"I haven't seen the parrot you mentioned, I'm sorry. I shook my head and prepared to go back, "I guess I can't help you, I'll bring you back tomorrow the reward you asked someone to give me." ”

"Oh, yes," the whale's voice was a little lonely, "that can't be helped, thank you." ”

"Well, if you can't find it, just change places, if you've been under Lake M, people will be very distressed. "It's a bit unbearable, but I really don't have a clue, so there's no need to waste any more time.

"Well, okay, I'll leave tomorrow, thank you anyway..."

"I didn't do anything, so I'll go first, goodbye. With a wave of my hand to the big guy, I turned and walked into the night.

It was already past two o'clock in the middle of the night when I got back to the store, so I washed up briefly and fell asleep.

In my sleep, in a daze, I thought I saw the sea, the kraken was floating in the water, it was so bored that it wanted to run to the city to see, and then it saw a parrot, and the parrot longed to look at the sea every day. Then, the picture becomes a whale in the sea, a big boat appears next to the whale, there is a white feather parrot on the mast of the big ship, with red claws and yellow beak, there is a silver ring on the paws, the parrot flies down from time to time and fights with the whale, it looks peaceful, suddenly, someone called the name of the feather, the parrot flew up, flew higher and higher, disappeared on the horizon, the whale kept chasing and chasing, one chased to the beach, and then, the whale ran aground, it was on the beach, dying.

When I woke up, I felt like I was covered in cold sweat. Looking out the window, it was already dark, and after a moment's hesitation, I put on my clothes and quickly ran to Lake M.

"Hey, big guy, are you there, can you hear me?" I shouted.

After a while, the water level of the lake gradually decreased, and I could hear something coming out of the water, but the sun was already out and I couldn't see it.

"Hey, I know you're there, you listen to me, you give me three days, I want to figure it out, just wait here, do you hear!"

I know, it heard.

For the next two days, I asked around every day, asking people during the day and demons at night to see who had seen a white parrot, but I found nothing, not even the all-knowing old man.

On the morning of the third day, I had to go to school for my midterm exams. After the exam, I drew the parrot in my dream on scratch paper, thinking about how I could find it.

"Eh, you like parrots too?" Guan Qing, who was in the same class, walked up to me and stopped.

"Oh, not really, just wondering where there would be such a parrot. "I didn't expect someone to ask me, so I quickly covered it with my hand, but I didn't expect Guan Qing to directly pick up my casual graffiti.

"Eh, I don't usually find it, Ye Ke, are you good at painting, why don't you join a club or anything. As soon as he said this, more people came over to watch.

I felt my whole body tense. That's right, outside the grocery store, I'm a very difficult person to get along with. Suddenly surrounded by so many classmates, my chest felt like a big stone was pressed, and it became more and more difficult to breathe.

"Ye Ke, this parrot you drew looks like the parrot from X Travel Agency downstairs in my house. ”

One of the people surrounding me suddenly said this, and I was stunned for a moment, stood up and asked, "Where have you seen it?"

The classmates around me suddenly quieted down, and Guan Qing looked at me quite embarrassed, "Ye Ke, are you okay?"

Realizing that I was reacting too aggressively, I slowed my voice a little, "Sorry, I was a little excited just now, because... I have a friend who is going away from home and wants to find someone who has raised a parrot to help him raise it for a while. ”

Guan Qing patted me, "Then you just say no, it's a fuss." ”

"Yek is still quite cute. ”

"yes, he doesn't usually speak, I don't know that he paints so well. ”

Everyone chatted babblingly, mixed with friendly laughter from time to time, and I also laughed a few times with everyone, and awkwardly found an excuse to leave. As soon as I went out, I turned on my mobile phone and searched for X travel agency, there are three in City A, and after a glance at the time, it should still be too late, and I waved a car to the first one.

When I arrived at the third X travel agency, the sun had already set, and I saw that the owner was ready to lock the door and close the store, so I quickly ran over shouting, and the clerk looked at me with a confused face, and I briefly explained what I meant.

"There is indeed one parrot, but it's not called Hua Yu, it's called Polly, it's raised by my grandfather, so your friends should know my grandfather, but... The parrot has been sleeping almost every day since he died, so you probably won't get anything out of finding it. "The owner is a young girl.

At my repeated requests, she agreed to let me see the parrot alone, and when I walked up the stairs, I saw the same white parrot as I had dreamed, with red claws and a yellow beak with a silver ring on its paws. It stood quietly by the window, as the shopkeeper said, with its eyes closed and motionless, and those who didn't know would think it was a specimen.

"You are... Flower feathers?" I asked cautiously, suddenly feeling a little unbearable to break its tranquility.

The white parrot, however, only opened one eye and looked at me, continuing to remain motionless like a specimen.

"You're Hua Yu, I know you can understand me, it's okay, just listen to me. I sat on the floor against the wall by the window, "Do you remember that you had a friend in the sea? It was a whale, or rather, it looked like a whale, I don't know what happened between you, but it never stopped looking for you, it found the city from the sea, and now it is waiting for you in Lake M, which is not far from you, and the water level that is said on the radio every day is because it is in it, and you know, it is so big. I think it's missing you, do you want to go see it with me?"

The parrot's wings moved, but its eyes were closed.

"It told me that you admire the whale in the sea very much, because the whale can swim in the sea, and the sea is the freest place, so when you decide to go out to sea, it becomes a whale to accompany you. If you don't want to see it, can you say something to it, so I can tell it and let it go back to the sea in peace?"

The parrot still didn't respond, and I said a lot more, but nothing changed.

It was already completely dark outside, and remembering the agreement I had made with the whale, I reluctantly stood up and prepared to leave.

"My master, the founder of this travel agency, he has always had a desire to go to sea, and then his wish came true, he became a crew member of a ship, and I followed him into the sea again and again, and then later, he became a rich man, and began to travel beyond the sea, and I have always followed him, and after traveling around the world, he came back and started a travel agency, and when his son took over the travel agency, he built a hut in the forest, and then one day, he told me that he felt that someone in the sea was calling him, and took me out to sea again, and that was the time, the boat was blown over by the sea breeze, and he sank in the sea forever, and I had to fly home by myself, and finally, and only the wreckage of the ship was found. My master's name is Hanayu. With that, the parrot closed its eyes again.

“... So, the whale has always thought that it was its friend, not you?"

"Yes, it's just that it always thought I was talking to it, but the truth is that it just heard my master talking to me, and what it said about my dreams were my master's dreams, and all the while, it was just amusing itself. The parrot said with its eyes closed.

"But your master also said that there were people in the sea calling him. "I still don't want to give up.

"It is because of its call that the master will be shipwrecked. You let it go back and be its kraken, and don't involve other creatures casually, and don't interfere in other people's lives. "The parrot was a little out of breath.

"Then you don't have a moment of longing for the sea?"

"Of course not, what I like more is the time I spent in the forest with my host at the end. The parrot opened its eyes and looked out the window, "You go, I'm tired." ”

I also felt that I shouldn't bother anymore, so I got up and prepared to leave, and before leaving, I turned my head and asked, "Last question, you know that it has been misunderstood all along, why didn't you stop this fate that shouldn't have happened earlier?"

The parrot ignored me, so I didn't ask any more questions, and went downstairs to thank the shopkeeper, and when I was about to leave, I heard a faint voice in my ear: "Once the monster has a fate, it can't stop, he is, and so am I." ”

When I ran back to Lake M, it was late at night, and I was panting and standing on the plank road by the lake, for fear that the whale had left, but fortunately, I saw the figure of the big guy and the jellyfish-like monster.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting so long," I clutched my chest, panting, "I've found the feather, it's in the forest now, it's living well, there's a lot... New friend, it makes me say to you that it's thankful for the time you've spent together. ”

The whale was silent for a long, long time, so long that I thought it was asleep, "It is right, the birds should still be in the forest, it is the freeest." "The whale spoke very slowly, slowly, every word, as if I was about to cry.

"By the way, Hua Yu asked me to bring you this as a souvenir. "I took out the graffiti I had drawn in the afternoon and unfolded it to show the whale," it said, "that it has found its own place, and that you should go back to the sea, which is supposed to be your home." Also, "I looked at the jellyfish that had been standing next to the whale ticking," it said, not to ignore the friends who have been with you. ”

The whale's eyes were focused on the painting in my hand, and I could feel the whale's smile as it looked at the longing portrait of the parrot. When I said goodbye to it, I asked for its name, and it told me that its name was Dome, and the jellyfish next to it bowed deeply to me.

"The water level of Lake M in City A returned to normal early this morning, and experts are still investigating the incident..."

"These days, there are more and more strange things. The old man complained while drinking tea, "What were you doing a few days ago, I didn't see you all the time, did you go somewhere to be lazy?" ”

"I had a friend ask me for something, but it was a little troublesome. "I've just finished mopping the floor and I'm ready to write the ledger.

"The one looking for a parrot?" said the old man angrily, and when he saw me nodding, he snorted, "Nosy fellow, watch in the store in the afternoon, I'm going to go out." ”

"Okay, got it, Boss. I smiled and nodded, flipped through the ledger, wrote down the date and events, and then wrote down the word "dome".

Actually, the old man asks for a handwritten ledger, and sometimes it's good.