Chapter 5 Chapter Five

"Hey, Little Painted Face, hello!" when the filthy ghost came up to him, he shouted to him without knowing it. "Look, we've got a car!" "What's so strange about it! The little screw and tenon is much better than yours!" replied the Dillow. He stopped, hands in the pockets of his gray trousers, and looked carefully at the front wheels of the car. "You're wrong!" said little pushpin. "This car is exactly the same as the one with the little screw and the little tenon. Besides, there's a magic wand that didn't even know it."

"What kind of treasure is this!" Xiao Hualian said again. "I'd have a hundred magic wands if I wanted them." "Then why didn't you?" Quan Wu asked him. "Because I don't want to." Knowing that he wasn't interested in anything, he said, "We're going on a trip, do you want to go with us?" "Okay." Xiao Hualian agreed. "You guys are convinced." He opened the small door, got into the car, and sat in the back seat with dignity. "Hey, can I drive now?" Quan Mo asked. "Let's go, let's go," said the little thumbtack.

"Yes, you can drive, just don't kill people." Xiao Hualian added. Without knowing it, he turned the key on the dashboard of the car and stepped on the starter pedal with his foot. The starter screamed, as if scraping an iron plate.The engine rumbled and idling a few times.Nobody heats up the engine, twists the clutch, turns on the transmission, then lets go of the clutch, lets off the gas, and the car starts moving.Quan turned the steering wheel unknowingly, turning the steering wheel for a while, turning the first gear for a while, and turning the second gear for a while, increasing and decreasing the gas, driving the car faster for a while, and slower for a while, even though he didn't understand it himself. Why do you want to move this or that lever, step on this or that pedal, but every time, like a real car driver, he does it right and never makes a mistake.Of course, this is all because of the magic wand, so I can learn to drive a car immediately without knowing what to turn or what to press, but I do everything habitually and mechanically.

When passing by the street, Quan Wuzhi honks the horn on purpose, shouting loudly, so as to attract the attention of others.He wants everyone to see how brave he is at the wheel and not afraid of anything.However, the residents of Baihua City thought it was a small screw and a small tenon driving, so no one paid attention to it and knew nothing about it. When the car was running around the city, little thumbtack and little painted face began to chat: "You, little painted face, you probably haven't washed your face today, have you?" "Nonsense, I'm a big wash!" "Then why is your face so dirty?"

"This...is dirty again!" "You'll have to wash it again, because we can't take someone so dirty on a trip." "Why 'can't'? You guys asked me to come, and now 'can't' all of a sudden!" Xiaohua's face became angry. At this time, the car had already driven out of the city, arrived at the side of the Cucumber River, turned a corner and drove onto the bridge.When getting off the bridge, the little thumbtack said, "Okay, stop! Now Xiao Hualian has to wash her face in the river." I didn't know that I drove the car to the river and stopped.

"I protest!" Xiao Hualian lost her composure. "Without this rule, you have to wash your face twice a day!" "If you don't want to, just stay here. We won't take you there." Quan Zhi said sternly. "What's the matter, don't you take me? According to what you said, I seem to have to walk back, so you can send me back to the original place. Otherwise, I won't agree." "Come on, come on, let him go! Let him go dirty!" Little Wuzhi said. "We can't drive back for him!" "However, we traveled to a city, and others saw that we brought such a dirty guy, so what should we do? We're going to blush for him!" said the little thumbtack.

"That's right!" Quan Zhi agreed. "I still have to wash, Xiaohualian. Friends, let's wash together, okay?" When Xiao Hualian heard that he was not washing alone, she felt relieved and said, "How do I wash this? There is neither soap nor towels." "Don't worry." Don't know the answer. "There will be everything." He waved his wand, and immediately there appeared three bars of soap and three towels.Xiao Hualian was about to express surprise, but when he remembered his belief that he would not be surprised about anything, he walked towards the river without saying a word.

After a few minutes, all three of them had washed up and got into the car to drive through the forest again.The little thumbtack was still in front, sitting side by side with Quanzhi, and Xiaohualian was sitting next to the light blue box in the back.The road is winding and not very smooth.In some places, the old and thick tree roots drilled out of the ground, and sometimes there were some large and small pits.When encountering these places, they don't know how to slow down in advance, so as not to drive too fast and shake too much.Little Pushpin kept turning around and looking at Xiaohua's face with a smile.She was very happy to see Xiao Hua's face became so clean, with a little blush on her face.

"Look how nice it is," she said. "After washing my face, I feel comfortable." Xiao Hualian turned her head away angrily, not even wanting to look at the little thumbtack. "Stop pouting, it's not polite," said the little thumbtack. "There are popsicles in the light blue box next to you." "Ah, so there are popsicles here!" Xiao Hualian was really happy to hear that. "I'm still wondering, what kind of box is this?" He took three popsicles out of the box.Everyone ate.I had no choice but to do two things at once: eat popsicles and drive a car.He held the steering wheel with one hand and the popsicle with the other, licking it with his tongue with relish.I didn't know how to eat popsicles, and I lost my mind. I didn't see the pit in front of me clearly, and I didn't have time to slow down.The car bumped so badly that Xiao Hualian jumped up and accidentally swallowed the whole piece of ice in one gulp, leaving only a stick in his hand.

"Dude, you can drive steadily!" he said to the unknown. "You made me swallow the whole popsicle." "It's nothing." Don't know. "You can take another one." "Okay." Xiao Hualian felt relieved, and took out another popsicle from the box. The little thumbtack said: "I don't know, you'd better not eat the popsicles, if you don't pay attention, we will have trouble!" "Then you'd better not eat it either." Quan Zhi replied. "Because it also distracts me." "Okay, I won't eat." The little thumbtack agreed.

"I want to eat, anyway, I will sit in the back, so that no one will be distracted." They were out of the woods in no time, and the car was speeding across the fields.The road led into the mountains, and the three traveling companions felt as if they had come to the end of the earth, for beyond the mountains nothing could be seen but the sky. "We have to go to the other side, this side seems to be the end." Quan Mo said. "Yes!" Xiao Hualian said the same. "We kind of miscalculated. You better slow down, just in case. Otherwise, if you don't stop the car, we'll all fall on all fours. Better turn around and drive back, away from disaster it is good!" "No!" replied Omniscient. "I have long wanted to see where the end of the earth is." While they were talking, the hillside was over, and the vast open country appeared before them.Below the mountain is a large valley, and to the right are hills covered with green grass and dense bushes.In the distance is a forest of black crows.Golden yellow dandelions and light blue cornflowers grow all over the valley...they are so colorful and beautiful.There are a lot of white flowers, which the little people call "white birch porridge".There are so many such "porridge", that many places seem to be covered with a layer of snow.Our travelers were breathless with joy at the sight of such beauty. "It turns out that the earth doesn't end here." Quan Mo said. "Yes," Xiaohualian continued. "It turns out the earth is not as small as we thought. So we've made an important scientific discovery, for which we can eat another popsicle." After speaking, he reached into the light blue box, took out an ice root from it and ate it. The road leads downhill, and the car is moving fast.Soon another hillside appeared ahead, and the travelers again felt a little at the end of the earth.But as soon as the slope was over, new fields appeared before them.This happened several times in a row. "People say that the earth has no boundaries, no matter which direction you go, you will never reach the end anyway." said the little thumbtack. "I don't think that's right," Quan Mo replied. "We little people are very small, and it is impossible to see big things with our short-sightedness, so we feel that they are boundless." "I think so too." Xiao Hualian agreed. "In my opinion, everything has an end. For example, there are many popsicles in this box, but I am always worried that it will end soon." Quan didn't know that he was talking with his traveling companions, and walked farther and farther, and unknowingly drove to an intersection.I don't know where to stop the car, trying to figure out where to go: keep going?To the left? Or to the right? There is a pillar at the intersection with three arrows signposting it.Point to the sign directly ahead that reads: "Stone City".Point to the left sign that says: "Tucheng".The last sign pointing to the right reads: "Sun City". "Everything is very clear." Quan Mo said. "Stone City is a city built with stones; Earth City is a city built with mud, where all the houses are made of mud." "But, what about Sun City? According to you, this should be made of the sun—is that so?" Xiao Hualian asked him, mocking him. "Maybe." Quan Zhi asked and answered. "That's impossible, because the sun is too hot to build a house on," said the little thumbtack. "We'll go there right now, and we'll see everything," Quan Mo said. "Better go to Stone Town first," suggested Thumbtack. "Look at the stone house, it's really interesting." "I'd like to see the mud houses. I really want to know how the people live there." Xiao Hualian said. "It's not interesting at all, let's go to Sun City—that's all." Little Wuzhi objected. "What do you mean by 'do it like this'? What order did you issue?" Xiao Hualian became angry. "If you come together, you have to discuss it together." They discussed it together for a while, but they couldn't come to an agreement.Finally, the little thumbtack said: "It's better not to make noise, let's wait and see the situation before deciding which direction we should go." Quanzhi and Xiao Hualian stopped their quarrel.At this time, a car appeared on the road on the left, and it flew past before the eyes of the travelers, and just disappeared in the direction pointed by the arrow of "Sun City". "Look," said Omniscient. "This incident tells us that we should also go to Sun City. However, don't be sad, let's go to Sun City first, and then we can also go to Stone City or Earth City for a stroll." After saying this, he started the engine, turned the steering wheel to the right, and the car moved forward again.