In a small mountain village surrounded by mountains, when night falls, the villagers sit around orange bonfires, and the elders tell the legends, and the children listen to the mysterious stories with their eyes wide open.
Today, the storyteller is the wise man in the village, Lao Gu, who is seventy years old, and his old voice is stained with the traces of time, which makes people can't help but immerse themselves in the story with his voice.
Have you ever heard of psychic birds? Lao Gu's voice was full of awe and yearning, and the villagers instantly fell silent.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the village suffered a catastrophe, and the villagers prayed to heaven for help from the village, and the villagers' wishes gave birth to psychic birds to save the village. Psychic birds have emerald green shining feathers and melodious chirps, they are the most beautiful birds in the world, they are born from the villagers, and then give their power back to humans, it is said that as long as people have good intentions and sincerely make wishes to the psychic birds, the psychic birds will become stronger when they obtain the wishes of the villagers, and then use their powerful power to fulfill the wishes of the wishers.
At that time, psychic birds coexisted with humans, and the village was a thriving scene. But psychic birds are not always there, they only appear in the village on the night of the full moon, and they can only fulfill one wish at a time. The villagers who received the benefits of wishing became greedy and no longer satisfied with one wish, they began to catch psychic birds and fasten them to their homes so that they could make wishes at any time.
When the hearts of the villagers are no longer pure, there is no longer a wish power that can be absorbed by the psychic bird, and when the villagers keep making wishes and squeeze the wish power accumulated in the psychic bird's body, the fastened psychic bird dies. Some psychic birds that were not caught by the villagers hid deep in the mountains and never reappeared in the village.
Lao Gu finished speaking, and in the end, he said: "This is not made up, it is what happened in our village in the past, and the psychic bird used to be real." It's just that the disappearance of the psychic bird is because of the greed and evil thoughts of the ancestors, and it is not a glorious time, so the psychic bird has become a taboo in the village, and no one mentions it anymore. So only we old people know about the psychic bird, but now, we don't know when we will be buried in the soil, so we decided to tell everyone this history to warn the villagers, hoping that everyone can always have good thoughts, and one day we can get the forgiveness of the psychic bird and let it return to the village. ”
It turned out to be real history! The villagers were shocked, and then there was a lot of discussion.
Someone asked: "Those psychic birds that didn't catch ** went to the depths of the forest, are they still there?" ”
Lao Gu shook his head: "Psychic birds are born by relying on the wishes of the villagers, even if some psychic birds have escaped into the forest, but they have lost their willingness**, and they will eventually die in heaven and earth." Only when the villagers have good intentions, sincerely repent, and obtain the forgiveness of the psychic bird, it is possible to awaken it again. ”
After listening to the story, everyone went home that night, thinking about when they would be able to bring psychic birds to their village.
After all, people's hearts are unpredictable, and it is too difficult for all villagers to have a pure and kind heart.
No one noticed, and after everyone dispersed, a small figure stared at the moon overhead. 7-year-old Mao Ya, who just lost her mother who loves her the most a month ago, misses her mother so much, and dreams every day that her mother wants her to return to her. She recalled what Grandpa Gu had just said, the psychic bird would only appear on the night of the full moon, and the last psychic bird had fled to the depths of the forest......
Tonight, it happens to be the night of the full moon. She is going to find the psychic bird, and she wants to make a wish to the psychic bird to get her mother back.
Although the village elders had warned countless times about the dangers of the forest, none of them were as important to Mao Ya as her desire to find her mother. She packed her simple bags, including some dry food, a water bottle, and his father's old hunting knife, and quietly left the house when no one was looking.
Passing through the rice paddies on the edge of the village, Maoya entered the dense forest. In the night, the trees looked like sentinels guarding secrets, and the distant sounds of wild beasts reminded her of the wildness and danger of the place. However, Mao Ya's footsteps did not hesitate in the slightest, and there was only one voice in her heart guiding him forward - "Find the psychic bird and let the mother come back." ”
As the night deepened, the sounds in the forest became more active, Mao Ya walked alone in the forest, the moonlight dappled through the treetops on her face, her heart beat faster with the pace, and the sound of each branch breaking made her nervous.
She had no direction, she couldn't remember how many times she had fallen, she just walked blindly into the depths of the forest, she remembered, the psychic bird was deep in the mountains. Just as she fell again, a fox suddenly jumped out of the grass, causing the hairy girl to scream in fright, and with her cry, a melodious and mysterious chirp came from far away from the depths of the forest, and the sound was rapidly approaching.
Soon, Mao Ya saw a strange bird flying towards her in the moonlight, its feathers shimmering with emerald green, and its figure was brighter than the moon. The bird landed on the branch in front of the hairy girl, and the cries of the beasts and insects around it disappeared in an instant.
Are you a psychic bird? Mao Ya asked in a trembling voice.
Yes, I'm a psychic. The bird spoke, its voice warm and sad, "but I am no longer able to fulfill the wishes of man." ”
Mao Ya was puzzled and hurriedly asked, "Why?" Grandpa Gu said that as long as you are sincere, you can help people. Is my heart not sincere enough? I'm willing to use my one to switch my mother's back, is that okay? ”
The psychic bird sighed: "Because of the greed of human beings, the abuse of the ability to make wishes, and the punishment sent down by the heavens, I have lost the ability to fulfill wishes forever." ”
Mao Ya's eyes were full of tears: "So, will I never see my mother again?" ”
The psychic bird flapped its wings gently and flew to Mao Ya's shoulder: "As long as you still miss your mother, your mother will always live in your heart, and your mother will always love you." She wants you to be strong and brave to live. Go back, kid. ”
The fluorescence on the psychic bird's body spreads, and the green light shrouds Mao Ya's body, Mao Ya's consciousness is in a trance, and when she opens her eyes again, she finds herself lying on the bed, with no scars on her body at all, and last night's night seems to be just a dream for her.
But Mao Ya knew that it was not a dream, she saw the psychic bird, and also fulfilled her wish - her mother will live in her heart forever.