A and M's Daily Season 2

Unknowingly, Peanut has been at home for more than half a year, and has grown from a palm-sized bald cub to a fluffy, fat squirrel.Lawyer Mi made a small bow tie the size of a finger for it to wear around its neck, with its name and phone number embroidered on it to prevent it from getting lost.I searched online how to take a pet squirrel out to play, and half of the answers said, "Are you crazy? Take a squirrel out to play? Can you come back after going out?", and the other half said, "Tie a string around the squirrel's neck and let it go. It’s time to pull and pull.”

Both approaches were rejected by Lawyer Mi, who defined them as "inhumane and inhumane".So he invented a whistle command. Fortunately, when Peanut was very young, Lawyer Mi often whistled to tell him to eat and drink milk, which also laid the foundation for the current training.

Uncle redesigned a new password, locked Peanut in the tree house for several days for training, let him out first, whistled to call him back, and if he didn't come back on time, he would be sent to a cage for confinement.The baby squirrel, who had been thinking about the wall for several days, finally got the hang of it. Now when he hears the whistle, he will definitely come back within a minute.

Lawyer Mi saw that the training results were good, so he took it out for an experiment.It was the first time that the peanut that was not in his pocket got off the ground and climbed a tree. Lawyer Mi cheered him on like someone teaching his son to walk: "Okay, that's it, a little bit, take your time, don't be afraid, don't be afraid , yes, climb a little more..." At the same time, he took out his mobile phone and snapped countless photos as souvenirs, showing it to me from time to time, and sighed: "Asher, look at how well our flowers grow. They are better than those crooked melons in the wild. Jujube looks much better, so beautiful, that coat color, that luster"

I carried a bag of nuts and ate them silently, with a look of disapproval from the crowd:  …

After feeling the charm of nature, Peanut was deeply fascinated by the outdoor world, and liked to go out to play more and more, and began to practice climbing and nesting in the tree nest.Every time I take it out for a walk, sometimes I can't call it back for a long time.Unlike dogs, squirrels will come back by themselves after being released. Once a peanut is placed on the ground, it will jump up a tree and run away without a trace.

My uncle and I said, "Why don't you tie a rope to it? According to this trend, the little thing plays too wildly. Sooner or later, it will disobey orders and run away."

He also called me crow's mouth unhappily, so he couldn't say anything nice.

One weekend, my uncle took Peanut to the park to play. Peanut climbed a tree and never came back.

In fact, the signs of Peanut wanting to run away from home have happened several times before. The first few times I took it out to play, Peanut would climb very high and far. Lawyer Mi had to wander around the park and whistle constantly to call him. out, but this time it was different.

He sat on the bench in the park for a long time, searched in the park for a long time, kept whistling, and softly called the name of the little squirrel, "Peanut, Peanut, where are you?"

"Peanut, it's time to go home"

"Peanut, come out!"

"Peanut, don't you want to go home with me?"

"Peanut...where have you been?"

As night fell, I went to the park to look for him, and saw Lawyer Mi sitting alone on a bench with no peanuts beside him.

"Where are the peanuts?"

"It's gone"

"Why are you missing?"

"I don't know, I searched for a long time today, called for a long time, but it didn't come back," the tone was lonely and desolate.

In fact, I have long expected that such a day will come. When I searched for postings on the experience of caring for young squirrels on the Internet, I saw many people writing postscripts. Many people wrote that once the squirrel grows up, it will want to leave the owner and return to the nature.The adopted squirrels are all taken out once and never come back, and they cannot be kept unless they are tied up.Lawyer Mi was reluctant to tie it, and I knew that sooner or later, Peanut would run away.

Whispered to persuade him: "Uncle, go home"

"Let's go home"

"Uncle, it's time to go home."

Lawyer Mi stood up staggeringly, whistled a few more times without giving up, but there was no response, he left the bag of peanuts where he was, and walked away with me with a sad face.At dinner at night, Lawyer Mi, who has always been talkative, didn't say a word. The whole process was eerily quiet, and I felt uncomfortable watching it.After dinner, I searched for movies from the Internet, took out his favorite snacks and ice cream, set up a table full, and asked Mr. Mi to watch it together.

The movie I chose was a comedy called Saint Vincent. At first, Lawyer Mi was very happy watching it, and the corners of his mouth curled up.Until the second half of the movie, when the hero Vincent learned of his wife's death, and the director of the nursing home handed him the ashes containing his wife, Lawyer Mi's mouth curled down again, holding back for a long time, Muttered: "Asher, Peanut is gone"

I patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "I know, I know, Peanut is gone."

The corners of his eyes were red, his voice was choked up, he reached out to touch his tears, and muttered: "This movie is not good...it's not a comedy at all, his wife is dead"

"Well, his wife passed away. I'm very sad, so let's not watch it." Standing up, he was about to turn off the TV. Lawyer Mi said shamelessly, "Don't turn it off, I want to watch it, I want to watch it!"

"Okay, okay, don't close it, keep watching"

Sniffing his nose, he said sadly while watching, "His wife is dead, he has no money, and he has had a stroke... It's really fucking unlucky, I just think he is pitiful, he is so pitiful, it makes me so sad, so uncomfortable ..."

"Well, it's uncomfortable, very sad, I know."

After a while, he couldn't bear it anymore, leaned on my shoulder and began to cry, crying very sadly.

I know that he didn't cry because of this movie, the movie was at most just a trigger, because there were too many bad things accumulated before, and he was always suppressed in his heart.First, I saw that the child adopted by the boss and the captain was taken back, and then I lost the lawsuit on this matter. I completely lost the right to adopt the child, and Xiao Peanut, who had been raising for more than half a year, ran away.Losing several things in a short period of time made him hold back for a long time, and now he couldn't hold back anymore, and finally found an excuse to vent his anger.

Lawyer Mi has always regarded Peanut as his baby, and now the baby has grown up and left.Before he had time to recollect the short parenting experience, he experienced parting, and he couldn't even say goodbye to Peanut properly.

For a long time after this, Lawyer Mi was depressed. When he passed the park, he stared blankly at the big tree like a dead body. He still whistled and called Peanut, hoping that the little squirrel would come back by himself.I work at home, and I go to the park to look for peanuts every day when I have nothing to do. I think it has a name tag, which should be easy to identify.

An old man often sat on a park bench and read a book, holding a bag of nuts in his hand, and distributed one by one to the squirrels attracted around him.I watched those squirrels carefully one by one.He thought I was staring at him, a bit awkward, and handed over a nut, "Do you want to eat it?"

"……OK"

Consciously took it, peeled it off, threw it into his mouth, sat next to him, and continued to ask for it.

He handed over one and I ate one.

The squirrel who had been squatting by the side begging for nuts was stunned. It shook its big tail and looked at the old man, then at the nuts, and then at me.

Roaring inwardly: Nima, who has two legs, actually has the nerve to grab food from us? !Do you want face? !Excuse me? !There is no law anymore?

The old man handed it to me for a long time, then took back his hand, took a new bag from the bag and stuffed it into my arms, and continued to hand the nuts to the squirrel next to him: "I see you are getting old these days"

The squirrel with the pine cone again flicked its big tail happily, and gnawed on one with its small paws.

"Before, my partner picked up a little squirrel and went back to raise it. I took it out to play a while ago, and it ran away."

"Take the squirrel out to play? Didn't you put a rope around its neck?"

"No, he said to set the squirrels free"

The old man's tone was a little surprised: "Give the squirrels freedom? Your friend is really funny. Squirrels are not like dogs. They don't know their homes. They belong to trees. Give them freedom and they will definitely run away."

"If a squirrel got lost, would he be around here all the time?"

"Maybe, what kind of squirrel?"

"A gray squirrel with yellow hair and a small name tag around its neck"

"There are too many squirrels around here, many of them are gray squirrels, you will be looking for a long time."

I looked at the colony of squirrels around him and asked, "Do you attract so many nuts every time you feed them?"

"Yeah, a lot of them come here every time, more and more recently, some little things are not afraid of people."

From that day on, every morning, when my uncle went to work, I went to the park with my computer and a big bag of peanuts.

After squatting for many days, there are many squirrels who come to ask for food every day, but there are no peanuts.

Maybe the old man is right, squirrels are not like dogs, they don't recognize their home, so how could they come back.

One evening, I was busy with the report at work, and I didn't care about the peanut bag spread beside me.A few daring squirrels jumped onto the bench, grabbed a few and ran away quickly.

Unknowingly, a bag of peanuts was eaten up by these little things.

When he came back to his senses, he found that one stayed where it was, gnawing on peanuts with its mouth moving.

The squirrel was standing there with a pale yellow fur on its head, holding a peanut in its little paw, without a name tag.

I stretched out my hand and whispered, "Peanut, Peanut, is that you?"

It sniffed its nose, leaned over carefully, grabbed my hand with its two little paws, poked its little head and tilted its head to look at me.Taking advantage of the situation, he hugged Peanut into his arms, wanting to take it home.After walking for a while, the squirrel in his arms poked its head out, squeaked, and stopped: "What's wrong?"

Peanut stretched his neck to look out, swaying up and down, trying to run down.

I reached out and touched its back, "Don't you want to go home with me? Michelle misses you very much, don't you miss us?"

Peanut has a crooked little head and pure and innocent eyes.

Gently put it on the ground, the little squirrel shook its body and stood there, looking up at me with its small head up, looking very obedient, reaching out to touch its forehead, Peanut shrunk its paws very much.

"You like it here, don't you?"

After finishing speaking, I felt something was wrong, and sneered: "I was also infected by that fool Michelle, and even started talking to you..."

I also remembered the words of the old man: squirrels belong to trees.

Peanut jumped up a tree quickly with its big tail shaking. I looked up the tree and chased it, only to find it got into a tree hole.After waiting for a long time, I didn't see it coming out again. I turned around and wanted to leave, but the little squirrel ran down again, with a pine cone in its mouth, and ran to my feet quickly.

Squatting down, reaching out, it carefully put the pine cone in my hand,

"Is it for Michelle?"

The little squirrel shrinks its paws,

"I'll pass it on to him for you."

It turned around and ran away, and walked a few more steps. Peanut came back with another one in its mouth, and ran to me with its head up.

He squatted down again: "Is it for me?"

It put the second pine cone into the other hand, I freed up two fingers, and gently touched its forehead, "I will miss you, Peanut"

"I may not like you very much, but I will miss you."

On Saturday, I took Lawyer Mi to the park, took out the binoculars for him, and pointed him in a direction to look at. He was inexplicable: "What's the matter?"

"You follow the direction I pointed to you, look there, point up, point to the left, point down, point down too much, point up again"

"What? You just point your fingers blindly."

"What nonsense, look quickly, go up a little further, see... over there, see?"

Lawyer Mi fiddled with the binoculars for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "Ah! It's peanuts, it's peanuts!!!!"

"Hey, why are the peanuts gone?"

"Ah, Peanut built a nest in the tree?"

"Peanut built a nest on the tree, it built a nest! Asher, it built a nest!" The tone should be so proud, so proud.

Lawyer Mi grinned happily, unwilling to look away.

Peanut is his baby, and he is entitled to know where his baby is going.

After watching for a long time, Uncle was willing to put down the binoculars, and said excitedly: "You found the peanut! You really found it! Asher, you are amazing! How did you do it?!"

I asked him, "Do you want to take it home?"

Lawyer Mi's first reaction was to nod his head in agreement, but then hesitated, with a troubled expression on his face.He thought about it, and said reluctantly, "I want to take it home...but...forget it"

"Are you sure? If you really want to, we can get someone to come and get him down right now, nest and mouse."

He picked up the binoculars and looked at it for a while, frowned, but still shook his head, "Forget it, this is better, squirrels belong to trees."

"But anyway, you know where Peanut is now, it's doing well, and it hasn't been bullied by other squirrels"

"Thank you, Asher, for finding Peanuts"

"I know he's your baby..."

He interrupted me and added: "It's our baby..."

"It's our baby. As a parent, you have the right to know where your child belongs. It's doing well now, you can rest assured"

I could have bought another pet for my uncle, but I thought that he would never clean up the house. Keeping a pet would only increase my burden, and I comforted myself that my uncle is like a dog. There is already one at home, so there is no need to come again the second one.

Attorney Mi looked at it all day and went home satisfied: "Let's take a look at Peanut when we have time."

Squirrels have a short lifespan. If they are domesticated, they may live for 10 to 15 years, but wild squirrels will be shorter, especially in New York, where the winter is so cold, maybe only 2,3 or [-] years.

I didn't dare to tell my uncle that he should also know that compared to human life, the life of animals is much shorter.

Every time we meet since then, it may be a farewell.

In the next few months, I could still see the shadow of peanuts from time to time. Autumn and winter came, and another winter came. The weather in New York this year was very bad. The weather forecast said that there might be heavy snowfall in the next few days.Attorney Mi still misses peanuts, fearing that they won’t survive the winter, so he wants to take them home and raise them for a few days.Before the snowstorm came, the two searched in the park for a long time, but they couldn't find it.

There was a severe snowstorm for several days, the traffic was completely paralyzed, the entire city stopped operating, the company was closed, and I did not have to go to work, and I rested at home for several days.The snow piled up half a meter thick, and the powerful blizzard blew down many trees, leaving the city in a mess.

When the snow melted and the sun came, we went to the park together again, but we never saw peanuts again.

Maybe it survived the harsh winter, maybe it didn't.

Afterwards, Lawyer Mi was depressed for a while, and he returned to normal after a while. For a long time, he couldn't get rid of his habit of reaching out for his pocket and wanting to touch him.

Some things will eventually disappear, but the experiences and memories that have been experienced will last forever.

To borrow a sentence from Natsume's account of friends, "Once you have been loved by others, and after you have loved others, that feeling will never be forgotten."

Since then, I seem to be less resistant to animals.