By the end of the unitary hour, it was already dark, and the four princes and Zhao Yingqi had all returned to the camp to prepare to make a fire and cook.

To be honest, since Zhao Yingqi has been among the top players, the amount of food has skyrocketed, and he didn't eat breakfast and lunch today, which made Zhao Yingqi already hungry and a little irritable.

Zhao Tong knew his husband's habits, so he didn't wait for the princes and princesses, and had already built a fire in front of his tent and set up a grill to prepare for the barbecue.

Zhao Yingqi and Zhao Tong did not participate in the hunt today, so they didn't have any prey, and were about to go to the fourth prince or the second prince to ask for some prey, and the princess happened to come, and she took the deer that Zhao Yingqi shot dead in the afternoon.

The deer had been packed up by his men, the skin had been put away, and the princess was ready to make a cloak.

"Give back the deer you hunted in the afternoon, and see that you are hungry in the afternoon, and run back in a hurry, as if you will starve to death in a quarter of an hour." The princess placed the disposed deer on the side of the table.

"This can't be helped, since I entered the first armor, the amount of food has indeed increased a lot, how about the princess come and eat together?" Zhao Yingqi beckoned the princess to sit down, and without waiting for Zhao Tong to come out, he put the deer on the grill first.

"Wait, I'll call Fangfang to eat together." Naturally, the princess will not forget her good sister.

"By the way, ask your brothers to order some processed meat, it's not enough to eat." Zhao Yingqi said without raising his head.

The princess was stunned, she didn't turn her head, rolled her eyes, and walked quickly towards the four princes.

After a while, the princess and Li Qingfang came back, carrying some pickled raw meat such as lamb legs and deer legs.

Zhao Yingqi was already sitting by the fire, holding a wine bag in one hand and a baked cake in the other, ready to eat.

"Fangfang, look, I'll just say that people are in a hurry to eat, let the girl get him something to eat, hmph, it's really promising." After the princess handed the meat in her hand to Zhao Tong, she walked to Zhao Yingqi's side, snatched the wine bag from his hand, and sat aside to drink.

"Hey, that's what I drank..."Zhao Yingqi looked at the princess's behavior at all, and was a little stunned, is this sure to be a princess?

"Hey, what's it, people don't call it Hey, people call it even Qingmeng, no girl dislikes you, you twist it." Zhao Yingqi didn't know how to provoke her.

"Mengmeng, don't be like this, Mr. Zhao doesn't mean anything else." Li Qingfang also came over and sat aside: "Sir, don't be surprised, my children in the Northern Zhou Dynasty are all bold and informal, which is different from the southern woman." ”

"It's good, it's good, this kind of character is the most likable, and I hate that kind of twisted and twisted character." Zhao Yingqi didn't take it to heart, just stared at the venison on the fire.

"Have you thought through what I said to you today? We really want you to stay. The princess took a sip of wine and asked Zhao Yingqi.

suddenly became so serious, to be honest, Zhao Yingqi was so uncomfortable that he didn't know how to answer.

Just as Zhao Yingqi was weighing the pros and cons between staying and not staying, a bug flew to Zhao Yingqi's neck.

Zhao Yingqi was so frightened that he howled miserably, jumped up very quickly, kept pulling his collar while screaming, and asked Zhao Tong to come over to help him see if there were any bugs.

The princess looked at the little insect that was pulled by Zhao Yingqi and moved around the fire, and she was a little stunned.

Is this person really a master of head armor? Did this person really wipe out the 15,000 elite horsemen of the Great Monday?

The princess looked at Zhao Yingqi with an expression of "you are teasing me" and asked, "You are a big man, you are afraid of a bug, aren't you panicking?" ”

Although the princess's mouth is as poisonous as ever, only this time Zhao Yingqi can't think of how to refute it, without him, only the truth.

"What's wrong with being afraid of bugs, aren't you afraid of bugs?" Fortunately, it was dark, otherwise I would definitely be able to see the blush on Zhao Yingqi's face.

"Hmph, what's there to be afraid of." The princess picked up a branch casually, threw the insect into the fire, and looked at Zhao Yingqi with an expression of "I don't believe it".

Zhao Yingqi took the silk handkerchief handed over by Zhao Tong and wiped the back of his neck vigorously, pouted and said to the princess: "If you have the ability, Your Royal Highness the princess, don't use branches, go and grab it." ”

When the princess heard this, she stiffened her expression slightly and was about to pretend, but the insect that was thrown into the fire suddenly made a soft popping sound, which frightened the princess slightly.

"Snort" Zhao Yingqi let out a contemptuous sneer.

"That's right, Mr. Zhao is a dignified top armor master, Mengmeng, how can you compare with others?" Li Qingfang covered her mouth and said with a smile.

This is really a tulle, worthy of being pink and black, just forget it without speaking, and pierce your heart directly as soon as you open your mouth.

After sending away the guards who heard the news, the four of them continued to sit down and chat.

"What about Brother Ding Feng? Why don't you see him come to eat? Zhao Yingqi decided to turn this one over.

"Captain Ding thinks it's cultivating in his own tent, right? My father slightly modified the Xingyi tour for Captain Ding, saying that he could help Captain Ding. Li Qingfang is also very sympathetic to Ding Feng's experience.

After that, Li Qingfang told the princess about Ding Feng and Ding Feng's apprentice Huwa, and the princess listened very lowly on the side, thought for a while, and asked: "I seem to have heard of the military Sima of that horse farm, and someone seems to have reported it in my father's study, and the snow in northern Xinjiang this year is very large, and many horse farms and houses have been crushed by snow. ”

"Yes, the winter of our Great Zhou is getting longer and colder, and Tongyingfu is better on the edge of the Tonghe River, I heard my father say that the snow line in Northern Xinjiang has moved south for nearly 150 miles in the past 20 years." Li Qingfang had obviously heard of these things.

When Zhao Yingqi heard this, he felt that this was not the Xiaoice River period? Winters are getting longer because the average temperature is dropping, snow is crushing the houses, apparently because the rainfall exceeds the load-bearing design of the houses when they were built, and the snow line is moving south.

"How long has this been going on in Big Zhou?" Zhao Yingqi finally got serious.

The princess and Li Qingfang glanced at each other, and the princess spoke first: "I don't know about this matter, but I can hear this kind of thing in my father's study for as long as I can remember, because of the cold, the population of northern Xinjiang is constantly moving south, and various industries such as animal husbandry, agriculture and mulberry have also shrunk one after another. ”

"You just said that the snow line has moved more than 150 miles south in 20 years, do you have any specific statistics and figures?" Zhao Yingqi picked up a small branch and sketched on the ground next to the fire.

"I don't know much about this, only a general statement, but I heard the royal brother say that the two northernmost counties in his fiefdom have basically given up, and the residents moved south to take away most of the strong labor, and the imperial brother had no choice but to completely give up the two county seats, and the old and weak women and children moved to the south to find relatives and friends to take refuge, or the county government in the south chose a place to settle." Seeing Zhao Yingqi asking in such detail, the princess couldn't help but wonder: "What are you asking these for?" You can't..."

Li Qingfang remembered that it was rumored that Zhao Yingqi was the heir of the Hidden World Sect, and went out of the mountain to practice, hurriedly held down the princess's next words, looked at Zhao Yingqi who was writing and painting on the ground and asked: "Sir, do you understand what everything is going on?" ”

Li Qingfang felt that Zhao Yingqi should not be untargeted.

"I'm not sure, because after all, it's only twenty years of change, and for this land, twenty years is just a fleeting moment, and it takes a lot of data and long-term observations to determine what I think." Zhao Yingqi seemed to have finished painting, pinching his chin with his hand and looking at the picture he had drawn.

Zhao Tong saw that Mr. was thinking very seriously at this time, so he didn't bother him, but just helped her husband change a full wine bag, which was a good wine sent by the fourth prince, and Mr. would definitely like it if he loved to drink.

"Sir, you might as well talk about it first, if it really doesn't work, I'll call a few imperial brothers to confirm each other." The princess is also rare to be serious once.

It's strange to say, although the princess is usually just a little eccentric, but she has reached the level of rudeness to Zhao Yingqi.

"I don't know if you've heard of the Xiaoice River Period?" Zhao Yingqi took a sip of wine, hummed with satisfaction, and then cut a piece of meat from the grill and stuffed it into his mouth.

The princess and Li Qingfang shook their heads very synchronously, and even Zhao Tong looked at her husband curiously.

"The Xiaoice River period is a kind of..." Zhao Yingqi didn't know whether to say the word "planet", so he had to change the word: "It is a climate phenomenon that can affect the whole world." ”

"What do you mean by climate phenomena?"

"It's not important."

"So what's important?"

"The important thing is that this Xiaoice period may last for a long time, as short as two or three hundred years, and as long as three or four hundred years." Zhao Yingqi found that this venison was really delicious, and cut another piece: "There is a saying that the Xiaoice River period is equivalent to a kind of reincarnation, which will occur every one or two thousand years, and each time it is very long, the whole world will become cold, rain and snow will be frequent, grain production will be reduced, and at the same time, the cold winter is accompanied by scorching heat and drought, which is a test for the whole world." ”

"Is it really that scary? Aren't my people of Da Zhou going to suffer a disaster? ”

"Yes, in a hundred years, is there really such a natural disaster?"

The princess and Li Qingfang obviously heard of this kind of thing for the first time, but it was inevitable, after all, the land of Shen Twenty was only a thousand years old.

"Sir, you must have something to do, right?" Zhao Tong has great confidence in her husband.

"Yes, since Mr. knows about such natural disasters, he must also know how to deal with them, and please have mercy on me that the people of Dazhou are struggling to survive."

Both the princess and Li Qingfang looked a little anxious.

"Don't be like this, it's just a guess of mine at the moment, you see..."Zhao Yingqi pointed to the sketchy map he had drawn.

The Zhou State is located in the northwest of the entire Shen Twenty Land, isolated from the south by the Tongtian Mountains, Qi Mountains and Chunling, and separated from the coastal areas in the east by the Neiting Mountains, like a small world.

The north reaches the snow line of the extreme north, the environment of the extreme north is very harsh, the ice and snow do not melt all year round, referring to the environmental characteristics of the earth in the previous life, the temperature of the extreme north may have been below the zero degree line, the west is the Tongtian Mountain Range, the elevation of the Tongtian Mountain Range is unmeasured, and the mountain is even more precipitous, as if it is straight into the sky, so it is called the Tongtian Mountain Range.

Zhao Yingqi pointed to the map and said to the third girl: "Because of its special geographical location and topographical characteristics, the warm monsoon in the southeast coastal area is blocked by several large mountain ranges surrounding the Zhou country, resulting in almost no spring and autumn seasons in the Zhou country, only summer and winter, if it is only because of the cold monsoon in the far north or other reasons, it is not impossible for the temperature to drop in these years." ”

"Sir, is it not necessarily the so-called 'Xiaoice River Age' that has become colder and colder over the years, or it may be caused by the cold wind blowing from the north? As long as you combine the county records of northern Xinjiang and figure out the cold wind situation and seasonal changes over the years, you can know what is going on? "The princess is often in the old emperor's study, and she still has some knowledge.

"Is there any point in figuring out what is causing this?" Li Qingfang seems to have some ignorance.

"Of course, if it's just a simple northern cold monsoon that causes the temperature to drop, it means that it is only a matter of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and the cycle will not be too long. But if it is really the arrival of the 'Xiaoice River period that I am talking about, then it is really related to the problem of the whole world, and the cycle is extremely long, and we must integrate forces to face it seriously. ”

Zhao Yingqi was talking to the princess while nibbling on a deer leg at this time.

"Do you know what this ice age means?"