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Even though she knew that the extreme cold mini ice age would come as scheduled, when it really came, even though Li Mengyue had made a lot of preparations in advance, she was still caught off guard.

As soon as the construction of the water conservancy project was completed, Li Mengyue took out 5 million kilograms of grain and distributed it to various markets in Qingshan Prefecture. On average, each market could get 200,000 to 300,000 kilograms.

At the beginning, not many people bought things, because since the market opened, it has been held every five days and everyone has half a day to shop.

It has been more than two months since the market opened. Basically, the market opens on time and I can buy low-priced grain at the market every time.

Since both refugees and local people worked and got paid every day, they were all willing to buy food at the market. After more than two months, every household had surplus food, planning to buy more after eating it all.

Li Mengyue saw that no one was interested in the food she had distributed and few people were buying it, so she knew that the people and refugees were not short of food at the moment.

But the fact that there is no shortage of food now does not mean that there will be food to eat at home in three months. The reason why she took out 5 million kilograms of grain in one go and put them on the market at once was to encourage everyone to save more, preferably enough food to last for three months.

She just knew that an extremely cold mini ice age was coming, but ordinary people and refugees were not aware of it.

Even though the weather suddenly turned cold, no one cared. I think this year's winter came earlier and was colder than in previous years.

If this were true, she wouldn't have to worry so much. In fact, the sudden turn of cold weather was just a warning before the arrival of the extreme cold mini ice age, giving everyone some time to prepare for winter.

But now she has already taken out 5 million kilograms of grain, but the people and refugees don't understand what she means.

But it doesn’t matter if the people and refugees don’t understand. She just spread the news that even if the country is no longer open, there will be no food for sale in the next three months.

As soon as the news came out, not only the local people but even the refugees panicked and took out their money to buy food. They not only wanted to buy enough food for three months, but also bought food for one more month.

This meant that the five million kilograms of grain were not enough for the people and refugees in Qingshan Prefecture to share. Many people were unable to buy any, and quite a few people bought relatively small amounts, not enough to last for three months.

For this purpose, Li Mengyue took out another 3 million kilograms of grain from the space, temporarily solving the problem of buying food for the people and refugees.

Eight million kilograms of grain were sold out, and every household in Qingshan Prefecture, including the people and refugees, had enough food stored to last for three months. Some families even had enough food stored to last for four to five months.

However, there is not only Qingshan Prefecture in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty. There are more than a dozen prefectures that are larger than Qingshan Prefecture. Li Mengyue did not favor one over the other and had already asked merchants to carry grain to various prefectures for sale. It can be said that she does not have to worry about the people having no food to eat after the arrival of the extreme cold mini ice age.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. Some people are stubborn and insist on holding on to their money and not using it to buy food. Some even look down on the low-priced food sold by merchants.

They said that since the price was so low, there must be something wrong with the food and they couldn’t buy it. They had to go to the grain store and buy expensive food.

However, the price of grain in the grain store is too high. An ordinary family simply cannot afford to buy enough food for three months. The most they can buy is enough for ten days or half a month, and then buy more when the food is finished.

When encountering such a person, Li Mengyue has no choice. She can't force others to buy food at a low price.

What's more, even if she had such an idea, it would be impossible for her to put it into practice. Not to mention that she was pregnant and could not overwork.

Even the grain sold to various provincial capitals was brought there by merchants. It was impossible for her to follow the merchants one by one. Even if she had the ability to teleport, it was impossible for her to spend a lot of money on this.

For people who value money more than life, she felt there was no need to help them and it would be better to just let them fend for themselves.

In addition to food, Li Mengyue also sold honeycomb coal, cotton clothes, and quilts at the market. The price of honeycomb coal was two cents per coin, but this price was only limited to the people and refugees in Qingshan Prefecture.

The merchants who do business with Li Mengyue also buy at a price of two cents per coin. When the goods are shipped to other prefectures, the price can be determined based on the distance, loss, and manpower and material resources, but it cannot exceed five cents per coin.

Because the price was too high and ordinary people could not afford it, she had deviated from her original intention of making honeycomb coal to help ordinary people in the extremely cold winter.

Li Mengyue felt that the preparations she had made were sufficient and she waited patiently for the arrival of the extreme cold mini ice age.

On the fifth day after the completion of the water conservancy project, not only Xinghua Village, but also the surrounding villages and even the sky of Qingshan Prefecture, which had been clear just a moment ago, suddenly turned gray.

Countless snowflakes fell from the sky at a high speed, interweaving into a huge white net. It looked dense, tightly wrapping everything within sight, and submerging everything in endless white snowflakes.

And as the snowflakes fell, biting cold winds also came along, interweaving with the snowflakes, creating a very impactful weather phenomenon, as if the world was trembling for it, making people feel both awe and shock.

The heavy snow started falling at noon, and before evening, there was already a thick layer of snow on the ground. Every step people took left deep footprints.

Faced with such heavy snow, the adults' frowns did not affect the children.

The children, who usually look very sensible, saw such heavy snow, and could not help but run out of the yard and play in the snow on the road, ignoring their parents' dissuasion. The sounds of snowflakes falling and cold wind blowing in the village were instantly filled with the children's laughter and innocent joy.

They played outside wearing the cotton-padded coats, gloves and hats that their mother made by lamplight at night. Even though their little faces were red from the cold, they still had great love and curiosity for the snowflakes.

Li Mengyue knew that the entire northern part of the Great Zhou would be in an extremely cold mini ice age in the next few months, so she asked her father to bring Mingyu and Minghao back from the academy.

At this moment, he was running on the snow with Zebao, Goudan, Tiechui, Beibei, Nannan and other children, leaving behind a series of footprints of varying depths, which seemed like a simple picture painted by nature.

When Mingyu, Minghao and the other children were chasing and playing together, they would sometimes bend down, grab a handful of snow and throw it out when no one was paying attention. Then, in addition to the exclamations, there would be bursts of silver bell-like laughter that could be heard from far away.

Some children were playing snowball fights, while others were making snowmen. Regardless of the snowflakes and the cold weather, they rolled one big snowball after another and stacked them together to make the body and head of the snowman.

He went back home and asked his parents for a carrot to make the snowman's nose and some coal to make the eyes.