Chapter 14 Some other days in Amir's life, both good and bad

After the bad luck of the kirsch, the Renébelians remembered it for a long time, but Mama Emil wanted to forget it as soon as possible, so she didn't write anything about the tenth of August in the blue book, There is no writing of what Emil did on this unfortunate day.The day was too embarrassing for her to write it down.But on August 11th, she wrote a little bit, and anyone who didn't know the situation beforehand would be surprised to read the sentence she wrote: "God help me take care of this little swan, but at least he's not drunk today." That's what it says in the book, and it's a good word.What would people think after reading it? One might think that Amil rarely had a drink-free day.I think Emile's mother should really write things down exactly, but unfortunately she can't bring herself to do so.

It was also recorded on August 15th, where she wrote: "Tonight, Emil and Alfred went out to catch crayfish. They caught a total of twelve hundred, but then they made a mess. Oh, my dear darling..." Twelve hundred, have you ever heard of so many crayfish? It's a lot, you can count it yourself.I can tell you that Emile was very happy tonight.If you've ever caught crayfish in a small lake in Simueland province one night in August, you'll know why.You just know how much fun it is, getting wet and so attractive everywhere; it's so dark, so dark in the forest around the lake, and it's so quiet everywhere, you can only hear yourself walking in the water There was a "squeak" sound.If there is another torch to light, you will see big, black crayfish crawling around the stones at the bottom of the lake.Just reach out and grab them by the back, and put them into the cloth bag one by one.

When Emil and Alfred headed home at dawn, they had caught too many crayfish to carry, but Emil still whistled or sang from time to time along the way. "Papa will be surprised this time," he thought.In any case, Emil always tried to show his father what he was capable of, but he was not always successful.Now he wanted Dad to wake up and see the crawfish he had caught, so he dumped them all into the big copper tub that he and Ida used to bathe on Saturday nights, and put the Put it in front of Dad's bed in the bedroom. "They'll wake up and see my crayfish and they'll be shocked," thought Emil, and then, happy and tired, he crawled into his bed and fell asleep.

The bedroom was quiet, with the occasional snoring of Emir's father, and the "rustling" sound of crayfish squeezing each other. Emile's father gets up early every day, and it is the same today.As soon as the wall clock in the bedroom struck five, he threw off the quilt, bent his legs, and stretched his feet out of the bed.He sat on the edge of the bed for a while longer, trying to clear himself up.He stretched himself.He yawned, scratched his scalp again, and moved his toes.Once his left big toe got caught in a mousetrap placed by Emil.Since then, that toe has always been a little too hard, too weak, and needs to be moved in the morning.Just as Amir's father was sitting there talking and wiggling his toes, there was a sudden scream, and both Amir's mother and little Ida woke up from their sleep. The cry made them think that someone was murdering Amir's father.But this time it was just a crayfish clamping his big toe with its big claws, which happened to be the same one that was caught by the mousetrap last time.If you've ever been bitten by a lobster claw on your big toe, you know that it feels like being caught in a mousetrap.Even with a lighter bite than that.People will yell too.The lobster is a bad guy with a stubborn temper. After it clamps people, it goes all out to work harder and harder. No wonder Emil's father wants to yell.At this moment, mother Emil and little Ida also cried out, because now they also saw crayfish, and thousands of crayfish were crawling on the floor, which was really shocking!

"Emil!" Emil's father yelled at the top of his voice.On the one hand, he was still angry, on the other hand, he wanted to find the pincers to get rid of the lobster, so he called Amir to get it.But Amir fell asleep and couldn't wake up no matter how much he shouted, so Amir's father had to hop on one leg to look for it in the kitchen cupboard.Little Ida felt a twinge of pain when she saw the stubborn crayfish hopping across the room with the stubborn crayfish dangling from his toe.But when he thought that Amir would miss such a good opportunity when he fell asleep, he hurriedly shouted:

"Emile, wake up!" she cried, "Wake up, look at how much fun it is here!" But she quickly shut up.Because her dad gave her an angry look, and you could tell he didn't think it was funny at all.At this time, Emil's mother was crawling around on the floor to catch crayfish.It took two hours to get all the lobsters together.When Emil woke up the next morning, he immediately smelled the tangy aroma of boiled lobster wafting from the kitchen, which made him jump for joy. Carterholt Manor ate crayfish for three days in a row, but everyone was very happy.Amir also collected a lot of lobster tails, cleaned them up and sold them to the pastor's wife, twenty-five ole a liter, and he gave half of the money he got to Alfred, because Alfred was always short of lobster tails. money spent.Alfred thinks Amir is awesome and will really think of a way.

"You're good at business, Emile," he said.That's a good point. Emil has kept all the money he earned in various ways in a piggy bank, and he has already saved fifty crowns.Once he wanted to make a big deal by selling all his little wooden figures to Mrs. Petry, because she liked them very much.But thankfully he didn't, and the wooden people continued to stay on that wooden shelf, where they stand to this day.Mrs. Pat Ai really wanted to buy Emil's wooden gun.Wanted to give it to a little rascal she knew.But it didn't work out either.Although Emil thought it was too big for him to play with this kind of toy, he was reluctant to sell it.Emil nailed it to a wall in the carpentry and wrote in red pen: "In memory of Alfred!"

Alfred laughed when he saw the words, but he could tell he liked them.Emil wears a hat all the time and can't do without it.He hid it when he went to school the first day.By the way, now it's time for Emil to go to school, and the whole of Renébelia is holding its breath for it. Li Na thinks that Amir will not go to school well. "He would turn the school upside down and set fire to the female teacher!" she said.But Mama Emil looked at her seriously: "Emil is a sweet little boy," she said. "Although he accidentally burned the pastor's wife a few days ago, he has already sat in the carpentry workshop for this matter, so you don't need to talk about it afterwards!"

It was August 17th, and Emil was in the carpentry for the pastor's wife.That day she came to Katerhoult and wanted to borrow a weaving pattern from Emil's mother.While she was picking patterns under the lilac tree, Emile's mother bought her a cup of coffee.The pastor's wife didn't have good eyesight, so she took out a magnifying glass from her handbag.Amir has never seen this thing before, so he is particularly interested in it. "You can play with it for a while," said the pastor's wife lightly.She didn't know that Emil could play tricks with anything.The magnifying glass is not a bad thing, and Emil soon discovered that it can be used to start a fire.When the sun shines through the mirror, the light is concentrated to one point, which glows and heats up.Amir looked around, trying to find something to burn.The pastor's wife sat there quietly, talking to his mother, her neck rigid and motionless.Her pretty hat, with a few squiggly ostrich feathers bristling on it, looks good on fire.Amir tried it, not because he was sure, but because he felt that he had to try, otherwise how would he understand the things in the world? The results of his experiment are recorded in the blue book:

"When the feather on the preacher's wife's hat smelled burnt, I knew it. Luckily it was just a little fuzzy and didn't really burn! I thought he'd be better with AA, eh! Mr. AA Spent the rest of the day in the carpentry. Alas, that's it." Amir started school on August 25th, and anyone who thought he would lose his head in school was wrong.The elementary school teacher might be the first to realize that the kid sitting on the stool by the window might one day be city council president.Because astonishing to say, Emil was the best student in the class! Before he came to school he could read and write a little, and he learned arithmetic faster than the other students.Of course, he still did some mischief, but it was still within the range that the teacher could bear.By the way, one day he went to kiss the female teacher, and this matter was discussed for a long time in Renébelia.

It happened like this, once Amil was doing arithmetic on the blackboard, and he solved a particularly difficult problem.When he was done, the teacher said, "Okay, Emile, now you can go back to your seat." He did the same, but when he walked past the teacher, he bent down and kissed her hard on the lips.She had never experienced this kind of thing before, she blushed and stuttered. "Why...why did you do this? Amir!" "I do it out of good intentions," Emile replied.Afterwards it became almost a well-known joke in the village of Renéberia. "I mean it, when the Katterholt boy kissed the governess!" They used to say that, and probably still do! During the recess, a big boy came to provoke Amir. "You boy who gnaws on the female teacher!" he sneered at him contemptuously. "Yes," said Emil, "do you want me to do it again?" But he didn't do it again.Once you do it, you never do it again.The female teacher wasn't mad at Emil for it either, not at all. Emil did something else out of kindness.During his breakfast break he used to go to the orphanage and read the Smaelian Gazette to Stry Jogay and the other old people.So don't think that Amir never does good things. Every time Amir came to the orphanage, it became the happiest time of the day for the elderly.The old people in the orphanage: Stry Yogay, John Boss Yolay, Lee Krause and Calle Spouter all think so.Stry Yogay probably didn't understand much either.Once Allier read them a message that there was going to be a ball at the City Hotel in Exjo on the following Saturday.He clapped his hands reverently and said, "Amen, Amen, yes, it should be like this!" But Jogay and the other old people still like to sit there and listen to Amir read the newspaper, only the steward doesn't like it.Whenever Emil comes, she locks herself in the attic.Once she fell into the wolf pit that Emil dug, and she still hasn't forgotten it. At this point you may think that Emil has no time to be naughty, and you may worry about it because he is already in school.But you can rest assured about this, you know that when Emil was young, the children went to school every other day, which was very lucky. "What do you do every day now!" Stry Yogay asked Emil one day when he came to read the newspaper. "I go to school one day, and I'm naughty one day!" He replied matter-of-factly.