While looking for tools, Hong Tao discovered that there was a large basement under Zhou Xiaoli's house. The door was hidden behind the stairs. It was almost 50 square meters below and was divided into three small rooms. There were some piles of some in one of them.
Tools, the other two rooms are empty.
"If I had such a big house, I should have a small workshop here with a small lathe, so I could do a lot of handicrafts by myself; I should have a fishing gear showroom here with a shelf on the wall to put fishing rods one on top of the other.
Fill up the shelves and post a few photos of yourself fishing." While designing his own house in his mind, Hong Tao found an aluminum alloy ladder and a surprisingly large shovel with a plastic head.
The snow outside has become lighter a lot, but it hasn't stopped yet. According to Zhou Xiaoli, this kind of snow is very drizzle. A winter is not considered winter unless it rains ten or eight times. It is not difficult to see heavier snow.
If you can block all the doors at night, you have to get up in the middle of the night to shovel snow. Either the door won't open or the porch collapses under the weight of the snow.
"I want to fly higher... fly higher... dance like the strong wind..." Hong Tao climbed up to the porch, humming a tune and waving a big shovel to move the more than a foot thick snow on the porch.
Shovel down.
"Hey, are you Santa Claus?" Hong Tao was working hard when he suddenly heard a childish voice behind him asking questions in English.
"I am Santa Claus from China!" I looked back and saw two foreign children standing under his ladder. The older one was about 10 years old and the younger one was about 5 or 6 years old. They were dressed like bears.
, can't tell the difference between men and women.
"But Li said there is no snow in their hometown, you are lying!" The older child pulled the child back a few steps, as if to prevent Hong Tao, the liar, from coming down the ladder.
"Who is Li?" Hong Tao simply turned around and sat on the ladder to play with the child.
"There is a girl in our class. She is from China. She said that it is very hot in her hometown. She also showed us photos and there was no snow at all." The eldest child explained.
"Hey, China is very big. It's hot in the south and cold in the north. You should have learned this, right?" Hong Tao's English is really bad. He repeated this sentence many times before the older child could barely listen.
clear.
"Then I'll ask Li again when I go back." The eldest child was quite honest. He felt that what Hong Tao said made sense.
"What are your names? Where do you live?" Hong Tao saw that the children were no longer wary and slowly got down from the ladder.
"My name is Joan, and he is Bloom. We live next to your house. Where is Miss Yoko? Who are you?" Judging from the name, this eldest child should be a girl. She is really alert and older than the street.
My wife asked a lot of questions.
"She's in the house. I'm her friend. I want to build a snowman. Are you willing to build it together?" Hong Tao doesn't intend to continue chatting like this. The child's English is very unclear, and his own English is also poor.
, every sentence has to be repeated, and if they don’t bother themselves, they will.
"Let's go get the tools." The older child and the younger child whispered a few words, and then quickly ran to the house next to them. The houses here are all single-family houses, and there are tens of meters between each house.
The distance is several meters, usually there is a path or grassland in the middle, and sometimes there is a wall of trees. There is no tree wall between Zhou Xiaoli and her neighbor next to her, it is all grass, and now it is snow.
The snow on the porch was almost done. Hong Tao walked to the snow between the two houses and used the big shovel as a bulldozer to collect snow from all directions in the middle. The child quickly ran away with the small shovel.
Come back and start shoveling snow with Hong Tao.
Since there was a ladder available, Hong Tao planned to build a taller snowman. He set up the ladder next to the snowman's body, and let the two children carry the snow from nearby. He himself used a big shovel to shovel it higher.
Fortunately, after a while, a large snowdrift with a height of more than 2 meters was formed.
A body is missing a head. There are many ways to make a snowman's head. For example, take a bucket, put snow in it, solidify it, and then pour it out, and you will have a cylindrical snowman head. But Hong Tao doesn't plan to improvise like this.
, he wants to give the snowman a more orthodox head, which is a technical job.
First, you have to hold a big snowball with your hands, as big as you can, and then use this snowball as the core to roll it back and forth on the soft snow, compacting the snow with your hands while rolling. Because of the strength of your hands,
temperature, the snow outside the snowball will
After melting a little, it is easy to stick the soft snow to yourself, so the snowball will roll bigger and bigger. This time it is time to test the technical details of the snowball rolling person. You must roll the snowball very round, so
Your snow is more beautiful.
Hong Tao is a veteran in this field. He has been building snowmen since he was a child, and he has created his own snowball rolling technique. He is the one who can roll the roundest snowball in the whole alley.
When the two children saw Hong Tao rolling a snowball, they also dropped their shovels and ran over. They also wanted to roll it out by themselves, but they tried several times but couldn't get it right. The child got anxious and simply stepped on it and rolled it.
Get out of here, that rotten watermelon
The same snowballs rolled all over the ground. As a result, an adult and two children changed from snowballing to kicking snowballs. The three of them rolled and climbed on the snow and had a great time. The two children even joined forces.
, let’s have a snowball fight with Hong Tao using snowballs.
After tossing for a while, everyone was tired, and then Hong Tao put the big snowball he rolled on the snowman's body. The snowman was basically formed, and now it was time to put makeup on the snowman. The snowman's eyes are like two long eggplants.
Insert it vertically, and you will see two big black eyes; there is no need to ask about the snowman's nose, which is a thick one.
I have to complain about big carrots. Why are the carrots here bigger than those in China? Could it be that the genetics of European and American people have also been inherited in plants? The last thing is the mouth. This made Hong Tao spend a lot of thought and finally chose a piece.
Banana peel, made into a curved semicircle, is directly embedded on the snowman’s head.
The little girl named Qiong was obviously not satisfied with the snowman's makeup. She ran home to get a small pointed hat, which she probably wore during the festival. Hong Tao put it on the snowman, but the effect was very bad.
The hat is too small and the snowman’s head is too big. The hat doesn’t look like a hat, but looks like the snowman has a horn!
Zhou Xiaoli had long been alarmed by the laughter of Hong Tao and the two children, but she never came out. She just watched the three of them playing and rolling on the snow from the window, and just watched quietly until the snowman was completed.
, she just made a few cups of hot chocolate and brought them out for everyone to drink.
In fact, Hong Tao didn't notice that there was someone standing behind the curtains of his neighbor's house, and he stood there for no shorter time than Zhou Xiaoli. It wasn't until Zhou Xiaoli appeared with hot chocolate that the door of that house opened and an old man in his 50s appeared.
On the porch, he had a pipe in his mouth, a cowboy hat on his head, and a shirt and a thick vest in the cold weather. He stood there silently looking at this side, with no intention of coming over.
, just waved to Zhou Xiaoli.
"Captain Gale, hello!" Zhou Xiaoli also greeted him.
"That's Joan and Bloom's grandfather. Their parents seem to be divorced. During holidays, their mother sends them here to be looked after by the old man. It's been many years. This old man is an old military officer.
, it is said that he has been to Iraq and is a nice person. When I was in school, I often delivered newspapers to his house. But after his wife passed away, his temper became weird and he didn't like to talk." Zhou Xiaoli saw Hong Tao looking over there and turned around.
He turned his back to the other side and introduced in a low voice.
"Captain? Is it the Army or the Navy?" Hong Tao was curious when he heard Zhou Xiaoli address the old man's military rank.
"It's not a captain, it's a captain. He is the captain of the Canadian Navy. His military rank is not captain, but colonel. Your English is terrible. When the word captain is used in the army, it means captain, and when used in the navy, it means captain or colonel.
Meaning." In addition to being a translator, Zhou Xiaoli now also works part-time as an English teacher.
"Does he have a gun at home? I guess he should. Do you think he would let me see it?" Hong Tao immediately became interested when he heard about the old officer.
