The sun rises in the east, and it's another idle day. The heavy snow blocks the mountains, the villages, and everything. After the snow stops, the weather becomes even colder.
Although the sun was shining brightly, the snow didn't melt at all. It was obvious that the temperature was below zero. People who went out were so cold that they were smoking.
It can be so hot in the summer that it's smoking, and it can be so cold in the winter that it's foggy. No season is easy to live in!
The weather is getting colder day by day. In the twelfth lunar month, it is so cold that you can't even stretch out your hands.
Su Nian and the others became less and less active. They stayed in the house all day to keep warm during the winter. They were not so active in cooking anymore. They just ate sweet potatoes under the kang all day long. They were delicious and easy to eat.
The number of people moving around in the yard has obviously decreased. Every time the crew goes out to film, whoever has a scene to film goes, so there are not so many onlookers. Su Nian is too lazy to go and watch the joke.
Amidst the noise and chaos, the educated youth welcomed their first New Year.
There are still ten days until the Spring Festival. The snow has not melted, so it is extremely difficult for the villagers to go out and buy some New Year's goods.
Su Nian and her friends had been planning to go to the county town to attend the big market for a long time, but they hadn't made it until the end of the year, when they needed to go to the market the most.
Finally, there was really no other way, so the village organized the young and middle-aged people to go out and buy some unlimited New Year goods in the town. When they came back, the villagers shared the goods and just had to make do with celebrating the New Year!
Su Nian, an activist, is going to follow the ox cart to the town.
"Su Zhiqing! The snow is so thick that it reaches your calves when you step on it. Are you really going with us?" Captain Chen asked in surprise when he heard Su Nian said that she wanted to go with him to purchase some things for her own use.
"Follow me! I'm not afraid of the snow!" Su Nian said with a smile.
Who is she, Su Nian? Why is she afraid of the deep snow even though she is fully armed?
Su Nian was dressed like a giant panda, with a cotton jacket, scarf, gloves, and knee pads inside her cotton pants. She tied her legs with ropes and put a pair of black tarpaulin covers on her shoes, which were tied directly to her knees to serve as rain boots.
"What are you thinking?" Captain Chen had no idea what to do with this female educated youth who wanted New Year's goods more than her life.
"Captain Chen, I'm following you too!" Captain Chen had just finished communicating with Su Nian when Qin Yulin came running over again.
Qin Yulin was also wearing thick clothes, but not as tightly as Su Nian.
When Captain Chen saw Qin Yulin said he wanted to follow him, he didn't react much. After all, the people going to the town this time were all young men from the village, so it was understandable that this male educated youth followed them.
"Are you following too?" Captain Chen nodded to Qin Yulin and asked directly to Qin Yuxian who came with Qin Yulin.
Sun Yanyan had said long ago that she would not go. She couldn't buy much New Year's goods, so she didn't go out at all.
"I won't follow!" Qin Yuxian shook her head like a rattle.
In this horrible weather, if she goes out with him, she probably won’t be able to come back. It’s too cold.
"If you don't want to go with us, then don't join in the fun. Go back quickly! We are ready to go!" Captain Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the delicate girl didn't say she would follow.
He had thought it through. If Qin Zhiqing also said she wanted to follow him, he would let Su Zhiqing stay as well. No female zhiqing could follow. Qin Yuxian didn't look like she could walk. If she came back, it might be dark by then. And if she brought a burden with her, she would probably be back in the middle of the night.
Qin Yuxian didn't know that she had been classified as a burden by Captain Chen, otherwise she would have been furious.
"What do you want to buy? Why don't you give it to me and I'll bring it back for you! You should go back with Yuxian too! It's freezing cold out here, and if you, a girl, go with them, what if you get frozen?"
Qin Yulin looked Su Nian up and down, and seeing her little face buried in the scarf and her nose red from the cold, he couldn't help but speak.
"No need, I'm resistant to cold!" Su Nian took off his gloves and let them hang around his neck. He cupped his hands around his mouth and blew air. This weather was really cold.
Despite this, Su Nian didn't want to trouble Qin Yulin. Besides, he wanted to see how Meng Changling's family was doing this time.
The last time she came back, she had only delivered rice to the old lady named Juanzi and her two children. After that, it snowed heavily and she hadn't been out since. She didn't know if Meng Changling had returned. What would happen if he knew she wasn't his son's friend?
"Everyone is here! Let's go!" Captain Chen counted the number of people and waved his hand.
This time, Captain Chen is still leading the team, and the young and strong men in the village are following, so that they can help in case the ox cart gets stuck.
It was still warm when I was standing still, but as soon as I started to move, I felt the biting north wind blowing on my face like a knife. My hands were frozen and numb after staying outside for one more second.
Su Nian thought, this is still walking. If I ride a bike or a tractor, I will be frozen into an ice sculpture. The winter here is really cold.
If it were in modern times, at least people would drive when going out and turn on the heater when going home, so they wouldn't feel such cold. But in this era where people have to rely on buses to go out and basically shiver to keep warm, Su Nian has truly felt what a cold winter is. It is such a bitter cold winter.
"Captain Chen, it's really cold this year! Colder than in previous years!"
Uncle Niu was driving an ox cart, and air was coming out of his mouth while he was talking. It looked like he was puffing out smoke, which instantly reminded people of the phrase "breath turns to frost". I guess, a drop of water can also turn into ice, right?
"It hasn't snowed so heavily in previous years! This time it has finally covered the winter wheat with enough snow. Next year will definitely be a bumper harvest year!" Captain Chen said with a smile.
"Of course! Auspicious snow means a good harvest! This heavy snow has arrived just in time! I just don't know when it will melt. This winter, the snow hasn't melted at all, which means it's been incredibly cold this year! People's lives are hard! Many families are running out of firewood!"
"This isn't going to work! We need to talk to the forest rangers and have the villagers go into the woods and cut some dead branches!"
Listening to Captain Chen and Uncle Niu chatting, Su Nian couldn't help but think about it.
"At this time, can we still tell which tree is dead?" Su Nian couldn't help but ask what he was thinking.
"Su Zhiqing! What you said hits my heart! Forest rangers are always around trees, but when the leaves fall, they can't tell which tree is dead and which tree is alive? Then his work as a forest ranger is in vain!" Captain Chen said with a smile.
"Yeah! We may not be able to tell them apart, but this is not difficult for the forest ranger. He already remembers clearly which tree is dead and which is alive~" Uncle Niu also agreed with a smile.
"This forest ranger has a really good memory!" Su Nian praised with a smile.
It seems that being a forest ranger is also lonely. All they do all day is count trees, touch trees, and look at trees. They are just like the empress in the harem counting floor tiles in TV dramas!
Fortunately, there are no forest rangers here, so Su Nian didn't say that. Otherwise, if the forest rangers heard it, wouldn't their lungs be punctured? What kind of truth is this?
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