First update, seeking pinks.
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Under the eaves of the West Wing Room where Lian Manman's family lived, directly above where Lady Zhang and Lian Zhizhi sat on the kang bed inside the house, there was a swallow's nest larger than the spread hands of an adult.
This swallow's nest had reportedly been around for some years now, and in it at present were a brood of freshly hatched baby swallows, while their parents had both gone out to find food for their little ones.
These days, every morning, Lian Manman woke to the crowing of the rooster and the twittering and chirping of these swallows.
But now, the baby swallows in the nest were all chirping in unison, and the sound was not of their usual joy or hunger but of fright, for slithering along the eaves was a greyish-black "rope", winding its way slowly toward the swallow's nest.
"Mother, there's a long worm!" Lian Manman stepped back and shouted loudly into the house, "Mother, the long worm is going to eat our swallows."
