Sunday. Many guests came to Lu Xixi's house, and her mother was busy cooking in the kitchen. Lu Xixi is playing in her room.

"Lu Xixi——" Mother's voice came from the kitchen.

Lu Xixi ran into the kitchen: "What are you doing?"

"Help mom with some work." Mom wiped her hands on her apron and took out a tube of meat from the refrigerator. Can, "Open this can."

Lu Xixi took the can, found the can opener from the cupboard, and returned to her room.

Lu Xixi usually likes to do "technical" tasks like opening cans, such as opening soda bottle caps and opening wine bottle caps for her father. She and her brother Pipilu compete to do it. But things like washing vegetables and picking sand out of rice are the things she hates doing the most.

As for my mother, she always likes to ask Lu Xixi to help her with things. Although Lu Xixi and Pipilu are twin brothers and sisters, their personalities are completely different. Pipilu is naturally naughty and is known as a underachiever in school with extremely poor academic performance. He often got into trouble at home and was scolded by his parents almost every day. Lu Xixi is different from her brother. She is an excellent student in school and ranks among the best in school. Listen to your parents at home and never get into trouble.

Lu Xixi placed the can on the stool and inserted the can opener into the iron cylinder. The can opener turned the can opener half a circle and made a slit. Lu Xixi took out the can opener and opened the can. Lu Xixi just brought the can to her nose and smelled the fragrance as usual, when her eyes suddenly stared motionlessly into the can. Lu Xixi was shocked: there were five little people as tall as matchsticks in the can!

Lu Xixi took a look at the trademark on the can. Yes, it was a can of meat! The little people in the can were People were blinded by the sudden bright light, and they covered their eyes with their hands. Lu Xixi took a closer look and saw that the villain looked exactly like a human being, with arms and legs. Except for being small, they are all the same!

"Who are you?" asked a voice.

Lu Xixi looked at the door, but there was no one there. The sound coming from the can! The little man in the can can talk! Lu Xixi was so excited that she couldn't breathe.

"My name is Lu Xixi, who are you?"

"We don't know, anyway, we have been living in this iron tube." A slightly taller man explain.

“How can you talk?”

“We learned it by listening to people talking outside the iron tube every day.”

“It’s so interesting!” Lu Xixi She was so happy that she tossed her long hair back and forth.

"Lu Xixi, has the can been opened? Bring it quickly!" Mom said loudly in the kitchen.

Lu Xixi was just about to show the can and the little figure to her mother. When she walked to the door of the room, she stopped. Lu Xixi remembered that her mother hated Pipilu for raising small animals. Her brother had raised many small animals before and after, and almost all of them were disposed of by her mother without exception. Last time, Pipilu got a little white mouse from nowhere, but his mother threw it off the balcony.

"What will mom and dad do with these little canned people?" Lu Xixi couldn't figure it out. Anyway, she decided that there was more danger than danger.

Lu Xixi decided to protect these five canned villains. She liked them from the first time she saw them.

"You have to get out of the can quickly, otherwise it will be dangerous." Lu Xixi said to the little people.

The canned people looked at each other and agreed. Somehow, they had a sense of trust in Lu Xixi.

"Please take more care of me." A villain said.

Lu Xixi opened the drawer, made a space in the drawer, spread a handkerchief, and then took the villains into the drawer one by one.

"You guys should rest here for a while and don't run around." Lu Xixi closed the drawer gently, picked up the empty can and walked out of the room.

"Lu Xixi, bring the can quickly." The mother stuck her head out of the kitchen and looked at the can in her daughter's hand and said.

Lu Xixi bravely walked into the kitchen.

The mother took the can from her daughter's hand.

“Where’s the meat?”

“There’s no meat in this can.”

“No meat?”

“Yeah.”

“Stop teasing mom, haven’t you seen how busy mom is?”

“There’s really no meat.”

“No meat? There’s nothing in the can. Meat?"

"Hmm."

"This is impossible! The can was heavy when I gave it to you, why is it lighter now?"

" ..."

"Mom is so busy and you are making trouble, please bring the meat." Mom was a little anxious.

Chapter 1 of Zheng Yuanjie’s fairy tale "The Canned Man"