Chapter XI
"Look it's still there, I said it's not a sheep!"
He held the reed pole in one hand, and he didn't know where to put it in the other, but luckily put his hand on her shoulder. It all happened so suddenly, it made him a little caught off whelm.
"Hey, it's just a water bird, don't be afraid."
When they approached, they finally saw its true face. Seriously, he found that it was hurt, and he had always been serious, because he was afraid that there would be something else.
"It's hurt, you see, it's still bleeding from its right leg."
He knew how such a wound came about, and he was glad for it, or rather a blessing in misfortune. Its right leg must have been caught in a hunting trap, and it was cut off before it was able to escape.
"It's so pitiful, let's help it!"
She was about to get closer, but he stopped her, knowing she was trying to help it.
"Don't go over, if you do, it's going to find a new habitat again."
"I just wanted to help it."
"I know, but sometimes the only one who can really help yourself is yourself."
"You said it doesn't have a companion to be with it."
"This does not confirm the old saying, husband and wife are birds in the forest, and when there is any danger, they fly away."
"That's called, husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes. It's all like this, and you're still saying things like that. ”
"Have you ever thought about it sometimes, we have always misinterpreted the meaning of 'husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes'. Just like it, it is unwilling to drag down its partner, which is why it makes such a choice. True love is as long as the other person is doing well. ”
She was a little moved, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"If I were its companion, if something like this happened, I wouldn't leave it."
"If I were it, I would definitely choose to leave like it."
"Maybe it's just that we're thinking too much, and its partner must have gone looking for food for it, maybe he'll be back soon."
"Then we need to get out of here, if it's found, or if it startles, it'll have to find a habitat again."
"I haven't changed my clothes yet!"
"Then you hurry up and change."
Now everything is done so as not to disturb the pair of bitter mandarin ducks, as for why she bumped into his arms, and why his hand was on her shoulder, I didn't do a "deep study". Soon she finished changing, and finally put on her own clothes and pants, and he also put on his own not long after she finished changing.
"Let's go back! It's not too early. ”
"I want to see how they end up."
She didn't seem to have any intention of leaving.
"You're here, and its partner won't dare to go back even if he comes back."
"Otherwise, if we find a hidden place and look from afar, then we won't be discovered."
"It's getting dark, let's go back! Sooner or later, we'll all be discovered. ”
"What do you mean we're all going to be discovered?"
"It's later, it's time for uncle and aunt to come out to find you, I'm okay, I'm used to it, it doesn't matter if I go back late."
"Then I'm not afraid."
"I'm afraid, okay! My eldest lady, what if my uncle and aunt find out? ”
"If you find it, you find it, and we don't do anything."
"In the past, no matter how I took you to play, I could, and sometimes my uncle even asked me to play with you. But now it's different, you're a promising student, and I'm a young person who dropped out of school and went home. What should they think if they see it, am I who brought you bad, or are you willing to be spoiled by me? ”
"You didn't do anything bad, and besides, you weren't idle, didn't you work in the fields!"
"It's all the same."
"It's different, you're not the same as everyone else."
"Let's go back! Otherwise, your uncle and aunt will really have to look for you. ”
Before she finished speaking, she heard a voice in the distance, calling for her.
"Look at what I'm talking about, you go back first!"
"What about you?"
"If you leave, I'll go back immediately."
"Oh, by the way, I have to go to school tomorrow."
"Isn't it a double holiday?"
"Originally, yes, but in order to increase the promotion rate, the school took out the top five students in each class and did additional training and study every Sunday, so I stayed."
"You don't always disappoint."
"It's okay, by the way, I can't see the end of them."
"I'll show you, and I'll tell you everything I've seen next Saturday. It won't be able to leave for a while, and tomorrow, it will still be there, so I'll find a hidden place and observe quietly. ”
"Then it's decided, you will still wait for me in the paddy field behind the house."
"Well, let's go! Otherwise, uncles and aunts should be in a hurry. ”
"Then I'll go."
So saying, she went in the direction from which the voice came, and not long after she was gone, he also went home.