Flowers on Chinese Toona Tree Magpie Prose

Behind my old house, there is a Toona sinensis tree that is not very tall; Between the branches of Toona sinensis, a long basket-shaped magpie nest is built all the year round; In the humble room of the magpie nest, there is a lonely flower magpie; In the hoarse cry of the flower magpie, it gets older every year. ...

Magpie is a kind of crow. After hatching from the eggshell, it can fly with its wings after about 20 days of hunger. The magpie that just left the nest has not been able to stand on its own feet. After a few days of words and deeds by its parents, it will gradually become confident and powerful.

Magpies will start to fall in love as long as they can be independent. When in love, it is the female magpie who pursues the male magpie. After being privately engaged for life, * * * built a love nest and went in and out in pairs. The following spring, after the magpie mother gave birth, the couple took turns to hatch eggs, just to add a few more eggs. Then, they share the responsibility and obligation of raising children.

Magpie's spouse is for life. We will never leave each other in eight to ten years' life. Even if one of them dies halfway, the other will remain faithful until he dies alone. So magpies are often regarded as a symbol of good love!

Female magpies are most easily distinguished from male magpies. The former is smaller and darker, while the male magpie is bigger and whiter. The latter is often called "flower magpie".

My family and neighbors, men, women and children, all know the flower magpie on the Toona sinensis tree. Compared with the same sex, its figure and wings are the same, but its voice is always special ―― hoarse, sad and desolate. ...

In front of this flower magpie, I am guilty, which is simply a heinous crime! Because, the happiness of my life is ruined in my hands. Whenever I hear its tears of blood, my heart is always full of guilt and self-blame, which always evokes my faint deep thoughts and pain.

Six years ago, at the end of spring, my neighbor's nephew brought back a slingshot with thousands of dollars of steel balls from the coast, boasting that he could "pierce the Yang with a hundred paces". However, after several rounds of competition between uncles and nephews, he completely lost.

"Uncle, are you capable of shooting down that female magpie?" The eldest nephew pointed to a female magpie that just flew back from the Toona sinensis tree and said unconvinced.

On the Toona sinensis tree behind the house, two years ago, there lived a pair of little magpies. The mother magpie, who has just finished feeding her cubs, is flapping a pair of dexterous wings, jumping excitedly among the branches at the door of the magpie nest, chirping and singing, as if shouting at the distance: "Husband, why don't you come back?" The child is not full yet! "

"What's so hard about it? Piece of cake! " I grew up playing with wooden slingshots and shot countless birds. Wouldn't it be like a duck to water with such modern weapons? I answered confidently.

I took the slingshot from my nephew, solemnly put the steel ball away and took a deep breath. At the same time, I slowly raised my hands and pulled open eight rubber bands everywhere. When I was aiming at the female magpie, I was also slowly scanning the possible security risks around me. I am estimating the distance between the pinball and its prey, judging where its next jump will fall, predicting the flying speed of the steel ball and sensing the direction of the spring breeze, and I have done it. ...

"Bang-",suddenly, the steel ball flew out of my hand like a bullet leaving the chamber. Almost at the same time, I heard a "pa" on the Toona sinensis tree, accompanied by a piercing scream, and the female magpie fell to the ground like a stone with a "tong". ...

"You are make of yo? What did the magpie do to you? No harm? ! "Just as the children cheered, my nephew was dumbfounded, and when I was still skeptical, my mother's reprimand came from my ear.

In fact, when the female magpie fell from the Toona sinensis tree, that piercing scream stabbed me like a sharp knife. A kind of pain, a kind of desolation, a kind of sadness, can't help but surge from my heart and instantly soak my whole body. I know, I was wrong. I am the executioner who destroys the happiness of magpie's family. I have committed an eternal crime. ...

I feel guilty because I think too much. It is said that an adult magpie can only feed one or two chicks. What if the magpie has one more pair of treasures? Then I owe a lot of murders if I bounce it. Is that all I can think of? No, it's much more than that! I think of myself from the surviving flower magpie, and I think of the little magpie from my own children. That year, my son was fifteen and my daughter was seven ... I couldn't help crying because of sadness and regret. ...

I don't know when my nephew took the slingshot out of my hand. I only remember that when my son brought the female magpie that I killed into the house, the flower magpie that came back from foraging was also angry and sad to catch up. It kept shouting protests outside the window and pecked at the window of my house from time to time. The sound of "bang, bang, bang" is deafening!

Since then, the flower magpie has hardly stopped. Every morning, it will stand on the branches of the Toona sinensis tree and call on the branches on time like a rooster crowing. Then, it will fly out of my window, flapping a pair of tired wings and crying affectionately, as if to shout: "wife, go home, the children miss you!" " "Soon, the flower magpie had to bend down and walk away, because it had to find enough food to make the babies hungry as much as possible.

Time passed quickly, and the magpie babies flew out of their former homes one by one. Magpie luxuriously enjoys incomplete happiness and happiness with children. And my heart seems to be infected by their family, no scars, no knots, no injuries, no pain.

Some people say that time is the best medicine to cure all wounds. I admit the power of time, but I feel as if I have exaggerated its efficacy. Some injuries can't be cured by time. For example, some wounds have healed, but once the weather changes, there will always be inflammation, dull itching or intermittent pain on its scars. ...

The disaster happened, and the child was successful in my official career, but the days still passed. In the years to come, Hua Magpie seems to be in no hurry to make progress. All day, in addition to filling her stomach, she just stood on the Toona sinensis tree and croaked. From time to time, it will come to my window, except screaming at the top of my lungs, that is, pecking. After a long time, I also read the article inside. It turned out that the flower magpie saw her own shadow in the glass window and thought it was her wife's return, so she worked so hard.

Many people laugh at the stupidity of the flower magpie, but I feel sorry for its infatuation. Spring has come, winter has come, and China Magpie's voice is hoarse, and it sounds different. Because he always calls his lover, his voice is a bit lonely, bitter and missing. Every year, the nest of the flower magpie is added and added, making it like a long basket, but it can't wait for its lover after all.

A few days ago, my mother caught the flower magpie lying on the windowsill with her bare hands at the window. What's the problem? I didn't answer, but my heart was bleeding: Hua que is old and her physical strength is declining, so she can't toss her lover any more. This is to accompany his wife, because she is lying beside her ―― only through a window pane. ...

Life and love are equal. We haven't seen the flower magpie since my mother sent it to the bushes under the Toona sinensis tree. However, its hoarse voice has been echoing in my ears. ...