Chapter 4 Pippi rides to school

Needless to say, both Tommy and Annika go to school.Every morning at eight o'clock, with textbooks in their armpits, they went to school hand in hand. At such times Pippi rode as usual, or dressed Mr. Nelson in his little clothes.Or she does her morning exercises, which include doing a dragonfly upside down on the floor and then doing 43 hollow somersaults one after the other.Then she sat at the kitchen table, quietly drinking a mug of coffee and eating toast with cheese. Tommy and Annika would look sullenly at Villa Villecula as they hurried to school.They wished they could stay and play with Pippi.If only Pippi went to school too.

"We're going home from school together, and you think it's going to be fun," said Tommy. "No, it's fun to go to school together," Annika agreed. The more they thought about it, the more they felt that it was a pity that Pippi didn't go to school.Finally they decided to come and persuade her to go to school. "You can't imagine how good our teacher is," Tommy said tactfully to Pippi one afternoon when they went to Villekulla after finishing their homework. "Oh, if only you knew how much fun it is to be in school," added Annika, pretending not to, "I'm going to go crazy if I don't go to school."

Pippi was sitting on a bench washing her feet.She didn't say anything, just wriggled her toes in the bucket, making water all over the floor. "It ain't long in school," said Tommy again. "It's only two o'clock." "Yes, we have Christmas and Easter off, and summer vacation," said Annika. Pippi thought while twisting her big toe, but still said nothing.But suddenly she picked up the bucket and poured all the water on the kitchen floor, where Mr. Nelson was sitting next to him playing with a mirror, his trousers soaked. "It's not fair," said Pippi harshly. Mr. Nelson was upset with wet trousers, but she didn't care. "It's not fair at all! I can't stand it!"

"Can't stand what?" Tommy asked her. "Christmas is four months away, and you have a holiday. But me, what do I have?" Pippi's voice sounded sad, "There is no Christmas holiday, not even a single Christmas holiday," she cried Whining, "It's gotta change right now. I'm going to school tomorrow morning." Tommy and Annika clapped their hands happily. "Okay! Then at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, we will wait for you at the gate of our yard." "No, no," said Pippi, "not so early. Besides, I can ride to school."

That's what she does.At exactly ten o'clock the next morning, she unloaded the horses from the front porch, and in an instant the whole town was rushing to the windows to see which horses had escaped.That is, they thought the horse had escaped.Actually not.It's just that Pippi is in a hurry to go to school.She drove the horse into the schoolyard, dismounted quickly, tied the horse, and slammed open the door of the classroom with a bang, causing Tommy, Annika, and their classmates to jump up in their seats. "Hi, wow!" cried Pippi, waving her big hat. "I'm here to learn the punishment table, is the time right?"

Tommy and Annika had told their teacher that a little girl named Pippi Longstocking was coming to school.The teacher also heard about her from people in the town.The teacher was very kind and jovial, and determined to make Pippi's life at school as much like his own as possible. Pippi sat down on an empty seat without waiting for an invitation.She was so casual, the teacher didn't care about it, but said politely: "Welcome to school, little Pippi. I hope you enjoy your time here and learn a lot." "Honestly, all I want is a Christmas holiday," said Pippi. "That's what I'm here for. All things be fair!"

"Will you tell me your full name first?" said the teacher. "I will register it." "I am the daughter of Longstocking Pipilota Vikti Alia Rulgardina Crusminta Ephrains, the former king of the ocean and the current black king Captain Longstocking Ephraine daughter. Pippi is actually just my nickname because my dad thinks Pippilotta is too long to say." "That's why," said the teacher, "then we'll call you Pippi too. But now, let's test your knowledge a little," said the teacher again, "You're quite old, and you probably already know a lot. Let's start with arithmetic. All right. Well, Pippi, can you tell me what seven and five are?"

Pippi looked very surprised and unhappy.she says: "Well, I don't know, don't ask me to do the math for you!" All the children looked at Pippi in fear.The teacher explained to her that it is not allowed to answer questions like this in school.And you can't call the teacher "you", "you" and "you", you should say "teacher you". "I'm sorry," Pippi said apologetically, "I didn't know about it. I won't do it again." "Well, I hope so," said the teacher, "and now I'll tell you that seven and five make twelve."

"Look," said Pippi, "you knew, so why did you ask? Oh, how stupid I am, I called you 'you' again. Please forgive me." She said, pinching her ear . The teacher decided to pretend to be indifferent and said: "Okay, Pippi, what do you think is eight plus four?" "I think it's about sixty-seven?" said Pippi. "Not at all," said the teacher, "eight and four make twelve." "Oh, my dear lady, that's too much," said Pippi. "You said just now that seven and five make twelve. There must be some manners, even at school. How can you be so stupid with this kind of nonsense?" Like, why don't you just sit in the corner by yourself and leave us alone so we can play hide-and-seek? Oh my God! I said 'you' again," she said frightened, "I'm For the last time, can you forgive me? I will remember it well from now on."

The teacher said yes.The teacher thought that he could no longer ask Pippi arithmetic questions, so he asked other children. "Tommy, please answer this question," she said. "Lisa has seven apples, and Arthur has nine apples. How many apples do they have?" "By the way, Tommy, answer this question," Pippi interjected, "and answer my question at the same time: Lisa's stomach hurts, Arthur's stomach hurts even more, who is to blame, they put all the apples away Where is it?" The teacher pretended not to hear, and turned to Annika. "Well, Annika, you answer this question. Gustav went hiking with his schoolmates. He had 12 cents when he went, and only 7 cents when he got home. How much did he spend in total?"

"Okay," said Pippi, "then I'd like to ask why he wasted so much, and whether he bought Sausage. And I want to know whether he washed the back of his ears before leaving home." The teacher decided to drop arithmetic altogether.She thought that Pippi might be more interested in Chinese.So she took out a picture of a green meadow with a chicken on it.The chicken has a letter on it: i. "Well, Pippi, now I'll tell you something very interesting," she said quickly. "This painting has a Jiiiiiii on it. The letter written on the Jiiiiiii is called 'i'." "Oh, I don't believe it," said Pippi. "I see it looks like a stick with a piece of fly droppings on it. I'd like to ask what the chicken has to do with fly droppings." The teacher took out another painting with a snake on it.The letter above the snake (She) is "s". "Speaking of snakes," said Pippi, "I'll never forget the time I fought a big snake in India. It was a horrible snake, you can't even imagine it. It was fourteen yards long, and it was angry. Humming like a bee. Every day it eats five Indians, and two kids for dessert. One day it eats me for a snack, wrapping me in its body—quack quack—I'm The sea has also learned a little bit, and as I said, I punched it on the head—the canopy!—then it barked—uiuiuiuiuiuitch—I gave it another fist—the canopy!—and then—ou— , well, it's dead. The snake is crooked, so it's the letter 's'? Very interesting!" After Pippi said this in one breath, he had to take a breath.The teacher began to feel that the little girl Pippi was noisy and a headache, so she decided to ask the whole class to draw for a while.She thought that in this way Pippi would definitely sit and draw obediently.So the teacher took out paper and pencils and distributed them to the children. "You can draw whatever you like," she said, sitting at her table.Correct the exercise book by hand.After a while she looked up to see how the children were doing.She saw everyone sitting there looking at Pippi, but Pippi lay on the floor and buried himself in drawing. "Oh, Pippi," the teacher couldn't help asking, "why don't you draw it on paper?" "I've lost that piece of paper a long time ago. I can't draw my whole horse on such a small piece of paper," Pippi said. out in the corridor." The teacher thought hard for a while. "Let's not paint, maybe we'll sing a song?" she said. All the children stood up beside their seats, except Pippi, who lay motionless on the floor. "Sing it," she said, "I'm going to rest for a while. Too much study will ruin your health." The teacher's patience has run out.She sent all the children to the school, and wanted to talk to Pippi specifically. When only the teacher and Pippi were left in the classroom, Pippi got up and walked to the teacher's desk. "I'm telling you," she said, "no, I'm telling you, teacher, it's really fun to come here to see what the school looks like. But I don't want to come to the school anymore, what's the holiday It doesn't matter if you don't have a holiday. There are too many apples, chickens, snakes, etc., etc. My brain is completely confused. I hope you will not be disappointed, teacher." But the teacher said that she was very disappointed, mainly because Pippi refused to be obedient, and the school would not accept a bad girl like Pippi even if she really wanted to go to school. "Am I not good?" Pippi asked in surprise, "but I don't know it myself," she said, looking sad.When Pippi was unhappy, no one looked as sad as her.She stood silent for a moment, then said in a trembling voice: "Teacher, do you understand? When a person's mother is an angel, and his father is a black king, and he has been sailing all his life, and in a school full of apples and snakes, he doesn't know how to behave well." Then the teacher said that she understood that she was no longer disappointed in Pippi, and that she might be able to come back to school when she was older.So Pippi smiled happily and said: "I think you are very nice, teacher. See what I bring for you, teacher!" Pippi took out a very cute little gold chain from his pocket and put it on the teacher's desk.The teacher said she couldn't accept such an expensive gift from Pippi, but Pippi said: "Teacher, you have to accept it! If I come back to school tomorrow, there will be a good show." Then Pippi ran out to the campus like a gust of wind, and jumped on the horse.All the children gathered around to pat the horse and watched her leave. "I'm glad I know the schools in Argentina." Pippi looked down at the children from his horse and said with air, "You should go there! After the Christmas holiday there, the Easter holiday is three days away. After the Easter holiday The holidays, summer vacation every three days, summer vacation until November 1st. Of course, it is a bit uncomfortable, and the Christmas holiday will not start until November 11th. But it’s okay, because at least there is nothing going on there Classes. Classes are strictly prohibited in Argentina. Occasionally, one or two Argentine children hide in a large cabinet and sit there secretly reading, but when their mother finds out, hey, they will suffer! Arithmetic is not taught in school at all. If a child knows How much is seven plus five, and foolishly went to tell the teacher, well, he has to stand in the corner all day. They only read books on Fridays, so there must be books first. But they never have books." "Then what are they doing in school?" a little boy asked. "Eat candies," Pippi replied without thumping. "There is a long pipe from the candy factory next door leading to the classroom. Candies are sprayed out all day long. Just eating candies will keep the children busy." "Then what does the teacher do?" a little girl asked. "Peel the candy wrappers, silly girl," said Pippi, "do you think they peel them themselves? Very rarely! They don't even go to school themselves, and send their brothers." Pippi waved her big hat. "Good-bye!" she cried happily. "You won't see me in a second. But you have to keep in mind how many apples Arthur has, or you will end badly, hahaha!" Pippi laughed like a silver bell, and rode out of the yard gate, so fast that the sand swirled around the horse's hooves, and the school windows rattled.