Make home in the bird's nest

The sky is dim, the birds return to their nests, and the mountains and forests return to silence.

Stone and Wu Li lay side by side in the grass nest, and the darkness made the tree hole more and more quiet.

Shi Shi didn't dare to fumble with Wu Li anymore, and said, "I saw a bird on the opposite side."

"En." Wu Li replied in a deep voice.

Stone: "How many big birds are there in that tree hole?"

Wu Li said: "One."

"Oh. Then it's very lucky. It incubates eggs every day, so how can it eat?" Shito sighed and said, "I would give him some if I knew we couldn't finish it."

Wu Li's face turned cold, and he snorted coldly: "Do you like giving food to birds that much?"

"No, it's just a way to help." Shito whispered, and lowered his head while lying in the nest.Did he say something wrong again?Why blame him for liking to give food to birds?He just gave some food to be braised in brown sauce, and then it was given to him. Could it be that giving food is of great significance to Wu Mengniao?It seems that we have to pay attention to this in the future.

Wu Li's face softened slightly, and he tightly held Shi Shi's hand beside him.

Stone moved his hands, and his palms became hot.Holding his hand was warm, like his belly full of soft fluff in the shape of a bird, warming his entire arm.

The atmosphere was strange, and Shitou was a little uncomfortable, so he continued the topic just now: "Is that big bird a male and a female? Is it a female? I see chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep are all females with cubs."

Wu Li said: "Male. If the black raptors have separated after laying eggs, they are usually male hatching eggs." Wu Li looked at the stone while talking, and then narrowed his eyes.

"Oh?" Shitou wondered, "There are such things! Then how do you know if the mother bird has eggs?" Shitou couldn't see Wuli's face at all, but only saw Wuli's faintly bright eyes, which were a little scary, so he Turned away.

Wu Li said: "Some will live together for a year, and then leave after laying eggs. If they are separated after mating, the female will find the male after laying eggs and give them the eggs, and rarely incubate the eggs by herself."

"Oh, it's so lonely." Stone whispered.

Wu Li smiled slightly when he heard Shi Shi's words, put his hand on his chest, and said with a smile: "There are also people like us who will live together forever and raise their offspring together."

"Ah! Oh." Shitou was taken aback, then his heart beat wildly, and he couldn't stop his secret joy.

The stone shrank into the quilt, and the part below the nose was buried in the quilt, and a muffled voice came out from the thin quilt: "We... will live together forever."

Wu Li squeezed Shi Shi's hand tightly, and said in a low voice, "Don't you want to?" Wu Li's voice suddenly became sullen, and his eyes were dangerous.

Is this weak and stupid stone planning to leave after laying eggs?Want to find the opposite bird?He also said that he would give the bird food. If he had known about it, he would have chosen the thinner tree to build his nest.

The stone face soon became hot, and the mouth buried in the quilt muttered a few times, and under the pressure of the wrist being pinched more and more tightly, he whispered: "No, I also want...to be together forever. "

Wu Li suddenly turned negative, and loosened his hand a little, holding Shi Shi's hand on his chest.

Shitou buried his face in the quilt to steam the buns, and wanted to turn over when he was nervous, but he couldn't do it after pulling his hand several times.

Wu Li suddenly said: "Are you tired today?"

Shi Shi's heart beat faster the moment Wu Li uttered the first syllable. Hearing his whole words, he took a deep breath and replied naturally, "I'm not tired."

After a while, Wu Li gave a soft "oh".For some reason, Shi Shi felt a little disappointed in Wu Li's tone, perhaps because he was not satisfied with his answer.This is his illusion.

The next day, Stone boiled a pot of hot water, soaked all the animal hides, and then soaked them in lime worms and other things. It took a whole day to tan the animal hides, and then tied them to branches to dry.

It is the mid-autumn season, the night is cold and clear, and the sun is shining brightly during the day.The picked cotton is dry and fluffy after two days in the sun, and the cotton seeds make a crisp sound when bitten.

Stone had picked some cottonseeds the day before, and started playing the quilt with the cottonseeds.

The tool for playing the quilt is a special big bow with deer tendon as the string, which is full of toughness. It is a tool prepared by Shi Shi long ago.

He is good at carpentry, but playing cotton is a bit of a bad idea.The best master in the village can play two beds a day, and he can play one bed.

For the next few days, Shishi played cotton every day, and Wu Li sometimes came down to help pull the seeds out of the cotton, and when Shishi had enough cotton, he would fly to the branches and stand still.

Sometimes the stone looked up and saw the black spots on the tree, as if they were still, not moving at all, probably sleeping.

Shitou played cotton every day, and gradually learned some tricks, and his kung fu has improved.Originally, one quilt a day was a bit of a hardship, but after playing three quilts, it was easy, and I could finish work early in the afternoon.

Shito played a total of four quilts, and there was still a whole sack of cotton left, which was the cotton Shishi planned to use to make cotton clothes.

He used to be afraid of the cold, and his family was too poor. In order to save money, the family used old cotton wool to replay it. The quilts used by Mrs. Li's family for decades were naturally not very warm.Now that there is cotton, he will naturally be bulleted thickly.

Cover the stretched cotton wool with gauze, and then sew the gauze on the cotton wool stitch by stitch, and a bed of cotton wool is ready.

People who are more delicate will use dense cloth to sew another layer, those who are rich will use cotton cloth, and those who are more economical will use fine linen.Although it is just a layer of cloth, it is much warmer than the cloth without sewing.

Shi Shi also planned to do the same, but there was only cotton cloth at home, and it would be too wasteful to sew on the quilt, so he put away the two quilts used for sewing covers, and sewed it when he bought linen next time.

The remaining two beds and one mattress are in the nest, and the other bed is put in a quilt cover, making the nest even warmer.

As the weather got colder and colder, Shi Shi made two sets of animal skin clothes for himself, and made a cloak for Wu Li out of three pieces of black bear fur. The black bear fur can also slightly cover up Wu Li's feathers.

Shi Shi began to make cotton-padded clothes again. There was no fabric woven with thick cotton thread for making cotton-padded jackets, so he had to make the inner liner of the cotton-padded clothes first, and sewed the stretched cotton on the liner fabric that had been formed. We were able to finish padded clothes.

Time passed in the busyness of the stone, and more than a month passed.

It is late autumn and September, and the fruits in the mountains are fully ripe and begin to fall. Birds, squirrels and other animals in the forest frequently appear by the fruit trees.

Stone has been worried in recent days.He hasn't bled for the next six months, and even counting the bleeding when he was with Wu Li, there is no news for four months.

I really regret it, he shouldn't have impulsively taken a bath in the river, it must be because he caught too much cold that time.Granny Li said that if you catch a cold, you will feel uncomfortable.

There is another thing that worries Shi Shi. His appetite has been so good recently that he seems to have gained a lot of weight. The animal skin clothes he made a month ago can hardly fit.When making clothes, in order to wear them for an extra year, he specially made them one size bigger, but he didn't expect that he would be unable to wear them so soon.

At noon, Wuli came back from hunting and brought a few ripe pine cones.Stone ate one out of boredom, and his eyes immediately brightened.

The pine nuts are not bitter at all, and have a light plant fragrance, which tastes very good.It turns out that summer is bitter because it is not mature.

Shitou was immediately in high spirits, and after lunch, he took Wu Li to the fruit forest with a big cloth pocket.

Wu Li subconsciously looked at Shi Shi's tight abdomen, hesitated for a moment before saying: "Okay, you can find the fruit you like."

"Well, thank you." Shi Shi smiled and hugged Wu Li's neck, and his chubby belly was pressed against Wu Li's lower abdomen.

Ah, he has really gained a lot of weight, Wu Li must be able to feel his stomach.Wu Li also seemed to be a little taller, and he almost couldn't reach his neck when he lifted his feet.Why doesn't he grow taller?The light is long.

"Can't you be more careful?" Wu Li looked helplessly at his little friend, flew out of the tree hole, and supported his buttocks with his arms.

He's so careless even when he's full of eggs, he's still a child after all.

Shi Shi only thought that Wu Li felt that he was not hugging him tightly enough, and the whistling wind in his ears forced him to shout: "I'm very careful!" He hugged Wu Li even tighter.

The cold wind whistling in his ears made his cheeks hurt, so Shi Shi put his body weight on Wu Li's arms and put his hat on with one hand free.

Wu Li didn't say much, seeing that the stone was afraid of the wind, he slowed down and flew steadily into the fruit forest.