The cold wind howls and the snowflakes flutter...

This year's winter is extremely cold. Even here in Yuhang County, located in the south of the Yangtze River, after entering the twelfth lunar month, the climate is almost the same as that in the north. It is also freezing. Even the West Lake, which rarely freezes in previous years, is directly frozen.

On top of it, there was a thick layer of solid ice, and even the pavilions and withered tree trunks by the lake were covered with ice ridges.

Since it is so cold here in Yuhang in the south of the Yangtze River, it is basically conceivable that the deserts and grasslands in Yanyun and even further north will definitely be colder. It must have suffered a cold disaster, there is no doubt about it!

What's worse is that once the north suffers a cold disaster, the nomadic peoples on the grasslands, such as the Turks, will definitely suffer heavy losses, and countless livestock such as cattle and sheep will definitely freeze to death, and that means,

In the spring of next year, whether for survival or to recover losses, they will definitely invade the Central Plains and carry out planned plundering operations, and the scale will only be larger!

Things like that certainly made Kou Zhong, the general manager of Jiangnan Province, and others worried, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Of course, it is their business that Kou Zhong and others worry about, and if there is one person, then they will definitely not care about it.

Isn’t this?

Although the wind and snow are still very heavy today, there is thick white snow everywhere, and there are very few pedestrians even on the streets in the city, a certain troubled little girl is still wearing her cute blue and white winter coat.

Skirt bounced to the edge of the West Lake outside the city, which was even more inaccessible and where not even a wild beast could be seen.

"..."

(??_?)

That’s right!

Anyone who dared to go out alone in such icy and snowy weather and dare to come to such an inaccessible place would of course be no one except Anne.

At this time, she was standing on the lake about tens of meters away from the embankment on the lake shore, lowering her head and staring at the lake that was frozen and covered with a thin layer of snow in a daze.

"Big fish..."

ヾ(′??｀?)ノ

"Where are you, Big Fish?"

("?ヘ?)"

Then, after staring at the frozen lake for a while, she began to search there while whispering, wandering and pacing.

As for why she came to a place like this to look for some kind of "big fish" in such a cold weather, it is still unknown.

After a long time, when Annie finally stopped at a place further away from the shore and began to fold her arms and purse her lips, thinking about something...

Very unexpected!

A woman wearing white clothes, a thick fur cloak, and a snow hat with a cloak actually used Qinggong to float over from a distance, and slowly landed on her as if there was no weight.

On the ice behind you.

"Senior An?"

"What are you doing?"

Immediately afterwards, the visitor started asking directly the moment he landed.

"It's you again..."

(lll￢▽￢)

Annie turned her head and glanced at the other party. When she saw that it was indeed the elusive 'Concubine Shi Xuan', she flattened her mouth in boredom, and then continued to lower her head and search for her 'big fish' on the ice.

"??"

"senior?"

Seeing that Annie was a bit rude, the master concubine Xuan didn't mind. She just paused, then stepped forward with a smile, followed Annie to search the ice surface, and continued to ask strangely.

"What are you..."

"Looking for something?"

While asking, the concubine Feixuan also pretended to search seriously with Annie, thinking that Annie had accidentally left something important nearby.

However, after searching for a long time, she found nothing except the mirror-like blue lake surface that was frozen to at least half a foot thick and the white snow falling down and accumulating.

"..."

(???.???)????

Finally, seeing the other person wandering around with her, Annie couldn't help but turned her head to look at the other person curiously.

"..."

(??_?)

But she didn't explain, and then turned her attention to the lake again.

Thinking about it, compared to the 'Concubine Shi Xuan' in front of her, who according to Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling never does anything good or serious, Annie thinks it is more important to find her target?

(…)

(●￣?￣●)

"strangeness!"

"There seems to be nothing special within a few dozen feet..."

"Senior Anne, what are you looking for?"

After a long time, the master Feixuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and had to ask again.

For Shi Feixuan, whose martial arts has reached an advanced stage and is close to the highest level of 'Sword Heart Transparency', if she is looking for something, she will definitely not find it on such an easy-to-recognize and unobstructed view of the frozen lake.

Maybe it’s better to hide it from her eyes!

But in the end, she had been searching for a long time and found nothing?

"..."

ε=(′ο｀*)))Alas

"Really, don't you just look for it randomly if you don't know?"

(°ー°〃)

"They are preparing to go fishing!"

(??ˇεˇ??)

Anne sighed first, then had to explain, and then finally mumbled in annoyance and complaint:

"I just wanted to help without asking anything..."

(??_?)

"How stupid!"

(*???*)

But the beeps were beeps, the complaints were complaints, but that didn't stop her from continuing to wander around the lake and look for traces of those fish, just like she could see the fish under the water through the ice.

"this……"

Unexpectedly, she was fishing... looking for fish, which made Shi Feixuan feel quite embarrassed and unexpected.

“Why fishing?”

Then, looking at the frozen lake again, and looking at Annie who didn't seem to have any fishing tools in her hands, she couldn't help but continue to ask in surprise.

"How can there be so many reasons?"

(￢д￢.)

"I want to eat authentic West Lake vinegar fish today! But the store owner said that the ice on the lake is too thick and the snow is heavy, so there is nothing the fishermen can do if they don't catch fish, so I have to find it myself."

(??ˇ?ˇ??)

Yes, this is the main reason why Annie came here alone and wandered on the frozen lake.

After all, for a foodie, the ice surface that is less than half a foot thick will definitely not be able to resist her enthusiasm for eating fish, let alone half a foot thick. Even if the entire lake is frozen, she can still do it.

Forcibly pull out the suitable fish!

(…)

(●￣?￣●)

"West Lake Fish With Vinegar Sauce?"

"ah!"

"That is indeed a delicious dish. Fei Xuan was also lucky enough to taste it."

Shi Feixuan nodded in agreement, but as to whether she had really eaten it, only she knew.

"Senior Ke'an!"

"Ice fishing requires using an ax to cut through the icy lake surface that is stronger than steel. Then, it is best to use insect bait and fish hooks. You seem to be unprepared for anything. How can you catch a big fish?"

It could be seen that Shi Feixuan seemed to have fished before in winter or had seen other people fishing, so she was quite reasonable in what she said.

"..."
To be continued...