Chapter 12 12.man who found mushrooms

There was a fool in the village where Anthony lived, and everyone called him a fool.He is as harmless to people as a little lamb, and no one knows how he lives.He sleeps in a small shed on the edge of a mountain farm.This little shed was no longer wanted, nor used for anything, and somehow became a silly shed.The owner of that piece of land said that he welcomes the idiot to live in the shed, otherwise the shed would have collapsed to pieces.Silly Believe had a tattered coat which he had once worn on the Scarecrow, and he was very welcome to wear that coat.He was also wearing an old hat that he had found in a ditch, and no one came to claim it, and no one wanted to claim it.It may be a secret how Silly Believe lives, he is satisfied with things that people no longer want, that shed that is about to collapse, that tattered coat, that hat that was thrown away, someone Boots that can no longer be repaired, or the leftovers from other people's dining tables, they can only be used to feed pigs.Just a little bit of anything can make Silly Believe very happy.A little shelter, a little clothing, a little food and a little kindness will do.No one ever treated him badly, and he walked around with a smile always on his half-closed mouth.He has a pair of blue lake-like eyes.He couldn't even speak clearly.Someone said to him on the road: "Hello, Belie!" He just bowed his head and continued to smile.

Anthony couldn't remember when he first saw Silly Believe, he always saw him shuffling up to his door, always carrying some of the stuff he had saved in his little burlap bag. Say what you want to give something.Sometimes it's some fresh cress, sometimes it's a bunch of just-picked donkey grass, and more often it's mushrooms.When no one knew where to look for mushrooms, he always found them.The pearl-like cute mushroom balls are still covered with dew, and the pink mushroom handles below are covered with a soft white film.No mushroom can beat a silly mushroom.Anthony's father was always delighted when Baba or Lara came in with a plate of mushrooms.

"Silly Believe just passed my door, sir, and he left it for you." "Catch up and give him this!" said Anthony's dad.He took a large pinch of tobacco from his tobacco-pouch, and wrapped it in paper.Everyone knows what happens to Silly Belie, who yells at the door and pours out flowers, nuts, and cress from his little pocket, and then quickly puts his head down and walks away. .He didn't seem to expect any small money from others, and even if a stranger gave him a few small money, he didn't know how to spend them at all.But any other gift would give him great joy, a bit of tobacco, an old knife, a few sweets.Once, when Anthony was very small, he ran out and gave his kite to Silly Belie, and the joy of Shabielie was beyond description.It was a colorful kite, half blue, half green, and a long tail.Silly Bielie tossed and tossed and lifted it high in the wind. Anthony wanted to show him how to throw the kite, but neither he nor Bielie was smart enough to fly a kite. , The kite always falls down and lies on the ground.As they threw the kite into the air, the fool let out a short cheer, as if to say, "It's up!" But when the kite fell down again on the ground, he looked puzzled for a moment, Then there was a burst of laughter, as if to say, "Look at it falling again!" and Anthony laughed at it.Silly Bielie patted his knee happily, because they both laughed for the same reason.When there is something laughing in front of you, and someone laughs with you, that is really a beautiful thing.At last he ran away, holding the kite high in front of him, and the long tail of the kite floated behind him.

From then on, whenever he saw Anthony, he laughed and slapped him on the knee, and Anthony laughed back at him.Silly Believe always brings the best mushrooms to the Anthonys, and hangs around the door for a while to catch a glimpse of the little boy who gave him a kite and laughed with him Yes, live with him regardless of each other. But where he got these mushrooms has always been a mystery.His mother said he got up earlier than anyone and he must have found the mushrooms in the middle of the night. "Did you really find them at night, Berry?" Anthony asked, but Berry just squeaked and lowered his head.At this moment, Anthony took his hand and begged him, "Will you go pick mushrooms one night and take me with you?" Belie Shuilingling's blue eyes shone with joy, and his mouth He purred and said: "Mushroom, mushroom!" He also said something, but Anthony couldn't hear clearly, but knowing what he meant meant he agreed, and Anthony was very sure that Silly Belie agreed It will definitely be done.

One day the fool brought a bag full of mushrooms, earlier than usual, and no one would have thought of picking mushrooms so early.Anthony overheard his dad talking about it.His dad said: "Hey. It's just a gift. God gives some people wisdom, some people strength, and others cleverness or beauty. But God must have given Silly Believe the gift of finding mushrooms, because he's something else Both are missing." "What a lovely talent that is!" thought Anthony.To be able to find mushrooms at any time, and where no one else can find them, in the eyes of this little boy, no matter how intelligent or intelligent a person is, this gift is more than wisdom and intelligence. Much more magical.

He went out to find mushrooms by himself, to see if he had talent.He searched the gardens, orchards, pastures, and all the little valleys below the mill pond near his house, but could not find a single mushroom.So he slipped out, through the hollow in the poplar by the door, and trod the path there, and looked about in the hedge.There were lots of celery and purple autumn radishes, but not a single mushroom in sight.So Anthony felt that maybe he didn't have this kind of talent.He sat down, crossed the valley, stared at the opposite hillside, and saw a small figure throwing something into the air in the distance.It turned out that it was Silly Belie, who wanted to fly the kite into the sky.But every time it fell to the ground with a snap.

Dick Chatterler, the cart driver, passed by, and said, "Hello, Anthony." "Hello, Dick." "What are you looking at without blinking? Oh, it must be Silly Believe and his kite. He's never flown it, poor thing, he can't fly it. He doesn't have that talent. Come on, old chap!" The wagon driver drove down the path while Anthony continued to stare at the distant figure.That person has the talent to pick mushrooms, but not the talent to fly a kite. One night, it was very windy in the valley, and then Silly Belie disappeared, just disappeared, just like a scarecrow you grew up seeing in the crop fields is now gone.No one noticed it for a few days, and then they started saying:

"Have you seen Silly Believe lately?" "No, I haven't." "Neither have I. I guess he must be somewhere." After another day or two, people started I found it strange, because he had never been to the door of any house, and he had never seen his figure on his own hillside.Bertie Davids later went to look for him in the shed, and came back with his eyes bulging out of his head. "It's as empty as an old dry well. There's nothing there, not even a log, not a rag. He's gone, and Beret will never come back." At first the people in the village spat at Berti, saying: "He'll be back, he'll be." But Berti was right, Silly Belie was never coming back.There was no trace of him left in his crumbling shed, not even his burlap sack and kite.It's just that the children dug up a few small coins in the mud of the shed, but it's hard to say that the small coins are some traces of Shabielie, because he never knew how to use them.

Anthony was lying on his crib and heard Baba talking to Lala about it. "No one has seen him since that day when the wind blew," said Baba. "The wind must have blown him away, what's so strange about that?" said Lara. "Who's the wind blowing away?" Anthony asked, sitting up. "Don't list that guy!" Lara replied.But Baba said quickly, "Now you must lie down and sleep, my little lamb." "But Baba," said Anthony, lying down, "where did the wind take Stupid Believe?" "Scrape him to look for mushrooms. Don't bother asking questions anymore." Baba said and covered him with the quilt.

The wind picked up again that night.The wind rattled the windows in Anthony's room and kept him awake.He must have gone outside to have a look.He had a strange feeling that it wasn't that night at all, but the night when Sibielie was blown away by the strong wind. Yes, it was exactly that night, because when Anthony came across the valley to the shed, Silly Belie was sitting by his door, looking up at the sky.It was a dark night, with big black clouds blown by strong winds. The wind blows from the other side of the mountain, and the wind blows from the sky.The wind stopped beside the small shed, roaring, as if it had brought some message.

"Stupid, your time is up!" Silly Believe just squeaked, so Anthony asked him, "What time is it?" "It's time for Bielie to fly the kite," Feng replied, "someone wants him to fly up." "Did you hear that, Belle? Go get the kite," Anthony said. The fool giggled happily, got up, and brought the blue and green kite from the shed. "Throw up your kite, throw it high!" Feng shouted loudly.Belie throws the kite high, it rises, rises, and finally rises, flying in front of the wind.Silly Bielie laughed unhappily, hung one hand on the kite-flying line, and followed it up.His feet lifted off the ground, his long right arm swung down, and he grabbed the collar of Anthony's pajamas. "Oh, Berry!" Anthony was breathless, "Where are we going?" The fool murmured something that sounded like "mushrooms".He stuffed Anthony's hand in the little old bag in which he'd stuffed everything he'd found in the past.They rose higher and higher in the sky, and the whole sky was black and empty!Suddenly Belie made a low creaking sound, and he seemed to be tickling the darkness with his fingers, and Anthony looked over there, seeing nothing but a shiny, white mushrooms.Anthony opened the little pocket and Silly put his treasure in it.Soon he squeaked again, and out of the night came another shimmering white mushroom, even bigger than the previous one.During their hasty journey, his long, slender fingers kept busy touching the sky.The mushrooms seemed to be enchanted under his touch, and they grew one by one.That little pocket was getting heavier and heavier.At last Anthony said, "There's no more in the pocket." As he said this, the wind cried out, "Here we are!" They stood in front of a gate that was strangely beautiful.Gathered behind the door were angels, everything from seraphs, the highest among angels, to cherubs.I saw a tall angel with a book in his hand standing outside the door with a saint in a white robe.Anthony knew he must be St. Peter because he held the key.Others were also outside the gate, standing in front of them.Whenever a person came forward, St. Peter asked: "What gift did you bring back from the earth as your passport to heaven?" One replied, "I bring back the five wisdoms that were given to me at birth." St. Peter turned his head and said to the angel with the book, "What did he do with the gift from heaven?" The angel looked it up in the book and replied, "He uses talent to accumulate money." "Here's all my money," said the man, holding up several bags of gold. Unexpectedly, St. Peter shook his head. "You are not allowed in. There is no money in heaven," he said.So the man turned and left the gates of heaven. Now it was a woman's turn, to whom St. Peter asked the same question: 'What gift did you bring back from the earth, as your passport to heaven?', "I have brought back my beauty," said the woman, "that was given to me before I was born on earth." "What has she done with her beauty?" asked St. Peter. "She broke six hearts with her beauty," replied the angel with the book. "Here they are," said the woman, offering six broken hearts. But just like last time, St. Peter shook his head. "You can't bring here the grief you've caused." The woman turned and walked away, too. At the gates of heaven, everyone steps up to try their luck.There is a man who has the gift of strength, but he uses his gift to hurt many of his colleagues; another person has the gift of intelligence, but he uses his gift to gain power and praise from others.St. Peter refused to open the gates of heaven to these people.One after another turned away with their misused talents, and finally it was the turn to ask the silly goodbye. "What gift did you bring back from the earth for us as your passport to heaven?" Silly Bielie lowered his head and showed his little pocket up. "What's that?" said St. Peter. "Mushrooms." Silly Bielie murmured.Lest his friend's wonderful gift pass unnoticed, Anthony said softly: "He can find mushrooms when others can't find them." "Oh, I remember," said St. Peter.He turned to the angel with the book, and asked again, "What is he doing with his gift?" The angel looked up the books and said, "He gave them away." St. Peter reached into that pocket and pulled out a handful full of mushrooms... "Well, Believe, look!" cried Anthony, "they're not mushrooms, they're stars!" Silly Believe looked at the shiny treasures he found out in the dark sky when no one else could see them, slapped his knees, and smirked with such delight that Anthony, St. Peter and the angel all laughed with him.When St. Peter opened the gate of heaven, there was a burst of laughter inside the gate, and the seraphs, cherubs, and many angels all laughed.Shabie bowed his head and walked into the gate of heaven.He was overjoyed, for he knew that, on earth as in heaven, it was the best thing to have company and laugh with him for the same reason. "Look, Anthony, didn't I tell you to lie down and sleep?" Baba scolded him, "and you're sitting up here looking at the sky. You woke up for no reason at all , the wind has stopped a long time ago. If you don't believe me, look!" She said and opened the curtains, "there is not a single cloud in the night sky, the sky is full of stars." "No, Baba, that's not a star, that's a mushroom." Anthony said and lay down. "You can say what you want, my little lamb, as long as you lie on the bed and fall asleep." Baba covered him with the quilt, drew the curtains, gave him a kiss, and left him.