My brother is so strong, I am also disappointed

"Brother! Look, look!" I approached Xia Yu mysteriously and spread my hands, showing him a little bird I just picked up. Although it has not fully grown its gorgeous feathers, its belly and wings The bottom is still the fluff of childhood, it looks like a small gray ball, but it is softly curled up in the palm of the hand, and it screams again, it always feels like the heart is melting.

"Wow! It's so cute!" Xia Yu was also very happy, and immediately reached out to touch it.

"Really? Brother, let's raise it?" My eyes lit up.

"This... But dad doesn't allow us to raise these." Xia Yu was a little embarrassed.

"He has raised a talking bird himself! When it grows up, we will teach it to talk, and compare it with Dad's!" I am very confident that Dad's fancy bird can only say "Gong Xi Fa Cai" all day long , if I teach it, it will definitely make it sing in full swing!

"Okay, so where do we keep it?" Xia Yu asked.

"I don't know..." This stumped me, the gray fur ball I picked up under the tree, but I don't know where it should stay.

"Where does Xiaoniao live?" Xia Yu looked at me and said.

"Bird's nest..." I replied.

"That's it." Xia Yu smiled, "Squat down!"

"Why?" Although I didn't know what Xia Yu wanted to do, I squatted down anyway.

Xia Yu tore off the hair my mother tied for me, tied me a fluffy bun again in two or three strokes, and then took out a small nest in the middle of the bun with his hands, and put the bird in it.

"Hey! Will I keep it on my head from now on?! What if it falls off!" I squatted on the spot and didn't dare to move at all, fearing that the bird on my head would fall to death.

"Mother said last time that you have a bird's nest on your head, so shouldn't it be kept on your head?" Xia Yu was confident.

"...It seems like this, so will it fall?" I accepted the fact that "my head is a bird's nest" and worried that my bird's nest was not good enough.

"You can't be careful, can you?"

"That, that, I'll be careful..." I tremblingly stretched out my hands to maintain balance, and slowly stood up, my neck was stiff and uncomfortable, but now my head is a bird's nest, my neck is a tree branch, and the tree branch is Shouldn't move.

"Yes, left, left, left! Not too left, right, right, wait, don't look up!" Xia Yu also stretched out his hands to circle me, ready to catch the bird in case the bird would fall.

"Ayu, Alin, come to eat melons—what are you doing?" Mother suddenly walked around the corner with the plate, and we were immediately discovered about our secret raising of birds.

I trembled in fright, and raised my head suddenly, and the bird rolled off my head. Fortunately, Xia Yu caught it quickly so that it didn't fall to the ground.

With a bird's nest on my head, I was ready to be scolded, but I didn't expect my mother to laugh out loud after hearing our plan.

"Hahahahahaha haha ​​haha ​​haha ​​haha, he laughed at me, you have a lot of ghost ideas!" The mother rubbed it on my head again, and my hair was even more messy.

"But you can't raise it." After laughing, my mother disagreed with us.

"why?"

"Because it also has parents. If you raise it, you will snatch the child from its parents. For example, if a bad person wants to snatch Ah Lin from her mother, the mother will definitely not agree. So you should give it away. Go home and let him reunite with his parents."

"Oh……"

I was a little disappointed, but what my mother said was right, I can't be a bad person who snatches other people's children, so I took my mother to the tree where I picked up the bird, and put it back where it was.

"The little bird doesn't live on the ground," Xia Yu said.

"Then I can't climb that high?" I was also in a dilemma. The tree is straight and straight. There are no branches close to the ground, and there is no place to stand, but the bird's nest is near the top of the tree. What's the matter? climb?

"You put the plate away, and Mother will take it back for you." Mother rolled up her sleeves as she said, holding up the bird and stepping up the tree trunk, and in a blink of an eye, she arrived at the bird's nest.

"Wow... Mom is really amazing!" I sighed.

"I can be so good in the future!" Xia Yu said.

"Then I can do it in the future!" I didn't want to be outdone.

At this time, Mother had already landed on the ground, but she was still holding the little bird and did not put it back into the nest.

"I'm afraid the bird's nest has been hit by a snake, and there are only blood-stained fluff left inside." Mother frowned and said, "Then let's keep it."

"Will its parents find it?" I asked.

"We'll make a new home for their family of three when we find them." Mother said, and took us back to the room. She took the small basket she made for needlework and put a few pieces of flannelette on it to form a small nest. We slid the bird food out of Dad's cage.

I put the little bird in carefully, watching the little fluffy ball gently undulating and trembling, and thinking that its parents and brothers and sisters might have been buried in the belly of the snake, I felt a little more distressed, and secretly made up my mind to put the bird It is good to raise it up, to be fat and fat, and to be carefree.

It was night, Xia Yu and I were lying on the bed watching Chirp. It has been refusing to eat bird food. Mother said that birds eat bugs. We dug a lot of bugs for it in the afternoon. When digging bugs, I suggested naming it It's called Jiujiu, because its cry is a very soft "Jiujiujiu", and Xia Yu agrees.

It’s just that we fed it all night, and it was indifferent to the various bugs we dug up. We also fed earthworms, ground lice, and tried several unknown bugs, but Jiujiu just buried his head in the ground. In the wings, it is tightly huddled into a ball, regardless of the food we put around it.

"Brother, why doesn't Jiujiu eat it?" I was so desperate that I just knelt down and begged it to take a bite.

"Isn't it in a bad mood?" Xia Yu said, "It keeps shaking."

"Hmm...maybe it's scared after leaving parents, can you persuade it not to be afraid?"

"you try?"

"Jijiu, although your brothers and sisters were eaten by snakes, but you still survived, it means that you are the most powerful child in your family, you are the hope of the whole family, we saved you, we are good people, don't be sad, You have to work hard to survive, come and eat the worms we prepared for you, and you will have the strength to continue singing when you are full." I sincerely persuaded Jiujiu.

"...I've been thinking, why is it the only one that survived? It wasn't eaten by the snake, nor did it fall to death." Xia Yu said.

"Because it fell. When it fell, it flapped its wings desperately and flew up, so it didn't fall to death." Without hesitation, I told the process of Jiujiu's escape from death in my imagination.

"Its brothers and sisters were all eaten. Did it run away alone?" Xia Yu frowned, seeming dissatisfied.

"That's right... But it can't run or beat a snake, and it can only be eaten." I don't know why Xia Yu suddenly thought of such a question.

"Could it be that its brothers and sisters found the snake and threw it out on purpose to protect it?" Xia Yu changed his mind, but he still thought differently from me.

"It's also possible, then you have to sacrifice yourself—" Thinking of this, the whole story suddenly became more tragic.

"I think it's right to sacrifice myself to protect my family," Xia Yu said.

"But Jiujiu would be very sad if he knew that his family members died to save him..." I think it would be more cruel for a person to live alone with all the sorrows on his back.

"So it's in a bad mood and doesn't want to eat bugs. Let's not force it to eat." Xia Yu came to a conclusion.

"Okay, put it on the window sill, it will eat it by itself when it's hungry at night, right?" I climbed out of bed, placed Jiujiu's nest by the ventilated window, and went to sleep by myself.