Friends for Life
In a big forest, there is an ancient river in which a group of crocodiles live. Old wood and Xiao Mu lived on the river bank. Lao Mu often told Xiao Mu that crocodiles in the river will eat people, so don't go near that river.
One day, a potbellied mother crocodile climbed onto the shore to lay eggs. It dug a pit with its feet, and then lay down on the pit to lay eggs.
After the crocodile mother lays her eggs, she buries all the eggs with dirt and then presses them on them. Xiao Mu is worried that crocodiles will crush their eggs. Old wood told him not to worry, the crocodile mother was keeping the crocodile eggs warm. Just like a hen incubating a chick, crocodile eggs need to be at a sufficient temperature to produce small crocodiles. Xiao Mu asked again, if the little crocodile is born, how can it come out? Old wood thought for a moment and said, "I heard my father tell me that after three months, if the little crocodiles are born, they will respond to each other and make a cry together." The crocodile mother dug up the soil and immediately put the little crocodile in her big mouth to protect it ... "
Xiao Mu began to fantasize about growing up with a little crocodile and getting along like good friends. Lao Mu didn't make fun of his son. After all, he was once young, and he dreamed of making friends with crocodiles before. However, he reminded Xiao Mu not to go near the crocodile in the river.
He said, because it is impossible for people to make friends with crocodiles.
This evening, mother crocodile was thirsty and went back to the river to drink water. As soon as it walked away, a Nile monitor lizard with a sharp mouth sneaked to the pit where the crocodile hatched. It digs up the soil with its long, hard, pointed mouth, which is naturally suitable for being a thief. So many crocodile eggs, what a sumptuous dinner! The Nile monitor lizard gulped down the delicious egg yolk. Xiao Mu saw the Nile monitor lizard eating crocodile eggs in the distance and shouted at it. He is so young that the Nile monitor doesn't care about him at all. It still enjoys its dinner.
Xiao Mu's shouts didn't scare off the Nile monitor lizard, but they caught the crocodile mother's attention. When it saw that the Nile monitor lizard was eating its unborn baby, it was furious and rushed to fight it like lightning. The Nile monitor lizard was so scared that it ran for its life and dropped the last crocodile egg it had just put in its mouth. This crocodile egg just rolled in front of Xiao Mu.
kind Xiao Mu takes this crocodile egg home. Lao Mu helped Xiao Mu bury the crocodile egg in the soil beside the kitchen fire at home, and Xiao Mu always kept an eye on it. Sometimes I sit on the soil and hatch eggs like a crocodile mother.
A month later, a cute little crocodile was born. Old wood gently put the crocodile in the basin and taught it to swim. Soon, the little guy got used to the cool water. He swam happily in the water and dived into it, and it took a long time to surface. However, Xiao Mu was worried again: "Dad, the little crocodile has not eaten for three days. What if he dies of hunger?" With that, my eyes turned red, and tears came out like two small springs. Lao Mu said, "Don't cry, it won't die of hunger. The baby crocodile doesn't need to eat for the first four months, and it can go to eat small fish in four months. Then we will catch the small fish and feed it. " Xiao Mu this just smile through tears.
The little crocodile is two years old, and still a tiny one. However, crocodiles can live to 8 years old and have a long life span, so their childhood is relatively long. They should keep eating, supplement nutrition, accumulate fat and gain muscle during this period. In order to make the little crocodile grow strong and healthy in the future, Laomu called many fresh fish to feed it. Every day, after eating, the little guy wriggles and swims hard. Because there is no personal guidance from crocodile father and crocodile mother, the little crocodile can only swim like a grass fish, not like a crocodile.
A few years have passed, and Xiao Mu has grown up. Old wood is old, his hair is as white as snow in winter, and when the wind blows, it is like a snowflake flying. The little crocodile has grown into a young man, sleeping in the pool in front of his house. He always likes to climb to the front of his house and stay with Laomu. Like a lovely and faithful dog, he puts his long mouth on Laomu's knee and lets Laomu help him catch the bugs in his skin. It feels so comfortable to itch. Old wood always slaps it gently on the mouth with a sneer: "You long-mouthed guy, only you will enjoy it."
The little crocodile is old enough, Lao Mu said. It's time to send it back to his home and reunite with his relatives. On this day, Mu put the little crocodile on the bank of the river and said to the little crocodile, "Go find your parents."
The little crocodile looked back at Xiao Mu and swam into the water reluctantly. However, crocodiles are not very friendly to this unknown new member, either giving it a dirty look or giving it a bad look.
After searching for several days, the little crocodile still can't find his relatives. He misses the meticulous care of his little master and his old master. The little crocodile decided to go back to the little master and the old master, who were his relatives.
As soon as the little crocodile landed, he met the Nile monitor lizard who came out looking for lunch. The Nile monitor lizard was so excited that it opened its mouth and pounced on the little crocodile, biting one of its left eyes blind in one bite. The little crocodile screamed and suddenly became bloody. Not far away, Xiao Mu happened to be carrying a load of firewood. He heard the screams of the little crocodile and ran to save it. Xiao Mu rushed to fight the Nile monitor with a firewood knife. The Nile monitor lizard pushed Xiao Mu to the ground and bit off a lump of meat on his face in one bite, tearing up his skin. Xiao Mu was almost fainted by a huge beating, and he vigorously waved a firewood knife and stabbed it into the belly of the Nile monitor lizard. The Nile monitor lizard quickly left the Xiao Mu crocodile to escape. Xiao Mu picked up the crocodile and walked home with difficulty step by step, with bright red blood flowing all the way, both his blood and the crocodile's blood. Back home, Xiao Mu said the first thing: "Dad, help the little crocodile ..." Then he fell down.
When Xiaomu woke up, Laomu was sitting on the bed and looking at him affectionately. Xiao Mu asked nervously, "Where is our little crocodile?" Xiao Mu looked down and saw the little crocodile, who was blind in one eye, looking at himself with one eye, gently opening his mouth and making a bit of noise, as if to say something to him. Xiao Mu said, "Are you all right?" Old wood said sadly, "His left eye is blind." Xiao Mu reached out a hand and gently touched its mouth, and said sadly, "I'm sorry I was late and you were hurt." The little crocodile looked at the big scar on the right face of the little master, and a line of tears quietly flowed out of his right eye. Old wood and Xiao Mu looked at its tears. For a long time, Lao Mu said to Xiao Mu, "Son, have you seen the little crocodile's tears? We are really friends with it. " Xiao Mu nodded and said to the little crocodile, "Yes, we are friends for life."
several years passed.
Lao Mu was seriously ill. After taking one last look at his son and little crocodile on a stormy night, he slowly closed his eyes. Xiao Mu is going over six mountains to the village beyond the mountain to go to his aunt. He can only send the little crocodile back to the river.
The little crocodile looked at the baggage on his master's back, and he knew that this time it was a real separation. Xiao Mu hugged the crocodile tightly and said, "You have grown up. You should learn to take care of yourself and face your new life bravely. I believe you, and you must be the best crocodile.". I have a request: we are friends for life. I won't forget you, and you can't forget me. Don't forget me. Many years later, if we meet again, you must recognize me. We are lifelong friends. You must promise me that you will look at my face and leave me in your mind forever, and you can't forget it until you die. "
The little crocodile stared deeply at his friend's face and impressed this face with a big scar in his mind.
After the little master left, the little crocodile went back to the water alone. As a child without his parents, he was naturally bullied by crocodiles. Anyone can look down on him and laugh at him at will. The little crocodile often hides in a corner, gritting his teeth and secretly saying to himself, "I can face all the hardships bravely, and I must be the best crocodile."
The little crocodile never gives up any chance to exercise courage and courage. He was born with a challenging spirit, always swimming around like a soldier, and deliberately wagging his tail to attract the attention of crocodiles and remind them to pay attention to its existence. The old crocodiles were very dissatisfied with it. They said, "Look, isn't that little guy too arrogant?" Thus, a great war inevitably began. The little crocodile bravely accepted the challenge of the leader. Two crocodiles launched an earth-shattering life-and-death struggle. The water waves rolled and thundered. They hit the river from the top to the bottom, from the bottom to the top, from the river to the bank, and from the bank to the river. The war for hegemony lasted for three days and nights. Finally, it ended in a fiasco in which the leader broke half a tail and a hand and was injured dozens of places. In this way, the little crocodile sat on the throne of the leader, and it became the youngest leader of this river since the crocodile.
after p>2 years, the little crocodile has become a middle-aged crocodile. Xiao Mu is also over 3 years old; He is a strong big man. His wife is an industrious girl in her aunt's village. She gave birth to two daughters and a son for Xiao Mu, all of whom are round and strong like the potatoes they planted in the field.
this spring, people in the village suddenly contracted a strange disease. Everyone who got sick died within five days. Because the wooden bridge was washed away by the flood 4 years ago, the only shallow river where they could get out of the mountain was guarded by crocodiles, so they could not get out of the mountain. If you can't find a doctor and have no medicine, as long as you get sick, you will die. Xiao Mu's wife and two daughters also died, and his son began to show signs. Xiao Mu decided to go out behind his son's back to seek medical treatment. When you get out of the mountain, you have to cross the river from the river where your father told him not to go near since he was a child. That's the only way.
Xiao Mu walked towards the river with his son on his back. Crocodiles who smell human flesh are all waiting with their mouths open. Xiaomu subconsciously looks at crocodiles in the river, trying to find out his friend Little Crocodile many years ago. But he couldn't find its shadow. Maybe dad is right. Animals are animals. Once they return to the river, they will return to their ferocious nature. It won't remember them any more. If it goes down to the river now, it may have opened its mouth and waited to eat his meat.
The little crocodile is actually in the river. Now, it doesn't recognize Xiao Mu. When it was fighting with the leader, its right ear was injured, its hearing was not very good, its one eye was scratched, and its vision decreased. But this does not affect it to become an excellent hunter. Now it is in the best position, waiting for the people on the shore to get into the river.
Xiao Mu tried to run back and forth on the shore several times, and finally decided that crossing the river was a matter of instant.
Before Xiao Mu started flying, he threw several packages of things that he had already prepared into the river, and all the crocodiles rushed to grab them. Xiao Mu took advantage of the crocodile's distraction and shot it like an arrow. Just when Xiao Mu was two steps away, the crocodile came out of the water on the other side like lightning, grabbed Xiao Mu's foot and dragged it into the water. Xiao Mu threw his son to the shore in a hurry, and his son threw the knife to him: "Dad, stab it in the eye with a knife." The son's words suddenly reminded Xiao Mu that when Xiao Mu raised his knife to stab the crocodile's eyes, it suddenly seemed as if he had been struck by electric shock, and the knife was fixed in front of the crocodile. Xiao Mu saw that the crocodile was blind in the left eye. Isn't this the little crocodile? Xiao Mu endured severe pain and gently called its name: "Little crocodile, little crocodile, is that you?"? My friend, is it really you? " Xiao Mu's call awakened the memory of the little crocodile that had been dusty for many years. The little crocodile saw the scar on Xiao Mu's face, and the memory suddenly dragged it back to the old parting time. Ah, it's him, it's him. My friend, he finally came back. The crocodile let go and spit out Xiao Mu's foot. Blood flowed out and dyed the river red. The relatives who had been waiting day and night finally came back, but they didn't expect to meet under their big teeth, and almost swallowed their friends who had given their lives to save themselves. The crocodile's heart ached like a knife.
The crocodile gently touched Xiao Mu's face with its long mouth, and a line of tears came out. Xiao Mu threw the knife away, holding the crocodile's face in his hands and saying with tears, "It's really you, my friend. You really didn't let me down. You became the boss here, didn't you? I'm so proud of you. I am middle-aged, and you are middle-aged. "
Crocodiles who have been waiting for a long time are staring at the scene in front of them. They don't understand. The boss not only doesn't eat this person, but also says something to this person, as if he is crying. Who has ever seen the boss shed a tear? He is the kind of tough guy who only bleeds and doesn't shed tears, but now he shed tears and leans his long mouth on that man's shoulder like a baby.
Xiao Mu went ashore, wrapped his feet with clothes and said loudly to the little crocodile, "Little crocodile, I will definitely come back to see you. You must wait for me. Just like we agreed before. " With that, Xiao Mu quickly ran out of the mountain with his son on his back.
The little crocodile slowly climbed onto the shore and looked at his friend in the far direction with deep affection. Go away, go away ..., their father and son disappeared in the green forest. There was once a parting, and it took more than 2 years to meet each other. However, it is a hasty parting to meet each other just now. When can we meet this time? One for more than 2 years or two for more than 2 years? Or I can't tell you for years! !
The little crocodile has been watching. It thinks it can live to be 8 years old. Now he is over 3 years old. We can wait for more than 4 years. More than 4 years, what a long time!
day after day, year after year. Forty years have passed, and the years have passed quietly like this flowing water in this forest.
On the bank of the river, there is an old one-eyed crocodile lying quietly in the middle of the path leading to the outside of the mountain, gazing at the other end of the path with ecstasy.
It has been seriously ill and dying. Life is like a dim light, which is shaken by the wind, and it goes out from time to time. It kept saying to itself, I can't close my eyes, even a little gently. I must keep my eyes open until my friend arrives. I promised him that I would wait until he came back. If he doesn't come back, I can't die ...
Finally one day, four people came from the other side of the path. Walking in the front is a white-haired old man with crutches, followed by a middle-aged man with a medicine box and a middle-aged woman in a skirt. Walking behind is a young girl carrying a camera. The old crocodile straightened up, his eyes suddenly lit up little by little, trying to move and climb two steps forward. When the old man saw the old crocodile, he threw away his crutch and walked quickly to the old crocodile. He choked with tears and said, "Little crocodile, is that you?" My little crocodile. I'm Xiao Mu. I'm back. Have you been waiting for me here? "
The old man squatted down and hugged the old crocodile, and gently stroked his face with his old hands. The old crocodile looked at the old man, gently touched the scar on his face with his mouth and made a little faint sound. The old man smiled with tears and said, "Are you asking me if I still hurt?"? No pain? " The old crocodile touched the old man's foot with his mouth, which was once bitten by it. It struggled to make a sound. The old man stood up and let