Rebirth: My Brother Can Only Be Mine

When Lin Huaijin touched the mirror, he felt like he had entered another space, and he opened his eyes.

Huh? Am I not a human anymore?

There is a tree in a courtyard, and on the tree there is a bird's nest. I don't know if it's because the weather is too cold, the mother bird went south for the winter, and there are only a few hungry little birds in the nest.

It was too cold that day, and everything was covered with snow.

In the early morning, the door of the second room on the left side of the wooden house creaked open.

A thin young scholar in a green robe came out. He went to the eaves of the kitchen's outer wall, took some firewood and went into the kitchen. White smoke rose from the kitchen chimney, reflecting the white snow covering the straw on the roof, like a landscape painting.

Soon the scholar came out. He walked to the bare tree in the yard and looked up. In a bird's nest on the tree branch, four hungry little birds opened their mouths and chirped.

Lin Huaijin: "Why did I turn into a bird?"

Lin Qing: “…”

Jin Can: "Why did I turn into a bird?"

Wang Le: "Master, this is not elegant, don't call yourself that."

The scholar in green robe returned to the main room, took out a ladder, climbed up the tree and brought down the entire bird's nest.

The scholar looked at those ugly birds in confusion. It was strange. He had never seen birds here before. Wasn’t there always only one nest?

The scholar didn't think much about it and moved the bird's nest into the kitchen first. The kitchen was now much warmer than other rooms because there was a stove burning in it.

After a night of heavy snow, the bird's nest was covered with a thick layer of snow, as if there was a bowl of snow in the yellow and black bird's nest. However, four bird heads were exposed in the middle of the snow. The newly born birds were bald with only a few feathers. They opened their mouths and raised their heads to call, and their mouths looked bigger than their heads.

Not long after entering the kitchen, the snow on top of the bird's nest melted into water. Four bare, wet little birds stood in the nest, swaying precariously.

The scholar took a cloth towel, wiped the four birds dry, and placed them in front of the stove to warm them before continuing to do other things.

Jin Can: "It's so uncomfortable to be wet."

Wang Le: "I'm hungry."

Lin Huaijin: "Which one is just my brother?"

Lin Qing: “…”

Lin Huaijin squeezed past Jin Can.

Lin Huaijin: "Brother, stick with me."

Lin Qing: “…”

Lin Qing felt a little tired. His younger brother would tear off the roof tiles if he was not beaten for three days. When he got out, he would definitely beat his brother and give him a serious education. He told him not to be the first to do such things in the future, and that he should be the one to take the bronze mirror.

While they were chirping, the scholar returned to the chopping board, chopped the green onions into small pieces, added a spoonful of lard, and cooked a bowl of noodles for breakfast.

A few birds: "I'm really hungry this time..."

After dinner, the scholar went to the vegetable garden on the right, thinking of digging some earthworms to feed the birds. However, it was winter and earthworms were hard to catch, so he came back empty-handed. He had to feed the birds some rice, so it seemed that they would not starve to death.

After dinner, the scholar took the charcoal from the stove and put it in a jar. He covered the charcoal with a layer of ash and then put a layer of grid on the top of the jar. A charcoal basin was ready.

The charcoal basin was moved to the room on the left. This should be the scholar's study. There was a desk with a few books piled on it. There were two wooden boxes with open lids in the corner, which also contained some books.

After the bird's nest was dried, the four birds were moved into the nest along with the cloth towel. The bird's nest was also brought into the study and placed not far from the charcoal brazier.

Four Birds: "It looks like we can survive this winter..."

A scholar’s ​​daily life is simple: get up, eat, read, eat, read, and sleep.

The four birds also had very few hairs, but now they had grown fluffy feathers. The scholar laughed at them and said, "Are you guys chickens that have strayed into a bird's nest?"

Four fluffy yellow birds opened their mouths and started chirping.

Jin Can: "You are the chicken, your whole family are chickens."

Wang Le: "Master, I'm hungry."

Lin Huaijin: "Brother, he's gone too far. He's the chicken."

Lin Qing: “…”

Ever since he turned into a bird, Lin Qing has become introverted. He doesn't want to make any chirping sounds at all.

Lin Huaijin: "Brother, stick with me."

One bird hooked its neck and rubbed against the other bird.

The other bird stood steadily, and the young bird's face was full of heaviness.

My younger brother’s brain is still not well. Even after he turned into a bird, he still likes to stick to birds. What should I do?

The scholar ignored them, not knowing what these little birds were so excited about.

The four who were mistakenly excited: "......"

Lin Huaijin Bird: "Brother, I will comb your hair."

Lin Qingniao: ...

No need, I just combed my hair this morning.

Lin Qing did not make a sound, but just raised his short wings and held down the bird's head that Lin Huaijin was leaning towards. He couldn't help but want to support his forehead with his other wing, but this posture was too strange for a bird, so Lin Qing held back.

Lin Huaijin simply buried his bird head under his wings, and fell asleep while burying it.

Time flies by.

A few days later, the scholar brought back a stiff snake from outside. The snake was only as thick as a little finger and as stiff as a branch.

The scholar roasted the snake and it slowly came back to life.

This snake is very cunning. After it came to life, it hid in the scholar's sleeves every day. Although you are a snake and you are afraid of the cold in winter, you are too afraid of the cold.

Snakes and birds should be natural enemies. The thin snakes would come over from time to time to provoke the little birds. The little birds' beaks had grown hard, so they would peck at the snakes if they dared to come over. The scholar had to mediate between the two sides every day.

Golden Bird: "Isn't this the story of the farmer and the snake?"

Wang Le: "So the snake is going to eat the scholar's heart?"

Lin Huaijin: "You are stupid, in this cold winter, if you bite the scholar to death, the snake will not survive."

Lin Qing:......

A thin snake swam over and flicked its tail at them. The four birds pecked at each other and grabbed the snake's tail to warn it not to bite.

The thin snake flicked its tail and said, "Huh, stupid bird."

The scholar once again separated the two fighting parties.

The days passed like this.

As spring days get warmer, the ice and snow melt.

The vegetable garden in the scholar's yard was replanted with lush green vegetables, and the bird's nest was put back on the tree branch.

The scholar suggested that they should be left on the branch in order to prevent the mother bird from finding the little birds when she returns.

After several months of development, the four birds have grown gray-brown feathers. They are four little sparrows, not even as big as the scholar's fist. Maybe all four of them together are as big as the scholar's fist.

In the spring, it is easy to dig up earthworms in the vegetable garden and feed them to a few birds.

Four birds: Don’t come over here!

A few birds refused to open their mouths and continued to eat rice in a casual manner.

Later they could fly, eat the fruits from the trees and the scholar's rice.

They are in a state of half domestication and half release.

The thin snake was completely domesticated and it depended on the scholar.

The scholar also planned to release the snake in the spring. He took the snake to the woods, but the little snake refused to leave.

It has been there from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, and now it is winter again. Now it is crawling around in the scholar's sleeves with a clear conscience.

The scholar carried it with him at home and when he went out.

Once, the thin snake followed the scholar out and was discovered. It was almost caught and made into snake soup. In order to protect the thin snake, the scholar was beaten half to death and came back limping.

The thin snake was nestling in the scholar's arms, dying.

The three birds followed the instructions of Lin Huaijin's bird and brought back some herbal remedies that were effective in treating the disease.

The scholar touched the bird's head and smiled happily.

The time afterwards seemed to speed up, and I quickly reached the end.

The thin snake gradually fell in love with the scholar. She found an opportunity to transform into a human, and the scholar named her Xueyan.

The smoke from cooking fires in the snow reminds people to go home.

Xueyan and the scholar add fragrance to their family and manage their household frugally.

It turned out that Xueyan was seriously injured in a fight with her natural enemy and turned back into a little snake. She was frozen in the snow and was picked up by the scholar and brought home.

A year later, Xueyan's injuries had fully recovered and she was found by her tribesmen.

The natural enemy was growing stronger day by day, while the snake women's clan, without Xueyan, a giant snake that had cultivated for thousands of years, was much weaker than before and was being beaten back step by step.

After much deliberation, Xueyan decided to go home and beat her mortal enemy's family half to death before coming back. She couldn't just watch her family be destroyed.

But she didn't expect that the fight would draw her into the Qiankun Mirror of her natural enemy. The flow rate in the Qiankun Mirror was controlled by her natural enemy at a different rate. She fought in it for ten days and killed the strongest bird of her natural enemy's family, but ten years had passed when she came out.

Ten years have passed in a flash, and everything and everyone has changed.

The scholar looked everywhere for her but couldn't find her. When he passed by the mountain, he was caught in a mudslide and was buried.

When she came back ten years later, she dug up the scholar's body.

She built a village on the mountain and captured men to take their essence in the hope of restoring the scholar's life.

The scholar survived the mudslide with the help of the magic weapon she gave him before she left, but no one responded and no one knew that there was a scholar buried here, so he starved to death underground.

Thanks to the magic weapon, his body did not rot after his death and was dug out by Sister Yan who came back ten years later.