The older children had to work every day, helping the younger brothers and sisters wash clothes and dry fish. They were very busy every day. The little magpie became Shui Xiaomao's best playmate.

When Shui Xiaomao was finally able to walk a certain distance without falling, the little magpie recovered from its injuries and could fly.

As a reward for Shui Xiaomao learning to walk, Shui Maomao brought Shui Xiaomao a meat bun that day.

It was the first time that the little baby had eaten something so delicious. After he took one bite, he gave it to the little magpie. The little magpie took a big bite, and he only ate a little bit.

That day, the little magpie that had eaten its first steamed bun flew in the yard for a while and then flew away. Shui Xiaomao cried for a long time because the older child said that it would fly and never come back.

At dinner time, the little magpie came back, holding a red catalpa fruit in its mouth for Shui Xiaomao.

From then on, Shui Xiaomao called it "Cupalus".

The two of them eat together every day.

However, magpies are birds after all, and they eat a variety of things. If the children can't get enough to eat even two meals a day, they will go out to look for food every day.

"Culuzi" brings something back to Shui Xiaomao every day, sometimes it's a catalpa fruit, sometimes it's beautiful little stones, sometimes it's even gold earrings and pieces of silver.

Once, it brought back a group of magpies, and the children were very happy, because then they also had magpie friends.

Later, magpies and crows often visited their yard, even when they moved to another place.

When children encounter magpies and crows outside, they will also give them food.

Magpies and crows both like to make friends. As time goes by, the children actually have a huge number of bird friends.

Because "Chuzi" is the closest to Shui Xiaomao, he will also imitate Shui Xiaomao in doing things. If Shui Xiaomao is asked by an adult to deliver something, he will follow him.

Slowly, the children trained the birds to deliver messages and find things, so they were never idle.

Shui Ermao even trained them to talk.

Sometimes when magpies and crows come to play with the children, from time to time you can hear: "Little old man", "Mao Mao" or something like that, or bark like a dog.

"Chuzi" didn't learn to speak, but he and Hou Ze learned to whistle!

As soon as he saw a beautiful girl passing by, before Hou Ze could open his mouth, he whistled "楥子". Once, Hou Ze even slapped the girl in the mouth for no reason.

"Unfortunately, 'Chuzi' is a bit old." Shui Xiaomao ended the topic with some sadness.

"Cultivar" is one year younger than Shui Xiaomao and is already seven years old this year. Shui Maomao said that the life span of a magpie is only eight or nine years.

It's over. I just changed Xiaobao's mood, but it made me feel bad.

Although the "Cuppies" can't fly as fast as pigeons, they can still catch up with those boats.

And as the leading bird, the team of "Cultivar" is spectacular.

Full of food and drink, they moved forward singing songs, causing more magpies to join them.

When "Xunzi" was close to the cargo ship, "twitter" called a series of, notifying the partners: The target is here, the companion also responded to the scream, saying: receive the news.

The first few calls of magpies made the boat boss and his boatmen feel much better.

The atmosphere along the way was very low, and everyone was in a state of fear, unable to extricate themselves. The cries of the magpies made them feel like they had turned bad luck into good luck.

They looked up to find the source of the sound, hoping to see the auspicious magpies, so they saw it - like dark clouds of magpies chirping and chasing them.

The bewildered boatmen all opened their eyes and opened their mouths. They forgot about the movements of their hands and looked up blankly.

A few magpies swooped down, landed on the ship's deck, and paced around, while more magpies hovered above, blocking out the sun.

Aren't magpies an auspicious bird? What are they... trying to do?

The boatmen, who had been frightened by the crows all night, knelt down and worshiped without waiting for the boat boss's instructions!

The captain of the boat looked at the swarm of magpies, wondering whether it was a blessing or a curse, and was worried. However, his reaction was not to kneel down and worship, but to immediately search his body to see if he could find any coins.

Naturally, he didn't have it with him, but he had it in his baggage. When going out, you can't take too much money with you. You always have to take some broken silver and copper coins.

He turned around and ran to the cabin.

"Culpa" flew in behind him.

The boss of the boat shook his hands to untie the knot, but because of his nervousness, he couldn't even hold on to the knot.

"Pop!" A round bead as big as the belly of your little finger fell on the baggage.

The sudden noise and falling objects made the captain of the ship tremble, and he took a closer look: Pearl?

He looked at "Cultivar" in confusion, but "Cultivar" opened his mouth and said, "Pah!" Another pearl of the same size fell down.

The "Cuppa" fell on his baggage, he stepped on the two pearls with some regret, and whistled: What a beautiful little thing, I can't take it home.

After stepping on it, feeling calm in his heart, "Culpa" turned around and flew out of the cabin, "chirping" twice as he took off into the air.

The magpies circling in the sky also responded to it. Some of them forgot that they were still holding small fruits or pebbles in their mouths, so they opened their mouths and dropped them.

The "magpie cloud" flew away singing loudly again.

The boatmen who were lying on the ground and kowtowing found that there were "rewards" from magpies in front of them: some were grapes, some were beautiful pebbles, and one person actually got a key!

The first reaction of the ship boss who received the pearl in the cabin was: Why did he feel like he was being teased by that bird?

Why does it whistle to itself?

Just like the boatmen teasing the girl doing laundry,

I quickly pressed the pearl, held it in my hand, and felt it, it was a real pearl.

I couldn't help but look around. No one came in, so I opened my palm and looked at it: Sea beads! Not river beads!

At this time, the boatmen's discussions came from outside:

"Have we finally received forgiveness from the gods? Are the magpies here to report the news?"

"Is that so? Look, they didn't put a 'grave' on us!"

"He even gave us a reward!"

The boss of the ship quickly put the pearl close to his body and walked to the deck.

The boatmen were still kneeling on the ground. When they saw the boat boss coming out, they all looked at him questioningly, wondering what he had got?

The boat boss rolled his eyes and said, "Just now, I wanted to find some copper coins to give them. Their leader followed me into the house, slapped me, but confiscated my money, and barked several times toward the east.

"

The boatmen looked at each other: What does this mean?

"What does this mean?" the ship boss continued: "This is the magpie's lesson for our greed, and it's also because I didn't take you well!

However, we didn’t do anything harmful, so we just gave me a wing! But we also pointed out the way, so hurry up and go home!”

The boatmen suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, they are flying towards the east!"

"Yes, I saw it too, but I had to kowtow and didn't dare to look more."

"Then let's go back quickly!"

"That's right, boss, let's stop dawdling, hurry up and stop the boat less."

The boss of the ship nodded: "I will take you to kowtow three more times. We have to thank the Crow God for letting us go, and thank the Magpie God for coming to give us guidance! Light the incense!"
Chapter completed!