Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Meet the Architect Xiaofanger

When the little police siren and the little sentinel were talking, Quan Shi was sitting in an empty room.As soon as he entered, he felt terribly frightened.His first thought was to run away.He tried to open the door, but the door was locked; he tried to open the window, but the window could not be opened. Finally, he decided to smash the glass, so he raised his fist to knock on the glass.But the glass is so thick and strong that it cannot be broken. Unknowingly exhausted, he sat down on the windowsill.From the window he could see only a corner of the yard and the flat gray walls of the house next door.I don't know how to look at this wall, look at it, and feel lonely.He has never been in confinement, he has always done what he likes, he can go wherever he wants, and there are friends who can talk, laugh and fight around anytime and anywhere, but now he is completely alone Alone.He didn't know why he wanted to cry so much, tears rolled out of his eyes.Just at this moment, he saw little thumbtacks and little painted faces appearing in the yard.They looked around hurriedly, and at last saw nothing at the window, and shouted and yelled at him.Quan Zhi tried desperately to concentrate, but couldn't hear a word, because the thick glass cut out the sound.The little thumbtack waved his hands to Quanzhi, and gestured with his fingers for a while, but Quanzhi just shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand anything.At this time, the little thumbtack picked up a stick from the ground and waved it in the air.

"What is she waving there?" Quan asked himself inexplicably. "Silly girl! What are you doing with a stick picked up from the ground?" Quan Zhi suddenly slapped his forehead with his palm and shouted: "Ah, I'm so stupid! I completely forgot about that magic wand!" He hastily pulled out a hand from his arms to take the magic wand, but at this moment the door opened, and a small police siren walked in.He stretched out a hand to Omniscient, wanting to say something, Omniscient was taken aback, jumped aside, quickly pulled out his magic wand, waved it, and shouted:

"I want the walls of the police station to collapse so I can escape safely." There was a tremor and a rumbling sound all around.The walls of the room suddenly collapsed, the ceiling collapsed, and a cloud of dust was raised.Something fell from above, and it was scattered all over.A brick hit the policeman's helmet, his ears ringing, and he fell.I don't know how to jump into the yard without thinking too much.Little Thumbtack and Little Face grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the gate at a run. The little police siren finally crawled out of the rubble, and his helmet fell off, but he ignored it, and only knew how to chase the fugitive quickly.

He was panting loudly as he ran.The one who was injured by the brick had a severe headache and even fainted.Therefore, what he ran was not a straight line, but an S-shaped curve.The little siren of the policeman felt a severe headache and seemed to be buzzing, so he waved his hand to Xiao Wuzhi's back and stopped chasing. Don't Know, Little Thumbtack and Little Face ran for a while on the street without looking back.Soon they saw that no one was chasing after them, so they walked leisurely.The little thumbtack immediately blamed Quan Shi. "You, you traveler!" she said reproachfully. "Why did we come here? Was it for the fights and the dousing of passers-by? You said you were going to visit the city, but you got into a fight over a hose."

"Don't be angry, little thumbtack." Don't know what to say. "I'll never do it again. Now let's look around the city like real travelers!" Friends are walking down the street, looking at shop windows.On the corner, they saw a soda kiosk like any they'd seen in a zoo.Xiao Hualian found the counter with faucets and buttons, and said: "After running for a long time, it would be nice to have some juice soda." Friends walk up to the soda kiosk and press a button to drink a variety of juice sodas.Xiao Hualian drank six or seven cups and still didn't want to leave the soda stand, even though he couldn't drink anymore.Quan didn't know that there was a bench not far from the soda booth, so he suggested:

"Let's sit on the stool and take a rest. Whoever wants to drink soda can come back and drink." Everyone sat down on the benches.A five-story house faced them across the street.The whole wall under the roof is painted with pictures of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf meeting in the woods.The little thumbtack tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood.It is very interesting to look at the pictures while listening to the story.But Quanzhi and Xiao Hualian didn't listen very carefully, and kept running to the pavilion to drink soda.This of course made Thumbtack very angry, because when you're telling a story, people keep interrupting you, and that's the worst thing that can happen.

Due to the constant interruption, it took a full half an hour, and the fairy tale was finally finished.Little Wuzhi jumped up and planned to run to the soda stand again, but suddenly he stumbled and grabbed the little thumbtack and little painted face with both hands. "What's the matter with you?" Little Pushpin was startled. "Dizzy!" Quan Zhi moaned, almost falling. Little thumbtack and little painted face took his hand and sat down on the stool again. "Maybe you drank too much soda?" Xiao Hualian said. "How are you feeling?" Little Thumbtack asked anxiously.

"It's better now, just now I felt as if the house was spinning." "Which house?" "It's the one opposite." Little thumbtack and little painted face looked at the house and grabbed each other with both hands.It seemed to them that the house which had been facing them just before was now turned sideways on them.Only one corner of the picture was visible now, and the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood were hard to see.Xiao Hualian felt dizzy because of the sudden feeling, and fell on the stool, beside the unknown.At this time, a little man came over, he was a resident of Sun City, and he asked them:

"What's the matter with you?" "Dizziness. We don't know why it feels like the house is spinning," replied the little pushpin. "Maybe you are from other places?" asked the little man, sitting down on the stool next to him. "It's from other places." The little thumbtack replied. "How did you guess?" "It's not difficult to guess, because all our residents here know that the house does move." "What? Turning?" Quan Zhi and Xiao Hualian asked in surprise at the same time. "It's not surprising at all. Really, it's not turning very fast, so it's not easy to see at first sight. But if you look closely, you can see it turning."

The travelers calmed down a little, looked at the house again, and found that its reverse had begun to turn around, and the picture with the little red riding hood was completely out of sight. "This is so strange!" cried Xiaohualian. "Well, . . . bah! . . . Look what I'm talking about! Of course, it's not surprising at all. It's just the most ordinary house in circles." "It's not spinning, but turning." The little man corrected him. "I can't figure it out, how can it turn?" Quan Mo said. "It's not difficult for me to explain this to you. I'm an architect by profession. I know what's going on." The little man said.

"Tell me, it's interesting," the little pushpin begged. "Have you ever seen a building move many floors?" the architect began.Knowing that the travelers had never seen this before, he went on to say: "Under the foundation of the house, put it on the track, and the house is like having wheels, and can be moved to a new place. It is easier to build a rotating house than this." Easy, because the ring track can be put under it when it is built. In order to turn the house, there must be a small electric motor, but it has much less power than the motor that moves the house." "I understand that." Quan Mo said. "But why make the house turn? Is there anything wrong with the house standing still?" "There's nothing wrong with that, of course," agrees the architect. "However, turning the house has some advantages. As we all know, there may be windows on the east, west, north, south, and four sides of a general house. Windows facing south can have the sun all day long, but what about windows facing north? The sun will never shine. It's not very interesting in these rooms, because everyone wants to see the sun. Turning the house can completely avoid this disadvantage. The house before us turns a full circle every hour, so every window, every hour. The sun can come in, no matter which direction the windows are opened in. This way, all the rooms in the turn house will be sunny and pleasant.” "I seem to understand a little bit." Quan Mo said. "I also wonder, who designed these revolving houses?" "The first designer to create a rotating house was the architect Small Rotating Bottle. This was a few years ago. Since then, many architects have supported his idea. Now, we have quite a few of these here. Buildings. Some houses take not an hour to go around, but two, three, or even four hours. If you like, I can take a little tour with you and see the buildings in the city." "This is so much fun!" exclaimed little pushpin. "But it doesn't bother you, does it?" "What's the trouble?" Xiao Hualian said. "It's not chopping firewood!" "You, Xiao Hualian, if you can't answer politely, you'd better keep your words down." Little Pushpin said. "Little Hualian is right." The little man replied kindly. "It's not really chopping wood. Besides, I like meeting curious travelers. My name is Cube, Cube the Architect." "My name is Quan Zhi, and her name is—Little Pushpin." Quan Zhi said. "We know each other now!" Xiao Fangfang said, shaking hands with his new friend. "Very happy, very happy! Now please come with me, all of you." Cube was walking on the street.Don't Know, Little Thumbtack and Little Face quickly followed him.At first, Xiaofang introduced a house built like steps to the travelers.He said that this kind of terraced house does not have an elevator, but it has an automatic transmission path, which is like a conveyor. People sit on it and can go up and down.Then I visited a street full of circular tower-shaped rotating houses. It has a flat spiral uphill and downhill, and you can sit on a blanket and slide down from it.On another street, Xiaofanger introduced two kinds of beautiful houses to travelers.One is a hemisphere made of many stones.There are semicircular windows and doors on each hemisphere.All the rooms in such a house are probably also semicircular.Another kind of house is like many wooden barrels stacked together, each wooden barrel is as high as two stories, and there are windows on the first and second floors.These two kinds of houses, according to the words of Xiaofanger.Built for roundhouse lovers. After turning a corner, the travelers arrived at Music Alley.All the houses there are built in the shape of various musical instruments.The first is like a piano, the second is like a grand piano, the third is like a harp, the fourth is like an accordion, and the fifth is like a snare drum.Only one house in the corner was built in the shape of an earthen jar for some unknown reason.On another street, the travelers saw an unusual house.It is not on the ground, but hanging in the air, hanging on a big balloon. "Does anyone still want to live in this air house?" Little Pushpin wondered. "That's too much!" said Little Square. "There were so many people willing to live in it that we had to decide to build another batch of these houses. Residents like to overcome difficulties and dangers every day: climbing chain ladders, jumping from parachutes and rappels." "I have no objection to living in such a house." Quan Mo said. "Now please bear with me for a while, I will introduce you to the old building." said the little cube. "We're about to enter what's called a construction exclusion zone." Travelers walk through the alleys and come to a place where the houses are all with pillars.There are straight and curved pillars, round and twisted ones, spiral ones, inclined ones, flattened ones, crooked ones, pancake-style ones, and even unknown ones. here.The cornices of these houses are straight, some are crooked, some are crooked, some are long and eight short, and some are zigzag.In some houses the pillars did not rest below, as usual, but on the roof; in others the pillars were below, but the house itself stood high above them; Down, dangling over the heads of pedestrians.In one house the cornice was below, and the columns were upside down and tilted badly to one side.There was also a house whose pillars fell on one side, and the house itself fell on the other, so that it looked as if it was about to collapse and be smashed to pieces. "Don't look at these crooked houses." Little Square said. "There was a time when it was fashionable to build houses that didn't look like anything. So we built these ugly things, and now I feel ashamed to even look at them. You see, for example, that house seemed to be turned by some special force. Squash and push crooked houses. Everything in them is crooked: doors, windows, walls, even the ceilings are crooked. Try to live in this kind of house for a week, and you will find that your character How fast it becomes. You can become vicious, sad and irritable. You always feel that something nasty and bad is going to happen at once. All because of the crooked walls in your room, it seems The prospect of collapse at any moment threatens you, and you can't shake the premonition of an inescapable disaster. Fortunately, no one lives in these crooked houses anymore. At one time, people even tried to destroy them. but later decided to keep them, to educate future generations, so that no one would try to build such absurd buildings again." "Does this work?" Omniscience asked. "It works." Little Square said. "But not for long. There are some architects who can't get rid of old habits at once. Often one of them suddenly comes along and builds a house that you can't do anything about: you just stand before it, and there's nothing you can do about it. But at the end of the day Later, the famous architect Xiao Shuigua found an excellent way to build a beautiful house without spending much effort, and he also invented many new building materials. For example: the folding house that can be built with you Lightweight foam rubber, hot and cold, weatherproof diving cardboard, plywood for decorative sculpture and foam plastic for construction, it can't burn in water, it can't be submerged in fire—no, hell, ... it's in fire They cannot be burned in water, nor can they be submerged in water; there are colorful foamy phenol beans, which are made of ordinary pods, and they are not afraid of anything. You go to visit the house built by the architect Xiao Shuigua with construction foam plastic and foam phenol beans. Not far from here, it is on Creation Street.” The little square was walking ahead of everyone again.It must be mentioned that there are button soda kiosks on every corner in Sun City.Quanzhi and Xiao Hualian always felt that they should stop to drink a glass of soda when they saw a booth.They find it amusing and it makes visiting buildings less boring.Suddenly, Little Fang stopped, looked at his watch, patted himself on the forehead and shouted: "My God! I almost forgot! I have to go to the building committee meeting! There will be a decision on the construction of the rotating house. Do you want to go with me? I will continue to tell you the story of the building later. Go and visit the houses designed by Little Watermelon!" "I agree." Quan Zhi replied. "I've never been to a building committee meeting." "I'm willing to go too." The little thumbtack agreed. "Okay, I am willing too." Xiao Hualian continued. "But, of course, if it's not difficult for you." "No, it's not difficult at all." Xiao Fangfang replied with a smile. "Isn't this chopping firewood?"