The snow had been falling for two days and nights, the world outside was a vast expanse of white, as if too clean to bear.
Yet, in places unseen by the nobles of the Capital, countless people were desperately struggling to survive.
No one knows how many corpses were carried out of the slums in South City and North City.
The court was also trying to find ways to provide disaster relief, setting up various shelters in South City and North City, and large pots of porridge were cooked up, all to allow the disaster-stricken people to have a few mouthfuls of warm food.
In addition, the court sought doctors to prescribe medicine for treating cold injuries, boiling medicinal soups to distribute to the afflicted citizens.
Anning had people buy a lot of coarse cloth and cotton, having the maids and old women at home rush to make cotton-padded clothes for several days to distribute to the freezing and suffering people in South City.
