Parrot Aoi and Raven Ado

On the second day, Du once again came to the Shannan raven group, and this time all the ravens began to look at it with something more, with fear, scrutiny, appreciation, and vigilance.

Even the well-informed Xuan couldn't help shaking his head and smiling wryly when he saw it. There was no way that Du performed so well that none of the freshmen in the group passed the graduation exam yesterday. of.

After Dufei left yesterday, no matter whether it was the big raven or the little raven left in the field, they were a little at a loss. Fortunately, Xuan reacted quickly and immediately decided to change the examination method.

In the end, those young ravens who are about to grow up will fight against each other. The one who wins will graduate directly, and the one who loses will prepare for a make-up exam.

Under such conditions, finally half of the little ravens successfully graduated, and the graduation exam of the raven school did not become a joke.

However, as the news that Du defeated the crows with one against seven yesterday spread within the group, the birds in the flock became much more interested in Du.

Especially those female ravens who are about the same age, single and have no partner, are eager to move.

On the way to fly in, there are no fewer than eight or nine female ravens that Du Mingli secretly met, who winked, blocked the way to express their thoughts, and chose a good position to sing tactfully.

This is still a direct expression of personality, those who are a little shy and reserved, choose to observe secretly, it is even more difficult to count how many there are.

Xuan is happy to see the success of this. It definitely hopes that such an excellent young raven can stay in the clan, gain the trust of the clansmen, and then lead everyone to help and share the burden together.

You must know that their ravens have a bad reputation in the bird world, but that is only limited to their character and temper. The loyalty of their ravens to their partners is one of the best in the bird world.

Those mandarin ducks and swans are nothing compared to them. Ravens are nothing if they don’t have a partner. If they have a partner, they will only have one pair for a lifetime. That one will also choose to follow, or be single forever, and will never make the next choice.

It is precisely because of this habit that ravens will be cautious when choosing a life partner, and the clan will smoothly accept those foreign ravens that enter the group as partners, because everyone knows that This is a choice that remains constant for life.

But what worries Xuan more is that from entering the territory to study until now, Du has not shown any interest in any female raven in the group.

Today, Du Geng seemed to turn a blind eye to the overtures of many opposite sexes, which made the healthy and beautiful girls in the group neglected, and even made the boys' teeth itch with hatred.

However, Xuan can tell that the child Du is definitely not pretending, it really doesn't have any feelings for the females in the group, because there will be no such bird, and when it sees the bird it likes, its eyes will be flat , like seeing a pile of stones or weeds.

Even if he is eager for love, Xuan feels that it is better to explain some things clearly.

So today, when Du came under the big cedar tree again, after Xuan encouraged it for its outstanding performance yesterday, he asked directly, "A'Du, will you join our clan in the future?"

Du Wenyan tilted his head, and answered very simply without even thinking about it: "No, I want to go home."

Invitation and rejection are so simple and straightforward.

Although Xuan and Du didn't seem to say anything useful, but for the smart Raven, there are some things that don't need to be explained too clearly.

Du could understand the meaning of the old Raven's question, and Xuan could also understand the meaning of Du's answer. Although he had vaguely known that there would be such a result, Xuan still felt it was a pity.

Hey, I can't keep it, I still can't keep it.

Sighing silently in his heart, Xuan was silent for a while and finally said: "Since this is the case, you don't have to come here again. This year's little ravens have all graduated, and the big ravens have to do their best to prepare for the winter. The schools in the group will not be here this year. There will be another class, and even if it is, we have nothing to teach you."

The winter is approaching, in order to guard against attacks that will come from nowhere at any time, the nerves of all the birds in the group are now tense.

In the words of the human side, the flock of birds has now entered the state of warrior alert, and it is indeed not suitable for this foreign bird to come here.

But Xuan was still afraid that what he said was not euphemistic enough and would hurt Du's heart, so he immediately added: "Although you have left, you are still my student. If you have any questions, you can come to me."

Du instantly understood Xuan's meaning, bowed his head respectfully to the other party and said: "Thank you very much for your careful teaching these days, if you have any orders in the future, you can come to me, as long as you can help me , will never refuse."

What Du said was sincere. As the bird in question, no bird knew better than him what these three months meant to him.

From here, he spent his second year of middle school, successfully completed the transformation from a teenager to a young man, learned some of the most important courses for Raven, and learned more truths and human feelings.

It can be said that if there is no study for more than three months, Du may really be like Xuan said, he can only be a big baby bear in his life, and he will be complacent while acting recklessly.

Aoi said that to be a bird, you must know how to repay it, and Du also thinks so, so for the teacher it recognizes, Du's promise is valid for a lifetime.

Saying goodbye to Xuan Feili's group of ravens, but Du didn't go home directly, it adjusted its direction and flew towards the inner side of Shannan.

Flying over the meadow where edelweiss originally grew but was now dry, Du adjusted his direction again and flew towards the east.

At the junction of the south of the mountain and the north of the mountain, there is a deep canyon, and the goal of crossing is here.

Overlooking the canyon from above the high school, I saw that the canyon was shrouded in dense mist, and the humidity in the air was much higher here. The thick and waterproof flight feathers really feel a little too much.

After hovering in the sky for a few seconds to make sure it was safe, Du began to retract his wings and land quickly.

It crossed the fog-surrounded canyon like an arrow, and after a few hundred meters of rapid descent, the canyon finally showed its true face in front of Du.

Different from the state of withering and sleeping in the early winter outside the valley, you can still see green grass and hear insects in this valley.

From Du's perception, the temperature in the valley is at least ten degrees higher than that outside the valley, and the mountains here are high and the valleys are thin, and the location is horizontal and vertical, which prevents the north wind from outside the valley from blowing in at all.

If there is no cold wind blowing in, the temperature will drop naturally. However, this is not the main reason why the valley can still see spring in the cold winter. creek.

The source of that creek is a high-temperature deep well hot spring. Among all the hot springs in Simu Mountain, the temperature of that place can definitely rank among the top three.

The hot water from that hot spring is the source of the dense and persistent clouds above the valley, and the stream flowing out of it can maintain a temperature of [-] to [-] degrees until it flows out of the valley.

This is equivalent to installing a pure natural water heating system in the valley, so that the temperature in the valley can be kept above zero even in the coldest winter.

This ensures that some plants in the valley can survive the winter smoothly.

And the most representative ones are those wild plum blossoms that grow on the cliffs, side and bottom of the valley and beside the news of the hot springs.

Those plum blossoms are all wild, and I don't know when they took root here.

Because of the problem of growth height, every year from early winter to early spring, there will be clusters of bright plum blossoms blooming all over the branches.

When Du flew over, it was the moment when the wild plum blossoms on the cliff began to bud. There were pink buds the size of fingernails hanging on the straight gray branches, and they swayed slightly in the wind. Lively and naughty.

Du chose a branch with the most flower buds among them, and after it fell, he used his jaws to pluck it carefully and laboriously.

It is really laborious, although the strength of crossing is very strong, but the beak of the raven is not suitable for crushing things, and the branches of wild plum blossoms are very strong, so crossing does not want to hurt the delicate flower buds on the branches , so it can only be grinded down a little bit with water like a saw pulling a tree.

Finally, after more than ten minutes, it successfully broke off the plum branch that was only as thick as a human's little finger, excitedly holding its prize in its mouth, and quickly flew towards home.

In the lobby of the Hayakawa family's hot spring hotel, everyone was surprised when they saw the plum branches brought back by Du.

In such a cold weather, you can still see unopened plum blossoms. The most important thing is not in a flower shop, but brought back by a bird. No matter how you think about it, it feels amazing.

Under the surprised eyes of a group of people, Du came to Kui with plum blossoms in his mouth, stretched out his neck and handed them over, saying, "Here you are."

"Wow, it's so elegant to see birds giving plum blossoms to each other here. If there is a light snowfall outside at this time, the artistic conception will be even more beautiful."

As if to realize the elegant artistic conception in her mouth, the already gloomy sky began to float up sporadically at this time, causing everyone to praise again and again.

Aoi slowly borne the plum branch from Du's mouth, and it didn't know why it felt a little shy.

Begging the front desk lady to add some water to her empty metal cup, Aoi inserted the plum blossom into it herself.

Carefully adjusting the angle, and finally inserted a look she was satisfied with, Aoi excitedly called Du to come over, and the two birds stood side by side on the bird stand to admire the plum blossoms.

The first snow falls outside the window, and the red plums are blooming inside the window. No matter how noisy it is outside, this corner belonging to the birds is always quiet and peaceful.

The birds admired side by side, getting closer and closer at some point, and finally snuggled up to each other.