Soon after, the pair of sunrise and sunset swallows were much larger than before, and gradually one of the spring swallows began to lie motionless in the nest all day long, while the other flew around tirelessly.

Every time it returned to its nest, it either had a green grasshopper or a fat green worm in its mouth.

When the swallow returns with a full load, it carefully feeds the food in its mouth to the swallow that squats in the nest.

Yuxi didn't quite understand why the swallow was lying motionless in the nest all day long.

When she curiously told the nurse her questions, the nurse giggled and told Yuxi: "The swallow lying on the nest is a female, it must have laid a few swallow eggs, so it has been staying in the nest to hatch the baby swallows!"

Yuxi suddenly realized: "Is it so magical? That female swallow is about to hatch a baby swallow so soon? No wonder the other male swallow has to bring back some insects every day to feed this female swallow?"

The nurse couldn't help but sigh: "Yuxi, you see, even the swallows are so affectionate, think about the many couples in the world today, they may not be as affectionate as this pair of swallows." ”

Yuxi couldn't help but feel a little lost when she heard the nurse say this: "Nurse, although I still don't understand some right and wrong, I have long heard that there are many joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows in the red dust. Didn't the saints say a long time ago that it is better to have a heart like Bodhi than to be in the red dust. Even the swallows are so affectionate, why can't a person who is the spirit of all things be able to love well?"

The nurse lowered her eyes, raised her hand and combed a few locks of messy hair: "People are people, there are seven emotions and six desires, how can there be as simple as a swallow." The most complicated thing in the world is the relationship between men and women in the world. ”

Yuxi was a little stunned when she saw the nurse say this: "Nurse, do you say that the most complicated thing in the world is the relationship between men and women?"

The nurse knows that Yuxi still can't understand the complicated rights and wrongs in this world. After all, Yuxi is not only young, but also just a budding girl who has just been in her youth. And she stays in the deep mansion compound all the year round, how can she know those emotional entanglements in this world?

So the nurse told Yuxi: "The most tender thing in the world is love, and the most cruel and ruthless thing is love." So sometimes it can be said that ruthlessness is better than affection. When lovers love each other, they are as tender as water and as sweet as honey, but when they are desperate, they are like a thousand cuts, which makes people feel painful. ”

Yuxi was stunned: "Since the emotional matter is so complicated, then why do these crazy men and women still want moths to fight the fire?"

The nurse couldn't help but smile helplessly: "Look at this pair of swallows, although they are just birds and beasts, they have to work hard to build nests and hatch eggs, so it's not because they have a kind of love for each other. What about Yuxi, don't mortals like us have no feelings?"

Yuxi muttered to herself: "Then the nurse, you just mean that those crazy men and women will come together because of their love, and even fight hard?"

The nurse couldn't help but blurt out: "Yuxi, haven't you heard of martyrdom and death?"

Yuxi was even more surprised: "Martyrdom, death for feelings?"

The nurse looked at Yuxi's surprised expression, and realized that she was probably speechless, so she hurriedly covered it up and said: "Forget it, forget it, Yuxi, let's not talk about this, you little child don't think about this anymore! Those things are too complicated for you." ”

Yuxi felt confused: "Nurse, you just explain it plainly! What kind of martyrdom did you die?"

There was a hint of embarrassment on the nurse's face: "Yuxi, don't say anything about martyrdom, bad luck!"

After saying that, she turned around and left Yuxi's boudoir.

Yuxi saw that the nurse refused to speak, so she sat in front of the window and looked at the sky outside in a daze, she still didn't understand why some people had to die of martyrdom, what forced them to make such a cruel decision.

Late one night, it was stormy outside the courtyard, and Yuxi lay down on the incense couch early and fell asleep.

It was midnight when there was a commotion outside the window.

Someone walked under the eaves with a lantern and said something. After a while, I heard someone shouting, "There is a swallow's nest here, quickly break a piece of mud and put it on the child! ”

As he spoke, someone brought in a ladder and climbed up.

At this time, someone asked, "Let's do this, Miss Yuxi won't be angry, will you blame us then?" Do you want to talk to Miss Yuxi?"

Then an older servant said, "I have asked the general, and he agrees with us." Besides, it's important to save people, it's so late, and Miss Yuxi is also asleep, so let's stop bothering her. I'll talk about it tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes, Miss Yuxi is kind-hearted and won't blame us. Besides, the master agreed, so let's not worry about it anymore. The housekeeper's child burned so badly, and now it was raining so late and it was raining heavily, and he couldn't find Lang Zhong to see a doctor for a while. It's better to quickly take some bird's nest mud to cool the child, otherwise it will burn the child. ”

After a while, a few people walked away, and the light in the lantern faded, and silence returned to the outside.

Yuxi lay on the bed, feeling a little anxious: "They didn't come to dismantle the swallow's nest, right? If the swallow's nest is dismantled, won't the little swallow hatch? If that's the case, where should the pair of swallows fly so late? It's still raining heavily, these people must not make anything happen! Alas, I'm really worried that this pair of little swallows is too pitiful!"

But Yu Xi thought about what the servants said just now: "Is it because the housekeeper's child has a fever when they dismantle the swallow's nest? But the swallow's nest was demolished, and the little swallow was also very pitiful. But if the child burns out, isn't it different and pitiful? Alas, it's not a choice. ”

Yuxi didn't get up immediately to look out the window, she lay on the bed and tossed and turned all night, worrying about the pair of little swallows. On such a stormy night, if the nest is demolished, where will they fly?

Yuxi stayed up all night, and it was not until it was close to dawn that she closed her eyes and took a nap.

When the sky gradually brightened, the wind and rain outside the window had slowly stopped, and the sky was revealing a touch of morning sun.

Yuxi got up, put on her clothes, put on her silk clogs, and walked out of the door quickly.

She went under the eaves and looked up to see the swallow's nest, and was surprised to find that the mud nest was broken. Most of the mud shells that had just been built had been torn off, revealing the messy dead grass inside.

On the stone floor under the eaves, there were a few broken bird eggs. Some eggs have golden yolks coming out of their shells. There was also a broken egg, revealing a fluffy young bird that had not yet broken out of the shell, and the dying young bird was lying in the broken eggshell with its furry little head hanging down.