Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Three Bread is Transforming

Little Bread's personality has changed a lot since he became a worker pushing the magic disk.In the past, he lived a carefree life.Eat and drink, and in the spare time after eating and drinking, I would go to the seaside to hang out, circling on the magic disk or sea thrower, never thinking about what power makes these devices work.But now he knew from his own experience that no magic disk would turn itself without the dwarf to turn it. We have already said that each magic disk is a disc or plate mounted on a vertical axis.This vertical shaft was housed in a gigantic cylinder, which floated a short distance from the shore, and was fastened with iron anchors.The disc or plate just covered the vat, and it was more than half submerged in the water so that it was barely visible.From the side, it seems that this huge round wooden board seems to be spinning on the water surface by itself.

There are usually two workers pushing the magic disk inside the barrel.They stayed in this big round wooden barrel all day long, shaking their hands with all their strength to press the lever connected to the vertical shaft, so that the vertical shaft and the disc fixed on it rotated.It is not difficult to imagine how arduous and arduous labor this is. The inside of the barrel was dark, narrow, damp, and stuffy.The poor pusher was dripping with sweat.They took off all their clothes and only wore shorts to work, but they didn't feel relaxed.The water seeping through the cracks in the planks was poured into the vats.The workers who pushed the magic pan had to use pumps to drain the water. If they couldn't drain it in time, they would have to work in knee-deep cold water, which had a very bad impact on their health.They cough and sneeze a lot, and suffer from arthritis, upper respiratory infections, influenza, and even pneumonia.

Little Bread was so exhausted at work that he lay straight on the bed as soon as he got home, and only got up when he was eating.Even eating did not make him feel as well as before.Now, his only pastime is to go to the beach on holidays, and go around on the magic disk or the thrower by himself. "That's good!" he whispered with a gleeful smile. "I've been turning around to those rascals for a whole week, let them turn me around this time!" After a while, however, he found that spinning the magic disk brought him less and less pleasure.While he was playing in circles, another person had to push the magic disc with all his strength, panting in the dark, damp and air-poor vat, and the thought of it lost his interest.Later, he actually hated this kind of game so much that he never played circles on the magic disk again.

Now, there is only one happy thing left for Little Bread, which is to chat with the little squid who is pushing the magic disk with him in a big bucket.At first, the little squid looked down on Little Bread because he often went to play around on the magic disk.He said it was only played by rich bums who didn't know what to do with their time and who loved to squander their money, and that ordinary decent little people would be ashamed to spend their hard-earned money for nothing.Seeing that Little Bread is no longer obsessed with such a boring thing, the little squid stopped laughing at him.Now he no longer jokes with Bun, but talks about serious things, and sometimes reads him interesting books or newspapers.

One day, when they were walking home together after get off work, the little squid said: "I see, you're a good little fellow, and I can tell you a secret. We have a secret society here called the Freedom Pushers' Association. I can introduce you to it if you like. We meet often to discuss life and raise money. Buy good books to read, and subscribe to the newspaper together. You know, it’s hard to subscribe to a newspaper by yourself, but it’s much easier to subscribe together. We want to make all the pushers smarter and more educated.” "What are you going to do when you are smart?" Little Bread asked.

"We're going to fight these bosses with magic disks and throwers. We're going to fight first and foremost for bosses to work shorter hours. We're all tired and sick because we're sitting in wet vats Turning in circles, no fresh air." "How can I get the boss to shorten the working hours!" "Of course it is still difficult to do this now, because our number of people is still small. When we have more people, we will go to the bosses and tell them that we will not work for them unless the working hours are shortened. We announce that Strike. Then drive out the bosses completely, and we will be truly free."

"Okay, I like it," said Little Bread. He then decided to join the Free Traders Association.The gudgeon introduces Bread to the bream, catfish, and bass.They are also members of this association.In their spare time, they get together to talk about various things, read interesting books and newspapers, and even want to save money to buy a TV together. During that time, the newspapers frequently carried reports of a strike at the Scrooge's macaroni factory.Members of the Free Traders Association are concerned with the outcome of the workers' struggle with the rich and miserly.But soon, the newspapers began to publish news that a spacecraft had arrived on the moon, and astronauts from the distant earth were distributing large plant seeds to the lunar people.

As soon as Little Bread heard that the astronauts were coming, he immediately thought that it was Master and his friends flying here.He immediately thought of Phantom City to find the space rocket, because it was known that the rocket landed on the outskirts of Phantom City.But Little Bread thought later that he and Quanzhi flew away on the rocket without saying a word, which made those dwarfs who were preparing for the voyage ashamed, and the know-it-all would probably not let him go.Little Bread thought about it for a while, and decided not to go anywhere, but to stay in Duo Shen City and continue to do the work of pushing the magic disk.

At this time, there were more and more reports in the newspapers, talking about astronauts, talking about large plant seeds, and talking about the phenomenon of weightlessness that the police could not deal with.News that Scrooge's workers had mastered weightlessness and kicked Scrooge out of the factory made more talk.As soon as Xiaoyu heard about this, he immediately said. "It would be great if we could create weightlessness here too. We'd get rid of the boss too, and besides, it's a lot easier to push the magic disc in weightlessness." "Yes!" continued the little perch. "What if one of us went to Phantom City to meet the astronauts? Maybe we could get a handle on zero-gravity too."

Little Bread then said: "Brothers, I have been silent for a long time, but now I can no longer be silent, I want to tell you the truth. You know, I used to live on a planet called the big earth, yes Later, Tong Quanzhi flew to you together." Little Bread then told all his experiences.Seeing that he was telling the truth, the little squid said: "If this is the case, you should go and see your friends at once and have a talk with them. I think they will not refuse to help us if they understand our difficult situation. But this matter must be kept a secret. Otherwise, the rich people may hinder us."

The little gudgeon, the little bream, the little catfish, and the little perch didn't tell anyone, but quietly pooled up the money they had, and bought all kinds of food, put them in a satchel, and asked the little bread to take it with them. Eat on the road.Then, they bought another train ticket to Phantom City, and the five of them set off for the train station. "The most important thing is not to talk nonsense with anyone on the road," Little Grind said to Little Bread when parting. "As the saying goes, keep your ears out and your mouth shut. If the police can smell it and know you're looking for the astronaut, then you won't get to the astronaut, you'll have to Straight to jail." Soon the train came.After saying goodbye to his friends, Little Bread entered the carriage.The carriage was full, but Xiaobao still found a seat on the bench.Once he sat down comfortably, he looked at the passengers carefully and listened to their conversation. It quickly became apparent to him that the conversation was all about astronauts, large plants, and weightlessness.A traveler told that the astronauts are strange short people without long hair. They all have four ears, two noses, but only one eye on the forehead, and instead of using lungs, they use Breathe with gills, because they have always lived in water, and when they climbed to land, they walked in diving suits. They had no hands, but fins.At the time, Little Bread wanted to say that this was wrong, that the astronaut was a dwarf just like everyone else, but he remembered that Little Squid had once advised him to keep silent, so he decided not to speak. Another moonman who sat not far from the bun said that the force of weightlessness can break the arms and legs of the dwarf, and can grind all the bones in the human body into powder. Therefore, anyone who has been in the state of weightlessness He can no longer walk, stand, or sit, because there is not even a single bone left in his body, and the only thing he can do is crawl on the ground like a caterpillar or an earthworm. Little Bread wants to say that this is a lie, because he himself has been in a weightless state more than once, but the bones in his body are all good, and he doesn't crawl like an earthworm at all. This time, he still remembered that he shouldn't talk too much. The third dwarf said that he seemed to have read in the newspaper that the large plants growing on the big earth can really bear huge fruits. For example, the watermelons there grow as big as mountains, but these watermelons, and All other fruits are bitter.It is even poisonous and cannot be eaten at all. Little Bread was very concerned about food. He couldn't help it after hearing these words, and was about to tell them that watermelons on earth are sweet. At this moment, a little man in a yellow jacket sitting beside him Interjected. "Maybe it's all nonsense, brothers!" he said. "It doesn't say anything in the papers! It won't do the rich people any good if we have big plants, so they'll print nonsense." "You'd better keep quiet," said another little dwarf. "Do you know someone who rides with us? Maybe the policeman in plain clothes is sitting next to you. He can hear everything you say." The little man in the yellow jacket glanced fearfully at Little Bun sitting next to him.When Xiaobao saw this look, he became angry. "Who do you say is a policeman in plain clothes? Am I a plainclothes policeman? Is the police like me!" "What are you doing? Did I tell you?" the little man argued. "Then who are you talking about? You said: 'The policeman in plain clothes is sitting next to you', I heard it. Who is sitting next to him? I am sitting next to him! So, I am the policeman in plainclothes." "Brothers, hee hee!" someone shouted from behind. "We have a plainclothes cop here! He said it himself! He said, 'I'm a plainclothes cop!' That's the fat guy. No wonder I see him sitting there and listening to other people talking." "Stop gossiping, brothers!" someone shouted. "There are police here!" Quiet.Immediately everyone was reluctant to talk.People sat in silence, squinting at Bun.The only sound was the rattling of the wheels against the rails.Later someone said: "Not long ago I saw a policeman who was scalded on TV. He was so scalded that it was annoying to look at him. It was really scary!" The other dwarf frowned and glanced at Little Bread, and asked, "Is that policeman also in plain clothes?" "No," said the narrator. "The guy wasn't wearing plain clothes, he was wearing an authentic police uniform, but it was torn to pieces because he hung from trees and utility poles while he was flying. It is said that he fired a shot in weightlessness. In weightlessness it was You can't shoot a gun." "We had a policeman there who was pushed out of the car when the train was running at full speed," said the little man who sat across from the bun. "Is he in plain clothes?" asked the first dwarf. "Yeah, he's in plain clothes too, and he's a fat guy." Everyone laughed out loud and scrambled to tell various jokes about the police.Little Bread didn't know whether to laugh with everyone, or to keep silent, so at first he just sat and smirked without saying a word.Then he got up from the bench and climbed to the upper bunk, where he was out of sight.It was night now.Passengers began to make their beds and go to sleep.Some went to the upper berth, and some slept in the lower berth.Little Bread was about to go to bed, but somehow she still couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the night.He remembered that he had forgotten to eat supper, so he took out the bread with cheese and sausage from his satchel and began to munch.At this time, he heard the conversation of the two dwarfs on the lower berth. "Where are you going?" asked one. "To the City of Illusions," answered the other. "And you?" "I'm going to the Phantom City, too. But I'm not going to the Phantom City. I'm going to the Astronaut." "Why are you looking for an astronaut?" "You know, our whole village wants to get some big seeds to plant. Why don't they let me go to the astronauts and ask for seeds." "Do you know where to find them?" "I know. If you want to go to Uncomfortable Village, someone will tell me when you get there. The newspaper said that the people in Uncomfortable Village have already been to the astronauts and got the seeds." Little Bread wants to know which little dwarf is looking for the astronaut.He peeked down and saw that it was the moonman in the yellow jacket he already knew. "This is great!" Little Bread said to himself. "As long as I follow this yellow jacket, I can get where I want to go. How easy it is." In fact, it's not that simple at all.In the morning, when the train arrived at Mirage City, Little Bread got off the train and followed the little man in the yellow jacket.By the way, this little man's name is Crumb.At first, everything seemed to be going well.The yellow jacket can be clearly seen, and Xiao Bian has not lost him among the bustling pedestrians in the city.It didn't take long for him to notice that Crumb was going round the city, always on the streets he had already walked.Sometimes he seemed to be hiding in the corner of the room on purpose, and when Little Bun walked past, he would run in the opposite direction. "I met such a fool!" Little Bread muttered to himself. "If you don't know the way, ask someone!" Later, when Little Bread was exhausted, they went out of the city and walked on the road.Crumb seems to be striding on purpose.The bun fell farther and farther.After a while, a truck overtook our pedestrians.Crumb saw it from a distance, and he held up his hand.Cars drive past Bun.Stop the car well ahead.Breadcrumb begged the driver to take him to Uncomfortable Village. "Okay, climb into the car," agreed the driver. Seeing that the bread crumbs got on the car, Little Bread mustered up the last bit of strength and started to run.The car moved, but Xiaobao still caught up with it and grabbed the side of the car from behind.When Breadcrumb saw this situation, he grabbed the screw wrench in the carriage and hit Bread with his fingers. "Ah-ah-ah!" cried poor Bread. He couldn't bear the pain and let go, and fell down in the middle of the road with a plop like a bag of sand. "You deserve it, damned policeman!" grumbled Crumb. "Maybe you should stop pestering me this time!" Needless to say, Breadcrumbs took Xiaobang as a plainclothes policeman, so he did everything possible to get rid of him. At this time, the driver speeded up, and the car took the bread crumbs to Uncomfortable Village in a short while.Breadcrumb talked to the residents of Uncomfortable Village, who welcomed him very much, and introduced to him that the large seeds received from the astronauts had already been planted, and brought Breadcrumb to the field for him to see Newly emerged seedlings.Poor Breadcrumb was so excited that he even wept when he saw the young green shoots growing in some places in the field. "Brothers, the seedlings are still small, but that's all right," he said. "That's how things are in the world. All big things grow from small things." Wheatear learns that Crumb is coming to collect the large seeds, and volunteers to take him to the astronauts.They were about to start when Breadcrumb saw Bread limping along the road leading to the village. "Look, brethren!" said Breadcrumb in horror. "It's that damn plainclothes cop again! He stalked me on the train. He probably overheard me saying I was going to the astronauts." "Let's catch him in a while and give him a good lesson." Wheat Ear said. The dwarfs hid behind the fence, waiting for the little bread to approach.Jump on him immediately.Someone put an empty sack over his head, and someone immediately lifted his legs upside down. "What's going on, brothers! What's it for?" Bread cried, feeling himself stuffed into his pocket. "let me go!" "You've been caught, policeman, so it's better not to talk!" Wheatear said. "I'm not a cop, boys! I'm Bun! I'm an astronaut! I'm going to the rocket." "You've got a good idea!" said Crumb. "Let him stay in the pocket for now, or he will be chasing me again." "Well, you go with Wheatear. We'll lock him in the cellar," said a little man named Pinpin. He quickly tied the pocket mouth.Lest the bun should run off, and the dwarfs would drag the captive to a nearby cellar.The ears of wheat and the crumbs were gone, and after walking for a long time, I heard the roar of the little bread. While desperately trying to free himself from his pocket, Little Bread shouted, "I'm not a policeman! I'm Little Bread! I'm an astronaut! Let me go!" Listening to this shout, Wheat Ear and Breadcrumb just smiled secretly. When they came to the astronaut, Know-it-all ordered the large plant seeds to be brought to the crumbs, and also gave the weightlessness instrument and some anti-moon rocks in case the police made trouble, and then asked him if he had heard about the disappearance of the ignorant and the small What news about bread. "I've heard many things about ignorance," answered Breadcrumb. "There's news about him in the newspapers. But I haven't heard anything about Little Bread. It's that damn plainclothes policeman who calls himself Little Bread." "What plainclothes policeman?" Wan Shitong asked with concern. "There's a fellow on the train who's been staring at me," replied Breadcrumb. "He has been eavesdropping and peeping. After getting off the car in Mirage City, he watched me. All the way to Uncomfortable Village." "Where is he now?" the astronauts asked. "You don't have to worry, brothers!" Wheatear said. "We pocketed him and locked him in the cellar." "What does he look like?" Asked the Know-It-All. "How can I tell you..." Breadcrumb said. "He's plump, with a face like a doughnut..." "Pumpy?" Called the Know-It-All. "Perhaps this is our bun?" Upon hearing this, Little Screw and Little Chisel immediately ran to the motocross bike and drove to Uncomfortable Village a minute later.In less than an hour, they came back with Bun, and the astronauts boarded motorcycles from the surrounding area. Little Bread hasn't come to his senses after meeting the little screw and the little chisel. He sits on the motorcycle and looks at the know-it-all, the fuchsia and the little herring, the little tin tube and the doctor's little pill, All astronauts.He was too excited to say a word.Then he said, "Brothers!" and wept. The little guys helped him off the motorcycle and comforted him, but he went up to everyone, hugged them to his chest, wiped his tears with his fists and said, "Brothers! Brothers!  …" I couldn't ask him any more questions. The little screw and the little chisel said that when they poured the buns out of their pockets, at first he cried loudly, but then he just tossed and said, "Brothers, brothers", as if he forgot There are other words in the world. The doctor Xiaoyao said, it doesn't matter.Little Bread was frightened, and he will recover soon, as before, talking like all normal dwarfs.Just give him something to eat, and then he'll be back to normal. This is indeed the case.People let Xiaobao sit at the table, and put a plate of beetroot soup and a plate of rice in front of him.Little Bun quickly ate it all up, and then talked about his experience.How did he secretly board the rocket without knowing it, and when they reached the moon, how did they roam on the moon!Quan didn't know how he fell into the world under the moon, leaving Little Bread alone, how he stayed in the rocket until he ate up all the food in the reserve; later he also fell into the world under the moon, and came to the city of many gods, where In the salt business; he made his fortune at first, went bankrupt, worked as a magic-pan pusher, and became a member of the Association of Free Tray Pushers. "That's all, brothers. I came to you this time to ask you for a little weightlessness. This will reduce the heavy labor of the workers who push the magic disk, and it will also help us get rid of the greedy boss," Xiao Bun concluded. . "I don't know what's going on? Have you never met him again?" Asked the know-it-all. "Hey, I don't know anything!" Little Bun waved his hands contemptuously. "I don't even want to talk about him. Yes, I think, there's nothing at all to know now." "Did he die?" asked the dwarfs sadly. "If he died, it would be nothing to be afraid of. But he has become a sheep!" Little Bread said loudly. "The police caught him and sent him to the Isle of Fools. Whoever gets to that island sooner or later becomes a ewe or a ram." "Why did you send him to Fool Island?" "Because he bought short and sold short." "What's the matter with buying short and selling short?" Everyone asked in amazement. "Hey, that's the way it is. If a guy sells something he doesn't have, they say he's short. Don't know he tried to sell a big seed he didn't have, so he got punished for it. That's what the papers say of." "I said, Little Bread, can't you think of a way to save Quan Wu?" Little Herring asked. "Perhaps he hasn't had time to become a ram or a ewe. We can't leave him to suffer!" Little Bread thought deeply.Later said: "Could you give me another plate of rice? I have a plan that might be about to mature." Immediately bring him a plate of rice.He finished eating and said: "My plan is mature. We want to get a ship to carry the moonmen to Fool Island. Usually, this kind of ship always comes to our city of gods. Let's release the moonmen. They I will only thank us, and then we will go to save Quan Shi by ourselves." "Do you know where to find Fool Island?" Know-it-all asked Little Bread. "Don't worry about that," Little Bread replied. "Let's bring an old sailor. We have a lot of old sailors in the city of gods. I even know an unemployed captain, Xiao Fang. Anyway, it's a trivial matter. As long as there is a boat, the captain can be found!"