In the sixth grade, I went to the grassland to read wild horses in reading class.

Go to the grassland to set wild horses.

She is already there!

Andy sees grandma's black is low among the leaves from below.

Shoes and white lace pants. She sat on it as if it had always been her usual seat. She is knitting Andy's wool hat.

"Hello, Andy!"

"Hello, grandma! Have you been waiting long? "

She smiled and said, "I've been waiting for years. I heard that a large group of European starlings are visiting you ... "

"Stop it!" Andy pleaded. He is really tired of these poems now. Grandma shook her satchel and said, "How's it going? What shall we do today? "

"Riding a horse!" Andy said, "You may have one or two?"

"Unfortunately not." Grandma fumbled in her bag and said, "But there is a piece of gum!" " "

Andy got a real American gum, and grandma peeled it off. They chewed it without a word. Gum is so sticky that people can hardly talk.

"We can buy two horses!" Grandma suggested, "You ride one and I'll ride the other. It won't cost much! "

"no!" Andy retorted, "It's very expensive. I know it from my sister Crystal and my father. "

Andy chewed gum for a while and then asked:

"Grandma, do you have money?"

"It depends!" She stuck gum on a nearby branch and said, "Sometimes I am rich, so I will buy myself a new feather and put it in my hat, or buy a car." Sometimes when I am poor, I will go to the Woods to collect firewood and dig roots so that I won't starve to death! "

She talked about hunger, just like Andy's fairy tale book. Stories about collecting wood often appear in books.

"Do you have a cabin in the Woods, too?" Andy asked.

"This is a what kind of hut! This is a crooked and shabby hut. When it snows in winter, I plug the gap with moss so that the cold air can't blow in. Sometimes I shovel a path in the snow in front of my door and share my last piece of bread with some rabbits and roe deer. "

"For they won't starve to death!" Andy added. He is going to visit his grandmother in winter and bring some leftover bread. Feeding rabbits and roe deer in a snow-covered forest cabin is something Andy has been waiting for for a long time.

Grandma asked, "now let's go back to the proposal of riding a horse." Do we still ride horses? "

She took out her purse from her satchel and said, "Oh, dear! Oh, my God! " Andy can see from her sigh that she has no money today.

She clicked the spring lock of her purse again and said, "Then we have no choice but to drive to the grassland and set two wild horses."

Set wild horses! This is what Andy has been waiting for! But you need a lasso to tie the horse. Although I took out so many wonderful things from grandma's satchel, there was absolutely no lasso in it!

"I'll be right back!"

Andy climbed down from the tree and ran through the garden to the basement. He took the clothesline out of the laundry and ran back. He sat panting beside his grandmother in the tree.

"How do we go to the grassland now?"

"Drive my car!" Grandma jingled with a bunch of keys in her hand. Andy saw that it was the start key, the trunk key, the door key and the gas key. It can be seen that grandma really has a car! Andy asks about car brands. Andy is familiar with car brands.

"Oh, it's just an ordinary car." Grandma said and began to climb down from the tree.

"I had some small organs installed so that people don't have to get off when they are thirsty or want to sleep. You will see these. "

Andy followed her down the tree.

The car stopped under the apple tree. This is a large open-top racing car with blue leather cushions. If Joerg saw it, he would say, "Great."

Grandma sat behind the steering wheel and turned the start button, and the motor roared. The car quickly turned two corners in the garden ... then it went through the gate and flew into the road like lightning. They crossed the city. Andy leans gracefully on the red mat, crossing his legs. People look at the blue car with envy, which makes Andy feel very happy. He greeted all directions at will. Suddenly, his eyes fell on the switchboard with many buttons, keys and handles. He stopped looking casually. He stepped forward curiously and sat on the edge of the red leather cushion.

"Can I press it?" He asked and tried to press the key.

Press the first key to play the March: drum, trumpet, sonorous LADA. Press the second key to play children's songs, and grandma will sing along immediately, and Andy will open his throat and sing along. "A dwarf is standing in the Woods ..." A multi-voice song came from the sky-blue carriage. The traffic policeman stared at the car in surprise. Although this policeman is not a dwarf, he is a man with a normal figure; He was not standing in the Woods, but at the crossroads, but Andy was still very excited and waved to him in a friendly way. Press the third key to play the organ concerto. Pressing the fourth key is the opera chorus. Just press the tenth key. When Andy pressed the tenth key, Christmas music started. But he turned it off soon, because this kind of music really didn't sound right in go on road trip in the hot summer.

They came to the highway. Grandma drives very fast, and Andy tries to manipulate those handles for fun. As soon as he pulled out the first handle, the red leather seat he was sitting on began to lean backwards until it lay horizontally like a bed. Pull the second handle and put a pillow under Andy's head. Pulling the third handle, a sausage-shaped quilt covered his feet. This quilt will automatically unfold to Andy's chin.

"I can't enjoy this quilt on such a hot day." Grandma said, "Are you cold? Listening to Christmas music, I often feel cold unconsciously. "

Andy pushed the handle back. The quilt and pillow disappeared, and the bed stood up and became a seat again.

"To be exact, I am very hot, even very hot!" Andy said.

Grandma squinted at the sun and said, "Turn on the white switch!" " "

Andy turned on the switch and suddenly stretched out two colorful sun umbrellas from the backrest behind him and grandma. These two sun umbrellas are spinning and humming gently. They are equipped with electric fans, which can blow out cool wind.

"Is it comfortable?" Grandma asked.

Andy nodded, turned the black switch, the sun umbrella was retracted, and two umbrellas appeared. Not an electric fan, but a hot fan. If the umbrella is wet by the rain, you can dry it at once.

"My God!" Andy shouted. He quickly disappeared the umbrella and took out a sun umbrella that could fan the cool wind.

"Grandma, did you design all this yourself?"

"There's nothing to make a fuss about. My father is an inventor, don't you know? "

Andy doesn't know. But he was glad to have an inventor as his great-grandfather. If Andy inherited the spelling ability from his mother, he probably inherited the invention talent from his great-grandfather.

Grandma grumbled again and said, "I'm thirsty!" " You press that red button! "

Andy pressed it, and a small tray turned out, containing a bottle of raspberry soda and a cup. He poured a glass for grandma and pressed the yellow button for himself, because he preferred the taste of lemonade.

"What happens when you press these small oval buttons?"

"You try!"

Several small trays jumped out, this time filled with fried bread, pickled cucumbers in vinegar, boxed chocolate sandwiches and liver mud meatball soup.

"I have a good idea!" Grandma said, "I want to drink liver mud meatball soup." Can you change shifts with me and help me drive? "

Grandma wants to change seats.

"I drive? Children under eighteen are not allowed to drive! "

"Who said that? Allow! " Grandma screeched when she braked. She shook her feathered hat angrily and said, "Don't you think it's too much to allow children to do anything?"

Grandma swallowed the liver mud meatball soup in one gulp and listed it one by one at the same time:

"Children are not allowed to do:

Make a sound when drinking water;

Click while eating;

Make faces;

Bite and catch people;

Fight and fight;

Buy reminder powder;

Lick the plate;

Stick out your tongue;

These are strictly forbidden!

Anyone who likes to do these things must learn to be quiet, behave and be a docile little sheep!

I don't like these rules anyway.

In this way, this poem ends here. "

The poem is finished, and the liver mud meatball soup is finished. Poetic grandma licked the dishes clean.

"Why don't you drive for a while? You are not allowed to drive, but you want to drive, don't you? "

"I really want to open it!" Andy said.

Grandma pressed a button again, this time it was a quadrilateral button, and a drawer popped out, which contained an old shawl cloak. Grandma put the cloak on her shoulders, held Andy in her arms and hid under the wide cloak. Grandma cut two holes in her cloak so that Andy could look out. In addition, two holes were opened so that Andy could reach out and put his hand on the steering wheel and grandma's hand.

So, they drove together. Cars sped past fields, grasslands, villages and remote farms. A group of cows walking on the road were frightened and scattered. The ducks and geese were enraged, flapping their wings and quacking. When they blew their horns loudly, a little brown hen laid her first egg because of fear.

"When on earth can we reach the grassland?" Andy shouted from under his cloak.

"Soon! Let's go directly to the grassland! "

The grassland lies behind the mountains. The car meandered along the steep path. Then drive on the rickety wooden bridge, cross the rushing mountain stream, climb a mountain peak and gallop down from the other side of the mountain.

, came to the plain.

The grassland is endless. Andy got out from under his cloak, because there would be no traffic police on the grassland to write down his name and address. There is only tall and hard grass here. Andy was submerged in the grass when he got off the bus. Even grandma, people can only see her feather hat at most. Andy climbed back into the red leather seat, expecting the appearance of wild horses. The grassland extends to the horizon. Sometimes some short trees or shrubs emerge from the desolate grass. Only in the farthest place, you can vaguely see a group of things moving. As they approached, they realized that they were wild horses, and their manes were fluttering in the trot. Andy and grandma have heard the deep rumble of the pounding of hooves on the ground, and even heard the neighing and neighing of wild horses.

"Get the lasso ready, Andy!" Grandma shouted, "You choose, which one do you want?" I want a white one, so I will feel like a princess. "

Andy wants a dark horse. He wants to look like a robber king. Walking at the head of the herd is a dark horse with shining eyes and dark fur. He has a bad temper and his head leans back proudly, so Andy decided to choose this one.

Andy took a deep breath and threw the lasso out with all his strength. The lasso spins in the air, but it can't catch Andy's black horse or grandma's white horse, but it hits the grass between the running horses. The horses found that they were being hunted. A fierce hunting began.

The black horse selected by Andy was frightened and ran ahead. Other horses ran behind, and the car followed. A horse has only one horsepower, but a car has at least one hundred horsepower, so they soon caught up with the black horse.

This time, it's grandma's turn to throw the lasso. She quickly waved the rope on her feathered hat and shouted, "Hey!" The lasso flew out and caught the horse's head, and the frightened black horse jumped up with its hind legs. The wild black horse threw its head back and hissed, waiting for an opportunity to escape.

But none of this helped the dark horse escape from the lasso. Although it struggled and growled, grandma grabbed the lasso and drew closer and closer.

"Andy, take out a piece of candy from my bag! I have both hands, and nothing can tame a horse like sugar. "

Andy looked around in his schoolbag and found only chewing gum, but no candy.

Gum or candy seems to be the same to the dark horse. He sniffed and asked grandma to put the gum in her mouth. He rolled his eyes in surprise: this strange thing has never been eaten before! He bit, chewed, put his ears up, and his teeth couldn't open and close normally, which surprised him very much. He was so absorbed in this strange thing in his mouth that he forgot that he had been captured, so he obediently trotted after the car.

"hey!" Grandma cried again, spinning the lasso above her hat. This time, the rope caught the neck of a white horse. Its resistance is far less fierce than Andy's dark horse. It just screamed in fear, trying to run behind the horses that gradually disappeared in the tall grass. Andy also gave the white horse chewing gum, so it stopped screaming and jogged meekly behind the car.

They walked towards the grassland border. Grandma is driving, and Andy is holding a rope loosely tied to the black horse and the white horse.

"Can you train a horse, Andy? When we walk out of the tall grass, I will teach you how to train a horse. Believe me, the two horses behind me will form the habit of acting according to our intentions instead of letting their temper go. " Grandma said.

Andy and grandma stopped at the junction of grassland and flat grass. Those two horses have been suffering from chewing gum. They shook their manes impatiently and stamped on the ground with their hooves, raising dust.

Grandma whipped the horse with a whip to make it quiet. She did as well as the coachman. Then she broke the white horse's mouth and took out chewing gum. The white horse was grateful and stood meekly, glad that the sticky things were finally cleaned up. Even if grandma jumps on its back now, it will walk quietly and meekly.

Andy imitated grandma's appearance and bravely put his hand into the black horse's mouth to clean the gum for it. Then Andy jumped on the horse's back, but the black horse didn't carry its rider gratefully and obediently, but roared and ran away in horror. He jumped up, hung his head in the middle of his front legs and kicked and kicked. In a word, he did his best to get rid of the rider. Although Andy tried his best to catch the horse's mane, he slipped under the horse's stomach and hung there. He managed to get back on the horse. When he finally came to his grandmother, he was already sitting on horseback, clutching the mane of the dark horse.

Grandma is more like a queen sitting on a white horse, because she is a little too old for a princess. The white horse immediately obeyed her grandmother's orders. All she had to do was whip the whip gently and the white horse danced in circles. Grandma whipped the whip a little louder and the white horse began to jog. Grandma shouted, "Hello!" The white horse began to run like a racehorse.

"How can you ride so well?" Andy asked enviously.

"Ha ha, listen! I have been in the circus for many years! "

Andy almost fell off his horse.

"Have you ever been to the circus? You must tell me something about the circus! What are you doing there? Art rider? "

"Did everything! Artistic rider, trapeze artist, senior shooter, flying knife. I don't like it except swallowing sabers. This performance drives me crazy! Swallowing such a knife into your stomach is extremely cold. "

Andy sighed and said expectantly, "I also want to go to the circus, but my mother doesn't agree." Did your parents allow you to leave without saying anything? "

"My father is the head of the circus."

Andy almost fell off his horse for the second time. "I thought you said he was an inventor!"

"At first he was an inventor. Later, he invented a new cage. In this cage, the lion feels as warm as in the desert, while the polar bear next to him feels as cold as in the North Pole. Because of this invention, all the animals and circus members thanked my father, so my father stayed with them and became the head of the team. "

"I see." Andy said. He doesn't object that his great-grandfather used to be the head of the circus. When he led the horse to his grandmother's horse, he asked her again, "Do you domesticate tigers, too?"

"Of course."

"So we can go hunting and catch tigers together? ! "

"Of course, we will go tomorrow. It's a little late today. "

Only then did they remember to go home. Along the way, two horses pulled their carts, climbed mountains, crossed fields, grasslands and villages, and returned to the city. The sky is overcast and the sun is hidden in the clouds.

"How sultry the weather is!" Grandma said, "This is a good season for catching tigers in India. Oh, it's going to rain. "

"Is India far?" Andy asked.

"Quite far. India is behind the sea. Fortunately, my father is a captain, and he left me a sailboat. "

Andy opened his eyes wide, but said nothing. He reluctantly accepted the fact that he had a great-grandfather, who was not only an inventor and circus leader, but also a captain. He is a versatile man ... As time goes by, his great-grandson Andy will surely know what other occupations he has engaged in.

"That's a beautiful sailboat." Grandma said, "This boat can hold all our horses and cars."

They rode to the gate of the garden, got off their horses and went back to the apple tree.

"Did you sail well, Grandma?" Andy asked, "Is it dangerous to sail at sea?"

"Only when the storm warning is dangerous. I must put on my hat again at that time, please remind me! "

"What about pirates?" Andy asked, "Do you think we will meet pirates on the road?"

Grandma denied this: "Unfortunately, there are no pirates now!" "She shook her feathered hat regretfully." When my father was sailing at sea, he often met pirates. But now people must have great luck to meet real pirates ... "

Joerger came out of the house, put his hands in front of his mouth like a horn and shouted:

"Andy, it's time to eat!"

"See you tomorrow!" Andy said.

Grandma nodded to him.

When Andy looked up from under the tree, grandma had disappeared.