In the evening of the same day, people came one after another, and there were the most people in their dozen or twenty yuan, and it was enough to express their hearts. The old village chief paid attention to it, because Wang Gui did not live with him, and he did not count two families if he did not divide the family, and he could only go to one family when he became a member, so the old village chief paid fifty yuan, which was the most in the village.

There are also people who send firecrackers or home-brewed sweet wine, but the old man Qian sent two rabbits, in fact, the two hares in the current era to sell for money must be a hundred, but the people in the village have no habit of selling it, and they have never used it in exchange for money, they just caught it and ate it, so it seems not as valuable as money, in fact, it is not. To Zhang Taiping's surprise, the old man Zhao in the easternmost part of the village actually asked the girl named Xiaoshu to send a jar of wine.

Those who came were all relatively close, or who often helped Zhang Taiping and got a lot of wages during this time. The dish is served in a large pot, and the home-brewed sweet wine is drunk in a large bowl, and the degree of this wine is very small, even women and children can drink a lot. A meal that ends with a starry day.

Fan Ming seems to be very sensitive to alcohol due to her physique, even Yaya can drink a few glasses of sweet wine, she just drank a glass of wine, her cheeks were red, and her starry eyes were blurred, but there were signs of drunken madness, who would have thought that she would simply get drunk and fall asleep early.

Aunt Wang helped Cai Yazhi clean up the messy table before leaving. Yesterday installed a solar water heater, today can take a bath, Zhang Taiping taught Cai Yazhi how to use even took a mandarin duck bath, but did not do anything bad, today she was busy enough to be tired, after washing early went to bed.

Early the next morning, the sky changed, and last night it was full of stars, but this morning it was gray, which is a sign that it is about to snow. Zhang Taiping is still slightly happy in his heart, Xi'an has not had a heavy snow for many years, it is just a little ground melting, people have not felt the feeling of snow and disappeared without a trace, take the current posture in the sky is going to have a heavy snowfall.

Zhang Taiping came to the courtyard after practicing his fists and feet and knife skills, Fan Ming and Yaya were squatting side by side under the eaves to brush their teeth, one big and one small were full of foam, and they all grinned when they saw Zhang Taiping come in. Zhang Taiping didn't feel it, Fan Ming was like a child who didn't grow up.

I took down the cart from the yard and pulled it to the village chief's house, where I had already discussed with Wang Gui last night and went to the town today to buy some honeycomb coal and anthracite.

When he arrived at the village chief's house, he parked the rack car in the yard and jumped on Wang Gui's three-wheeled motorcycle, which was already waiting at the intersection. Wang Gui first sent the mushrooms to various restaurants, and then the two came to the room where honeycomb coal was made, and the old queue outside. In the big winter, it is still the eve of snow, and honeycomb coal is the fastest time to sell.

There was a young man who wanted to cut the queue when he saw a lot of people in front of him, and the other people were ordinary people who saw this person with yellow hair who didn't look like a good thing, and they just didn't see that more than one thing was better than one less, and besides, one more person didn't have much more time. Zhang Taiping was so worried that someone cut in line, and his heart was on fire, so he went directly over and kicked him on the yellow hair's buttocks, kicking him to a stumbling back. Huang Mao turned around angrily and just wanted to scold his mother, but when he saw that it was Zhang Taiping, he seemed to know, so he withered directly, and walked towards the back without saying a word, and walked at the back of the line under Zhang Taiping's gaze. Seeing that he was so knowledgeable, Zhang Taiping had nothing to say.

It took two hours to queue up to get to Wang Gui and Zhang Taiping, mainly because they were slow to load. The two of them each loaded two hundred yuan, and no more carts could fit it. I bought some anthracite coal at the place where I sold carbon, and when I returned to the village, it was almost noon. Wang Gui first parked the car at the door of his house, put down 200 pieces of honeycomb coal, and then drove the car to the door of Zhang Taiping's house.

The honeycomb coal was unloaded from the car and stacked under the eaves in the middle yard, and the anthracite was also placed on it. The family has bought all kinds of electrical appliances, and in essence, there is no need for honeycomb coal, but Zhang Taiping considers that in winter, the house can be much warmer if there is a stove at home, and you can also put a pot of water on the stove, and you can use hot water at any time. Anthracite coal was bought for burning kang, which not only kept warm for a long time, but also much cleaner than firewood.

At noon, the arranged fence was delivered, Zhang Taiping paid the wages, and asked people to help fence the strawberry fields by the way, and then added half a day's wages to everyone.

The weather that wanted to snow in the morning lasted until the afternoon, but the sky was gloomy as if it was about to drip water, and the gray sky gave people an oppressive feeling, and a cold wind began to blow outside, and the knife-like northwest wind blew on the face quite unpleasantly. The collar is a little loose, and the cold wind pours into it when it takes time, which makes people can't help but shiver. In this kind of weather, it is most comfortable to sit on the fire, a few people sit in a pile and gossip, and soju, or four people are clustered together to play a card, it is simply a race over the living immortals.

Zhang Taiping walked around the backyard, and the chickens had already been put on the shelves early. The dairy sheep with Liujia was pregnant for a long time, and Cai Yazhi rarely pulled it out to be stocked because of her body, and she cut some grass that had not yet withered or fed some hay prepared earlier. When the sheep heard Zhang Taiping enter the circle, she raised her head to look at him, and Zhang Taiping could see a kind of brilliance belonging to her mother in her eyes. With a flap of her nose, the sheep got up from the ground and came to Zhang Taiping's feet, judging from her body, it would not be too far from giving birth. Zhang Taiping took out some space and poured it into the basin on the ground, the sheep sniffed and drank it, the space spring water is always good for her body and the baby sheep in her belly.

The little squirrel didn't go out either, so he curled up in Yaya's arms and lay on the kang to watch TV. The two parrots also quieted down at this time, animals always feel stronger than people to Tianwei, and they will also have a kind of awe from the bones of Tianwei, such weather, the two parrots that usually jump off also honestly stay in the house and no longer fly outside, like children who are tired of wandering and coming home. At this moment, they were standing on the garland that Fan Ming made for them hanging in the air, combing their feathers.

The only one who is still active is the lion, following Zhang Taiping around the yard patrolling, the body is getting bigger and bigger Ah Huang is lazy lying on the ground in the middle of the house without moving, as its body grows up again after it can no longer find an opponent in the village, this guy seems to have a feeling of loneliness as a master, and there is a lot less time to go out and wander around, lying in the yard to bask in the sun when there is nothing to do, quietly like a seventy-year-old man who knows the destiny of heaven. Only those who have seen its performance in the mountains and forests know how perverted this seemingly docile big dog who always lies in the yard as if he has no temper is perverted, this is the master who can fight the green wolf alone!

It's still a lion that jumped away, young, jumping around behind Zhang Taiping. After a few months, the lion had grown larger than the average native dog in the village, and the genetic factor was revealed, combining the ferocity of the Caucasus with the handsomeness and docility of St. Bernard. Meekness and ferocity are not contradictory at all, he looks like a little more long hair from St. Bernard, and he is as docile as a kitten no matter how he is trumpeted in front of his master at home, but when he fights other dogs outside, he shows the ferocity of the Caucasus. Once I fought with a local dog in the village, if it wasn't for Zhang Taiping's reprimand, he directly bit off the neck of the local dog, and that was the only time he showed his murderous surname, and the rest of the time he was still quite docile and friendly to other dogs.

After all, it will snow at night in such weather, Zhang Taiping inspected the yard, and when he saw that there was nothing to do, he sat on the kang and took a deck of pokers, and the four of them played the upgrade that women often play in the countryside. Fan Ming and Xingrushui are both novices, but after Zhang Taiping explained the rules, Xingrushui immediately transformed into a master, but Fan Ming is still a rookie among rookies. Zhang Taiping and Fan Ming are in a group, Xing Rushui and Cai Yazhi are in a group. Cai Yazhi would have been able to play plus an intellectually terrifying line like water, Fan Ming frequently played faint cards, and Zhang Taiping was also difficult to support alone. Everyone has been promoted to a round, and the two of them are still on the fifth, if in rural terms, they have just climbed up from the running pit. In the end, Fan Ming finally couldn't stand it in frustration and stopped playing.

It was already past six o'clock, it was dark, it was time to make dinner, and the four of them finished playing cards. Only Yaya was still sitting on the kang watching TV, Fan Ming also sat next to Yaya and watched TV, Xing Rushui and Cai Yazhi went into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Zhang Taiping put on the cotton shoes that Cai Yazhi said he made some time ago, put on a shirt and came to the front yard.

The cold wind pierced Zhang Taiping's body but didn't make him feel much change, Zhang Taiping stretched out his hand, and some small white crystal particles in the air fell on his hand, it was snowing!

This is not the shape of an orthodox hexagonal snowflake, but a grain the size of half a grain of rice. In the countryside, it is commonly known as "oil pot pouring" or "cold thorn", which means that the air in the sky is very cold, and the next snow is heavy after all, and it will last for a long time. The "cold thorn" makes a rustling sound on the trees, and the ground has been covered with a thin layer, this kind of snow is the most difficult to melt, and when it falls, it means that the temperature on the ground is already very low, and it does not melt when rolling on the ground, and "sitting" stops, making a foreshadowing for the heavy snow that comes down to "sit" on the ground.

Walking in the yard, hard round particles roll under people's feet, and if you are not careful, you will slip on. Zhang Taiping stood at the edge of the courtyard and looked north, the scattered roofs were covered with a layer of mist, not covered in silver, but there was another hazy beauty, and the small village was more quiet and comfortable at this moment.