Pinocchio

Chapter 14 Pinocchio is swallowed by the shark
In the circus, Pinocchio was put into the barn.The master gave him straw and hay, but Pinocchio had never eaten these things, so he vomited them all up after he tasted them, and was beaten severely by the master.

At night, Pinocchio was so hungry that he couldn't bear it, but there was only straw and hay in the barn, so Pinocchio ate them all with a frown.

At this time, the master came in, and he yelled to Pinocchio: "I didn't buy you to give you to eat or drink, now you come with me to the circus, and I will teach you how to do hoops and how to dance. Then you can earn money for me."

In this way, Pinocchio learned the circus from his master every day. If he did not do well, the master would beat him with a whip.Three months later, Pinocchio's acting skills were already very high, and he could perform on stage.

Today was Pinocchio's first performance on stage. Almost everyone in the city came to see his wonderful performance, and many children even crowded onto the stage.

Pinocchio's master dressed up Pinocchio beautifully. As soon as he came to the stage, the audience below applauded desperately and cheered for him.

The performance started, and Pinocchio obediently listened to his master. He saluted when the master asked him to salute, and made circles when the master asked him to do so. Everything went very smoothly.However, when the performance was in the middle, Pinocchio suddenly saw a beautiful lady sitting in the audience, with a puppet image hanging on her breast.

"Ah, this is my image! Oh! That's my mother! My fairy mother!" When Pinocchio found that the lady was the fairy mother, he was very happy and couldn't help crying a few times.As a result, he was severely whipped several times by his master on the back.When he looked up again, he found that the fairy mother had disappeared, and he was so sad that he shed tears.

At this time, his master asked him to drill a circle, which was Pinocchio's forte, but he failed in three consecutive jumps, and the last time he fell to the ground with a thud and broke his leg.No matter how the master beat him or kicked him, he couldn't stand up.The audience was very angry that they had paid money to see such an ugly circus show, and they all protested.The circus owner had no choice but to return all the money to them.

Now, Pinocchio's leg is broken, and he can no longer perform on stage, and the master doesn't want to pay for his treatment, so he decides to sell him.At this time, there happened to be a man who wanted to make a big drum out of donkey skin, so the circus owner sold Pinocchio to this man.

This man took Pinocchio to the seashore, and he wanted to drown Pinocchio in the water so that he could peel off his whole skin and make a big drum.So, he hung a very big stone around Pinocchio's neck, and tied Pinocchio's four legs with a very thick hemp rope. Then, he grabbed the hemp rope and slowly Slowly sink Pinocchio into the sea, and he sits on the rocks by the sea and waits.

An hour passed, and the man thought that Pinocchio must have been drowned.So he grabbed the hemp rope and pulled it up, pulling it, pulling it, and when he pulled it up, the man was dumbfounded: it turned out that there was no donkey on the rope at all, but a puppet.

"What's going on here? What's going on? Where's my donkey?" The man barked.

"I am the Donkey," said Pinocchio.

"Stop joking, you are obviously a puppet, how could you be a donkey?"

"I really am that donkey." So Pinocchio told the man how he had become a donkey.

"But, why did you change from a donkey back to a puppet?" The man felt very strange.

Pinocchio smiled and said:

"Just now you sank me into the sea. When I was about to drown, a large school of fish came. When they saw me, they immediately surrounded me. Some gnawed my ears and some bit my tail. , some ate my nose, and in the end, they were going to gnaw my bones. But my bones are made of wood, and they couldn't gnaw them off at all, so I turned back into a puppet."

"Oh, it's so disgusting. I will never eat fish again."

"Yeah, you'd better not eat fish in the future! However, I still want to thank you. If you don't throw me into the sea, I may never be a puppet again. If nothing else, we will Good-bye!" With that, Pinocchio jumped into the sea with a splash, leaving the man standing there foolishly.

Pinocchio swam forward vigorously.Swimming, swimming, suddenly, he saw a rock in front of him, and a little lamb was standing on the rock, its fur was all sky blue.Pinocchio immediately thought of the fairy mother, who also had sky blue hair.The little lamb seemed to have seen Pinocchio too, and kept bleating at him, as if calling him to come over.So Pinocchio picked up his speed and swam towards the rock.

At this moment, a shark emerged from the bottom of the water.It opened its mouth wide and rushed towards Pinocchio aggressively, sucking Pinocchio into its mouth all at once.Pinocchio bumped his head against the shark's teeth and passed out.

When Pinocchio woke up, he found it was so dark that he couldn't see anything.It's just that the wind is blowing in fits and starts, making Pinocchio almost unable to stand still.At first, Pinocchio didn't know where he was, but then he realized that he was in the shark's belly, and the wind was brought in from outside when the shark breathed.

Pinocchio walks around inside the shark's belly, not knowing what to do.When he thought that he was going to die in the shark's belly, he felt very scared, so he cried, "Help! Can someone help me?" But no one agreed.Pinocchio cried out again.At this time, he heard a hoarse voice:

"Son, no one can save you!"

"Who are you, please?" Pinocchio was very pleased to hear someone speak.

"I'm a tuna, what kind of fish are you?"

"I'm not a fish, I'm a puppet."

"Oh? Puppet? How did you end up in the shark's belly?"

"I was swimming in the sea, and it swallowed me up," said Pinocchio.

"Oh, we can talk for a while before the sharks digest us," said the tuna.

"I don't want to die, I'm still looking for my daddy and my fairy mommy. By the way, how big is this shark?"

"It's about the size of an island," said Tuna.

While talking to the tuna, Pinocchio noticed a light dancing in the distance.

"Tuna, do you see that light?"

"Oh, that's a big krill, probably just swallowed by a shark." Tuna said casually.

"I'll go and have a look," said Pinocchio, walking towards the light.

(End of this chapter)