Chapter 6 Chapter 6 How the Know-it-All Thinks of Making Balloons

The know-it-all who loves reading reads a lot about distant countries and various travels from books. When there was nothing to do in the evening, he often told his friends what he had read in the book.The boys love these stories.They like to hear stories about countries they have never seen, but they love to hear stories about travel, because travelers often encounter all kinds of incredible things and have the most unusual adventures. After hearing many such stories, the boy fantasized about traveling by himself.Someone suggested a march on foot, someone suggested a boat ride up the river, but the know-it-all said,

"Let's build a balloon and fly in it." Everyone liked the idea.The little ones had never flown in a balloon, and that was a lot of fun for the boys.Of course, no one knew how to make a balloon, but the know-it-all said he was going to think it over and tell the others. then.The know-it-all figured it out.After thinking for three days and three nights, he finally thought of a way to make balloons out of rubber.The little guys know how to tap glue.They grow a flower similar to a rubber tree in the city.If a small opening is cut on the stem of this flower, white pulp will flow out from the inside.The white pulp gradually solidifies and turns into rubber, which can be used to make balls and overshoes.

Know-it-all came up with this idea and sent the boys to collect rubber juice.Everyone brought the rubber juice, and Passenger prepared a big jar to hold it.Knowing nothing, he also went to collect rubber juice. On the way, he met his friend, broken jacket, who was playing rope skipping with two girls. "I said, broken jacket, we have thought of a trick!" Quan Bu said, "Brother, if you know about it, you must be so envious." "I'm not going to die," replied the broken coat, "how can I love death so much!" "I must die, I must die!" Quan Zhi said to him, "My brother, such a thing! You have never even dreamed of it."

"What the hell is it?" asked by the jacket with interest. "Soon we'll be making an airbag and flying on a trip." Broken gown is very envious.He also wanted to boast about it, so he said, "Hmph, what a puff, it seems so amazing! I'm on good terms with girls." "With which girls?" "That's all," said the broken jacket, pointing at the girl, "This girl is called Little Sight, and this one is called Little Thumbtack." The little front sight and the little thumbtack stood a little far away, watching with fear and knowing nothing.

Quan Wu frowned and looked at them, and said, "Ah, that's right! Aren't you nice to me?" "I'm also with you, and with them. It doesn't interfere with each other." "No, there is a hindrance!" Quan Zhi said, "Whoever is friendly with girls, he is a girl himself! Go and quarrel with them immediately!" "Why am I arguing?" "I said let you quarrel! Otherwise, I will quarrel with you." "Let's make a noise! ​​What's the big deal!" "Just make a noise, I'll blow your little front sight and thumbtack away!"

Quan didn't know how to pick up his fist, and rushed towards the girl.The broken coat blocked his way and punched him on the forehead.The two of them started fighting, and the little front sight and the little thumbtack were scared away. "You hit me on the forehead with your fist because of these two girls?" Quan Wu shouted while trying to break the nose of the jacket. "Then why are you bullying them two!" the tattered gown asked, swinging his fists around. "With a protector like you, why do you think it's a big deal!" Quan Zhi said, hitting the ragged jacket hard on the head, even knocking him down, and he ran away in a hurry.

"I sever contact with you!" Quan Wu shouted after him. "Then please go ahead!" the shabby mantle replied, "you have to be the first one to make up." "Look, I won't come! We're going to travel in a big bag and fly." "You are flying from the roof to the attic!" "You guys flew from the roof to the attic!" Quan didn't know before going to collect rubber juice. When the jug was filled with rubber juice, Passepartout stirred it carefully for a while, and then sent Chisel to fetch the air cylinder for the car tires.He connected the air cylinder to a long rubber hose, put the other end in the glue can, and let the small chisel inflate gently.As soon as the small chisel was inflated, a small bubble immediately formed in the rubber juice, just like blowing soap bubbles with soapy water.The know-it-all kept pouring glue around the small bubble, and the small chisel kept pumping air, so the small bubble gradually swelled up and turned into a big ball.It was too late for Jack-of-all-trades to glue it all over the place, so he let the other boys do it.Everyone started working immediately.All the men found work at the ball, except Quan Mo walking around and whistling.He kept as far away from the ball as possible, looked at it from a distance, and said: "The bubble is going to be broken! Immediately, it is about to be broken! Pfft!"

But the ball did not break, but got bigger and bigger.It swelled so quickly that the boys had to climb up a stick tree that grew in the yard in order to glue it from the top and sides. The work of pumping up the balloon continued for two days, and stopped when the balloon was as big as a house.After this, a small string was used to tie the lower end of the pipe to prevent the large ball from running out of air.He said, "Now to dry the balloon, let's go to another job." He fastened the ball to a hazel branch with a string so that it would not be blown away by the wind, and divided the boys into two teams.He ordered a group of people to collect the cocoons, peel them off and draw out the silk thread, and then ordered them to weave a large net with the silk thread.He had another team make a large basket out of thin birch bark.

While Passepartout and his companions were doing this work, all the inhabitants of the Flower City came to see the biggest and biggest ball tied to a branch of a hazel tree.Everyone wanted to feel the big ball with their hands, and some even tried to pick it up. "The ball is light," they said, "and can be lifted with one hand without difficulty." "It's light, but it can't fly, as far as I can see," said a boy named Littlemasttop. "Why can't it fly?" Someone asked. "How can it fly? It can fly, it should be floating on the sky, but it is placed on the ground. That is to say, although it is very light, it is still very heavy," Xiao said. Masttop replied.

The little ones thought about it. "Well! Well!" they said, "the ball is light, but it is heavy. That is true. How does it fly?" They went to ask the know-it-all, but the know-it-all said, "Be patient. You will see soon." They were all the more suspicious because the Know-it-all didn't explain anything to the little dwarfs.Little Masttops walks all over the town, spreading rumors: "What force can lift a ball up into the sky?" he asked, and answered himself, "No force at all! Birds fly because they have wings. Rubber bubbles don't fly upward. It Just fly down."

Afterwards, no one in town believed in the idea.People just laughed, and they went up to the know-it-all's house, and looked at the big ball over the fence, and said, "Look, look! Fly! Ha-ha!" The know-it-all dismissed the ridicule.When the net was woven, he ordered it to be drawn over the ball from above.Everyone opened the silk screen to cover the big ball from above. "Look!" cried the little dwarf from outside the fence. "Catching the ball in the net. I'm afraid it will fly away. Ha ha ha!" The know-it-all asked everyone to wrap the ball under the rope, hang it on an oak branch of the oak tree, and then pull it up.Quickly and Chisel climbed up the tree with the rope and pulled the ball up.This makes the audience very happy. "Hahaha!" They laughed, "So this ball has to be pulled up with a rope. The ball that has to be pulled up with a rope can still fly?" "It can fly," said Little Masthead. "They sit on top of the ball, and they pull the string, and the ball goes up." After the big ball was dragged off the ground, the wire mesh hung it down.At this time, Passenger let the basket made of birch bark be fastened to the four corners of the wire mesh.The basket is quadrangular.There was a bench on each side of the basket, and on each bench four boys could sit. Baskets were hung from the four corners of the wire mesh, and Know-it-all announced that the work of making balls was over.Little Impatience thought he was ready to fly, but Know-It-All said that he had to prepare parachutes for everyone. "What do you need a parachute for?" Omniscience asked. "If the balloon pops suddenly, then you have to jump down with a parachute." The next day, Passepartout and his colleagues were busy preparing the parachute.Everyone made their own parachute out of dandelion fluff, and the know-it-all told everyone how to do it. When the citizens saw the big ball hanging motionless on the branch, they said to each other: "It has to hang like this until it breaks and falls down. It won't fly at all... "Hey, why don't you fly?" They shouted from outside the fence, "Go before the ball breaks." "Don't worry," the know-it-all answered them, "the flight will take off at eight o'clock tomorrow morning." Many people laughed, but some people began to doubt. "If it does fly up suddenly!" they said, "you'll have to see it tomorrow."