Chapter 27 the lover

the lover A top and a ball were in a drawer with many other toys.The spinning top said to the ball: "Since we live in the same box together, shall we be a couple of lovers?" But the ball was sewn with tanned leather, so she was as proud as a fashionable young lady, and made no answer to the matter. The next day, the owner of these toys (a small child) came.He painted the top in red and yellow, and at the same time drove a brass nail into his body.So when the spinning top buzzes, it looks very beautiful! "Look at me!" he said to the ball. "What have you got to say now? Shall we be engaged? We are a perfect match! You can dance, and I can dance. Nobody can dance like us both." People are so happy!"

"Hey, you have such an idea!" Ball said, "Maybe you don't know that my father and mother used to be a pair of tanned leather slippers, and I have a piece of cork inside?" "Yes, but I'm made of mahogany," said the top; "and the Mayor himself drove me out. He has a lathe himself, and he takes great pleasure in doing it." "Can I believe that?" Ball asked. "If I tell a lie, then may God not send me to be whipped!" replied the top. "You flatter yourself," Ball said. "But I cannot grant your request. I am half-engaged to a swallow: every time I jump into the air, he sticks his head out of the nest, and says at the same time: Will you promise?" Do you promise?' I've said 'I promise' in my head. It's almost half engaged. But I promise you, I'll never forget you."

"Well, that's not so bad!" said the top. They never spoke again after that. The next day, the child took the ball out.The top saw how she was like a bird, flying so high in the air that at last no one could even see her shadow.But she flew back every time, but as soon as she touched the ground, she jumped into the air again-either because she was eager to climb high, or because she had a piece of cork in her body.However, at the ninth time, the ball suddenly disappeared and never came back.The child searched and searched, but she disappeared. "I know where she is," said the top with a sigh. "She was in the swallow's nest, and married the swallow!"

The more Spinning Top thought about it, the more he missed Qiu'er.Just because he can't get the ball.His love for her deepened.The strangest thing in this matter is that she actually chose another object.The spinning top danced and hummed, but he always missed Qiu'er in his heart—in his imagination, Qiu'er became more and more beautiful.Several years passed like this.This has become an "old love". But the top was no longer young--but one day he was covered with gold; he was never so beautiful.He was a golden top now, and he danced till he hummed.Yes, this scene is worth admiring!But suddenly, he jumped too high, and he disappeared!

They searched and searched, even in the basement, but there was no way to find him. Where has he gone?He had jumped into the dustbin—here was everything: cabbage stalks, rubbish, sand from the roof. "What a wonderful place I've come to! My gold is leaving me now. I've fallen into the ranks of the untouchables!" And he squinted at a stripped long cabbage stalk beside him. One glance, and another look at a strange round thing that looked like an old apple-but it was not an apple, but the old ball!For many years she lay in a pot on the roof, completely swollen with water. "Thank goodness, now finally someone with status has come to chat with me!" Qiu'er said, and at the same time glanced at the golden spinning top.

"I'm real tanned leather, sewn by the girl's own hands, and I have a piece of cork in my body, but no one can see it in me! I almost married a swallow, but I fell on the roof I've been there for five years, and got soaked! Believe me, that's a long time for a young girl." But the spinning top said nothing.He recalls his "old love".The more he listened, the more he understood: this is her. Then a little girl came.She's going to take out this box of trash. "Ouch! That's where the golden top is!" she said. So the golden top was brought into the house again, to attract attention and respect.But that ball has nothing to say.Gyro never talked about his "old love" anymore, because when the lover stayed in the sink on the roof for five years and got soaked, "love" disappeared invisible.Yes, no one would recognize her when they met her in the dumpster.