Twenty idioms

Chapter 17

One spring, a big rooster with a flower tail met a cub that had just hatched on the bank of the river.

The big rooster looked at the wet little cub struggling out of the broken egg shell with disdain, and thought to himself: This seems to be an ugly chicken?It barked twice, held its head high, and was about to walk away leisurely, but was wobbled by the cub who wobbled up and got entangled.

The little cub yelled at it weakly, his tender voice was full of intimacy and trust, and those small black bean-like eyes never took his eyes off it.

The big rooster was annoyed by it, flapped its wings and overturned it and walked away.The little cub didn't make any noise after he fell, turned over with difficulty, and limped towards the direction where the big rooster was leaving.

After walking for a while, the big rooster stopped and looked back, as if aware of it, and saw the little cub not far or near behind him, his face darkened.It hesitated for a while, trying to quickly get rid of this annoying trouble, but its pace slowed down unknowingly.

The cub finally caught up with it, yelled for joy, and circled around its feet.The big rooster stopped talking and said in a vicious voice, "Little devil, don't treat me like a hen!"

"Guji?" The little brat uttered in doubt, and tilted his head to look at it.

"..." The big rooster covered its face with its wings in frustration, "I'm crazy to talk to you, a brat who doesn't understand anything." It gave the little cub a disgusted look, "Okay, okay, even if it is I can't bear to see you die outside, so I will find you the most gentle and beautiful mother chicken when you go back."

After all, the big rooster deliberately slowed down and walked in front with his head held high, while the little cub flapped his little fluffy wings and followed behind with joyous cries all the way, very tacitly understood.

But after returning to the chicken coop, all the hens refused to take care of the unidentified wild children.

The big rooster stared stiffly at the big trouble he picked up, and said, "Then...who will raise it?"

A reed hen rolled its eyes at it: "Whoever brings it back will raise it!"

"I'm a big man—"

"What's the matter, old man?" The reed hen sneered, "I didn't ask you to lay eggs! Can't you learn how to raise cubs?"

The surrounding hens echoed.The little cub didn't know why, so he responded with a few murmurs, making the big rooster's face hot with embarrassment. If it weren't for the down feathers to cover it, his face would almost be as red as a rooster's comb.

"Who, who said that I can't do it!" The big rooster yelled, poking its neck, and all the hens suddenly fell silent, only the cub was still screaming at it coquettishly, without any worries.

……

Raising the young ones is hard work, everything has to be learned from scratch, and the big cock is almost dizzy.

But it only raised the cub for three months after all.

In fact, from the second month on, the big rooster has noticed that there is something wrong with the little cub. It probably understands that the little cub is not a chicken, but some other breed, but it didn't know until two elegant red-crowned cranes came to the door. , he raises a little crane, and he is also the prince of the clan.

The tearful pup was taken away.

Although the big rooster is very reluctant, it understands that for the red-crowned crane that is destined to spread its wings and fly high, it is the cruelest decision to force it to stay in the flock.

This winter, the big rooster, who couldn't bear to miss him, trekked for a long time to the habitat of the red-crowned crane, but all he saw was emptiness.

After asking the rabbits who gathered in the nest to keep warm, it found out that the red-crowned crane is a migratory bird and has already flown to the warm south thousands of miles away.

The big cock went back dejectedly.

In the spring of the second year, it didn't hold back and found it here again, but it didn't find the little boy among the group of gracefully flying white cranes.After asking one of them, I got the news that their prince did not return here, but lived in another place with rich water and grass, waiting for a few months to marry the prince and concubine.

The big rooster thought, its cub and it have been separated in two worlds, and it is not sure whether they will meet again in the future.Maybe the fate is so shallow, and there are only those three months in this life.In the future, the cub will have his own group and family, and the little affection he had when he was a child may have faded away with the passage of time.

Until the spring of another year came, the big rooster woke up one day and heard the noise of the chickens.

It walked out of the shed in a daze, and when it saw the white red-crowned crane standing gracefully among the chickens, the remaining drowsiness dissipated instantly.

When the little red-crowned crane prince saw it coming, he let out a cry of joy, took a step with his long legs, and rushed towards him as he did when he was a child.

"Wait, wait!!!" The big rooster took two steps back in a panic, and was pressed to the ground by the little prince of the red-crowned crane, which was twice as tall as him, and thumped and shouted, "Back off, you brat! I'm going to be crushed!"

"No..." The little prince of the red-crowned crane rubbed his slender and graceful neck against its body, and said coquettishly, "I miss you so much."

The big rooster turned its head and hummed: "Bah! I heard that you have married the princess and given birth to a litter of cubs. Do you still have time to think about me?"

The little red-crowned crane prince said aggrievedly: "I didn't marry anyone. My father, queen mother and queen forced me to choose one, but I couldn't respond to any of those beauties."

The big rooster looked down at it sympathetically, and comforted him against his will: "It's because you are still young and don't know what love is."

"Thank you, but you don't have to be so reserved." The little prince of the red-crowned crane said to him seriously, "The elders have told me that I have a frigid cold and need to be cured." Lowering his head, "But... today I found out that the elders were wrong. It turns out... I'm not cold at all..."

"what?"

The little red-crowned crane prince stuck to its face and whispered softly, "When I see you, my little crane will start to move immediately..."

The big rooster looked shocked: "What are you kidding, brat?! I'm a big old man——"

"What's the matter, old men?" The little prince of the red-crowned crane rubbed against it, and said, "You don't need to lay eggs! It's enough for me and my little crane to like you."

⊙Note 1: The "standing" in "stand out from the crowd" does not mean standing, but takes the connotation meaning.

⊙Note 2: Please refer to Little JJ for the meaning of Xiaohehe.