60s: I have a store

Chapter 346 It’s Snowing

When I woke up early the next morning, I heard my grandfather exclaiming, "It's snowing."

This snow gave many people hope.

Snow in the north in winter represents rain in spring, so there is a saying that "auspicious snow indicates a good harvest."

It is so dry this year. Zhoujiazhuang is okay, but other villages are not having an easy time. Everyone is waiting for snow!
So, the old man would be surprised to see snow.

After hearing this, Zhou Yimin immediately became alert.

In his previous life, he lived in the south and had never seen snow. Southerners may have a natural obsession with snow, and a warm bed is not as attractive as snow.

After a while, I came outside and watched the snow falling from the sky. It might have snowed in the middle of the night, and now there was a layer of snow more than 10 centimeters thick on the ground.

Zhou Yimin just lay down, feeling very comfortable and soft, just like lying on a cloud.

"You're wearing so little and lying on the snow. Aren't you cold?" Zhou Yimin's grandmother came out and saw Zhou Yimin lying on the snow.

Zhou Yimin was a little dumbfounded when he heard this. He was wearing a military coat, which was very warm and he didn't feel cold at all.

Today's military coats are no worse than down jackets of later generations. As long as it doesn't rain, you won't feel cold.

"Grandma, I'm not cold at all. Look at how many clothes I'm wearing."

I can only say that one thing is that your elders decide that you are cold, and it will be the same whether you are wearing thick clothes or not.

The children in Zhoujiazhuang got up early. It is snowing now, and they can't miss the classic activity of snowball fight.

Children nowadays do not have as many toys to play with as children in later generations. They basically play with whatever they can find.

Zhou Yimin went out for a walk. If he had a mobile phone, he would have posted a message on WeChat Moments, but unfortunately he didn't have one.

Not long after I went out, I saw the children in the village playing snowball fights.

The two brothers Lai Fu and Lai Cai were also among them.

Suddenly, a snowball accidentally hit Zhou Yimin.

When the children saw this scene, they all stopped, fearing that Zhou Yimin would scold them.

Just when the children were worried, Zhou Yimin did not get angry. Instead, he rolled a snowball from the ground and gently threw it over as a "counterattack."

After seeing this, the children finally felt relieved.

Also join in a "battle".

In this way, everyone had a great time.

When other young people saw Zhou Yimin also playing snowball fights, their DNA suddenly awakened and they joined the "battle".

In this way, more and more people participated in it and had a lot of fun. Everyone hadn't been so relaxed for a long time. If they hadn't been full, they wouldn't dare to play this energy-wasting game.

After all, the more you exercise, the more energy you consume, and the faster you get hungry.

Finally, Zhou Yimin suggested: "Why don't we play sandbag throwing?"

Sandbag throwing is a game that can be played by at least 3 people, using objects with a little weight but no edges as "throwing and killing" weapons.

In the designated venue, sandbags are thrown at the person standing in the middle by both sides. If the person in the middle is hit by the sandbag, he will be out of the field. As long as he catches the sandbags thrown by the "thugs" with his hands, he can save his life.

Divide the participants into two groups, one group throws sandbags, and the other group hides from the sandbags. The group that throws sandbags is divided into two groups and stands at the two ends of the field, and the group that hides from the sandbags stands in the middle. The people throwing sandbags at both ends take turns to hit the people hiding from the sandbags in the middle, and if they are hit, they retreat.

This process continues until all the people hiding from the sandbags have retreated, the two groups switch places, and the game starts over.

Zhou Yimin's proposal was quickly passed and everyone was divided into two teams.

Soon the game started, Zhou Yimin's team was in charge of throwing, while Zhou Dafu's team was in charge of hiding in the middle. Zhou Yimin threw the ball directly and hit a child who didn't have time to react.

Then more and more people started to be eliminated. I don’t know if Chow Tai Fook was lucky or he really had the ability, but he didn’t expect that when there were only three people left in the end, he was among them.

Zhou Yimin said at this time: "Eliminate Dafu first."

"Uncle Sixteen, you can't play it like this. Can you leave me until the end?" Chow Tai Fook suddenly became angry.

Zhou Yimin refused without any hesitation: "No."

After hearing Zhou Yimin's words, the team members threw sandbags at Chow Tai Fook. Although he was able to dodge at the beginning, as his physical strength was depleted, his brain reacted but his body could not keep up, and he was finally eliminated.

Soon the Chow Tai Fook team was completely eliminated.

Now the offense and defense are switched, it is Zhou Yimin's team's turn to hide, and Chow Tai Fook's team is responsible for attacking.

Zhou Yimin showed amazing "strength" from the beginning and was the first to be eliminated.

This was something Zhou Yimin had never expected. He was tricked by Chow Tai Fook. He had no time to react and was hit by the sandbag.

I can only say that happy times always pass very quickly. It felt like we hadn’t been playing for long before it was already noon and everyone had to go out to eat. If we didn’t go back, our parents would probably come looking for us.

By then, the children will probably be in trouble, but since Chow Tai Fook and the others are older, it won’t be a big deal.

Today will pass quickly.

Two days later, Zhang Jianshe brought his family to Zhoujiazhuang to visit Zhou Yimin's grandparents.

Zhou Yimin guessed that Uncle Zhang must have found some time to come out during his busy schedule. Their research institute was very busy, and the last time he went to see Uncle Zhang, he waited for a long time.

The old man and the old lady were naturally happy to see their grandson's wife, and they took out all the delicious food in the house to entertain her.

Seeing how well Zhou Yimin took care of his two elders, Zhang Jianshe and his wife became more and more satisfied with Zhou Yimin.

Zhang Jianshe and his family had a meal and went back home in the snow that day.

On the 28th day of the lunar year, every household is cleaning.

"Clean up the mess on the 28th day of the lunar year" is a catchphrase that has been passed down to this day. Every household usually chooses the 28th day of the lunar year to clean the house. It is said that this is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on the living conditions of the world in the past year.

Each household then made it a custom to clean thoroughly so that the Kitchen God would see and remember it. This is the origin of the saying "On the 28th day of the lunar year, clean up the mess".

"Washing away the dirt" and "the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year" rhyme and are in line with folk customs. However, according to tradition, the spring cleaning before the New Year begins on the twenty-third day of the lunar year and lasts until the twenty-eighth or even the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year.

"On the twenty-third day of the lunar year, dry the quilts and wash the clothes; on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar year, clean the area around the house; on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar year, sweep the house and dust; on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar year, clean the livestock house; on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar year, wash the inside and outside of the house; on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year, wipe the house; on the twenty-nineth day of the lunar year, move all the dirty things away."

According to folk sayings, "dust" and "old" are homophones, so sweeping the dust during the New Year not only means cleaning, but also means getting rid of the old and bringing in the new.

As my life got better, the day of New Year's Eve came in a blink of an eye.

Everyone is very busy today, preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. In the entire Northeast, dumplings are an indispensable part of the New Year.

Zhou Yimin prepared to make dumplings with three kinds of fillings. The first was lamb and green onion, the second was fennel and pork, and the third was leek and egg filling.

With these three kinds of dumpling fillings, it can be said that it is very rich.

Zhou Yimin also helped, and after more than an hour, they finally wrapped the dumplings and then started to prepare other dishes.

New Year’s Eve dinner is also the last meal of the year, and everyone will bring out the best things in their home to prepare it.

This is a way to reward a year of hard work! It is also a look forward to the new year. I hope that next year will be better and better, work will go smoothly, and my family will be healthy.

(End of this chapter)