East Courtyard.
He pushed open the door.
What entered his eyes was a field of white.
The cold wind howled, heavy snow swirled, and a layer of snow a full ten centimeters thick had already accumulated in the courtyard.
The sky, too, was a gray haze, with First Light only faintly showing.
Compared to yesterday, the perceived temperature had also plummeted by roughly ten degrees.
He felt that the current temperature was roughly between minus fifteen and minus twenty degrees.
Compared to the north in his previous life, this temperature was somewhat inferior, but not by much.
Weather this extremely harsh might not have counted for anything in his previous life, where productivity had been highly developed.
After all, in his previous life, even the poorest beasts of burden had few who lacked clothing and food, or a place to shelter themselves.
Most of them more or less possessed the conditions needed to keep living, so normally speaking, almost no one would freeze to death because of a harsh environment.
But in this era, things were different.
The people at the bottom were little different from those of ancient times in his previous life.
Lacking clothing and food was a common thing, let alone having all sorts of things for keeping warm and heating oneself.
Once the common folk at the bottom encountered this sort of environment, starving and freezing, it was extremely normal for some people to die.
"I hope the Xie Family can keep their promise and open their granaries to release grain. If they can do that, then so be it!"
Looking at the heavy snow drifting down from the sky before him and the cold wind blowing against his face, Jiang Ning murmured inwardly to himself.
Then he turned and shut the door properly.
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