The New Year is coming, and the first snow falls on the 30th night.

There were clouds of mist rising in the kitchen, and the stewed pig's head gave off an alluring aroma.

This is what the Lu family wants to use to worship their ancestors.

There were new symbols on the newly painted doors and windows, and two red lanterns were held under the eaves of the corridor. Looking up at the sky, heavy goose-feather snow fell from the sky, leaving a shallow layer on the ground.

"Yeah, it's snowing."

Lu Xiaoyu, who followed Lu Xiangge out, cried out happily, turned around and shouted to the people in the kitchen. "Sister, second sister, it's snowing. Come and see, it's snowing so hard."

The Lu family all changed into new clothes today. Lu Xiaoqing, Lu Xiaoli, Lu Xiaoyu and the new Lu Qingluan (Song Sanya) joined the Lu family. The four of them wore peach-pink cotton-padded jackets of the same color and stood side by side, like four flowers blooming in the snow.

The wintersweet flowers in the ground are so delicate and beautiful.

The snow fell heavier and heavier, and in an instant the trees on the roof were covered with a blanket.

Lu Xiangge was wearing a blue cotton robe and stood in a daze in the heavy snow, like a bud in the wind and snow, as if if the wind was stronger, it would break her.

Lu Quan happened to come in from the outside and hurriedly put the oil-paper umbrella in his hand on Lu Sheige's head: "You kid, why don't you hold an umbrella? If your mother sees you, you will have to nag."

The oil-paper umbrella made by Chen Ping'an is large and strong, and its hood blocks all the wind and snow.

"Stop playing."

Lu Quan handed the umbrella to Lu Sheige and rushed the children in the yard into the house, "It's so cold outside, be careful of getting sores from the frost. Get inside quickly."

But the snow had just fallen, and everyone was having fun, and no one wanted to enter the house.

Including Lu Xiaowu, who was dressed like a ball and struggled to leave a series of crooked little footprints in the yard.

Perhaps it was Lu Quan's voice that alerted Mrs. Qiu who was busy in the kitchen. Mrs. Qiu grabbed the spatula and walked out, shouting at the top of her lungs.

"Xiao Li, take Xiao Wu into the house quickly."

"Xiaoyu, don't stand by the well. It's slippery over there, so be careful if you fall."

"Xiaoqing, Xiaosi, you didn't hear your father ask you to come in. Why are you still standing in the yard?"

Qiu's voice was loud, and the posture he held with the spatula was a little scary.

Lu Xiaoli reluctantly pulled Xiao Wu and walked back: "I know."

Lu Xiaoyu went to push Lu Xiangge who was standing in the yard: "Xiao Si, hurry up, mother is going to be angry."

When a group of children came into the house laughing and joking, Mrs. Qiu turned around and entered the kitchen.

It snowed heavily overnight, and a thick layer of snow accumulated on the roof.

Early in the morning, Lu Quan moved the ladder and climbed to the roof with Chen Pingan to sweep the snow. The snow on the roof fell softly and was piled in the corner together with the snow in the yard.

Lu Xiaosi also wanted to go up and have a look, but Qiu, who was holding the ladder, coaxed him back into the house.

The cleared road was paved with black brick paths, and a new flower bed was built with broken bricks on the west side. The flower branches inside had withered, leaving only a few lush green trees near the flower bed.

After sweeping away the snow and having breakfast, several other households on the village came to the Lu family carrying candies, melon seeds or dried fruits to pay New Year greetings.

This is what we agreed to do last winter, and we will spend the first New Year together this year.

Everyone raised money to prepare the food together last year, and we are just waiting to enjoy it together in the New Year.

At this time, Aunt Ma did not say that her family had a large population, and was happy to take advantage. She hugged her son and stuffed his two pockets with peanuts and melon seed candies, fearing that she would suffer a loss if she caught too little.

Aunt Li couldn't bear to see her like this, so she moved the plate with melon seeds and candies to the other side angrily, and said angrily with a long face: "Catch less, what are you going to eat after you've caught them all?"

"Isn't there a lot more?"

Aunt Ma was not angry either. She stuck her butt out, stretched her arms and grabbed another handful of melon seeds, then sat down with a smile.

During the New Year, let alone eating some melon seeds and peanuts, she took away all the melon seeds and peanuts here. Who can argue with her over this?

Seeing her shameless look, Aunt Li rolled her eyes impatiently, picked up the plate and divided it among the women talking in the room.

"Everyone share it, don't let anyone eat it up, some people still can't get their turn."

The women who shared the melon seeds and peanuts did not sit in the room for a long time. They happily ate a few fragrant mouthfuls and rushed into the kitchen to roll up their sleeves and help.

After the women left, the men who had been wandering around in the field came back. The hot tea reflected the smiling faces of the men.

The snow is falling well and thickly, and next year will be another good harvest year.

Outside, the children were happily busy in the snow.

"Xiaosi, do you eat melon seeds?"

"Xiao Si, I have some peanuts, do you want to eat them?"

"Xiao Si, these are the candies my mother bought for me. Share one with you."

"Xiao Si, look at the fireworks my dad bought me. Let's play together."

During this Spring Festival, Lu Xiaosi lived happily and happily. It seemed that everyone liked him very much. If there was anything delicious and fun, they would always want to share some with Lu Xiaosi.

Even the big snowman that everyone built together, Li Guangguan wanted to name it Xiaosi.

In the end, Lu Xiaoyu finally changed his mind under the attack of twisting his ears and said that he would name the snowman Panpan.

She even said plausibly that my mother said that if she gave birth to a sister for me, she would be called Panpan.

After being disliked by several friends for a while, Lu Xiaoyu finally settled on the name that satisfied most people.

Called Tuan Tuan,

When everyone had enough fun, they all ran into the house to eat, leaving everyone standing alone in the yard.

Song Sanya, now named Lu Qingluan, carefully moved over, used her little hands to remove the dirty spots, and then used clean white snow to patch it up.

Little by little, carefully smooth out the unsmoothed areas to make the lumps more beautiful.

"Do you like it?" Lu Shege came over and squatted beside the snowman.

Lu Qingluan looked at his brother in front of him and said softly: "I like it."

Lu Lige gathered a ball of snow in his hand and said, "If you like, we can make another one together, a smaller one. It's called Yuanyuan, and it's round and round."

Lu Qingluan's eyes immediately burst out with joy, and he asked timidly: "Shall we pile up another one?"

"Yeah." Lu Sheige lowered his head, put down the snowball in his hand, and rolled it, "Look, if you roll it like this, it will get bigger. You only need to roll two snowballs to build a snowman."

With that said, she rolled another snowball and handed it to Sanya: "You roll a small one for the head, and I'll roll a big one for the body."

"good."

The little girl took the snowball and rolled it on the ground outside the yard.

It doesn't matter if it's not round, Brother Xiaosi said it can be repaired.

It doesn't matter if it's dirty, Brother Xiaosi said just peel it off and roll it around again and it'll be fine.

Rolling and rolling, the snowball rolled into a round shape. Lu Qingluan tilted her head to watch the fourth brother stand up a thick snowball and put her round head on it.

The arms are made of branches, the nose is made of carrots, and two blackened shells are inlaid into a pair of big eyes.

Brother Xiaosi also creatively knitted a hat for Yuan Yuan out of tree branches. From a distance, it really looked like a fat white man squatting at the entrance of the courtyard after eating so much that he couldn't walk.

Many years later, Lu Qingluan still remembered that snowy New Year, when her fourth brother accompanied her to build the most beautiful snowman.
Chapter completed!