Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Continue to travel

Don't Know, Thumbtack, and Painted Face are back on the highway, continuing their interrupted trip.Xiao Hualian was still sitting at the back, desperately eating popsicles.He said: Falling out of the car made him overly agitated and the popsicles calmed him down.Little Thumbtack was recalling how much he was afraid of the locomotive just now; he didn't know it but relished that he remembered to turn the car at a critical moment, so that he didn't get hit by the train. "I saw," he said, "that I was going to go under the locomotive! I couldn't pick up the speed, and it was too late to brake. I thought, Hey, now we're all screwed! . . . Suddenly there was Something knocked on my head, and I got a thought: I have to turn a corner..."

"This is me knocking on your head." Xiao Hualian took over the task. "I'm freaking out, you know? . . . " "You know, you know, you're going to make me angry again!" Quan Zhi lost his temper. "Okay, I won't say it, I won't say it! Now I know, you can't make the driver angry when he's driving." Xiao Hualian replied kindly. At this time another car overtook our traveler.The car was dark yellow, and there were two little people in it.The driver wanted to take a closer look at the unknown car, and deliberately slowed down.Another little man sitting next to him looked at Xiao Hualian carefully, and said with a smile: "You, brother, it's time to wash your face too!"

They both laughed, and then the driver picked up speed and the car moved away. Quan Zhi and Xiao Pushpin turned their heads and saw that Xiaohualian's neck, forehead, nose, and even ears were covered with stains. "What's the matter with you?" Quan Wu was surprised. "Didn't you just wash your face?" "Where is it just washed? It's been a long time since I washed it." Xiao Hualian replied. "We washed it with you!" said the little thumbtack. "Why are we still clean?" "What else!" Xiaohua sneered. "You sit in front and I sit in the back. All the dust flies on me."

"If you say we are in the front, then there will only be more dust on us." Quan Mo said. "I don't know how you are doing." Xiao Hualian shook his hand. In fact, this is of course all to blame for the dust.If the face is not sticky, the dust will not fly up much, but Xiao Hualian's face is just sticky, because he keeps eating popsicles, and the popsicles melt in his hands and flow down his cheeks, nose, and even ears. It dripped down, leaving wet marks everywhere.The dust raised by the road is easy to stick to.As soon as these wet stains mixed with dust dry, the face becomes mottled.

"Little face, whenever you see a pond or a river, you have to wash your face again," said the little thumbtack. "It's not good for everyone to laugh at us." "Joke us? Who gave them the rights?" Xiao Hualian said angrily. "If we ever catch up with them, I'll show 'em what a joke! Pity we're crawling like turtles!" "Who is the tortoise? We are the tortoise?" Quan Zhi felt aggrieved. "Of course!" Xiao Hualian replied. "Try it, can you keep up with the yellow car? See? How fast it goes!" The yellow car did run far away, it looked like a little yellow dot.

"Nonsense!" Don't know the answer. "That's catching up with it." He flipped the gear lever, pushed the button, and stomped the pedal.The car drove faster, but after all it couldn't keep up with the yellow car speeding ahead. "Hey, how can we compete with others!" Xiaohua said sarcastically. "The structure of the car is different!" "It doesn't matter." Don't know the answer. "Just watch. Now I'll heat it up." "It's better not to add it, you don't know anything, otherwise, there will be trouble again." Little Pushpin said.

"Don't worry, nothing will go wrong." I don't know how to increase the temperature.That didn't work either.But it soon went downhill.The driver of the yellow car stepped on the brakes slightly to prevent the car from running too fast on the slope, but on the contrary, he didn't know that he let his car go down faster and faster.There was another river at the foot of the mountain ahead.There is a wooden bridge over the river.The bridge is so narrow that only two cars can pass through it.At this time, a truck was parked in the middle of the bridge for some reason.But Quan Wu didn't notice this, he bragged to Xiao Hualian:

"I'll catch up!" "Hurry up, hurry up! I have to tell them who should wash their face!" Hualian replied. The driver of the yellow car drove the car slowly down the mountain, onto the bridge again, and stopped beside the truck, wanting to ask the driver why he stopped and if he wanted to help. I didn't know how to drive from the mountain to the bridge at full speed, and suddenly found two cars blocking the way in front of me, blocked by bridge railings on both sides, and I couldn't make a turn.I didn't know that my back was cold with fright.He thought of a thousand things in that instant, and things would have been worse if he hadn't thought of the wand right away.Just as they were driving near the truck, the little thumbtack was again covering his eyes with his hands and waiting for the dreaded crash, and then, with a wave of his magic stick, he said hastily:

"Let's skip those two cars." The car jumped up immediately, so high that it didn't even know it and held its breath.He looked down and thought to himself: "If you fall from such a height, you won't even find your bones!" He waved his magic wand again and said, "Let's fly, fly like an airplane!" Immediately, the car grew a pair of small wings, hovered over the earth, and rose higher and higher.Then came a shout from behind.Quan didn't know when he turned his head to look, it turned out that Xiao Hualian fell out of the car, holding the back of the seat with both hands, and dangling in the air.Quan Zhi bit the magic stick with his teeth, climbed over the back of the front seat, grabbed the blouse of the little face, and pulled him into the car with all his strength.However, he didn't have the strength to do this because he could only pull with one hand and had to grab the bodywork with the other.Seeing that Xiao Hualian was about to use up all his strength, he didn't know how to tell the little thumbtack, "Take out the magic stick in my mouth and just say, let the car fall." However, he bit the magic stick with his teeth, and the sentence became : "Nuna went to Uguri Dimugen, F-F-F-F..."

Of course the little thumbtack didn't understand anything, so she asked, "What?" "Bubum, wu, Lu Qigu boo Guwu!" Quan Buzhi was so angry that his eyes were wide open, so that the little push pin immediately guessed what he wanted to say: "Help, hey, you little monster!" Tow it back to the car.Xiao Hualian sat down in her original position, and was too frightened to speak for a while.Knowing nothing, he held the steering wheel again, looked down, and found that they had flown to a frighteningly high altitude.The road they had just passed wound like a narrow ribbon below.Unaware of being smothered by the wind, he waved his magic wand and said:

"Let's get back to the ground... oh, oh, don't go so fast!" he shouted, because he felt that the car was falling so hard that it seemed to be falling into a bottomless pit. The car began to descend smoothly.It hovered over the road for a while, descending lower and lower, and finally the wheels touched the ground lightly, without even feeling the vibration.The wings on the car disappeared.Xiao Hualian regained consciousness a little, and started eating popsicles again.Another car soon overtook our fellow travelers.The driver drove his own car side by side with the unknown car and started talking to him: "What kind of car is this? Who designed it?" "It's designed with small screws and tenons." Quan Zhi replied. "What fuel?—tar or heavy oil?" "Use juice soda. Do you understand? Steam comes out of the soda, enters the cylinder, pushes the piston, and the piston turns the wheel through the transmission. The juice is for lubrication." Quan Zhi explained to him. "No wonder I was walking behind, it smelled like fruit juice," said the driver. "Does your car use soda?" asked Omniscient. "No, my car uses alcohol. Did you know that the alcohol vapor is sucked into the cylinder and ignited by an electric spark. The combustion expands the vapor, which pushes the piston, which turns the wheel. For greater power, the car is fitted with There are several cylinders. For example, my car has four cylinders or eight cylinders. Cars can also use gasoline, but gasoline will leave a bad smell in the air. Alcohol has no smell at all. There's a car that burns heavy fuel oil, and that's—huh, huh!" The driver even shrugged his nose and shook his head. "Is Sun City still far away?" Little Pushpin asked. "Sun City? No, it's not far away now." "Why is it called Sun City? Are the houses there made of the sun?" Quan Mo asked. "No!" The driver laughed. "It's called Sun City because it's always good weather and the sun always shines." "Will there be no dark clouds forever?" Quan Zhi was surprised. "Why not? Yes." The driver replied. "But our scientists have invented a powder: when there are dark clouds, just sprinkle this powder into the sky, and the clouds will disappear immediately. Boy, it's all chemistry!" "How do you sprinkle powder on dark clouds?" 'Well, take a plane and fly up to the sky, and sprinkle it down. " "If there are no dark clouds, then there will be no rain?" said the little thumbtack. "There is another kind of powder for making rain," the driver replied. "Sprinkle a little of that powder, and it rains in no time. But we put rain where we need it, for example: in the garden, in the vegetable garden. In the city we also It rains, but not during the day, but at night, so as not to hinder anyone. If you need to water the flowers in the street, use a rubber hose." "It seems that Sun City is full of smart little people." Quan Mo said. "Oh, the residents of Sun City are all smart, so smart that you can't even imagine!" "Do you live in Sun City too?" asked the little thumbtack. "Yes, I'm here too," said the driver. After he said the answer, he thought about it carefully, and realized that the residents who praised Sun City also praised themselves.He was ashamed of his bragging, his face swelled like a carrot, and to conceal his uneasiness he said: "Well, it's time for me to go. Good-bye!" He stomped on the pedal and rushed forward quickly. "Maybe he's a nice little guy, but maybe he's just a braggart." Don't know. "It's hard to believe what fanfare he's bragging about." little thumbtack says: "He blushed at the end, which shows that his conscience has not been completely lost. Since he has a conscience, he can still learn from his mistakes."