Chapter 178 Xiaopo's Birthday - On the Coast

If someone says that Xiaopo is a truant, I will not agree to him on Xiaopo's behalf!What?Play truant?Hmph, do you think Xiaopo doesn't know how to work hard?Xiaopo always does very well in the exams!Besides, even when he played truant, he didn't do anything bad!Just take him to see the funeral. When he was walking to school, he did a good thing that other children would not do.It was such a thing: wasn't he walking along the main road, alas, and saw an old lady carrying a basket of things, sweating and panting from exhaustion.When Xiaopo saw it, he walked over immediately, grabbed the basket and put it on his head without saying anything.

"Live there, old lady?" Seeing Xiaopo's appearance, the old lady knew that he was a kind-hearted boy, so she gasped and said: "Next to Guangdong School." "Okay, follow me, old lady!" Xiaopo held the basket on his head without holding it with his hands, and only relied on the slight movements of his neck to keep the basket stable.He walked slowly with his feet clattering, because the old lady was struggling to walk, so he didn't dare to walk quickly. Lead the old lady to the door of the house - next to the school - Xiaopo took down the basket and handed it to the old lady.

"How can I thank you?" The old lady felt very sorry: "Give you two coppers to buy candy? Or give you a bag of melon seeds?" There were several bags of melon seeds in the old lady's basket. Xiaopo shook his hands, feet, and head at the same time, expressing his decision not to do so.The old lady loved him very much and insisted on giving him something. "Let's do this, old lady!" Xiaopo thought for a while, and said, "You don't need to give me anything. When I accidentally get my clothes dirty tomorrow, I'll ask you to clean them up, so as not to make my mother angry when I go home." , okay? If you go shopping on the street and see me, call me so I can hold the basket for you. My name is Xiaopo, and my mother picked it up from Xiaopo’s electric pole. My sister’s name is Xianpo , was given to my mother by the white beard old fairy. Nan Xing is very powerful, and Zhang Bald is also very powerful, but they are all afraid of my head!" Xiaopo patted his forehead: "Mom said, my head can hold more than a thousand Jin! My head is not afraid of anything else, but the big pipes and pots of the bad old man of the three families! Nan Xing's head is still swollen!"

"Hey! Hey! That's enough! That's enough!" The old lady smiled and said, "My memory is not good enough to remember such things." "Don't know Nan Xing? Old lady!" Xiaopo asked. The old lady shook her head, and then said, "Your name is Xiaopo, isn't it? Well, I'll remember. You can go, Xiaopo, thank you!" Xiaopo bowed to the old lady, so flustered that he almost hit his head against the wall. "It's strange that the old lady doesn't know Nan Xing!" Xiaopo walked towards the school. When I arrived at school, my husband was teaching a lesson in the Mandarin textbook - steamship.

Seeing Xiaopo come in, Mr. pretended not to see him.After he sat down, Mr. asked: "Xiaopo, where are you going?" "Helping the old lady with things, she is so pitiful, holding a basket full of things! She wanted to give me a bag of melon seeds, but I didn't want either!" "You don't like melon seeds, why don't you bring them to me?" Zhang Baldzi said. "Shut up, Baldy Zhang!" shouted the gentleman. "Bad bald man! Zhang bald man!" Xiaoying still held a grudge against Zhang bald man. "Don't make a sound, Xiaoying!" the teacher shouted, and the pointer repeatedly knocked on the desk. "Listen to Mr. shouting alone!" Everyone said together.

"I'm mad! Oh, I'm mad!" Mr. shook his head and ate another piece of chalk.After eating, it seems to be going to sleep again. "Xiaoying, what are you talking about, sir?" Xiaopo asked. "Steamer. Baldy Zhang!" Xiaoying never forgot Baldy Zhang. "Where is the ship?" Xiaopo asked. "It's in the book. Baldy Zhang!" Xiaopo hurriedly opened the book, hey!There is only a piece of black writing, and there is not even a picture of a ship.He thought to himself, how silly it is to say that the ship does not go to the pier to see it! "First—! Let me go to the pier to see the ship!" Xiaopo asked Mr. "Sir——! I'm going too!" Bald Zhang said.

"I'll go with Xiaopo too! Baldy Zhang is not allowed!" Xiaoying said. "Sir——! Take us all!" Everyone shouted together.The husband couldn't help shaking his head: "I'm so mad! I'm so mad!" "It's fun on the coast, first—!" Xiaopo begged. "Deadly!" The husband was almost crying. "Sir, there are a lot of ships there! Let's go! Sir!" Everyone begged. "Don't let Baldy Zhang go, sir!" Xiaoying said. "There is no calligraphy class in the afternoon, so whoever likes to watch the ship go! Oh, I'm so mad! Now listen carefully!" said the teacher.

Everyone saw that Mr. was so kind and allowed them to go to the coast, and immediately they all remained silent and listened to the lecture with peace of mind. Look at Xiaopo!drink!The eyebrows are knit together, and the eyes are fixed on the book, like two small awls, as if they want to drill two holes in the textbook.There is also a piece of nose twitching, like the pattern on a banknote.The mouth is very tight, the upper and lower teeth are clenched and moved, and the cheeks are slightly moved.It seems that there are rubber tubes hanging on the two ears, which only accept what the teacher says and don't listen to anything else.Pressing the corner of the book with one hand, sometimes rubbing under the nose with the other unconsciously, sometimes tearing down a few eyebrows, and sometimes writing a word in the air.The ten fingers of both feet are grasping the ground, as if they are afraid that the floor will run away.drink!It's amazing!With such care, it seems that a new head has grown beside the head.Nan Xing, Sanduo, funeral, and other accidents in the old head have no place in the new head; the new head only has writing, painting, and books.nothing else.As soon as this new head came out, my heart skipped a beat: I was afraid that I might not be able to hear Mr.'s words clearly, and that I might not be able to remember the words in the book.He was so worried, until he heard the bell for the next hall, the new guy clicked his tongue, united with the old guy, and then jumped to the playground to play.

Go home after class and have dinner.After eating, he ran back to school quickly, with a grain of white rice still hanging on his cheek.The classmates haven't come back yet, so he went to find his husband by himself: "First——, I went to the pier to watch the ships!" "Go, Xiaopo! Come back early, don't miss the second lesson!" "I heard, first—!" Xiaopo ran out with a smile. The pier is not far from the school, and it will be there in a while.drink!It's so beautiful!The sea water is so beautiful!You see, the distance is dark blue, flat, far, far, far, until a few silver lines roll up at the foot of a row of hills, that row of hills is dark green, but when the sun is covered by floating clouds When they live, they have a slight layer of purple on them, green underneath and reddish on the peaks, just like a green leaf holding a few small rose buds.At the same time, the blue water at the bottom of the mountain is also covered with a rose color, oily and purple, which makes the white sails on the boat a little red, like the face of a little girl when she is shy.

A little closer, the sun shot out from the edge of the floating clouds, illuminating the sea water green, tenderer, tenderer and smoother than the new willow leaves.A little wind blew, and this piece of tender green folded a few tiny and pitiful little white flowers. A little closer, the green is lighter, and the yellow is slightly exposed. In the distance, it is suddenly dark blue, and suddenly light purple; nearby, one piece is tender green, and the other piece is delicate yellow; as the sun and clouds play, the color changes.There are such beautiful things in the world! The little swallows flew from the light green place, flew, flew, flew to the dark blue place, and turned into a few small black spots in front of the mountain, dancing in the air.

The little white gulls flew their wings here and there, glanced here and there; they stopped in the air suddenly, as if they were thinking about something; they suddenly squeezed their wings, swooped down, and grabbed a piece of colored fish from the green water. Something, don't know what it is. Near the shore, the water is still a little green; but if you don't look carefully, it is a piece of oily light gray. When the boat comes, it squeezes up a wave and hits the yellow stone under the embankment, splashing many white pearls.The rattling sound is also very nice. All the fishing boats hung their sails, one after another, swayed to the outside of the mountain, and slowly floated to the big blue mirror outside the mountain pass. On the nearby green water, rows of large wooden boats were anchored, with high masts, lined up neatly, like a row of soldiers holding long guns.There are also several rows of smaller boats, one next to the other, with rounded cabins, like many small camel bridges connected together, or like a group of big black cats bending over. Small ships, some apricot yellow, some light blue, some all black, some variegated, parked here and there.Some of them are loading goods, huh, huh, huh, huh, the crane neck machine makes a very crisp sound.Nearby, hua la, hua la, hua—; in the distance, it seemed to come from the other side of the hill, also hua la, hua la, hua—, but the sound was very faint.There is a flag on the boat, and there is a string of flags of various colors.There was smoke all over the chimney, some were black and some were just white. Other small boats, loaded with things, moved toward the larger ship.There are Indians wearing red turbans and Chinese people wearing big bamboo hats rowing the oars on the boat.There are also some small motor boats tooting to and fro, as if they are "busy with nothing to do". Too many boats!Big and small, tall and short, ugly and handsome, long and short.However, the sea does not appear to be narrow, and it stops naturally or drives leisurely, as if there are more boats and the sea is getting bigger and bigger.There are also many sounds, flutes, wheels, cranes, human voices, and water sounds; however, they don't feel noisy and harsh; it seems that the sound is absorbed by the calm sea water, no matter how loud it is, it will not disturb the solemnity of the sea. silence. Xiao Po stood on the bank and watched for a while.Although this is a sight he often sees, if he is asked to watch it a thousand times, even ten thousand times, he won't get tired of it.Every time he came here, he always wanted to count the number of ships, but he never did it.One, two, three, four, five,... fifty.Humph, the numbers are messed up!Count again: what is one five, ten, fifteen, fifteen plus five?Don't do it like this, let's use eight to count!One-eight, two-eight-six, four-eight, forty-eight, five-eight——!Hey!For the rest of my life, I can’t remember how much five or eight is!Even if five or eight is one hundred, one hundred?There must be more than a hundred of those boats alone!Can't count! Once, his father took him on a small motor boat and went around Singapore.Xiaopo always thought that these big boats and small boats also circled Singapore, otherwise, there would always be so many boats here; they must sail in the morning, go around Singapore, and return to the original place at night.So he discussed with Nan Xing many times before deciding: "Trains run in a straight line, and ships run in circles." "If only I could jump into a small boat, and then, wow! Jump into a big boat and play for half a day on the boat, that would be great!" Xiao Po thought to himself.After finishing speaking, on the shore, stretch your hands back and bow your legs, heck!Jump far. "Okay, as long as I can enter the gate of the pier, then, wow! I will definitely be able to jump on the boat! Definitely!" He muttered to the pier gate.When he got to the door, Xiaopo pretended to look away, and walked in as if he "didn't care". snort!Block a big black-haired hand in front of your eyes!Xiaopo didn’t even look at the owner of the hand—he must have known it was an Indian policeman! —— Thumb twirled his toes, turned around, and said to himself: "Don't you want to go in! The boats here are small, let's go over there to see the big ones!" He walked along the coast, thinking of going to the big pier "It's not close, come on, run!" Thinking in my heart, I strengthened my feet and ran all the way to the big pier. snort!One, two, three, four, all these gates are guarded by patrolmen!With his hands behind his back and his head bowed, he walked back and forth a few times.Take a peek, hum!The patrolmen were watching him. A Malay came with a basket of "rambutan" and bananas on his head.Xiaopo knew that Malays were lazy, so he walked over to him, raised his hand and said, "May I carry the basket for you, sir?" The Malay's mouth is a little split, exposing a few extremely white teeth.Without saying anything, he put the basket on Xiaopo's head.Xiaopo triumphantly raised his feet high and walked into the gate.Xiaopo didn't know why, working for others for nothing like this always felt extraordinarily sweet and interesting. drink!So lively!There are quite a few sellers: Little India in a red dress, with beautiful fruits of various colors.Arabs wearing small black helmets carry pockets of small money, and ask people "for money" when they see them?Some Malays were carrying several boxes of Luzon cigarettes, and some were carrying several large durians.There are also some small stalls on the ground, toys, toothbrushes and toothpaste, peanuts, silk scarves with large flowers, small copper buttons... colorful and fancy. Xiaopo put down the basket.The Malays put all the "rambutans" on the ground, and squatted beside them, neither yelling nor rambling, as if it didn't matter whether they were sold or not. Xiaopo took a closer look at the things on the ground. He loved a pair of big clam shells placed by a Malay.Having two stamps is also fun, but far worse than a clamshell.He said in his heart: If these things can be taken for nothing, I will definitely take the pair of clamshells with spots, small teeth, and small twisted pockets!It's a pity that these things can't be taken for nothing!Just wait, when you grow up and have money, buy ten pairs and eight pairs!How long will it take to grow up? ……what!After all, here, what a big ship!They're all long, long, long, three-story buildings!Look at the chimney, it is thicker than an old tree and taller than a small tower! One, two, three, four, ... too many to count! Look at this one on the shore!People went up and down, all the cranes in the front and back were rattling, and the small round hole beside the boat was still flowing water, it was so fun!Oh, how can I go up and have a look?Xiaopo thought for a while, then went back and asked the Malay: "I'll take some 'rambutans' and sell them on the boat, okay?" The Malay shook his head. Xiaopo sighed, and went back to the gangway of the big ship to wait for the opportunity. There are two people holding it by the diving board.This is so difficult!Wait, just wait! After a while, one of the two walked away.Xiao Po's black eyes seemed to have two small flowers, and he said in his heart: "There is hope!" He moved forward slowly, touched the iron railing with his hands, and hummed in his mouth.The man glanced at him, and he touched the iron railing with his hand, humming in his mouth, and walked back; after walking a few steps, he moved forward again.He pretended to be leaning on the iron railing and looked down at the sea water: drink, there are still small fishes.Then he pretended to raise his head to look at the ship: hum, the big ship has eyes all over its body, which is ridiculous! —he called the little round window of the cabin the eye.He squinted at the man, hum!He didn't move at all, just stood there, as if even if you gave him a hundred oranges, he would not avoid it!Xiaopo is in a hurry!Must go up and see! There was a piece of orange peel on the ground. Xiaopo looked at the hull of the boat and gently pushed the piece of orange peel, slowly, slowly, behind the man's feet. "Drink! It's amazing!" Xiaopo suddenly pointed to the sky and ran away. The man didn't know what happened, but he also raised his head and ran forward. As soon as he ran, Xiao Po, still pointing to the sky, ran back again.The man, with his head still up, also ran back quickly.puff!Hey - mouth bang!He was slid far away by the orange peel, and fell to the ground obediently. Xiaopo snorted and ran up the diving board. When he got on the boat, Xiaopo quickly straightened his back and walked in freely.When the people on board saw such a decent kid, they thought he was a newcomer, so they ignored him.You see, Xiaopo is so happy in his heart! Yo!It turns out that the boat is just like home!There are small white rooms one by one, with beds, fans, and washbasin stands.How interesting it is to live on the water!Wait, when I grow up, I will also build such a house. When my father wants to beat me, hey, I will live in the water house for a few days!And the dining room too!There are carpets on the floor and large mirrors on all sides!Eating in the mirror and watching your mouth open and close is also fun!There is also a barber shop!Wouldn't it be fun to cut your hair at sea and then jump into the sea to wash your hair!After washing my hair, I ran to the dining room to eat some coffee and chicken, so comfortable! Xiaopo looked from room to room until he saw the rest room in the back.There is also a piano here!Several old ladies were writing there.Ah, this is probably the school on the ship, dodge them quickly, catch me and tell me to write, it's not good! Turn around and you're at the stern.Ha, look at this little room!There are also big wheels inside, small sticks, and there is a straight ringing sound.It's ridiculous to have a factory on the water house!If I want to build a water house, I definitely don’t want a factory: it’s better to dig a hole there all the way to the sea, and go fishing there if you have nothing to do, it’s not bad! There is a small narrow iron ladder next to the hut, go up and have a look.There was another floor above it.There are also small houses on both sides, and there is a dining room... Go back and tell Nan Xing that he has never seen these things.When he mentions the train tomorrow, I will say water house! Look at that iron object, flickering in the air and pulling the big wooden box, the hemp bag.Look at how loud these people are!Don't know what to pull these things for, but it's also very interesting! Hold on to the railing and have a look.The hills in the distance and the sea below look even more beautiful, much more beautiful than on the shore!Open a boat, boring - boring!The siren blew.The people on the boat seemed to be waving to him, and he waved to them too.Look at the white water waves pulled by the tail of the boat, how beautiful it is! —How interesting to see the flock of white birds flying with the boat! Just as he was enjoying watching, a big hand came up from his back and grabbed his little gown.Xiaopo tilted his head and looked, yes!Watch the guy on the springboard!The man grabbed Xiaopo and left without saying a word; Xiaopo also didn't say a word, his feet were dangling in the air, which was also quite meaningful. After getting off the springboard, the man let go, and Xiaopo fell into a "mustard squat". "Thank you!" Xiaopo said, turning his head.