Chapter 13 former seventeenth official

At that time, I was working at the museum in Morio City. Since he is an official of the eighteenth rank, he is considered a very low class in the museum, so his salary is naturally insignificant.But the work I am responsible for collecting and sorting specimens happens to be something I have always liked, so it is quite enjoyable to do every day.Especially at that time, the city of Moriou was planning to turn the racecourse into a botanical garden. The large area of ​​land with acacias and beautiful surroundings, together with the houses used as ticket offices and signal stations, were handed over intact. When it was in the hands of our museum, I immediately took the name of being on duty, took my phonograph and more than two dozen records bought by installments, and moved into the caretaker's hut and lived alone.I boarded up a small clearing in the old stable and kept a goat.Squeeze some goat's milk every morning and soak cold bread in it. After eating, I stuff a few documents and magazines into a black suitcase, and with my shoes polished, I stride across the shade of poplar trees and head for the museum. .oh!The clear morning breeze in Naitohav, the still cool blue sky in summer, the city of Morio under the beautiful forest embellishment, and the golden and green green grass waves in the outskirts!

There are many people who are in it with me: Father Luo and Rosean Luo, Milo the sheep herder and those red-cheeked children, Timon the Landlord, Bo Gang the Bobcat Doctor.Testo Pago... Looking back in this dark and huge stone house now, I feel that everything is as infinitely nostalgic as the flashing blue slides in the past. Now let me quietly add a few titles to Itohav from May to October of that year, and write it down to tell you. 1. The fleeing goat On the last Sunday in May, I was woken up by the noisy bells of the city church. I realized that the sun had risen very high and the surroundings were brightly lit. It was exactly six o’clock by the watch, so I hurriedly put on a vest and ran away Look at the goats.But there was no sound in the hut, there was a hollow above the straw pile, but there were no short horns and white hair that should appear in it, "probably because the weather is good, the little guy ran out to play alone!" '

I had a smile on my face, but muttered in my mouth, I glanced around from the distant signal station to the field inside the cable where it was always played, and then to the church steeple looming in the poplar grove at the edge of the city. , but still couldn't see the white hairy head and body, and then went to the stable to check again, but couldn't find it after all. 'I don't know if goats, like horses and dogs, remember the roads they have traveled, the places they have been, and they can go home by themselves? ' I just thought so.This is great!I actually feel that I can't wait to know the answer immediately, but this racecourse is not like a museum. There is no old secretary who knows everything, and it is impossible to find a reference book that records this information.So I walked along the cable for a while, and then followed the same road that the village people took when they brought the goats last time, and went straight to the field.

The oats and rye in the fields in all directions have already sprouted, revealing a green spring, and the soil in some places has just been turned over, and it is probably ready to plant some seasonal crops. After a while, I found that I had left the city boundary and was on my way to the village in the southwest. A group of peasant women in black clothes with white cloths on their heads walked towards here.As soon as I paid attention, I turned around and wanted to go back, because I just got up and only put on a vest, I didn’t wash my face, I didn’t wear a hat, and I didn’t know where the goat was, so I fell into the middle of this endless wheat field.But it seemed impossible for me to turn around and go back. The group of women had gotten so close that their faces could be seen clearly.So I had no choice but to bite the bullet, straightened my chest, stepped forward and asked:

'Excuse me, did you see a stray goat? ' The ladies all stopped, and the Bibles in their hands revealed that they were on their way to church. 'A sheep got lost around here, I wonder if you have seen it? ' Everyone looked at each other, and one of them replied: 'Oh?We just came along the road, but there were no goats on the road. 'Yes!A lost goat doesn't roam the road like a human!I owe you: 'Excuse me! ' The ladies walked over. I was about to go back home, but thinking that I would have to pass through them when I turned back now, I might as well go for a walk for a while.But this walk was really meaningless, and I shook my head secretly and smiled wryly.Just at this time, a young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years old and a boy of about seventeen years old came towards here each carrying a shovel.Since there is nowhere to hide, let's just ask and be optimistic!So I made a salute:

'One of my goats got lost around here, don't know if you saw that? ' 'goat?No!Did it run away while walking with you? ' 'No, ran away from the hut.Thank you! ’ When I finished my salute and walked forward, the boy said behind my back: 'what!Look who's coming up ahead!Wonder if that's your goat? ' I turned and looked in the direction he was pointing. 'It seems to be Fathero, and seems to have brought a goat.Your goat must be right!It was impossible for Fatherow to take the goat out for a walk at this time. ' It really is a goat, but maybe it's just another goat that needs to be brought to the city to sell, let's go over and have a look!I walked towards the target in front of me, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy with rosy cheeks and only a vest on his body, a leather belt was wrapped around the neck of a female goat that looked very much like me, and he was leading it towards me with a smile. I'm coming.That really looks like my goat!I stopped, thinking about how to explain it to him, but the kid also stopped and bowed to me:

'Is this goat yours? ' 'should be. ' 'I saw it there all by itself as soon as I went out! ' 'Goats must be the same as dogs, remember the way after walking once! ' 'Of course, what!Return you! ' 'Thank you so much!You know I came out to look for it without washing my face. ' 'Do you live far away? ' 'Live at the racetrack. ' 'Is it there? As the boy untied the leather strap hanging around the goat's neck, he looked across the wheat field at the still green acacia forest in the distance shining brightly in the sun.

'Looks like I've come a long way. ' 'Well... then I turn back from here, bye! ' 'Wait a minute, I should really thank you, but nothing came out. ' 'No!I don't want anything, it's already fun to take the goat along the way! ' 'yes?But I feel bad about it.Do you want this silver chain? 'I thought that it would not matter if I didn't have a watch chain, so I reached out to remove the silver chain on the watch. 'No!No! ' 'The chain is still attached with magnets! ' The boy's face instantly swelled up, but he immediately said indifferently:

'It didn't work, and the magnets couldn't be found! 'A little absent-minded. 'What can't be found with a magnet? ' I asked the child in some surprise. "Hmm..." The boy panicked a little as if his privacy had been discovered. 'What the hell are you looking for? ' The boy thought for a while before making up his mind and saying: 'Polanon Square! ' 'Polanon Square?The name sounds familiar!What is it exactly?This Polanong Square! ' ' is a legend for a long time, but I believe it is more than just a legend. ' 'what!It reminds me of how many times I heard it when I was a kid.Polanong Square is a very lively and pleasant place in the middle of the grassland. It seems that you have to count the number of sorrel flowers to find it? '

'Yes, that's how the story goes!But I know it actually still exists! ' 'why? ' 'Because we always hear that sound every time we go out into the prairie at night. ' 'Then follow the sound to find it, or it will be over! ' 'We have searched for it several times, but every time we got lost in the grassland. ' 'Since I can hear it, it should be not far away! ' 'No!The grassland of Itohav is so wide and wide that even Milo would get lost in the fog! ' 'yes?You can look at the map! ' 'Does the grassland have a map? '

'some!It is composed of four pictures! ' 'You mean you can find all the roads and woods on the map? ' 'Maybe there are some differences, but generally you can find them.How about this!If I buy a map and send it to you, it will be a thank you gift for hunting sheep! ' 'OK! ' The boy blushed. 'Your name is Fathero, isn't it?How should I send it to you? ' 'No!When I am free, I will come to your house to get it! ' 'When you are free?That's it for today! ' 'I have to work! ' 'Today is Sunday! ' 'I don't have a Sunday. ' 'why? ' 'I have a lot of work to do. ' 'Work?Is it your own home? ' 'No!It belongs to the master's family, and the others have gone to the fields to weed the wheat long ago. ' 'Oh!So you worked for the landlord? ' 'Ok! ' 'Where's your father? ' 'It's gone. ' 'What about brothers and sisters? ' 'I have a sister. ' 'Where is it? ' 'Also working here for the master. ' 'Oh! ' 'But maybe my sister will go to Dr. Lynx. ' 'Who is Dr. Lynx? ' ’ That was a nickname, but in fact he was called Texel Pago. ' 'Texapolis?Bo Gang.Texapargo?The county councilor? ' 'it's him! ' 'That guy's a big bad guy, doesn't he live around here? ' 'Ok!From the master's house, you can...' 'Hey!What are you dawdling here? 'Suddenly there was a roar from behind.I turned around and saw a solid old farmer wearing a red cap standing there angrily holding a whip. 'I thought you had been working for a long time, and if you didn't come to check it yourself, you might still be kept in the dark!You are standing here talking nonsense, why don't you hurry up and go to work! ' 'Understood, then goodbye! ' 'Goodbye!Remember I always get home at half past five! ' 'it is good! 'Fathero snatched up the jug and rake, and hurried down the opposite path.The peasant turned to me now and said: 'I don't care how sacred you are, from now on I hope you don't get full and have nothing to hinder our work! ' 'No!Well, I was looking for my lost goat, and this kid just happened to find it for me, so I'm thanking him! ' 'Save it!Animals like goats can walk when they have a script.Hello!Faselo, run away!You idiot, you don't know how to run! ' The old man blushed and raised his whip, and swung it out of thin air. 'If you command people with a whip, won't it be too cruel? ' The old man deliberately moved his face closer to me: 'Oh!This whip!You ask me about the whip, don't you?Let me tell you, I am not using this whip to instruct people, but to drive horses.I just drove four horses there.You see, it's like this! ' The old man purposely took the whip in front of me 'crack!Snapped! 'Waved wildly.I suddenly felt a rush of blood rushing to my forehead, but now is not the time to get angry with him.So I turned my eyes to the goat, who had gone a long way along the road eating grass, and I walked towards the goat, while the old man walked in the direction where Phasero was going.After I caught up with the goat and looked back, I saw a large wheat field stretching to the navy blue horizon, together with the red turban of the old crop, swaying and dancing under the bright sun; , the gleaming white farm tools and the horses walking slowly like black shadows in shadow puppetry, and it may be Fathero, or it may be other children, waving their hands while pulling the horse forward.