Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Traveling in the City

Xiaoxuehua and Lanyan came to the street without knowing it.Thin wicker fences stretched along the streets.Small houses with red and green roofs can be seen through the fence.Huge apple, pear, and plum trees tower over the house.There are trees growing in all the yards and in the streets.The whole city is immersed in the shade of green trees, so it is called Green City. I looked around curiously.Unusual cleanliness all around.There are girls working in all the yards.Some mowed the lawn with shears to keep the grass from growing higher than it should have been, others swept the paths with brooms;In Greentown, this kind of carpet is not only used to pave the floor of the house, but also to pave the sidewalks on the street.Of course, some homeowners are concerned that their carpets will be soiled by pedestrians.So I stood aside to remind pedestrians not to walk on the carpet. If someone really wants to walk on the carpet, let him polish his shoes carefully.Many paths in the courtyard are also covered with long strips of carpet, and the outer walls of the houses are hung with colorful and beautiful tapestries.

There are water pipes in Green City, which are made of reed poles.As we all know, the inside of the reed pole is hollow and can flow water like a pipe.This kind of water pipe is paved on every street, but it is not placed directly on the ground as some people think, but suspended and fixed on some small wooden stakes.Therefore, the pipe will not rot and can be used for a long time. Of course, regular attention must be paid to maintenance to avoid water leakage.Branch pipes are branched from the main pipe on the street, leading to each house.Therefore, every family has running water, which is of course very convenient.Besides that, there are fountains in front of every house.This is very beautiful and very beneficial as the water from the fountain can be used to water the vegetable garden.Every home has a vegetable garden, with turnips, turnips, beets, carrots, and all kinds of other vegetables.

I didn't know that I saw girls collecting vegetables in a yard.They first loosen the soil around the big radish or carrot, tie a rope to its top, and then grab the rope with their hands and pull it hard.When a turnip or carrot is pulled out of the ground, the girls shriek and laugh and drag it home on a rope. "Why are there only girls living here, not even a boy?" Quan asked strangely. "Yes, we only have girls left in the town, because all the boys have moved to live on the beach. They have their own city there called Kite City." "Why did they move to the beach?" asked Quan Wu.

"Because it's more convenient for them there. They like to sunbathe all day long, swim, and in winter, when the river is frozen, they skate. Also, they like to live on the beach, because the river floods in the spring and can drown the whole city." city." "What's so good about this?" Quan Wu was surprised. "I don't think it's any good, either," said Little Snowflake, "but our boys like it. They go in boats during the spring floods, and they help each other out when there's a flood. They like all kinds of adventures very much."

"I like adventures too," Quan Zhi said, "Can't I get to know your boys?" "No," said Little Snow Flower, "first, you have to walk for an hour to get to Kite City, because the beach is far down the river; second, you can't learn good from them, you can only learn bad; third, We quarreled with them." "What are you guys arguing about?" Quan Mo asked. "You know what they do?" said the blue eyes. "They invite us to their place for the New Year's fir tree in the winter. They say there's music and dancing, but when we go, you know what they do." What the hell? . . . They threw snowballs at all of us."

"So what?" Asked Oddly. "Fright, we won't be with them. After that, no one will go to them." "Are they coming to you?" "They don't come to us either." "In the beginning, some boys still came to our place, but no one wanted to play with them. So, because they were bored, they started to play tricks: they broke the glass for a while, and pulled down the fence for a while." Little Snow Flower Say. "Then they secretly sent a boy called Little Nail," said Blue Eyes, "and look at that! . . . " "Yes," Xiaoxuehua said, "this little nail came to us and said a lot, saying that he seemed willing to be nice to us, that he didn't like boys because they were naughty. We allowed him to live here." He's in our town, but what do you think he did? He slipped out of the house at night and started doing things that didn't make sense. He nailed a rug outside a house and couldn't open the door from the inside at daylight , hanging a log on the door of another house, whoever goes out must meet each other; put a rope in front of the door of the third house to make it trip people, tear down the chimney on the roof of the fourth house, The window of the fifth house was broken..."

I didn't know that I couldn't breathe from laughing when I heard this. "You're still laughing," said Blue Eyes, "how many girls have broken noses! There was a girl who climbed up on a roof to fix a chimney and nearly broke her leg when she fell." "I'm not a joke girl at all, I'm a joke this little nail." Quan Zhi said. "What is needed for him is not a joke, but a good punishment, so that he will never do that again." Xiaoxuehua said. At this time, they were walking by an apple tree growing in the middle of the street.The branches of the apple tree are full of ripe red apples.There was a high wooden ladder on the ground leaning against the apple tree, which reached only halfway up the huge trunk.Further up there is a rope ladder attached to the uppermost branch.On this branch sat two girls.A girl was carefully sawing off the handle of an apple with a saw, and another girl cared to hold her up so that she would not fall.

"Be careful walking here." The blue eyes reminded Quan Mo, "because apples may fall from the tree and kill you." "You can't kill me!" Quan Wu boasted, "My head is strong." "Boys think they are the only ones who are brave. In fact, girls are no more timid than them. Look how high they climb." Little Snow Flower said. "But boys can ride balloons and drive cars," Quan Mo replied. "What a big deal!" Little Snow Flower said, "We also have many girls who can drive cars." "Do you still have a car?"

"Yes. But it's broken. We fix it, fix it, and we can't fix it. Maybe you can fix the car for us?" "I'll help, help," Quan Mo replied, "I know a little about this matter. When the little screw and chisel are out of the hospital, I'll explain to them, and they can fix it." "This is great!" Little Xue Huabai clapped her hands. At this time, I didn't know to see a miracle in nature that I had never seen in my life.In the middle of the street, I saw some big, big green balls, as big as a two-story building, maybe even bigger. "What kind of balloon is this?" Qiongqi asked without knowing it.

Little Snowflake and Blue Eyes laughed. "It's a watermelon," they said. "Have you never seen a watermelon?" "Never," admitted Quan Zhi, "we don't grow watermelons there. What are they for?" Little Snowflake laughed out loud: "Boys don't even know what watermelons are for? Then you have to ask what apples and pears are for." "Is watermelon edible?" Quan Wu asked in amazement, "Such a big guy can't eat it all in a year!" "We don't eat it," replied Blue Eyes. "We take the sweet juice in it, which is syrup. A small hole is drilled under the watermelon, and the sweet juice flows out of it. A watermelon can hold several large buckets of syrup."

"Who came up with the idea of ​​growing watermelons?" Quan Mo asked. "We have a girl here who is very bright. Her name is Little Straw," Blue Eyes replied, "and she loves all kinds of plants and breeding new varieties. We used to have no watermelons here at all, but someone told Little Straw, saying I saw wild watermelons in the woods. One autumn, Little Straw organized an expedition team to the woods, and she found a bush of wild watermelons in a clearing. The expedition team came back with wild watermelon seeds. In spring, The little straw planted the seeds in the ground. The watermelon was very big, but it turned out to be sour. The little straw kept working with her hands and feet, and tasted the juice of all the watermelons. She finally chose one that was not very sour. Watermelon. In the second year, she planted the seeds of this watermelon. This time the watermelon was not so sour, and there was a little sweetness in it. The little straw picked the sweetest watermelon, and it was planted again in the third year Its seeds. She worked like this for several years, and finally made the watermelon as sweet as honey." "Everyone praises Little Straw now, but they scolded her so much before!" said Little Snow Flower. "Why did you scold her?" Quan Wu asked strangely. "No one believes that you can do anything with that kind of sour stuff. Besides, watermelons grow all over the city, which makes it difficult to walk. Watermelons often grow on the wall of someone's house. Watermelons can be tolerated when they are small. But it gradually grew, squeezed on the wall, and began to crush the wall. In one place, a whole house collapsed because of the watermelon. Some girls even planned to ban the small straw from growing watermelons, and some girls wanted to She complained and started to help her." In time our travelers stepped onto the banks of a river. "This is the Watermelon River," said Little Snow Flower. "Did you see so many watermelons growing here?" There is a narrow bridge over the river, which looks like a long carpet from one bank of the river to the other.It is made of a thick and strong material. "We girls built this bridge," said Blue Eyes. "We wove flax stalks for a whole month, and then the boys helped us put it up over the river." "Aha, that's interesting!" Little Snowflake continued, "There was a boy who fell into the river and nearly drowned, but everyone dragged him out of the water." Blue Eyes stepped onto the bridge and strode across to the other side.Knowing nothing, Bravely stepped onto the bridge, but stopped immediately because he felt the bridge shaking under his feet. "Why are you staying there?" Little Snow Flower asked, "Are you afraid?" "I'm not scared at all. It's just that the bridge is ridiculous." I don't know how to bend down and grab the bridge with my hands.At this time he was giggling, trying to pretend that he was not afraid at all. Little Snowflake grabbed Omniscient by one hand, and Blue Eyes grabbed his other hand, and they led him across the bridge.The girls saw that the ignorance was frightened, but they didn't laugh at him, because they knew boys couldn't stand being laughed at.On reaching the opposite bank, our traveler walked down a street, and soon came to a small white house with a green roof. "This is our hospital," said Blue Eyes.