The bricklayers eat meat every day, and work with strength. After half a month, Yuan Chun's house is completed; the kang is also built, and the well is dug, only the courtyard wall hasn't been built yet. Unfortunately, the heavens are not kind, and the first snow of the year has fallen.
Looking at the white snow outside, Yuan Chun said to Mr. Wang, "Dad, let's wait until spring to build the courtyard wall. You and Big Brother don't go picking up mountain stones today; with this icy weather, the stones are covered in snow, hard to pick up, and even if you do, you can't bring them back."
The family's firewood storage is enough to burn, Mr. Wang and his sons had planned last night to pick mountain stones today to help Yuan Chun build the courtyard wall.
Now that it's snowing, they can't go.
Mr. Wang took a puff of his pipe and said, "I'll go visit your Grandpa Qi."
