Parrot Aoi and Raven Ado

As the highest mountain in the county, Simu Mountain is always the most sensitive to the changes of the four seasons. After an autumn rain, the temperature on Simu Mountain begins to drop sharply.

Aoi stood next to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel, listening to the TV in the lobby lounge area. The announcer, with a sweet smile, announced the weather forecast.

"Today, our city will usher in a new cold current, which will indeed bring a large area of ​​wind, rain and cooling to the county and city. It reminds citizens to pay attention to cold and warm, and prevent colds... "

Looking at the north wind hanging outside the window with the sound of the broadcast, and the fallen leaves that were blown down from the trees along with the north wind and puffed thickly on the street and lawn, Aoi couldn't help shaking Shaking his feathers.

The great crested sunflower parrot is a tropical parrot native to the primeval woodlands of Australia or New Guinea.

The temperature in those two areas is very high all year round, so the gene of the great crested sunflower parrot for thousands of years does not have the attribute of cold resistance.

Anyone who has raised this kind of parrot knows that keeping warm is always the top priority when raising big crested sunflowers. If you accidentally let them catch cold, it will be very troublesome to catch a cold.

Recently, the cold air activity in the city has been frequent, and the temperature has dropped sharply. Seeing that the daytime temperature began to hover in the [-]s, the Hayakawa family began to prepare for the smooth wintering of sunflower.

Now Aoi no longer flies to work, but is held in the arms of the owner in the morning, wrapped in a windbreaker and brought to the hotel.

And after get off work, it will no longer fly away directly to pick up Miyuki, instead, the little master from the kindergarten will come to pick it up and go home.

The air conditioner in the attic of the house has been turned on for it early on, and its food has been replaced with compound bird food that is richer in calories, protein and other nutrients. Even Ah Fu and Xiao Chai will watch TV while lying in the living room , Come over and warm it with your body.

Not to mention Du, he went home early every day and warmed the bird's nest with his body before allowing it to come in to rest.

When sleeping, I will open the wings and wrap it in, because I am afraid that the temperature at night will make it cold.

Having raised Aoi for more than 30 years, Hayakawa's family is a little "nervous" every winter and dare not make any negligence. In short, the whole family works together to make Aoi survive the low temperature period safely.

Aoi was very grateful for this, and worked even harder when working. Just in late autumn, the business of the hot spring hotel was booming. With Aoi's hard work, the hotel this year was the same as in previous years, and the supply of rooms was in short supply.

Like the Hayakawa family, the colleagues at the hotel also know Aoi's living habits.

As a hot spring hotel, it is of course impossible to lack a heat source in the hotel, but even so, an electric heater was placed especially for it near the bird shelf where Aoi often moves.

"Aoi, would you like some warm water?"

Ms. Matsushita, who was also very afraid of the cold, held her thermos cup and came over to ask the big white parrot after receiving the hot water.

Since the temperature dropped on a large scale on the mountain, Aoi is no longer allowed to drink cold water.

In the employee lounge, Cheng Yi found out Aoi's special thermos cup, which has already been filled with hot water, and is waiting for it to drink when it reaches a suitable temperature.

"No need, Aoi just drank it."

"Are you waiting for your raven to come back again?"

"Well, it looks like it's going to rain. I don't know if Du will be watered."

"Don't worry, your family's physique and thick feathers won't freeze it."

What Ms. Matsushita said was well-founded. Since the end of the autumn molt, Du, who has grown up a whole circle, has almost changed his appearance.

The hard feathers on the outside of the down feathers have all grown out, and a large area of ​​down is filled between the hard feathers and the down feathers. The large metal reflections on the outer hard feathers indicate that they are full of grease, and those layers are like tiles. The hard feathers are also arranged regularly to ensure that unless it is poured directly on the body, it is basically impossible to wet the lower down and down layers.

But just like when you wear thick clothes in cold weather, your mother will always think you are cold. Aoi thinks that even if Du's feathers are thick and waterproof, they will still be blown by the cold wind.

Seeing that Aoi was still waiting by the floor-to-ceiling window, Ms. Matsushita shook her head, but she was very envious in her heart. Even birds are related to birds these days, but she is still alone.

"Aoi, the apples are cut up and put on your plate."

In order to avoid excessive heat preservation and let the sunflower get hot, the proportion of vegetables and fruits in the sunflower recipe has also been slightly adjusted recently. The usual nut snacks have been replaced with fruits and vegetables rich in water and vitamins. The big white parrots look like More supple and younger.

Hearing the words of Mr. Watanabe, the chef, Aoi immediately flew over, thanked her, grabbed the sliced ​​apples with her claws, lowered her head, and put them into her own mouth.

While eating sunflower, he kept raising his head and looked out the window, wondering if Du could fly back before it rained.

In the bleak cold wind, all the young ravens born this year in the Nanshan Raven Group were called to gather under the big cedar tree.

After another quarter of study and being normal, they now look more like ravens. Not only have they grown a lot in size, but the bright yellow edge next to the beak has also begun to disappear.

Without the yellow border, the little ravens are officially out of the category of yellow-mouthed children. From now on, no bird will treat them as young birds.

Xuan looked at the little ravens who stood upright in the cold wind and looked energetic and energetic with piercing eyes, and nodded very satisfied.

It hoarsely said to the new generation in these ethnic groups: "It was originally planned to conduct a unified assessment of your studies at the end of the year, but you also know the current situation in the clan. There is no time for you to grow up slowly, so Your graduation exam is today."

Xuan's tone of voice was a little heavy, which was also caused by the continuous conflicts that broke out outside the territory.

This year's cold snap in the county came quickly and urgently. Within a week, under the continuous torrential wind and rain, the temperature showed a precipitous drop.

In the early morning of this morning, the temperature dropped directly below zero. Most of the ravens were woken up by the cold wind this morning.

Under such circumstances, Simu Mountain quickly entered the early winter mode, the vegetation withered, the earth was frost-stained, the insects disappeared and the fruits withered, and the food crisis had already emerged.

In order to survive, the animals on the mountain began to do everything possible. The difficult prey that they would actively avoid in the past have now appeared on the hunting list one after another.

Ravens are birds of prey, but at the same time they are also prey for birds of prey and some large mammals. In recent days, predators have targeted them.

For several days in a row, the ravens have seen owls, falcons, hawks and other raptors approaching the territory during daytime patrols, and hovered in the sky for a long time to investigate. At night, nocturnal mammals such as bobcats also rushed into the forest. His eyes stared at the bird's nest on the tree with evil intentions like ghosts.

These are signals that require extreme vigilance, and veteran birds who have experienced severe winters know that the dangerous living conditions in winter have just begun.

From now on, every bird in the territory is facing the test of life and death every moment. Those newborn little ravens must participate whether they want to or not. This is their experience and capital for living in the future.

"I said in early autumn that the graduation template for you little things this year is Du. But after a period of observation, I found that this requirement is indeed a bit difficult for you. In this way, let's relax the standard and answer five questions for graduation." It is enough to answer four questions correctly, and martial arts training does not require a certain victory, and those who can survive 50 moves under Du's claws are considered qualified."

Xuan’s words made the little birds lower their heads in shame. As a bird in the group, it’s really embarrassing to say that they lost so much to the outside birds.

But it’s not enough to deny it. During the three months of studying together, at the beginning, the birds often flocked to find the trouble of crossing, but in the end no matter how many birds went, they were all stunned by the other party. When they come back, they lose the face to sue their parents.

"Everyone understands? If you understand, go to the big raven to do the graduation quiz. As for you..."

Xuan said that he hesitated for a moment, this child Du could not be measured by ordinary standards, yesterday he had personally given this child a graduation quiz, and the ten questions involved all aspects of Raven's life.

As a result, the child not only answered all the answers correctly, but also filled in many loopholes in the answers, which can be said to have helped them a lot.

But the child had to be let go after graduation, Xuan was really reluctant, after thinking for a long time it said: "As for you, there are 39 little ravens here, as long as [-] of them graduate successfully, then your year-end graduation exam Just failed.”

Du Wenyan, who was standing loosely at the side, immediately became more upright, and looked at the birds with a little more seriousness.

Then Xuan gave an order, and the graduation exams for the little ravens began immediately, and those little ravens who had finished answering the questions all eagerly came to Du, with a sense of shame.

Du ignored those veiled or obvious provocative gazes, and just looked up at the sky, seeing that the gloom was getting worse, knowing that Aoi must be worried about herself at the hotel, and she wished she could go back as soon as possible.

In order to be able to make a quick decision, the first sentence Du said today was: "I don't have that much time to play with you one by one, two-on-one, three-on-one or more, you can just form a team and go together."

That kind of understatement, I let your tone make the little ravens on the opposite side explode in an instant.

I know you're powerful, but you can't be so arrogant, and just form a team and go together?

Okay, okay, you said this yourself, so the birds don't have to be polite.

The male little ravens with particularly impulsive tempers frowned at each other several times, everyone knew it instantly, and without even saying hello, a few male little ravens quickly outflanked Du.