Chapter 166: Let’s Build A Snowman
By the time she returned home, the footprints she had just made when going to the settlement had already been covered again with a thick layer by the still-falling snowflakes.
When she had just come out of the woods, Su Ran looked at the thick snow accumulated on the roof of her own house not far away, feeling a bit regretful.
It was a pity there was no phone or internet here; otherwise, the stunning snowy scene before her eyes at this moment would absolutely not be inferior to the scenery at Snow Village in Huaguo.
After returning home, Su Ran did not rush back inside the house.
Although the snow on the roof looked nice, for safety’s sake, it still needed to be cleared off first.
At this time, one could see the advantage of the beastmen having wings on their bodies.
Hui didn’t even need a ladder; he could fly directly onto the roof, hover in mid-air to push the snow off the roof, and not worry about slipping.
Hui busied himself on top, from the rain shelter to the storage room, then to the main house and the several houses behind, clearing the snow from each roof one by one.
The thick snow poured down from the roof like a waterfall, the rapid fall stirring up a cool breeze.
Su Ran rubbed the snowflakes that had flown onto her face with her hand and took a step back.
The amount of snow from this section of roof fell and piled up into a pointed snow mountain on the ground. If Su Ran had been standing below, it would have buried her up to her chest!
Meanwhile, Su Ran on the ground held a T-shaped wooden shovel for pushing snow and first cleared a ten-meter-long path in front of the house leading to the storage room and rain shelter.
After clearing this spot, she still needed to clear all the snow accumulated under the four walls of the house to expose the ground.
Hui cleared the snow from the roof very quickly.
After finally clearing the snow from the roof of the toilet, he returned to the front of the house to help Su Ran clear the snow under the house.
But by now the time was almost ten o’clock, yet the snowflakes in the sky showed no sign of stopping.
The ground that had just been cleared was soon covered again with a layer of white snow.
After clearing a path and also clearing the snow around the main house and the small animal room behind it, Su Ran looked up at the still overcast sky and called out to Hui who was about to clear the snow around the storage room.
“Hui, pile all the snow in front of this window to the sides, and once it’s done we’ll go back inside the house.”
Su Ran pointed at the snow in front of the east bedroom window that was already almost as high as the window frame.
That was the snow that had just fallen from the roof, and now piled too high, it was already blocking the light inside the house.
“Good wu!”
Hui walked over carrying the bone shovel; for such piled-up snow, the T-shaped wooden shovel was no longer effective.
Su Ran and Hui shoveled the snow side by side, then each took one side to pile the snow in front of the window to both sides.
But the shoveling work that was easy for Hui was very tiring for Su Ran. Plus, with the thick clothes she was wearing, her movements were very cumbersome.
After shoveling for a while, she stopped, raised her hand to touch her nose, which was still icy cold even through the sheep wool mask.
In the cold air, even taking a breath made the inside of her nasal cavity hurt from the freezing.
“Ran Ran go back, the rest is for me wu~”
Seeing Su Ran frowning and rubbing her nose, Hui stopped his movements and spoke worriedly.
Su Ran looked at him and shook her head: “It’s fine, just these are left.”
With that, she picked up the bone shovel and continued shoveling snow, while Hui saw that there really wasn’t much snow left and said nothing more, but silently sped up the clearing.
Thus, a few minutes later, the snow in this area in front of the window was quickly cleared clean.
But Su Ran looked at the snow piled high on both sides of the open space and suddenly had an idea.
“Hui, let’s build a snowman!”
She looked at Hui with a beaming smile.
Hui, who was just taking the bone shovel from her hand, tilted his head in confusion: “Wu?”
For Su Ran, who had grown up in the North since childhood, building a snowman was no difficult task.
For a spur-of-the-moment thing, there was no need to make it too refined; the snowmen were built side by side in front of the house door, and Su Ran specially used the clean white snow pushed down from the roof.
First, she piled white snow into two half-meter-high snowman bodies like small hills, then rolled two equally sized snowballs for the two snowmen’s heads.
Once the overall shape was done, she found a few dried red chili fruits of similar size to make the snowmen’s eyes.
With no suitable thing for noses, she simply carved two sharp noses half a palm long from radishes and attached them.
Finally, she used dried blue worms arranged vertically on the snowmen’s bellies to make clothes buttons, and the two snowmen were done.
However, after finishing, Su Ran was not very satisfied.
She looked at the two cute and ugly little snowmen before her, thought for a long time, then suddenly had a bright idea.
Then she went to the side to get some clean snow, ran behind the larger snowman, and piled the snow she brought over.
Meanwhile, Hui, who had been watching her actions in confusion from the side, suddenly realized something when he saw the shape gradually forming from the snow Su Ran brought over multiple times!
He pulled Hui, who had just stood up, and excitedly pointed at the snowman in front of him: “Ran Ran, Hui! This is Hui! With a tail wu~”
Then thinking of something, he looked at the other snowman nearby with full expectation: “This is Hui, then this is Ran Ran?”
“Yeah, this is Hui, this is Ran Ran, does Hui like it?”
Su Ran also looked at the two snowmen and smiled as she asked Hui.
As expected, she immediately got Hui’s affirmation: “Mm! Like wu~”
As he spoke, he even swung his big tail around to the front, grabbed it with his hand, and pointed at the tail Su Ran had piled behind the snowman: “Hui’s tail wu!”
And the snow tail he was pointing at was actually just a rough curved line connected on the ground with a pile of snow.
But it was already enough to make him delighted, circling the snowman reluctantly to go inside the house.
In the end, with no other choice, Su Ran ignored him and went back inside the house by herself first.
The stove inside the house was burning vigorously, and the heat emanating from the section of heated brick bed where the felt mat was lifted warmed the entire inside of the house.
Almost as soon as Su Ran entered the house, the snow on her hat began to melt.
And the frost on her eyebrows and eyelashes, formed from her breath and the cold air outside just now, also melted in a few short seconds, with water droplets even flowing down from the corner of her eye.
She hurriedly took off her hat and mask, then took off her coat and hung it on the wooden clothes rack.
At this point, Hui finally came in from outside.
The snow on his body was even more, with snowflakes even stuck on his triangular ears on top of his head.
“Hey wait a minute…”
Su Ran hurriedly pulled him to the house doorway outside.
Then, while patting the snow off Hui’s body with her hands, she said: “Pat the snow off first before coming inside the house, otherwise the melted snow will be everywhere on the floor inside…”
“Ao wu…”
