2 1. The old man and the seagull
It was an ordinary winter day. Meet friends and come to Cuihu. Seagulls are flying noisily.
It is easy to recognize the old man among the people feeding seagulls. He was hunched, wearing a faded and outdated cloth, carrying a faded blue cloth bag, and even the big plastic bag for bird food faded. My friend told me that the old man walks more than 20 miles from the suburbs to Cuihu every day just to send food to seagulls and accompany them.
Where there are few people, it is the territory where he feeds seagulls. The old man carefully put the cookie cube on the fence by the lake, stepped back and shouted at the sheep with a pinch of copper. Immediately, a flock of seagulls answered and swept it clean in a few times. The old man walked along the railing and put it down. Seagulls rise and fall according to his rhythm, forming a roaring white and flying into a colorful music score.
In the sound of seagulls, the old man sang something cadently. Listen carefully, and it turns out that intimacy has changed its tone-"one foot", "grey head", "red mouth", "old sand" and "princess" ...
"Have you named the seagull?" I can't help asking
The old man looked back at me and still leaned over the seagulls: "Of course, each one has a name."
"Do you recognize them?" The same white wings are flashing rapidly in the sun, and I doubt whether the old man can see clearly.
"You see, you see! It's Lao Sha with a ring on his foot! " The old man proudly pointed it out to me, and suddenly he shouted at the water, "A foot! Lao Sha! Get up! "
Two seagulls jumped on the water and flew to the old man. One seagull's foot shone with metallic luster, and the other flew over and pecked at the old man's hand. It has only one foot, and it has to flap its wings to keep its balance when it stops. It seems to be a leg, and the old man talks to it kindly while feeding it.
Speaking of seagulls, the old man's eyes came to life at once.
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Seagulls are the most affectionate and cautious. The year before last, there was a seagull. The day before flying out of Kunming, it stopped on my hat five times again and again. I thought it was a joke with me, but later I realized it was to say goodbye to me. Didn't come last year, and didn't come this year ... Seagulls are lucky birds, happy birds! The ancients said,' Bai Ou flies with poetry'. More than ten years ago, when the seagulls came, I knew our good luck was coming. Look at their little appearance! Tut tut ... "Hearing the old man's call, seagulls immediately flew over and surrounded him, attracting passers-by to stop and watch.
When the sun sets, the old man's plastic bag is empty. "It's getting late, they will go back soon. I heard that they are resting in the diān pool, but unfortunately I can't go. " The old man looked at the birds hovering in the sky, his eyes full of hope.
My friend told me that for more than ten years, in winter, the old people will come every day, just like their relatives with seagulls.
Unexpectedly, more than ten days later, someone suddenly told us that the old man had passed away.
Hearing this news, we seem to see the old man and seagulls hugging each other at Cuihu Lake ... We enlarged the photo of the old man feeding seagulls for the last time and took it to Cuihu Lake. Unexpected things happened-a flock of seagulls suddenly flew in, circling around the portrait of the old man, repeatedly chirping, chirping and posturing were quite different from usual, as if something important had happened. We were so surprised that we quickly left the old man's photo to make room for the seagulls.
Seagulls flapped their wings quickly and flew into the air in turn in front of the portrait of the old man, like relatives who came to mourn. The old man in the photo silently looked at the seagulls hovering around him and looked at the "children" who accompanied him for many winters ... After a while, the seagulls landed one after another and stood in two rows before and after the portrait of the old man. They stood quietly, like white-winged angels who kept vigil for the elderly.
When we had to put away the portrait, seagulls rushed at it like bombs. They sang loudly and flapped their wings so close that we finally got out of this spinning white vortex (Xá n).
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At the funeral of the old man, we carried the portrait and walked slowly to the mourning hall. The old man was carrying a blue cloth bag and pursed his mouth as if he were still calling for seagulls. In his mind, it must be a flying seagull.
From the above words, we realized the deep affection between the old man and the seagull; Read the following text and talk about what the squirrel did in my house and what you learned from it.
22 * Squirrels run into the house.
Our house is next to the forest.
A squirrel came into our house and soon became familiar with us. It runs around the house all day, jumping up and down on cabinets and shelves, with amazing movements and never touching anything.
In my father's study, there are a pair of big antlers picked up from the forest. Squirrels often jump on it and squat, just like squatting on a branch.
It loves sweets very much and often jumps on our shoulders to ask for sweets. Once, the sugar cube in the sideboard disappeared, and my mother called our children to ask, but we didn't know. Dad said that we were dishonest and were not allowed to eat sugar for a week.
Squirrels, like us, don't eat sugar for a week.
Sometimes, the squirrel will jump on my shoulder, rub my face with its small mouth and gently bite my ear. I think it wants to eat candy again. But where can I find it?
One day, after lunch, I sat quietly on the sofa reading a book. Suddenly I saw the squirrel jump on the dining table, pick up a piece of bread crust and jump on the top of the big cabinet. After a while, it came and took another piece.
I stepped on the chair and looked at the top of the big cupboard, where there was a hat of my mother. I picked up my hat and was surprised-there was everything under it! Sugar cubes, paper-wrapped sugar, bread crust and various small bones. ...
I immediately ran to tell my father: "Squirrels are the dishonest children in our family!" " "
Dad smiled and said, "Why didn't I think of that?" Our squirrel is storing winter grain. Squirrels in the forest will start to store winter grain in autumn. This is the nature of squirrels, and we squirrels are naturally unwilling to lag behind! "
Dad installed a small hook on the cupboard door to prevent squirrels from entering. But squirrels will try their best to keep storing winter grain. As soon as you meet foreskin, hazelnuts, walnuts and small bones, take them away and hide them.
One day, we went to the forest to pick mushrooms. When we got home, we were very tired. We fell asleep after a hasty meal. Put the basket full of mushrooms on the windowsill-it's cooler there and won't go bad overnight.
The next morning, we were surprised to find the basket was empty. Where are the mushrooms?
Dad suddenly exclaimed in the study: "Come and see!" We ran over and the scene before us was really dumbfounding: the antlers on the wall were covered with mushrooms; Mushrooms are everywhere, not only on antlers, but also on towels, behind mirrors and oil paintings. It turns out that the squirrel got up early and worked hard all morning, hanging up all the mushrooms. It wants to dry and save it for winter.
In autumn, when the sun is still shining warmly on the earth, squirrels in the forest always hang mushrooms high on the branches to dry. So is our squirrel.
After a few days, the weather really turned cold. Squirrels try to hide in warm places. One day, it disappeared and could not be found anywhere. Maybe it went to the garden or the forest? Our hearts are empty.
It was so cold that we had to build a stove. We closed the vent, put on firewood and lit a fire. Suddenly I heard something rustling in the stove. We quickly opened the vent and saw the squirrel jump out of it like a particle bomb and jump to the top of the big cabinet.
The smoke in the stove goes straight into the house, but there is no smoke at the chimney mouth (C not Cūng). What's going on here? My brother made a big hook out of thick wire and put it in the chimney through the vent.
As a result, my brother took out a glove and a headscarf that grandma only wanted to wear on holidays from the chimney.
It turned out that the squirrel took these things to the chimney and made a nest for himself. Alas, it comes from the forest, lives in our house, and still keeps its old habits. It's natural. It's no use telling him that it won't be cold in our house.
? The last elephant in the war
There used to be a majestic elephant soldier in Xishuangbanna. The so-called elephant soldiers are soldiers who ride elephants to fight. Soldiers rode elephants to kill the enemy. Elephants split the enemy with their long noses and trampled the enemy to death with their hooves. A large group of elephants rushed to the enemy like water, which was unstoppable.
1943, elephant soldiers fought against the Japanese invaders on the Rhoda River in Xishuangbanna. After the battle, the devils dropped more than 70 bodies, and all our more than 80 elephants were shot to the ground. People dug a big pit by the Rhoda River to bury the fallen elephant.
When carrying the corpse of a war elephant, people found that a male elephant covered in blood was still breathing, so they transported it back to the stockade and cured it. The villagers never let him move things. He wandered around the stockade all day, asking for bananas at his host's house and drinking spring water at Westinghouse.
It is called ga (g) carboxyl (suū), and Bonondine is responsible for raising it.
More than 20 years have passed, and Gacao is in his fifties. It looks very old and sleeps in the shade all day. One day, Gacao lay on the ground and refused to eat. He had to hold his nose and shake it for a long time before he opened his eyes and looked at you with difficulty. Bonodin said to me, "The sun is going down, the fire pit is going out, and Gacaca is going to die."
The next morning, Gacao suddenly became very excited and his eyes burned red. When he saw Bonondine, Ou(ūu)Ou growled softly, like a hoof stepping on the ground in a hurry, with its nose pointing at the attic full of sundries, as if it wanted something in the attic.
There are half a basket of corn seeds and two bunches of corn in the attic. I thought it was ready and wanted to eat, so I threw two strings of corn down. Ga carboxyl hooked it with the tip of his nose, threw it out of the elephant house (lā) and (jρ) like garbage, and continued to raise his head and roar impatiently. There was something like a saddle in Miè mat, and I kicked it downstairs. Unexpectedly, when Gacarboxyl saw it, it suddenly quieted down, blew the dust off it with its nose, and rubbed it on it for a long time (Su is not). In his eyes, crying for you is like an old friend reunited after a long separation.
"Oh, so it wants its own elephant saddle." Bononding suddenly realized, "This is the saddle it was wearing. When I treated it, I untied the elephant's saddle from it and threw it into the attic. Alas, it has been twenty-six years, and it still remembers it so firmly. "
There are bullet holes in the elephant saddle, and there seems to be blood stains, mixed with a strange smell of leather, smoke, war dust and blood; There is a lotus-shaped cushion in the center of the elephant saddle, surrounded by a circle of silver bells and apricot ears. Twenty-six years have passed, and the worn elephant saddle still looks dignified and luxurious; Gacao put on the elephant saddle, adding a sense of heroism.
Bonon frowned and said sadly, "It's leaving us for zhǒng."
The elephant is a very spiritual animal. Every herd of elephants has an elephant grave. Except those who died suddenly and unfortunately in the wilderness, they can accurately predict their own death. About half a month before the arrival of death, they will go to the distant and mysterious elephant grave alone.
The news that Gacao was leaving spread all over the village like wings, and men, women and children came to see Gacao off. Many people are crying. The village chief tied a white scarf around Gacao's neck, and four elephant legs were tied with four pieces of black cloth. The old man and children took bananas, sugarcane (zhè) and glutinous rice (bā) to Gacao's mouth. It didn't eat anything, just drank a little water and walked around the stockade three times.
Sunset in the western hills, the vast sky, in a hey (xρ) hush (xū) sound, Gacao began to hit the road.
Bonondine and I quietly followed Gacacao, trying to find the answer. Gacao walked all night, and at dawn, he came to the Rhoda River. It stood on the pebbles on the beach and stared at the rippling river for a long time. Then, it stepped on the swift river, walked to a turtle-shaped reef (jiāo) and kissed it again. After a long time, it held its head high and roared at the flaming sunrise on the horizon. At this time, its body swells (péng), its four legs are tense and shiny, its eyes are bright (jǒng), and its roar is fierce and tragic, making the fish in the river jump out of the water.
"I remember. Twenty-six years ago, we carried Gacao ashore here. " Bononding said.
It turns out that Gacao is going back to the battlefield where he fought bloody battles!
The sun rose to the treetops of Penang and Langcheng, and Gacao left the Rhoda River and got into a lush green ditch. On a gentle sunny hillside, it suddenly stopped.
"Oh, this is the place where more than 80 elephants are buried. I remember it very clearly. Well, there is a monument there. " Bonodin said quietly.
I looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, a stone tablet was erected in the weeds, on which three Chinese characters were engraved with peeled gold foil (bó), and there was a little vague handwriting: Hundred Elephants Tomb.
Gacarboxyl came to the stone tablet and chose a flat meadow. A pair of ivory is dug up on the ground like two pickaxes (G m: o). It has not eaten for several days, and after a long journey, its physical strength is exhausted, and it will take a while to catch its breath after digging. Gacao dug from morning till afternoon, and finally dug an oval shallow pit. It slipped down the pit, continued to dig in the pit, rolled up the clods with its nose and threw them out of the pit; We hid in the distance and watched its body sink inch by inch.
The sun goes down, the moon rises and is still digging. In the middle of the night, Gacao's back sank from the pit and disappeared. The sound of digging ivory in winter is getting thinner and thinner, and the rhythm of throwing soil with long nose is getting slower and slower. When the rooster crowed for the first time, finally, everything was calm and there was no sound.
Bononding and I waited patiently until the east foamed and went to the pit to check. The pit is about three meters deep. Gacaca lay at the bottom of the pit, with his face sideways, his nose folded on his leg, and his eyes wide open, staring at the sky.
It is dead. It didn't reach the elephant tomb left by its ancestors. It lies with its companions who once fought side by side.
New words: divide bananas and rush.
Gebei weeping bath monument
After reading the above words, we were deeply moved by the deep affection of the war elephant Gacao. Read the following words at a faster speed, and talk about what the old fox did to save the little fox, and how their relationship with Masataro changed. Communicate with your classmates about your thoughts after reading.
24 * Golden Footprints
Two or three days ago, the domestic servant (yōyōng) caught a little fox from the mountain. To this day, it doesn't eat anything fed to it.
On the bare oak forest, the lonely moon is exposed. Fox sat alone in the nest, with his neck upturned and howling. This is a clear and sad voice.
Masataro stared at the fox. He thought Fox might be calling his mother-mother-how poor Fox is!
In the middle of the night, Akita barked and Masataro was awakened. Mom and dad slept soundly. Masataro got up quietly and looked at the barn with wide eyes. I saw a big fox swaggering towards Akita Dog, with a trembling chicken in its mouth.
Akita pounced on him, and the old fox quickly turned and ran away. Akita chased the darkness. Before long, dogs will bark in the distance.
At this moment, another old fox appeared quietly. When the little fox saw the old fox, he kept humming and rubbing his nose against the old fox's body. It wanted to go with the old fox, but it was caught by the chain just after two or three steps. This was repeated twice before the old fox found the chain. It bit hard with its teeth, and it took a long time to realize that it was futile, so it lay on the ground and nursed the little fox.
I don't know when, the fox father who led the dog out came back. Its neck is straight, pay attention to them. After a while, Father Fox let out a cry of alarm. Mother fox had to leave her children. The two old foxes looked back again and disappeared into the dark forest.
Later, the old fox never came again.
"Probably think can't save the fox, dead. It's better to untie the little fox early. This is really pitiful. " Masataro thought.
Strangely, although the little fox still doesn't eat, he grows up day by day.
At noon that day, Masataro casually walked to the fox's nest and suddenly heard a crack (kā). There is nothing around, but the footprints of foxes are clearly printed on the wet ground.
"Ha ha! How dare you come during the day! " Masataro suddenly understood the reason why the fox appeared during the day. "Yes, the dog is tied during the day!"
But how did they escape so fast? I disappeared as soon as I heard the sound!
Masataro looked under the floor and got a fright. Four green eyes stared at him. Those are just Fox's parents. They stared at Masataro for a while, then quietly climbed up the brick that led from under the floor to the upper room, climbed to the place where the kitchen stove was put, and disappeared.
The old fox made a nest under the floor!
Masataro found that the previous two old foxes were dark diàn, probably because they remembered the little foxes and obviously lost weight.
Masataro really wants to untie Fox. Just then, the old fox began to do something unusual, which made him give up the idea: the old fox realized that he couldn't stop biting the chain anyway, so he bit the stake tied to the chain. Masataro thought it might be better for the old fox to rescue the little fox with his own strength.
Masataro decided to send food to the hungry old fox. Whenever he cooks oily tofu at home, he leaves some under the floor; Pour a glass of milk into the broken bowl under the floor every day. A month later, the old fox and Masataro got to know each other. Sometimes when there is no one else at home, Masataro's door will knock gently. Two foxes squeezed in through the crack of the door, licked Masataro's hand and walked slowly around the room. When the fox sees Masataro, he will lick his hand gently with his rough pink tongue.
The old fox never forgets to save the little fox. Gradually, the stake was bitten very thin. How happy the old fox was when he rescued the little fox with his own strength! Masataro's eyes welled up with tears at the thought of these.
One day, Masataro came home from school, passed the barn and looked into the fox's nest, but he didn't even see the fox's shadow. He hurried to ask his mother, who told him that the fox had been taken away by Mr. An Tian. Masataro was in a hurry. He said the fox must be returned to its parents. Say that finish, ran towards Mr. An Tian's ranch on the other side of the mountain.
Masataro ran and ran, and accidentally stepped on the snow on the edge of the cliff. As the snow fell, he lost consciousness. I don't know how long it took, but Masataro felt his face warm. He struggled to open his eyes and saw a big fox licking his cheek. Another fox squatted on his chest, warming his body.
The next day, Masataro invited the fox back and went to the valley with his father to set him free.
The little fox just ran out of a dozen meters away, and the old fox came running from nowhere, jumping around the little fox happily, and then swishing towards the depths of the forest together.
Facing the dazzling morning sun, the foxes' footprints are shining with golden light, extending all the way to the depths of the dense forest.
? The story of harmony between man and animals.
The serpent leads the way to save women.
In Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province in Indonesia, a woman was guided by a big snake to a safe place. Lisa, a 26-year-old woman, said that on February 26, 2004, the village where she lived was flooded by huge waves, and people fled in panic. At this time, a female neighbor was seriously injured and asked Lisa to tie up the twins and run away, so she carried them on her back. While fighting against the rapids, she saw a big snake swimming along the rapids from the left. She kept swimming with the big snake and finally swam to a safe place. Afterwards, Lisa said, "Strangely, I didn't panic when I saw the big snake." Besides, the serpent didn't bite them.
Elephants save children.
In Phuket, Thailand, an elephant escaped to safety with many children in the big waves. British tourist barnett said that on the day of the tsunami, huge waves rushed to Phuket, and an elephant on the beach for tourists to take pictures became a life-saving hero. Because the elephant owner carried many children on the elephant's back at a critical moment, the elephant deviated them from the dangerous beach and finally escaped successfully.
The puppy saved the 7-year-old owner.
In a seaside village in Tamil Nadu, one of the hardest hit areas by the tsunami, a dog named Saipan Kumar saved his little owner Dinakaran. When the tsunami came, Dinakalan's mother, Sanjita, could only hold the hands of her two young sons and run as high as she could, hoping that Dinakalan, the oldest child, aged 7, would follow her out of danger. But Dinakalan didn't keep up with his mother, but ran to what he thought was the safest place-a hut only about 40 meters from the coast. At a critical juncture, "Cerban Kumar" resolutely turned to chase the young master. It bit the little master's clothes all the way, or arched the little master with its nose, dragging him back to a safe place nearby. Dinakalan, who was finally saved, said gratefully, "Saipan Kumar bit my shirt collar and dragged me back."
The elephant howled to save the tourists.
In Kohli, an emerging tourist resort in northern Phuket, Thailand, a group of foreign tourists were lucky to be rescued because they suddenly rushed to the heights on elephants. Before the arrival of the tsunami, Deng Sarangan, a Thai elephant driver, and his wife led a team of eight elephants to the seaside, with a dozen foreign tourists sitting on their backs. Suddenly, the elephant began to sob. After being calm for an hour or so, they "cried" again, and they couldn't calm down any more this time. Soon, the elephant carried the frightened tourists to the bushes-covered mountain far from the beach. Other elephants who didn't work at the seaside also broke free from heavy chains and ran to high places. Then, people saw the huge waves coming and began to run with the elephants.
Elephants help with disaster relief.
In the hardest hit areas in southern Thailand, elephants have become the first choice for rescuers. At present, 24 elephants have been transported to southern Thailand to participate in post-disaster rescue and reconstruction. The owner of the elephant said that in these rubble-strewn disaster areas, "elephants are much more efficient than four-wheeled trucks and hoes, and only elephants can undertake this work." A local government official in southern Thailand said that elephants are carrying away tons of garbage, which provides convenience for rescuers working in extremely difficult conditions.
The dog died for the savior.
One night, a young man named Sergei kulikov, aged 18, got drunk and ran amok in the street. Pedestrians have avoided him. An old man couldn't stand it any longer, so he stepped forward and accused him. In a rage, kulikov swore at the old man, punched him, took out a 1 Grenade and threw it at the crowd. For an instant, people stared and froze. At this moment, not far from the crowd, a man is coming here with a dog. Suddenly, the dog realized what would happen, suddenly broke free from the rope in his master's hand, got into the crowd and jumped on the smoking Grenade. Suddenly, the explosion sounded, and everyone was scared for a long time before coming to their senses. They saw the kind dog lying on the ground, and people were safe and sound. Everyone was shocked and moved, and suddenly there was silence.