When looking for tools, Hong Tao found that there was a large basement under Zhou Xiaoli's house, and the door was hidden behind the stairs, which was almost 50 square meters in size, divided into 3 small houses, one of which was stacked with some tools, and the other two were empty.

"If I have such a big house, I should get a small workshop here, put a small lathe, and I can do a lot of manual work by myself; Make a fishing gear showroom here, make a shelf on the wall, fill the fishing rods layer by layer, and paste a few photos of yourself fishing. While designing his own house in his mind, Hong Tao found an aluminum ladder and a surprisingly large plastic-headed shovel.

The snow outside is already a lot smaller, but it hasn't stopped, according to Zhou Xiaoli, this kind of snow is very drizzle, and if it doesn't go down ten or eight times in winter, it is not winter, and the bigger snow is not very difficult to see, and the door can be blocked overnight, and you have to get up in the middle of the night to shovel snow, or the door can't be opened, or the porch is collapsed by snow.

"I'm going to fly higher...... Fly higher...... Dancing like a storm......" Hong Tao climbed onto the porch, humming a little song while waving a big shovel to shovel down the snow more than a foot thick on the porch.

"Hey, are you Santa Claus?" Hong Tao was working energetically, when he suddenly heard a young child's voice behind him asking in English.

"I'm Santa Claus from China!" Looking back, there were two foreign children standing under his ladder, the older one was about 10 years old, and the younger one was 5 or 6 years old, dressed like a bear, and it was impossible to distinguish between men and women.

"But Li said that there is no snow at all in their hometown, you lie!" The older child pulled the child back a few steps, as if to prevent Hong Tao, a liar, from coming down the ladder.

"Who's Lee?" Hong Tao simply turned around and sat on the ladder to play with the child.

"It was a girl in our class, she came from China, she said that their hometown was very hot, and she showed us pictures and there was no snow at all." The older child explained.

"Hehe, China is very big, it's hot in the south, and it's cold in the north, you should have learned this, right?" Hong Tao's English was really bad, just such a sentence, he repeated it many times, and the older kid barely understood it.

"Then I'll go back and ask Lee again." The eldest kid is quite honest, and he thinks what Hong Tao said makes some sense.

"What's your name? Where to stay? Hong Tao saw that the child was unguarded, so he slowly came down from the ladder.

"My name is Joan, he's Bloom, and we'll live next to you, Miss Yoko? Who are you? "Listening to the name, this big child should be a girl, and her vigilance is really high, no less than the old lady on the street asked.

"She's in the house, I'm her friend, I'm going to build a snowman, would you like to build it together?" Hong Tao doesn't plan to talk like this anymore, the child's English is very unclear, and his English is also two knives, and every sentence has to be repeated, and they are annoyed by themselves.

"Let's go get the tools." The big children and the little children muttered a few words quietly, and then ran to the house next to them, the houses here are all single-family, there is a distance of more than ten meters between each family, generally there is a path or grass in the middle, and there are also tree walls, there is no tree wall between Zhou Xiaoli and the neighbor next to her, it is all grass, and now it is snow.

The snow on the porch was almost gone, Hong Tao walked to the snow between the two families, used the big shovel as a bulldozer, and gathered the snow from all directions to the middle, and the child quickly ran back with a small shovel and began to shovel the snow with Hong Tao.

Because there is a ladder to use, Hong Tao plans to build a relatively tall snowman, he put the ladder next to the snowman's body, and the two children carry snow here from nearby, and he himself uses a big shovel to transport it to a high place, and after a while, a large snowdrift more than 2 meters high is formed.

There are many ways to make a snowman's head, such as taking a bucket, putting snow in it, making it solid, and then pouring it out, which is a cylindrical snowman's head. However, Hong Tao doesn't plan to make do with this, he wants to get a more orthodox head for the snowman, which is a technical work.

First of all, you have to hold a large snowball with your hands, as big as you can, and then use this snowball as the core to roll back and forth on the soft snow, rolling the snow with your hands as you roll. Due to the temperature of the hand, the snow outside the snowball will melt a little, and it is easy to stick the soft snow on yourself, so this snowball will roll bigger and bigger, and then you will have to test the details of the snowball man's skills, you must roll the snowball very round, so that your snowman is more beautiful.

Hong Tao is a veteran in this area, he has been building a snowman since he was a child, and he has created a set of snowball rolling skills, which is the roundest in the whole alley.

When the two children saw Hong Tao rolling out a snowball, they also threw down the shovel and ran over, and wanted to roll one out by themselves, but after trying several times it didn't take shape, the child was in a hurry, so he simply got on his feet and kicked the rotten watermelon-like snowball that he rolled out all over the ground. As a result, an adult with two children, from a snowball to a snowball kickball, three people on the snow rolling and climbing, very happy, the sister and brother also united, together with the snowball and Hong Tao snowball fight.

After tossing for a while, everyone was tired, and Hong Tao put the big snowball he rolled on the snowman's body, and a snowman was basically formed, and it was time to put makeup on the snowman. The eyes of the snowman are two long eggplants, inserted vertically, and there are exactly two large black eyes; The nose of the snowman does not need to ask, a thick carrot, this has to be complained about, why are the carrots here bigger than China, is it possible that the genetics of European and American races have also been inherited from plants? The last thing is the mouth, which made Hong Tao think a lot, and finally chose a piece of banana peel, made it into a curved semicircle, and inlaid it directly on the snowman's head.

The little girl named Joan was obviously not very satisfied with the snowman's makeup, so she ran home to get a small pointed hat, which she probably wore during the festival, and Hong Tao put it on the snowman, but the effect was very bad, the hat was too small, the snowman's head was too big, the hat was not like a hat, but it looked like the snowman had a single horn!

Zhou Xiaoli had long been alarmed by the laughter of Hong Tao and the two children, but she never came out, just watched the three of them frolic and roll on the snow in the window, just watched quietly, until the snowman was finished, she made a few cups of hot chocolate and brought them out for everyone to drink.

In fact, Hong Tao didn't pay attention, there were people standing behind the curtains of the neighbor's house, and it was no shorter than Zhou Xiaoli standing for a short time, until Zhou Xiaoli appeared with hot chocolate, the door of that house opened, and an old man in his 50s appeared on the porch, he had a pipe in his mouth, a cowboy hat on his head, and he was wearing a shirt and a thick vest on a cold day, standing there silently looking at this side, and he didn't mean to come over, but just waved his hand to Zhou Xiaoli.

"Hello, Captain Gail!" Zhou Xiaoli also greeted him.

"That's Joan and Bloom's grandfather, their parents seem to be divorced, and when it's time for holidays, their mother sends them here to be taken care of by the old man, and it's been many years, this old man is an old officer, and he is said to have been to Iraq, and he is a good man, and when I was in school, I used to deliver newspapers to his family, but after his wife died, his temper became eccentric, and he didn't like to talk." Zhou Xiaoli saw Hong Tao looking over there, turned her back to that side and whispered.

"Captain? Is it the Army or the Navy? Hong Tao was very curious when he heard Zhou Xiaoli call the old man's military rank.

"It's not a captain, it's a captain, he's a captain in the Canadian Navy, and his rank is not captain, it's a colonel, your English is terrible, the word Captain means captain in the Army, and the word Captain means captain or COLONEL in the Navy." In addition to working as a translator, Zhou Xiaoli now works part-time as an English teacher.

"Does he have a gun at home? I guess there should be, do you think he'll let me see it? As soon as Hong Tao heard the old officer, he immediately became interested.