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When Zhongshan was 7 years old, he went to school with a flower cloth schoolbag sewn by his mother. There is a primary school at the mouth of the alley 100 meters away from Zhong Shan's house.

After school, Zhongshan and his half-grown children climbed over the broken courtyard wall in groups every day, went to the school playground to catch house birds, or climbed to the big poplar tree behind the school to break foreign cans. Sometimes, they would sneak up under the window of the teacher's office, and their little heads would look like stacked radish heads, peeking through the open glass window. Seeing a group of wild children "selling stupid" outside the window, someone inside shouted "go away", and the children were like frightened house sparrows, "coaxing" and dispersed.

At that time, because it was included in the "four evils", the sparrow was in a miserable situation, and everyone in adults and children was punished.

In Zhongshan, they call sparrows house sparrows, and they also call them house thieves. This kind of bird is really a ghost who doesn't know how to die, and it is regarded as the "four evils", and it prefers to build a nest under the eaves of other people's houses, and the chicken feathers and grass thorns are thorns, and I don't know when they quietly brought it, so they became a small home. Two * finches, which laid white eggs, and gave birth to a number of yellow-mouthed finch, hunted, fed, went in and out, busy, and lived a life that seemed to have nothing to do with human beings. In the dark night, the light of a flashlight hits, and the Sparrow family is about to be wiped out.

Zhongshan has never caught a house sparrow. Zhong Shan's father, Zhong Shulin, was busy with work during this period and couldn't go home once for three or five days. Every time Zhong Shulin comes back, although there are only one more people, the family will suddenly become lively and lively. Zhong Shulin went home, parked his bicycle in the small courtyard, and as soon as he stepped into the threshold, he shouted loudly that his son's father was back, put a straw paper bag with oil and tied with paper rope on the cover of the big red cabinet, took out a piece of furnace fruit and handed it to his son who ran over and stretched out his little hand, and then moved a small bench to ask Zhong Shan to sit down in front of him, and he sat on the sofa, leisurely playing an accordion, and the cheerful music of "I Am a Soldier" wafted in the three small bungalows. Zhong Shan was eating the sweet and crispy fruit roasted with sesame seeds, while watching his father play the violin with his arms closed one by one. In the stove room, my mother was busy with dinner for three people, the pots and pans were clanging, and the aroma of food wafted into the room through the cracks in the door.

Many years later, Zhongshan recalled the scene and thought that it should be the happiest time for the family. Zhong Shan didn't think so at that time, he would rather not have the fruit to eat, and would rather his father put down the accordion in his hand and move the ladder to the house like his father did to dig out the bird's nest and burn the house finch meat for the child to eat. Zhong Shan is also looking forward to having a brother who has the ability to make a bird clip as a slingshot like Brother Manzi, who can make a bird clip. Zhong Shan didn't have anything, he could only watch his other partners rejoice and enjoy the fruits of victory, and he followed behind other people's butts like a pitiful little worm.

Zhong Shan also had a contradiction in his heart, he wanted to taste the taste of the roasted house sparrow, but he couldn't bear to see the house finch die, and he was entangled in this matter for a long time and worried for a long time. He couldn't bear to see the little house finch that had not yet grown hair struggling on the ground with its little head that was not very strong, nor could he bear to see the frightened eyes of the little house finch that had not yet lost its wings and had not yet grown, and even more could not bear to listen to the miserable cry of the old house finch hovering in the air for a long time after losing its young child. Zhong Shan knew that if everyone was taken out, the little house finch would definitely starve to death, or become food for cats and dogs, in short, he would not survive. And the little house finch is taken out, and the old house finch may be sad to death. Thinking of this, Zhong Shan's nose was sour and he wanted to cry a little.

This is Zhong Shan's own little secret in his heart, and he didn't tell anyone. Fortunately, in the end, he didn't catch the house finch and ate the roasted house finch meat.