Happiness System

Xiao Qiu stared at the scene in front of her in amazement, "Madam, am I seeing things? It's snowing under the bright sun on a sunny day? Snow in June is real?"

"Huh? How magical!"

Meng Yuxi reached out and caught a snowflake. The tiny snowflake attached to her fingertips was not melted and had no temperature. It floated away when the wind blew.

Soon a layer of white snow gathered on the ground. It was as light and soft as catkins and flew in the wind.

She caught another snowflake and rubbed it with her hands until it turned into water and evaporated. "Xiao Xia, do you feel the temperature change?"

Xiao Xia shook her head, "Madam, I have never felt it."

"Oh? It's windy. Ask the housekeeper to distribute the blankets and winter clothes. I'm afraid the temperature will drop!"

Meng Yuxi sat back by the window and continued reading those miscellaneous books.

The imagination of scholars in this era was quite rich, and the content they wrote was more explosive than the later works such as "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me" and "The Domineering President's Little Wife Runs Away with the Baby".

The princess becomes a concubine?

Isn't this a complete disrespect for the royal family? What's the reason? Do you think the head is in the wrong place?

Wow, what a bold idea!

She was so engrossed in watching that she didn't even notice Wen Yujin coming back in the snow and wind. She only looked up when the light was blocked.

Wen Yujin rubbed her hair helplessly, "What are you looking at? Are you so fascinated?"

"A love-obsessed young lady with a brain bag! This book must have been written by some wretched man who wanted to eat swan meat!"

Meng Yuxi put down the book and stood up, kissing Wen Yujin's neck through the window lattice, "Brother Jin, it's snowing. Snow in June is so beautiful!"

Wen Yujin lifted her up and carried her out of the window. "Xier, have you forgotten that today is New Year's Eve? Tomorrow is a new year! If it were a normal winter day, many people would sigh that the snow is a sign of a good harvest!"

"Is today New Year's Eve?" Meng Yuxi slapped her head. "No one reminded me. I spent the day in a daze. I wonder why Wen Cheng went all the way to hunt wild beasts!"

"It's New Year's Eve. This is the first year Xier and I spend together!"

Wen Yujin took her to the sunshine and stepped on the snowflakes one step at a time. The snowflakes turned into watermarks in seconds and evaporated without a trace in a moment.

"what?"

Meng Yuxi discovered it and jumped around playfully, and the yard was filled with her laughter.

At this moment, the frugal and water-scarce people had already shoveled up the snowflakes, collected half a bucket and pressed them down to get a thin layer of water.

The Wen family was not short of water, so they let the snowflakes fall freely on the ground, allowing the hostess to have fun.

The snowflakes floated for an hour, and the thickest parts that fell to the ground were already up to the calves.

The streets outside were full of people shoveling snow with buckets.

Unfortunately, after the snow stopped, in less than half a quarter of an hour, the snowflakes melted into water and wet the ground, but were evaporated by the sun after a short while.

Meng Yuxi didn't feel tired at all. She smuggled some contraband out and pulled Wen Yujin into the kitchen to make some snacks.

The Wen family's mold kitchen was so useless that they couldn't bear to throw it away, so they brought it all out. This made it convenient for her now.

After working for a long time, Meng Yuxi put out a plate and said, "Send this plate to the Meng family, and put another plate of meat on it. Say it's my New Year gift to my grandparents and dad!"

Over there, the housekeeper had already put out the tablets of the elders of the Wen family and placed the offerings on them. The couple kowtowed together and lit a stick of incense.

After the simple sacrifice was completed, the couple had a warm New Year's dinner, and the New Year was considered to have passed.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the sun set and the temperature began to drop.

Those who had thrown away their quilts and cotton clothes in order to relieve themselves temporarily began to panic.

The government had made preparations long ago, but they would not pay for those people.

They first considered the soldiers of the Ministry of War, and took the extra quilts and thick clothes to the main street and outside the city.

Any refugee who can produce an identity card can exchange materials for cotton clothes, food, and firewood for heating.

The refugees who successfully exchanged for cotton clothes all cried while holding the clothes. Daqi did not abandon them!

However, those short-sighted rich families were not eligible to exchange for clothes and quilts. Some of them saw familiar clothes and couldn't help crying bitterly.

This time they really started crying, with distorted faces and bitter tears!

On the afternoon of the first day of the New Year, the temperature dropped below zero and snowflakes fell again, so densely that in less than a quarter of an hour the ground was covered with a layer of silver frost.

Meng Yuxi did not return to the Meng family, but invited Meng Yiyun and his son over.

Meng Yiyun looked at his daughter sitting lazily in the rocking chair with a fruit plate beside her. He remembered that they were so leisurely when they were in Mo City. The difference was that the ice basin was replaced by a fire basin.

He shook his head and laughed, "You've spoiled her too much!"

Wen Yujin poured a glass of wine for his father-in-law, "She has suffered a lot following me, so she should be happy for a while now!"

The next morning, when everyone got up, they saw knee-deep snow and finally understood what the mistress meant by there was no shortage of water.

Fortunately, their doors all open inwards. If they opened outwards, we might be trapped!

Mo City had been experiencing drought for a long time. The housekeeper was afraid that the beams would not be able to bear the weight, so he asked the guards to go up to the roof and sweep down the snow, and at the same time clear the path for walking.

Meng Yuxi wanted to go out and play in the snow when she got up, but her shoes were not very waterproof.

I will soon have to continue my journey to escape the wilderness. The comfort of the past few days seems like a dream.

Perhaps they were afraid of scaring away the 'fat sheep', so officials no longer engaged in 'robbery' before travelling.

At 9 o'clock on the third day of the first lunar month in the twelfth year of Hongyuan, the fleeing team led by the royal family set out again.

The next day, they left the territory of Daqi and entered the territory of Li.

Li State was a small country with a population of less than one million. Their territory was all plains and they mainly relied on animal husbandry for their livelihood.

The border between Daqi and Li State is a row of steep mountains known as a natural barrier. When passing through Jingmen Pass, the cold wind becomes increasingly fierce, making people feel as if they are about to fall.

"How many more days do we have to walk this way? It feels like there's no end, the more we walk, the more bored we become!"

Meng Yuxi lazily lay in Wen Yujin's arms. It was white outside and she felt like she would be blinded if she looked at it for one more second!

Have you ever seen a sun without temperature? Have you ever seen a sun that cannot melt snow?

It's outrageous!

Wen Yujin still looked profound, "Once you leave Li Country, you will find that this place is not bad!"

In fact, the territory of Li State was not smaller than that of Da Qi, but Li State was vast and sparsely populated, so much so that they had been walking for nearly five days and had not seen a single Li person!

It is also possible that the people of Li fled the famine earlier.

Wen Yujin seemed to be unemployed. After arriving in Li State, he never worked as an official.

Men have strong self-esteem, so Meng Yuxi didn't ask!

Seeing that his wife was really bored, Wen Yujin took out the map of Li State and said, "Xiaoer, look, our location is probably here. If we go forward a day or two, we will reach a swamp.

In fact, traveling in the snow and ice has its advantages. At least this swamp is frozen and we can get through it safely.

Look here, this is the Chunjiang River, the national river of Li State. It is said that there are abundant aquatic products here. I wonder if the river surface has frozen, otherwise we will be in trouble..."

Meng Yuxi was very bad at geography. She always forgot what she had learned. She only studied it to pass the exams and had no interest in it at all!

Wen Yujin was not an interesting person, and he managed to lull Meng Yuxi to sleep in less than a quarter of an hour.

He himself was not sleepy. He picked up the book on thunder that he had always disliked and read it with great interest.

The State of Li seemed like a forgotten world, or maybe they chose the wrong route. In short, they didn't see a single person from Li along the way.

After walking through the swamp and reaching the Chunjiang River, they were finally blocked by the river.

The Chunjiang River is not very wide, only about ten meters, but the water flows quite fast.

The surface of the river was not frozen, and the white mist rising from the water added a bit of mystery to the Chunjiang River.

There was a fearless warrior who directly put his hand into the water, and Chun Jianghe almost caused him to have his hand amputated!

It was about to get dark, so we had to camp by the river for the night.

When everyone went to fetch water for cooking, they found that the water from the river in wooden buckets had frozen into ice!

Danger!

It is simply unrealistic to wade through the water!

The next day, the sun was high in the sky, but there was still no sound of the horn to pack up.

Wen Yujin took out the map and studied it again, then sighed and said, "This Chunjiang River is just like the Black River back then. There's no way around it! I guess the government has sent people to find a narrower place at the river mouth."

Meng Yuxi closed the curtain and said, "Then let's go down and see if we can catch any fish! I read in the journal that there is a very delicious fish in Chunjiang River. It has no fishy smell, but is sweet, tender and smooth. It is a rare natural delicacy!"

Wen Yujin hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Don't worry, let Wen Cheng and the others find some tools to make some fishing tools first!

The water in the river is strange, it's even colder than ice!"

"Then I'll think about how to attract the fish!" Meng Yuxi could only draw the curtain first.

After half an hour, the people sent by the government still hadn't returned. Meng Yuxi couldn't sit still, so she got dressed and walked out of the tent, closing the curtain.

Xiaoqiu, Xiaoxia, Wen Cheng and others followed her and Wen Yujin with tools in their hands, and the group walked towards Chunjiang River.

Meng Yuxi used her special ability to probe into the water, but couldn't see through it!

Huh?

Is this because there are no fish or they are isolated?

interesting!

She simply gave up choosing and broke off a small branch and probed into the water. She chose a place where the water flow was slower, then she broke the special bait into pieces bit by bit and threw them into the water.

She did it calmly and everyone held their breath and looked at the water nervously.

After a quarter of an hour, nearly half of the bait was gone, and there was finally movement in the water...

"Let's go! Go back and drink fish soup!"

Meng Yuxi couldn't understand these fish eyes either. The largest fish they caught was only three fingers thick, with a long pointed beak that looked a bit like a saury.

I also caught some river shrimps, which were probably mutated. They were about two or three ounces in size, and looked like sea shrimps. I just don't know how they tasted.

The news that the Wen family caught fish spread quickly. Before the Meng family came, the Lin family arrived first.

Knowing their purpose, Wen Yujin directly gave them the tools and the remaining baits, pointed out the location and fishing method, and they continued to walk towards the camp.

"It's delicious! The log story is true!"

I finally got to eat normal meat, I’m so touched!

Wen Yujin also ate some and thought it was delicious, so he asked someone to send a few to the Wen family.

It's not that he is stingy, they just scooped up one bucket, and since his wife likes it so much, he naturally wants to keep some for himself.