Everyone was blocked at the door of the locker room, and Miller and I thought Yan Xi was playing a prank again. Last time he sandwiched a blackboard eraser on the door, as soon as Zhao Rui walked in the door, he ate a bunch of chalk ash on his head and face, which made me very happy.

Ye Ruiyang told me that there was a strange thing in the locker room, and I didn't dare to go in.

"What? Snake or bat? When Millet heard this, he immediately retreated several steps, even though the door was still tightly closed.

"It's an owl." Ye Ruiyang said.

"What is there to fear from owls? You just open the door and let it fly out. I said, "I thought it was some kind of demon." ”

"Brother Chuan and Taotao went to open it just now, and they wanted it to fly out, but they were chased by owls and quickly closed the door." obviously had a very helpless expression.

"Isn't it, obviously, you're so tall, can't you just catch it and let it go?" Miller asked.

"Who dare? People are national second-class protected animals, and if you accidentally hurt it, you can't afford to lose it if you sell it. Ye Ruiyang smacked his lips, showing that he knew a lot.

"Come on, I can afford to sell you, right? The price of pork has risen again. Millet looked back at him.

If you delay for a while, you may miss the warm-up, although several seniors and Mu Zheng have not yet come. It's good that they're here, it is estimated that a big man like Yuan Yikong is not too afraid of owls. To be honest, we are really a group of children, and I felt it when I compared with Beichuan's classmates last time, and all of us on the other side are tall and big, and half of our faces have not yet grown.

"You don't know that owls are birds of prey, and they can be brutal. Not only eat mice, but also birds, fish, snakes can be caught......" Ye Ruiyang was still gushing.

"You didn't bring it in? Yesterday you were in our school, talking about the wilderness, and the birds didn't want to come. Now, people are flying into the locker room today! "Today, it's Mi Le and he said cross talk.

"Why don't you say that this stupid bird was sent by Beichuan? Don't fly to the away team's dressing room, but come to the home team to make trouble? There are a lot of foreigners in them, maybe someone can do magic, and it's normal to keep an owl......"

"Didn't you tell the coach and the captain?" I asked Mingming.

He shook his head: "I said, I haven't replied, I haven't answered the phone, I don't know what's wrong." ”

If we continue to toss like this, we won't be able to change clothes and warm up in time. It seems that I really want to win the game today, or maybe the argument between Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang makes me a little irritable, or maybe I think of some previous things, I suddenly leaned my backpack against the wall outside the locker room, walked over and opened the door.

"Ke Ke, what are you going to do?" When Millet saw it, he immediately grabbed my clothes.

"I'll go and see, leave the door open and let it fly out."

"Don't go, what if it catches you?" Millet refused to let go.

"Let's wait for the coach to come." Mingming.

"It's okay, I've dealt with things like this."

I twisted the door open and walked forward. Millet followed me, but hid behind me, his hand tugging at the hem of my shirt. We walked into places that we had already been to a dozen times as if we were going into a haunted house.

I saw a bird with its back to us, leaning on the windowsill, as if thinking.

"Brother, let's wait for Mom and Dad to come back. Don't go alone. ”

"Forget it, didn't you just say that you were afraid that it would and pee on your bed?"

"But what if it pecks you? What about bird flu? ”

"Then I can only sacrifice honorably, and then you should reflect on it, why did you open the window so much."

"I don't want it! Don't go, brother! ”

"Go away."

I pushed him away and resolutely opened the bedroom door. The bird held firmly on it with its claws, and looked out to itself. It resembles a magpie, and its elegant dark blue feathers flow from its back to the tip of its long tail, which is very beautiful. I even kind of wish it stayed here a little longer and didn't fly away all of a sudden.

Someone was pulling at my clothes, and I turned around in fright, thinking there was another bird. It was the strings tugging at the hat of my jumper behind me, like a frightened kitten tugging at the tail of a companion a little older than it.

"You scared the hell out of me. What are you doing here? "I didn't speak loudly, and I was afraid of startling the bird.

"I'm afraid it will hit you."

"Coward."

It probably heard us, turned its head to look at us, and then flapped its blue-edged wings twice and jumped onto the branch outside the window. The string jumped up from behind me, closed the window for the first time, and let out a sigh. I thought it was okay, but he rushed up and hugged me.

"What kind of nerves are you!"

"Brother, you're really brave!"

"Is there one?"

"Really, your face didn't change as soon as you entered the door, I think it's amazing! I'm going to be nervous to death hiding behind you, for fear it will fly around. ”

"Ah, it's back!" Miller shouted out in a lost voice, and I heard a commotion behind me, and I could imagine everyone gathering at the door to watch. The owl was not big, or even quite small, and like us, it didn't have any wings. Its head literally twisted a hundred and eighty degrees, cut into its back, and winked at us.

"Friends? Brothers? How are you going out? This is our place, not your ......" is stupid, as if it could understand it.

"Why are you so afraid of birds? Aren't their expressions silly and cute? ”

"Brother, it's not something you take for granted. Their eyes are not windows to the soul. I've checked, birds lack muscle on their faces and don't have as many expressions as we do. You think it's selling cuteness or overtures, but it's actually just your own feelings, maybe it's ready to attack you! So isn't it scary? It's hard to tell by how it reacts. When you encounter them, you must be vigilant at all times. ”

"It seems to be angry! Let's go. "Millet is pulling my clothes back.

It's still staring at me. Even though I know it's just my imagination, it's different from people and can't understand our emotions. But it did look at me, with those deep eyes hidden in the feathers.

I heard Miller shouting, as did my teammates outside the door. He tried to drag me away, but I didn't move, and all around me was blurring, except for the white daylight of the window. It was as if my brain had been cut off and I couldn't react in any way, except for a message ordering me to stop where I was, like a sculpture......

Miller didn't let go of his hand in the end. Everyone was quiet, and I could feel them looking at us with a very strange look. Millet turned his head in front of me and asked if I was okay, and I nodded and shook my head, feeling a little heavier on my shoulders.

The owl rested on my right shoulder. Twisting his head as if nothing had happened, I looked at it, and it turned to look at me, and the sight of me in its eyes was what I was looking at. I looked away, and it moved its head at the same time.

The people outside the door were probably stunned. I thought it would be better to go out, so I walked to the door. Millet let go and followed me as if I were a performer with a snake wrapped around me. Everyone consciously lined up in two lines at the door, as if to welcome a big man to enter.

"Ke Ke, are you alright?" Ye Ruiyang's eyes widened.

I said nothing, go change your clothes.

So everybody went in, and Millet stayed outside the door with me. The owl had no intention of leaving.

"You go change your clothes, you're going to have a game later."

"I'm not going."

"You can call my sister and ask her what to do. She should be in the stands. ”

Millet hit. My sister scolded the two of us on the phone, saying that she was fooling around and acting as a hero. She scolded for about a minute before hanging up, and when she put down her phone, she had already run in front of us.

"Did your parents say that it was difficult to find the police? Kicking the ball one by one and kicking stupidly? There are so many boys, and none of them thought of calling the police? "As soon as she came, she pointed to the best way to solve the problem, and it dawned on us that she was stupid enough to call 110 and didn't expect it.

The coach soon arrived, and when he saw me standing at the door of the locker room with an owl on his shoulder, I almost thought it was a classmate from the anime club who was doing cosplay. The main thing is that my face is expressionless, just like the bird on my shoulder. She asked us if we had called the police, and my sister said that we had called, and the police uncle would be there in a while. So she asked my sister to accompany me and wait for the police to come, and after saying that, she went in with the reluctant Mi Le. Mu Zheng and a few seniors also arrived, and they also saw me carrying an owl at the door of the locker room.

"We're not a football club now, let's change it to a magic club." Yuan Yikong smiled and leaned against the wall and went in.

"Junior brother, if you hold on for a while, persistence is victory." The captain at least looked serious.

Ye Ruiyang changed his clothes and went to warm up, and when he passed by me, he said, it's a pity that it's a protected animal, otherwise it's not bad to stay and be a mascot. Zhao Rui came out behind him, holding a broom in the locker room, and asked if he wanted to take a photo.

I told him to fuck off.

"Why can't you shoot it?" My sister tapped on her phone as she spoke, and handed me the broom, "Brother, you are out of luck, this owl is obedient on your shoulder, not barking or moving, as if it knows you." It won't be ......"

"Wouldn't it be what?"

"It's not going to send you an acceptance letter to a magic school, is it? Think about it, what day is it? ”

"What day is it?"

"I don't understand if you're really stupid or pretending to be confused!" My sister habitually tried to pat me, but her hand stopped in mid-air, definitely because she was worried about what was on my shoulder, "Muggle! ”

I noticed that the owl's head was poking forward, and it seemed to be interested in what my sister had said, and wanted to hear it. Who knows? More likely, they just want to stretch their necks.

"You say, will it be waiting for you in the locker room?" My sister asked. I didn't answer, and the two of them were silent until the sound of light footsteps came from the other side of the hallway. When I saw who that person was, I knew it must have been my sister's doing.

"You're here, take a picture of me and my brother. He was about to go to the train station, and he couldn't delay for a moment. My sister beckoned Yue Yin over and asked me to take a broom in a more beautiful pose. I was so angry that I put on an embarrassed face.

"Ke Ke, be happy, you'll be enrolled soon. Why do you look like you didn't find the right platform and hit the pillar headfirst? ”

"That's it, smile, if you don't laugh, you will be deducted from your academy!"

Several of the people who came out of the locker room were given the opportunity to take pictures with the future magician, and Miller was no exception, he was much more relieved than before. The owl didn't panic at all when it faced the sound of the shutter, but still held on firmly.

Uncle Police is finally here. It hadn't been long since we called the police, but I was standing here, doing nothing but being filmed around by the camera, and it was a long time.

When it came time to separate, I was a little reluctant, as if I was used to letting it stay on my shoulder. But I told it, "Go home, brother, don't get lost next time." I don't understand why I would say such stupid things, like a child of a few years old. But it seemed to understand me, jumped off its shoulder, jumped onto the box that the police uncle had prepared for it, turned its head to look at me and my sister again, and even bobbed its head up and down slightly—probably just my delusion, it didn't understand what I was talking about. The two policemen thanked us and said that it would be good to call the police in time if they encountered such a thing again, and not to take the risk of dealing with it.

Let's go.

There was so much time to lose, I knew I couldn't start today, and the owl was taken away, so it's a little sad. Actually, I didn't necessarily start in the first place, and the owl was even freer and didn't belong to me, but why was it still sad?

I was hugged.

"What are you doing? Let go, some people will think we're in love! ”

"Let them think it's okay. Waywe, you idiot. ”

She let me go.

"What are you crying about?"

"Can't you cry? Okay, let's go to the stadium to warm up, it's time to play against Beichuan. ”

"Didn't you go to the train station?"

I have the impression that my sister rarely cries in front of me. In addition to the time I was locked out of the door, there was also the time when I quarreled with her at the beginning of the school year. By the way, there's also the time to send the strings away.

How can she cry today?

Much later, she would tell me that the two of us were alone in the hallway outside the locker room before the match with Kitagawa and she thought of a folklore, as absurd as it sounded: people who had passed away would suddenly come to their loved ones in the form of small animals at some point, spend a brief time with them, and then leave in a hurry to return to their own world. And the day the owl appeared in our dressing room for no reason was precisely Xianxian's birthday. She said that Xianxian has been afraid of the cold since she was a child, and the sun that day froze like a miserable white ice cube, and her feet were cold when she recalled it.