There were two more snowfalls before the New Year, and the first one lasted for two full days.

　　Li Zhouzhou had just finished breakfast and was about to climb up the ladder to sweep the snow on the roof. Gu Zhao quickly stopped him and said, “Let me go up.”

　　”How can that be possible? It’s too dangerous, my husband.”

　　Gu Zhao: “Look, I’m small and thin, it’s safer to go up.” Then he started to act coquettishly, “Okay, Zhou Zhou, let me try.”

　　Li Zhouzhou wanted to be cruel and say something but he couldn’t. There was snow on the roof, and it was cold and slippery. What if his husband didn’t step carefully and fell down?

　　”Zhou Zhou, wife, wife, Zhou Zhou~” Gu Zhaoba said coquettishly.

　　Those who don’t know the truth might think that this is a robbery of something valuable.

　　Li Zhouzhou finally couldn’t persuade his husband and said, “Go up carefully and slowly.”

　　”good.”

　　When Gu Zhao climbed up, Li Zhouzhou stood on the ladder and dared not walk, watching his husband sweeping the snow. After sweeping the entire roof, Gu Zhao was sweating all over. He went down the stairs and asked Zhouzhou for credit, saying, “I said I did it.”

　　”My husband, you have worked hard. Please come into the house and warm up. I have cooked ginger soup.” Li Zhouzhou took the broom from his husband and asked him to come into the house.

　　Li Da also swept the snow from the front and back yards and piled it up.

　　The family of three sat around the stove in the main room, warming themselves by the fire. Li Zhouzhou poured ginger soup and boiled a pot of ginger maltose, then handed it to his father and husband, saying, “Be careful, it’s hot.”

　　Li Da took a sip and looked at the snow outside. It had just been swept away for a short time, but a thin layer of snow had accumulated again.

　　The snow in the yard will accumulate, so you don’t need to sweep it too often, just leave a path for walking. If you do this, you need to sweep it again in the afternoon before dawn, for fear that the snow will collapse the roof beams.

　　Once upon a time, heavy snow crushed the house of a lazy man in the village, but fortunately no one was hurt.

　　The Li family spent a lot of money when building these three blue brick and tile houses. The wood they chose for the beams was thick and strong, but they still needed to be more careful in winter.

　　”This year is colder than last year.” Li Zhouzhou drank a sip of hot soup. Fortunately, this year he had the stove drawn by his husband.

　　The snow seemed to be endless, and it would stop for a while and then fall again in heavy snow. Every household in the village stayed indoors, with only the occasional sound of children crying and people cursing.

　　Li Zhouzhou was cooking in the kitchen when he heard Lingling from Aunt Wang’s next door family crying.

　　”I told you to watch out for him, and you called me when he cried. How could you watch out for him?” Aunt Wang said.

　　Lingling cried, “I was so cold that I forgot to go see my nephew.”

　　”You can’t even take care of the child, and you still have the nerve to cry. Now he’s lying on the bed, and it’s hard to wash in such a cold weather. What can I say to you…”

　　Later, Aunt Wang’s daughter-in-law came out to persuade her, saying, “Mom, forget it, I’ll rub it for a while.”

　　Li Zhouzhou knew what happened after listening to a few words. Aunt Wang’s eldest daughter-in-law had just given birth to a boy in the middle of the year, and now he is less than half a year old. It snowed heavily today, and the men in the house were sweeping the snow. Aunt Wang and the eldest daughter-in-law had to cook in the kitchen. There were too many people in the house and they ate a lot, so they were too busy to handle it, so they asked Lingling to look after the little nephew on the kang.

　　If you poop, pee, or cry, just ask Lingling to call you.

　　But Lingling was only four years old, and she was afraid of the cold and went to bed, so it was normal that she didn’t pay attention to her nephew. Nowadays, if a child poops on the bed, it is not only difficult to wash it on weekdays, but also difficult to dry it in the winter.

　　”It keeps raining non-stop. It’s so cold.” Aunt Wang complained, and said, “Rub them quickly. After dinner, fold them up and roast them on the stove. Otherwise, you won’t be able to sleep tonight.”

　　The eldest daughter-in-law agreed and went to wash it right away.

　　Li Zhouzhou just listened, and when the neighbors solved the problem, he went about his own business. At noon, the family had lunch in the main hall. It was cold, but Li Zhouzhou didn’t have many stir-fried dishes. Instead, he cooked a pot of rice with mixed grains. He also cooked the tofu, cabbage and pork slices he bought in the morning with the stored pickled cabbage, and put it on the rice to make it warm.

　　There was hot soup on the stove in the main room, which had been stewed all morning until it was milky white, and a piece of frozen tofu was put in it. My husband loved tofu and was indifferent to radishes. Li Zhouzhou liked to put tofu in it.

　　”Frozen tofu is delicious.” Gu Zhao said after eating a piece of tofu in the soup.

　　The holes in the tofu become bigger after being frozen, and each hole is filled with water after being cooked in the soup. It tastes especially delicious when you bite it.

　　While the Li family was eating, they heard something like the Wang family yelling again, but this time it was Aunt Wang scolding her second son and her eldest grandson crying, and the noise soon stopped. No one in the Li family liked to watch the noise, so after dinner, everyone cleaned up, some read, and some continued to sweep the snow in the yard.