Chapter 5 Pippi sat on the gate, then climbed the tree

Pippi, Tommy and Annika are sitting outside Villekulla.Pippi sat on the post on the side of the yard door, Annika sat on the post on the other side of the yard door, and Tommy sat on the post by the yard door.It was a warm, beautiful day in late August.The pear tree next to the gate of the yard stretches out its branches far away and hangs down low. The children can pick the most ripe golden-yellow August pears without much effort.They slurped and gnawed, and spat the pears into the street. Villa Villekulla is at the junction of town and country, where the road turns into a country road.The people of the town like to take a walk a little past the village of Villekulla.Because the scenery there is the most beautiful.

Three children were sitting there eating pears, and a little girl was passing along the road from the town.When she saw them she stopped and asked: "Did you know my dad walked here?" "I don't know," said Pippi. "What does he look like? Does he have blue eyes?" "Good." said the little girl. "A black hat and black shoes?" "Not bad, not bad at all." The little girl said quickly. "No. We haven't seen any such person." Pippi said firmly. The little girl was very disappointed and left without saying a word.

"Hey, hey," Pippi called after her, "is he bald?" "No, his head is not bald at all." The little girl said angrily. "He's unlucky." Pippi spat out a pear. The little girl hurried forward, and Pippi called again: "Does he have super big ears that go all the way to his shoulders?" "No," said the little girl, and turning around in surprise, "you mean you saw a man go by wiggling his big ears?" "I don't see anyone walking by wiggling his ears," said Pippi, "I only know that everybody walks wagging his legs."

"Hey, you're silly, I mean did you ever see someone walk by with those big ears." "No," said Pippi, "no one has such big ears. Ha, that would be ridiculous. What would it look like? Humans can't have such big ears." "At least not in this country," she added after thinking for a moment. "It's different in China. There is one. I once met a man in Shanghai who had ears so big they could be used as a poncho. When it rained, he got into the Under the ears, warm and comfortable. Ah, what a good time! Of course I mean the man. If the weather is too bad, he invites friends and acquaintances to come and pitch a tent under his ears. It's crackling outside The pouring rain fell, and they sat in the tent and sang their sad songs. Because he has such a pair of ears, everyone likes him. His name is Hai Hai. You should really see Hai Hai running to work in the morning, and he He doesn’t want to sleep, so he doesn’t arrive until the clock strikes in the morning. When he’s running, his ears are stretched out behind him, like two big yellow sails, you can’t imagine how pretty they are.”

The little girl had stopped and stood there listening to Pippi's speech, and her mouth was wide open at this moment.Tommy and Annika even forgot to eat the pears.They just listened to her. "He has too many children to count, and the youngest's name is Peter..." said Pippi. "No, the Chinese kid's name is not Peter." Tommy interjected. "His wife told him the same thing. 'Chinese children's name is not Peter,' she told him. But this man in Haihai has the most stubborn temper in the world. He said that the child should be named Peter, or even No name at all. He sat in the corner, pulled his ears over his face and lost his temper. Of course his wife had to forget it, so the child's name was Peter."

"Oh, really?" said Annika. "This is the scariest kid in Shanghai," Pippi continued. "He has such trouble eating that his mother's head hurts. You probably know that Chinese people eat bird's nest? His mother is sitting there holding a plate Feed him the bird's nest. 'Come on, little Peter,' she said, 'let's take a big bite for Daddy,' but Peter just squeezed his lips and shook his head. At last the sea said in a rage that he would eat the bird's nest for Daddy. Just don’t get anything for him to eat. Hai Hai will do everything he says. Therefore, this bird’s nest is eaten from May to November, and it is taken out of the kitchen for every meal, and then brought back to the kitchen. July 14th Mama asked Pod if he could have a mince pie the other day, and Sea said no."

"Nonsense," said the little girl on the road. "Yes, that's what they say in the sea," Pippi went on. "'Nonsense!' he said. 'As long as he doesn't do anything wrong, the little devil won't be able to eat this bird's nest.' But Peter just kept his lips tightly shut. Closed until October." "How did he live so long without eating?" Tommy was surprised. "He couldn't live," Pippi said. "He died. Just to make a mistake. He died on October 18. He was buried on the 19th. On the 20th a swallow flew into the window and laid an egg in the bird's nest on the table. It just uses this bird's nest like this, and nothing is wasted. It's not bad!" Pippi said happily.Then she looked at the little girl on the road and thought about something.The little girl was simply confused.

"You look so strange," said Pippi. "Why on earth? You don't think I'm sitting here bragging, do you? What's the matter? Tell me if you think so." Pippi rolled up his sleeves to scare her Say. "No, no, not at all," the little girl said hastily, "I won't say you're bragging, absolutely not, but..." "No, no, not at all," said Pippi, "I'm just bragging. I bragging until my tongue turns black, don't you know? You really believe a child can live from May to ten without food." Months? Of course I'm well aware that it's okay to not eat for three or four months, but this is from May to October! This is bullshit! You should fully understand that this is bragging. You shouldn't be forced to Believe their bullshit."

So the little girl left without looking back. "Humans can be so simple," said Pippi to Tommy and Annika. "It's absurd from May to October!" Then she shouted after the little girl: "We haven't seen your daddy! We haven't seen a bald man all day today. And 17 walked by yesterday. Hand in hand!" Pippi's orchard is really lovely.To tell the truth, it's pretty badly kept, but there's a lovely big piece of green grass that's never mowed, and there's a very old rose tree, full of white and yellow and pink roses.These roses may not be a very good variety, but they are very fragrant.There are many fruit trees here, the best of which are some very old oaks and elms that are almost useless to climb.

Too bad Tommy and Annika had few trees to climb in their orchard.Their mother was always afraid that they would fall and hurt themselves when they climbed the tree.Therefore, they have not climbed trees much since they were young.Then Pippi said: "How about climbing up that oak tree over there?" Tommy was so delighted with the idea that he jumped down from the yard gate.Annika was a little hesitant, but when she saw a large burl on the tree trunk to stop her feet, she also thought it would be fun to climb. A few meters above the ground, the oak tree forks, and the intersection is like a small room.The three children immediately sat down there.The oak tree spread its thick leaves over their heads like a great green ceiling.

"We can have coffee here," said Pippi. "I'm going to go into the house and burn it." Tommy and Annika clapped their hands. Pippi quickly finished the coffee.She baked the buns the day before.She stood under the oak tree and threw the glass up, and Tommy and Annika hurried to catch it.But the cups were repeatedly caught by the oak tree, and the two cups broke.But Pippi ran home again to get a new one.Then it was the turn to throw the bun, and the bun flew in the air for a long time.At least none of them broke.At last Pippi climbed up the tree with the coffee pot on his head, a bottle of milk in his pocket, and a small box of sugar. Tommy and Annika thought they had never had such good coffee.They are not allowed to drink coffee every day, only if they are invited to drink.Now at last someone buys them coffee.Annika spilled some coffee on her lap, and it was wet and warm, then wet and cool, but she said it didn't matter at all. After the coffee was finished and the snacks were ready, Pippi threw the cup on the grass below. "I want to see if the current porcelain is of good quality," she said.A cup and all three saucers survived the test.The coffee pot only broke the spout. Pippi suddenly decided to climb up a little more. "I've never seen such a thing before," she exclaimed. "Tree holes!" There was a deep hole in the trunk, hidden by the leaves, and the children hadn't seen it at first. "Oh, can I climb up there too?" said Tommy.But no reply was heard. "Pippi, where are you?" He called out worriedly. Then they heard Pippi's voice, not above them, but below them, far away.It sounds like it's coming out of the ground. "I'm in the tree. This hole in the tree goes all the way to the ground. I can see the coffee pot out on the grass through a little tree gap here." "Oh, how did you come up?" Annika cried. "I can't come up," said Pippi, "I'll have to stand here forever. You'll have to throw your food down there for me. Five or six times a day." When Annika heard this, she burst into tears. "Why are you in a hurry, why are you sad?" Pippi said, "You two might as well come down too. We can play in the dungeon." "Nothing at all!" said Annika.To be on the safe side, she simply climbed to the foot of the tree. "Anika, I saw you between the trees," Pippi cried in the village, "be careful not to step on the coffee pot! It's a good old sanitary coffee pot. It's not to blame for the lack of a spout .” Annika walked to the tree and saw the tip of Pippi's index finger through a small slit.She felt more relieved, but still anxious. "Pippi, can't you really go up?" she asked. Pippi's fingers disappeared, and in a blink of an eye her face was protruding from the hole in the tree above. "I can come out if I want to," she said, grabbing the leaves above the hole in the tree. "It's that easy to come up?" said Tommy, who was still in the tree. "Then I also want to go down and sit in the dungeon for a while." "But I think," said Pippi, "that we'd better get a ladder first." She climbed out of the hole in the tree and slid quickly to the ground.Then she ran and fetched a ladder, and with it she scrambled up the tree, and put it in the hollow. Tommy was so mad with joy that he couldn't wait to get down.The tree hole was very simple, and it was very difficult to climb there, but Tommy was brave.He wasn't afraid to climb into that black tree hole either.Annika watched him disappear through the hole in the tree.I don't know if I'll ever see him again.She struggled to look inside. "Anika," she heard Tommy say, "you can't imagine how nice it is to be here. You must come in too. There's no danger at all with the ladder. Get down once and you'll have nothing to lose." want to." "Really?" Annika asked. "One hundred per cent true," said Tommy. So Annika climbed up the tree again with trembling legs. The last stretch was difficult, and Pippi helped her.As soon as she saw how dark it was in the hole in the tree, she shrank back.But Pippi grabbed her hand and encouraged her. "Don't be afraid, Annika," she heard Tommy say in the hole in the tree, "I see your legs, and if you fall I'll catch you." Annika didn't fall, and got down safely to the bottom and came to Tommy.Pippi also came down in a blink of an eye. "Isn't it wonderful?" said Tommy. Annika had to admit it was wonderful.It wasn't quite as dark in there as she had thought, for the light leaked through the crack.Annika leaned into the crack to see if she could actually see the coffee pot on the grass outside. "We'll hide here when we want to hide," said Tommy. "No one's gonna think we're in this tree. If they look around here, we can see 'em through the cracks. So we laugh." "We can poke them through the cracks with sticks," said Pippi, "and they'll think there's a ghost." Thinking of this, the children were so happy that the three of them hugged into a ball.Then they heard a clang, and Tommy and Annika's bell called them to supper. "What a nuisance," said Tommy. "We've got to go home. But we'll be back here as soon as school is over tomorrow." "Come on," said Pippi. So they climbed the ladder, Pippi first, Annika second, and Tommy last.Then they climbed down the tree, Pippi first, Annika second, and Tommy last.