"Bang bang bang, bang bang bang..."
A very rhythmic knocking sound came from outside the window.
"Ahem...Qingmeng, are you here? Cough cough..." The little girl staggered to the window with her weak body, and opened the window as usual.
"Hey, how are you doing today?" The sparrow flew into the room, circled around the girl's head twice, and landed back on the window sill.
"Ahem, much better than yesterday."
A smile appeared on the little girl's haggard face, and she took out a walnut from the pocket of her hospital gown: "I'm sorry, Qingmeng...cough cough, the nurse aunt forbids me to go out, I can't get food today... just Only this."
"It's okay, I'm not picky eaters."
The sparrow jumped onto a walnut that was bigger than its head, and pecked at it.
"Is there a story today?" The girl asked the sparrow after coughing a few times.
"Yes, there are many stories... For example, in the park in the city today..."
The sparrow, as usual, pecked at the dried fruit while telling what he had seen and heard.
It's just that after a while, it couldn't get a response from the girl, making it a little curious, so it raised its head, only to find that the girl had fallen to the ground at some point and lost consciousness.
"Oops! Come on, come on... I'm going, forget that the mortals in this world can't hear my voice."
The sparrow circled a few times in a panic in the room, and then flew fiercely to the nurse's station of the hospital, where it made a big fuss, frightening the nurses who thought they had run into a supernatural event. It also made them notice the abnormality on the little girl's side.
When the little girl regained consciousness, she found that she was lying on a pure white hospital bed with an oxygen mask on her face.
A doctor beside the bed, who was recording something with the instrument, saw her wake up. First, he loudly blamed the little girl for being ignorant. She was in such a poor state, but she still opened the window to blow cold air. She really didn't want to live. Then she saw the little girl The girl lowered her face, looking depressed, and then went on to reassure her that she was fine for the time being, so don't worry too much.
After the doctor left, the little girl looked up to the window, but there was no Qingmeng there, only half a walnut remained.
After that, the girl's physical condition deteriorated. Although sparrows still flew to her window every day and pecked at the window, the number of times the girl had the strength to get out of bed and open the window became less and less.
But the sparrow didn't care, it always talked to the girl about the scenery outside through the glass, and the girl apologized to it for not being able to get food, so it just pecked at the walnut twice to signal that the other party didn't care.
I don't know what method the sparrow used. The half of the walnut seemed to have taken root on the window sill. It couldn't be blown away by the wind and the rain wouldn't rot.
No matter how slow the little girl was, she realized that this little sparrow was different from when it almost starved to death half a year ago. Flying in the wind and rain for the past six months had already made its once weak wings stronger. The ability to see everything in detail must have given it other avenues of foraging long ago.
It's only here now to see her.
This warmed the little girl's heart, and gave her enough courage to accept various treatments, because she knew that there was always a blue sparrow waiting for her by the window of her ward.
After a few days, the nurses in the hospital began to talk about the arrival of a Taoist master. Out of curiosity, the little girl asked the nurse she had a better relationship with, and found out that the reason was caused by the sparrow making a big noise at the nurse's station a few days ago to call someone to rescue her.
Ordinary people can't see Qingmeng, so it will naturally be regarded as a supernatural event, and judging from the intensity at that time, it seems that there is an evil spirit. Although not many people believe it, as the person involved One of the head nurses had ancestry with a very prestigious Taoist temple, and the owner of that Taoist temple, who had long since disappeared, was actually invited out by her.
The little girl who understands the ins and outs is like falling into an ice cave. She knows very well that although the sparrow is probably a legendary monster, but it had no place to eat half a year ago, and finally came here to beg for food from a human being like herself. It's just a little monster, if it is really encountered by the Taoist master, it will undoubtedly be a dead word.
From that day on, no matter how much Qingmeng knocked on the window and talked to the girl, she just bit her lips, covered her head with the quilt, and ignored it, hoping that it would be disappointed with her and leave here.
After an unknown amount of time, the windows in her ward finally stopped making bang bang bang noises. As for the half of the walnut, there were only some residues left at some point.
The little girl's first friend just disappeared from her life.
Although she had expected it, at that time she was still so sad that she couldn't help herself, and her condition, which had improved, took a sharp turn for the worse, and within a few days she could only lie on the bed and linger.
It was a night.
The sleeping little girl seemed to open her eyes because she felt something.
Then she saw a sparrow that was glowing green in the dark night and landed on her bed, looking at her with piercing eyes.
"Great." Qing Meng broke the silence between the two, and said happily: "I thought something happened to you, and I was so scared that I almost ran to ask the mistress for the elixir."
"Why are you still here..." The little girl didn't know whether she was angry or happy, she just felt tears streaming down her face: "A very powerful Taoist priest will come here soon, and you will be killed by him." Killed!"
"Is that why you ignored me?"
Qingmeng was not stupid, and after a little thought, he understood the reason why the girl was abnormal these days. It jumped around the little girl's bedside like a real sparrow, and seemed very happy.
But then its high raised tail drooped again: "I'm leaving."
The girl didn't answer, but buried half of her face in the quilt.
"My two older brothers found me and I'm going home with them..."
Qing Meng said dejectedly.
"Oh, then let's go." The little girl didn't know whether she was angry or what, she didn't look at Qingmeng, but just stared at the oxygen tube not far away, as if that thing had grown flowers.
"Do you know, I'm not a monster, so even if the very powerful Taoist priest you mentioned comes, it won't do anything to me." Qing Meng continued, "I'm a blue bird, a spiritual bird."
The little girl knew that what Qing Meng meant was to ask herself to tell it to stay. If he really asked, maybe he would really stay with Qingmeng's temperament.
But she didn't want Qingmeng to take even the slightest risk for her.
So the two of them (one person, one bird) were silent like this.
After a long time, Qing Meng suddenly pulled a piece of tail feather from his own tail, and put it on the girl's chest.
"Our bluebirds will grow three pieces of tail feathers in their lifetime, and each piece has the power to bring people happiness... Xingyan, I hope you can be healthy, and one day..." Qingmeng's voice became a little hazy: "Yes One day, I hope we can meet again in the fairy world... "
Qing Meng left.
The little girl didn't even know how it disappeared, but no matter where she went since then, she would never forget that feather, which was so beautiful that it was like a work of art.
And her illness was cured quickly, causing all the doctors to shout a miracle.
On the day she was discharged from the hospital, a middle-aged man in a priestly robe passed by her ward and was attracted by the girl's aptitude.
"I am the master of the White Deer Temple, Yun Guanyu...Girl, do you want to become a fairy?"
— end of memory —
"So much time has passed in the blink of an eye..."
Leaning against the wall, Qin Xingyan was in a daze. To be honest, she had almost forgotten Qingmeng's appearance and voice, but the last sentence "I hope we can meet again in the fairy world" kept echoing in her ears, which also made her devote herself to cultivation. maximum power.
"It's almost time to continue practicing..." Qin Xingyan sighed, retracted her thoughts, crossed her legs with some effort, and planned to exercise her mind.
However, at this moment, there was only a loud bang, and the upper half of the confinement room disappeared together with the roof and door panels, leaving only a ruined wall less than three feet high.
In front of the confinement room, the landlady, who was holding a dog's tail grass that he didn't know where to pull, was smiling at her: "Yo, I'm here to pick you up~"
"Really, senior..."
The girl was stunned for a while, and then she smiled wryly: "I'm just retreating."
"… Eh?"