The heavy snow was still falling slowly from the sky, and there was no wind outside. Looking at the village covered in snow in the distance, Xu Jianguo felt extremely peaceful in his heart.
At this time, the snow in the yard was more than 20 centimeters thick. Funiu walked down the steps and suddenly sank into the snow. Xu Jianguo thought she would be scared and was about to go over to hug her, but he didn't expect that the girl actually rolled around in the snow and laughed happily.
Xiao Hei was not to be outdone. He jumped directly to Funiu's side and kept digging in the snow with his big black head.
Xu Jianguo couldn't help but smile as he looked at the happy faces of the man and the dog.
He walked into the yard, held a soft snowball and threw it at Funiu. The little girl was stunned and turned to look at Xu Jianguo with a smirk on his face, and immediately activated the little witch attribute in her genes.
I saw Funiu also imitated Xu Jianguo, made a snowball with her gloved hands and threw it at her unreliable brother.
For a moment, snowflakes were flying in Xu Jianguo's yard, accompanied by the laughter of Xu Jianguo and Funiu, as well as Xiao Hei's cries.
After the two of them were tired of playing, Xu Jianguo simply lay down in the snow with a big letter "L", then he picked up Funiu beside him and let the little girl lie on his belly to rest.
Xiao Hei had already run a long way away and squatted at the door of the warehouse. He didn't want to pay attention to the brother and sister because they bullied the dog too much.
After resting for a while, Xu Jianguo stood up and carried Funiu to the vegetable field at the gate of the yard. He decided to build the first snowman here.
After putting Funiu down, Xu Jianguo walked to the warehouse. While the little girl was not paying attention, he quietly took out a shovel from the space and walked back.
Gently shovel up the snow in the vegetable field and pile it up into a snow pile. In order to prevent the mud under the snow from affecting the beauty of the snowman, Xu Jianguo only chooses to shovel away snow with a thickness of about ten centimeters.
Soon, a large snow pile appeared in front of Funiu. Xu Jianguo took a look and began to compact the snow pile with a shovel, making a cone about half a meter high. Then he used his hands to smooth the top into a shallow spherical concave shape.
Then Xu Jianguo said to Funiu, "Come, help your brother roll the snowball."
"Okay!" Funiu agreed happily with her little red face.
Xu Jianguo led Funiu to a piece of snow that had not been stepped on yet not far away. He squatted down and made a snowball with his hands. Then he put the snowball on the snow and slowly pushed it with his hands. Layers of snow were stuck to the outside of the snowball, and the originally small snowball began to grow slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Funiu, push the snowball according to this method and make it bigger and bigger!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"I'll do it, I'll do it!" Funiu cheered.
Seeing the little girl having fun, Xu Jianguo got up and went to the warehouse. He rummaged through the firewood pile for a long time and finally found two Y-shaped branches.
When I came back with the branch, I found that the little girl's snowball had become as big as a washbasin. At this moment, she was sticking out her little butt and pushing the snowball forward with both hands with great difficulty.
Xu Jianguo quickly walked over and said, "Funiu, you did a great job. Leave the rest to me!"
Funiu was praised and showed a happy smile on her face. She said, "Great, come on!"
Xu Jianguo touched her head and helped her put on her hat properly. Then he reached into his arms, took out a military water bottle from the space, unscrewed the lid, handed it to Fu Niu and said, "Come, drink some hot water and warm yourself up!"
"Thank you, quack!"
Xu Jianguo walked to the snowball and began to squeeze the surface of the snowball with his hands slightly to expel the air inside and make the snowball stronger.
As he operated, the volume of the snowball began to shrink slowly, but its mass did not change much.
Next, he continued to repeat the process of rolling and squeezing the snowball, and finally made a perfect snowball.
Then Xu Jianguo used both hands to pick up Snowball, weighed him, and found that he weighed about 30 kilograms.
He gently placed the snowball in the concave shape. It didn't fit perfectly, but there was basically no error. Xu Jianguo grabbed the snow from the ground and slowly filled the gap. Soon, the cone and the sphere were perfectly combined together, and the basic outline of the snowman was completed.
Next, Xu Jianguo took the prepared tree branches and inserted them into both sides of the vertebra. Then he took out two black round iron pieces and a handful of black melon seeds (watermelon seeds) from the space.
Use round iron sheets to make the snowman's eyes, arrange the black melon seeds into an arc shape to make the snowman's mouth, and finally take out a carrot and press it in the center to make the snowman's nose.
Funiu stood aside holding the kettle, watching Xu Jianguo constantly taking out all kinds of strange things from his pocket, her eyes full of surprise.
It was not until the carrot was pressed into the snowball that the little girl discovered that a fat white snowman appeared in front of her, smiling at her, with two hands made of tree branches, as if greeting her.
Funiu stared at the snowman with her big eyes, her face full of surprise. She couldn't help but grin and said with a smile: "Haha, is this a snowman? How cute!"
"Haha, don't worry, there is one last step. Let's go back to the house to warm up and make a hat for the snowman." Xu Jianguo said.
"Okay!" Funiu agreed happily.
The two men and the dog returned to the house. Xu Jianguo took off Funiu's hat and gloves, and her cotton coat, cotton pants and boots. Then he carried her onto the kang, touched her little feet, and found that her socks were not wet at all. It seemed that these deerskin boots were still very reliable.
After getting a towel and hot water, Xu Jianguo wiped Funiu's face, washed his hands, and then washed himself briefly.
He carried the basin to the main room, took out the ginger soup and a bunch of washed Kyoho grapes that he had asked Du Yu to cook in advance, walked back into the house, and placed them on the kang table.
"Haha, what is this?" Funiu asked, pointing at the grapes with her little hand.
"These are grapes, a very delicious fruit, but you have to wait until you finish drinking the ginger soup before eating them!" said Xu Jianguo.
"Okay, haha! I've never seen such big grapes. I've only eaten wild grapes in the mountains before." Funiu began to speak, but as she spoke, her voice became smaller and smaller as she seemed to have thought of something.
Xu Jianguo knew that she must be thinking about the old Taoist priest again, so he touched her head and said, "I still have a lot of big grapes here, so you can eat as much as you want. I'll squeeze some grape juice for you later!"
"Well, thank you, haha!" Funiu looked up at Xu Jianguo. The little girl could see deep love in her brother's eyes, so she nodded vigorously.
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