Chapter 33: The Great Bird (Part II)

The eggs were roasted for three days and three nights before everyone was ready to eat. But how to open the eggshell is a difficult problem. People use axes and hammers to "jingle" for a long time, and the eggshells do not move at all. The children immediately began to cry.

In the end, the old people in the village had a way, and everyone dug a slope under the bird's egg, and put a pile of stones not far away, and when they pry it with wood, the giant egg rolled up, hit the stone, and cracked.

People began to eat eggs to their heart's content.

Looking at the guano like a mountain bag, Sun Li was worried. The village chief said: "As the saying goes, 'rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water', we rely on guano to eat guano!" ”

Sun Lidao: "How do you say this? ”

The village chief said: "Let's sell guano as fertilizer to the surrounding villages in need, just such a large pile of guano is enough for our village to get rid of poverty and become rich!" ”

Sun Li said: "It makes sense. We still have to send someone to guard it to prevent others from coming to steal it. ”

Sun Li volunteered to start duty.

As soon as he lay down in his tent that night, he heard a movement outside, and he yelled, "Who is it?" ”

It turned out to be the old cow before, and it walked straight to Sun Li and said: "As the saying goes, 'help people to the end, send Buddha to the west', you eat the big bird's egg, it is angry, and it wants to come to find your bad luck!" ”

Sun Li said: "Ah, what kind of divine bird is this, it has to get along with us?" ”

Lao Niu said: "This is the heavenly Yupeng, wake up from the tree of Fusang in the morning, take the white curtain and fly to the west, and take a break in the laurel tree on the moon at night, then pick up the black curtain and fly back to the east, year after year, non-stop, so that there is a day and night in the world." ”

"A few days ago, the Heavenly Palace was renovated in a big way, and it had no place to go to the toilet, so it defecated everywhere. The eggs were also discharged. ”

"One day in the sky, one year in the world, ten thousand years in the sky is one era, ten thousand years is one catastrophe, this Yupeng can live for thirty-five thousand eons, and there will be an egg in the middle, and he will take over his class when he grows up."

Sun Lidao: "So, we ate its successor, how should this be good?" ”

Lao Niu said: "You better run for your lives quickly." ”

The next day, Sun Li told the village chief about it.

The village chief was speechless for a long time, and finally sighed: "Alasβ€”β€”, kites have wind, dolphins have sea, why can't we do anything?" ”

Sun Li's friend Zhao Qian happened to come to look for Sun Li, he heard about Sunjia Village in the city, and thought it was really bizarre, so he came to ask for confirmation this time.

Seeing that Sun Li was worried, Zhao Qian asked the reason, and Sun Li explained it in detail.

Zhao Gan said after hearing this: "As the saying goes, 'there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great', if you eat other people's eggs and let it be the last, how can it give up." Now, if you don't do anything, kill this bird and never suffer from it! ”

Sun Li said: "You don't know that it is extremely huge, let alone killing it, if it pulls, we will not only not be able to eat it, but we will also not be able to carry it." ”

Zhao Gan said: "If you think about Kuafu's day by day, Houyi shooting the sun, and Jingwei reclamation, we are the descendants of heroes, and we have a fine tradition of fighting heaven and earth." If you were afraid of wolves and tigers, it would have been over a long time ago! ”

Sun Lidao: "As the saying goes, 'the authorities are obsessed with bystanders', Brother Zhao's words woke up the people in their dreams. Let's talk about how to kill the big bird! ”

Zhao Qiansun Li told the village chief his thoughts, and the village chief sighed: "As the saying goes, 'more things are better than less', how can we ordinary people fight against the divine bird, isn't this self-defeating?" ”

Sun Lidao: "We gathered the villagers together, and asked everyone to decide for themselves, whether to leave or stay." ”

The people quickly gathered together, and the village chief gave a brief account of the situation. Everyone was stunned.

Zhao Gan said: "Don't be afraid, no matter how big it is, it's just a stupid bird, there are so many of us, we will definitely be able to fight it!" ”

Sun Lidao: "The land under our feet is left by our ancestors, soaked in their sweat, and their bodies are buried below. We can't just leave our homes! ”

People don't know how to face it, they are waiting to see what others choose. The village chief said: "I think the young man is right, we will win." Even if we fail, future generations will remember that we died in heroic battles. ”

Sun Lidao: "As the saying goes, 'people are born to die, or die at the head of the bed, or die in a glorious battle'. ”

"We are good at farming, but we have no experience in bird hunting." There was a lot of talk.

At this time, Zhao Qian distributed the "Outline of Hunting Birds" written in advance to everyone, and the literate people read it aloud to the people next to them, and the more everyone listened, the more confident they became.

Three days later, the situation changed. The sound of gongs sounded in the village, and when people heard the signal, they immediately climbed on the roof and covered the houses with branches and weeds. Viewed from above, the "Bird Don't Village" seems to have disappeared out of thin air.

There were black clouds in the sky, gongs sounded again, and people erected eggshells. Two days ago, Sun Li and the others used paste to dip the eggshell, and from a distance, it was intact.

The people hid in pre-dug trenches and prepared for battle.

After a while, there was a loud noise in the sky, and it was the long howl of the Yupeng bird.

It flew over the "Bird Don't Village", and when it looked down, there was no village people, and it hovered in the sky.

Suddenly it saw the eggs on the ground, screamed, and swooped down. The wings of the sky drove the air current, and the air flow stirred the sand and dust, obscuring the sky and the sun, and it was difficult to distinguish things in the daytime for a while.

When the wind blew, the houses collapsed, the ancient trees broke and the weeds were uprooted. If it weren't for the fact that people were hiding in the trenches, they might have been blown somewhere.

The big bird rushed down and grabbed it with its claws, but the eggshell broke as soon as it was caught, but the tips of the claws were caught in the rope trap.

Sun Li and Zhao Qian jumped out of the trench, pulled the end of the rope and shouted, "Let's do it!" ”

I saw that the people who were hiding jumped out one after another, scattered lard, sulfur, and saltpeter on the claws of the birds, and then threw torches on them, and suddenly a fire was ablaze.

The big bird couldn't see what was under his feet, but felt some pain, so he flapped his wings and rushed to the sky.

As a result, the fire took advantage of the wind and burned bigger and bigger. The big bird rushed down again and rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames.

A group of people rode donkeys and mules to the vicinity, carrying torches, beating gongs and drums, and roaring loudly.

Only then did the big bird find the dotted human beings on the ground, screaming and pecking with their beaks.

The team circled around him, firing flaming rockets at it......

Many, many years later, there was a stone tablet in a museum that depicted a group of people shooting arrows at a giant bird that was in flames, screaming powerlessly.

The narrator will tell the Young Pioneers who come to visit that this is the ancestors fighting the evil bird. But no one can tell the story clearly. Except, of course, for those who have read the novel.

In short, the villagers of the "Bird Don't Village" shared tens of thousands of catties of barbecue meat per family, and people used urine bones to repair their broken houses.

Zhao Qian's restaurant has been open for more than 600 years, has gone through five dynasties, and sells smoked bacon every day. Whenever a customer asked what kind of meat it was, the shopkeeper always shook his head in confusion and said, "I only know that hundreds of years ago, there was a boss named Zhao Gan who ordered these countless smoked bacon." ”

After this incident, people had to look up to the sky and reinterpret the cause of the alternation of day and night.

Some Westerners, in order to test their hypothesis, began to circumnavigate the globe by boat. Indifferently, this is all an afterthought.

At that time, the government sent people to the "Bird Don't Village" to investigate, and the results were very surprising, but the boat was already in the boat. In order not to cause trouble, local officials strictly forbade people in their jurisdiction to discuss and spread the matter. In their memo to the imperial court, they wrote: "There was a thunderstorm and fire in the area, which set the trees on fire, and because of the proper command of the local officials, there were no casualties......

In this way, an event that could have been recorded in the history of human development was slowly forgotten and sealed in the corner of history.