When I woke up in the morning, I found it was snowing heavily.
Ni Bingyan didn't want to go out in this kind of weather.
After breakfast, I took out the small red clay stove, prepared some fresh walnuts and chestnuts, and then took my mother-in-law to the sun room on the top floor.
Through the large floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the carefully crafted beauty of the yard. The slightly sloping glass roof cannot hold snow. As soon as the snowflakes fall on it, they will fall down in the blink of an eye.
Ni Bingyan stood there, and when he raised his head, he could see the sky like fluttering catkins.
For Ni Bingyan, it is very rare.
After the water boiled, the aunt took the golden teapot she had just bought and made a pot of fruit tea for them. Then she took an iron tong and first took out two pieces of charcoal, then held it between a small wire mesh and gently Place on small stove.
Put a handful of chestnuts and walnuts on top and roast slowly over low heat.
The aunt left, leaving the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to enjoy the snow quietly.
Ni Bingyan was in a cheerful mood and couldn't help but sigh to her mother-in-law:
"My hometown rarely snows so heavily. In previous years, we were always busy. Even if we happen to be in the north, we rarely have such an opportunity to enjoy the snow quietly. It feels really good."
Although Shui Sulan grew up in the capital, her ancestral home is Bingcheng, and many relatives are there. When she was a child, her parents would take their sisters with them to celebrate the New Year with her grandparents every year.
Ice and snow are the most ordinary thing to her.
Seeing that my daughter-in-law was happy, she was not disappointed. Instead, she told her many of her favorite ways to have fun when she was a child.
"My grandfather loves children very much. There are a lot of children in his family's compound. Every time it snows heavily in winter, he will lead people to build a snow slope in the yard. The front of the snow slope is sloping and the back is covered with snow. The steps were piled up, and we lined up to climb up, sit in an old tire, and slide down!"
Ni Bingyan filmed "Monster Tower" in Northeast China. It happened to be winter at that time, and she also went to the river to play with these things. When she talked about it, she couldn't help but recall it.
Just as she was talking about accidentally running into an ice fishing competition and finally winning the prize, the walnuts on the stove were ripe.
"You are heavy, stay away from the stove, I will catch you."
Then pick off the nuts, put them on a large plate, and put a handful of new ones on them, letting them continue to be roasted by the charcoal fire.
At this time, the baked food on the plate is no longer so hot.
Shui Sulan put on insulation gloves, picked up a walnut, put it in her hand, and pressed it lightly, and the thin and crisp shell broke.
The warm walnuts were handed to Ni Bingyan's hand and she was asked to peel them slowly and eat them.
Shui Sulan continued to talk about her childhood:
"I was born in the 1950s, and I was the eldest in my family. Because of my big ideas, my sisters always believed in me. My parents were busy at that time, and they could only go back to my hometown for the Chinese New Year throughout the year.
"We had a good time with my cousins back home and wanted to go back and play with them. During the summer vacation when I was twelve years old, I took my sisters to the train station and found a comrade of my father who worked on the railway. Ask him to take us back to our hometown.
"My parents were so busy that they didn't see the letter I left at home. They thought we were lost and searched everywhere. They never imagined that I would dare to take my sisters back to my grandfather's house.
"When they finally saw the message and called back, they learned that our sisters, together with our cousins, were forced to kneel in the yard. My dad burst into tears."
Ni Bingyan was very excited and asked her: "Why are you punished to kneel down?"
Shui Sulan is almost 70 years old. She still beams with joy when she recalls the times when she was punished as a child:
"My sisters and I cut off the lining of my grandfather's bicycle and used it for skipping! My grandfather discovered it.
"They are both cute girls, and they are both biological children. Grandma and grandma couldn't do anything, and they felt sorry for the bicycles, so they made us kneel in the yard.
"We have a lot of children, and we knelt down in four rows. All the neighbors came to watch the fun, and even taught the children not to follow us. As a result, the next day, every household's wheels suffered damage, hahaha~
"When my parents brought their new bicycles back to my hometown overnight and took my sisters and me away, the neighbor's children were still punished by kneeling down. A few boys who got involved had their butts whipped to pieces and were left lying on the kang. , I can’t even get up.”
How expensive were bicycles in those days?
Almost equal to a current BMW.
I pulled out the tires and cut them up to use them for jumping rope.
Can you still play like this?
This is beyond Ni Bingyan's cognition.
"I also liked skipping rope when I was a kid, but I only used to pull my dad's waistband. My dad likes to wear shorts made of cloth in the summer. The waistbands are round, with red dots on a white background. So I took out one of them. Tie the roots into knots, then take them to school and play with your classmates.
"My dad took a shower at night and looked for pants to wear. There was something wrong with one pair and two others. He rummaged through the cabinets and found something wrong with them all!"
Shui Sulan laughed with tears in her eyes and asked her, "What next?"
Ni Bingyan couldn't help but laugh when he thought about those things in his memory: "Then my dad wrapped himself in a children's blanket and sewed his own belt all night long."
"Then what? He didn't deal with you?"
"No. He gave me a complete rubber band, no need to tie knots, a whole piece. He also apologized to me, saying that Dad was negligent and forgot to prepare this for you. Other children have it, but you don't. Is it sad? Then he hugged me distressedly and touched my head."
Ni Bingyan recalled the memories that merged in her mind, and those emotions also came to her heart, making her unable to help but smile nostalgically.
Shui Sulan also laughed.
Regarding her daughter-in-law's past, her son didn't tell her much. She guessed many things by herself. In fact, Shui Sulan didn't know about many situations at all.
Seeing my daughter-in-law talk about these things sincerely, I couldn't help but sigh:
"My father-in-law didn't give you a complete childhood, but gave you a complete rubber band. I'm so jealous!"
Ni Bingyan couldn't help laughing!
Indeed, according to her father's method of raising children, the original owner was a little ungrounded and as innocent and innocent as a little fairy, but she was not raised to have a wrong outlook on things. It was really not easy.
The two were chatting and laughing when Sang Yuan came back.
After shaking off the snow, he took off his coat and handed it to his aunt. Sang Yuan went upstairs and came to hold her little hand:
"Honey, let me tell you a secret! A monkey came to our house!"
Where did the monkeys come from in the middle of winter?
Shui Sulan looked at the two of them amusedly, but she didn't act like a light bulb, put on her cashmere shawl, and went downstairs.
It was time to make lunch, and she had to see what the chef had prepared.
Ni Bingyan also couldn't figure out how there could be a monkey at home in the middle of winter.
Just follow him downstairs and come to the floor-to-ceiling windows on the side of the living room.
Following the direction of his finger, he saw a strange-looking giant horse monkey snowman lying on the slightly tilted cedar trunk not far away!
It has a big mouth made of red maple leaves, two eyes made of pine cones, a few weeds as hair, and a tail made of twisted snow dumplings, drooping, long and even slightly curled at the end.
Knowing that he was considering that he couldn't go out to play in the snow, he deliberately made himself happy.
Ni Bingyan couldn't help but burst into laughter!
That big horse monkey is really funny!
"It's a pity that it's not cold enough here. I'll take you to Northeast China another year and I'll make ice lanterns for you! My skills are getting better!"
Shui Sulan and her uncles had a very good relationship. Even though her grandparents were gone, the brothers would often get together.
A few years ago, my grandfather retired and Sang Yuan was young, so I followed him back to his hometown.
Ni Bingyan nodded, pulled him to sit down, and then asked him:
"Did things go well today?"
During dinner in the morning, Sang Yuan suddenly said that he wanted to film the script. Ni Bingyan hesitated but agreed.
Just shoot it, it’s not a big production, even if you lose all your money, it doesn’t matter.
In this life, who can not pay for love several times?
