Chapter 4 The Griffin Building
Black and brown mice.
In the southeast of Sgonay, not far from the sea, there is an ancient castle called the Griffin Building, which is the only taller building here, and it is quite majestic.
By the time Niels arrived with the geese, the Gleminster building had been empty, but it had never been short of tenants. A pair of white storks live every summer in a large nest on the roof, with a pair of owls under the eaves, bats in the dark tunnels, an old cat in the kitchen stove, and hundreds of black mice that have lived there for many years in the basement.
The black house rats in the Gleminen Building are special. When other animals talk about them, they always have a little respect, because they are both brave and tenacious. They used to be almost omnipresent, but now they are almost extinct, and what makes them endangered is another species of their family, the brown rat.
Unlike black rats, brown rats came to the country with some immigrants. At the time, these brown rats were homeless and sheltered near the port. But they were very adaptable, and in just a few years, they gradually grew stronger, and began to drive the black house rats away from Malmö, and soon took over the country.
Now, apart from the Gremin Building, the black rat has no place of its own. The Brown Rats, who live in and around Grimmin's Manor, are still attacking again and again in an attempt to take the castle.
White stork. One morning, the geese were awakened by the chirping in the air.
The Crane Dance Show will take place tomorrow in Kra Mountain, and Trianut, the grey crane, welcomes Acre and her flock! ”
Aka looked up and replied, "Thank you for the invitation!" ”
Humans are not allowed to participate in the Krashan Animal Gathering. "That's why I don't dare bring my thumb there." We'll talk about it later, but the first thing we should do now is to get something to eat as soon as possible. ”
Acre gave the signal to leave, and they flew until they landed on the wet grass south of the Grimmin building. On this day, the boy was sullen because he couldn't go to the ** Crane Dance Show, but he was embarrassed to bring it up.
On one side of the damp meadow where geese feed, there is a wide stone fence. In the evening, the boy's gaze fell on the wall, and he was stunned and could not help but whisper. So, the eyes of all the geese immediately turned to him.
At first, both the wild goose and the boy thought it was the gray pebbles on the fence that had grown legs and started running. Soon they saw that it was a swarm of rats moving around the wall, running forward in a dense line, and there were so many of them that they covered the entire wall for a long time.
When the rats were gone, "There are so many brown rats!" "This doesn't bode well. ”
After a while, a white stork flew in and asked the geese if they had seen a flock of brown rats scurrying towards the Gleminen building. When Aka replied that she had seen it, the stork spoke of the brave black rats who had guarded the castle for years.
It seems that the Grimmins building may be in the hands of the brown rat tonight. The white stork sighed.
Why tonight, Mr. Elmanrich? Aka asked.
Oh, because almost all of the black mice went to Kra Hill last night. The white stork said.
In order to be able to participate in the crane dance performance, the black house rats also rushed there like other animals, and only a few old and sick black house rats who could not go to Kra Mountain guarded the castle. You see, but the brown rats are all at home. They were gathering to storm the castle at night. It seems that they will finally get their wish. I've been at peace with these black rats for years, and I'm going to live with their enemies in the future. ”
Have you reported to the Black House Rat, Mr. Elmanrich? Aka asked.
No," said the white stork, "it is useless to send a letter. Before they could return, the castle fell. ”
Don't be so sure, Mr. Elmanrich. "As far as I know, there was an old wild goose who wanted to put an end to this barbarism. ”
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Aka seems to have made up her mind to go to the aid of the black house mouse. She ordered Ixi to bring the geese to Lake Vimbu. When the geese objected, she said majestically, "It's good for everyone." Now I have to fly to that big stone building. If you all follow me, you will inevitably be discovered. The only thing I wanted to bring with me on this flight was a thumbs up because he had bright eyes. ”
At the sound of Acre's words, the boy straightened up, tried to look as tall as possible, and stepped forward with great vigour. As soon as the boy appeared, the white stork began to move, and there was a gurgling sound from the depths of his throat. I saw that the white stork quickly stretched its beak down, grabbed the boy and threw him two or three meters high, and he repeated this action seven times.
During this time, the boy kept screaming, and the geese were also shouting:
What are you doing here? He was not a frog, he was a man, Mr. Elmanrich. ”
Eventually, the stork lowered the boy to the ground, but it didn't hurt him at all. Then he said to Acre:
Now I'm going back to the Griffin building, and tell the animals there that Aka the wild goose and Thumbthumb the little man will come to their rescue, and they'll be happy. ”
After saying that, the white stork flew away. Aka knew that the stork was laughing at her. She put the little boy on her back and set off with the white stork. The boy is angry with the white stork's actions, and he wants to let the white stork know that Nils is an amazing character!
In the blink of an eye, they were flying to the nest of the white storks in the Gleminster Building. There stood two owls, an old cat with gray stripes on its body and twelve elderly mice with long teeth and clever eyes. They didn't look at anything, just stared intently at the few wriggling gray lines that loomed over the bare fields of winter.
It was clear from their expressions that they were in complete despair. They trembled and sighed in their voices about the great rebellion of the brown rats, and the old cat kept cursing the black mice
How could you be so stupid as to withdraw your best warriors? ”
And the white stork, although he didn't feel good in his heart, was still making fun of the old cat.
You don't have to worry, old cat Mans," he said, "and Aka and Thumb have gone out to save the castle themselves. They will definitely succeed. ”
Aka was not angry at all, on the contrary, she said in a smug tone:
I'm so old, and it would be too bad to have no way to solve this problem at the moment. If the owl couple were willing to do something for me, I think everything would be fine. ”
The owl couple immediately offered to help, so Aka asked the male owl to go to the black house mice that were out and asked them to return immediately. She sent the female owl to Lund Cathedral on a mission to the owl leader Flamma. The mission was so secret that Aka didn't dare to say it out loud, and whispered the task to her.
Rat Catcher. In the middle of the night, the brown rat found a small hole, which was high in the wall. It wasn't long before they entered the Griffin Building, and the leader of the Brown Rat mustered up the courage to jump into the dark, cold basement. One after another, the brown rats also jumped down with the leader. They are all very careful and always on the lookout for ambushes from black mice.
They soon found a passage through the wall to the black house rat upstairs, and when they climbed to the first floor unharmed, they couldn't believe it would go so well. They first searched all the rooms carefully, and they searched very carefully, not even the tiny holes, but they still found no trace of the black house mouse. Once they were convinced that they had full control of the first floor, they moved on to occupy the second floor.
The black rat never appeared, and the brown rat tentatively made its way to the third floor, which was as desolate and empty as the other rooms in the ancient castle. The only thing they didn't think of searching was the nest on the rooftop where the storks lived. After the brown rat searched the entire castle carefully, he breathed a sigh of relief and thought that all the black rats had escaped.
So they ran to the pile of grain with joy, and before the brown rats could swallow a few grains of wheat, they heard a screeching sound from the yard, and the cries of the little whistles urging them again and again, and they could no longer disobey, and hurriedly jumped out of the pile, slipped down through the narrow hole in the wall, rolled into a ball, and scrambled outward.
In the courtyard outside the building, there is a little whistle man standing. The little one whistled as he took all the brown mice out of the Gleminen building. All the brown rats had to follow him. Because his whistle was so pleasant that it was simply irresistible. He walked to **, and the brown rat followed**.
The little whistle had been discovered by the leader of the owls, Flamma, in a window hole in the Lund Cathedral, and she had shown it to the crow Bataky. They speculate that humans in the past may have used this kind of whistle often to conquer rats and mus musculos. And the crow Bataki was a friend of Acre, and it was from him that Acre knew that Flama had such a treasure.
Indeed, the magic of the little whistle is irresistible to the brown house rat. In this way, the boy blew from midnight to dawn, and from dawn to sunrise, while the whole flock of rats followed him, and he led him farther and farther away from the great barn of the Glemmin building.
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