Chapter 32: The Chicken of Regret
“...... And this small step is insignificant compared to the initial effort. Why can't we continue with this small step?"
Early in the morning, the old hen came to me.
"Hello!" said the old hen to me first.
I feel a little uncomfortable, because when I usually meet the leader or the leader's wife, I always go up to talk first, and when the order is reversed, I am a little overwhelmed and even flattered. I hurriedly accosted:
"I'm fine, did you sleep well last night?"
"What a good thing, I didn't sleep all night. ”
"Why?"
"It's not about telling you a story, you have to make it up to me. ”
"How can you compensate for it? "I did feel a little uncomfortable, but I couldn't think of anything to compensate for it other than corn.
"How's that going to happen? You've got to buy chocolates for me. Think about what day it is. The old hen pouted.
In fact, this mouth has always been like this, but I think it is different today, and this difference may be difficult for ordinary people to distinguish.
What day is it?
It is neither the Spring Festival, nor the 15th Five-Year Festival, nor the National Day.
What the hell is it? I couldn't figure it out after racking my brain.
"You're so stupid," he said when he couldn't figure it out, obviously in a hurry, "it's Valentine's Day." ”
I was suddenly scared out of goosebumps, I have the courage to make up my mind on the leader's wife, the taste of wearing small shoes is not comfortable.
"You're funny," the old hen probably saw my discomfort, "I'm just teasing you, don't take it to heart." ”
To put it lightly, didn't the guards of the last emperor Puyi play too much with the leader's wife, and finally played with his life?
But I quickly calmed down, and hurriedly said, "I'm really sorry, I really don't know what day it is, thanks to your reminder, I will definitely make up for you with the gift, and I will definitely satisfy you." ”
As for what gift to give, I really haven't thought about it, give a down jacket, people bring it themselves, send some black chicken and white phoenix pills, that's even worse, then send some gold and silver jewelry, it may like it.
"Let's get down to business," said the old hen, "and I have a date to-day." ”
"What date?" I asked, puzzled.
"Zhu Dinghong asked me to go to the movies. ”
"What movie?" I haven't seen a movie in a long time, and today I was a little surprised to hear that someone was watching a movie.
"I heard that it was a Korean drama, and the attendance rate was quite high. ”
Originally, I wanted to discuss Korean dramas with the old hen, because I couldn't understand why Chinese liked Korean dramas so much, but I didn't want to take up a lot of the old hen's time. The following is all told by the old hen, and I will record it as follows.
"There has been a very prosperous time in the forest, just like now," the old hen emphasized, "and it may be that people are so happy that they have forgotten the potential danger and the way to save it, so that when the forest is in trouble, everyone is at a loss." ”
"What disaster is happening in the forest?" I asked, puzzled.
"Forest fires, fires that have not been extinguished for three months. The old hen said excitedly.
"Who is the perpetrator?" I somehow remembered that King Chu had burned Afang Palace to ashes with a fire, and it seemed that it had been burning for more than three months. The British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace for more than three months, and it seems that it will take more than three months for this good thing to burn. But at that time, the overlord of Chu had not yet been born, and the British and French coalition forces had not yet been organized, so who lit the fire?
"It's a mouse...... "said the old hen."
"Damn rat," said the old hen, before the old hen could finish speaking, I stood up at once, and said through gritted teeth, "I will raise a hundred cats tomorrow and eat them all." ”
Due to the influence of the big sweet peach cat, I have always been disgusted with cats and have never had cats. Because I hate cats, I have a lot of sympathy for mice, and I often think that rats are actually not easy, although the barn is infested with rats, when someone is willing to lend my cat for a few days, I say:
"No need, I have food in my granary, and I can still afford a few litters of mice. ”
When I heard that rats were the culprits of the forest disaster, I couldn't help but regret what I had done in the past. Somehow, I don't get that much of a fancy for cats either.
"Sit down," said the old hen, "listen to me slowly......"
I sat down, though my anger did not subside, and I wondered how rats set fires, for according to Mr. Dahl's theory, rats probably didn't know how to use fire at that time, and rats don't seem to use fire today.
"Actually, you can't blame the mouse entirely," said the old hen, "and the mouse was grinding its teeth on a dead tree trunk, probably because he was sick, and he didn't grind his teeth for a few days, so the teeth grew very long, and he grinded his teeth a little longer that day......
"The dead tree grinds out the fire?" I immediately figured out what was going on, when I was in elementary school, there was a male student in my class, and during recess, he rubbed a stool leg on the table repeatedly, and the table was set on fire.
"You are right," said the old hen, "but only my ancestor Chicken Angel was present, and she had no idea for a while, and cried out for help, but no one heard, so she flew to find other animals, and you said that he was pampered and fat, how could he fly, and when he came to the rescue, the fire was no longer beyond their control." ”
I couldn't help but feel a little heartache and regret when I heard that this fire had been caused in this way, and if I had been there at the time, I thought that I could have extinguished it with just a handful of earth, and as for letting it burn into a raging fire?
"Why didn't your ancestor Chicken Angel put out the fire right away? I think it should be able to extinguish the fire, and what will the rats do when the fire is ignited?" I asked, puzzled.
"My ancestor Chicken Angel has been uneasy about this, in the face of the sudden fire, he had no idea for a while, so he ran to move the rescuers, and then he thought, if he wanted to put out the fire at that time, he would definitely be able to extinguish the fire, if it really didn't work, it could use his own body to pounce on it, and extinguish the fire. ”
I was in awe of the chicken angel all of a sudden, I didn't expect that the chicken angel still has such a lofty ideological realm, a tall image of a hero after the fact was erected in front of me, the tall and mighty appearance was enough to make me awe, in an instant, this image became several, dozens, hundreds, Thousands, to the end of the count, all black pressure standing in front of me, after a while, these images suddenly grew a lot taller, maybe faster than the mushrooms after the rain, I can only see their knees below, down their knees, I suddenly understand a qiē, they are tall because they stand on the shoulders of giants, I can clearly see that those giants are printed on their foreheads with a few deep big words: "Heroes beforehand".
I rubbed my eyes and searched for something more, but after searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything but these tall images in front of me, as if the whole universe was stuffed with them, and even the air and dust were squeezed out of it.
"Where are the mice?" I suddenly remembered that the old hen had not yet answered my question.
When the rat saw that he had caused trouble, he fled. ”
What a escape!
Ran away from the trouble!
I suddenly remembered the litters of rats raised in my granary, oily and powdery, flamboyant, and usually nodding to me, once I have any difficulties, who knows if they will run away, when I think of these, I feel very uncomfortable.
"What happened?" I wanted to know what was next.
"They first tried to put out the fire, because after all, it was their home, but the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and they had not encountered a similar situation before, and they didn't have any experience in preventing and extinguishing fires, so they had to flee the forest. ”
I don't want to interrupt the old hen and listen to him go on.
"Because the fire spread so quickly, everyone ran desperately to the outside of the forest, not knowing where the end was, and not knowing how to get tired. The fastest runners were the flying birds, most of whom escaped from the forest. The worst thing is the animals that climb the tree, they think they can sit back and relax when they learn to climb up, but they don't expect that when they encounter special circumstances, they can neither fly high with wings, nor run fast with their feet on the ground, so many of them have not been able to escape from their doom. ”
Speaking of which, I saw that the old hen's eyes were shining with tears and her nose was twitching.
"What about the Chicken Angel?" I knew that the Chicken Angel must have escaped from the forest, but I wanted to know a few specific circumstances, and my readers must have thought the same way.
"Although my ancestor was the first to learn to fly, in fact, it didn't know how to fly, it could only fly from the ground to the trees, or flutter a few times at low altitudes, and it would not fly continuously, it could only fly up and down, and then fly up and down, and then fall, the birds walked in a straight line, but my ancestors walked on a parabola, and it kept taking off, and the cost of the body was ......."
I marveled at how proficient the old hen was in mathematics and physics, and I wondered from which university he had come to me after graduation, Cambridge University in England or Stanford University in the United States?
"What happened?"
"My ancestor finally flew out of the forest after all the hardships, flew to the meadow, slept for an unknown number of days, anyway, there was no calendar at that time, and no one told him, how long he slept, and when he woke up, he was full of pain, like a broken shelf, his stomach was hungry and thirsty, but he didn't want to eat, and there was really nothing to eat, he wanted to have fruit in the forest, and quenched his hunger and thirst, and there was nothing here, but in order to survive, he was still trying to find something to eat, he was like a stubborn pig, he was digging on the ground without a purpose, trying to dig out a big apple in the ground, but this was impossibleAt first, he was reluctant to eat these things, but then he couldn't adapt to this environment. ”
"I can't complain that your chicken family likes to shave, I see. "I understood it all at once. In the past, I was very puzzled by the behavior of the old hen, there was a lot of chicken food, and the stirring was very even, but he had to pick and choose to eat, and then I simply brought him a pot of corn, and he had to plane and eat, sometimes there was nothing on the ground, and I saw that his stomach would not starve, he still shaved and eaten.
I really want to persuade the old hen to get rid of this bad habit, especially in his current identity, which is both a leading wife and a cross talker, maybe it is still Dr. Liuyang. But I couldn't get it right.
The old hen smiled a little sheepishly. His face must have been a little red, I was too embarrassed to look at it, I regretted that I was too quick to say something I shouldn't have said.
However, the old hen was a big hen, and he didn't bother with me, and he continued to talk about her family history.
"In this life, there are two things that my ancestor regrets the most, he will never forget until his death, and pass them on to his children and grandchildren, so that everyone can remember these lessons for generations to come......"
Speaking of which, I saw the old hen's nose twitching again, tears seemed to overflow from the eye sockets, I wanted to take out a handkerchief for him, but I did not have the habit of loading handkerchiefs, think about it carefully, now it seems that girls do not load handkerchiefs very much, but in a small bag of toilet paper (now it seems to have become a paper towel), this toilet paper is suitable and hygienic, but it is indecent, handkerchiefs themselves are also a kind of culture, I think, this handkerchief will become a kind of collection in the near future, for those literati and scholars to collect. In many costume dramas, young men and women use handkerchiefs as tokens to interpret a vivid love story, if in today's film and television dramas, a young man is a little shy to a girl and says, "Miss, is this a ball of toilet paper you lost?" not only can not be exchanged for love, but also will make people think that he has a nervous disorder.
I had to take out a little toilet paper and give it to him, but he didn't take it, paused, and said:
"The first thing, he hated himself for not being decisive enough, especially the forest fire, he has always felt very guilty, he thinks that he should be very responsible for this matter, in fact, he also had the idea of extinguishing the fire in his heart at that time, but because of hesitation, he missed the best time to extinguish the fire, causing unnecessary losses. ”
"The second thing, which is that he has not been able to improve his flying skills one step further, he said that he can actually become a real bird by taking one more small step forward, and this small step is how insignificant compared to the initial effort. Why can't we continue with this small step?"
After saying this, the old hen pondered for a long time, I knew that he was thinking about life, and his words also stirred up layers of ripples in my heart, thinking back to his life path, which was so similar to what the chicken angel had walked.