Some children even took off their scarves and hats and put them on the snowman’s head and around his neck. As a result, many cute snowmen appeared on the main road of Xinghua Village, which became the warmest scenery since early winter.

Mingyu, Minghao and Zebao were tired from playing snowball fights, so they just lay down on the soft snow and rolled around for a while. The kids started chatting. He talked about his chickens, his ducks, and some small things like how his parents beat him. At the same time, they could feel the snowflakes gently falling on their faces, which was so soft and cool that it melted the chill brought by the cold wind.

After dark, the children, who had played wildly for a while, were taken home by their parents. In the whole village, the only sounds that could be heard were the barking of dogs, the whistling of the cold wind, and the faint sound of snowflakes falling to the ground.

The next morning, when Li Mengyue woke up from her sleep, she felt the unique coolness of snow in the air. With every breath she took, she felt a chill that penetrated her heart.

When she tried to open the door, she found it was covered with snow.

Qing Ning was already serving her, so she didn't have to do these small things herself.

When Qing Ning opened the door, snowflakes were still falling from the sky. Everywhere she looked was white, and she couldn't see the boundary between the sky and the earth at all. The whistling sound of the wind in her ears reminded her all the time that it was an extremely cold winter during the Little Ice Age.

She didn't need to go out to see, she knew that no matter the ravines in the mountains or the paths in the forests, even the entire mountain behind Xinghua Village was covered with snow. She couldn't see where the mountains were or where the roads were, there was only endless snow.

It snowed so heavily and it was going to snow for another ten days. She couldn’t even imagine how many families’ houses would be crushed by the snow, how many people would be buried in the snow in their sleep, and how many people would be frozen to death if the snow didn’t stop.

In fact, there was a family in the village last night whose house had fallen into disrepair. Heavy snow piled up on the roof and it collapsed under the weight.

Fortunately, one person was thirsty and thought of drinking some water, so he saved the whole family. Otherwise, they would have been too late to be saved by morning.

By the morning, there were still more than a dozen households in Xinghua Village whose roofs could no longer withstand the pressure of the snow and became shaky. They could collapse at any time and were no longer habitable.

This is the case with Xinghua Village, and other villages are no exception.

Especially in Zhulin Village, one family’s house collapsed while they were sleeping at night, and they never woke up again in the snow.

Li Mengyue heard the news from Qingning. The village chief and others did not come to the Li family to find Li Mengyue as they did before, but instead tried to find a solution on their own.

In fact, the reason why the seven village heads did this was due to their experience in building reservoirs and digging rivers.

During the process of building the reservoir and digging the canal, Li Mengyue did not have to do everything herself. She only pointed out the general direction and provided materials and money. The specific administrative work was carried out by the seven village heads and the villagers.

When building reservoirs and digging rivers, various problems are inevitable.

At the beginning, the seven village heads were inevitably flustered and didn't know what to do. At this time, they would go to ask Li Mengyue for advice, and Li Mengyue pointed out the key to the problem in a few words and gave a solution. The seven village heads didn't have to think, they just had to execute it.

Later, Li Mengyue realized that if she kept going like this, she would never be able to let go, but that was impossible.

She is pregnant with quadruplets and is already in the late stages of her pregnancy. She is under tremendous pressure both physically and mentally and needs enough time to rest.

And even though she chose Xinghua Village as her retirement home, it doesn't mean she wants to worry about everything in the village.

If she is responsible for all the affairs of Xinghua Village and the seven villages, then what is the point of having a village chief?

So she also guided the seven village heads and asked them to use their brains to find solutions. Although the seven village heads could not think of many things so well and could not think of solutions as good as Li Mengyue's, it did not mean that they were stupid.

As the saying goes, old people become more cunning. Li Mengyue did not say it openly, but after they understood what Li Mengyue meant, they indeed visited her less frequently.

Many harmless little things were solved on their own just by watching them.

Of course, if they really encounter a major problem that cannot be solved and it will seriously affect the progress of the project, they will come to Li Mengyue without hesitation.

Li Mengyue saw these changes in the village heads and was very pleased. She felt that life would be much easier in the future.

As expected, the seven village heads visited Li Mengyue less and less frequently, and later they didn't visit her for ten days or half a month.

But this does not mean that there are no problems, but if problems arise, the village heads will find ways to solve them on their own.

However, the knowledge of the village heads is limited. It does not mean that they can think of solutions to every problem, so they will seek opinions from other people in the village and brainstorm. Seemingly very difficult problems that previously required Li Mengyue to come forward to solve can now be done by themselves.

The result of doing this is that the village chief and villagers have a greater sense of accomplishment, and feel that they are not just muddiers who can only dig in the fields for a living.

For example, when there was a sudden heavy snow this time, several village heads and villagers knew about it. After all, Li Mengyue had already hinted to them that whether it was selling food, cotton-padded clothes, quilts or honeycomb coal, everyone knew that it was all preparations for the winter.

But if this winter were the same as in previous years, they believed that Li Mengyue would never take out so much food, cotton-padded clothes, and quilts, or hire so many people to make honeycomb coal.

You should know that there were only dozens of people mining and making honeycomb coal in the beginning. Later, Li Mengyue continued to expand the team until it reached an astonishing two thousand people.

You can imagine that if more than 2,000 people are digging coal and making honeycomb briquettes, how much honeycomb briquettes will be produced every day?

Even so, it is still out of stock.

There are a constant stream of merchants coming and going in Xinghua Village every day. Some are engaged in grain business, some are engaged in cotton-padded clothes and quilts, and quite a few are engaged in honeycomb coal business. However, tens of thousands of pieces of honeycomb coal are sold out every day, which shows how easy it is to sell honeycomb coal.

People have anticipated the cold winter this year. Seeing that honeycomb coal is sold so cheaply, they will try to stock up as much as possible. Besides, honeycomb coal can be used for heating and boiling water and cooking, which is more convenient and labor-saving than using firewood.

The village chief and villagers were well aware of the heavy snow this time, so there were not many casualties and the damage was not great.

But a problem arose. The collapsed and crumbling houses are definitely uninhabitable. This will leave hundreds of people without a place to live. This is only the first day of heavy snow, and it is unknown how long it will last, and how many families’ houses will not be able to withstand the snow.

We need to find a way to relocate these villagers who have no houses to live in. We can’t just let them stay in the snow forever.

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