Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 156
The next day, as soon as the rooster crowed, Wen Shu got up and put on her coat. She tiptoed open the door and went to the kitchen.

In the corner of the kitchen, the fat-stealing bird, who was squinting and squinting on its stomach, heard the movement, and immediately stood up with bristling hair, and howled at Wen Shu who came in.

However, the bird's beak is bound, and the originally high-pitched beep now sounds like a whimper.

Wen Shu walked over with a smile, first gently touched its white head, and then lifted it outside with one hand.

After arriving at the well in the courtyard, I slowly helped it untie the hemp rope on the wings and the cloth strip on the bird's beak.

As soon as it was free, the fat-stealing bird immediately screamed, the voice was so shrill.It kept flapping its wings in an attempt to escape, but its feet were so badly injured that it could not take advantage of it, so it failed to fly after a few flutters.

Seeing this, Wen Shu couldn't help feeling more relieved.

The shrill and loud birdsong, like a flash of lightning in the quiet morning, crossed the sky in the north of the city, waking up the nearby people.

Father Wen was soundly asleep at first, when he heard this mournful howl, he frowned in a daze, and when he listened carefully, he found that the sound was very close, as if it came from the courtyard, his heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly Put on your clothes and get up, open the door to check.

On the other side, after Wen Shu specially warned the fat-stealing bird not to hurt anyone, he sneaked back to the room and was hiding behind the door to listen to the movement.

When she heard the creak of the east chamber door, she knew her father was up.After waiting for another moment, he pretended to be just getting up, rubbed his eyes and opened the door.

"Father, what's the noise? It's so noisy?"

Father Wen didn't speak, his eyes wandered around the courtyard, and soon he settled on the well.

But because the sky was still dark at this time, and the east chamber was some distance away from the well, it couldn't be seen clearly, but there seemed to be something moving beside the wooden shelf by the well.

After a while, Father Wen picked up the wooden stick by the door and went there, at the same time ordered Wen Shu, "Stay there and don't move, I'll go and have a look."

Wen Shu was startled for a moment, but didn't listen to her father. She glanced at the broom standing by the door, took it and walked over there.

Although the fat-stealing bird may look injured, it is actually very fierce. When she tied its beak earlier, it took a lot of effort.If she hadn't been so alert and quick to react, she would have almost been pecked by it.

Dad is getting old and just woke up, I'm afraid his mind is still in a daze, but don't let it go.

Just when Wen Shu was worried, Father Wen had already walked five steps away from the bird body, because he didn't know what it was and whether it was dangerous, so he didn't get too close.

The wooden stick in his hand was also kept forward, afraid that the unknown thing would suddenly explode.

It was only when he got closer that he realized that it was a big owl-like bird with a white head and red body, but judging by the way it was thumping, it must have been injured, so he was slightly relieved.

"Father, what is this?" At this moment, Wen Shu suddenly asked from behind.

Wen Tai was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Why are you here, go back soon." Saying that, he pushed her back.

Although the bird was injured, it was hard to protect people from it, so it was better not to get close to it.

"It's okay, dad. I'll just stand here and have a look. This is an owl, it looks pretty."

Father Wen nodded: "I guess who domesticated it, and I don't know how it came to our house. But this owl looks good, and the price must be high. If the owner finds it missing, he will definitely find it. First, Let’s put it aside, maybe someone will come to look for it later.”

Wen Shuxin said no, but nodded obediently on her face.

It's cold food today, so there's no need to make a fire, the food was prepared yesterday, and it doesn't have to be so early to go out of the city for the sweeping ceremony, so Father Wen asked Wen Shu to go back to the room for a while.

Wen Shu didn't feel that sleepy, shook his head, knelt down and said, "Go to sleep, Dad, I'll just watch the birds here. It's rare to see such a beautiful bird."

Father Wen was a little worried, "This is a vicious bird that can peck people, so don't get too close to it."

"I know, I know, I don't get close, I just look at it from a distance." Wen Shu promised again and again, and took a few steps back.

Father Wen checked that the problem was not serious, so he agreed, and gave Wen Shu the wooden stick in his hand for self-defense, and then turned and went back to the room.

He watched a play with Brother Sun last night and drank another [-] cents of wine until late at night, so he was really sleepy at this time.

After a while, until there was no movement behind him, Wen Shu lightly tapped the fat-stealing bird's head, and said with a smile: "Even if you are sensible and didn't hurt anyone, let me tell you, that was my father just now, if you dare to hurt me He, I don't care if you can resist fire or not, I will chop you up into pieces and boil you in the pot."

Upon hearing this, the fat-stealing bird shrank its neck immediately.

Wen Shu was more satisfied upon seeing this.

Although talking to a bird is a bit silly, but for some reason, the bird's various behaviors always give her the illusion of being human and understanding human language.

Before I knew it, I loved talking to it.

After teasing the fat-stealing bird for a while, the sky gradually turned white until the morning dew in the sky, Wen Shu put away his stick and got up, took out two hard-boiled eggs from the kitchen and threw them in front of the fat-stealing bird.

"I don't know what you eat, and there are no snakes or mice at home, so just make do with it."

But the fat-stealing bird didn't buy it, and didn't even turn its head when it heard the sound, as if it was still angry.Wen Shu didn't care. After throwing two eggs, he turned around and went to the well to fetch water to wash.

After she finished washing, Father Wen also got up. Seeing this, Wen Shu hurriedly went to the kitchen to mix a bowl of cold noodles for her father.

As for herself, because of Zhu Yucao, she is still not very hungry right now.

But if you want to eat, you can eat some, just to test the real situation of Zhu Yu Cao's hunger, she continues to uphold the principle of not eating, just want to see how far Zhu Yu Cao can stop hunger.

A bowl of cold meat with pickled radish and sliced ​​bacon was swallowed by Father Wen within a few bites, and Wen Tai didn't doubt Wen Shu's claim that she had eaten it.

A quarter of an hour later, the father and daughter went out of the city to worship with offerings and paper money.

Half an hour later, on the sunny slope ten miles to the north of the city, among the flowers and plants all over the mountains and plains, there are many tombs.

Because of the season, the top of the mountain is covered with light yellow paper money at this moment, and the father and daughter walk along the path covered with weeds, towards the familiar grave inside.

On the short grave mound, weeds are growing, and the willow trees on the left and right sides have grown tall.

The small sapling planted in the year of burial has now grown into a big tree with the mouth of a bowl, and more than ten years have passed quietly.Father Wen stepped forward with emotion and pulled the weeds from the grave.

Wen Shu knelt in front of the grave, carefully wiped off the dust and grass clippings on the tombstone with his sleeves, and muttered, "Mother, brother, my father and I came to see you, are you all right down there? What's wrong, even if it's a dream, my father and I will definitely settle it."

"You haven't eaten yet. Dad and I brought you our favorite green rice and fruits. Eat quickly." Then, he took out the offering fruits from the basket and placed them in front of the tomb.

Father Wen listened with a smile on his side, his hands moving non-stop.After the weeds on the grave were finished, he started folding paper money again.

Wen Shu, who was below, also got up at this moment, and was decorating the swallows on the dried jujube branches he brought, and continued to babble about what happened in the past year.

Good and bad, I picked up and talked about it, especially the fire that she still can't let go of when she thinks about it, and she repeated it for a long time, saying that God is not open.

After talking about it, and telling her mother underground all the happy and unhappy things in the past year, Wen Shu thought about the two Tianmao trees in the storage basket, rolled her eyes, and told her father that she was going to the toilet .

Father Wen didn't think much about it, he nodded to tell her to be careful, and then continued with his work.

(End of this chapter)