I accompanied the flowers that year

As soon as we entered the door, we came to the bird exhibition area, red-crowned cranes, parrots, white cranes..., there are all kinds of things that have been seen or not. For people like me who have never been to the zoo, there are many kinds. I'm fine, and I'm not very interested in these things, but Xiao Yu seems to be very interested.

When he walked to the flamingo bird exhibition area, Xiao Yu didn't move, and looked at the leisurely flamingo in the water without blinking, "Fire-flamingo." Xiao Yu stared at the sign and read word by word , and then he tugged at the corner of my clothes: "Di, can flamingos breathe fire?"

"No." I stroked Xiao Yu's hair, "It got its name from the fiery red color of its body."

"Oh," Xiaoyu nodded, and asked again: "Then, can it fly?"

"Yes, but I have to run for a while before flying." I remember that.

"approach?"

"Smart, that's a good word."

Xiaoyu may feel that she has been praised, and she is very happy. At that moment, I feel that the sun is overflowing in front of me. I want to leave this warm light, but I am afraid that my impulse will bring damage , I want to keep him carefully in my life.

Xiao Yu was looking forward to seeing it fly, but from the beginning to the end, the bird just moved slowly on the water leisurely.

Xiaoyu seemed a little disappointed, but the birds didn't listen to me, I really couldn't help in this regard, in fact, I also wanted to throw a stone or something, the birds would definitely run when they were frightened, but in the end it didn't happen Do it, morality prevails.

Next to the birds is the Snake Exhibition. Xiaoyu is afraid of snakes. I didn’t know that Xiaoyu’s fear of snakes had reached such a level. She hadn’t walked a few steps inside, so she insisted on going out. Other children Some even put their hands on the glass and knocked, trying to wake up the lifeless giant python, but Xiao Yu hid far away, his face turned blue, and he refused to take a step forward.

"Xiaoyu, come here, it won't be able to bite you inside." I touched the glass, wanting to appease Xiaoyu, maybe let him touch it and he would know, I just grabbed Xiaoyu's hand and wanted him to touch the glass, Xiao Yu's eyes immediately began to fill with tears, I panicked for a moment, quickly let go of Xiao Yu's hand, and comforted softly: "Okay, okay, Xiao Yu, be good, let's go out, shall we?"

"Hmm." There was a trace of sobbing in Xiao Yu's voice.

I found out later that Xiao Yu was bitten by a snake when she was a child, which almost took her life.

I had no choice but to take him out, a child is a child, after a while, Xiao Yu regained her spirits, and began to ask this and that, as if the person who was about to cry just now was not me, I know that Xiao Yu’s family is poor, even watching TV My classmates watched it, but they didn’t know much about it. In addition, Xiaoyu’s innocent and cute appearance made me enjoy the process of explaining to him very much.

"Di, I've touched it." Xiaoyu fed the giraffe with his left hand, touched the giraffe's head with his right hand, and shouted at me excitedly.

"Yeah, run slowly, be careful not to trip."

"It's okay, it's okay." Xiaoyu ran away again after speaking, and I had to speed up my pace to keep up with him.

"Di, big tiger!"

Sure enough, it was a tiger. As Xiao Yu got closer and closer, I wondered why I was not afraid of tigers, but afraid of snakes, as if I was not afraid of tyrannosaurs but velociraptors. Maybe my metaphor is not appropriate, but that's what it means. .

Not to mention Xiaoyu, even I saw a tiger for the first time. When he was resting there, he looked like a cat under a magnifying glass.

Xiao Yu also asked me why the gaps between the cages were so small, and he couldn’t feed the tigers because they were so far apart. This sentence shocked me. He had plans to feed the tigers. Fortunately, the zoo Be considerate, otherwise, if I don't pay attention, Xiaoyu's arm will be gone, and even this little life.

"If you get close, it may hurt someone. What if you bite someone? Right?"

Xiao Yu shook her head, "If I don't hurt him, it won't bite me."

"It doesn't know, it can't understand what you say."

Xiao Yu thought for a while, and asked, "Di, how about we raise a big tiger?"

This sentence made me dumbfounded, don't you want this life anymore, when the time comes, both of us will become tiger's rations.

Xiaoyu looked at me eagerly, as if waiting for my decision. I am not in charge of this matter, but I thought of a way, "Well, I can't raise it now. When you become an adult, if you want to raise it, let's How about raising just one?"

"Uh-huh."

Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief. The child's brain world is full of variety and strange things. Although he wanted to see the big tiger very much before, when a bunch of weird things appeared in front of him, Xiao Yu was distracted.

The big tiger still couldn't keep Xiao Yu completely, and after a while, Xiao Yu ran away again.

I didn't reprimand my children not to run around like other parents, because I know that if I reprimand, Xiaoyu will be obedient, but I want to continue Xiaoyu's happy appearance today, and I hope Xiaoyu can be like this forever, so I have to follow Him, keep him out of my sight.

"Di, there are two ducks in the river."

When I approached, Xiao Yu pointed to a place a little further away for me to see.

I laughed out loud, "That's not a duck, it's a mandarin duck."

Xiao Yu suddenly realized, "Mandarin duck? Is it the one that is inseparable as mentioned in the book?"

"That's right, that's called never leaving, never giving up, mandarin ducks are flying, Bi Zhiluo Zhi, a gentleman for thousands of years, Fulu Yizhi."

"What do you mean?" Xiaoyu asked me confused.

I hugged Xiao Yu so that he could see further.

"Let me tell you about the legend of mandarin ducks, okay?"

"Okay."

"It turns out that there was a man named Han Ping in the Song Dynasty, who was very knowledgeable. He was dissatisfied with his empty ambitions and mediocrity, and wanted to go out to realize his ideals. When he left home, he said to his wife that if the king of Song asked me to be an official, I will send someone to pick you up immediately, if not, then I will still come back to farm. After half a year passed, the wife had no news of her husband, so she packed her bags and went looking for her husband. It turned out that Han Pingzhen was an official. It's just that King Song handed over all his affairs to Han Ping, but instead spent his days and nights, Han Ping didn't even have time to rest, let alone write letters to his wife. When his wife came to look for him, Just happened to meet King Song, who was greedy for beauty and fell in love with her at a glance. Although he later found out that she was Han Ping's wife, he still refused to let go. Wearing shackles, he went to build Qingling Terrace 25 miles northwest of Song City. Han Ping's wife couldn't bear to let her husband be humiliated, so she agreed to King Song's request. When King Song was happy, the wife said: "I promise you, But you have to promise me three things. First, I will see my husband before I marry you. Second, you will not abuse my husband from now on. Third, you will not be allowed to choose beautiful women to enter the palace again.' King Song was very happy He agreed. When the emaciated husband met his wife, the wife expressed her sincerity and said the three things King Song had promised, so that her husband could live a good life from now on. After speaking, she threw herself into the river. The husband Unable to bear his wife's departure, he threw himself into the river with his wife. King Song was very angry and ordered people to go down to salvage, but nothing was found. Later, two acacia trees grew on the place where Han Ping and his wife threw themselves into the river. The branches of the tree are connected and the leaves are facing each other. The king of Song ordered to cut down the tree, and with the sound of the ax falling, two mandarin ducks flew out of the tree. Later, it was said that mandarin ducks meant the steadfast love for each other and a kind of good blessing.”

After I finished speaking, Xiaoyu didn't speak for a long time. His expression similar to thinking made me think he was still reminiscing about this story. Who knew that he asked me such a question: "Die, you will also find me in the future. Personally, have you been living? Like a mandarin duck?"