Vol V Chapter 145

When Sui Xiong arrived, it was midwinter. It was cold, the ground was frozen, and the fertile land was covered by a thick blanket of snow.

This year, there was a higher level of snowfall, and the farmers got worried. Although it was a "Ruixue Zhaofeng" year, which meant that the heavy snow was auspicious, once the snow had accumulated, it would be hard to clear the land. The snow would also mean fewer insects in the summer. Overall, they simply had a strange feeling, and to the common folk, strange things were bad things.