Chapter 43: Speak

The crow was squatting on top of her head, and she saw the cruel appearance of tearing the ten catties of poison into two pieces. She did not provoke it, but moved it from under the tree to the other side.
It wasn't until after the feet landed that she breathed out softly, reached out and grabbed the crow squatting on top of her head. The crow flapped its wings and flew, landing on a branch not far in front of her and staring at her.
That arrogant little look, as if saying, "Small, you want to catch me too?"
"Somehow you helped me too, I won't care about you." She said, touching her head, still a little bit painful when the crow caught her.
The wound on her body was still oozing blood, so she sat down first, took out the herbal medicine from the small bag, chewed it up and applied it on the wound, and then simply bandaged it.
The crow tilted his head and stared at her there, a pair of small black eyes turning around, not knowing what he was thinking.
Tangning didn't attack her when she saw it, but just kept staring at her, so she stood up and looked around.
This is a protruding place on the cliff wall, surrounded by vines, and the wall is covered with moss. It is probably impossible to climb up.
Looking down again, the clouds and mist were filled, and there seemed to be a faint roar of beasts coming from below. Since they couldn't go up, they could only go down. So, she put the burden on her back, wrapped her hands with cloth strips, grabbed one of the vines, and slid down.
"Why do you say that the crow is the Annunciation?"
Suddenly, Tang Ning’s hand, who was crawling down, slipped, quickly grasped the vine and looked around. There was no one. His eyes couldn’t help but fall on the crow who was following her flapping its wings. It watched for a while.
"Are you talking?"
"It's Lao Tzu who is talking, why do you say that the crow is the Annunciation?" The crow flapped its wings and stared at her, looking serious.
Tangning was stunned, thinking to herself, can the fierce beast speak human words? Doesn't it seem?
She just paused, and then smiled: "The crow is a filial bird. When the little crow grows up, she knows how to support her mother. In ancient times, there was even a saying that the crow was a divine bird. It was just because crows like to eat carrion, wherever they go. There must be a smell. Gradually, the crow is spread as an ominous symbol. I feel that the crow's call must be a disaster, but it is not."
She thought of when she first saw the crow yelling, she said something casually, and then asked: "You helped me earlier because I said a crow to say goodbye?"
When the crow heard what she said, his entire head was raised high, and his black eyes turned skeletal, as if to say that somebody finally knew how to appreciate it.
Therefore, after hearing Tangning's question, he opened his mouth and yelled twice: "Dumb! Dumb! You are the first human to say that the crow is an Annunciation."
Tangning couldn't help but laughed, "That's it." She really made a mistake!
The crow flapped its wings and flew around in front of her staring at her, as if looking at something, half a moment, in a benevolent tone: "Human, it's rare for you to have such a vision, I decided , I want to make a contract with you!"
Hearing this, Tangning had a pause in crawling down, and glanced at the crow, thinking, if she refused directly, would this vine be torn off by it? Then fell a dead body?
After thinking about it, she coughed lightly and said with a serious face: "Although I want to make a contract with you, I can't, because you are a bird and belong to the sky, not to me."