Groundhog service

She did not tell such a scary thing to her husbands because she was afraid that they will be scared. Sure enough, when the mers heard that people were waiting outside their village hoping to catch anything that was edible, their faces turned pale. 

They were not the only ones even the mers who had no relation to the woman turned to look at their wives whose expression was solemn as they looked away, it was not that they were not willing to fork out the money to buy the grains but the path to town was so dangerous that they could not summon the courage to go outside the village, what if they left and never returned?

When the woman saw that the mers were quaking with fear, she no longer dared to say anything. The snow was too heavy, everyone was afraid of death, and when others were afraid of death they would do anything to survive.