Chapter 14: Heavy Snow

This is the first month that Wu Qingzhu has left, and there are a few letters in the middle, but no one has seen them. I remember the last time I brought back the letter saying that I was helping my husband this winter, and my husband was in charge of eating.

Recently, Helan has also begun to take some pillows or clothes embroidery, which used to be these small things with purses and handkerchiefs, although the small things are embroidered quickly, they are not as expensive as pillows. Because the purse and pillow towel embroidered before were very good, the proprietress took a set of pillow towels for Helan, and of course the deposit was also paid more.

These two times were the county seat where Wu's father went, the first time he went to see Wu Qingzhu, and the second time was to help Helan embroider. This time, I got a dress and a pair of pillows.

Because the pattern is relatively simple, the embroidery girl who collected the embroidery work also gave it to Helan with confidence, just saying that it would be good to send it over in a month.

Fortunately, I went early yesterday, and it may not be easy to say later, since last night until now, the snow has not stopped, very big?

Helan, who got up early, woke up and found that there was already a lot of snow piled up at the door, so she was stunned and lifted her feet out to her knees.

"Lan girl, come to the hall first, don't stand stupidly at the door."

"Well, here it is."

Helan heard the sound of Wu's mother calling to her on the other side of the snow road, so she turned around and closed the door, and walked towards the main hall with her skirt.

Qingmei got up early and went to the stove in the main hall, and Helan really didn't want to lie in bed alone in the room.

But a person's room was empty, and from time to time there was cold air sneaking in, and it was so cold that I had no choice but to get up.

Stretched out his foot and stepped into the snow, and found that he stepped into it just to his knees, and the curious Helan picked out the place where Qingmei had not walked and stepped on it to look at the footprints that were printed by himself around him very happy, Helan didn't want to use it, and he knew that this was the first time he had seen such a big snow in so many years of life.

I used to see videos posted by others, and people may not be able to see them when they go into the snow, so I was very envious at the time, and I always thought that I didn't know if I could meet it in my lifetime.

"I really hope that this snow will not stop, and if it gets bigger, then I may see the kind of snow that can drown people."

"That's not easy, if you go out for a walk now, you'll definitely be able to drown people outside." Wu Qingquan, who was passing by, was very incomprehensible when he heard Helan's wishes, knowing that heavy snow means cold this year.

"What's the matter, it's not that thick at home, and it won't be outside."

"Our father cleaned it up last night to prevent the ice from slipping, and no one cleaned it outside, it must be very thick."

Wu Qingquan's words made Helan a little eager to run out, but Wu's father and Wu's mother, who looked at the chat, could only temporarily press down.

I heard Wu's father say that "Ruixue is a good year", if there is more snow, it is the best for the crops.

The snow is like a quilt covering the crops, so that the wheat will not be cold, and the worms in the wheat will be suffocated inside, so that you can eat good wheat in the coming year.

The few people who had eaten did not pile up in the hall as usual, and under the call of Wu's father, several people took the tools they were looking for and began to shovel snow

"If you don't clean it up now, when it freezes, it's not easy to leave at home.! Father Wu shoveled snow again and again and explained to a few people.

At first, Qingquan was also about to start, but he was frightened by his grandfather's eyes and hurriedly continued to read.

At the moment, the three people who are busy are Father Wu and Qingmei Helan, and it is not considered to help, because the two of them are building snowmen on the side, rubbing round balls, and then making various appearances.

When Father Wu saw the childish behavior of the two girls, he continued to work with his hands, and the laughter and laughter of the two people spread far and wide.

Wu Qingquan, who was reading in the house, stretched out his head several times to look out the window, and Grandpa Wu next to him frowned when he saw his grandson's inattentive appearance, and he could only let the little boy next to him who had no heart to read go out.

"Go, go, I have to come back in half an hour to continue the endorsement."

"Okay, grandpa." As soon as he finished replying, the person ran away.

When the snow cleared to the door, I saw that the neighbors on the left and right were cleaning the snow, and then the adults would chat while cleaning, and each family would sweep the snow in front of the door.

Usually, the relationship between several families is not bad, on the left is Uncle Haisheng's house, and on the right I heard that it is Uncle Haimu's family. It's also interesting to talk about this Uncle Haimu's house.

Uncle Haimu's family is a man, five years older than Wu Qingzhu, the oldest children this year are all six years old, and the youngest one is four years old this year, and the interesting thing to say is these two children. For example, now Father Wu has just opened the door and two small ones have run in, their faces are red from the cold, and they are holding a big snowball in their hands. When he came in, he shouted for Helan to build a snowman together.

At first, the little guy didn't know Helan, once the little guy followed a group of ant army to Helan's house, well, he also saw the ant's door, at the door of Helan's house, and counted a lot, and a few were particularly large.

Qingmei was curious and came over to take a look, Qingmei, who didn't know about dense phobia, was also frightened, the fate of this wave of ants was that the home was sealed and the soil was filled to death.

Another time, two little guys were chasing pheasants, which were originally caught in the back field, can you imagine that this chicken flew to Helan's house very coincidentally? The final result was that the chickens were caught, and Helan left a lot of chicken feathers and footprints on the bed.

One time it was born and two times it was cooked, and another time, the two little guys played hide and seek and couldn't find where to hide so they hid in Helan's room, and in the end the two little guys won, but they were beaten by their grandmother.

Because the two of them fell asleep on Helan's bed, because Helan was afraid of the cold and was doing embroidery work in the hall, he didn't know that there were two more people in his room.

I heard that Uncle Haimu's family was crazy looking for people, so I planned to go back to the room first to help find the embroidery work in my hand, and when I returned to the house, I found the two little ones lying in the quilt and sleeping.

And also......

I won't list them one by one, in short, the two little guys have an unusual fate with Helan. The two little guys were also very attached to Helan, and they came to Wu Qingzhu's house almost every day to report, and then glanced at Helan.

A few people were playing and making a fuss at the entrance of the two houses, and the hands were replaced by branches, and the eyes were replaced by walnuts from the pockets of the two little ones, and the noses, eyes, and mouths that were made up from east to west. When the adults finished clearing the snow and chatting, several children's snowmen were built.

I didn't notice it when I was playing, and when I entered the house, I found that the cuffs of several people were wet. The two little guys didn't go back to their own house, and after a few people entered the house, they began to roast around the brazier, and naturally they were inevitably nagged by Wu's mother.

Although he kept blaming and blaming in his mouth, he was still worried in his heart, so he quickly got up and boiled ginger tea for a few children to drink.

Wu's mother's chatter did not affect the good mood of several children, the children of this era did not have too many snacks, and there were some dry goods, such as melon seeds grown in autumn, as well as dried fruits found in the mountains, hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts and the like, and some sun-dried hawthorn slices, because they were wild and sour, the children did not like to eat them very much.

Children are also more like innovation, for example, now, a few people take out some of the dried fruits they have saved and put them next to the brazier to bake, and when they smell the fragrance, they quickly pull it down, break it and eat the fruit inside, it is really fragrant, because there are not many snacks, and several people are eating it with you and me.

The children are happy, the adults began to be sad, Wu's father and Wu's mother are chatting with the children, chatting is Wu Qingzhu, after this heavy snowfall, it is estimated that it will be transformed in the spring of next year, since Wu Qingzhu came back to the letter for four or five days, and I don't know how to live in the county.

When I left, I didn't bring any money with me, but fortunately, Father Wu sent all his luggage over when he went last time.

Grandpa Wu will also lean his ears here from time to time to listen to his grandson's situation.

Helan was a little curious when she heard that the snow may not melt until the spring of next year, in her impression that the snow is still quite easy to melt, sometimes the world may be gone in three or four days, thinking about it at that time, it was not as cold as it is now, and it is not as big as the snow now, so she feels okay, but I heard that Wu Qingzhu may not come back for the New Year, so I feel a little itchy and uncomfortable.

The most unhappy thing is Wu Qingquan, before his brother would give himself time to let off the wind when he was at home, and now he really can't go on. The earliest one who gets up at home in the morning, can't read a book for a day, and has to borrow the fire to read at night. In addition to eating and going to the toilet, I have never left the book in my hand, especially my grandfather has to check every day.

Qingmei still held her embroidered purse in a daze every day, and lived in Helan's room in order to be warmer at night, after all, Helan's room was smaller and warmer.

Wu's father was still squatting at the door and smoking, but he moved from the outside to the inside of the door, and Wu's mother was still busy with the work of weaving cloth in her hands.

Grandpa Wu stayed at home to read, read and write, but the writing was written on the sand table, after all, the family was not very wealthy.

Helan was also busy with her embroidery, but she didn't dare to keep drying, and in the first winter when she came here, Helan's little finger was frostbitten, and her feet were frozen in several places.

Originally, Helan thought it was a normal thing, but later Wu's mother said that almost everyone would have some frostbite, with their faces, hands and feet, but they were used to the fact that the weather was not very cold this year and had not yet started.

The next day, Wu's mother wandered around the village to find some mulberry leaves: "The mulberry leaves that have been beaten by frost are boiled in boiling water to treat frostbite, which is very effective. You can apply more in the past few days, this frostbite is not easy to treat, it is not good this year, and it may recur every year after that. ”

Helan, who eats with her hands, is naturally nervous about her hands, and she can't help it if she is not nervous, her fingers are swollen and she can't hold them these days, and she is very itchy from time to time.

Of course, Helan finally saw the person with the most frostbite, who was Aunt Wang of the family behind the courtyard.