"Lean forward! It's like riding a bike! ”

At the beginning of the first two days, the temperature dropped below zero, and today it is even colder, and the ice around the lake is thick.

Four or five meters from the shore, John slipped backwards and shouted to Han Xuan, "Lean forward!" The center of gravity is mastered! You'll learn it in no time! ”

"Bang!"

"Oh! It hurts. Old John glanced over and asked, "This is the first time." ”

Han Xuan turned over, his arms spread out to maintain balance, and said hatefully: "The eighth time!" It's the eighth time! ”

"Hey, look, isn't there progress this time? I saw at least five meters of skiing! ”

"Yes! Four and a half meters of it was rubbed out of the ice by my face! After speaking, as if he was afraid that old John would not believe it, he pointed to his red face and showed him, loosened his scarf and sat on the ice.

Martinez made a fool of himself, learned the figure skating on TV, circled around Han Xuan a few times, and said: "Why, when it comes to such a little thing, is our little genius going to give up!?" ”

"Hell! Don't think I don't know, you want to keep watching my jokes, right? ”

If Han Xuan wasn't too short, he really wanted to punch him in the face, this strange appearance of squeezing his eyebrows was really annoying.

"No, no, no, how about I teach you?" Martinez glanced at Old John, slid to Han Xuan's side and stopped, bowed his head and said, "His skills are not very good, I'll teach you, it only takes 10 minutes to learn!" ”

"Huh? You're indebted, aren't you? Or don't compare! ”

Hearing his words, John rolled up his sleeves and shouted in a loud voice: "Come and see who is faster, you lost to me the year before last!" ”

"That's right! Try it out with him! Martinez. ”

Anderson shouted, turning his head to look around: "I'll be the banker, do you bet?" Win one and lose one! Up to five pieces. ”

"I'll press five pieces, block John to win!" Old Barton had made a hole in the ice not far away to fish, and when he heard his words, he turned back and shouted.

"I'll bet on Martinez."

"Jones, you have such a vision! I'm definitely not going to lose. ”

Martinez's smile bloomed before Jones continued, "Help me press five more Johns!." ”

"Damn!"

Grief raised his middle finger and said to old John: "Then it's better than compare, if you see that pine tree, the one whose tip is crushed by the snow, there it is!" ”

"Listen to you!"

Watching the excitement is never a big deal, others quickly gathered around, and Aunt Kelly shouted to the lake: "Come on!" My dear! ”

John was already ready, but when he heard her speak, he turned around and gave a thumbs up: "Of course! See how I won him! ”

"Let's get started, my neck is ...... sore"

Before he finished speaking, Anderson waved his hand down, and his voice came out at the same time: "Go!" ”

"You're playing tricks!" Seeing John start quickly, Martinez immediately set off to catch up.

Han Xuan scratched his head, he didn't understand how things had become like this in a few minutes, besides, who would teach him to skate now?

Looking around, almost all of them paid attention to Old John and them, holding the ice with his hands, and stood up and walked just two steps.

"Bang!"

"Alas......"

Fat Ding was playing nearby, and when he saw the strange posture of his master, he trotted all the way over with his fleshy palms stepping on the ice.

Learn from Han Xuan lying on the ground and moving forward, and was killed countless times in an instant by Han Xuan with a shameful gaze.

It snowed in Montana every year, but it was rarely as big as it is today.

The half-man-high snow is easy to pile up, the snow on the shore is relatively thin, just enough to settle down, and almost everyone who can't skate is here, and the snowmen are pinched into various shapes and placed on the shore.

When Han Xuan came, his parents were muttering to Joanna: "You said that you will do this below, will it be too big." ”

"It should be, so that the upper part and the head will be troublesome."

"Smaller then?"

"It's boring to be small, someone has to stand up and pile it."

"Or you can have a crane."

"So ......" Han's father caught a glimpse of his son beside him, cordially beckoned him to come over, helped him dust off the snow, and asked, "Do you want to build a snowman?" ”

Han Xuan looked at the two-meter-tall snowball in front of him, knew what his father was thinking, and quickly shook his head.

"Water monsters! There are water monsters in Lake Rota! At this time, Martinez, who had just set off, returned, with an excited expression and shouted loudly in the distance.

"Water monsters?" Old Patton's fishing rod fell, he had lived here for 60 years, heard countless legends of the Flathead Monster, and was shocked at the moment, and hurriedly asked, "Where is John?" ”

"He's sliding farther than me, he should be behind."

"Look, he's coming!"

Old Barton looked over the lake, and when he saw that John was safe, he breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Martinez dissatisfied: "What water monster?" ”

"A group of black shadows several meters long, just below the ice I passed!"

"It's true! Let's go ashore first! ”

Seeing that he didn't believe him, Martinez took Old Patton's hand and dragged him to the shore as if he were not joking.

When people saw him like this, their hearts were a little hairy, and they hurriedly followed their companions to the shore, and the lake soon became empty.

John came back and sat on the snow panting, his face a little pale, and the men on the shore noticed that something was wrong with them, and put down their tools and walked over.

Hundreds of people surrounded the two of them, discussing something, and Han's father took Han Xuan and squeezed in, and asked John and Martinez, "What's wrong?" ”

"There are water monsters, they say there are water monsters here."

"Lake Rota, you say?" Father Han was stunned when he heard Old Barton's words, and turned his head to look at the two of them: "What does it look like, Rota Lake is so shallow, shouldn't it?" ”

"It's about seven or eight meters, and it could be a cub of the water monster in Lake Flathead!" Martinez relented and spoke.

"Boss, don't listen to his nonsense, there are about a dozen, four meters long.

John pulled Martinez over and continued, "There are white patterns on the sides, and they revolve around me, so I can see it clearly, yes." ”

Han Xuan's face was full of doubts, he had lived here for ten years, and nothing like this had ever happened, so he raised his head and said: "Let's go and see, stand on the shore and see, the snow in the birch forest is not deep, you can walk over." ”

"How far away, John?" Father Han nodded and asked.

"More than a hundred meters, that's pretty much it."

"Boss, do you want to bring a gun?" Old Patton was a little uneasy.

"Go back and get it now, and gather here in twenty minutes."

The cowboys' house was not far away, and they came over quickly, and after Han Xuan's assurance, they also followed, and were protected by dozens of people in the middle, so my father was relieved.

The people who walked in front flattened the snow, and to him it was like a flat path, and the forest was quiet, and the snow on the branches of the trees kept falling.

The cowboys all came out with guns and held them up nervously in the air, and the distance of more than 100 meters was soon reached, and there were traces left by skate shoes on the surface of the lake.

John looked at it carefully, made sure it was right, and nodded violently, and a loading sound followed.

It was quiet under the ice, and there was no scene as they said, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, nothing abnormal happened, and Martinez's head was sweating, staring at the ice without moving.

Old Barton picked up a stone and smashed it into the lake, and there was a sound like a mirror shattering, and a white line quickly disappeared from under the ice, and soon a dozen or hundreds of white shadows appeared, entangled together.

"That's it, that's it!" Martinez was so frightened that he muttered, his hand Remington facing that side.

"There are real water monsters!" I don't know who said it.

Han Xuan stood on tiptoe and looked at it for a long time, pulled Labaton's arm, and said, "Could this be a fish?" ”

"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen this when I've grown up here." Barton looked back and whispered to the other cowboys, "Do you know what kind of fish is that long?" ”

"I don't know, I think it's in the sea."

"I have one in my hometown, but I haven't seen it."

One of the cowboys replied in a whisper, and people immediately looked at them, and the elder Barton continued to ask, "Lane, isn't your hometown in Canada?" ”

"Well, I immigrated here when I was a child, and I heard my parents say that this kind of big fish is in the Fraser River."

"Tall sturgeon? You're talking about the tall sturgeon? ”

Martinez suddenly turned around and said, and then stretched out his head to look at the lake: "The teacher said that the United States also has them, and it really looks like them." ”

“……”

"You know?"

"Yes, I was introduced in class."

John's mouth was wide open, not knowing what to say.

After eyeing Han's father, he raised his leg and kicked Martinez in the thigh.

The black guy rubbed his face against the ice, and slipped in the middle of the group of tall sturgeons, and one of them stuck his head out of the hole that Old Patton had smashed just now, and opened his mouth to bite him.

……

When the alarm was lifted and people returned to the lake, Martinez was stripped of his shirt and ran home in a trembling state.

Not far from the shore, Hill dusted off the dirty snow from the upper layer and filled the bucket with small half snowflakes.

Joanna followed her boyfriend, walked back with the bucket, came under the snowman, tied a rope to the handle of the bucket, and soon began to rise.

The father stood by and rubbed his hands, and when he saw that the snowman was almost ready, he nodded in satisfaction and continued to get snow.

Han Xuan sat on the top of the snowman, more than five heights above the ground, poured the snow in the bucket on it, patted it with his hands, looked at his father's back, and muttered quietly.

"Grande, this is the exploitation of child labor!"

The leisure time passed quickly, and the sky began to darken.

The father carried his son home, and the laughter of the surrounding employees kept coming.

The snowman stood by the lake, his hands made of twigs, and a few clothes hung on it.

Today is the last Thursday of November, Thanksgiving Day in the snow, and there will be a turkey feast waiting for them when they come home......