With the New Year basically behind them, the only major holiday left on the calendar was the Lantern Festival.
Now that all the educated youths had returned, they could finally get to work on the matters discussed at yesterday's meeting. Winter in Beidahuang was much longer than in the south, and the weather was no different from last year—still a world of ice and snow.
It would be at least another month before the frozen earth began to thaw. This window of time presented a perfect opportunity to renovate the Educated Youths Courtyard and reinforce the mud-brick houses where Jiang Rou and the others lived.
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