Chapter 14 CHAPTER ONE THE MUM DUCK WAS LOSSED AT HER

Miss Alice did not understand how she came to the river where she met the Nanjing duck last time.Although she was worried that Mr. Nuoxi, the rabbit gentleman, would not be able to find her when he woke up, it was also very interesting to see the clear water of the river flowing slowly by the river. "It would be fun to take a bath!" She said to herself on the shore, but in fact, these words were only for Mr. Nuoxi's imagination.She also advocated that the river water should be so clear, but it should also be warmer, because if it is not too cold, people who take a bath can avoid catching a cold, because no matter adults or children, getting a cold is boring.Her aunt had told Alice this, and she had experienced it herself.

"But, I thought it was too cold." She tried the water with her little finger, and the water began to tremble. "Look, you tremble when someone stirs it with your finger!" "Don't say that, Miss Yuanfang." She can talk without being wary of the river water.Her heart skipped a beat when she heard the river talking.She asked, "Was it you who spoke just now?" Unexpectedly, the river water told her "exactly".The sound of the river is as clear as its color. She said, "I'll call you Mr. Miss or Sir?" The river has small waves and smiles.

"That's what human beings want to call it," He Shui still said in a clear and bright voice, "I don't need it. If your lady is happy, call me Dear River Water; if you are not happy, just call me River Water." "My dear river, you need a hot water. I said you are too cold to take a bath. I just wanted my good companion to take a bath." The river just said sorry, sorry, because it's not a hot spring.Alice thought to herself, since it is a hot spring, of course there is no need to apologize, so it is not polite to admit that I am sorry at this time. Now that they had a chance to chat, Heshui asked Miss Alice a lot about her past, and she agreed to them all.It was because the river water asked her that she remembered it, otherwise she would have forgotten it too.

"I want to know how you feel when you come here," He Shui said, "because every foreigner has a feeling when he comes to China." "But I'm not every foreigner." "But it is said that dogs who have been to China always have impressions of China." "Then I'll ask Mr. Nosh later," said Miss Alice, asking Mr. Nosh, because she remembered that Mr. Nosh was a rabbit.But dogs are not the same as rabbits, so she immediately added, "I don't think Mr. Nuoxi will have any." "But you are not Mr. Nuoxi!" "But you are not me!"

The river water remembered the Chinese adage that "talking is not speculative, half a sentence is too much", smiled again, ignored Miss Alice, and flowed away. Miss Alice was startled when she saw the flowing water.She had never seen the river move so fast.She thought maybe the river was angry to run so fast.I also thought it was because of some appointment that I couldn't delay here for a long time.Looking at where the river was going, until the river fell onto a stone and smashed her whole body, she breathed a long sigh of relief and said to herself, "Wouldn't it be better to walk a little slower?"

After a while, she went to try the new river water with her hands, thinking that it would always be a little hotter than the previous one.Who knows it's still cold.She wondered again in her heart, thinking why not be a little warmer, but remembering the fruitless conversation for a while, she stopped making a sound. The soup of the river flows down, and when it flows down, it knocks its body against the big stone, smashes the body, and does not regret it at all.After Miss Alice got used to seeing it, she knew that it was the place where the water stayed, and she realized that she was not angry with her, so she stopped paying attention.

She stood on the shore, looking around.I want to have something else to talk to her about, for fun.When she has nothing to do, she wants to talk, just like she wants to eat when she is hungry. However, she doesn't quite understand the hunger for talking, and she can't discuss this unclear question with anyone. Talking to himself. She said, "I ask you, are you hungry?" The second she said, "Yes." She turned to the first one again, with a voice as gentle as that of an aunt, comforting this lonely one, saying: "My friend, if you stay here for a while, someone will come to talk to you."

"Yes, but," she said sadly as the second woman, "before the other one comes, can you talk to me for a while?" "That's fine. But I think of Mr. Nuoxi, he will miss me very much." "Although I think of him, I am willing to leave him for a while and find someone I know well to talk to." "There are always acquaintances here. Look at the water, don't ducks, egrets and other birds come here every day?" "When I mention ducks, I think of that little duck. She said she would be my girl, how ridiculous! I asked Mr. Nuoxi, and he said that a girl is a female slave. If you think I use a little duck as a slave, It would be ridiculous to ask her to comb my hair every morning and pretend to smoke and pour tea for me!"

"I thought about that aunt getting up again, seeing how fat that mother is, I am really worried about her being fat." "The very thin ones should be worried. I remember that the duckling was worried about the egret's health." "But that's the duckling's business." "But why is it about ducklings again?" The other one asked her "why" about this one, and she couldn't help being a little angry with this one, and didn't continue.But she was willing to start another one, because there was no one else to talk to, and she had to talk by herself.

First she said, "Okay, let's talk about something else." The other she naturally agreed with.She proposed the method of playing today. She said, "Play, how to play?" "Let's go to the theater." The other one doesn't seem very interested in going to the theater.However, he did not dare to object. I am afraid that if you object, you will not be able to continue this discussion, so just say "yes". "Watching a play, go to the best and largest theater in China, sit in a private box, and watch those very handy tea rooms besides watching a play, as if playing magic, throwing a roll of hot towels from the air to and fro , that's great!" She didn't let that one of her have a chance to object, and she received a call, "Look at them somersaulting on the stage, shouting, humming, and all the people in the audience cheering loudly, spitting, coughing,... . . . " Alice got this knowledge, of course, from Mr. Nuoxi.

That one, she argued, "Spitting up is not an elegant thing, and neither is coughing!" "However, that kind of freedom, that kind of indifference to others—well said, it's that kind of freedom, it's not a—" "No," she said resolutely about that one, "you don't need to look at this one." "Then how do you spend this long day?" "Then stay by the river and wait for something to happen!" Miss Alice therefore said nothing more, and waited for the opportunity.Who knows whether the passing of this time should be counted minute by minute, or should be counted by second by second?But she was counting the hours.She learned the doctor's method, and when she checked her own pulse, she counted the pulse, one, two, three, four, and she counted to one hundred... one thousand... ten thousand. "Ah, it's ten thousand, how can I count it?" However, it still counted.When the blood jumped in the tube, she counted it, because she couldn't get angry because of too many numbers.Thanks to her, she counted to twelve thousand seven hundred and nine, which is not a bad word at all. At this point, she felt that she couldn't count anymore, so she said, "Okay, add a number, and it will be twelve thousand seven hundred and ten. Let me write down this number, and I will ask Mr. Nuoxi to do it for me later." How much time is equivalent to?" If you don't count the time, you will feel lonely again. Lonely has to stay, Alice, like many grown-ups, only uses "suffering" to deal with the current affairs.She is still next to each other.She asked herself, "If I started counting the jumps of blood again, wouldn't there be another number of 'twelve thousand seven hundred and ten'? If I changed the number every time I jumped, wouldn't it be forever?" Is it the word 'one'? If so... what a stupid opinion! Why do you want to think about it?..." However, she thought again, "If I receive a day and count it for a year, how should I write this number?" So she remembered a The countenance of the mathematics teacher in the elementary school came, "Ha, if he is asked to calculate this number by himself, he won't know how to write it, I'm sure!" "Alice," she thought, as well as dividing herself into two. "Don't think like that, it's not something you should think about." After one she warned the other, she who was warned no longer thought about the number of times the blood jumped in her veins. She asked herself, "Stay here, or go?" Seeing the river walking, she thought it would be better to walk too.She walked along the bank of the river in the same direction as the water.She walked slowly like this at first, but when she saw that the river was always moving faster than her own pace, she felt amused, "What are you busy with?" She didn't know that all rivers could talk, and a question that river water asked Miss Alice would have the following answer.He Shui said, "Miss, why are you so idle compared to us?" "Then how do I know? This is what you think!" "How could I feel that? Only you think I'm busy!" It's time to talk nonsense again. Ali thought, "It's better for me to go back and walk the same way. If I walk together, I don't think your river is busy." So she took the opposite direction from the river, walked step by step, put her hands behind her, like a gentleman way of walking. "Step by step", not "slowly", that's because at this moment there is nothing else to compare with. She didn't know how far she had gone, because she didn't have a watch in her hand, as if she had no time. What a smooth road! Walking step by step, you will be under the bridge before you know it. She didn't think of ducks until she saw the bridge.Think of ducks to see ducks.The duck was swimming on the surface, within twenty paces of her.Look, the duck seems to have just raised its head out of the water. Alice was overjoyed to see that the old lady was still dressed in white and her head was bald.She called the duck and said, "Hello, old lady." The duck was not wary of someone calling her on the shore, and only raised its head when it heard the sound.It stands to reason that today is no better than yesterday, and you should be happy to look up, Miss Alice thought.Unexpectedly, when the old lady saw that it was Alice, although she raised her head, she just replied "Hello" casually, and went across the bridge hole by herself. Alice thought the old lady was getting old, and forgot that the Alice in front of her was the same Alice from yesterday, so she chased after her from the bank. She chased the hen duck and said, "Old lady, old lady, I am Alice! It is Alice from yesterday!" The duck didn't look back, but hurriedly said, "It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it has nothing to do with me being a duck." "It's about you. Mom, didn't you see that we had a good conversation yesterday?" "I was happy yesterday, but today I am unhappy!" I still went against the current without looking back, but it seemed to be a little slower. Alice ran over quickly, bowed to the duck again, and said, "Mum, I think I'll still get you happy again. I'll ask you old man, why doesn't your niece and niece stay with each other?" "Why are you not together? You still have to pretend to be crazy! You!" Only then did Alice realize that the duck didn't know her, but was very angry because she knew her. Miss Alice wanted to say, "You duck! You don't want to get angry before you understand why." She didn't think it was very reasonable.But then she thought again, a duck can't be compared with a human being, so the old lady got angry. In order to understand why the old mother duck was angry, she still kindly asked why the niece and niece were not together. "What's the matter? You don't know or you know, and you ask on purpose?" The duck stared at Alice with the same sternness as it said, trying to find a kind of evidence beyond Alice's words. Alice said in a panic, "I really don't understand the matter at all." "I don't understand, is it my fault?" "It's not my sister's fault. If my sister doesn't believe me, I can swear." Alice remembered the usefulness of "swearing" again, and sure enough, the mother duck's anger was calmed down a lot. The duck became very kind and sad and said, "My dear lady, I am old and faint, don't blame me." "How could I blame you?" said Miss Alice, meaning "how could I blame a duck?" But the duck was very pleased to hear that, thinking that Miss Alice was a lot of people.The duck thought to himself: "If it is me, I don't know how long this person will be!" They obviously understood all the misunderstandings, and they were not angry in vain, so the duck told Miss Alice the latest story of the ugly duckling nephew in a very worried state. "Miss, please think for me, what should I do?" The duck asked Alice to do something, but Alice said it was not the most important thing.For the first thing on Alice's mind was play. Only after hearing the mother duck's conversation did Alice know that the ugly duckling fell ill after accompanying them to the gray stork's house that day.The disease is not food damage, diarrhea, or fever, but a kind of sickness that ducks should not have. "She shouldn't have such a disease, like me, because we are ducks." .” This is the opinion of the old lady.But Miss Alice's opinion was slightly different.She thinks that ducks should have human diseases, but a duckling does not necessarily have all the diseases of an old mother duck; the reason is that, for example, horses are used to pull carts, and some people in China are only used to pull carts by nature. As for the others, not only did they not pull carts, but they also took carts pulled by people besides horse-drawn carts.This is obviously evidence that ducks can be the same as humans, not necessarily ducks. It turns out that the little duck is sick and broken in love.It needs a boyfriend.If you don't have the need, you will get sick. (This is not understood by the duck, nor by Miss Alice.) It is not very convincing to say that you want to be with someone else, and get sick when no one agrees! "What's to blame for being sick?" said Miss Alice, seeing the look on the old duck's face, for she could see that the old lady was arguing. "Yeah! I don't know how to get angry for other things" Alice thought to herself, "I can't compare you even if you don't get the bill," but she said, "Sister's words are the words of the most experienced old people." "I'm a 'duck', not a 'human'! All my life, I don't like people to praise me as a 'human'." To express her displeasure, she swam three steps forward and back five steps. Alice thought: It is not easy to deal with an old man or a duck. (But her opinion was to exclude Mrs. Aunt Gregory Foyce, because she was too easy to deal with.) Old ducks can't be simmered in a few bursts, and old people are easy to get angry when they talk— — Yes, she gets angry easily. Could it be that this old lady is too angry! Seeing that the Nanjing female duck didn't look very pretty, she wanted to argue: "This is just a sentence, and there is no need to make sister angry!" "If you don't get angry at a word, why should I be angry? Should I get angry and curse at people if you beat me with bamboo poles?" Miss Alice saw that her words became more and more wrong, and she was afraid that the old lady had become epileptic, and it would be difficult to fight back, so she had to say kindly: "Old lady, please take care of yourself, I still have a little It's okay, I'm leaving." The female duck snorted, "If I didn't know how to cherish it, I would have died of anger at someone else's words, and I would still be alive today?" Miss Alice ignored it, and walked away. As she walked and thought, she divided herself into two people again. The first she asked: "What kind of medicine is used to cure liver qi?" "Thin gruel, sesame cake, black butter cake,..." The other she recited the names of twenty sweets and snacks. "That's not right! This is something to eat, could it be..." "The duck is also something to eat." From taking medicine, she thought of eating ducks. "I thought the duck was fried with chili peppers. It would be better to add a little more soy sauce and less sauce." "Is soy sauce the oil of soy sauce?" "The duck's tears are oil, but I don't know if it can be made into soy sauce." "..." "Alice," she herself had to warn for her dissolute thoughts, "it's impossible to think wildly like this, and if you go on like this, you'll have to become that she-duck." However, if you can really become a duck, float on the water surface, and you can stick a head with a long neck into the water without closing your eyes, watch the fish in the water race, and talk to those fish, after all, it’s not worth it. A very bad thing! But she had doubts about the words "you can talk to fish".She thought that if ducks could talk to fish, then the old lady must have talked to many fish and lost her temper. "No wonder," she said to herself, as if she had realized something, "Some people swear and always say, 'I wish I could eat you!' Presumably this is what ducks say when they are angry with small fish and shrimp, otherwise How can one person eat another?" She wanted to go back and ask the mother duck again, just to know if it said this when she was angry with the little fish, but she completely forgot how the duck was angry with her first.