Peacock Love (short story) Zhang Baotong 2016.9.5

4. After two days, Xu Sang's feet were better and he could walk on the ground. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he took Elaine to the Peacock River outside the cottage. On both sides of the Peacock River are patches of banana orchards, cane forests and tropical landscapes. The ecosystem here is well preserved, and the original evergreen broad-leaved forest, hemlock evergreen broad-leaved mixed forest and fir forest protect many national key protected wild animals such as guinea deer, black-crested gibbon, green peacock, black-necked pheasant, monitor lizard, python, etc., and many wild plants such as Yunnan yew, water blue, alder, golden retriever and so on.

The Peacock River flows to the edge of the cottage, the riverbed widens, the river flows slowly, and patches of brown reefs are exposed on the crystal clear water. Xu Sang and Elaine sat on the grass by the river, looking towards the cliff by the river not far away. After a while, Elaine saw a peacock gliding over the river that was caught between the cliffs on both sides. Soon, it flew to the surface of the water not far from them, and its beautiful reflection rippled on the flowing river.

Elaine asked Xu Sang, "How far can a peacock fly?"

Xu Sang told Elaine, "Peacocks can fly, but the flight altitude is not high, at most they can only fly to a height of more than ten meters, and the flight distance is about one or two thousand meters." Because the peacock is a resident bird and lives in tropical rainforests, it does not need too strong flight ability, and the dense forest cannot provide it with much space to fly. ”

After a while, the peacock landed on a rock by the river. With the appearance of this peacock, on the opposite hillside, a green peacock also appeared, leisurely combing its beautiful feathers. The peacock that landed on the river had greenish-brown feathers and a smaller body, but it did not have a long tail and no crown feathers. The peacock standing on the hillside has a larger body, longer tail feathers, and larger crown feathers.

After about a few minutes, the peacock on the other side of the hill flew to the side of the peacock by the river, and while making a rattling sound, it unfolded its tail screen forward, and its colorful tail feathers trembled and shimmered, which was very beautiful. Xu Sang tells Elaine that they are staging a courtship romantic comedy.

Looking at the verdant and beautiful scenery in front of her, watching the peacock's beautiful love dance, Elaine remembered the story between Xu Sang and the peacock, and was deeply moved by the beautiful relationship between people and peacocks living in harmony. She used DV to capture all these beautiful and wonderful images.

That afternoon, when Elaine followed Xu Sang on a tour of the mountains and scenery, she saw someone keeping bees in the mountain forest. Elaine was frightened when she saw many bees in a clearing in the woods. Xu Sang told her not to be afraid, this bee will not take the initiative to attack people. So saying, he brought her to an old man. The old man was hollowing out a log, sealing the ends and leaving some small holes for wild bees to enter and exit, and then placed it in the forest. Sure enough, after a while, a bee entered the wooden hole. This was very interesting to Elaine.

Xu Sang said, "We Wa people have a lot of interesting things. So saying, he told Elaine about the Sowing Feast. Sowing the seeds and sowing the grain is set at the time when the cuckoo is urging the ploughing. On this day, every household in the village prepares all kinds of meals in advance, gathers them on the hillside, and hands them over to an elder for distribution. Then the youth sows seeds, the children bring water, and the girls sing and play the harp. When the meal was opened, I saw two rows of rice bags of the same size neatly placed on the ground, all wrapped in banana leaves, no bowls, no chopsticks, everyone took a bag and sat down to eat after washing their hands, which was very affectionate. This kind of harmonious unity of labor, music, **** and cooking shows the simple morality of the Wa people.

When Elaine heard this, she said, "When I wait until next year's sowing festival, I will come with you too." ”

Elaine has been living in Xu Sang's house, and almost every day she follows Xu Sang or comes to the Peacock River to see the peacocks, or goes into the forest to see the scenery or picks shiitake mushrooms and herbs, or goes up to the mountains to play. The scenery here is so beautiful that she can't get enough of it, and she can't finish the film. Moreover, the food and water and wine here also made her feel particularly sweet and delicious, so her meal amount also increased significantly, plus drinking the Chinese herbs fried for her by Xu's mother every day, she not only felt that her body began to have strength, but also her face began to glow red. Once, she followed Xu Sang to walk nearly 100 miles in the rain to a relative's house, but when she returned home, she did not feel tired or tired at all.

A pair of friends of the opposite sex will inevitably have a relationship after being together for a long time. After nearly a month of getting along day and night, Xu Sang often has a sweet feeling in his heart. He saw that Elaine was not afraid of hardship or tiredness, was not squeamish or exquisite, and was with him all day long to watch and shoot with great interest, full of enthusiasm and curiosity about nature. I fell in love with her deep down without feeling it. However, he knew that Elaine was a Ph.D. in an American university, and her father was a banker, so how could she be worthy of someone like him? She probably came to him here just to live in a beautiful place with beautiful mountains and rivers for a while, not really to love him. Thinking like this, he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart. Although Elaine was very kind to him, and when they were together, people said that they were like a pair of lovers, but in fact they were not lovers. Moreover, Elaine never showed him that she loved him. Thinking like this, Xu Sang said to himself in his heart, don't think so much, Elaine is just a friend of his.

Xu Sang still takes Elaine to the Peacock River every day to see the peacocks. Before I knew it, it was April of the following year.

One day, they came to the Peacock River again. Xu Sang saw a trail of blood on the grass by the river. He searched for traces of blood and soon found a green peacock lying on a patch of grass. Xu Sang went over to catch the green peacock and see what was wrong with it. However, when the green peacock saw that someone was coming to catch it, he flapped his wings in horror and tried to fly. However, it fluttered a few times, but did not fly. It struggled to get up and run away, but stumbled a few times and fell to the ground, eyes closed in despair.

Xu Sang grabbed the peacock and held it in his arms, gently stroking its feathers as if whispering to it. After a while, the peacock opened his eyes and appeared very peaceful. At this time, Xu Sang handed the peacock in his arms to Elaine and said, "The peacock's leg was bitten by an animal, you hold it first, and I'll go find some herbs." ”

When Elaine took the peacock from Xu Sang's hand, she accidentally grabbed Xu Sang's big hand, and the temperature of that rough and powerful big hand couldn't help but make Elaine's heart hot. She hugged the peacock in her arms, and when she raised her eyes to look at Xu Sang, the warmth in her eyes shook Xu Sang's heart like an electric current. But when he thought of the disparity between the identities of the two, he had to bury his tenderness in the bottom of his heart, and hurriedly said: "There is a wild grass by the Peacock River that can stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, so this peacock will come here." Before he had finished speaking, he hurriedly turned around and looked for the weed.

Looking at Xu Sanna's sturdy and toned figure, Elaine couldn't help blushing.

Xu Sang soon came over with a bunch of weeds, he pulled a handful of weeds and chewed them in his mouth for a while, and put the peacock on the wound, and the bleeding quickly stopped. Elaine saw Xu Sang's face flushed, and suddenly her heart began to pound. Neither of the two spoke, and Elaine hugged the peacock and followed Xu Sang back home.