Winter 2000.
The winter of this year was particularly cold. After December, the temperature suddenly dropped. The weather forecast was always saying there will be snow. But it wasn't until the middle of January, that snow finally fell from the thick clouds. In only one night, the yellow and withered ground was covered by a layer of white snow, turning bleak autumn into a world of ice and snow.
However, there were many people in the city. Regardless of the weather, they have to leave early and return late every day. A beautiful world of snow and ice was trampled on in just two hours.
Five-year-old little Jennie especially wants to go out to play in the snow, but her yard was too small and there were a lot of things in the yard, so even a small snowball couldn't be rolled up. It wasn't like Grandma Manoban's big yard from next door, there it was much spacious and larger than their house.
If only Grandma Manoban was home, she would surely agree to let her come over to her house to make a snowman.
"Jennie, come have breakfast." Ji Hyun's voice came from downstairs.
"Oh, here I come."
Little Jennie jumped down from the windowsill and looked for her slippers on the carpet with her feet covered in plush cat socks. After a long time, she pulled them from under the bed then ran downstairs.
"Come and have breakfast. Today we have milk and fried fritters."
"Bought them from outside again." Little Jennie muttered. "How can you let me eat fried food every day?"
"Other children can't eat even if they want to. Let's see what you would choose." Ji Hyun also knows that it wasn't good to eat too much fried food, but the school was about to go on holiday. She's been so busy these days that she hasn't had time to be able to cook breakfast.
"Deep fried, then you choose a restaurant ah."
Ji Hyun glanced at her daughter's big wandering eyes, knowing that the little clever demon was thinking again: "Restaurant, KFC?"
"McDonald's is fine too." She didn't pick it first.
"Hurry and eat so you can go to school with me." Ji Hyun was speechless and put the soymilk directly in front of her daughter.
"Going to school again, everyone is on winter vacation."
Little Jennie wasn't happy, she's so pitiful. If other children were on vacation, they would stay at home to play, but she had to go to school with her parents every day.
"I know that you don't want to go, just hold on a little longer." Ji Hyun coaxed, "You can take the small picture book to school to draw and mom will bring you back after finishing the exam."
"Oh." Little Jennie was helpless. She doesn't want to go, but she had no other choice. Five year old children couldn't resist their parents.
She wants to eat more and grow up quickly.
Ji Hyun looked at her daughter who was eating the fried fritters and couldn't help but complain: Just now, she said she was tired of eating greasy foods.
After breakfast, there was no time to clean up the dishes and tableware. Ji Hyun put on a small red down jacket on her daughter, then a black cartoon hat. She casually tied a scarf around her: "Jennie, you go to the door and wait. I'll come out with some things."
"Okay."
Little Jennie put on her little shoes, opened the door skillfully and walked out. She stood at the gate of the courtyard, waiting for her mother to come out. Suddenly, there was a sharp horn sound, which frightened her and caused her to fall onto the ground.
"Child, are you okay?" The driver of the car hurriedly rushes out from the driver's seat. It snowed heavily these past two days and he was afraid that the car wouldn't be stable after breaking. He was afraid that he would hit the child, so he honked his horn to make the child go away, but he didn't want to frighten people.
"I'm fine." Little Jennie stood up and patted the snow from her butt.
"Does it hurt?"
"No, it doesn't hurt. I am wearing several pairs of pants."
"Are you, how well-dressed, cute and warm?" The little girl wore a cat cartoon hat. Her eyes looked like a little kitten.
"Kim Bum, did you hit a child?" The rear door also opened at this time, and a grandmother in a coat stepped out from the car.
"Lady Manoban, I didn't." The driver replied immediately.
"Grandma Manoban." When little Jennie saw the elderly woman getting out of the car, her eyes lit up and she ran over.
"It's Jennie." When Grandma Manoban saw Jennie, her friendly face was immediately full of smiles, "You grew taller and fatter."
"I'm just wearing a lot."
"Good, not fat, just wearing a lot."
Although I don't know how many five year old children pay so much attention to their image now, no matter what she does, such a big child is cute no matter what she does. And the livelier she is, the cuter. If Lisa can be half like her, half would be good.
"Jennie, can Grandma introduce a little Oppa to you?" Grandma Manoban crouched down and asked the little girl.
"Can we play together?" Little Jennie asked happily as there was almost no children her age in their community, thus she had no friends during winter and summer vacations.
"Of course." Grandma Manoban opened the door that she just closed when she got out of the car. She patted a little Lisa who was dazed inside and waited for her to notice her before holding out her hand to help her get out of the car. "This is Grandma's grandson, Lisa."
"Hello Lisa Oppa." Little Jennie yelled crisply and raised her hand to shake someone's hand. "My name is Jennie, let's play together later."
The little Lisa took a step back, lowered her head and didn't glanced at little Jennie from beginning to end.
"..." Little Jennie was taken back. Could it be that this good-looking little Oppa doesn't like me?
"Jennie, didn't I tell you to wait at the door? How come you're over there?" When Ji Hyun didn't see her daughter at the door, she went back to the house to look for her. Ji Hyun was angry and anxious.
"I... I came to say hello to Grandma Manoban." Jennie cuddle against and then hid behind Grandma Manoban.
"Teacher Nam, you're back?" Ji Hyun also saw Grandma Manoban and hurriedly said her greetings.
"I'm back. You're going to the school to proctor the exam, right?" Grandma Manoban was also a teacher. She calculated the date and it should be the time for final exams.
"Yes, I'm running late. I will properly greet you once I return." After that, she called out to her daughter who was hiding behind Grandma Manoban. "Come here, we have to go to school."
"I'm not going. I want to stay and play with Lisa Oppa." With that, Jennie took advantage of this little older brother's inattentiveness and grabbed the little oppa's hand.
"This is your grandson?" Ji Hyun also noticed Lisa.
"Yes, my little grandson." Grandma Manoban likes Jennie. At this time, she hopes that Jennie's lively energy can influence Lisa, so she said, "Let me have Jennie. When you get off work, you can come and pick her up."
"I don't want to trouble you."
"No, I like her."
Ji Hyun didn't insist anymore. She left Jennie and went to school by herself.
Grandma Manoban held Lisa's hand, and Jennie also held Lisa's hand, one big and two small walked into the Manoban family's courtyard like a bunch of candied gourds.
"I haven't lived here for a long time. The heating hasn't been turned on. Grandma will go turn on the heating. Would you like to play with Lisa Oppa in the living room for a while?" Grandma Manoban asked.
"Yes." Jennie said sweetly and nodded crisply.
When Grandma Manoban left, little Jennie was full of excitement and curiosity and was left alone with little Lisa.
"Lisa Oppa, how old are you? I'm five years old this year."
Ignoring me?
"Lisa Oppa, why haven't I ever met you? Where did you lived before?"
Still ignoring me?
"Lisa Oppa, why are you ignoring me? The teacher said it's rude when others asks you questions, and you don't answer them."
Actually, still ignoring me?
"I know, are you afraid of strangers? It doesn't matter, I'm very familiar here. Do you want to make a snowman together? Let's make a snowman that is as good-looking as you."
Little Jennie took off her gloves and ran into the snow. She grabbed a handful of snow and came back to place some in little Lisa's hand.
Little Lisa was chilled by the cold, but there was some reaction, she looked down at the snow in her hand. The child's body temperature was high and a small handful of snow soon turned into water, little Lisa looked at her wet palm, suddenly a little surprised.
Why did the snow disappear?
"Isn't it fun? Let's go play together." Little Jennie felt that this little big brother was really too shy. she obviously liked it but didn't say. But it didn't matter if she doesn't say, I'll just drag her...
The two little children, one in a red jacket and the other in a royal blue coat were in the white snow, particularly eye-catching. The driver, Kim Bum, came in from outside with some things, but when he saw his second young master squatting and playing in the snow, he was shocked and was pale with fright: "Why is second young master..."
"Kim Bum." Grandma Manoban called the driver.
"Lady Manoban."
"Let her play."
"However, second young master may catch a cold," the driver was worried.
"It's okay." Grandma Manoban was also worried about her grandson's health, but she preferred to let Lisa have a childhood.
"Let's roll a snowball of this size first and use it as the body." Jennie finished making a big one and started to make a smaller one. "Then roll another one so big so it can be the head."
Little Lisa stood stunned. she looked at the red ball, rolling a ball that wasn't much smaller than her. After rolling one, she rolled another, then stacked them on each other. Little Lisa didn't know what it meant, but in this white snowy world, the red color was particularly dazzling, always swaying in front of her.
"Grandma Manoban, does Lisa Oppa dislike me?" Jennie, who was tried from this morning, also hadn't spoken with her good-looking little oppa, and was a little frustrated.
"No, your Oppa is particularly shy, so she doesn't like talking." Grandma Manoban coaxed.
"She's too shy."
"Yes, but she was willing to play with you, so that means she likes you."
"She didn't play with me, I made the snowman by myself." she wasn't even willing to pick up rocks for its eyes.
"But she was always with you. If she didn't like to play with you, she wouldn't be standing in the snow the entire time."
It wasn't hard to coax a five-year-old child, not to mention with the temptation of snacks. Little Jennie turned her face and soon forgot this unpleasantness. Then she spent the entire afternoon reading comics in the heated study. Moreover, Lisa Oppa didn't rob her of the final say.
In the evening, Ji Hyun came to pick up her daughter, little Jennie reluctantly waved her hand: "Lisa Oppa, I'll come again to play with you tomorrow."
Naturally, Lisa didn't respond, but little Jennie knew that she was shy, so she didn't get angry. The next morning after breakfast, she came running over wearing her red down jacket.
"Grandma Manoban, I've come to play with Lisa Oppa."
"Your Oppa is still in her room. I'll call her." Grandma Manoban said with a smile.
"It's okay, I'll go see if the snowman I made has disappeared."
Little Jennie went to the place where she made the snowman yesterday. Naturally, it would be impossible for the snowman to melt overnight. she was still standing there, but even if it doesn't melt, it won't stop her from making another one.
But what's that lump next to the snowman?
"Lisa Oppa?" As she approached, little Jennie found that this little lump beside the snowman was Lisa in a white jacket and white hat.
"How come you're squatting down here?"
Little Jennie saw that Lisa was covered with snow, so she couldn't help but stretch out her hand to pat the snow off her. When she patted her, she could tell from a glance that she was squatting out here for a while.
Little Lisa didn't move or looked at little Jennie, as if she were a snowman herself.
"I know, you're pretending to be a snowman, right?"
Jennie suddenly had an idea. They read cartoons yesterday afternoon and saw such a plot. The child had made a snowman, kissed it, and the snowman came to life.
"I'll kiss." Little Jennie was about to kiss her, but suddenly her foot slipped, and she directly fell on top of little Lisa who cosply as a snowman.
Little Lisa recovered, stood up silently, turned around, and walked into the house.
"Lisa Oppa, wait a minute, I haven't kissed you yet. You still can't move, you're still a snowman~~"
Little Jennie expended a great amount of effort to chase after her until she was able to get into the other's life.