Chapter 32 Tengu

I took the train all day and arrived at my uncle's house in the evening. Just as I sat down, a girl handed me a cup of tea.Because I was so thirsty, I took the teacup without thinking, and drank it all in one gulp. When I put down the teacup, the girl was gone.I was a little surprised, how could she run so fast? At this moment, I heard a voice say: "Are you going tonight?" "No, don't go, either! If we go tonight, we won't be able to come back." "It's fine if we don't come back, we'll go to heaven with Tengu." "How can we do that? We are going to heaven, Lingling is so sad." Lingling is my cousin's name.

"It doesn't matter, Lingling misses us, so she asks Tengu to carry us back." "That's right, let Tengu teach us to travel through time and space!" Hearing this inexplicable conversation, I felt very strange in my heart, but there was no one around, and there were only two little dogs wandering outside the door: a little white dog and a little yellow dog.Are they talking?Heck, how can I understand a dog?The cup of tea just now tasted a bit strange...but I didn't have to think about it, my aunt had already picked up my luggage and took me to the room upstairs to settle down.

At this time, the sky was completely dark. With the light of the room, I saw the lush rain orchids planted on the balcony, small blue and white orchids, one, two, three...the breeze blows, they are soft The ground is swaying, very beautiful. After dinner, my uncle told me about my mother— "In the past, your mother was a very hardworking girl in the village. At that time, the town had not yet been built, and the surrounding area was full of farmland. Our family's entire four acres of sugarcane field was taken care of by your mother alone..." Looking out of the window, I miss my mother very much—she is still lying in the hospital in this small town, and I want to see her soon.

"Tomorrow, get a good night's sleep, and we'll go see her together tomorrow morning." I don't know the reason, maybe because I missed my mother so much, after the exhausting journey, I tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep, and the deeper the night, the more I couldn't fall asleep.I took a novel out of my schoolbag and read to the last line, still sleepless. I closed the book, pushed open the door and walked out onto the balcony. "Hello." "You are here." Many thin and gentle voices said to me. I looked down, and it was Fengyulan who was talking to me!They left the branches together and flew up, like a group of beautiful butterflies, one, two, three... They landed on my arms densely, and my hands became a pair of blue and white. wing.

"Come with us, the little fairy is waiting for you." I couldn't help but spread my wings, and I flew up all of a sudden! The feeling of flying is amazing, I can only hear the wind laughing in my ears: "Hehe, this is your first time flying, and you are flying well!" Even the wind can understand what the wind said!My heart was pounding, excited and scared. I flapped my wings vigorously, flew higher and higher, and flew towards the moon.Looking up at the sky, there is a bright moon hanging high in the sky, and the galaxy is shining -- what a beautiful night sky!I remember the night when I was a child, also at my uncle’s house, my grandma took my hand to watch the stars by the small river, the night sky was like this: clear, deep, bright...but that was many years ago, since this land was built There are dense factories, and the factories erect dense chimneys. I haven't seen such a beautiful starry sky for many years-in the past two years, I can't even see the stars.

There is a little fairy standing on the moon, with curved eyebrows and big eyes, isn't she the little girl who poured tea for me in the evening?After drinking her tea, I can understand the words of the puppy, the words of the rain orchid, and the words of the wind... "Baby, you must help me." The little fairy stretched out her right hand and pulled me into the moon. "You mean, I can help you?..." "You must help me rescue the tengu. For ten years, my tengu has been locked in the concrete underground. Every night, I hear it whimpering and crying..." the little fairy said, crying sadly up.

It turns out that just like human children keep their own pets, every fairy in the sky keeps a tengu.When tengus are hungry, they will eat the sun, the moon, and the stars - they will sleep when they are full, and they will sleep for a long time every time - sometimes they sleep for half a month, sometimes they sleep for several years - they are very sleepy At that time, the Tengu slept for thousands of years. The little fairy's tengu is very naughty. It likes to go to the farmland to steal food. Ten years ago, it went to the sugarcane forest to steal sugar cane, and fell asleep in the sugarcane forest when it was full.While it was sleeping soundly, human bulldozers came, the sugarcane forest was pushed down, the farmland became a factory, and the village became a town... The sleeping tengu was buried deep underground, and when it woke up, the hard With the concrete forest pressing down on it, the Tengu couldn't turn over, couldn't even breathe, let alone return to the sky...

"You must help me rescue it!" "I'd love to help..." "We will go back to ten years ago later, we go to the sugarcane forest, as long as we can find the talking sugarcane, things will be easy - the talking sugarcane will tell you where the tengu is, after we find the tengu, Just pick it up and it'll wake up." "There are so many sugarcanes in the sugarcane forest, but only one can talk?" "Yes, there is only one talking sugarcane in a sugarcane forest." "So, what is it about?" "It looks like any other sugar cane - it's just a matter of luck to find it - and you can understand all languages ​​after drinking my tea of ​​interpretation. If the talking sugar cane talks to you, we can Find it; if it doesn't speak, there's no way."

"Do you think--does it speak to me?" "Of course, you are Wang Xiuxiu's child! That's why I asked you to help—every sugarcane in that sugarcane forest was planted by your mother, and now your mother is lying in the hospital ——Those sugar canes miss her very much, and when they see you, they will definitely greet your mother.” The little fairy turned the compass of time, and the time quickly went backwards, and the buildings in the town decreased one by one, and the small town gradually returned to fields and villages—what kind fields and villages!The compass stopped, and under the moonlight, a long bluestone alley appeared.On both sides of the Qingshi alley are two rows of low mud brick houses, each small window reveals soft candlelight.I recognized it, this is my grandmother's village!I grew up in this village!I walked forward slowly and stopped beside my grandmother's small house. I stood on tiptoes and looked in through the window. A child was lying on a wooden bed and fell asleep—ah, isn't that me when I was a child?Grandma was sitting next to me, shaking the sunflower fan to drive away mosquitoes for me.

"Wow, woof, woof..." "Wait for us!" There were two puppies coming up from behind, and I looked back: a little white dog, a little yellow dog - aren't they the two puppies Lingling raised? "Hurry up! First we need to find the talking sugarcane." The little fairy pulled me forward. We ran and ran until we reached the end of Qingshi Alley.At the end of Qingshi Alley, there is an endless sugarcane forest—this is the sugarcane forest in my childhood, the sugarcane forest planted by my mother! I remembered the past of my childhood. At that time, my mother always said: "The plants growing in the land are spiritual, like these sugar canes, I can hear them talking softly from time to time."

I thought to myself, what sugarcane said must be sweet.I was in my mother's arms, I just looked up at my mother, and I didn't tell her what was in my heart. Mother said: "The land with plants is the land with life. The earth is like a mother. These big trees, grass, sugar cane, and vegetables are all her children." Ah, Dadi has raised so many children, it must be very annoying, my mother only has one child, and she often says I am annoying.I was in my mother's arms, looking at her with a smile, but still didn't tell her what was in my heart. Ten years ago, people built a modern town on this land. My grandmother moved the family to a tall building like a matchbox, and my mother took me to the city.Since then, I have rarely returned.Grandma's house without sugarcane forest is no longer my paradise... Don't let me think too much, the little fairy has already pulled me into the sugarcane forest.The two puppies in the back followed us closely, they were excited and whispering non-stop. "Stop arguing! If you keep arguing, I will drive you back!" The little fairy turned her head with her teeth clenched, and yelled at the two puppies.I really didn't expect that the gentle-looking little fairy would lose such a big temper. We walked all the way on the ridge of the sugarcane forest, and the surroundings were quiet, only hearing the small stars laughing softly in the sky, like the breeze blowing many small bells. "Ah, baby, you've grown so tall." Sure enough, a sugarcane tree spoke to me! "I heard that your mother is sick. When you go back later, take me to her. If you eat the talking sugar cane, her illness will be cured." "Talking sugar cane, thank you very much. Do you know where the little fairy's tengu is?" "Are you talking about that gluttonous tengu? At that time, it ate ten sugar canes. No, it's sleeping on the ridge over there." Sure enough, a black puppy was fast asleep on the field ridge. Lingling's two puppies rushed over quickly and yelled "Wow, woof" at the tengu. "Wake up, wake up!" "We're here to save you!" But the Tengu fell asleep too deeply, and didn't respond at all. "Such a little dog can eat ten sugar canes, and his appetite is too big!" I bent down and picked him up, "Greedy cat, it's time to wake up!" "What are ten sugar canes? Huh, I can still eat the sun!" Tengu boasted in his sleep.After saying this, it opened its eyes, and when it saw me, it gritted its teeth and growled: "You are not allowed to call me a gluttonous cat anymore, I am a dog! Tengu, do you know?" He really deserves to be the little fairy's dog with such a temper! I handed it to the little fairy: "Goodbye, little fairy! I have to go back to sleep. I will get up early tomorrow to visit my mother." "You helped me, thank you so much!" The little fairy blinked and thought for a while, "However, you can't go back now." "Ah? If you can't go back, what can I do! My mother is still in the hospital." I jumped up anxiously. "At night, my compass can only turn back time to the past, but not to the future. We can't go back until after noon tomorrow." The little fairy said worriedly.Apparently, she never thought of me! "You are a selfish little fairy! Mother will be so worried and sad that she won't see me tomorrow morning!" I stomped vigorously in the sugarcane field, making a hole in the mud. "We can't let Xiuxiu worry and feel sad! How kind she is to us!" said the talking sugar cane. "Don't worry, I'll carry you back - take this talking sugarcane with you! Your mother will definitely recover after eating this sugarcane!" Tengu said to the little fairy proudly, "I'm free now ! Just give me a pair of wings, and I can travel through time and space like before." Although this tengu has a bad temper, he has a good heart. "Sure! Good!" All the Rain Orchids clapped their hands.They flew up from my arm like little butterflies, flew up, and landed on the back of the tengu one after another, and a pair of blue and white wings grew out of the back of the tengu.I hugged the beautiful sugar cane tree and leaned on the small back of Tengu, only hearing the wind whistling in my ears. After a while, we traveled through ten years of time and space and returned to the balcony of my uncle's house.At this time, the eastern sky has turned slightly white. I came to my mother's bed with fresh sugar cane.How haggard my mother looks!As soon as she saw the sugarcane in my hand, a strange gleam appeared in her eyes: "My dear baby, you understand my mother's mind too well! You know that I like sugarcane best——Last night, I dreamed of the sugarcane forest in the past again Yes. In the past, we had such a large sugarcane forest, so big and boundless..." Mom took the sugar cane and ate it contentedly. "Goodbye!" Tengu leaned out of the window and waved goodbye to me, "From now on, I will often run into your dreams to play."