Yan Siqin whipped the soil on his body with a towel, but Wei Du didn't see Zhao Yu's figure in the courtyard, and asked, "Keke, where is your eldest brother?" ”

Shi Ke hugged the basket in his arms and said, "Big brother went to catch insects for the little bird." ”

"Tell me, this bird is so small, what is he doing for the family?" Yan Siqin chattered endlessly, "And the house finches are so difficult to raise, they will die at every turn, this is also a small life, this child, don't worry at all." ”

While talking, Zhao Yu came back with a hairy dog wearing a few strings of grasshoppers, and when he saw Zhao Liangsheng and Yan Siqin, he hurriedly ran over happily, "Dad, mother, you're back." ”

"Ah, it's back." Yan Siqin grabbed his son's little hand, led him to the side of the well, and said unhappily: "Da Zhuang, what are you doing here to catch such a little bird?" Hurry up and send it back, the old bird is angry, you look at the shit that pulled your brother's face. ”

"What, pull Erchen with a face?" Zhao Yu couldn't believe it, and went over to her mother to look at her brother behind her, "Erchen, you are stupid, let it shit on your face." ”

Zhao Chen pouted angrily.

"You don't have to look at it, it's all cleaned." Yan Siqin dragged Zhao Yu back again, "Did you hear what my mother said?" I said let you send it back. ”

"Don't." Zhao Yu shook his head and raised the grasshoppers in his hand to Yan Siqin, "I'm going to raise them." ”

Children have a pet dream, Zhao Yu has wanted to raise birds for a long time, every time he catches a sparrow, but whenever there is still a breath, Zhao Yu has to serve carefully for two days, give the best food, bandage the wound of the injured, and put a splint on the broken leg, but it backfires, whether it is the injured house finch and the healthy house finch, as long as it is encircled in the cage, it has not survived for two days.

Zhao Yu insisted on raising birds, but Yan Siqin couldn't say anything, and then he didn't care, so he let him go.

Zhao Yu led Shi Ke back to the table, and was about to untie the grasshopper and stuff it into the mouths of the little meat and eggs, but saw a full scoop of water on the table, he asked, "Sister, what are you doing here?" ”

"The little brother said that the birds are thirsty and should feed them water to drink."

"That's not going to work." Zhao Liangsheng took Zhao Chen's little hand and walked over, his son's careful wish, when he was a father, he must help to achieve it, and Zhao Liangsheng is also a rural child, all from his son's age, he also understands the child's thoughts, he has also raised domestic finch, and has some experience, he told Zhao Yu: "Now the family finches are still young, you can't feed raw water, otherwise, they will die clean in a few days."

In order to let his son raise the little house finch smoothly, Zhao Liangsheng taught his breeding experience to Zhao Yu in detail, "Da Zhuang, you can soak some millet in a while, and when the millet is soaked through, then boil an egg, and feed the egg yolk and millet together to feed them." ”

As soon as Zhao Liangsheng's words fell, Zhao Yu shouted, "I said that I would make millet for the little finches to eat, and Wei Yun also said that I had to give them insects." ”

"Yes, you have to feed the insects too, don't the old finches give them insects every day?"

While the father and son were talking, the little house sparrows were not idle, and they kept chirping with their big mouths open.

Three small red meat eggs, with small yellow mouths open, and helpless screams Shi Ke couldn't bear to hear, she said to Zhao Yu, "Big brother, feed them quickly, they are going to starve to death." ”

"Oh, okay, feed them the bugs first, and I'll go soak millet later." Zhao Yu untied a grasshopper and was about to stuff it into the mouth of the little house finch.

"Da Zhuang, wait a minute." Zhao Liangsheng hurriedly stopped, "You cut down the grasshopper thighs and give them meat alone, the thighs are too hard, they can't digest them, and then feed the whole one when they are pricked." ”

Zhao Yu listened to his father's words, and really tore the grasshopper to a pillar of flesh, and then it was put into a ball and put it in the largest mouth.

There was food in the throat, Xiao Badao skillfully stretched his neck and swallowed it in his stomach, there was food in his stomach, Xiao Badao screamed more happily, and the other two birds also sensed that there was food to eat, and they scrambled to chirp.

Zhao Yu was very patient, the grasshoppers were cleaned up cleanly, and they fed the three birds one by one, Zhao Chen was itchy to see it, and said to Zhao Yu flatteringly: "Big brother, I want to feed it too, can you give me a string of grasshoppers?" ”

Shi Ke also looked at Zhao Yu eagerly, "Big brother, I also want to feed, don't you give me a string too?" ”

"Okay." Zhao Yu was very generous, gave each of his younger brothers and sisters a string of grasshoppers, pointed to the happiest little bully and said, "I'll feed this one, and you two will choose one to feed yourself." ”

"Oh, thank you, big brother." Shi Ke smiled sweetly, and fed the one that belonged to him like Zhao Yu.

Shi Ke pinched the little flesh and just put it in the mouth of the little house finch, the little house finch smelled the fragrance and closed its mouth violently, and the beak of the bird slid over Shi Ke's fingertips, "Ah! Shi Ke was startled, his fingertips were itching, it didn't hurt at all, Shi Ke bent his big eyes and laughed "giggle", "Big brother, I'm going to give it a name." ”

"Okay, I'll give it a name too." Zhao Yu concentrated on feeding Xiao Badao, five little grasshoppers ate the meat, Xiao Badao was honest, lying in the nest with his mouth closed, and let Zhao Yu pinch a piece of meat and dangle it in his mouth.

"If they don't eat, they're full, don't die of it." Zhao Liangsheng had been watching the three children feeding the birds, and said to Zhao Yu when he saw this situation.

"That's full? Haven't I fed it yet? Zhao Yu threw the grasshopper meat in his hand into Zhao Chen's bird's beak and asked his younger brother, "Erchen, is your bird named?" ”

"Rise, I'm going to name it too, what's your bird's name, big brother?"

Zhao Liangsheng seemed to have returned to his childhood, when he was also like this, he took out a nest of birds, and named them one by one, he looked at the three children lovingly, touched the head of this one, and rubbed the top of the head, "Tell your father what names you give them!" ”

"Dad, my little bird is called Little Domineering." Zhao Yu pointed to his bird and said, "You see how domineering it was just now, and it was also very strong, and it often stepped on those two under its feet." ”

"Oh, little overbearing, not bad." Zhao Liangsheng nodded and asked Shi Ke, "Keke, what's your father's name for the bird?" ”

"Daddy, I'll call it Little Red Ball." Shi Ke pointed to his little bird and showed it to Zhao Liangsheng, "Dad, you see it's red, like a ball of meat." ”

The children's names are lively, not because they sound good or not, but whether the children are happy or not, Zhao Liangsheng said with a smile: "Okay, good, what about yours in the second morning." ”

Zhao Chen thought about it for a long time, and he didn't know what to call it, looking at this bird, it was not too strong, if it didn't work, it would be called Zhuangzhuang? He looked at Zhao Yu and asked, "Shall I name it Zhuang Zhuangxing?" ”

"No way!" As soon as the words came out, Zhao Yu immediately objected, "I know that my nickname is Da Zhuang, and you name it Zhuang Zhuang again, that's not the same name as me, that's not good!" ”

Alas, guessing that the eldest brother would definitely not be willing, Zhao Chen's entire upper body lay on the stone platform, stared at his little house finch and said, "Then what should I name it?" ”

"As long as you don't call it Zhuangzhuang, you can call it anything."

"But I just want to call it strong, you see it's so weak, it's not as strong as your little domineering." Zhao Chen looked at Zhao Yu's little sparrow enviously and said, "Big brother, if we don't change, you give me the little domineering, this is only for you, you can name it whatever you want." ”

Don't look at it, just feed a meal, Zhao Yu has a little affection for Xiao Badao, he looks at his own birds, and then at his younger brother's birds, a little reluctant, but, who calls himself a big brother, Zhao Yu thought for a while and said: "Okay, change with you." ”

"Oh~" Zhao Chen jumped up happily, and he even turned the small basket in a circle and turned the little bully to his side.

The little domineering nested in the nest and closed his eyes to recuperate, not caring that he had changed his master again.

What is the name of this, Zhao Yu touched his little chin and thought for a moment, this bird is not strong, red and ugly, just the big yellow mouth is big, just give it a name, "I will call it the little yellow mouth in the future." ”

The mother finch stood on the roof for a long time, and saw that the three babies were full, and it was useless for her to stay here, so she had to keep a few reluctant chirps and continue to hunt for the two children.

The little birds ate quickly, ate quickly, and were hungry quickly, and before the family had finished eating, the three little finches over there began to cry again with their mouths open.

Zhao Yu's three little brothers and sisters cleaned the rice in the bowl in two bites, put down the bowl and went to the bird's nest.

Even the meal was not good to eat, Yan Siqin's eyes glared at the words of reprimand, Zhao Liangsheng pressed his hand down, and said with a smile: "Let them play, they won't be able to play for a few days, this bird is not easy to raise, you can see that they will not die in three days, then even if they have the ability." ”

Yan Siqin glanced at Zhao Liangsheng, "Do you know if you can't raise them or not?" You just get used to them. ”

The house finches are indeed difficult to raise, and before going to bed at night, the three children also feed the birds a meal before going to bed.

The next morning, the three children all got up very early, and the first thing they did when they got up was to see their little sparrows, the three little birds, only the little domineering was full of spirit, the tender yellow mouth was open to the extreme, and the little red ball and the little yellow mouth wilted in the basket and were not spiritual.

Shi Ke gently poked the little red ball's wings, and the little red ball just shook lightly when it was harassed, and continued to shrink its head.

"Big brother, what's wrong with it." Shi Ke asked Zhao Yu worriedly.

"I'm hungry, I must be hungry if I haven't eaten all night, you wait, I'll go get millet." After Zhao Yu finished speaking, he went to find the millet that his mother helped soak last night.

The rice was brought, Zhao Yu found three small pieces of wood, one person divided one, picked millet and wiped it on the mouth of the little house bird.

The little domineering is that the comer does not refuse, what to eat, what to eat is fragrant, sleep when you are full, the little red ball and the little yellow mouth will not work, Zhao Yu and Shi Ke picked the rice and touched the beaks of the two little birds, the two birds just didn't open their mouths, Zhao Yu was anxious, broke the bird's beak with his hand, and poured two mouthfuls of rice into it.

"Still picky eater!" Zhao Yu lit the bird's head of the little yellow beak and the little red ball and said, "Don't be picky eaters in the future, picky eaters can't grow big guys, do you know?" He finally understood what his mood was when he was a picky eater, but his own birds couldn't let them go hungry, they didn't like to eat rice, so let's catch a few bugs for a while.