Before going to bed, my father, mother and daughter are lying in bed. )

Daughter: Dad, tell me a story!

Dad: What's the story?

Daughter: Tell a story of "Hippo and Hippo".

Dad: OK. The vast East African prairie is home to many animals, including herds of wildebeests, antelopes and zebras, solitary leopards and fierce lions. Of course, there is another animal that only exists here, and that is hippo. Hippos live in rivers all the year round and never go ashore unless necessary.

The African prairie has four distinct seasons, which are divided into dry season and rainy season. In the dry season, the weather is bad and hot, and it seldom rains. The sun seems to be squeezing all the water out of the ground, but it just shines brightly. What about the sky? But refused to rain a drop, the area of the river became smaller and smaller, the turbulent river gradually turned into small ditches, and finally it was divided into small pools, where hippos gathered and lived a tight life.

Little hippo ... Kiki, let's give the little hippo a name!

Daughter: (thinking) Just call it Xiao Hou!

Dad: OK, let's call it Xiao Hu. Xiao Hu, a hippo, was born in a dry season not long ago. What an unfortunate baby!

The little hippo was crowded in the muddy pool, surrounded by his uncle, sister and aunt, one bigger than the other, which crushed the little hippo.

How the little hippo wants to rain quickly! When it rains heavily, the river will rise, and after it rises, it will not be so wronged.

It waits and waits! I stare blankly at the clouds in the sky from time to time, but the rainy season it expects never comes.

On this day, a zebra came to a small pool to drink water. The little hippo asked the zebra, "Mr. zebra, when will it rain?"

The zebra looked at the little hippo, took a sip of the muddy water and said, "Soon, soon."

A few days later, a wildebeest also came to the pool to drink. The little hippo asked it again, "Mrs. wildebeest, when will it rain!" " "

The wildebeest bent down and took a sip of water, feeling that his mouth was full of sand. When he spit out the sand, he answered the little hippo, "Soon, soon."

Both zebra and wildebeest say it's fast. The little hippo is very happy. How he wishes the rainy season would come soon. He has never seen what the real rainy season looks like until now. Not only it, but almost all the animals on the grassland are looking forward to the rainy season.

A few days later, the little hippo looked at the sky blankly again Slowly, he saw more and more clouds in the sky, from white to gray, to lead, and finally almost to ink. It's like night. There was a loud crash across the sky, followed by a downpour.

All animals know that the rainy season is coming.

Although it rained heavily, strangely, no one went to shelter from the rain. Everyone stood quietly in the rain, letting the raindrops hit their faces and bodies as if they were being baptized. As long as they hide, it's a pity for this interest-free gift of nature.

It rained for many days at once. The river stopped drying up and began to gurgle. The river stopped flowing and became a Wang Yang. The bare land is full of new green, small flowers and vitality, and it is no longer as lifeless as before.

Where is the little hippo? Finally, I stopped crowding with my uncle and aunt. The whole river has become unprecedentedly open. Everyone has a large area of water and can swim freely. The little hippo is very happy, experiencing the smoothness that has never been seen since birth.

It looks at the waters where it lives. Everything is white and has no end. On the other side of the river, it is hazy and foggy, only a trace of green can be seen vaguely, and I don't know whether it is aquatic plants or terrestrial plants.

Within a hundred miles of Fiona Fang, there seems to be no land, only endless water.

"Great, this river." The little hippo can't help but sigh.

After the rain, the river flows westward until it flows into the sea. One day, the little hippo was carried away and came to the sea with the current. As soon as he saw the sea, he knew how big it was. I see that the sea is illusory, water and sky are the same color, with no edge and no green at all, only endless water and waves.

The little hippo can't help admiring: "This is really big! In contrast, the river is so small! "

"Really?" The little hippo was feeling lonely when he heard a voice coming from the sea. He buried his head in the water, followed the sound and saw a small sea horse swimming over. The little seahorse said to the hippo, "The sea is already very big. All the rivers in the world flow to it, but its water has not increased by a cent. Dig a hole and drain it. Not a penny will be lost. It looks big, but there are bigger waters than it. "

"Is there a bigger water area than it?" The little hippo asked puzzled.

"yes."

"Where is that?"

"Looking at the starry sky at night, you will see a Tianhe. The water in Tianhe is wider than the sea. I don't know how many times. It has been flowing for a long time, I don't know how many years. I don't know where it starts or where it ends. That's a big one! "

The little hippo thought about it. It did see a wide Tianhe reflected in the night sky, but it didn't know it was so big.

"Was there a hippo in the river that day?" The little hippo asked puzzled.

"Of course, hippos call it Tianma. Its back is so wide and its legs are so thick that it can swallow the sun and the moon with one mouth and cross the stars with one lift. The starry sky is its playground and the sun is its marble. What is even more amazing is that there is not only one such Tianma, but there are infinitely many horses. "

The little hippo was fascinated by it. What a "wild horse"! I didn't expect such a big thing in the world, so it's not even a speck of dust.

Daughter: Dad, I think the crocodile is coming.

Dad: Really, the crocodile is coming. They are a group of saltwater crocodiles living in the estuary. When they saw the little seahorse, they were going to hunt, but the little seahorse was too small and hid behind the reef, so the crocodile could never find it again.

Daughter: The crocodile ate the baby hippo.

Dad: Crocodiles can't catch hippos, so they come to catch hippos, but hippos' mothers, uncles and aunts all come to find hippos. Crocodiles are too big for them to see hippos. They can't compete with hippos, so when they meet in the river, they have to make way for hippos and avoid them. So they ran away immediately.

The story is over.