Chapter 61: The First Snow of Eighty-Four
He had been living in Guan Zizai's courtyard for three days, and it wasn't until Lu Xin'e came to the courtyard with a black face to call him that Guan Xiaojun walked out of the flower room slowly.
"Xin'e, isn't it just an object, what is it worth? Give it to people, what is there to be angry about? Besides, it's not lost, why are you so distressed?"
Guan Zizai saw that Lu Xin'e was still angry, and persuaded with a smile: "I gave the pendant to the child, he gave it away, I am not angry, why are you angry?"
Lu Xin'e said: "Master, Xiaojun's habit can't be accustomed, today he is sending jade pendants, tomorrow he may send gold bars, and then he may send his own house out!
Guan Hongda and Guan Yunshan's father and son's generosity are well-known, the difference is that Guan Hongda's generosity is only aimed at people with good character, while Guan Yunshan is a little blind and generous, not only can't attract a few people, but in the end, he was laughed at behind his back.
Although Lu Xin'e is just an uneducated rural woman, she also feels that Guan Yunshan's approach is not quite right, it doesn't matter if she does good deeds, but she also relies on people!
This time, as soon as Guan Xiaojun made a move, he sent out a jade pendant worth a house, and Lu Xin'e was naturally angry, first, she was distressed, and second, she was worried that Guan Xiaojun would learn Guan Yunshan's blindness.
"Even if there are mountains of gold and silver at home, I can't stand throwing them out like this!"
Lu Xin'e said to Guan Zizai: "Master, are you talking about this reason?"
Guan Zizai nodded and said, "Yes, this sentence is reasonable!"
He looked at Guan Xiaojun, and a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes, "Xiaojun, you can't be like this in the future, you have to listen to your mother! You must know that the gold has no owner and comes from the thrifty family! You can't give away things indiscriminately in the future!"
Guan Xiaojun nodded and said, "Master, I know!"
He said to Lu Xin'e: "Mother, the grandfather said that the pendant he gave me is worth a house, then I will earn two houses for my family next year." ”
Lu Xin'e glared at Guan Xiaojun, "You still have two houses? You can't even earn two sets of socks! Let's go, go home and eat!"
Guan Xiaojun asked cautiously, "Don't beat me, right?"
Lu Xin'e said: "Remember first, next time you dare to do this, fight together!"
Guan Xiaojun shrugged his neck and bowed his head, obediently followed Lu Xin'e home, not daring to make any more trouble.
After returning home, Guan Yang sneaked up in front of him, "I heard that it will snow tomorrow, do you want to catch rabbits?"
Guan Xiaojun's eyes lit up, "Go!"
The weather forecast was rare and accurate, and in the afternoon, the black clouds were rolling over, the sky was overcast, and snowflakes began to fall in the gray sky.
At first, it was just a small particle of snow, but after a while, large snowflakes fell to the ground like white feathers.
The snowflakes were so large that they could even be heard on the ground, and in an instant, the whole village was covered with a thin layer of white clothing.
It snowed all night, and after dawn the next day, the snow in the yard buried the steps in front of the house, and the snow was so thick that it was almost as deep as an adult's knee.
A flock of chickens on the chicken rack fell into the snow nest and fluttered, clucking and flapping their wings, and flew desperately to the pomegranate tree not far away, never to come down again.
The black pig in the pigsty popped its head out of the snow nest and snorted vigorously.
The family began to shovel snow, and after shoveling a road, they pushed the snow in the yard to the door with a cart, and when the snow in their yard was cleared, Guan Hongda and his son began to go to the door to deal with the road, and they swept it from the door of the house to the street, and the task of shoveling snow was completed.
And Guan Yang and Guan Xiaojun had already led a group of bear children to start the activity of snowballing and building snowmen.
The snow in this era is very sticky, just make a small cloud of snow, roll on the ground for a while, it will roll out a big snowball, the snowball is getting bigger and bigger, rolling along the street, absorbing a lot of snow on the ground, forming a lock of imprints, revealing a yellow-white dry and hard road surface. It's easier and faster than shoveling snow with a broom and shovel.
Guan Yang led a group of children of the same age to start a snowball game from the east end of the village to see who rolled big and fast.
Such a thick snow, not a hundred meters to roll, the snowball is already half a waist high, rolling began to be a little laborious, the direction of the snowball is a little uncontrollable, and after rolling for a while, the snowball in front of the friends began to move along the street crookedly like a drunk, mixed with the laughter and exclamation of children.
The snow in this era is very sticky, and it snowballs effortlessly, but after a few decades, the snow is less sticky, like sand, and it can't be rolled into a snowball at all, and I don't know what happened.
By the time the snowball was rolled from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, the snowball was already more than one person tall, and the children were panting with exhaustion and sweating on their faces.
After piling the snowball on the side of the road, everyone started to make a second snowball, which was much smaller than the first one after it was formed, and then lifted the smaller snowball onto the big snowball, and the basic shape of a snowman appeared.
Someone found a cotton shell and pressed it on the snowball as an eye, a wooden peg was inserted as a nose, a branch was broken to make a mouth, and finally a broken straw hat was put on the snowman's head.
These snowmen, who are tall, short, fat and thin, and have strange appearances, are piled up by children on the side of the street, like guards guarding the village.
If the weather is cold all the time, these "guards" will not melt away until the Chinese New Year.
At this time, the snow can not only roll snowballs, build snowmen, and have snowball fights, but also eat.
The children would use a plastic bag to collect a small bag of white snow on a clean wall, or somewhere else, and then put two saccharin grains in the bag and shake it vigorously, and finally pinch it into a weird shape. This is probably the most authentic ice cream.
But this kind of ice cream with saccharin is sweet and bitter, and it's okay to eat two bites, but if you eat too much, no one can stand it, so it's more fun than delicious.
Saccharin is a kind of small white particles, and the size of the white sugar particles is not much different, rural children can not afford to drink sweet water in summer, often throw one or two saccharin into the water in their bottles, and throw in one or two orange peels, but oranges are rarely eaten, orange peels are rare.
Now eating snow is also, only the snow cubes that are put in the white sugar, can really be eaten, and few people can really eat the saccharin, everyone is basically a happy picture.
With such thick snow, some people play and some eat, but there are also people who take advantage of this weather to catch rabbits.
Guan Xiaojun likes to catch rabbits.