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Guo Jia has been ill for almost the entire summer, tormenting everyone and causing great distress. Just when he finally recovered, he ran off again. When Jia Xu found Guo Jia, he was sitting on the wall, neither up nor down. Jia Xu, exasperated, laughed and asked from below, "Why did you stop running? Do you have something on your mind?" Guo Jia lowered his eyes, and the smile that usually adorned his lips also faded. He pointed to a corner of the high wall and said, "Wenhe, there is a wing-broken sparrow here."
Jia Xu also restrained his expression, stepped on the green bricks along the wall and climbed up, sitting on the wall and quietly feeling the breath of the sparrow, still alive. Jia Xu breathed a sigh of relief, took a handkerchief from his sleeve and gently wrapped the sparrow in it, then kicked Guo Jia's leg to signal him to go down and continue.
So Guo Jia obediently jumped down from the wall and stood below, raising his hand to receive the sparrow handed down by Jia Xu.
Guo Jia never followed the rules. He held the sparrow and shouted towards Xun Yu's courtyard from a distance, "Senior brother, help, save me!"
Xun Yu heard the sound and carefully took the small object from Guo Jia, placing it on a soft pad. He wandered around the yard, gathered medicinal herbs, crushed them, and stuffed them into sparrow's mouth. He carefully wiped away the grass ash from the edge of the wound. Guo Jia squatted nervously beside him and asked, "Senior, it won't die, will it?" Xun Yu continued his movements and replied softly, "It's almost autumn, I don't know if it can survive this winter."
I don't know if I can make it through this winter.
Jia Xu didn't have much affection for the little thing he met for the first time, but subconsciously tightened his sleeve when he heard this sentence, feeling a little dazed, and then he heard Guo Jia crisply shouting, "Senior - good senior! Save it, I promise, I promise..."
Xun Yu calmly looked at Guo Jia and asked, "Promise what?"
Guo Jia gritted his teeth and said, "I promise not to leave the academy for three months if we can save it, even half a step!"
Xun Yu sighed and pointed at Guo Jia's forehead, saying, "You, oh you," and then added, "This sparrow seems to have escaped from a beast's mouth, its right wing is almost broken."
Guo Jia pinched Xun Yu's sleeve and coquettishly said, "Then let's give it our best shot, senior brother."
After rescuing the sparrow, Guo Jia rarely went to the song tower. As soon as he finished studying, he would drag Jia Xu to Xun Yu's residence and squat in front of the cage for the whole afternoon. Jia Xu didn't understand why Guo Jia was so fond of it, but he went along with Guo Jia's wishes. After all, Guo Jia not going to the song tower saved him a lot of trouble.
The sparrow was also very tenacious. By autumn, it could already walk on the ground, but its wings still hung weakly and couldn't flap.
After the little sparrow got better, Guo Jia often carried it around, showing it off to everyone like a rare treasure, boasting about its beauty and describing the hardships of rescuing it. Jia Xu felt that Guo Jia had a talent for writing and storytelling. He had clearly never seen the sparrow's escape, but he described it vividly.
Guo Jia also said that Wenhe was so soft-hearted to pick up the birds, and praised Wenhe's medical skills, but never mentioned his own. The little sparrow loves the grove of gingko trees in the west courtyard of the academy the most. The golden gingko leaves cover the ground in late autumn. The sparrow walks and flutters on the gingko leaves, and by then it can already fly low. Jia Xu once asked Guo Jia, "Why not give the little sparrow a name?"
Guo Jia was feeding the little sparrow while saying, "A name has meaning, it contains a kind of hope and bond. Once a person gives an animal a name, a spiritual covenant is formed between the person and the animal, which is a shackle for both parties."
Jia Xu also wanted to ask, isn't accompanying it every day a kind of bond? But Jia Xu didn't ask, and a few days later, he got the answer.
Because the little sparrow didn't survive that winter.
Guo Jia After school, as usual, he hurried to Xun Yu's residence with light steps. However, when he saw the empty cage, he suddenly froze in place, then pushed Jia Xu who came after him, saying, "You go ask the senior, I'll go out and look for it."
As Jia Xu turned and left, he looked back from a distance. In the small straw nest, there were only two small feathers and a small pool of sticky blood. The little sparrow had flown away.
Jia Xu's heart uncontrollably panicked. Before the pet died, it would always leave its owner to find a quiet place. Realizing this, Jia Xu stopped himself. After explaining to the senior, the senior quickly mobilized people and horses to help search together.
When I think back on this matter, I feel that I was really impulsive and headstrong in my youth, with the lights of Beiyong academy shining brightly just to find a beautiful feathered bird with broken wings. Jia Xu never met Guo Jia on the road, and the result almost jumped from his heart to his throat. In the end, Jia Xu found Guo Jia deep in the ginkgo forest. He was sitting on the ground, with many ginkgo leaves pressed between his shoulders and hair. He was just sitting quietly, and when he saw Jia Xu, he even had the mood to wave and beckon him over with a smile.
Jia Xu squatted next to Guo Jia, watching the quiet sparrow lying in the middle of the ginkgo leaves. After a long time, he dryly said, "Let's go back, Fengxiao."
Guo Jia obediently nodded, and when he stood up, he leaned against a tree trunk due to sitting for a long time, just like the day he saved the little sparrow, he followed Jia Xu's words and leaped down from the high wall of the academy.
Jia Xu reached out to help Guo Jia, and their ice-cold hands reunited after more than a month, Guo Jia opened his mouth to say something to Jia Xu, but then he pressed his lips together.
Many years later, when Jia Xu was buried under the ruins of Huguang, he saw a little bit of the setting sun leaking through the cracks. He recalled the pain of the bird that had come from the sky with a broken wing. Unfortunately, that little bird did not fly out of the high walls of Beiyong academy, and one of the three sages, the young man, also died in the blood pool of Huguang.
It's all a story for another time.
Without any ties, sparrow can peacefully pass away, and without any ties, Guo Jia can avoid feeling sad.
Guo Jia seems to have not changed anything because of this incident, still going to song tower as usual, still playing around with his classmates. It's just that occasionally, he would take a walk alone in the gingko forest. When Jia Xu went to look for someone, he saw Guo Jia sitting alone on a forked gingko tree, lost in thought, with an empty expression on his face, exuding a sense of distance that is completely unlike him.
Jia Xu thought, what does Guo Jia resemble? Guo Jia is like... the delicate new shoots growing on a tree, the golden weeping willow swaying in the wind by the riverbank, the first white magnolia to bloom at the top of the tree, the hollow trunk, the decaying white flowers, the intoxicating spring that makes people drowsy, but it should never be like this, like a pool of bone-chilling cold spring.
Jia Xu looked up and called out to Guo Jia, and when Guo Jia looked down, he showed a faint smile upon seeing Jia Xu. He jumped down from the tree, brushed off the fallen leaves clinging to his clothes, and walked towards Jia Xu on the dry branches. Even though he was getting closer, Jia Xu felt that the person in front of him was getting farther away.
Stop laughing, Guo Fengxiao.
So Jia Xu did not give away the pair of small sparrow feathers as earrings, but instead held them tightly in his hand, and walked back with Guo Jia as usual.
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