When Ouyang Yunyao heard this, her heart ached, her nose soured, and her eyes instantly turned red. She held back her tears and asked softly, "Village Chief, what are you looking for in such a big snowstorm?"

When the villagers heard the princess' question, they gathered around.

A villager looked at Ouyang Yunyao with red eyes, his voice choked with sobs: "Princess Jing, all the houses in our village have collapsed. Fortunately, there is a big cave behind our village. Last night, the village chief brought people to find everyone in each household and let everyone hide in the cave. Otherwise, we would have frozen to death long ago."

The villager paused and continued, "The people did escape, but we don't have any food. We had no choice but to ask the village chief to take a few of us strong people to look for food in the collapsed houses."

At this time, the man called Sanwazi by the villagers rushed to say, "Princess Jing, there is no firewood in the cave. The village chief and a few of us found some in the dark last night and started a fire at night. We also found a lot of firewood just now, and a few people have already delivered the firewood to the cave."

The village chief shook his head helplessly. He then remembered that he had not introduced himself yet, so he quickly said, "Prince Jing, Princess Jing, I, Yunshan, am the village chief of Yunwu Village."

Chu Chenjing looked at these simple villagers and said to them: "Village Chief Yun, you have done a good job. You all have suffered."

“Prince Jing, I didn’t expect you to come so soon. We thought that with such heavy snow, we couldn’t leave the mountain. We also don’t know when the court will know that we are blocked by heavy snow and our houses have collapsed, and when the court will send people to rescue us.

We can only find some food in the collapsed houses and survive one day at a time, hoping that the snow will stop falling soon. "The village chief said with tears in his eyes.

Then he choked up and said, "Thank you, His Royal Highness Prince Jing, and thank you, Princess Jing. I never thought that you...you would come to us in this blizzard. You are our great benefactors."

"It is my duty to rescue you. You are the people of our Western Chu State. As soon as the emperor received the report from Magistrate Wu, he ordered me, the princess, the crown prince, and other princes and generals to go to Linghezhou to rescue you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, His Royal Highness Prince Jing, and thank you, Princess Jing." The village chief was about to kneel down again, but was stopped by Chu Chenjing.

The villagers ignored the blizzard and stood by, wiping their eyes with emotion.

"Village Chief Yun, how many villagers are there in your village now?"

“Originally there were seventy-seven people, but now there are only seventy-one,” the village chief said sadly.

Chu Chenjing saw that the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and many villagers were shivering in thin clothes. He quickly said, "Okay, fellow villagers, it's snowing too hard outside now. Go back to the caves and keep warm. We will have the soldiers deliver food to you later."

"Food! Food! There's food!" The villagers cheered excitedly.

"Prince Jing, do you need help from our villagers?" asked the village chief Yunshan anxiously.

Chu Chenjing waved his hand and said, "No need, village chief, please ask the villagers to go back to the cave quickly. Look, they are already shivering with cold."

The villagers really couldn't stand the cold. After hearing Chu Chenjing's words, they all walked towards the cave in front of them, one step deep and one step shallow.

Then, Chu Chenjing instructed the village chief: "Village Chief Yun, you take Lord Xiang, Lord Hua, and Lord Yang to the cave to see the villagers first. I will go there after making arrangements."

"Your Highness, this..." The village chief looked at Prince Jing and Princess Jing, feeling a little overwhelmed.

At this time, Xiang Tongpan said, "Village chief, Prince Jing asked you to take us there, so please take us to see the villagers."

"Yes! Prince Jing, I will lead everyone there right away." The village chief nodded quickly, turned around and led Xiang Tongpan, Hua Zhixian and Yang Xianwei towards the direction of the cave in the distance.

Seeing that they had left, Chu Chenjing asked several guards from Huashan County and a small team of Jingyong Army soldiers to shovel the snow and clear the road out of the cave so that the villagers could pass.

The guards and soldiers were wearing the military down jackets that Ouyang Yunyao took out from the space, military down gloves on their hands, and even military cold-proof Martin boots on their feet.

These were things they had never seen before. They didn't expect that wearing these clothes and shoes would not feel cold at all in such a heavy snowstorm.

They were so happy to be wearing such clothes, because their magistrate had never worn such warm clothes before.

If Ouyang Yunyao knew what they were thinking, she would definitely complain: Of course, the fabrics of these military down jackets are all waterproof, and they are the best fabrics they have in the 23rd century.

The guards and soldiers had been standing by with military shovels and coarse salt in their hands. When Chu Chenjing gave the order, they all started shoveling snow.

The other team of the Jingyong Army followed behind Chu Chenjing and Ouyang Yunyao. Ouyang Yunyao arranged for them to deliver steamed buns to the people in the cave. "

As soon as the snow-shoveling team left, Ouyang Yunyao took out five empty baskets from the space. These baskets were from the kitchen of some mansion that Ouyang Yunyao had collected, and they came in handy now.

She asked two soldiers to carry a basket covered with cotton cloth. She asked them to carry it so that they could put the hot steamed buns in the space not far from the cave. This way, when they got to the cave, the steamed buns would still be hot.

She didn't take these things out in front of everyone because she didn't want many people to know that she had a space.

"Yaoyao, why are these steamed buns still hot?" Chu Chenjing asked puzzledly when he saw Ouyang Yunyao taking out the hot steamed buns and putting them into the basket.

He knew that there were many bags of raw steamed buns in Ouyang Yunyao's space, but how could they become cooked and still hot?

"When I first met the villagers, I asked Jiji to steam the steamed buns in the bags. There are more than 200 of them, which is enough for a meal for the villagers."

"There are still a few bottles of wine. Let the villagers have a drink to warm their bodies and drive away the cold."

"Yaoyao, you are really thoughtful. You worked so hard this time and didn't sleep the whole way." Chu Chenjing looked at her with heartache.

"Seeing the villagers like this, I'm no longer sleepy." Ouyang Yunyao said as she took out two pills from the space. She made them herself using spiritual spring water and other medicinal materials from the space. After taking these pills, they can quickly eliminate fatigue and instantly improve their spirits.

As they talked, they followed the villagers' footprints and soon arrived at the cave they were talking about.

As soon as we entered the cave, the village chief and others came to greet us.

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