The speed of the ice was not as fast as Xuan Yi's lightness skill. When the ice was about to freeze Xuan Yi, he took the lead and flew into the cabin.
At this point, everyone is in the cabin.
Since the last fainting incident, Lu Mao took the craftsmen to open a few small holes on the top of the cabin.
A wide enough window was opened in the hull.
From now on, fainting incidents will no longer occur.
Everyone looked outside through the window and saw that it was already white outside and there was thick snow on the deck.
Wherever the wind and snow go, the world is covered in white.
The white snow had not appeared in nearly a hundred years. Jiang Guan's face was solemn from beginning to end due to the sudden cold weather.
Even though the cabin is sealed enough, the cold air pours into the cabin through the gaps because the windows and small holes cannot be sealed.
Someone hugged his body and moved shiveringly to the fire to warm himself.
"Fortunately, there is charcoal on the boat." Someone rubbed his hands while breathing out.
"That's right, there are also cotton coats, cotton pants and other warm clothes." Everything in front of him felt incredible.
You have to know that when Su Sijin and Lu Zhanggong prepared all this against all odds, they mocked and disdained it.
now.
The charcoal was used.
Put on your warm cotton clothes.
The pulleys on a wooden boat allow it to glide across the ice.
Looking back now, if Lu Changgong had not insisted on having his own way, they... would have frozen to death on the ice.
Facing the fluke in everyone's words, Xuan Yi sarcastically responded.
"Humph, lucky? If it weren't for Master Lu and Madam Lu's insistence on their own opinions, you... huh..."
"If I hear any more of you distorting right and wrong and slandering Mr. Lu and Madam Lu, I will be happy to drag them out to accompany those beasts."
Xuan Yi raised the sword in his hand and glared at those gossipers.
They are really ungrateful. The fact that they can sit by the fire and gossip peacefully is all thanks to Lu Changgong and Su Sijin.
Not only is she ungrateful, but she actually repays kindness with enmity, gossips and spreads rumors, and tries to smear the image of Lu Changgong and Su Sijin. She really deserves to die.
Xuan Yi's intimidation successfully stopped some gossip.
Xuan Yi... He always keeps his word, who dares to bump into him?
They don't want to die yet.
The cabin was finally quiet, but the wooden boat, which was supposed to continue gliding, did not move for a long time.
Xuan Yi came to Tang Peng and saw Tang Peng and Jiang Hong struggling to pry the handle.
"Frozen?" Xuan Yi said, holding the handle, trying to use his internal force to catalyze the ice, but... he used up all his internal force, but it was still useless.
The wooden boat stood firmly and was not moved at all.
"What's going on?" Huang Zichu noticed the unusual movement here and came over to check.
After Tang Peng checked, his face turned grim. He muttered in frustration, "The roller skates are frozen. I only put half of them down, and the other half can't..."
He was the one who put the roller skates on the wooden boat, and he remembered that he had clearly put them down. Why did this happen?
"Xuan Yi." Huang Zichu just said this.
Xuan Yi understood what he meant and left the cabin. In the blink of an eye, he was out of everyone's sight.
The abnormality here did not attract many people's attention.
Jiang Hong tiredly sent away some curious people.
With the sound of the window, Xuan Yi suddenly appeared in front of everyone again.
After Xuan Yi finished his greeting towards Huang Zichu, he raised his head again with a solemn expression, "Sir, there are dozens of wooden boats, but less than ten of them are available."
The rest were all frozen in the water and could not be rowed away, becoming a wreck.
"How much?" Huang Zichu needed an exact number.
Xuan Yi uttered a word softly, "Five ships."
Excluding those thrown into the sea, there were at least nearly nine hundred people left.
Five wooden boats, carrying nine hundred people, are just a drop in the bucket.
It also means that we need to give up some people, so who should we give up?
Who is willing to be abandoned?
Helplessness flashed across Huang Zichu's eyes, but his face remained calm and composed, making him look inexplicably convinced.
Everyone knows what it means to have only five wooden boats that can glide.
They were at a loss for the moment, but everyone's eyes were on Huang Zichu, hoping that he could come up with a plan.
Huang Zichu raised the corners of his mouth, smacked his lips, and became a dandy again. He said, "Xuan Yi and I will take a wooden boat out to explore the way and see if we can find external help."
The metaphor in Huang Zichu's words is that everyone present is a shrewd person.
Because they are smart, they are caught in a dilemma when faced with the choice.
The departure of Huang Zichu and Xuan Yi might help them get some outside help, but the worst outcome would be no outside help at all. However... with Xuan Yi and Huang Zichu around, the people in the wooden boat they were escorting had the greatest chance of survival.
"Can't we just use five wooden boats to carry everyone?" Lu Mao timidly expressed everyone's thoughts.
His words suddenly brightened the eyes of everyone present, but... if everyone squeezed into five wooden boats, it would be tantamount to dragging everyone to hell together.
How could a wooden boat support nine hundred people?
The weight of nine hundred people would crush the five wooden boats.
In this way, they will not be able to maintain even the last bit of warmth in the cabin and will be frozen into human statues by the ice and snow.
Seeing that everyone was in mourning, Lu Mao murmured:
"No?"
Silence is the most convincing answer.
"Then let the five wooden boats leave together and take the women and children away." Jiang Guan knocked on the ground with a wooden stick and told everyone with a firm look.
He nodded firmly to everyone, telling them that this was the best arrangement.
Jiang Guan's words cheered up the people who were at a loss.
Several people bowed deeply to Jiang Guanjun, admiring his great wisdom and foolishness.
Among the more than 900 people, no one had a mind as broad as Jiang Guan, so everyone admired Jiang Guan's open-mindedness and insight even more.
Yes! Whoever stays behind will be taken away. Someone will definitely be left behind, so let the children go first. They believe that as parents, they will definitely leave the hope of "life" to their children.
Women and children are the hope of the future, especially children. He believes that as long as the children grow up, they will make the family stronger, and then sacrificing these old men will be worth it.
Children are the stars of the future.
Therefore, the children had to leave, boys and girls together.
Huang Zichu, Tang Peng and Jiang Hong took the children to seek help. It was also a glimmer of hope for them, wasn't it?
It has to be said that Jiang Guan's suggestions were the best. Tang Peng, Jiang Hong and others took their own actions, stated the actual situation, and also stated the results of their discussions.
There was a moment of silence among those present, and he saw their struggle and hesitation.
When it comes to life and death, it is human nature that no one can face death calmly, especially when it is a death of their own choosing.
But after a moment's struggle, their eyes gave the answer.
They saw in each other's eyes the determination, the resoluteness, and the willingness to face death head-on.
Tang Peng handed the list to Huang Zichu, "These are the people who left with him."
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