"Look forward! Just like riding a bicycle!"

Starting two days ago, the temperature dropped below zero, and today it was even colder, and the ice layer by the lake was very thick.

Four or five meters away from the shore, John slid backwards and shouted to the boy loudly: "List forward! The center of gravity is mastered! You will learn it soon!"

"Bang!"

"Oh! It hurts." Old John glanced at his head and asked, "How many times has this been."

Han Xuan turned over, opened his arms to maintain balance, and said hatefully: "The eighth time! It's the eighth time!"

"Hey, look, aren't there any improvement this time? I think I've slipped at least five meters!"

"Yes! Four and a half meters of them were rubbed from my face on the ice!" After saying that, he seemed to be afraid that Old John would not believe it, and pointed at his red face to show him, and sat on the ice with a loose scarf.

Martinez was a sensation, and he followed the figure skating on TV, circled around the boy a few times, and said, "Why, if we encounter such a little thing, will our little genius give up?"

"Damn it! Don't think I don't know, you want to continue watching my jokes, right!"

If Han Xuan hadn't been too short, he really wanted to punch him in the face. His weird look with a wink was so annoying.

"No, no, no, how about I'll teach you?" Martinez looked at Old John, slid to the boy and stopped, lowered his head and said, "His skills are not very good. I'll teach you, you can learn it in just 10 minutes!"

"Yeah? You're not going to be a pill, right? Why don't you compare!"

Hearing his words, John made a sleeve rolling move and shouted loudly: "Come and see who is faster, you lost to me the year before yesterday!"

"Yes! Compete with him! Martinez."

Anderson shouted, turning his head to look around: "I'm here to be a dealer, are you betting? One wins and one loses one! At most five yuan."

"I'll put five pieces in and block John from winning!" Old Patton opened a hole in the ice not far away to fish, and shouted when he heard his words.

"I bet on Martinez."

"Jones, you really have vision! I will definitely not lose."

Martinez's smile just bloomed, and he heard Jones continue, "Put five more pieces for me!"

"Depend on!"

He raised his middle finger and spoke to Old John: "That's better. If you see that pine tree, it's the one that was crushed by the snow on the top of the tree, then go there!"

"Listen to you!"

Those who watched the fun never bothered it. Everyone else quickly surrounded him. Aunt Kelly shouted to the lake: "Come on! Dear!"

John was ready, and when he heard her speak, he turned around and gesturing: "Of course! See how I beat him!"

"Start quickly, my neck is sore..."

Before he finished speaking, Anderson waved his hand down, and the voice came out at the same time: "Go!"

"You are cheating!" Seeing John start quickly, Martinez immediately set off to chase after him.

The boy grabbed his head and didn't understand how things turned out like this within a few minutes. Besides, who will teach me how to skate now?

After looking around, I almost paid attention to Old John and the others. I supported the ice with my hands and just walked two steps.

"Bang!"

"well......"

Fat Ding was playing nearby. When he saw his master in a strange position, he trotted over with his fleshy palm stepping on the ice.

Xue Han Xuan lay on the ground and moved forward, and was killed countless times in an instant by the boy with shameful eyes.

It snows every year in Montana, but it is rarely as heavy as it is today.

It is easy to pile up half a person in the snow. The snow on the shore is thin and can be just enough to settle down. Almost all those who can't skate are here. Snowmen are pinched into various shapes and placed on the shore.

When Han Xuan came, his parents were muttering to Joanna and the others: "Would it be too big if you say you're doing this below?"

"It should be, so the upper part and head will be in trouble."

"Then reduce it a little?"

"It's boring to be small, so someone needs to stand up and pile up."

“Or it’s OK to have a crane.”

"So..." Han's father glanced at his son beside him, waved his hand affectionately and asked, "Do you want to build a snowman?"

The boy looked at the big snowball two meters tall in front of him, and knew what his father was thinking, so he shook his head quickly.

"Water monster! There is a water monster in Lake Rota!" At this time, Martinez, who had just set off, was back again, with an excited expression and shouted loudly from the distance.

"Water Monster?" Old Patton fell from his fishing rod. He lived here for 60 years and had heard countless legends of Flathead Water Monsters. He was shocked and asked quickly, "Where is John?"

"He slid farther than me, and should be behind."

"Look, he's here!"

Old Patton looked to the lake and saw that John was safe and relieved, and looked at Martinez dissatisfiedly: "What water monster?"

"A group of black shadows several meters long are just under the ice layer I passed!"

"It's true! Let's get ashore first!"

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Martinez took Old Patton's hand and dragged it hard to the shore, as if it wasn't a joke.

When people saw his appearance, they felt a little scared and hurriedly followed his companions to the shore. The lake surface was soon empty.

John returned here, sitting on the snow and gasping for breath, his face pale. The people on the shore found something was wrong with them, put down the tools in their hands and walked over.

Hundreds of people surrounded them and were talking about something. Han's father led the boy in and asked John and Martinez, "What's wrong?"

"There are water monsters, they said there are water monsters here."

"You talk about Rota Lake?" Han's father was stunned when he heard Old Patton's words, turned his head to look at the two of them: "What does it look like? Rota Lake is so shallow, right?"

"It's about seven or eight meters, or maybe it's the young man of the water monster in Lake Flathead!" Martinez recovered and said.

"Boss, don't listen to his nonsense. It's about a dozen or four meters long.

"John pulled over Martinez and continued, "There are white patterns on the sides, and they just circled around me, so I can see it very clearly, that's right."

The boy was full of doubts. He lived here for ten years and never had such a thing happened. He raised his head and said, "Let's go and take a look. Standing on the shore, you can walk over in the birch forest."

"How far is it, John?" Han's father nodded and asked.

"It's more than one hundred meters, it's almost the same."

"Boss, do you want to bring a gun?" Old Patton was a little worried.

"Now we go back to get it, and gather here in twenty minutes."

The cowboys' house was not far away and rushed over quickly. After the boy made some promises, he followed him and was protected by dozens of people. Only then did his father feel relieved.

The people walking in front flattened the snow, and it was like a flat path to him. The forest was quiet and the snow on the branches kept falling.

The cowboys all came out with guns and raised them upwards nervously in the air. The distance of more than 100 meters was soon arrived, and there were traces left by ice skates on the lake.

John looked carefully and was sure that it was right here. He nodded suddenly, and a sound of loading followed.

It was quiet under the ice, not the scene they said. After waiting for more than ten minutes, nothing abnormal happened. Martinez was sweating in his forehead and stared at the ice without moving.

Old Patton picked up a stone and slammed it hard to hit the lake. The sound of the array was like a mirror breaking. A white line quickly disappeared from the bottom of the ice. Soon, more than a dozen, hundreds of white shadows appeared and were entangled.

"That's it, it's just now!" Martinez was frightened and murmured, with Remington facing the other side in his hand.

"There are really water monsters!" I don't know who said this.

Han Xuan stood on tiptoe and looked for a long time, pulled Rabaton's arm, and said, "Can this be a fish?"

"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen this here." Patton turned around and asked the other cowboys in a low voice: "Do you know which fish is so long?"

"I don't know, it should be in the sea."

"I have a kind in my hometown, but I haven't seen it."

One of the cowboys answered in a low voice, and people immediately looked at each other. Old Patton continued to ask, "Lian, isn't your hometown in Canada?"

"Well, I immigrated when I was a kid. I heard from my parents that this kind of big fish is found in the Fraser River."

"High first sturgeon? Are you talking about high first sturgeon?"

Martinez suddenly turned around and said, then stretched his head to look at the lake: "The teacher said that there are also Americans, and it really looks like them."

“…”

"You know?"

"Yes, I've introduced it during class."

John opened his mouth wide, not knowing what to say.

He looked at each other with Han's father, raised his legs and kicked Martinez's butt.

The black guy rubbed his face against the ice and kept slipping into the middle of the group of high heads. There was an item that stretched out his head from the hole that Old Patton had just smashed, opening his mouth to bite him.

...

After the alarm was lifted, people returned to the lake, and Martinez was stripped naked and ran home trembling.

Not far from the shore, Hill dusted off the dirty snow from the upper layer and filled half of the snowflakes into the bucket.

Joanna followed her boyfriend, walked back with the bucket, came to the snowman, tied a rope to the handle of the bucket, and soon began to rise.

My father stood beside him rubbed his hands and found that the snowman was almost healing. He nodded with satisfaction and continued to make the snow.

Han Xuan sat at the top of the snowman, more than five high from the ground, poured the snow in the bucket on it, patted it with his hands, looked at his father's back, and muttered in a low voice.

"Grandai, this is squeezing child labor!"

Leisure time passed quickly and it began to darken.

The father walked home with his son on his back, and laughter from the employees around him kept coming.

The snowman stood by the lake, made of branches, and some clothes were hung on it.

Today is the last Thursday of November, on the snowy Thanksgiving Day, I think there will be a turkey meal waiting for them when I get home.
Chapter completed!