Reading answers to "Myna in the Alley"

I will never forget that smart myna. Not only did it have shiny black feathers and a dazzling red beak, it also had a good upbringing from the "Hutong culture" of the ancient capital of Kaifeng. When my family lived in Xixiaoge Hutong, Kaifeng, it tickled its head in the birdcage under the eaves of the neighboring house and greeted me cordially: "Hey, have you eaten?" I was less than 4 years old at the time. I haven’t realized the importance of eating yet, I just looked at it stupidly. But it did not mind cheering and answered for me: "Haha, eat, eat!" When my parents went to school, it would hold its head high and give orders: "Lao Cai, Liu Xiang, come out!" Car, get out of the car!"

Liu Xiang, a foreign rickshaw driver, is the owner of Bago'er. Every morning, when Liu Xiang hangs the ration bag on the handle of the foreign cart and pulls the cart towards the entrance of the alley, the mynah boy will flap his wings and shout: "Hu spicy soup, Hu spicy soup!" The short fat man selling Hu spicy soup He answered at the entrance of the alley: "Stop barking, I'll serve it for your brother!" Liu Xiang also attaches great importance to the nutrition of the myna. He often mashes the cooked egg yolk and mixes it in the bird food can to feed it; They also have to dig into the grass to catch grasshoppers for it, saying that the myna can live happily only after eating this "live meat". Lao Cai blamed him and said, "Why have you spoiled it? Is it your wife?" Liu Xiang said, "It's almost the same. I bring the car back every day, and it's the only one that can still talk to me."

On a rainy day, Liu Xiang did not get out of the car. I saw him holding the birdcage in his hand, teaching the myna to say "Gude Maoning", and correcting the myna's pronunciation over and over again, struggling all morning. Many years later, I learned that "Good morning" turned out to be "Good morning"! Liu Xiang once patted my head and said: "When your father sent you to study abroad, you took the mynah with you and called it Dr. Dai." Hat."

Bago failed Liu Xiang's teachings. That day, when Liu Xiang came back from pulling the cart, Bago was as happy as before, then he stretched his neck and shouted: "Liu Xiang, Bagh Ya Road!" Liu Xiang glared at Bago: "What did you say?" Bago said again. It flapped its wings and showed off its second foreign language, "Bagya Road, Baghya Road! Haha!" Liu Xiang gritted his teeth and cursed: "Little Japan hasn't even come over, and you want to be a traitor? Watch me kill you. I'm going to kill you!" He picked up a copper basin and knocked on it while shouting: "Neighbors, listen up! If you want to go to Bageya Road, go to Little Japan. Don't instigate Bage at your own door. This is it. It's an authentic Chinese bird, don't foul the bird's mouth with Oriental dialect!" Lao Cai overcame him: "This is an authentic Chinese bird, how do you teach it to say 'Gude Mao Ning'?" Liu Xiang's neck immediately exploded. With blue veins rising, he argued: "That's to teach him to imitate Westerners and greet us Chinese, do you understand?"

I don't know how Liu Yang punished the mynah, but that night, I heard the myna flapping its wings and screaming. Liu Xiang scolded him harshly: "You bitch, if you don't speak the Oriental dialect, you don't deserve to be a Chinese bird!" The whole next day, the myna squatted in the cage, wondering about its nationality. I found that it was indeed having diarrhea, and after the diarrhea, it never spoke in Japanese again.

The war quickly approached Kaifeng. When my family fled to the west of Henan, Liu Xiang also took a foreign cart and took refuge in the countryside. The birdcage was covered with a black cloth cover and rattled behind the carriage. He said that the world is in chaos and cannot be allowed to be seen and heard by mynas, lest it disturbs the bird's heart and dirty its mouth. But the Eighth Brother screamed in the black cloth cover: "Liu Xiang, alarm, alarm!"