Chapter 280 Yesterday_Once_More

Richard stared at the two red-faced parrots angrily. He couldn't understand why they were so stupid. They couldn't learn the pronunciation very easily, and the syllables they uttered were completely different.

It had some regrets, and took over the task impulsively, but now it found that the difficulty was slightly higher. Chinese is too complicated and difficult, several orders of magnitude more difficult than Indo-European languages. Even if the pronunciation is correct but the intonation is wrong, it will be difficult for others to understand.

Segments, including phonemes and supraphonemes—phonemes are vowels and consonants that determine the basic pronunciation of a word, which is the same for most languages ​​around the world. This is not the case with the superphoneme, which includes many aspects such as stress, nasal sound, intonation, sound change and rhythm of speech. Chinese is ever-changing in this respect, making it difficult to figure out.

Xiao Zi and Wan Dou Huang stood timidly in front of it with their heads bowed, like elementary school students who have made mistakes.

When Richard saw them like this, he couldn't bear to reprimand them. After all, objectively speaking, their learning speed was already very fast, much faster than his own back then.

Recalling the first days, its memory is a little fuzzy. On the one hand, it is because of the long time, and on the other hand, it is because it has not become an elf because of the power of faith at that time. It is just an ordinary African gray parrot. To be sold as pets. At that time, it was no different from other gray parrots. If there was one, the only difference was that it met her.

She bought it from a pet store.

Yes, the pet store, speaking of which, it really has something to do with the pet store, Richard thought back. It met her in a pet shop, and after becoming an elf, it appeared in another pet shop. Although the two pet shops are separated by half a world, there seems to be a wonderful red thread connecting them.

It didn't know how she'd picked it out of a bunch of parrots—species? body shape? Feather color? Or is it the eye margin that Zhang Zian often mentioned? It's a pity that it didn't ask her—it didn't have time to ask, and it hasn't learned to ask.

The first time Richard heard the word "eye edge" was from Zhang Zian. The word "eye edge" does not have an exact corresponding word in English. If it is forced to be translated, it can be referred to by a combination of words such as "encounter of fate", "love at first sight", and "falling in love". However, the above phrases are too It is too bloated and superficial, and cannot be as delicate and lasting as the word "eye edge".

It knew that it shouldn't scare Xiao Zi and Pea Yellow, but if it weren't for this, the restless instinct of birds would make them unable to concentrate—it is common sense that learning can only be effective if you concentrate.

Richard still remembered the tension and fear when it left the pet shop and was taken into the laboratory. Facing that strange woman in a white coat, he anxiously wondered what she wanted to do, kill it, or eat it? It really wants to tell her that it is not delicious, the meat is too woody,

Feathers are hard to pull out, and there are many bones...

Although she tried her best to express her friendliness, its brain was in chaos at that time, and it couldn't understand her kindness. Instead, it felt even more scared, and it didn't even dare to leave the cage. Although the cage imprisons its freedom, it is also its shelter.

What made it even more nervous was that not only it and her were present, but also other parrots—a parakeet named "Merlin". Look at it as an intruder and predator of its territory.

Richard automatically compared Merlin the parakeet to the cats in the store. In its view, the most terrifying cat in the store is Fina, who will turn his face if there is a disagreement. It's just that Fina's vision is different from Merlin's, and she never regards Richard as a threatening opponent.

In order to appease it, she brought it water and food, but it was too nervous and frightened, almost a whole day without a drop of water or a grain of rice... Hunger, thirst, fear of the new environment and new partners, Tortured it in turn.

Fortunately, she realized the reason the next day—parrots are also very territorial creatures and need their own space, especially when they come to a new environment. So she took Merlin the cockatiel to another room, and left Richard alone, with kind words of comfort.

Gradually calming down, Richard really felt the kindness released by her, and the pity and care contained in it were absolutely false. She kept wiping the corners of her eyes, chanted "poor little guy" repeatedly, and fell into deep self-blame—because of her inexperience and improper handling, it encountered unexpected fear and anxiety.

Seeing her like this, Richard suddenly felt great courage in his heart for some reason. It wanted to tell her that it was not your fault and everything would be fine. It doesn't know where it heard this sentence, maybe it was in a pet shop, maybe it was somewhere else. It wanted to say this to her, but it couldn't, it couldn't speak. It could only muster up the courage to get out of the cage, jump onto her arm, and rub its head against her white coat, hoping to convey its meaning to her.

She smiled in surprise, her face became soft, as if she saw an extremely precious gift. She stretched out her other hand, intending to brush its shaggy feathers, but stopped halfway, fearing to scare it again.

Richard wanted to prove that he was not a coward, so he fluttered his wings and tried to fly, but he forgot that the birdcage was nearby, and his wings got stuck in the iron fence of the cage. In an instant, blood and pain alternated Come. It was screaming, and she was screaming too. After hearing the news, the other people who rushed over were in a mess, trying to bandage it up.

It hurts, it hurts, and it still remembers the sharp pain.

Its first official contact with her had a good beginning and an extremely bad ending...

The noise from downstairs awakened Richard from his past memories. It shook its head, trying to temporarily expel these memories from its mind - since it became an elf, this kind of thing has become more and more difficult, and every minute and every second of being with her is so clear in front of its eyes, as if it was yesterday Happens in general.

Richard cheered up, raised a wing and pointed at the kitchen utensils on display, and said to Xiao Zi and Pea Huang: "Pot! Pot! Pot, bowl, basin!"

It knows that it is not smart, and everything it does is just a poor imitation of her.

The kitchen door was pushed open, Richard thought it was Zhang Zian who came back, immediately changed his face, and looked at the door with a playful smile. It will no longer be sad and weak, because no one will look at it with delicate and gentle eyes like her.

The one standing at the door was not Zhang Zian, but Sun Xiaomeng who was holding a beautiful short.

The same white coat, the same pair of rational and intelligent eyes.

It's like yesterday_once_more.