Clouds and mountain tops

Two months later, Lan Xun found Baili Lishu again.

"Dad, hunting is very hard for you. Why don't you take me with you? I can help you a little."

"During this period of time, I have also practiced the kung fu you taught me very well. I think I can also resist the attacks of ordinary wild beasts. Why don't you take me with you to try it?"

"Li Gu, you should practice martial arts first. The better you practice, the better. I am going to hunt and fight with wild beasts. If you can resist the attacks of wild beasts, that's good."

"But if you can't resist, your life will be in danger at any time. You must keep this in mind."

Baili Lishu advised. He didn't want to take risks. He treated Baili Gu as his own child, and he had to ensure the child's safety at all times.

Safety always comes first, and prey comes second. This is a matter of principle.

"Okay then, I'll listen to Dad and practice hard for a while longer." Lan Xun replied.

So Lan Xun took his youngest brother Baili Xi to practice together.

Baili Xi was not very interested in these martial arts, but he could not resist Lan Xun's nagging, so he had to accompany him to practice often.

About two months later, Baili Gu again mentioned to Baili Lishu about helping with hunting.

Baili Lishu saw that Baili Gu always wanted to follow him hunting, and he also understood what he was thinking.

He doesn't want to be a freeloader, he wants to help with some things at home.

In fact, he really treated him as his own child and had no other thoughts at all.

But Baili Gu is different from ordinary children. He wants to be a self-reliant child.

Since Baili Gu has made this request several times, Baili Lishu can't always refuse.

So he proposed to try a few moves with Baili Gu to see how his martial arts skills were. If his martial arts were really good, he really wouldn't be able to refuse; if his martial arts were indeed far behind, he couldn't force him to take him with him.

After this test, Baili Lishu realized that he might have really wronged Baili Gu.

Although Baili Gu is younger, his martial arts skills are quite good. They are even better than Baili's when he was ten years old. Maybe he is really born to be a martial artist.

In this way, Baili Lishu was also very happy. He could have a helper again. Although this helper was still young, his kung fu was good enough to be an assistant. It was like Baili Qi was back.

From then on, Baili Lishu took Baili Gu with him when he went hunting. Baili Gu was very happy because he could finally support himself with his own abilities. At least he no longer had any burden in his heart.

He was born with a strong character. Although he sometimes said nothing, he knew very well in his heart that Baili Lishu's family treated him sincerely.

But the more this happened, the more uneasy he felt. He felt that he shouldn't be like this, and that he had to do something for this family before he could feel at ease.

On this day, Baili Gu and Baili Lishu went hunting and harvested a lot of prey, so they decided to go home early.

But on the way back to the valley, Baili Gu discovered what seemed to be a broken bird's nest at the root of a tree. There seemed to be a little bird still in the shell in the nest. The shell was a little different from the eggshells of ordinary birds and was red.

The bird's eyes were not open yet, and its claws were scratching around. He felt sorry for the bird and couldn't bear to see it lying under the tree without any care. It might be in danger at any time, so he said to Baili Lishu,

"Dad, there is a little bird here, and its nest is broken. Why don't we take it home?"

Baili Lishu replied, "Okay, if you like it, you can take it home, but I don't know how to raise a bird, so you have to take care of it yourself."

"Okay, Dad, I'll raise it." Baili Gu replied happily.

So Baili Gu wrapped the little bird in clothes and took it back.

After returning home, Baili Gu asked his mother Bao Zizhen,

"Mom, what do you think little birds like to eat? Little birds that haven't even opened their eyes yet."

"Birds? They usually eat small insects." Bao Zizhen replied.

"What kind of bugs? As long as they are small bugs, it's fine, right?" Baili Gu continued to ask.

"Basically any pink little leather bugs are fine, for example, the bugs in vegetable leaves," Bao Zizhen replied.

Baili Gu then went to the vegetable garden to catch some insects and prepared to feed them to the little bird, but the little bird just shook its head, as if it didn't like to eat the insects.

This really stumped Baili Gu. If this little bird didn't eat vegetable worms, could it eat other small insects?

So he ran to the bushes and caught some small caterpillars, then ran over excitedly, ready to feed them to the birds.

But the little bird still shook its head and refused to eat the insect.

This bug refused to eat, and that bug also refused to eat, which made Baili Gu a little dizzy.

He didn't know what to do.

He was very worried that the bird would starve to death if it didn't eat, so he found food for the bird as soon as he got home.

But after all this busy work, the birds don’t like to eat anymore.

At this time, the younger brother Bailixi came over and saw that Baili Gu was a little unhappy, so he asked,

"Brother, what's wrong? Why are you unhappy?"

"Brother, do you know what birds like to eat? Look how cute this bird is, but it doesn't like to eat the insects I found." Baili Gu said.

"This is easy. If it doesn't like what you find, just ask it what it likes to eat, and then go find it for you, isn't that enough? If you don't ask it, how do you know what it likes to eat?" Baili Xi said quickly.

"Brother is really smart, but do you think it is you or me? It can't speak. Look, its eyes are not open yet!" Baili Gu said.

"If you don't ask, how do you know it can't talk?" Baili Xi retorted.

"Dear little bird, please tell me, what do you like to eat? I will find it for you, okay?" Baili Gu asked the bird. He wanted to ask the bird himself to prove that the bird could not speak, leaving Baili Xi speechless.

"I like to drink clean spring water and eat bamboo rice. But you can't tell others that I can talk to you." A very small voice came into Baili Gu's ears. If he didn't listen carefully, he could hardly hear it.

"Yeah." Baili Gu replied with one word.

"Oh, it turns out it can't speak. Then I don't know what to do." Baili Xi said.

He thought it was very simple, thinking that birds were like humans, and if they wanted to eat something, they just had to say it.

Seeing that the bird didn't react, he left. He wanted to go play, but he didn't like playing with birds very much.

When Baili Gu saw Baili Xi walking away, he chatted with the bird for a few more words. As a result, the bird told him that there was no need to worry.

The most urgent thing right now is to get some spring water to drink. It is a little thirsty. It doesn’t matter if the bamboo rice is found later. It can hold on.