There is a small town in Sweden. There is a messy old orchard at the head of the town. There is a small house in the orchard, and the Pippi Longstocking we are going to talk about lives in the small house.Pippi Longstocking was nine years old and all alone.She doesn't have a mom or a dad, which isn't too bad, because she won't be told to go to bed when she's having fun, or forced to eat cod liver oil when she's craving mints . Pippi had a father, and she loved her father very much.Of course she had a mother too, but that was a long, long time ago.Pippi's mother died very early. At that time, Pippi was just a nursing baby, lying in the cradle, crying so terribly that no one dared to come to her.Pippi believed that her mother was living in the sky now, making a small hole there to see the little girl below her.Pippi often waved to her and told her:

"Don't worry, Mom! I'll take care of myself!" Pippi has not forgotten her father.Her father was a sea captain, and Pippi sailed across the sea with him.Later he encountered a storm, was blown into the sea, and disappeared.But Pippi was sure that he would come back one day, because she couldn't believe that her father had drowned.She thought her father must have landed on a desert island, one of those desert islands where there are many Negroes, and was their king, with a golden crown on his head all day long. "My mother is an angel, and my father is a black king. How many children can have such good parents!" Pippi said, feeling really happy. "One day my dad builds himself a boat. He'll come and take me, and I'll be a black princess. What a day!"

The old house in the orchard was bought by her father many, many years ago.He wanted to live here with Pippi when he was old and stopped going to sea.But unfortunately he was blown into the sea later.Pippi decided that Papa would come back, so she went directly to the Villekulla to wait for him to come home.Villa Villekulla was the name of the little house.It was all furnished inside, just waiting for her to come.One beautiful summer evening she said good-bye to all the sailors on her father's boat.They love Pippi very much, and Pippi loves them very much. "Good-bye, boys," said Pippi, kissing their foreheads one by one, "don't worry about me. I'll take care of myself!"

She took two things from the boat: a little monkey named Mr. Nelson (given to her by her father) and a large suitcase full of gold coins.The sailors stood by the rail and watched Pippi until she disappeared.She walked on without looking back, with Mr. Nelson squatting on her shoulders, clutching the big suitcase. "A marvelous boy," said a sailor, wiping away tears, when Pippi was out of sight. He is right.Pippi was a wonderful child, and the most remarkable thing was her strength.She is so strong that no policeman in the world can match her.She can lift a horse whenever she pleases.And speaking of horses, sometimes she wished she had one.It was for this reason that Pippi bought himself a horse for one gold coin on the day he arrived at Villekulla.She'd always wanted a horse, and now she had one of her own, which she kept on her front porch.When Pippi was going to have tea on the front porch in the afternoon, she lifted the horse out in the orchard.

There is also an orchard and a small house next door to Villekulla.In that little house lived a mother, a father and their two lovely children, a boy named Tommy and a girl named Annika.They are both very nice, well behaved and obedient.Tommy never bit his nails, and he did what his mother told him to do.Annika never lost her temper when she didn't like her, and she always wore her freshly ironed sarongs neatly.Tommy and Annika had a great time playing together in their orchard, but they wished they had a friend to play with them.When Pippi had been sailing with her father, they sometimes leaned on the fence and said:

"It's a pity that no one lives in that house! People should live there, and there should be children." On that beautiful summer day when Tommy and Annika were not at home, Pippi crossed the threshold of Villekulla for the first time.They stayed at their grandma's house for a week, so they didn't know that the house next door was occupied.On the first day they returned home, they stood at the gate of the yard and looked out at the street, still unaware that there was a child with whom they could play together.They're standing there not knowing what to do, not knowing what's going to happen this day, whether it will still be a boring day with no new tricks to play, but at this moment, hey, Villekula Zhuang's courtyard door opened, and a little girl appeared.It was the weirdest little girl Tommy and Annika had ever seen.This was Pippi Longstocking, who was going out for a walk in the morning.Here's what she looked like:

Her hair was the color of a carrot, in two braids sticking up at the sides, and her nose was like a small potato, dotted with freckles.Under the nose is an out-and-out big mouth with two rows of neat white teeth.Her dress was very strange, and Pippi had made it herself.It was supposed to be pure blue, but later there wasn't enough blue cloth, so Pippi added little red strips here and there.She wore long stockings, one brown and one black, on her long, thin legs.She was wearing black leather shoes twice as long as her feet.This pair of leather shoes was bought by her father in South America when she grew up to wear them, but with these shoes, Pippi doesn't want any other shoes.

It was the monkey who made Tommy and Annika squish their eyes.It squatted on the shoulders of that weird little girl, with a small body and a long tail, wearing blue trousers, a yellow jacket, and a white straw hat. Pippi walked down the street with one foot on the sidewalk and the other under the sidewalk.Tommy and Annika stared at her until she was out of sight.In a blink of an eye she came back again, this time walking backwards.This would save her from having to turn around and walk home.She stopped at the gate of Tommy and Annika's yard.The two children looked at each other in silence.At last Tommy asked the little girl:

"Why are you walking backwards?" "Why do I walk backwards?" Pippi asked them back. "Isn't this a free country? Can't I walk as I like? Tell you, everyone in Egypt walks like this, and no one thinks it's the slightest thing." strangeness." "Everyone walks backwards in Egypt? How do you know that?" asked Tommy. "You have never been to Egypt." "I've never been to Egypt! Of course I have, that's for sure. I've been all over the world, and I've seen stranger things than walking backwards. I don't know if I walk upside down like the Indochinese. What would you say?"

"That's impossible," said Tommy. Pippi thought for a moment. "Yes, you are right. I lied," she said sadly. "It's not good to lie." Annika finally had something to say. "Yeah, it's very, very bad to lie," said Pippi, more sadly, "I sometimes forget. A kid whose mother is an angel and whose father is a black king who has sailed all his life, how can you expect the child to always say What about the truth? And,” she said, smiling across her freckled face, “I can tell you that no one in the Congo tells the truth. They brag day and night, from seven in the morning until sundown. So, in case I Blow a few words from time to time, please forgive me, remember it's just because I've lived in the Congo a little too long. We can still make friends. Right?"

"Of course," said Tommy, knowing that the day would not be boring. "Then why don't you come to my house for breakfast?" asked Pippi. "Well, yes," said Tommy, "why not? Let's go!" "Okay," said Annika, "here we go!" "But first let me introduce Mr. Nelson," said Pippi.The monkey immediately raised his hat politely. So they went together through the crumbling orchard gate of Villekulla, passed the path between the two rows of mossy fruit trees (they could see how strong they were when they saw them), came to the front of the house, and went up to the front of the house. gallery.A horse was munching oats from a large soup bowl. "Why did you put a horse on the porch?" Tommy asked.He knew that horses were kept in stables. "Well," replied Pippi after a moment's thought, "it gets in the way in the kitchen, and it's not used to it in the living room." Tommy and Annika patted the horse and went into the house.Inside there is a kitchen, a living room and a bedroom.It seems that Pippi hasn't cleaned in a week.Tommy and Annika looked carefully to and fro, lest the Negro King be in any corner.They were born without seeing a black king.But they saw neither papa nor mamma, and Annika asked anxiously: "Do you live here all alone?" "Of course not," said Pippi. "Mr. Nelson lives here, too." "Yes, but don't your mother and father live here?" "Not one," Pippi said happily. "So who put you to bed at night or something?" Annika asked. "I bark myself," said Pippi, "I bark very politely the first time, and if I don't listen, I bark again, but it's much harder, and if I still don't listen, then spank, yes! " Tommy and Annika couldn't quite understand her, but they thought it might be a good idea. Tommy and Annika followed Pippi to the kitchen, and Pippi yelled: "Here comes the scones! "Here's to making cakes! "Here comes the pancakes!" As she spoke, she took out three eggs and threw them into the air.An egg fell on top of her head and broke, and the yolk ran down and onto her eyes.She happened to catch the other two eggs in a bowl, and the eggs broke in the bowl. "I've always heard that egg yolks are good for hair," said Pippi, rubbing his eyes. "You can watch your hair grow! In Brazil, everyone rubs their hair with eggs. There isn't a single bald head there. There is one." Well, an old man is so weird that he eats eggs instead of wiping his hair. He becomes bald as a result. As soon as he goes out into the street, the traffic is blocked, and people have to call the police.” As Pippi said, he carefully picked out the egg shells in the bowl with his fingers.Then she picked up the bath brush hanging by the wall and stirred the eggs so hard that they spilled all over the wall.Finally she dumped the rest of the eggs in the bowl into the pan on the stove.When it was browned on one side, she tossed it up to the ceiling, where it flipped over in mid-air and fell back onto the pan.Once it was done, she tossed the cake across the kitchen, where it landed on a plate on the table. "Eat," she cried, "while it's hot!" Tommy and Annika listened to her work and ate it, and thought the pancakes were delicious.Then Pippi invited them into the living room.There is only one piece of furniture inside.It was a very large cabinet with many, many small drawers.Pippi pulled out drawers one by one, and let Tommy and Annika admire the treasures inside.Among them were strange bird eggs, rare seashells and small stones, lovely little boxes, beautiful glasses, a string of pearl necklaces, and so on, all bought by Pippi and her father when they traveled around the world.Pippi gave each of her two new friends something.Tommy was given a knife with a shiny mother-of-pearl handle; and Annika a little box with a shell-covered lid and an emerald ring inside. "If you go home now," said Pippi, "you can come back tomorrow. If you don't go home, you won't be able to. That's a pity." You come only when you go, and Tommy and Annika thought so too, and went home.They passed the horse, which had eaten up its oats, and came out of the gate of the Villekulla estate.Mr. Nelson waved his hat at them as they went.