Can't I afford a bird? Uncle Ermao said. As it turned out: he really couldn't afford it!

(This article is based on a true story, and all the characters in the article are pseudonyms)

When I saw a magpie, I suddenly remembered something I had experienced as a child. At that time, the neighbor had a second uncle, and his daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy, which made him happy, it was all kinds of pampering, and he wanted to pluck the stars and moons in the sky and play with his son. At that time, the countryside could not buy any toys, and one summer, Uncle Ermao had a whim - he wanted to take out a nest of birds to play with for his son. So he came to the woods in the south of the village, took advantage of the gap where the magpie went out to forage, climbed up the tree and took a nest of small magpies, carried it in his arms and brought it home.

Someone saw it and persuaded him: "Ermao, you dare to provoke the magpie, that guy can remember revenge!" Uncle Ermao said disapprovingly, "Qie! Can't afford to mess with others, can't we afford a bird? What else can it do? What are you afraid of? Besides, did it see that I had taken it, and could it still find its home? ”

Unexpectedly, at dawn the next day, The great magpie came to the door. First it landed on the wall of his house and chirped into the house, and the little magpie in the house heard it and followed suit, so that Uncle Ermao could no longer sleep. Hearing the voice of his own child, Daxi Que simply jumped on the windowsill outside the house and eagerly shouted into the house: Chirp, chirp... Not for a moment. Annoyed, Uncle Ermao had to get up and pick up the feather duster to catch up. When the magpie saw someone coming, he quickly flew back to the wall, and then shouted: Chirp, chirp... There was no intention of retreating. Uncle Ermao was annoyed, picked up a piece of stone and threw it at it, fluttering the edges, and the big magpie flew up. Uncle Ermao thought it flew away, but he didn't expect it to hover in the air a few times, and then it fell down, stopping at the wall, chattering, chattering... Keep calling. In this way, the big magpie drove away and flew back, screaming on the wall of Uncle Ermao's house for a whole day, until it was dark before it flew away.

At dawn the next day, the big magpie came again, still landing on the wall of Uncle Ermao's house, screaming desperately into the house. In the summer in the north, the sun came out at about five o'clock, and Uncle Ermao's good dream was awakened again. It's another day of wits and wits until it's dark... That night, in order to completely drive away the magpie, Uncle Ermao made a slingshot overnight.

On the third day, when the magpie came to "harass" again, Uncle Ermao hit it with a slingshot, and the magpie was still "aware", quickly dodged, and no longer fell on the wall of his house, it flew in the air for a while, and landed on the telephone pole at the gate. The pole was several feet high, and the slingshot was not range enough to hit it at all. Finding a new foothold, the magpie then called in the direction of Uncle Ermao's house: chirping, chirping, not stopping for a moment, just like that, after a week...

At first, I didn't know why the nasty magpie had been barking on the telephone pole in front of the door all day, and then when I inquired, I learned that it was because Uncle Ermao had dug up people's nests, and people came to ask for "children". Several days early in the morning was woken up, at noon want to take a nap can not sleep, everyone held their stomach, have come to the door to find Uncle Ermao.

Some said, "Ermao, you hurry up and find a way, don't let the magpie scream like this, you don't want to sleep well, we still want to sleep!" ”

Some said: "Ermao, we have been hearing the sound of magpies chirping and chirping in our ears from morning to night for two days, and we are all going to die!" ”

Others said, "Ermao! What do you play badly with your children, not the children of other people's magpies, your children are so small, what do you know? A few days later, it was a loss of morality! ”

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After another day, the magpie finally stopped coming, and it turned out that Uncle Ermao took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and secretly sent the nest of little magpies back. He knew: Magpies really can't afford it!