Author: XiaoYi
In the previous article, there was an article called "That Heart-warming Water" showing a photo of my mother taking by the pier. It is a corner of the ancient canal, the river is surrounded by low piers, the piers are embedded with turquoise stone bricks, and the stones falling in the corners are sewn with natural green edges - moss, bridge piers, river water, willows, lonely boats, twilight rain, silence and no one, how poetic! It is simply a perfect interpretation of Jiangnan Water Town!
My mother found such a good piece of walking treasure land, and every time she went out to buy vegetables, she would take me there to walk around and enjoy the scenery of Jiangnan. Today, my mother took me around the pier as usual, and just when I complained that it hadn't rained today (I seemed to think it was more interesting to walk around the river in the gentle drizzle), I only heard my mother shout: "Oh! It's a celestial cow! ”
When I looked back, I saw my mother crouching on the ground, carefully looking at this small thing called "Tianniu". The antennae of this celestial cow are very long, almost longer than its body, one black and one white, and the match is quite pleasing to the eye. The small head is triangular, and there are two solid pieces of "armor" on the black body (black dots and white dots, which are also black and white), and if you look closely, you can faintly see a pair of thin wings inside.
Mom began to reminisce about her childhood: "Before, this day cattle can be seen everywhere in the countryside, our children love to catch the cow to play, after catching it, according to how many rings on its tentacles, to determine how old the cow is." Mom squinted her eyes and counted the antenna rings of the celestial cow in front of her: "One, two, three, four... Eight, nine!
Nine years old, Grandpa Tianniu is quite old! As she spoke, her mother looked at the snow-white pier at the foot of the Tianniu, and then looked at the water of the ancient canal, and a bold idea came out: "Can the Tianniu swim?" Put it in the water and try it? ”
I felt both fresh and frightened when I listened to my mother's bold creative act, and the Celestial Bull, which also tentatively crawled to the outside of the pier, seemed to be interested in water. I carefully pinched one of the long tentacles of the Tianniu, and my mother crouched next to me and watched with bated breath, and I suddenly had a bottom in my heart, and I dragged the Tianniu up with a force and gently put it into the river.
Tianniu quickly pedaled his limbs in the water, the long tentacles also swung left and right, a little bit of swimming meaning, but the river still flowed slowly and mercilessly to the right, Tianniu was anxious, swimming more hard to the shore, my mother and I pinched a handful of sweat for Tianniu, and finally Tianniu finally touched the wall on the shore after unremitting efforts, and my mother looked at the small wet stone bangle tens of centimeters high with concern and said: "(The stone pier) is too slippery, how can I climb up?" ”、
At this time, it seems that the heavens have arranged, a small wooden stick in the background of a few pieces of green algae cleverly appeared in front of our eyes, it is not far from the Tianniu, but also floating in the river, the mother looked at the helpless Tianniu, and even had the impulse to cross the stone pier to save the Tianniu, but unfortunately she is a dry duck, in case of bad luck, the Tianniu did not save, but he pounced and fell into the water.
The Celestial Bull really couldn't climb the pier, its limbs gradually stiffened, its tentacles didn't shake back and forth, and a ruthless fact was placed in front of my eyes: "The Celestial Bull can't swim, and now it's drowned." "I looked at the fragile and powerless Tianniu in the water of the ancient canal, and I suddenly felt that there was no life more fragile and small than a bug, a gust of wind, a torrential rain, it could become a disaster, I looked at the dead Tianniu, I couldn't help but feel numbness in my scalp, I put it into the river, oh my God! An inexplicable sense of guilt came to mind, and the little celestial cow, who was still alive a minute ago, fell prey to the experiment because of my and my mother's curiosity!
Mom also picked up a large leaf from the ground in chagrin and said, "If you put the celestial cow into the river and use a large leaf to make a boat for it, it may not die!" "Wuxi's Tianniu is rare, maybe this is the last Tianniu in Wuxi, but it died." Along the way, my mother and I felt that we owed an explanation to the Tianniu family, and owed a statement to the insect community, and my mother began to look around to see if there were any big insects, preferably Tianniu, planning to do another experiment with leaves carrying insects, if the experiment had an accident, it would certainly not watch it struggle to drown...
After returning home, my mother searched the information of Tianniu on the Internet, and only then did she know that Tianniu was a pest. ay! No matter how unlucky, there is no killing of beneficial insects, my mother and I booed, in order to commemorate this unlucky Tianniu, I specially wrote this "Summer, Meet a Tianniu" to commemorate all the little creatures who were deliberately hurt by people!