Chapter 10 princess in a bag

I am a meatball. The story happened a long time ago. There was a Wusong River by the East Sea, and there was a Huating Valley beside the river. In the valley, there was a poor couple who gave birth to their seventh child when they were seventy years old—this is me . From the moment I was born, my parents were stunned, because I had a round body, a big head, but no hands, no feet, like a small meat ball mounted on a big meat ball . Yes, I am a meatball. But my parents didn't fear or cry, because although I have no limbs, I have a cute face, which makes anyone want to hug me and kiss me.My first cry was so extraordinary, I cried for seven days and seven nights, until the seventh day I laughed again.

So, I was named Qixi. When other children hadn't learned to walk, I was already able to walk around - to be precise, roll, the body of the meat ball can roll anywhere, go to Huating Valley to listen to the crickets singing, and go to the Wusong River to watch the fish Playing with water. Everyone's eyes widened when they saw me, but they soon fell in love with my cuteness, especially when I sang Wu songs, even the sixteen-year-old village girl couldn't help but look at me twice. I also have a special ability, that is, I can understand the language of all animals.Whether it's the trembling of dragonfly wings, the quarrel of mice on the beam, or the sigh of wild geese in the air, I can understand their meaning.And I can also imitate the sounds of various animals, so that I can chat with them.In short, I am a language genius.People often see me standing by the river talking to myself, but I am actually telling jokes to the crayfish.Some people occasionally found me running into the forest in a daze, but I was actually guessing riddles with the owls.

Until a certain day of a certain year, I saw a firefly. It was a cool summer night, and I was rolling around in a field by myself, when a pale blue light passed in front of me, and I heard a bug yawn and say, "Oh, I'm dying !" Only then did I see that it was a firefly, but it was different from all the fireflies I had seen. Although its body was as small as a fly, the light it emitted was so beautiful and attractive, which was completely unmatched by our local fireflies. . "Welcome, guest from afar!" I rolled a few laps in the rice field and caught fireflies shouting loudly, of course I used firefly language.

"Ah, how can you talk to me?" The fireflies flew to my nose, and the cool blue light covered my round meaty head like fine gauze. I blinked my eyes wide and smiled and replied, "My friend, I can talk to all living beings." "Oh, you really are a monster." The fireflies flew up in surprise, and a blue light appeared in the summer night field, circling around my fleshy body, and then landed on my body. On the nose, "Meat balls! There are meat balls like you in the world! You are simply a miracle of the creator! I have traveled tens of thousands of miles across the ocean, and I have never seen anyone, animals, or plants, but only I've seen you meatball!"

It said so many words in one breath, but didn't even catch a breath, which made me really admire: "Where do you come from?" “Gold Coast!” "Where?" I'd never heard of this place. "On the other side of the earth, at the end of the sea, there is a place called the Gold Coast! There is a magical world, a forest of ten thousand banyan trees, I was born in a cave deep in the forest, there are countless people like me Such fireflies—the fireflies in other parts of the world are not as beautiful as ours! But the most beautiful is a princess, she has a pair of bright eyes like a cold moon, long eyelashes covering the seductive eyes, the whole face The outline of her body seems to have been sculpted by a master artist, and she can be described as a fairy. Her figure is also unparalleled in the world. The proportion of her waist and body is extremely coordinated, showing the shape of a vase. She has a pair of slender thighs, and The exquisite and graceful hands, each finger is almost transparent, and the nails are so tender that they almost drip water. If you look at her from a distance, she really looks like a painting, only fairies in mythology can compare to her!"

As expected, Firefly has eloquence, which made me dumbfounded, and the image of a perfect princess appeared in my mind, but I dare not imagine it anymore, because human imagination seems to be unable to reach the beauty of a princess. It flew around my fleshy ball again and said: "The princess lives in seclusion in a tree trunk, and the ten thousand banyan trees guard her. Very few people have seen her face, because she is so beautiful that I am shocked." In the Milky Way, only the luckiest and bravest people can travel through thousands of mountains and rivers to see her! It is said that as long as you meet this princess, your life will be changed, and your destiny will be completely changed from then on.”

"Really?" The firefly is just a chatterbox. If I don't interrupt it now, this little bug can talk until noon tomorrow. "Hey, buddy, can what I said be true? I have flown tens of thousands of miles, and I am a well-informed and handsome guy known as 'Smart Star'." I gave it a contemptuous look, rolled the round body, followed the trajectory of the fireflies and said, "Can you take me to see the princess?" "You?" The firefly flew around me again, and then cast a disdainful voice, "Just because of your meatball?" "Meatballs can't walk, but they can roll!"

"roll?" I immediately rolled around on the ground, and in a blink of an eye I was a few feet away: "Look, I can roll to the Gold Coast like this!" But the firefly laughed wantonly: "Go to the Gold Coast? Hahaha, you better go back to my hometown! Do you know? We have to go through tens of thousands of miles, especially across the vast sea. There are a lot of highway robbers..." "Stop talking!" I once again interrupted its never-ending words like chanting, "Even if I roll, I will roll across the sea." "You—seriously?" Firefly seemed shocked by my fleshy ball, "I've seen many people who want to see the princess, and they are all healthy and good-looking young men, but they either died on the way. Sang Huangquan, or be shut out by the princess, you are a little meatball, you have such courage, this is the first time I have seen it!"

"Take me to the Gold Coast!" I rolled in front of it and stared at the dim blue light with my big eyes. "Okay! I'll take you there, I can just go back to my hometown!" Three days later. I bid farewell to my seventy-year-old parents and followed the fireflies to the other side of the earth. It's been a long journey. Although I don't have hands and feet, I can roll at the same speed as a good runner. However, the firefly is often so tired that it doesn't even have the strength to talk. We rolled across the rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River, but were blocked by the Qiantang River.I bulged my body into a big ball, filled with air, like a ball floating on the water, and just crossed the turbulent river.Just such a meatball and a small bug wading through mountains and rivers, no mountains and rivers could stop me. In just a few days, we walked through the mountains of Baiyue and came to the warm and spring-like land of Lingnan.After a short rest at the South China Sea, I continued to roll to the southwest. The firefly was so tired that it lay on my head and let me roll it around.

In the fall, I rolled into the fertile Red River plain.Autumn here is much hotter than Huating Valley, and the fireflies told me that it was close to the tropics.Soon we rolled into the mysterious Mekong River again, and I was filled with air like a ball, and after crossing the river, we entered the Chao Phraya River Valley.We went south along the river valley. Although it was getting closer to winter, it became hotter and hotter along the way, and gradually entered a huge peninsula. There is a small island at the end of the peninsula. When we rolled to the island, the firefly was already exhausted: "Oh, I didn't expect my hometown to be so far away. My lifespan is less than one year. Rolling like this has already taken away a lot of my life." Half of my life is over."

Just as it was lamenting for the shortness of its life, a strange lion walked on the beach. Although it looked strong and mighty, it had the tail of a fish.Even though I knew meatballs were just right for a lion's breakfast, I wasn't afraid to say, "Do you know where the Gold Coast is, my friend?" The Merlion was also very surprised when he saw the meatball: "Ah, how can there be a life like you in the world? I have never heard of the Gold Coast, but I can take you across the strait." It turned out that there were bigger islands on the other side of the sea, so I bravely rolled onto the lion's back, and the fireflies got into the lion's mane, just in time to sleep comfortably. The lion walked slowly into the sea, flapped its tail a few times, and floated on the sea like a whale.In the blue tropical sea, the Merlion is swimming happily with a meat ball on its back.We swam in the sea for three days and three nights. Every night, the fireflies looked at the stars in the sky and used them to identify directions. In the early morning sun, we landed on a big island. The lion shook his head and said, "This is Java Island. I'm going back to my Merlion Island." Before I and the fireflies could react, the Merlion had already swam into the sea. Now even the fireflies have lost their way, so we had to roll forward slowly. We encountered many beasts along the way, but no matter if it was a tiger or a monitor lizard, as long as they heard me talk to them, they immediately became our companions. good friend. Walking to the other side of Java Island, where there is still a boundless sea, the firefly cried in despair: "Oh, I don't know the way anymore, and my life span is only a few months, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back to my hometown again. " At this time, a big turtle floated on the sea surface, its body was even bigger than an elephant, its head was already covered with wrinkles, and I estimated that it had a lifespan of tens of thousands of years. The old turtle smiled at the firefly and said, "You only have a lifespan of less than one year, but you have such interesting friends; while I have lived for tens of thousands of years, but I will always swim alone on the bottom of the sea. In fact, you are much happier than me , I really envy you!" I immediately rolled to the big turtle and said, "Old man, can you take us to the Gold Coast?" "Gold Coast? I went there once when I was young, more than 8,000 years ago, but I don't want to swim that far anymore. I can take you to the nearest island. Okay , meat balls and worms, can come to my turtle shell." So, the fireflies and I happily came to the turtle's back, and it took us to swim into the sea. The huge turtle's back was like a roof, and we basked in the equatorial sun on the roof, turning my white meat ball into black meat ball. After another ten days and ten nights, we came to a big island, where the big turtle sank to the bottom of the sea, but the fireflies and I were even more helpless.There are many cannibal tribes living on the island. Meatballs like me happen to be their delicious meal. Now I have to roll forward desperately to avoid being caught by them and grilled into steaks.Fearfully, I rolled to the other side of the island and found dolphins, albatrosses, and whales, all of which can cross the sea, but would never take us with them.Because they said that the sea was too dangerous, no brave animal dared to cross it. The firefly looked at the sea and was dumbfounded: "I, I can't fly anymore." But I looked at the sea firmly and said, "Have you forgotten how we crossed the river?" After that, I took dozens of deep breaths, inflated my body into a big balloon, and quickly rolled into the sea. "Are you crazy? You will be eaten by sharks!" "No, for the Gold Coast, I'm not afraid of any danger." The firefly climbed up on me helplessly and said, "Anyway, I won't live for a few more days, so I'll die with you too." The current quickly took me to the south, and the bulging meat ball was very light on the sea, and it could float far away in a day and night.Although there were many sharks swimming around, which had already scared the fireflies into fainting, none of them dared to attack me.Because I sang "Shark Song" all the way, which is the shark's favorite song, and only I can sing it for them. Seven days and seven nights. When I was about to be exhausted, I suddenly felt that there was a sandy beach beneath me, and a vast continent opened up in front of my eyes—I went ashore! The firefly also wept with joy, it knew that it was not far from its hometown. But this is a desolate continent. It is full of yellow sand and bushes as far as the eye can see. It is not like the Gold Coast it says at all. "Don't worry, my hometown is too big, so you will see many different environments." But after seven days and seven nights in the sea, I no longer have the strength to roll forward. Just when we only had the strength to breathe, a special animal came forward—it had a mouse’s head, but it had a human-like appearance. Tall, with two front paws on the chest, and a small pouch underneath. "Ah, dear kangaroo, it's my firefly!" Then it introduced me to this kind of animal called "kangaroo", "Look, this is my good friend-meat ball." "Firefly, welcome back to your hometown!" As long as the kangaroos speak, I can learn their language. I immediately said to the kangaroos: "Hi, I'm Meatball, and we're going to the Gold Coast to find a princess." "Ah, you can speak kangaroo dialect?" The firefly grinned at its "mouthparts" and said: "This meat ball can do everything, except it can't walk with its feet." "Are you looking for Princess Cosette?" "Yes, it is the beautiful Princess Cosette." Only then did I know the name of the person I was looking for——Cosette, such a beautiful name, it must be worthy of the name. The kangaroo shrugged: "Okay, come on my back, and I'll take you to find her." When I got to its back with the fireflies, the kangaroo ran to the depths of the desert hop by hop. After walking in the desert for ten days and ten nights, they entered a dry grassland where hundreds of thousands of kangaroos of various colors lived.It took us another ten days to cross the grassland, the air became more and more humid, the bushes gradually turned into forests, and finally we saw a blue sea. Gold Coast! "Finally back to my hometown!" The firefly's eyes were already red from crying, and it took me to the forest by the sea, where there were ten thousand big banyan trees. It happened to be night, and the Southern Cross was shining in the sky. In the lush and ancient forest, thousands of lights lit up, as if returning to the splendid Milky Way.I looked at the wonders above and around me in amazement. Could it be that I have come to a fairyland in mythology? "They are all my brothers and sisters!" The fireflies flew up excitedly, and also shone with the dim light on their bodies. It turned out that the light in the forest came from countless fireflies.This is the hometown of Gold Coast fireflies. There are hundreds of millions of them, and they have lived here for generations. Every night, they emit dazzling light, illuminating the entire southern half of the earth. And when my friend firefly was a child, it was also one of the thousands of lights.Occasionally one day, it flew into a fruit and fell asleep. It never thought that the fruit would be eaten by a migratory bird.Fortunately, the husk was very strong and was not digested by the bird's stomach. Finally, the bird flew to the sea and discharged the fruit into the sea together with the guano.The firefly also managed to escape, just hid in the fruit, and drifted tens of thousands of miles along the current of the Pacific Ocean, all the way to the distant Wusong River.The fireflies that returned to the land flew out of the husk, and met my fleshy ball in such a strange way. My friend Firefly told its brothers and sisters: "This meatball comes from Huating Valley thousands of miles away. He came to look for the beautiful Princess Cosette. Although he is a meatball, he is the bravest and wisest meatball! " So, hundreds of millions of fireflies sang together: "Princess Cosette...Princess Cosette...the bravest and wisest meatball is here to find you..." These voices gathered into a chorus, together with the light of each firefly, shaking the entire Gold Coast.After waiting for a long time, a strange guy suddenly crawled out of a tree hole. That thing was about the size of a rabbit, and it was all gray, except for its black nose, which was quite eye-catching. Its hands and feet were climbing on the tree trunk, and it moved as slowly as a tortoise—no, it was even slower than bastards. . Countless fireflies gathered towards it, illuminating its strange body, and it raised its lazy eyes and said, "Why are you disturbing my sleep again?" A firefly shouted: "Koala, you have been sleeping for seven years, seven months and seven days!" It turns out that this animal is called a koala, which I have never heard of. A hundred koalas moved their lips reluctantly: "Who wants to see Princess Cosette?" "It's him!" Many fireflies flew to me, illuminating my fleshy ball body. The lazy koala suddenly regained energy, stared at me for a long time, and then spit out two words: "Meatball?" "Yes, I'm Meatball." The koala suddenly laughed—and until the twenty-first century, people had never heard a koala laugh. It patted its belly and said mysteriously: "Princess, please come out." It turned out that there is a small pouch under the koala's belly, just like the pouch in the kangaroo's belly. I looked at the koala with wide eyes. Could it be that the legendary and beautiful Princess Cosette is in this bag? Then, a head protruded from the bag. It really was a cute face, but it looked a little round. It's not just "round". Under the round head, there is also a round body. I didn't see the slender thighs and perfect figure that I expected. The whole body came out of the bag—but it was still a round body. ball. With no hands or feet, she is a meatball. I stared dumbfounded at the appearance of Princess Cosette, and all the fireflies were stunned speechless. The entire forest was completely silent, and even the vast starry sky became even more silent. The meat ball that came out of the koala's bag also stared at me with wide eyes, and she shouted in great surprise: "You are also a meat ball?" That's right, she's a meatball. The most beautiful Princess Cosette in the legend is actually a meatball like me! My friend the firefly has long been ashamed and disappeared without a trace. It turns out that it has never seen the real face of Princess Cosette, and the beautiful princess it described endlessly is entirely based on rumors, or it is itself out of thin air. imagine! Princess Cosette rolled down from the tree trunk, but her thick and soft body was not hurt. She quickly rolled to my side, and rolled around me again. Countless fireflies also illuminated us, as if standing on the ground. On the stage where everyone is watching. I found tears in her eyes as she finally found a meatball just like hers. But I have traveled half of the world, but I have not found the same meatball as me; but on the other half of the world, I found that the Princess Cosette I was dreaming of was actually the same meatball as me. Princess Cosette has also been waiting in this koala's bag for many years. Although there are countless people who come here, they have never seen the princess, because the princess hopes to meet a meat ball that looks the same as herself. As long as she looked through the gaps in the bag, she could see those visiting people—none of them were her own kind. She could only hide in the bag in disappointment, let those people go back disappointed, and continued to spread the news about Cosette. The legend of how beautiful the princess is. At this moment, both meat balls have discovered their other half who originally lived on the other side of the earth. Just as the earth is made up of the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. From then on, Princess Cosette and I lived happily together on the Gold Coast. As for my best friend, the firefly, it is said that in order to continue its dying life, it flew into a mysterious time tunnel, and it may appear in front of you on a certain summer night.