Zhang Zian felt that the young man with the temperament of an artist was also somewhat familiar, but he had no time to think about it because listening to his complaints made Zhang Zian sneeze again and again.
Could it be that the police officer surnamed Sheng was right? His body was wet with seawater, and he walked around without drying up, causing him to catch a cold?
The young man was tired of complaining and bent down to pick up the birdcage to go home. At this time, his eyes turned and he saw a figure walking out of the alley.
It was a middle-aged woman with a kind face, but he couldn't tell her specific age because her eyes were sometimes clear like a teenager's and sometimes muddled like a dying man's.
When she walked to the entrance of the alley, she looked expectantly at the side of the intersection, as if waiting for someone.
The young man saw the figure and his hands trembled. He threw the birdcage and ran over, pulling her and saying, "Mom! Why did you run out by yourself? Where's the nanny? "
She looked at him blankly and said, "Dongyue is about to leave school. He won't let me pick him up from school. I've been standing here waiting for him to come back …"
The young man was speechless.
The birdcage that was thrown fell to the ground and rolled to the side. It was about to roll off the curb and might be crushed by a car. The parrot inside panicked and squawked. Zhang Zian walked over and stopped the birdcage with his feet.
The black cloth covering the birdcage was covered with dust, and the fastening buckle had loosened in the rolling. A corner of the black cloth had opened up, revealing a gray bird feather and a pair of small black eyes that were rolling around in the birdcage.
"Ga ga! Imprisonment play! Eye patch! Mouth ball! "
It fluttered its wings and spat out words of unknown meaning from its beak.
Zhang Zian was speechless.
He couldn't agree more with the young man's complaints. This parrot really made people speechless. The young man took it with him all the way, and he didn't know how many weird looks it had endured. It was simply shameful play …
"What nonsense is this … I don't know what this bird is saying! Can you understand it? "
In order to avoid Zhuang Xiaodie's misunderstanding, he went back to clarify.
Zhuang Xiaodie was speechless.
Other pedestrians passed by and heard these words coming from the birdcage … Ordinary people could not understand, and they all looked at him as if he had seen a ghost.
"Mom! How many times have I told you! Don't run around! You can't go out by yourself! Why are you always … sigh! "The young man sighed repeatedly, his expression filled with helplessness.
He didn't dare to let go of her, for fear that if he let go, she would run into the road and be hit by a car. He turned around and saw Zhang Zian helping him stop the birdcage. He said, "Friend, can you do me a favor and help me bring the birdcage over? Thank you! "
Zhang Zian nodded, picked up the birdcage, walked over, handed it to him, and asked, "Do you know what bird this is?"
"Not a parrot?" The young man was startled.
"It is a parrot, but this is an African grey parrot. It is an endangered and protected animal that is prohibited from private trading and raising by the state. This kind of parrot cannot be raised privately unless you apply for a breeding license," Zhang Zian explained. "There are also cases of people being sentenced for privately raising grey parrots..."
"Quack! At least three years, the death penalty is not a bad deal! "The grey parrot seamlessly continued the conversation.
"It's a huge loss to be sentenced to death for raising parrots, okay?" Zhang Zian subconsciously complained, but immediately realized that it was not the right place and time to complain.
Strangely enough, as soon as he heard its voice, he couldn't maintain his serious persona.
"Well … I really don't know. I don't know anything about this." The young man frowned, glanced at his mother worriedly, and said, "My mother's brain is a little confused. She always thinks about a pair of talking parrots that she raised before. I don't know what kind it is, so I went to the pet shop and bought one … No wonder this parrot was not displayed in the open. I said I wanted to buy a talking parrot, and the shop owner sneakily ran to the back and brought this one, and the price was very cheap. It turns out that it is a protected animal that is not allowed to be traded … What should I do?"
Zhang Zian roughly understood, and he also saw that the older woman should have unfortunately suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which was currently incurable by medicine. The hippocampus, which was responsible for memory, had lesions, so she often showed signs of memory confusion. She couldn't even recognize her own son...
Wait a minute, memory confusion?
He felt that his memory seemed to be a little chaotic, as if he couldn't remember something that should be remembered. Was it the same for him … It shouldn't be the case, right?
"You didn't ask the shop owner where this parrot came from?" he asked.
The young man nodded, "I saw him sneaking around, and I was suspicious, so I asked. The shop owner said that he picked it up – he was watching a movie on the computer, and the parrot flew in from the window and watched with him. He caught it conveniently …"
"Quack! Calcium tablets! Calcium tablets! "the grey parrot cried again.
"You see, it always likes to answer people's questions, and it always answers inexplicably. Where did the calcium tablets come from?" The young man shook his head helplessly.
Zhang Zian laughed twice, "I don't understand … Which pet shop is it? I have to walk around in the future … "
The young man: "???"
"No, I mean, it's not good to let the old lady raise this kind of parrot that is prohibited by the state, right? Also, it's always talking nonsense … "Zhang Zian quickly changed the topic.
"You're right, if it is prohibited by the state, I definitely can't let my mother raise it. She is already like this, if she gets sued for raising a parrot, it's really not worth it … I can't raise it either, if I get sued, who will take care of her …" The young man sighed.
He carried the birdcage in one hand and supported his mother with the other. He seemed to be in a dilemma. On the one hand, he had to send his mother home, and he couldn't let her walk around outside, because if she got sick, she was likely to get lost. On the other hand, if he sent his mother home with the birdcage, if the neighbors or nannies saw the grey parrot in the cage, they might spread the news … Maybe they didn't know that it was illegal to raise a grey parrot privately, but there must be people who knew.
Most importantly, he bought this parrot because it could talk, but the words it said … were obviously not suitable for his mother to hear.
"Friend, do you know what to do with this parrot?" He asked. "Since I can't raise it, I can't take it home. Fortunately, it didn't cost much, and I just bought it as a lesson. But if I just let it go, I don't know if it can survive in the wild … Maybe it will be picked up by someone and raised at home, and then it will be sued."
"It should be to contact the relevant departments, such as the zoo or something." Zhang Zian was not sure. Seeing that the young man was really in a dilemma, he volunteered and said, "If you trust me, give it to me. I will help you contact the relevant departments and send it to where it should go."
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