Tarzan's school career began. From Monday to Friday, I come to school every day. There are Chinese classes, math classes, English classes, physical education classes, art classes, music classes, this kind of class, and that kind of class, which can not be counted in one breath. Now he knows his school and knows every corner of the classroom. I also know the corridors and stairs, and I also know the toilets on each floor. There is also a reading room, a music classroom, a teacher's office, and the office of Principal Zhao Sihua. The teacher told each student not to run around the principal's office to play. If you have to go there, take your steps lightly and don't make a sound.

Tarzan always had that secret in his heart. He quickly figured out that on the day of the commencement ceremony, when he returned from his trip to the bathroom, he had walked through a side entrance to the building, not the main entrance. During recess, Tarzan quietly walked out of the side door again, and the scene outside the door changed again. A few big trees are still there, the bricks and rubble are gone, and the ground is clean. It turned out that the school had undergone some repairs during the summer vacation before the start of school. On the first day of school, the garbage generated by the maintenance was temporarily piled up on this small site before it could be removed. Now that the area has been cleaned up, the teacher plans to create a small "botanical garden" under the tree and plant seeds for students to observe the growth.

Tarzan looked up at the canopy of the poplar tree, and the sunlight pierced through the leaves, making him unable to open his eyes. He changed his position and angle, but he still saw clearly. There is a flower magpie, a gray magpie, and a few sparrows on several trees. There are no crows. Although he didn't see the crow, after thinking about it carefully, Tarzan felt more and more that the talking crow had appeared on the poplar tree.

Keeping a secret in your heart may be like carrying a big stone on your shoulder, and you have to carry it all day and not be able to put it down for a moment. That's tiring enough, let alone for a kid like Tarzan. In the end, he decided that he would not tell his mother or his teacher the secret, but only his good friend Zhang Xiaotro. There are only two people in the world who know this secret, he and Zhang Xiaotrot, and there are not many people.

"Trot, I know a secret on this campus. If you swear not to tell anyone, I can tell you. ”

"I swear, say it quickly. ”

"There's a talking crow on this campus with a gray-white feather on its head, and it says it's called Akang. ”

"It's such an interesting story. And then what?"

"It's not a story, I saw it with my own eyes and heard it talk to me. ”

"Take me to find it, I want to talk to it too. My grandfather had a wren who could only talk, but unfortunately he died last year. ”

"No, I swore to it that I wouldn't tell anyone about it. ”

"Aha! I see, I'm not going to tell anyone. ”

After saying that, he trotted happily and winked at Tarzan.

Children are born diplomats. Within a few days of school, these new children became familiar with each other, and they became friends, enemies, friends, and enemies. Tarzan is tall and powerful, does not like to talk but is friendly, and everyone is willing to be friends with him. The child sitting in the seat in front of Mount Tai is called Xia Ye, very smart, loves to read, and she will listen to what the teacher says. What's more, in Taishan's eyes, the most beautiful girl in the class is her. Xia Ye is also very good to Tarzan, sometimes Tarzan needs to use an eraser, so he gently taps Xia Ye's back:

"Can you lend me your eraser? Mine is gone. ”

"Yes. ”

Then they can whisper a few more words. Actually, Tarzan's eraser was in his own pocket.

Sitting on the left side of Mount Tai is Zhang Xiaotrot, and the boy sitting on the right is called Fruit Tree. The fruit tree is not as kind as the girl, he is a rich boy. His house is not far from the school, but he rides in his car every day when he goes to and from school. The lady who sent him to school was not his mother, but his nanny. The man who drove the car was not his father, but the full-time driver of his family.

There are not many long-term friendships, and the friendships between children are even more unstable. On this day, Taishan needed to borrow an eraser again, and he tapped Xia Ye's back, but the two words he got were: don't borrow. Tarzan was at a loss, this time he really needed it, and he forgot his own at home. Tarzan didn't want to borrow Zhang Xiaotro's, Zhang Xiaotro's rubber was always dirty, maybe there was his saliva on it. He looked to his left again, and the seat of the fruit tree was empty, and he had not come to school today.

This morning, the students were hurrying into the gate of the primary school. The car of the fruit tree family has driven to the school gate, and the driver gets out of the car first to open the door for him. At this time, the fruit tree in the car suddenly announced: "I will not walk into the school gate today, there are scary monsters in the school." ”

The nanny and the driver were taken aback, and the nanny hurriedly persuaded her:

"Good boy, let's not make trouble, if you don't go in, you'll be late. If you 'skip school' and let your mother know, she'll have to beat you up. ”

"It's better to be beaten than to be eaten by a monster. ”

"What kind of monsters? That's all kids' nonsense, this is the city, not the country. ”

"If you don't go, you just don't go!"

The nanny was helpless and hurriedly called Guoshu's mother. The nanny pressed the speakerphone button on her phone to amplify the sound for the fruit tree to listen. Mom's voice came:

"Come on, go to the classroom, and I'll take you to buy the 'Ultraman' toy you want on the weekend." ”

The fruit tree pressed his back and butt tightly to the seat in the car, closed his eyes, hugged his shoulders, and pretended not to hear. Mom is on fire:

"Go, get into the classroom, and if you're late, I'll beat your ass when I get home from school today!"

The fruit tree remained motionless and silent. Mom yelled on the phone:

"I'm going to throw all your toys away!"

Yelling didn't work either. At this time, the bell rang, and most of the students had already entered the classroom, and the few who were going to be late trotted into the door. The school guards who were guarding the gate saw that there was no sign of resolving the "school deadlock" created by the fruit trees, so they slowly closed the door.

Mother's rewards or punishments didn't work, and the fruit tree resolutely refused to get out of the car. The nanny and the driver couldn't help it, and the classroom had already started classes, so they had to pull him home again.

During the class, Mr. Tian Ding said to everyone:

"Students, our campus is safe, and there will be no talking monsters. Some students have a lot of imagination and like to tell stories, but the stories are fake, and what people imagine will not really happen. ”

Tarzan felt as if the teacher was looking at himself in the middle of his speech. He turned to look at Zhang Xiaotrot beside him, and found that Zhang Xiaotrot deliberately ignored him, looking at the ceiling with his eyes up.

At the end of class, the girl came running over. She was the most talkative girl in the class, and sometimes the teacher had to stop her and say lovingly, "My little sparrow, you must be tired, so take a break." But she said, "I'm not tired." ”

Hua Man told Tarzan seriously:

"My dad said that animals don't have language, only humans have language. The sounds made by animals are only signals between animals, and birds that can sing no longer can speak. Starlings, wrens, and parrots also can't speak, they are just trained to imitate their master's voice, and if they imitate it, they will give them good food. They also performed in public a few words that they had practiced with their masters before. Have you ever heard of the idiom, 'Parrot learns'? My dad said that he could buy a parrot for my birthday next year. I'm going to teach it to speak, but Dad says it's hard to teach a parrot to speak, so I'm going to give it a try. I don't know what parrots like to eat, so I'm going to go to the reading room at noon to check it out. ”

Tarzan couldn't help but interrupt her:

"I'm going to the bathroom. ”

As Tarzan walked towards the door, he heard a conversation between the two girls behind him. Natsuba Says:

"He's a liar. ”

Hua Man Says:

"No, he's a storyteller. ”

Tarzan didn't go to the bathroom, he made his way to the side door of the hallway.

The big poplar tree outside the door stood tall there. Tarzan looked up, and there was not a single bird among the leaves. Is the talking crow gone, or did it really never exist?Tarzan's confusion turned to unease and sadness, and he began to cry again.

This cry brought the miracle back.

"Are you crying?"

Oh my God, this voice finally came again. Tarzan quickly opened his eyes, and the crow Akon was still standing on the branch of the tree last time, looking at him. Taishan wanted to blame Ah Kang, why did he disappear? But that's their own business, people have wings, and they can go wherever they like, and it's none of their business.

"Have you not kept your promise between us?"

Akon bowed his head sadly.

"If you don't comply, you don't comply, it's not a big deal. Whoever you tell will be brought here in the next recess. I can talk to him and prove that you are honest. ”

Tarzan nodded gratefully. The class bell rang, and Tarzan said, "Thank you, Mr. Raven." He turned and ran back to the classroom.

Zhang kept laughing when he trotted after Tarzan, until he heard the crow say:

"Hello, I'm Akang the Raven. ”

His smile was so wide that he couldn't close it, and his eyes widened. Tarzan answered for him:

"He's a trot. ”

"Okay, Zhang Xiaotrot, it's nice to meet you, you can come to me if you need help. I live in this park, and of course I have many friends, not just crows. ”

Zhang Xiaotrot slowly came to his senses:

"Tarzan is not lying. ”

He bowed his head in embarrassment.

"Of course Tarzan wasn't lying. But you didn't keep your promise to him, did you?"

"Yes, I told the fruit tree, and the fruit tree told Hua Man and Natsu Ye. I'm sorry, Tarzan. ”

"Then you can invite Hua Man and Natsuha here during the next class, and I can prove to them that what Tarzan and you said is true. The fruit tree didn't come to school today, and I'll explain it to him later. Also, don't climb into a tree to dig for birds' eggs in the future, in case you fall from such a high place you will get hurt. ”

"I'll never do it again, thank you Raven. ”

Tarzan did not enter the dream realm, and the crow Akang lived here. The elementary school is adjacent to the park, or the elementary school occupies a corner of the park. There are many trees in the park, some of which have survived for a long time and are still standing there.

Akon is an old crow, and only Akon himself knows how old he is. The world is as black as a crow, this is true. But if you go to that park, it's easy to tell which crow is Akang. Because it has a grayish-white feather on its head, which is extremely rare among crows. Some people think that this is like the gray hair of humans when they get older, but the average crow does not live long.

The name Akon was inadvertently called, and that was one summer many years ago. There was a lot of rain that summer, so Ah Kang found a piece of plastic as a poncho and put it on his head as soon as it rained. The plastic was originally the packaging of instant noodles, and there were three words written on it: Master Kong.

Once, a man walking in the rain saw the old crow and its poncho, and the man was astonished. Later, I often told others that I had seen a crow wearing a poncho from Master Kong. The other birds thought this was ridiculous, so they called it Master Kong. The old crow doesn't mind, Master Kong is Master Kong, and it's not bad to get a name that can make people happy.

The crow's secret was originally told to Zhang Trott by Tarzan.

Zhang Xiaotro's little head is always busy thinking about what to play. He discovers a little secret of a fruit tree. The fruit tree violated the rules of Teacher Tian Ding to go to school and secretly hide toys, and there was a "Ultraman" doll hidden in the schoolbag. He wanted to borrow it for fun, so he went to discuss it with the fruit tree.

"Fruit trees, I know a secret hidden in this campus. If I tell you, would you like to let me play with that 'secret' in your bag for a while?"

The fruit tree thought about it and agreed.

"I do. But you have to promise me to go and play in a place that no one else can see. If the teacher finds out and confiscates it, you will have to compensate me for the exact same. ”

"Okay. You have to promise me one condition, too. The secret was told to me by Tarzan, who asked me not to tell anyone. So you can't tell anyone else about it. ”

"Deal!"

Tarzan said he knew there was a human talking crow on the campus, and he had spoken to the crow. ”

"Tarzan must be making up a story to lie to you. ”

"I doubt it, too, but my grandfather did have a talking wren. ”

The fruit tree prefers to believe in his heart that this is true. If birds can also speak human language, isn't it like going to the world of mythology? Sun Wukong will change seventy-two times, maybe he has become a crow. Maybe it's a goblin who changes, and the story is even more lively.

The tree promised to keep it secret, but it lasted until noon.

After lunch, the children have free time. Hanamitsu-san and Natsuba-san are drawing. The two of them worked together to draw a princess, one to color the princess's hair, and the other to color the princess's dress. The fruit tree came to them and said to them mysteriously:

"If I told you that there were crows in this school who could only speak human words, would you believe it or not?"

"Have you seen it?"

"I haven't seen it, I heard it from Zhang Xiaotro. Zhang Xiaotrot listened to what Taishan said. Tarzan had seen it and spoken to it. ”

"Liar. ”

"Not necessarily. I have a book dedicated to 'Fantastic Beasts', and there are a lot of magical animals that you've never heard of before. ”

"And what did it say to Tarzan?"

"I don't know about this, Zhang Xiaotrot didn't tell me. However, our small school is said to have been here for more than 100 years. For so long, it's hard to say that there will be some kind of magical animal here. ”

For the rest of the day, the little head of the fruit tree was thinking about the "talking crow". When he got home from school, he turned on the TV and was playing his favorite "Ultraman". The monster that Ultraman is going to fight today is a "big bird". The big bird has a terrifying cutlass beak and can breathe fire and burn cities. This reminded him of the rumors of the "talking crow" during the day. He thought that if what Tarzan and Zhang Xiaotrot said was true, he didn't know if the crow was a "good bird" or a "bad bird". If it's a "bad bird", if I meet it, can I defeat it?

After that, there was a play where the fruit tree did not enter the school in the morning.

Akon was of course a "good bird", and it didn't take long for the children to become friends with the crows. A special friend, a talking crow, is the most wonderful thing in the world. They all keep their promise not to leak secrets to adults, because only children can understand the language of crows, and adults can never understand it.

Teacher Tian Ding didn't know this secret, she was the closest adult to these children. She teaches Chinese to children.

One day, in Chinese class, the children were learning a Tang poem. "The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown. "Some children can memorize it a long time ago, some children can remember it quickly and can memorize it, and some children only remember the first sentence until the end of class. Although they sit together, each child has a different level of mind. Whether it's a congenital or acquired environment, it's a fact, just like they are different in height, fat and thin. Teacher Tian Ding understands that respecting such facts is the respect for children, so as to be recognized by children and be their friends.

The children read aloud together, and the sound of reading aloud evoked a memory of Teacher Tian Ding.

When she was in her third year of college, she volunteered at an elementary school in the mountains for a month. The small school in the mountains is very shabby, with only a dozen children. That was her first time teaching someone else. Standing on the podium for the first time, he also talked about "the bright moonlight in front of the bed", and took the children to carry the "bright moonlight in front of the bed" together.

In the evening, the college students who volunteered to teach stayed in the compound of the village committee. It was early spring, the fifteenth night of the lunar calendar. Teacher Tian Ding stood in front of the window and saw the empty courtyard sprinkled with moonlight, and the phrase "bright moonlight in front of the bed" suddenly hit her heart. This poem and this scene mixed with a chill, which made her shiver, and she hurriedly put on her coat. At that moment, Teacher Tian Ding thought that this Tang poem might be the most understood sentence in her life.

Teacher Tian Ding thinks that in a few years, these children will grow up, and they may be touched by the scene at some point. Or you can think of a Tang poem, and an ancient person will come to soothe the soul. At that moment, we had a heart-to-heart connection with our ancestors, and we sighed together. Maybe that poem has been forgotten, maybe that sentence has been forgotten, but there is still a piece of "artistic conception" waiting to come in handy at that moment.

Kang's favorite thing to do is to stand on a tree branch outside the classroom window and listen to the children read aloud during their Chinese lessons. It's like a "children's choir", the most beautiful sound in the world. Ah Kang could hear that the sweet voice in it was full of flowers, the simple voice was Taishan's, and the sharp, somewhat harsh sound was that of fruit trees.