In the first grade, Zhao Jie and I both felt that we had grown up. Of course, we also grew up with most of our Yuhong class students.
As we got older, our gender awareness of men and women also gradually increased. At that time, the "custom" that men and women could not play together gradually became popular in our class. Because of this custom, Zhao Jie and I would go back early every day after school. The purpose is naturally not to go with Zhao Yuan, otherwise, we will be discriminated against by the boys in the same class.
Because at that time, most boys felt that it was useless to play with girls, and girls felt that playing with boys was a dishonorable thing.
As for why everyone suddenly has such a "custom", I can't remember clearly. It seems that such a "custom" has suddenly emerged in our class since the winter of the first grade.
What impressed me the most was that there was a girl named You Xiaoqing in our class. She was not tall, but she was very handsome and she was a very flattering kind. However, her personality was exactly the opposite of her appearance. She has a bad temper and fights with boys at every turn, and she often leads a group of girls to promote the public opinion that playing with boys is a shame.
So the girl most of our boys hate the most is the most beautiful You Xiaoqing in our class.
In the second half of the first grade, that is, in the spring of 1993, a strange thing happened in our class. The cause of the incident was that a boy in our class stole You Xiaoqing's eraser and threw it into the toilet.
I don’t know how this was discovered by You Xiaoqing later. She went to the boy alone to settle the account, but the two of them started fighting in the classroom without saying a word. I remember it very clearly. The boy didn’t fight back very much at first. His face was scratched by You Xiaoqing and blood was left. Later, the boy was in a hurry and picked up the stationery box and slammed it on You Xiaoqing's head. As a result, You Xiaoqing's head was smashed, and he was sent to the health center in the village on the same day. to bandage.
And the boy was also punished to stand for a long time for this. Of course, this incident also alarmed the parents of both parties. I heard that the boy's family was responsible for all the dressing expenses for You Xiaoqing, and also bought a lot of delicious food.
The next day, You Xiaoqing went back to school wrapped in gauze, but the boy asked for sick leave. At first, everyone thought that the boy might not come to school because he was emotional.
On the second and third day, the boy still didn't come, and some students in our class who lived close to the boy started to "publish" news, saying that the boy fell asleep in the middle of the night and hit a ghost and lost two of his three souls. , the neck is crooked and can't be crooked, and it is impossible to walk.
Of course, the adults have another set of rhetoric, that is, the male classmate's neck was severely stiffened. His neck hurts so badly that he cannot go to school for the time being.
But for those of us who are curious and strong, we are more willing to believe the first explanation of novelty.
This matter has been troubled for four or five days. It was not until the boy came back to class that the matter was clarified. When the classmates asked him what was going on, he said that he was caught by a long worm (snake) when he was sleeping at night. To frighten sick.
As for how he fell ill, it doesn't matter anymore, because he has already returned to school, and this matter will gradually pass.
During the summer vacation of 1993, Master Liu came to our village again, but this time he stayed for a shorter time than the previous year. He only stayed for two days. I will be satisfied, but who knows what he said when he left: "Take it for another year."
Immediately I felt my whole body collapsed.
I even think that I have an "O" shaped leg when I walk like a horse.
In the summer of 1993, our village was very peaceful. Master Liu did not have any of his magical powers, but he also went to see Wang Qi. This year, Wang Qi was much more polite to Master Liu, and he even offered Master Liu a drink. drink.
I didn't cry when Master Liu left this time, probably because his stay was too short.
After the summer vacation in 1993, Zhao Jie and I were promoted to the second grade. Of course, You Xiaoqing, who specialized in our boys doing the right thing, was also promoted to the second grade, but our classrooms were not changed, which made Zhao Jie and I feel a little disappointed, because Such an upgrade is nothing new.
The teacher didn't change, the classroom didn't change, and the classmates didn't change either. What a boring upgrade.
This year, we were eight years old. In addition to being interested in eating, we were even more interested in playing. At that time, Zhao Jie and I were very fond of climbing trees and digging bird nests, because we could take the eggs back and cook them. Eat, but we don’t know that when we are young, we are doing something “harmful to the world”. We take away the eggs or chicks, which is breaking up one “family” after another, resulting in countless mother birds in the woods. Howling, screaming.
And we realized this problem on a Sunday after the summer vacation of 1993. Zhao Jie and I went for a walk in the woods as usual, and found a bird's nest on a poplar tree, and also found a yellow bird flying frequently. Flying in and out, the yellow bird was particularly beautiful, a type that Zhao Jie and I had never seen before.
Zhao Jie and I came under the tree, and before we could do anything, the yellow bird on the tree seemed to realize something and kept chirping, as if begging us. It was pitiful, so I said, "Zhao Jie, if it doesn't matter, look at how pitiful that bird is."
As the call of the bird spread, the birds in the entire forest soon followed. Different bird calls, different birds flapping their wings, suddenly made the quiet forest chaotic. To be honest, I And Zhao Jie also seemed a little scared.
Zhao Jie swallowed his saliva: "Do you think this bird is the emperor of all the birds in this forest? When it calls, why does the other call along with it?"
I nodded and said: "Maybe, in addition, I don't think we should dig out the bird's nest in the future. Do you see if those birds are all birds from the bird's nest that we have dug out? Are they coming to trouble us? They called It's so miserable, is it because we ate their children? Have we become big bad guys?"
Zhao Jie was also stunned and said, "I didn't think about it that much, but what we did is really wrong. Forget it, we won't catch birds in the future, and the nest of yellow birds must be the 'emperor' bird, not as good as these birds. Won't call with it."
This time, Zhao Jie and I naturally didn’t dig out the bird’s nest. When we got to school at the end of the weekend, Zhao Jie and I told our classmates about seeing the “Emperor” bird. Of course, we both wanted to show off. We were talking about At that time, that You Xiaoqing also came to ask us, what is the "emperor bird".
We didn't want to talk to the girl at first, but unfortunately the girl was too cute, so we still told what we saw and heard. After listening, You Xiaoqing said, "I also want an 'emperor bird'."
Originally, we thought You Xiaoqing was just saying this, but who would have thought that You Xiaoqing would actually use a rope to help a yellow bird come to school the next day. The yellow bird was exactly the same as what we saw in the forest. Zhao Jie and I asked You Xiaoqing from She got it from there, she said, grabbed it from the tree next to the house.
The bird's paw was helped, and she usually put it in her schoolbag, and took it out to show off after class, but the bird didn't know how to do it, and it didn't make a sound.
Zhao Jie secretly told me that he thought that You Xiaoqing’s bird was the bird in our village’s forest. I asked him why he thought so, and he said he didn’t know, but he thought so.
So Zhao Jie and I did not go home after school in order to verify this guess. We went directly to the forest in our village. As soon as we arrived at Linzikou, we saw dozens of different birds above the forest. Circling, accompanied by this miserable cry.
Zhao Jie and I were taken aback, it was not too late, but after all it was evening, Zhao Jie and I were still a little scared, Zhao Jie asked me if I wanted to go inside, I said, "Yes, I I have a jade doll left by my adoptive father to ward off evil spirits, so don’t be afraid!”
We entered the woods and walked under the tree where we saw the yellow bird, and found that the bird's nest had been knocked over, and the inside was empty, and there were more than ten birds standing on the branches near the bird's nest, and their species were of various kinds. Not the same. There are sparrows, magpies, crows, owls, woodpeckers, and several others that I can't name, and all of them whine.
There was a yellow bird left on the branch, but it was the most miserable and loudest. Zhao Jie and I even felt a little pain in the eardrums, and I vaguely felt that the yellow bird on the tree seemed to be calling. Blood, is this the legendary bird that can cry blood
At that time, Zhao Jie and I were basically certain that the yellow bird in You Xiaoqing's hand was taken from here.
But after school yesterday, how could a girl like her run here to catch birds? Could it be that her family caught her? If that's the case, how much her family must spoil her!
We don't dare to stay in this forest, because the bird's chirping seems to penetrate people's hearts and infect our hearts. Zhao Jie and I are also inexplicably sad.
When I got home, I told my father and mother about the emperor bird. They said that I thought too much. How could there be an emperor bird in this forest
The next day when I went to school, You Xiaoqing didn't bring the yellow bird with me. I asked her about the yellow bird, and she said, dead.
When she said the word "dead", You Xiaoqing's expression was cold, as if she didn't care about the "plaything" she once had. Even if it was a toy, it should be a pity if it was broken, right
Not to mention a beautiful yellow bird with fresh life
I got a little angry and asked her: "Where did your yellow bird come from, you know, because you caught the yellow bird, the whole forest started screaming and flying because there was no emperor, and another one The yellow birds are calling for blood!"
You Xiaoqing looked at me blankly, and then said coldly, "Really? There's another one?"
I suddenly realized that I said something wrong!