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Chapter 179 Xiaopo's birthday-Birthday

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 4417Words 2018-03-20
On Sunday, Xiaopo woke up a little later in the morning. When I opened my eyes, it was interesting, there was a big flower moth on the mosquito net.He lifted the curtain lightly, and the moths didn't fly away. "Moth, where are you still sleeping? It's getting late!" Moth's whiskers moved slightly, as if to say: "I still have to sleep for a while!" My younger sister Xianpo was still sleeping soundly, a chubby The feet are exposed at the edge of the tapestry, and the five toes are stretched out, like a row of short round petals.There was a little dragonfly with red spots on her petals.Xiaopo raised the curtain to look at his younger sister, not daring to disturb her, but said in a low voice, "Little Dragonfly, have you eaten all the mosquitoes that bit my younger sister? Thank you!"

He went to shower and wash his face. When I came back from the shower, my sister was still asleep.He found a slate and a pencil, and wanted to draw some pictures, so that he could show his sister when she woke up.What are you drawing?Draw a bunny?No!It would be too poor to go back to drawing bunnies.Draw my sister's feet?right!He held the slate, tilted his sister's feet, looked at the slate, and took a picture of a cat drawing a tiger.After finishing the painting, I compared it with the real foot carefully; no, wipe it off quickly!Let my sister see, she must be angry.Get back together, only draw four toes!Let's add another one, it must be added outside the foot, because the four have already taken up the space.

It's better to draw a bunny, after all, I'm a bit good at it.Wipe off your feet, sit on the edge of the bed, and concentrate on painting.After painting and rubbing, rubbing and painting again, my nose was sweating, and then I drew the side of a little rabbit.Two ears are like a pair of small mallets, a round body, two short legs, and a small mouth, everything is fine; but there is only one eye, what can I do?If you only want to draw the front face of the bunny, of course you can draw a nose and two eyes like writing the word "small".But how to draw the rabbit body like this?The bunny is not a villain, so he can draw his body, arms, and legs under his face.There is no other way, so I have to draw sideways. Although I have one short eye, I have a body or something!

He hugged the slate and thought about it for a long time, ah, he has an idea!Draw an eye on the other side of the slate, wouldn't it make two!right!So he turned the slate over and drew an eye, which was very round, like a small jelly bean. After finishing the painting, I put the slate on the floor and got down on my own to learn from the rabbit: I smelled it east and west, hopped west and there, and pulled my ears back and forth with my hands, because the rabbit ears can move.Jumping and jumping woke up my sister. "What are you doing, second brother?" Xianpo raised the curtain and asked.

"Don't call me second brother, I've turned into a little rabbit! Look at my ears, they can move!" He fiddled with his ears. "Come on, I'll be a rabbit too!" Xianpo got off the bed with bare feet. "Fairy! How many eyes does a rabbit have?" "Two." Xianpo squatted on the ground and began to imitate a rabbit. "Come on, look at this." Xiaopo picked up the slate and showed it to his sister, "Does it look like it?" Xianpo nodded and said, "It's the truth!" "Look again, look carefully." He hoped that his sister could pick out the mistake. "The truth!" Xianpo repeated again.

"How many eyes?" "One." "Is it okay for the little rabbit to have one eye?" He asked proudly. "Row!" "Why?" Xiaopo said in his heart: "My sister is a little confused!" "The old cat in Sanduo's family has only one eye, why not?" "No! Cats should also have two eyes. A cat with one eye is not a cat, it is—" Xiaopo couldn't remember what it was. Fortunately, Xianpo didn't ask further, she said: "There must be two, why did you draw one?" "One? Who said that? I drew two!" "Two! Where's the other one?"

"Here it is!" Xiaopo turned over the stone slab, and there was indeed a round eye, like a small round jelly bean. "Yo! Isn't it!" Xian Po happily put his hands on his waist and began to dance.Xiaopo was very proud, and drew a round eye on the slate, and said, "Xian, this is only for the old cats of Sanduo. As soon as Minger Sanduo said that his old cat has short eyes, let's tell him, let's tell him, let's go back to the old cat." There's one! He must ask, where is it? Let's say, it's on the slate. Shall we?" "Okay!" Xianpo stopped dancing: "Tomorrow, I'll take the slate to find the old cat. When I see it, I'll say it, I'll say it," she thought for a while: "The blind cat is here!" "Don't bark It’s a blind cat, it doesn’t like to listen!” Xiaopo interrupted hastily, “So, Mr. Cat is here?”

"By the way, let me tell you, Mr. Cat is here! He didn't bring you anything delicious, but only an eye. Do you think it's suitable?" "Don't ask it, the eyes on the slate may be too big!" Xiaopo said.Xianpo picked up the slate, gestured and said, "Please come here, blind-bah, Mr. Cat! As soon as it came over, I put the slate in front of its face. Listen! Suddenly, with a sound, this eye Then jump on the old cat's face, the old cat has two eyes from now on, see if it likes it or not!" "Not necessarily!" Xiaopo thought for a while: "What if the old cat thinks it's too troublesome to have two eyes? You see, fairy, it's not bad to have one eye. When you sleep, you only close one. How easy it is to open only one of them when you are watching a kaleidoscope! Especially when you are looking at a kaleidoscope, you don’t have to bother to close one, do you?”

"That's right!" Xianpo said, not understanding Xiaopo's meaning. "Eat porridge—!" Mom's voice. "The immortal hasn't washed his face yet!" Xiaopo replied. "Go and wash!" Mom said. "Come on, Xian! Come on!" Xiaopo carried his sister on his back and went to help her wash her face.When I came back after washing my face, my father, mother, and brother had already sat down, waiting for them.Xiaopo and Xianpo also sat down, and mother served porridge for everyone. Just as Xiaopo was about to serve the bowl, his mother said, "Kowtow to father first!"

"Why?" Xiaopo asked. "It's your birthday, fool!" said Mom. "Can you bow?" "No!" Mom said with a smile. "Didn't everyone bow during the New Year?" Xiaopo asked his sister.The younger sister glanced at her father. "You have to kowtow! New Year's is New Year's Day. Birthday is birthday! Why don't you kowtow to dad when you are so big? Good! Kowtow! I have nothing to say!" said the father with a slight smile. Not daring to disobey his father's order, Xiaopo knelt on the ground and asked, "How many knocks?" "Four to eight forty-eight," Xianpo said.

"Knock three." Mom said. After Xiaopo kowtowed to his father, he was about to get up when his father said, "No need to get up, kowtow to mom!" Xiaopo kowtowed to his mother three more times. Just as he was about to get up, his brother said, "There is me!" Xiaopo pretended not to hear, stood up, and said to his brother, "If you ask me to see your picture, I'll knock it off for you!" "I don't want to show it to you! Love it or not!" said my brother. Xiaopo didn't answer his elder brother any more, but turned to his younger sister and said, "Immortal, it's time for you to kowtow!" Then he knelt down again. "Don't give a big gift to your sister, Xiaopo!" Mom laughed, and my father laughed too. "I have to knock, I love my sister!" "Come on, I'll knock too!" Xianpo was also busy kneeling on the ground. "Let's knock together, come, one, two, three!" Xiaopo shouted loudly.The two knocked together, and the more they knocked, the happier they became: "One more!" Without exerting any force, I have already pushed my sister far away. "Okay! Okay! Get up and eat porridge!" Mom said. The two stood up, mother wiped their hands, and everyone ate porridge together.The usual rule is: drink porridge as you like, and one fried dough stick per person, and you are not allowed to take more.Today is Xiaopo's birthday, and you can eat fried dough sticks as you like, and there are four side dishes.Xiaopo couldn't remember how many deep-fried dough sticks he ate, and said to himself: If you don't want to eat up the plate, let's finish the job!However, I suddenly remembered: I have to leave two for Chen Ma, and Erxi might want to eat it!So he said to his brother: "Don't eat it, save some for Mama Chen!" Hearing what Xiaopo said, his father smiled and said, "This is a good boy!" Xiaopo was very happy when his father praised him, and said, "Father, take us to the botanical garden to see monkeys!" My brother also said, "Let's go to the movies this afternoon!" The younger sister also said: "Go to see the monkey now, and watch it in the afternoon—" She couldn't say "movie" because she hadn't seen it. Father didn’t know why he liked it so much today, so he agreed to them all: “Hurry up and change your clothes, so that you can go to the botanical garden while the morning is cool. Xianpo, hurry up and do your pigtails.” Everyone hurriedly went to get ready. Brother and Xiaopo all put on white uniforms, boy scout caps, and leather shoes.The younger sister was wearing light green silk underwear, no socks, and a pair of small floral shoes.The two braids are neatly combed, and there is a big red flower on it. After taking a car and walking for a while, they saw green bushes from a distance, which was already a botanical garden. "None of the flowers and trees in the garden are beautiful, but they are beautiful. Who has the time to look at them!" Xiaopo thought, "Broken palm tree leaves! Broken red flowers! Where is the monkey?" The monkey, the more it feels that the flowers and plants around it are not pleasing to the eye. "Monkey! Come out!" "I saw a little tail!" Xianpo said. "Where is it?" "Walking around the coconut tree!" "Ouch! Isn't that right! A little monkey is hiding under the coconut! Little monkey—! Little monkey—! Come and eat peanuts!" The elder brother has a lot of bananas, and the younger sister has a bag of peanuts, which are all prepared for the monkeys to eat. The three of them, leaving their father behind, kept running. A dense forest, small trees crowded old trees, old trees with vines.A small betel nut tree, with no place to stretch its leaves, desperately drills to a higher place, with a bunch of betel nuts hanging around its waist, and countless small green trees around its feet.Dense and dense, branches on branches, leaves next to leaves, shaking into a green mist in the cool.The insects could not stop chirping, it was so strange and beautiful.Haha, it turns out that this is the monkey's home!Look on the trunk, on the branches, and under the leaves, there is a little monkey hidden!drink!There are dark yellow ones, some light gray ones, some big ones, some small ones, some medium ones, all ghost-eyed ones, mischievous and cute.The cutest thing is that the mother monkey is holding a little monkey, just like an old lady holding a baby.The dark gray little hairy monkey is really fun. The little round head is shaking from side to side, and the little hands are touching here, scratching there, and doing nothing.When the mother monkey jumps on the tree or walks on the ground, the baby monkey hugs the mother's waist with its four legs, puts its little round head against the mother's chest, and hugs it tightly for fear of falling off.really interesting!My sister sprinkled a handful of groundnuts on the ground.Drink, east, west, north, up and down the trees, shouting loudly, coming, coming, one five, ten, one hundred...uncountable.Some grabbed a peanut and ate it as soon as they sat down.Some grabbed one, climbed up the tree immediately, sat on the branch, and enjoyed it peacefully.Some could not grab it, so they pouted their tails to grab it from others, causing many small wars. Dapo specially picks big monkeys to eat bananas.Xianpo specially gave dark yellow peanuts for feeding. My father sat on the grass and looked at them, grinning.Xiaopo was busy, jumping back and forth, left and right, helping the little monkey grab peanuts.As soon as the big monkey came over to protest against the weak, Xiao Po ran over: "How dare you! Shameless!" The big monkey was anxious, and went straight to Xiao Po's teeth, and Xiao Po was also angry: "Come on, let's do it with you! Baldy Zhang I’m afraid of my head, not to mention your monkey’s head!” A tiny monkey, unable to grab something, sat on the sidelines as if about to cry.Xiaopo used to snatch a banana from his elder brother: "Come on! Little monkey, don't cry! Just eat it here, so as not to be snatched away by others!" The little monkey held the banana in both hands and ate it bit by bit. It tasted so delicious; Xiao Po's mouth was dripping with sweet water! The big monkey was really afraid of Xiaopo, and kept away from him, not daring to come over.Some got angry, grabbed a branch, put it on the branch and sat down to get angry.Some rolled their tails on the tree, their heads hung upside down, and there was a pearl upside-down curtain.Then slipped down from the tree. Peanuts and bananas are gone.Another group of children came, all with food to feed them.Two more cars came and stopped, throwing fruit out. Xiaopos all went to sit next to their father and watched. The more they watched, the more interesting they became. It seemed that they would not get tired of watching it for ten or eight days! Some little monkeys seemed to be full, retreated to an empty place, and played with each other.You bite my ear, I grab your tail, and roll all over the ground.Sometimes, one covers his eyes while the other stealthily grabs from behind.The one who covered his eyes was even more ghostly, suddenly turned around and pinched the little monkey behind him to the ground.Then he went to cover his eyes and waited... A group of little monkeys were swinging on a branch, swinging, swinging, swinging, swinging the one on the top of the tree.He quickly climbed up the tree again, swung it again, and swung others down. Some old monkeys seem to disdain to quarrel with everyone. They are steady, bald and red-eyed, sitting on the tree trunk, scratching their necks, looking at their fingers, with a very sophisticated air. "It's time to go!" said the father. No one agreed. Another group of children came, and they all took food, and there seemed to be more monkeys. I don't know where they came from. The more they gathered, the more beautiful they were. "It's time to go!" said the father again. No one answered. After staying for a while, Xiaopo said: "Xian, look at that tailless one, playing somersaults!" "Yo! Why doesn't he have a tail?" "Ask the guy in the barber shop to cut it!" said my brother. "Ouch!" Xiaopo and Xianpo said together. "It's time to go!" Father said this sentence more than ten times. Everyone said nothing, but they all stood up and watched for a long time. "It's time to go!" Father said, and walked down. Everyone walked reluctantly while looking back. In the flower room, the orchids are blooming just right.Xiaopo said that orchids are not as beautiful as monkeys.By the river, Meridian lotus, red and white, bloom very beautifully.Xianpo said, it's a pity that there are no monkeys on the river bank!When he arrived at the palm garden, Xiaopo looked at the big palm leaves and called, "Don't hide, little monkey, come down quickly!"After calling for a long time, it turns out that there are no monkeys here!He sighed! Arrived at home before lunch.Xiaopo didn't care about taking off his clothes, but ran to the kitchen and told his mother everything about the monkey.Mom seemed to have never seen a monkey in her life, she nodded and smacked her lips while listening.After telling my mother, I told Chen's mother again.Chen Ma didn't seem to have any sympathy with Hou'er at all, she only cared about chopping vegetables and didn't listen well.So Xiaopo had no choice but to tell her mother again. Xianpo also came, and she asked her mother to bring a baby monkey. My mother said that Xianpo was just like a little monkey when he was a child.Xianpo was very proud of hearing this.Xiaopo hurriedly asked his mother if he looked like a monkey when he was a child. Mom said that Xiaopo is still a bit monkey-like.Xiaopo is also very proud.
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