noffsinger Chapter 260 It’s Snowing
Chapter 260 It’s Snowing
Instead of waiting for their missing-tooth father and the others to return, they were greeted by the first snowfall since they arrived.
"Get up! Get up!"
The broken bellows' "alarm clock" went off, and when Da Niu opened his eyes, he saw Black Sparrow (qioqio) sticking out its butt and yelling at him in a nasty voice to wake him up.
He rubbed his eyes, looked out the window at the bright sunshine, and was so startled that he rolled over and sat up abruptly.
She quickly put on her coat, while unable to resist teasing Black Sparrow: "Black Sparrow, why did you only wake me up when it was already light? Oh no, oh no, I overslept and will be late for school..."
Crying and chirping.
As soon as he pushed open the door, a gust of cold wind rushed in, making Da Niu shiver.
When he saw the scene in the courtyard, his face lit up with joy, and he shouted, "It's snowing!!"
Upon hearing the announcement "It's snowing," Lin Xi and Gao Mengli quickly jumped out of bed. Before they could even put on their clothes, Lin Xi opened the window and peered outside.
"It really is snowing!"
Gao Mengli quickly moved closer to Lin Xi and looked outside. "It's so beautiful! It's the first time I've ever seen snow!"
On the table in the yard, there was a chayote trellis, and the yard ground was covered with a thick layer of white snow.
If you're looking for a place without snow, the only place without snow is around the small shed in the yard, because there's a stove there. It's a place of "ice and fire" that's quite dry!
The snow was too heavy for the carriage to run, so Gao Mengli decided that Da Niu should take the day off from school, but she still asked A Li to make a trip to the county town to ask for leave for Da Niu.
The surprise came too fast; even the big shot was caught off guard!
His mother finally gave him a day off!
He's still just an eleven-year-old child; playing and wanting to play are in his nature.
Gao Mengli and Lin Xi went outside and quickly started shoveling snow from the yard.
Lin Xi realized that there were no stone lions at her door, so she took a shovel and went to build two snowmen at the door.
Da Niu found it novel and rushed to build a snowman. He built a black sparrow, while Lin Xi built a chubby "snowman"!
"Dad, what are you piling up?"
As Da Niu piled up the second black sparrow, he looked at the unfamiliar, round creature and couldn't help but ask a question.
"A snowman!"
Lin Xi didn't even look up, her hands continuing to move.
He focused intently on attaching a carrot nose to the "snowman," then found two black pebbles to embed as eyes. Only then did he straighten up, pat the snow off his hands, and look at Da Niu with a smile.
"Look at that big head and round body, isn't it just a snowman!"
Da Niu shook his head in denial: "Talented people don't look like that!"
As he spoke, Da Niu grabbed two snowballs, pressed them onto the snowman's head, and then ripped off the carrot that Lin Xi had just stuck on.
They attached two chubby arms to the snowman, put two pieces of coal in it as eyes, and stuck a bunch of bamboo in its arms.
"Father, look! The iron-eating beast!"
Lin Xi was stunned, and the shovel in her hand fell to the ground.
Gao Mengli picked up the shovel from the ground, put it back in Lin Xi's hand, and patted his hand: "The 'snowmen' of Qianyu Kingdom are beasts, dragons, or other things, but definitely not 'snowmen'!"
Thinking about it this way, Lin Xi was happy again. After all, his "work" had been altered by his brat, and he was still angry!
But Gao Mengli's words made him feel relieved.
Then, following Da Niu, they gathered a few more watchdogs.
Gao Mengli looked into the distance.
On this day, the docks, brick kilns, and inns all have to stop working.
She was thinking of making cured meat for her toothless father and the others, but now that she had some free time and the family had enough salt to make two pigs, her mind started to wander.
After all, they've never actually done it before, otherwise they would have done one or two as "experiments".
After she had made up her mind, seeing that the "father and son" were having fun, she didn't call Lin Xi.
He went to the village chief's house to discuss it.
After all, the village chief was a wealthy man who raised three pigs, two of which were for sale. She bought them to make cured pork.
After she made all the arrangements, she was stunned when she got home.
Because Da Niu was buried in snow by Lin Xi, only his head was sticking out with an excited expression.
Lin Xi was also using a shovel to pat the snow outside, making sure it was firmly packed down.
Gao Mengli: ……
"Mother, you're back!"
Big Ox, with his sharp eyes, turned around and shouted with delight!
Lin Xi turned her head and looked at Gao Mengli's dark face, so frightened that she dropped the shovel in her hand.
He quickly ran over, grabbed Gao Mengli's hand, and explained, "Hehehe, Mengli, Da Niu and I were playing the 'Snowy Hiding Man' game!"
Gao Mengli looked at Da Niu's rosy cheeks, which were full of excitement, and couldn't help but facepalm.
That brat is a bit dim-witted; he got pranked by his own dad and he's still laughing it off.
He could only purse his lips and glare at Lin Xi: "I bought two pigs from the village chief's house. You take four taels and eight hundred coins to the village chief's house."
Now, they're building a stove and boiling water in the open space next to the inn, preparing to slaughter the pig!
Upon hearing this, Lin Xi brushed the snow off her clothes, her face full of excitement, and quickly ran back into the house to get the silver: "Alright, I'll go right now!"
Upon hearing that his family was going to slaughter a pig, Da Niu was so excited that he wanted to go along.
Unfortunately, his father had held him too tightly, and he couldn't break free at all.
Gao Mengli, who was standing nearby, saw Da Niu's actions and suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so loudly that she almost cried!
She was laughing heartily when she suddenly froze.
Mengze had piled up several "snakes" on the roof of the house in the courtyard.
"What are you doing?"
Mengze nodded happily, "Boss, the dragon is here!"
A dragon coiled around the roof—that's a very auspicious sign!
“Yes, Uncle Meng is building a dragon enclosure!” Da Niu nodded in agreement, clearly very satisfied with the snakes.
Gao Mengli: ……
Jiang Shuzhi pushed open the door to sweep the snow and saw a mother and child in the snow. To be precise, she looked at the big cow that was "planted" in the snow.
Jiang Shuzhi stepped forward, bent down to look at the big cow with only its head sticking out, and reached out to pull it out.
Unfortunately, Da Niu was not the same Da Niu as before; he had grown much stronger, and she couldn't pull him away all at once.
"Da Niu, how did you bury yourself so securely in the snow?"
Hearing this, Gao Mengli chuckled again: "His father buried him."
Da Niu nodded: "Yes, Grandma, I'm playing games with Dad!"
Lin Xi came out with the silver, chuckling, "Then don't run away here, I'm going to pay the silver and slaughter the pig!"
Seeing his father run far away, Da Niu became very anxious and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Dad, wait for me, I have to go!"
But when he shouted, his head buried even deeper in the snow. Even though he exerted all his strength, he remained firmly buried in the snow!
Seeing this, Jiang Shuzhi quickly reached out to wipe the snow off his face and said with heartache, "Oh, my dear grandson, don't worry, we'll go after your father once we dig you out."
Gao Mengli was all smiles, showing no intention of helping at all!
Looking up at Mengze, who was piling up snow, he said, "That's enough! Stop now and take Hei Yi and the others to slaughter the pig!"
Mengze responded from the rooftop, jumped down from the courtyard roof, quickly grabbed their "battle robes"—aprons—and hurriedly led Hei Yi and the others, who were sweeping snow in the courtyard, towards the village entrance.