Once there lived two pigeons（鸽子）. They were husband and wife. They spent their time looking for food in the forest. One evening, the wife returned home early. As usual she was waiting for her husband to have dinner, when suddenly it started raining. She was worried.
Just then, she saw a bird-catcher（捕鸟人）coming towards her. In a cage（笼子）he had a pigeon. It was her husband.
Soon, it stopped raining, but the bird-catcher's clothes were wet. The poor wife sat by her husband's cage. And she started to cry. The husband said, "Don't feel sad, dear. We now have a guest. This man is cold and hungry. He needs your help." Hearing this, the wife flew around to get dry twigs（细枝）. She made a fire for the bird-catcher. Then she looked at the bird-catcher and said, "You are our guest. Since I have no food to offer, I will jump into the fire. You can eat me."
The bird-catcher was overwhelmed by the hospitality of the humble pigeon.He stopped the wife from jumping into the fire. He opened the cage and set the husband free. The two pigeons were happy to be together.
