The villager cautiously reached in and caught one, then closed the cage door tightly, finally opening his palm. The sparrow shook its wings and flew skyward.
It turned in the air, flying towards the southeast.
Just as it flew straight ahead, a sound echoed in the air, a stone shot out rapidly, hitting the sparrow, and it fell to the ground.
Xia Wenjin gave Huangfu Jingchen a thumbs-up, then said to the villager, "The second one!"
There were five in total in the cage.
The villager caught another one, releasing it carefully as before.
The sparrow first swayed in the villager's palm, then flapped its wings and flew out.
Similarly, it flew towards the southeast.
The third one, under the villager's watchful gaze, also flew towards the southeast as expected.
…
Someone shouted, "These sparrows have indeed been trained, they only fly in one direction!"
