(a)

That day, after the story ended, we walked along the well-lit road through the training grounds of the base and returned to the dormitory. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info On the way, I told you a story about a sparrow. Subsequently, you also told me about one.

You say, "When I see Mr. Wei, I think of my uncle." He is also a lover of bird hunting. ”

You say, "At that time, I was very young. One day, my uncle came to the house as a guest, and he brought an air gun with him. I've always been fascinated by his airsoft gun, and sometimes when he's in a good mood, he'll take me to play with a Coke can in the yard, and sometimes he'll not let me touch the gun when he's not happy. ”

"That day, he went out with his father with an air gun, and when he came back, his uncle carried a string of small sparrows, whose feathers had not yet grown and had not yet been able to spread their wings and fly, and they were probably pulled out of their nests."

"My uncle said happily to my mother, "We have a dish for lunch with wine." Mother came out and carried the little sparrow into the kitchen. ”

After a while, I heard a squeaking sound from the kitchen, and after listening to it, I felt like my heart was about to freeze. In the kitchen, they scalded the birds with boiling water so that they could easily remove their feathers. ”

"I listened to that scream, and I sat in the doorway, feeling panicked."

"Then, after a while, a larger sparrow came out of my window, and it kept hitting the metal screen on the window railing, and kept making mournful calls."

The mother said, "It must be the old sparrow that has come back from foraging, and has come looking for its children." The sparrow had been working outside the window for about an hour, or more, but I don't really remember it. During the time it was tossing and turning outside, I kept feeling like there were thousands of needles piercing my heart, and the whole heart became full of holes. That was the first time I knew what a conscience was, what a conscience was, and what a torment of conscience was. ”

You say, "At lunchtime, my mother handed me a small bowl with a dead little sparrow lying in it, and its bare head was crooked like that, and I only remember that it was very thin, and there was hardly any flesh at all." In fact, eating it doesn't fill your stomach at all. The flavor that can be released looks so ethereal. Why eat it? ”

You say, "In the end, I didn't eat the sparrow either." Because of fear, I was afraid of its last cry, of its mother screaming outside the window, of its cooked, hairless head. ”

"My uncle saw that I didn't move my chopsticks, so he said that he would give the sparrow to my father to eat. He said, this stupid boy is really unlucky, such a good thing can't stand it. He said to me that the taste of the sparrows was delicious and the meat was very tender. ”

"After my uncle left, my mother came quietly and asked me why I didn't eat the sparrow. I said, I don't like to eat things that I haven't eaten. Mom said, I know, you can't bear it, Mom knows that you are a very good-hearted child. ”

You say, "I'm looking at Mom." She cared so much for me that if I scratched a little bit of skin, she would be so distressed that she would die of distress and be so worried that she couldn't sleep. But she scalded the little sparrows in the kitchen, and let the little sparrow's mother scream so miserably outside our window. Why didn't she feel guilty of conscience? However, I hid these words in my heart, and I didn't dare to say a word to my mother. ”

"All I told my mother was that they were still very little sparrows, and they had just been born, and they could hardly fly, and they hadn't seen the world yet. Mom said, "Son, you've read too many fairy tales." Higher animals eat lower animals, this is the law of nature. This is a matter of course. If we don't eat lower animals, how can we humans survive? ”

"So I asked my mother, if one day a higher animal appeared and they took me away and ate it in front of me, would you be sad? When my mother heard this, she said, "You kid, we humans are the highest animals on this planet." I said, what if aliens take me. Mom tapped me on the neck and said, "Nonsense, where have you seen aliens?" Mom said, it's up to you if you don't eat sparrows, but don't let your dad hear these nonsense, otherwise, it's not as simple as gently tapping you. ”

You say, "That's the end of that conversation." The next day, another sparrow came out the window, which was supposed to be the parent of those little sparrows. They wailed outside my window for days. Finally my dad got angry, picked up the slingshot gun I played with as a kid and fired a few slingshots in the direction they squeaked. They knew that human beings had already started to kill, and if they didn't go, they would be dead, so they flew away from our house with deep fear and reluctance, crying in grief. After that, I never came again. ”

After telling this story, you said, "Xinxin, I know, you were just thinking about why so many classmates still felt so happy when Xiao Bird died, instead of feeling very sad like you and Xiao Song." ”

You say, "But you can't blame them either." Because, since they were young, they were told by their parents that it is natural for the law of the jungle to be the strongest. It is natural for us to dispose of the life and death of lower beings at will. They rarely have the opportunity to be exposed to different perspectives. Gradually, they will come to think that this view is their own. Then, for the rest of their lives, they defend this point of view to the exclusion of others. ”

When I hear you say this, I feel indescribable sadness in my heart.

I said, "Is it part of human nature to be cruel and indifferent?" ”

You say, "No." I have always believed that kindness and warmth are part of human nature. And cruelty and indifference are the only things that come from the loss of human nature.

(c)

We walked back as we talked, and before we knew it, we had fallen to the back of the crowd.

I said, "Guide, I heard that China has mobilized the whole people to fight sparrows for a while in the past, right?" ”

You say, "Yes." Both of my parents were involved at that time. They took the copper basin and knocked it all the way, disturbing the sparrows until they flew out, and then they beat them with their guns. At that time, a large number of bird hunting enthusiasts and bird eating enthusiasts were cultivated. ”

I said, "But why should the whole people deal with these little beings as if they were the enemy?" ”

You say, "Because, at that time, the research concluded that sparrows are pest birds that eat the food that farmers have worked so hard to grow." This conclusion was affirmed by the leaders at that time. However, after some time passed, a different conclusion came to the conclusion that the sparrow still seemed to be a good bird. Because of the large number of dissecting findings, it is actually more about eating insects that affect food production. Therefore, the nationwide campaign to fight sparrows slowly stopped. However, the sparrows that died during this period have all died. How many sparrows died, probably, there is no accurate statistics. At that time, there were about 200 million people involved in the operation. ”

I said, "As a small creature, my fate is really tragic. ”

You say, "yes, it's miserable." ”

(iv)

You stand down. You look at the crowd in front of you that is gradually closing the distance.

You say, "Heart, do you want to go and see where the little bird is buried?" ”

I nodded, and I said, "I was just going to see it." ”

You take my arm, and you say, "This way, follow me." ”

I followed you, leaving the concrete road with street lights and onto the side path.

(5)

We stood side by side in the woods, facing a miniature tomb.

You say, "Right here, perhaps, it used to live among these trees." This may be its home. ”

You say, "I wiped the blood off its body, put its wings and neck away, wrapped it in a cloth for glasses, put it in the glasses case, and buried it here." ”

I looked at the little tomb, and I felt very sad in my heart, and tears welled up unconsciously.

Tears rolled down my eyes and fell on the little tomb.

You look at my tears.

You say, "It will thank you for the tears." ”

I said, "Thank you for your burial too." ”

I said, "I hope it will be able to live in a better place in the next life, and stop being a lowly creature." ”

You say, "I hope that all the lowly beings will be able to live in a better place, and they will not be harmed again, and they will not harm anyone else." ”

I looked at the stars in the sky and said, "I don't know if there is such a place in the universe." ”

You say, "There must be." Just as where there is darkness there is light, where there is black there is white, and if there is an imperfect world, there must be its opposite. ”

You also look up at the stars in the sky. You say, "There must be a perfect world." It's in time and space. (To be continued.) )