Chapter 9: Timing and Chance
After flying for more than an hour, Ula quacked and said, "Childe, I'm tired. Let's find a place to settle down, I need to eat something and refuel. ”
Peony Yong asked: "Where do you estimate to be now, and how far is it to get to Xishan Mei's house in Lingnan?"
Ula croaked and said: "Now it should be in the richest territory in the south of the Yangtze River, probably in the direction near West Lake." It will take more than two hours to get to Xishan Mei's house, far away. ”
When Peony Yong heard this, he hurriedly said: "Luoluoluo, let's go down and go shopping before it's too late." Because this was the place where he wanted to find out the whereabouts of Aunt Zi Yin'er, how could he miss it.
Ula crouched for a while, swooping down against the broken bridge of the West Lake, because he forgot that there was another person on his back, the weight and inertia were not the usual. Therefore, he could not stand on the railing of the bridge as he wished, and could not hold it for a while, and when he saw that both of them were about to fall into the water, Ula croaked his wings in a hurry, and with both feet on the water, he threw Peony Yong into the water, and he rushed down to a low branch on the shore of the lake, and cried out in his mouth.
Although Peony Yong made some preparations in his heart, he was still a little angry when he looked at Ula Quack: This is not enough, so he threw me into the water. He stepped on the water and couldn't help but exclaim, "Are you a good person, are you going to run to the shore and throw me into the water? No wonder the fables say that the crow is the one who will take revenge! Peony Yong was borrowing an allusion to scold him.
Ula croaked aggrievedly: "We can't swim in the water, don't you know." ”
Peony Yong said: "If you can't swim in the water, you have to stand on the bridge railing? Ungrateful black-hearted bird!"
Ula was so depressed that she screamed "quack", stomped her feet on the spot, and wanted to cry without tears.
It turns out that there has been such a fable in the market, called "The Crow Learns to Swim". It was said a long, long time ago that crows were colored. There was a crow that was tired of flying in the sky, and when he saw the fish swimming freely in the water, he was very envious, so he also wanted to learn to swim with the fish. So he flew to the shore and told the goldfish what he wanted.
The goldfish said, "Do you really want to learn? Don't fool me!
The crow hurriedly promised, "No, no, I really want to learn to swim with you." ”
The kind-hearted goldfish said, "Well, from now on, I will accept you as an apprentice." But learning this technique is very hard. ”
The crow swore solemnly, "Don't worry, master! So he worshipped the goldfish as his teacher.
The learning began, and the goldfish waged its tail to demonstrate to the crows.
The crow thought to himself: Cut, it's that simple. I knew that I wouldn't worship it as a teacher, and I would have been humbled in front of this little guy, I really regret it!
When the goldfish saw the crow's absent-mindedness, he shouted at it, "How can you learn to swim when you are so half-hearted?"
The crow was even more unhappy when he was taught the goldfish, but he said, "Okay, okay, it's coming." ”
The crow stood on the shore and continued to learn, and before he had been practicing for long with his wings, he was in a hurry to enter the water.
Before the goldfish master could agree, it was planted in the water. But what he didn't expect was that this unlucky guy actually hit the reef and fainted.
The goldfish hurriedly beckoned everyone to carry the crow to the surface of the water to carry out the rescue. Without thinking about it, when the crow came to his senses, he scolded the goldfish: "You little thing, you deliberately hurt me, right? I'm going to eat you." "When the goldfish and its friends heard this, didn't they know what to do? We taught you how to swim and saved your life, but you will take revenge!
A squid fish said angrily, "Phew, you ignorant bird, how can you have such beautiful feathers! Make you black, let everyone know that you are an ungrateful ugly thing!"
To say that this so-called fable is really from which literati and ink writers are from, it really wronged the crows.
Crows are birds that have the virtue of feeding. After the baby crow is born, it is raised by its mother. But when the mother is too old and weak to forage for food, or is blind and unable to fly, they will go around looking for delicious food, feed it to their mother's mouth mouth, return the mother's nurturing kindness, and never get bored until the old crow dies and can no longer eat.
Just imagine, how can there be such a kind of grateful and filial piety in this world, and how can they become the benevolent generals and revenge criminals in the fable? Naturally, some boring literati judge people by their appearance, see the crow's appearance is black, and specialize in cleaning up rotten things, so they make up such a story to mislead others. Peony Yongzi didn't believe it, so he had a good friendship with Ula Qua and became friends who talked about everything. It's just that when I play with him on weekdays, I can't help but tease him with this fable. Interestingly, every time Ula quacks are annoyed when they hear it; when this situation occurs today, Peony Yong can't help but take out these words to anger him again, and as he speaks, he deliberately lets himself sink; listening to Ula quacking on the shore, he is secretly enjoying himself underwater.
Peony Yong held his breath and stayed underwater, and was about to play tricks on Ula Quack for a while, but he found that many small goldfish suddenly appeared around him, and these fish were densely gathered around him, as if he had suddenly turned into a luminous body, surrounded by a red light.
He thought to himself, "Oh no, don't that fable really have to be repeated? So, he hurriedly said to these bustling little goldfish in the language of the Shui Tribe: "Sisters, sisters, brothers and sisters, please have mercy! I and the black crows on the shore are not of the same race, please raise your noble hand." As he spoke, he thought about how to run away as soon as possible.
Suddenly, the little goldfish scattered in all directions, and Peony looked around. At this time, I saw a large red fish swimming in the distance from the right front. The red fish swam up to him and swirled beautifully, then nodded at him and said, "Hello Prince Yong." Don't be in a hurry to go, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the little prince of the flower fairy world here today. You're my guest, so please take a look in the dock. ”