Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Meeting the Magician

After Little Pushpin returned to the hotel, he immediately regretted not being with Quanzhi and Xiao Hualian. "They've left me, and maybe something will happen to them . . . but nothing will happen!" she said to herself. She felt a little lonely without them.To relax, Little Pushpin turned on the TV.On TV at this moment a little scholar with glasses was giving a long and boring report on the little Hooligan. "It's as if there's nothing else to show!" said the little pushpin wearily. After turning off the TV, she walked up and down the room, checking the time after a while. "I've got to go to the zoo." She couldn't help it anymore, but dropped the idea immediately. "How do I get to the zoo? I really can't climb over the fence!... I have to wait for them to come back! I have to let them know how anxious I am for them!"

The bell rang twelve times, it was late at night, Quan Zhi and Xiao Hualian hadn't come back yet, and Little Pushpin didn't know what to do.She imagined all kinds of terrible consequences, thinking that Quan Zhi and Xiao Hualian would be caught by the administrator and sent to the police station.The more she thought about it, the more worried she became, and she couldn't sit still.She decided that something must have happened to them. She was about to run to the zoo when the door opened -- and there appeared little ignorance and little face at the door.Both brothers had disheveled hair and stared horribly.Xiaohualian's nose was scratched, and his face was dirtier than usual.

"What else did you do there, I don't know?" Little Thumbtack walked up to him angrily and asked. "Where have you all been?" "It's nothing, little thumbtack, don't worry." Quan Mo said. "Look, it's going to be all right, just don't be mad at me, I let the lion out!" "What? A lion!" the little thumbtack frightened. "Well, it's the lion in the cage. I went wrong and entered the lion's cage." The little thumbtack was terrified. "What a misfortune to be with you!" she cried. "You've played tricks with a donkey, and now you're doing it with a lion! What's the matter!"

"Don't get excited, little thumbtack, it's going to turn out well. I'll go and finish everything I'm supposed to do in the morning. I'll clear my head in the morning, and I won't be confused. I'll fix everything, and you'll see." Bar!" "You gotta fix it! Better not do anything. I tell you, I'm glad now that you don't have a magic stick. Give you a magic stick and you'll make a mess. Let's go home early tomorrow morning." I don't want to stay here for another minute." "Then why are you sitting back? I haven't finished yet!"

"What else?" The little thumbtack was startled again. "Our car was stolen." "It's so ridiculous!" cried the little thumbtack. "Then what shall we go home with?" "What did I say? Didn't I just say that? We'll get the wand—there'll be the car, and if we don't get it, there won't be the car." The next morning, Little Thumbtack got up early as usual.When she went to call Xiao Wuzhi, she found that there was no one on the bed.Xiaohualian is still sleeping.She woke him up: "What's going on? Xiao Hualian! I don't know where?"

"Is he not here?" Xiao Hualian asked after waking up. "Since I'm asking you, of course I'm not here." "Maybe I went to the zoo again." Xiao Hualian said. "Then pack up quickly, and we'll go too." Little Pushpin said. "Where are you going?" "To the zoo, of course." "There's a lion there!" "Lion? Probably caught long ago." After half an hour, the little thumbtack and the little painted face had arrived at the gate of the zoo.Once inside the gate, they walked quickly along the path.Xiao Hualian grabbed the small thumbtack from behind, looking around in horror.He always felt that, out of nowhere, a lion would jump on him.The little thumbtack and the little painted face can see the monkey cage and the unknown who is hiding in the corner from a distance.Inside the cage was a housekeeper, sweeping the floor with a broom.The little thumbtack walked quietly to Quan Zhi from behind.

"What are you doing here?" she asked. "Shut up!" Quan Zhi waved at her. "Here's the magic wand! Look, it's over there on the floor where the monkey left it yesterday. Now that the cleaner is cleaning up, maybe she'll throw the stick out, and then we'll get it and we'll be all right." The cleaner finished sweeping the floor, put the rubbish into the bucket, lifted the stick and stuffed it into the bucket. "It's okay." Don't know to comfort the little thumbtack. "Let's follow her now and see where she dumps the trash."

However, the cleaner didn't take out the trash, she went to clean a cage next door.She went from cage to cage like this, with more and more garbage in the bucket.Finally she was done cleaning and dumped the contents of the bucket into the litter box next to the rail behind the cage.I didn't know that I waited until the cleaner left, and then told Little Thumbtack and Little Painted Face, "Stand here and watch, don't let anyone come over." He ran to the box by himself, opened the lid, and climbed in. Once there was a loud coughing and humming sound from the dustbin, and finally, the little ignorant head stuck out from under the lid.

"That's it, wand!" he said, smiling triumphantly. The little thumbtack just jumped up for joy. "Wow!" she said, clapping softly. Quan Zhi crawled out of the trash can and walked on the road, carefully holding the magic wand to his chest with both hands. "Now I'm going to love it!" he said. "No one can take it away!" Little Thumbtack and Little Painted Face follow behind.They held hands affectionately.Both of them had smiles on their faces. "Now we can go to the circus and save Page," said Pushpin. "Ah, yes! I almost forgot the little page!" cried Quan Zhi. "Yes, hurry to the circus!"

He turned and ran for the exit.Little Thumbtack and Little Painted Face managed to keep up with him.Five minutes later, the three were in a striped button taxi.Quan didn't know that he pressed the button that said "Circus", and the car started to gallop down the street.Before they had time to look back, they had already arrived at the circus.They saw a few actors jumping and somersaulting on the stage—it seemed that they were preparing for the evening program.Quanzhi and Xiaohualian wanted to see it very much, but the little pushpin said: "Is this why we came here? Let's see later!"

"Okay, we'll see later." Quan Zhi agreed. Travelers pass through the rows of chairs, through the actor's entrance door, and into the backstage.This is a long board shed with a cement floor.Along the walls was a row of cages containing various beasts.There is a cage containing a lion. "It's a lion again!" Xiao Hualian said in surprise, "Maybe something will happen again..." At the end of the barn is the stable.The travelers came closer and saw a donkey among the horses.It stood in a small donkey pen, harnessed and fastened to a ring on the wall.The little donkey turned around, looking sadly at nothing. "That's enough for him!" Quan Zhi whispered. "I recognize it." Knowing nothing, he was afraid that Little Page would retaliate because he had turned him into a donkey, so he stood at a distance, ready to slip away in case of emergency, and waved his magic stick. "I want this donkey to turn back into a little page." He said quietly. But nothing changed.Quan Zhi waved the stick again, and said loudly, "I want this donkey to turn back into a little boy's little page!" This time, there was no change. "What's going on here?" Don't know what to worry about. He swung his stick wildly in the air and yelled incantations, but the donkey was still a donkey and had no intention of turning into little pages.At this time, the circus administrator came to them and asked: "What are you doing here?" I don't know how to panic and don't know what to say, but Xiao Hualian saved him. "We're here to see a show," he said. "You should come at night to see the show." The caretaker sent them out into the street and closed the door. "What's going on here?" Quan Wu asked inexplicably. "Why doesn't the stick work? Well, try again." He waved the stick again and said, "I want two popsicles." "Three!" Xiao Hualian corrected. "I want three popsicles!" Quan Zhi repeated. But no matter how many times he repeated the sentence, not a single popsicle appeared. "Listen to me, I don't know at all, you probably didn't hold that stick, did you?" Xiao Hualian said. "Why—isn't that one?" Quan Wu asked strangely. "Well, that one is enchanted, and this one is not enchanted at all." "So, according to you, where is the magic wand?" "The magic stick is still in the dumpster." "Hmph, I'm an idiot!" Quan Zhi yelled, hugging his head. "Okay, let's go back to the zoo!" A few minutes later, the three travelers were in the zoo again.Knowing nothing, he ran to the trash can, pounced on it like a tiger, and turned it over, dumping all the trash on the ground.The three of them worked together and rummaged through the rubbish, but no one could find another stick. "Look!" Quan Zhi said to Xiao Hualian. "There is no other stick, that is to say, this one must be a magic stick." I don't know how to walk away from the garbage dump and sit on the bench.He kept waving his wand in the air, muttering words. "Okay, let me try." Xiao Hualian sat next to Quan Shi and begged. He waved his wand and said: "I want jam bread! . . . I want popsicles! . . . I want cream noodle soup! . . . Little table, put it on . . . Bah! Damn it!" None of the wishes came true.He handed the stick into the hand of Quan Zhi and said, "Probably the magician has tricked you. He gave you a useless stick. There is no magic on it." "Yes." Momo mumbled. "I want to meet the magician, and I want him to know how he tricks little people into giving them wands of bad quality." I didn't know that I was bored to death, but Xiaohualian didn't worry all the time.Maybe it's not up to him at all, but to the Sun.By this time the sun was high and shining on the bench on which the three travelers sat.Under the warm sunshine, Xiao Hualian felt that it was good to live in the world.A smile appeared on his face naturally, and he said to Quan Zhi: "Don't worry, I do not know! We are not completely desperate yet, we should at least go to the cafeteria for lunch." "No, pretty face, it's always unfair. You say, why do I do so many good things? Hey, you know I did three good things. The most important thing is that I do them all in succession. Yes, not selfish at all." Just as Quan Wu was talking to Xiaohualian, a pedestrian came from far away on the road.He was wearing a dark blue robe covered with small golden stars and silver crescents shining in the sun, and red shoes with long toes and high curls on his feet. He walked very well in these shoes. Quickly, there is no sound at all.No one noticed that he went to the bench and sat next to Omniscience.He sat for a while in silence, with his hands resting on his cane, and squinting at Don't Know, who was talking to Xiaohualian. Quan Wu suddenly felt someone sitting next to him, he carefully squinted and saw a little old man sitting on the stool.He has a long gray beard, like a cold old man.I didn't know that his face was very familiar.Quan didn't know how to sneak his eyes down, and saw that the old man's feet were wearing red shoes, the toes of the shoes were turned up high, and the buckles were in the shape of a golden half-moon. "Ah, isn't this the magician!" Quan Zhi suddenly remembered, and he was so happy that he smiled. "Hello!" "Hello, hello, kid!" The magician smiled. "We met. Well, tell me, why do you want to meet me?" "Do I want to?" "Don't you? You yourself said just now: 'I want to see the magician, and I want to let him know.' What do you want me to know?" I don't know how to be ashamed.He lowered his head, not even daring to look at the magician. "I want you to know the magic wand," he stammered at last. "I don't know why it broke down, and all wishes can't be fulfilled." "Ah, so that's what happened!" said the magician, taking the magic wand from Quan Zhi's hand. "Yes, yes, I can see it's broken. It's totally broken, boy. That's it! Didn't I tell you? If you do three bad things, then the wand will be lost." magical." "When did you say that?" Quan Wu felt strange. "Oh, yes, you said it, and I completely forgot. But have I done three bad things already?!" "You've done thirty-three bad things!" said little pushpin angrily. "But I can't remember any of them." Don't know the answer. "I have to remind you," said the magician. "Don't you turn little pages into donkeys? Or do you think that's a good thing?" "But, I was very angry at that time!" Quan Mo retorted. "It doesn't matter if you are angry or not. Be good at all times and do good things. Then you turned the three donkeys into little people." "But, I didn't know that was the case at all." "If you don't know, you shouldn't do it. Think twice before you do it all the time. You haven't used your brains, so you have done many unpleasant things. Finally, you teased the monkey in the cage, which is also true. A bad thing." "All right!" Quan waved his hand without regret. "I don't know why it's always like this. If you're not lucky at the beginning, you'll be unlucky until the end!" I didn't know that I was so sad that I was about to cry, but Xiao Hualian said: "Don't cry, you don't know, you can live just fine without a magic wand. The sun is shining, why do we need magic wands?" "Oh, you, my little darling, how well you speak!" the magician laughed, and patted Xiaohualian's head. "Indeed, the sun is so good to us that it shines alike on all: those who have things and those who have nothing, whether they have a magic wand or not. The sun gives us light and warmth, and makes our hearts happy. Without the sun, there would be no flowers, no trees, no blue sky, no green grass, even me and you would be nothing. With the sun, there would be everything. Therefore Even every blade of grass is facing the sun. The sun is shining, why should we be sad? Isn't it?" "Of course it is Luo." Little Pushpin and Little Painted Face replied. Knowing nothing, he replied, "That's right!"