awakened by freezing on Tiger Mountain, and after the bandits woke up, they couldn't help but turn white when they went outside to look.

If the Caozhou government is worried that some homeless people will die of freezing and starvation, then the bandits at this moment are worried that the bandits on the entire mountain will die of cold and starvation.

As an accomplice who eats in a pot, they are very aware of each other's temperament, and with a slight thought in their minds, they can count it, it turns out that the bandits in the entire Tiger Mountain do not have the habit of stockpiling grain, including those two scheming masters.

Soon, the bandits heard an astonishing news, it turned out that the food on the entire Tiger Mountain was only enough for everyone to eat for three days.

And in these three days, everyone can only eat porridge, and they can only eat two meals a day.

The bandits suddenly stopped doing it, and they couldn't care about the cold of the night, so they all wore a thin layer of cotton jackets and came to the usual meeting hall.

As I said before, none of the bandits are not afraid of hardship, otherwise who would go up to the mountains to be bandits, and wouldn't it be more stable to farm at home?

When they heard that there was only a little surplus grain left in the cottage, their laziness and fear of hardship were committed again, and when all the bandits gathered, there was immediately the bold bandit, and suggested that everyone take advantage of the night to go down the mountain and rob him again, and get a month's worth of grain up the mountain.

This suggestion was immediately approved by all the bandits, and to put it bluntly, everyone is the same kind of people, maybe some of them are greedy for money, some are greedy for cups, some are lustful, but no one will be willing to suffer.

Just do it, the bandits in Tiger Mountain will immediately go down the mountain, whether it is the bandits on the side of the big boss or the bandits on the side of the 'head catcher', this time everyone's opinions are surprisingly unanimous.

After he entered the bandit den of Tiger Mountain, he also recruited a group of his subordinates and became the second leader of Tiger Mountain, and his bandit name to the outside world is still the word head catcher, in order to show that he once killed the prestige of the county magistrate.

Perhaps this is also related to the fact that he is very nostalgic for his original position, but the specific reason is impossible to verify, because he has never explained it to the public.