Chapter 8 nocturnal adventure

Casper spent the rest of the day peeling potatoes in the kitchen of the great magician Chuwameng's house.The villainous wizard thinks that the number of potatoes he planned to peel at the beginning is not enough.At noon he ate seven plates of masa, and for dinner six and a half dozen gnocchi.He ate the dumplings with onion and Worcestershire sauce.Needless to say, the great magician was very satisfied and happy that night. Chu Wa stood up unhurriedly from behind the desk, patted Kasper on the shoulder affectionately and said: "This is the end of today, now I will show you where to sleep, follow me, Triebel!"

Casper followed the great magician through the corridor and walked into a small room to ask.There was only a bare bed and a washing-table. "This is your room, Zobel, and you will sleep here." "Here? In this empty bed?" asked Casper. "Oh, wait a minute!" Chu Wameng said. The great magician clacked his two fingers, and in an instant the iron bed was covered with a thick straw mat (Casper didn't know where the straw mat came from).Then, Chu Wameng scratched the tower with two fingers for the second, third and fourth times, and saw that the straw cushion was already piled up with shirts, eiderdown quilts and a pillow.

"Well, is this enough?" said the great magician. "Now I'm going to bed. Good night, Zobel." "Good night, Mr. Davenmen, the great magician!" Chu Wameng ignored it and walked out of the room.His bedroom was on the sixth floor of a tower house.Casper's room was on the ground floor, as was the kitchen.Looking out from the window is a vegetable garden.In the past, the vegetable garden was a forest. So, what about windows? There is no window grille on the window, you can jump outside by pushing it from the inside! "Not bad!" Casper thought. "Tomorrow, the great magician uncle will have to peel the potatoes himself again! .

Casper waited until it was completely dark outside, and then climbed out from here, after being free.Immediately go to rescue his good friend Zobel.As for how to save Zobel, we can think about it later, the most important thing at this moment is to escape from here! I wonder if Chu Wameng has fallen asleep? Casper looked around, then sneaked out of the window into the vegetable garden.Then, as if exploring, he looked up at the upper floor of the magic house.It was completely dark, and everything was quiet.That's it! The fence in the vegetable garden is not too high.But Casper wanted to step over the fence, but something unexpected happened to him: someone grabbed his top skirt and the back of his neck from behind, and dragged him back.He plopped.Fell a butt pier.

Who is it that grabs Casper and drags him back?Maybe it's the villainous great magician Chu Wameng? Casper's heart trembled, and he looked about tremblingly, but he could find nothing in the vegetable garden that frightened him, and he saw no one who frightened him. "Maybe I'm confused by something," Casper mused. "Try again, I'll start in another place now." Thinking of this, he started to do it. Casper stood up, took a few steps backwards, and sprinted towards the fence of the vegetable garden.He wanted to jump over, but he still couldn't, as if someone grabbed him by the skirt and dragged him back.Casper fell to the ground with a plop like a flour sack.

Casper lay still, staring blankly in the magician's coriander garden.He shrugged his ears and listened carefully, but there was no movement. "Hello!" Casper yelled. "Who is it?" no answer. "If there is someone, they will definitely speak!" It was very quiet all around.Only in the forest behind the fence were the trees rustling. "I must be mistaken," thought Casper. "As the saying goes, if you do it the third time, you will have good luck. Try it again... But I think it's okay to jump over it. Now go under it!  …" Using hands and feet together, Kasper crawled along the fence, looking for a place to get out.It didn't take long for him to discover that a wooden slat on the fence could be moved.As long as the piece of surgery plank is pushed aside, there will be a gap for him to get out.

"Excellent!" thought Casper, trying to sneak out.But he failed again.It seemed that someone was holding his legs and pulling them back vigorously. However, this is not enough. Unexpectedly, he slapped, as if warning him that he could not do this, and he slapped someone loudly on one side of his face.Casper was taken aback and cried out loudly. The shout woke up the great magician Chu Wameng.He lit the lamp, and with his nightcap on, he leaned out of the window of the sixth-floor bedroom to look down. "Oh, what's the matter?" cried the Magician. "Zobel, do you want to slip away, boy? Oh, Zobel, don't do such a foolish thing. To tell you the truth, in my magic house, you want to escape, there is no way. You want to get out of me, My permission must be obtained (but I will never allow it). Otherwise, if you try to escape, you will be punished more severely than before. Now, go to bed, Zobel. Don't disturb my night's rest again. Do you hear me? If you don’t listen, don’t blame me for…”

Speaking of this, Casper suddenly saw a bolt of lightning strike straight down from above, less than a slap away from where he was standing.Casper trembled with terror.The great magician Chu Wameng slammed the window shut amid gleeful sneers.