Four gusts of wind

"I really envy those birds, they can go where they want to go with a wave of their wings. "

"yes, I wish I had wings like them, and it should feel good to fly." "

"Actually, each of us is a bird. "

Xiao Ran squinted her eyes and looked at him with a smile.

"Huh?".

"Each of us is a very tall bird, but we are locked up in a cage surrounded by a lot of invisible things, so we can't fly. "

"You're a liar. "

I listened to the adults in the village, and they said that if you study hard, you might be able to find the door to open the cage, and then you can fly as much as you want. "

"Who said that?".

"I won't tell you. "

Xiao Ran raised her head and strode forward, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, lining her small dimples.

Seeing this, he hurriedly ran up to ask questions, but Xiao Ran stared straight ahead and didn't answer, so he kept asking in circles around her.

The wind was still blowing, and the two children walked farther and farther away in the wind, and their voices became smaller and smaller, and finally they disappeared in a withered yellow mountain forest like some birds.

In the field above his home, he said goodbye to Xiao Ran, and then turned into a path downward. As the family got closer and closer, close people appeared one by one, the uncle and the fifth uncle squatted in front of the door, chatting with melon seeds, the grandfather had just come out of the well and was slowly walking towards the house, the elder brother was sitting on the ridge of a barren field below the house, and the family's cattle were grazing quietly in the field.

"Brother, uncle, fifth uncle!".

He ran happily with a swaying schoolbag on his back, and Da Bai also rushed out of the house when he heard the sound and ran towards him.

A man and a dog met in the cement room, he pulled Da Bai's ears and gently shook its head, and Da Bai also swayed left and right.

"You miss me after only a day of not seeing me?".

"Wow!Wow!".

After teasing Dabai, he opened the door and threw his schoolbag onto the bed, and then walked to the uncle and the fifth uncle.

"It's back. "

The uncle half-squatted and touched his head.

"I heard that some children can't memorize the multiplication formula and are left behind?".

"Who said I couldn't memorize it, I almost finished it, but the math teacher let us go." "

"If you can't memorize it, you can't memorize it, what kind of thing is almost it, your uncle used to memorize it before he didn't finish a class." "

"It's just a little bit close!".

He yelled at the fifth uncle unconvinced.

Seeing that he was in a hurry, the fifth uncle deliberately ignored him and continued to talk to the uncle.

"Alas, do you say that these two babies are far worse than we were back then, one of us was the first in the class, the other was the second in the class, you look at these two again, one barely passed in Chinese, and the other failed in mathematics. "

"We didn't have any pastime back then, except for reading and herding cattle, and we didn't even have to watch TV, which is like they are now." "

Listening to the back and forth between the fifth uncle and the younger uncle, he walked into the hall boringly.

In the hall, grandpa, second uncle and father sat around the fire pit, and when they saw him come in, they all looked at him, grandpa smiled kindly, the second uncle smiled uncomfortably, and dad's expression was flat, without the slightest emotion.

"Grandpa, Dad, Second Uncle." "

"It's back. "

Dad picked up a piece of charcoal fire with tongs and lit the cigarette in his mouth, and his tone was the same as his expression.

"Hmm. "

He replied softly, then moved a chair and sat next to them.

"Your brother said you couldn't memorize the multiplication formula and was left behind?".

"I almost finished memorizing it. "

After he finished speaking, Grandpa touched his head with satisfaction and boasted proudly.

"We are smart, and we must be able to memorize such difficult multiplication formulas easily." "

"Dad, just listen to his nonsense. He messes with those leather children every day, and if he can memorize it, he will have ghosts. "

I don't know why, the second uncle seems to have a grudge against him, and every time he says something that makes him uncomfortable. Although, the younger uncle and the fifth uncle will occasionally make a few jokes, but at least they won't make it in front of their father, and they won't be bad like the second uncle as long as it's about him.

"I sent you two to study to ask you to take the university entrance examination, not to let you fool around every day, do you hear it?" "

"I hear you. "

"What are you talking about? We Mao and Jun are so well-behaved, how can we fool around. "

Even if he had his grandfather to help him speak, he was still uncomfortable, and he didn't want to stay in this fire pit for a moment.

"I'm going to see the bird." "

"Go ahead. Your mom is watching TV next to you, go to her when you're bored, it's cold outside, don't stay all the time. "

"Got it. "

After a weak reply, he got up and walked out without hesitation.

Outside, the little uncle and the fifth uncle saw him come out and looked at him at the same time.

"Why don't you bake the fire in it, and you're not afraid of the cold like your brother?"

Uncle asked half-concerned and half-jokingly.

"It's not cold. "

With that, he turned to the side again.

Looking at his lonely figure, the uncle and the fifth uncle glanced at each other, and then sighed one after another.

After a while, he walked to the door and opened it, but the room was still cold and cold, and there was no anger at all. The bird was still hanging from the branch they had put on it, and it was looking out the window, and the corn next to it was only a little missing.

He picked up a stick, picked the corn from the birdcage, and put his hands on the cage. As if it hadn't seen him, the bird remained motionless and continued to look out the window.

"Why don't you eat, aren't you happy?".

The birds did not respond.

He turned his face sideways, keeping his eyes at the same level as his eyes, and then looked out the window as he did.

The

glass is like a television screen, showing the scene outside, and in the distance, leaves fall from the tall trees one by one, and in the distance, a few birds fly by the high mountains and the fields from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.

Perhaps, it is not the TV series that is shown outside, he and it are, and they are all audiences.

He and it are like watching a play, only the little space on the screen can be moved, everything outside, they can go wherever they want, and when they are bored, they can still watch him in the picture and pass the time with it.

"Am I, really like you, a bird in a cage?".

It still looked out the window stupidly, and didn't answer.

"Hmph, if you ignore me, I will ignore you." "

Seeing this, he angrily put down his words, then got up and walked out, turning to another room.

"Mom. "

Mom sat by the brazier and watched TV, and was startled at first when she heard his voice, and then immediately smiled.

"It's back. Are you hungry? I'll be cooking for a while. Let's sit here and have a fire. "

"Hmm. "

He walked in slowly, sat next to his mother, and followed her to set her eyes on the TV. But my mother watched different TV from what they liked to watch, and he got bored after just watching it for a while.

"Mom, watch cartoons, this is not good. "

"The cartoon hasn't been shown yet. "

"It's already been released." "

Seeing that he didn't give up, his mother took the remote control board to adjust the channel, but when she was about to tune to the channel where the cartoon was played, she quickly pressed it twice, and the cartoon was changed to the next channel before the picture came out.

"Look, I haven't put it yet. "

Mom said to him with a serious face.

Actually, he knew what was going on, but he didn't want to say it, but silently chose to watch her favorite TV with his mother.

However, he was always bored when his mother liked to watch it, and after continuing to watch it for a long time, he got up in disappointment and walked towards the door again.

"Where are you going?".

"I'm going to tease the bird." "

"Come back after a while, don't stay outside for too long, it's cold outside." "

"Got it. "

Walking out of the room, looking at the dead leaves falling next to him, confusion welled up in his heart. He hadn't been out of the room where the bird was locked for a long time, and he didn't want to tease it anymore, but where could he go if he didn't tease it?

After thinking about it for a while, it's better to stay with my brother, and it won't be too boring to stay by my brother's side. So, he stepped away and walked towards the barren fields below.

"You're done reciting?".

"Closely. "

"Then why did your math teacher let you back?".

"She asked one of us who didn't finish memorizing it to copy it ten times, and then she let us go back." "

"You were also unlucky to run into her. You said that there were only two teachers in the whole school, and one of them was just met by you. "

"It's okay, at least it's not taught by the principal like the sixth grade. "

"Actually, the principal is not fierce. "

"The headmaster is not fierce?".

"yes, he came and took us two lessons, which was a lot of fun. "

As he spoke, the elder brother picked up a small pebble and threw it at the cow not far away, but I don't know if the pebble was too small or because he lacked strength, so he landed in the middle of the pebble.

"Anyway, you really can't do it, you can't memorize such a simple multiplication formula." "

"I almost memorized it!".

He roared unconvinced, but immediately quieted down after yelling, and asked curiously.

"But, brother, how long did you memorize it at that time?"

"It's only half a class." "

"So fast!".

"Otherwise, it's easy to memorize." "

Listening to his brother's extremely relaxed tone, he gradually accepted the fact that he was bad, and lowered his head helplessly.

"Don't be like this, although you can't do math, but you're much better at language than I was back then." "

"Really?".

"Really. "

Seeing his brother say this, he raised his head proudly.

While chatting, a cold wind blew from the opposite mountain, rolling the wild grass and blowing their faces, and the brothers consciously wrapped their clothes tightly.

"Brother, Xiao Ran said that each of us is a bird, but we are encircled by a cage made of some invisible things, so we can't fly, is it true?"

"Listen to her coax you, man is a man, a bird is a bird, how can a man fly in the sky like a bird? Besides, who said that a bird can't fly when it's in a cage, you see the one locked up in the house, didn't it fly and hit the cage when it was first put in, but it has stopped recently." "

"Yes. "

As he spoke, the picture just now unconsciously poured out in his mind. It did stop, just quietly looking out the window, and the corn given to it didn't eat much. Gradually, he remembered the flock of birds he had seen when he came back, and they were flying freely in the sky, which was very pleasant.

Suddenly, a very strange decision arose in his heart, an idea that Tian Yu and the others would call him stupid when they knew.

"Brother, why don't we let it go?"

"What did you say?".

The elder brother looked at him in surprise, with a look of incomprehension.

"Shall we put it away?".

He said firmly.

"You're right, people are different from birds, they can't fly whether they're in a cage or not, so you don't have to care if you're locked up or not. In the same way, birds have wings, they are meant to fly in the air, and they should not be kept in our hands. When I came back today, I saw a flock of birds exactly like it, they flew so freely in the sky, and now they are quietly looking out of the window every day, and they must be very eager to return to the sky, right? If one day I am locked in a small cage like him, I think I will also feel uncomfortable. "

After he finished speaking, he waited anxiously for his brother's answer, for fear that his brother would not agree, but he didn't expect that his brother would readily agree.

"Okay. "

He looked at his brother's nonchalant face, and felt like he was in a dream, so he asked tentatively, and his brother still gave the same answer briskly.

"If you let it go, it's a big deal." "

With his brother's permission, he excitedly got up and ran to the bird's house, passing by the uncle and the fifth uncle, the uncle and the fifth uncle asked him where he was in a hurry, he replied truthfully, and continued to run forward without caring about the surprised expressions of the uncle and the fifth uncle.

Finally running to the door, he opened the door breathlessly, and then carefully took out the cage. When the bird saw that it had left the dimly lit room, it began to flap its wings anxiously again and hit the cage.

Seeing this, he hurriedly took it out, then put it on the ground and slowly let go of his hand.

Unrestrained, the birds flew up to the high trees and watched greedily at their surroundings.

When he had calmed down and regained his freedom, he remembered that he was still standing on the ground, and then glanced at him a few times, and after calling twice, he flapped his wings again and flew to the distant mountain.

He looked at its departing figure, and suddenly felt an indescribable relief in his heart, as if he had become an extremely remarkable person.

"Go, you belong to the mountains and forests, and you shouldn't be locked in a cage by me, so go ahead." "