Chapter 2: Legends
Turtles and tortoises sleep all day long in addition to eating.
It grows very fast and is already able to climb out of the tank, from one end of the balcony to the other, but it prefers to lie in the tank or on the balcony floor in the sun, it likes to think, and a lot of strange ideas come up in its head.
Its language learning is also progressing rapidly. It can already understand most of the conversations between Grandpa and Xiaoxiao, and can also communicate with Mom and Dad in simple human language.
But the last thing it likes is to be teased with laughter.
Xiaoxiao will go to the balcony every day to play with the turtles, and her favorite thing is to have fun with the baby turtles. He picked up the turtle and threw him down the slide again.
The turtle was really angry this time, it slapped the water, trying to splash and smile, but unfortunately the water was too shallow, and the water splashed on its head, it stretched its neck into the water again, sucked enough water, raised its head, and sprayed it on Xiaoxiao's body, but unfortunately its strength was limited, and it bounced back on the glass wall, and it happened to splash on its head again.
Xiaoxiao leaned back and forth in a wheelchair. He took the turtle out of the water and put it in the palm of his hand, and the turtle's eyes widened as if he was about to fight.
Xiaoxiao gently tapped the turtle's head with her fingers, and said with a smile: "Little turtle turtle, you are really a little turtle with a personality!" ”
Instead of throwing the turtle on the slide this time, Xiaoxiao gently placed it on a model spaceship outside the water tank, "This is the spaceship that my grandfather gave me for my eighth birthday, it can take you through space!" ”
"Spaceship? Traveling through space? Hearing this, the turtle stopped being angry. He crawled up and down the spaceship, looking here and there, and wondering: Is that the turtle called the Himalayas flying to the moon on this spaceship?
The turtle turtle stood on a high spaceship and looked up at the distant sky beyond the balcony. The sun is gradually going down, the moon is about to rise again, and Xiaoxiao is also pushed home by her grandfather to eat.
Turtle's parents searched for turtles everywhere, and the brothers and sisters were also crawling on the balcony to look for its traces, when suddenly the brother saw turtles standing on the high spaceship and shouted:
"Mom, the turtle is on that boat!"
Mother looked up at the turtle and shouted anxiously:
"Turtle, come down, danger!"
The turtle turtle doesn't know what the danger is, the spaceship is higher than the water tank, it looks at the parents under the ship on the spaceship, brothers and sisters, and feels that it has suddenly become much taller than them, but it is happy, it still wants to be a little higher, maybe it will be able to land on the moon, so it climbed the highest railing of the spaceship, and looked at the bottom of the Chaoyang platform, this look can frighten the turtle turtle, too high, Xiaoxiao's family lives on the twenty-eighth floor, look down, but it will not be dizzy, the turtle and turtle dizzy for a while, and rolled off the spaceship without paying attention, Dad just reached out to catch it, and Mom was nagging and complaining beside her:
"It's better to get out of these dangerous things, you have to break your arm and leg if you fall!"
"It's no wonder that the turtle turtle, it was Xiaoxiao who put it on the spaceship, and I saw that Xiaoxiao began to like the turtle!"
"Xiaoxiao is getting weirder and weirder now, always doing inexplicable things, I have to negotiate with grandpa, according to the pet agreement, he has the right to protect our safety!"
This is the second time the turtle has heard the word "pet", and it asks curiously:
"What is a pet agreement?"
Dad sighed and said: "A long, long time ago, our turtle family was the second largest family on the earth in addition to humans, occupying most of the ocean, and did not interact with humans, and then our living environment became worse and worse, so many turtles began to live in human homes, just like many animals, some were taken to the zoo, and some became human pets. As a human pet, you don't have to rack your brains to find food, although there is no longer a danger of survival, but you have lost your freedom. Some people regard pets as home, but there are also people who just make fun of us, or even abuse us, in order to protect the rights and interests of our animals, after several generations of major animal families, there is this pet agreement, humans must not abuse pets, must protect the personal safety of pets. ”
"Then why not build our turtle's own home?"
"Because human beings have advanced civilizations, they rule the entire earth, and they are the masters of the earth, and the turtle family once had a glorious history, but then it was divided and could no longer find its own belonging, so they could only send people under the fence and live a peaceful life."
Mom held Dad's hand and comforted him: "Honey, it's not our fault, this is fate, as long as our family is safe and happy!" ”
The turtle didn't understand why his father was a little sad, and he listened to the strange terms "civilization, history, belonging" popping out of his father's mouth one by one, feeling very fresh, and eagerly wanted to know what they meant. It asked Dad earnestly:
"Dad, what's history?"
"History is what has happened to our tortoise family from ancient times to the present, there has been a brief civilization in the history of our tortoise family, and there have been many great tortoises." Father Turtle held the turtle on his shoulder and said proudly in a majestic voice.
"The Great Turtle?" Turtle Turtle was very excited to hear it.
"Yes, those turtles with names and surnames!"
"A name and a surname?"
"Yes, a long, long time ago, our ancestors were the eldest sons of the dragon, the Emperor of Heaven gave us the surname Ao, at that time our Ao clan was extremely powerful, our ancestors had an ancestor named Ao Bulie, who once defeated the most powerful golden-winged Dapeng and established the Bulie Dynasty in the East China Sea, and then slowly evolved, there were many branches, that was the most glorious era of our turtle family, but unfortunately now everyone has almost forgotten their own history!"
Turtle Turtle loved listening to his father's stories, and when he was still in the eggshell, he fell asleep listening to his father's stories about turtles every day, and Turtle Turtle felt that many of his memories of the world were built up at that time.
But my mother interrupted my father impatiently:
"Ho, dear, that's just a legend, and no one knows if it's true or not. What's more, now our turtle clan doesn't use their own surnames for a long time, the name is just a symbol, just call it well. ”
"Mother child, no matter what, the child must have a decent name, it is a sacred thing to choose a name, the name will accompany him for the rest of his life, and he must not be sloppy!"
Mom and Dad were blushing over their names, and Turtle Turtle was a little puzzled, and asked in a low voice:
"But don't I already have a name of my own?"
"Oh, the turtle is a nickname, I have to give you a loud name! Maybe one day, you will go down in history like the greatest East Sea Turtle in our tortoise family. Dad was talking about the history with a frown on his face.
"Hey, it's not a gong and a drum, why should the name be so loud!" Mom didn't think so.
Turtle didn't think so, he agreed with what his father said, and shouted happily:
"I'm going to have a loud name!"
Dad picked him up and lifted him above his head, laid him on the sand on the balcony, and said in a loud voice to the tortoise:
"Okay, a loud name, just like Ao Bu Lie, do you know what Bu Lie means in the ancient text of the turtle, it is the meaning of gold! Let me think, how about Sahn? Dazzling and radiant! ”
The turtle and the father were excitedly gesturing, and the mother couldn't help but pour cold water on the father:
"Don't forget, my dear, according to the pet agreement, our names have to be taken by the owner, and the children have to go to the pet school to learn the human language!"
"Pet school?" The word pet is the word pet that the turtle has heard the most these days, and this is the first time I have heard the word "school".
"Yes, dear, pet school, as a pet, you have to go to a pet school at a certain age, learn the human language, and of course some simple survival skills, but they are all skills to please their owners!" Dad shrugged at the turtle and said dismissively.
"Pets should have the appearance of pets, no matter how much you complain, you can't change the identity of pets!" Mom always tries to pull Daddy's dreams back into reality.
"Anyway, it's up to you to decide the name!"
Turtle Turtle listened to the argument of his parents, but his heart seemed to have planted a seed, and he thought about it wildly:
"Are the ancestors of our tortoises really relatives of dragons? If you want to choose your own name, what should you choose? Sarn? Radiant? Not good, not good, might as well be vigorous? Invincibility? It's as powerful as Ao Bulie......"
He was lying on the beach, crossing Erlang's legs, thinking about whether the life of a pet is to eat and sleep every day, and to make the owner happy, day after day, if so, life is really like laughing and laughing!