Chapter 12 11.miracle

It was foggy the next day.Everything on the farm was wet with fog.Grass looks like a magic carpet.The asparagus field looks like a silver forest. In the morning mist, Charlotte's web looked extraordinarily beautiful.Each strand of thin silk thread is studded with countless small beads.This net glowing in the morning light is woven with lovely and mysterious patterns, which looks like a slender veil.Even Lurvy, who had never paid much attention to beauty, noticed the net when delivering breakfast to Wilbur.He noticed how vast and how finely the web was woven.When he looked again, he found something that surprised him, and he dropped the bucket in a panic.There, right in the center of the web, were woven two rows of beautiful capital letters, as if to convey some sort of message.The letters on it are:

"Good pig!"① Lu Wei froze.He rubbed his eyes back and forth with his hands, staring fixedly at Charlotte's web. "What do I see?" he murmured, falling to his knees and praying urgently.Then he hurried back to the house to call Mr. Zuckerman, without thinking of Wilbur's breakfast. "I think you'd better go to the pigsty," he said. "What's the matter?" asked Mr. Zuckerman. "What's wrong with the pig?" "No-no," Lurvy said. "Go and see for yourself." The two men quietly came to Wilbur's yard.Luvy pointed to the spider web. "Look what I see?" he said.

Mr. Zuckerman stared at the letters on the web, saying the words "good pig."Then he looked at Rubi.Then they all began to tremble.Charlotte, who had been busy all night last night, has woken up at this moment and is watching all this with a smile.Wilbur walked straight towards the net. "Good pig!" Lurvy muttered under his breath. "Good pig!" whispered Mr. Zuckerman.For a long time they just looked and looked at Wilbur before looking at Charlotte. "Didn't you guess it was...that spider..." Mr. Zukerman shook his head and didn't continue.He returned to the house solemnly, and told the story to his wife. "Edith, something happened," he murmured, going into the living room and sitting down.Mrs. Zuckerman followed.

"I have something to tell you, Edith," he said. "You'd better sit down." Mrs. Zuckerman sank into her chair.She turned pale with fright. "Edith," he tried not to sound too excited, "I think you'd better know that we have a very unusual pig." Mrs. Zuckerman's face showed a look of bewilderment. "Homer Zukerman, what the hell are you trying to say?" she said. "It's a very serious matter, Edith," he replied. "Our pigs are absolutely exceptional." "What's so special about this pig?" asked Mrs. Zuckerman, less frightened now.

"Well, I don't know what to say," Mr. Zuckerman said. "We've got a hint, Edith - a mysterious hint. A miracle has been wrought on this farm. There's a big cobweb over the barn cellar door, and it's over the pigsty. Ruby and I this morning Going to feed the pigs, he saw that web because of the fog, you know a spider web looks special in the fog. Right in the middle of the web, there is the word Good Pig. The word is made entirely of spider webs Come out. They are part of the web themselves, Edith. I know that because I saw it there. That good pig that's written on it, it couldn't be more clear. I can't be wrong. A A miracle happened, an oracle appeared on Earth, and it was on our farm, and we had an extraordinary pig."

"Oh," said Mrs. Zuckerman, "I think you've got something screwed up. I think we've got a very special spider." "Oh, no!" said Zuckerman, "the pig is not normal, that's what the middle of the spider's web says." "Perhaps so," said Mrs. Zuckerman. "Nevertheless, I intend to go and see the spider." "That's just a very common gray spider," Zuckerman said. They got up and walked together towards Wilbur's yard. "Did you see that, Edith? It's a very ordinary gray spider." Wilbur was happy to be so visible.Lu Wei, Mr. and Mrs. Zuckerman, who were still standing there, stood there together for about an hour, reading the words on the Internet over and over, and watching Wilbur.

Charlotte was delighted that she had successfully fooled these people.She sat there very still, listening to people talking.A small fly hit the net and was about to crawl towards the word "pig".When Charlotte saw it, she ran over to entangle the fly and dragged it away. Soon, the fog lifted.The net is also dry and the letters don't look so pretty anymore.The Zuckermans and Lurvy walked back to the house.Mr. Zuckerman took one last look at Wilbur before leaving the pigsty. "You know," he said solemnly, "I think our pigs are exceptional in every way. He's a very strong pig, stronger than any other pig. You notice how strong he is under the shoulders." huh, Luvy?"

"Of course, of course," Rubi said. "I always keep an eye out for that pig. He's an extraordinary pig." "He's so long and so smooth," Zuckerman said. "Indeed," Lurvy agreed. "He's much smoother than the other pigs. He's a good pig." When Mr. Zuckerman got home, he took off his overalls and put on his best clothes.Then he got into his car and drove to the pastor's house.He spent an hour with the pastor, recounting the miracles that had taken place on his farm. "Until now," said Zuckerman, "only four people on this earth have known about this miracle—me, my wife Edith, my hired hand Rubi, and you."

"Don't tell anyone yet," said the preacher, "we don't know what that portends yet, but if I think about it, I can explain it all at my sermon next week. You've got the most unusual head, no doubt." Pig. I'm going to point out at my crusade what an unusual animal has been in this neighborhood. By the way, does that pig have a name?" "Yes, there is," said Mr. Zuckerman. "My little niece called him Wilbur. She was a rather eccentric child - full of queer ideas. She bottle-fed the pig and I took him from her when he was a month old. Bought."

He shook hands with the pastor and left. Secrets are hard to keep.The news spread throughout the village long before Sunday came.Everyone knew that an oracle had appeared in the spider's web in Mr. Zuckerman's house.Everyone knows that the Zuckermans have an exotic pig.People came from all over to see Wilbur and read the words in Charlotte's Web.The Zuckermans' driveway was filled with cars and big trucks from morning to night -- Fords, Chevrolets, Buicks, GM pickups, Plymouths, Studbeks, Packards, DeSotos with gyro transmissions , Oldsmobiles with rocket engines, Jeep station wagons, Pontiacs, and so on. ②The news of this wonderful little pig also spread into the mountains, and the farmers came with their various carriages, and watched the wonderful little pig enviously in Wilbur's pigpen hour after hour. animal.All claimed to have never seen such a pig in their lives.

When Fern told her mother that Avery had tried to stick Zuckerman's spider off, Mrs. Arable threw Avery into bed without supper, to show punishment. During the next few days, Mr. Zuckerman was so busy entertaining these visitors that he forgot about his farm work.He always wears his best clothes - walking out in the crowd as soon as he wakes up in the morning.Mrs. Zuckerman prepared a special meal for Wilbur.Rubi shaved and had his hair cut; his first job on the farm was to feed the pig when people came to visit. Mr. Zuckerman ordered Lurvy to increase Wilbur's meals from three to four a day.The Zuckermans were so busy with these visitors that they forgot that there were other things to do on the farm.The blackberries were ripe, but Mrs. Zuckerman forgot to pick them and make jam.The cornfield needed to be weeded, but Rubi couldn't find the time to do it. On Sunday, the church was packed.The priest explained the miracle.He said the words on the spider's web showed that human beings must always be ready to observe miracles. Zuckerman's pigsty became the focus of everyone's attention.Fern is happy because she knows that Charlotte's trick has worked and Wilbur's life has been saved.It's just that she doesn't feel so happy in the barn now—there are too many people there.She prefers to be alone with her animal friends. Note ①Good pig: The original text of this word is Some pig. Note ②I don’t know the names of the cars involved here except for a few, so I have to ask Hong Li from Suoyi to translate for me. I would like to express my thanks.Part of the original text is as follows: "...and GMC pickups and Plymouths and Studebakers and Packards and De Sotos with gyromatic transmissions and Oldsmobiles with rocket engines and Jeep station wagons and Pontiacs." According to Ban Shan, a friend of New Threads, the article written here Those cars with "gyro transmission, rocket engine", for Chinese readers who are not familiar with the old American car culture, there is probably no standard for Chinese translation of car names, not to mention Studebaker, Packard, De Soto are old car factories that have closed down for decades, except for antique cars Collectors, generally Americans are not necessarily familiar with it, so it is difficult to translate.If there is a manufacturer who can name these cars, please let me know if you are from another country, thank you.