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Aw, reciprocity. An old man does a kindness for a little bird, and he receives a kindness in return. 

<h4>Some language stuff</h4>
In the last paragraph, the little birds "sing a song for the old man", or "<strong>唱歌给老爷爷听</strong>" [pinyin]chang4 ge1 gei3 lao3 ye2 ye ting1[/pinyin]. You may notice that the characters for "give" (给 [pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) and the character for "listen" (听 [pinyin]ting1[/pinyin]) are in there - why? In Chinese, the way to say "to sing a song for (person)" is "sing a song and give (person) listen". 

<strong>Action + result</strong> - In Chinese, actions are sometimes grouped together in the order in which they happened to express an entire concept. In paragraph two for example, we see 冻 [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin], which means "to freeze" and 死 [pinyin]si3[/pinyin], which means "to die". If you stick them next to each other, you might guess that this means "freeze to death", and you'd be right. First, you freeze, then as a result, you die. 

In that same paragraph, we also see 吹走 [pinyin]chui1 zou3[/pinyin], 吹 meaning "to blow" (like the wind), and 走 meaning "to go away". Put them together, and you get "to blow away", like "the wind blew it away". Similar pattern in the last paragraph in with 着凉生病. 着凉 [pinyin]zhuo liang[/pinyin] means "to catch a chill" and 生病 [pinyin]sheng1 bing4[/pinyin] means "to get sick", so "to get sick as a result of catching a chill". 

All of those examples make sense in English, and can be directly translated, but the final one, 送给 [pinyin]song4 gei3[/pinyin], is a little trickier. 送 means "to send" and 给 means "to give", but this seems repetitive, like the same action is being done twice - where's the result? To understand this, imagine the process of giving someone a present. First, you must deliver it to them in some way - you stretch out your hand if they're in front of you, or put it in the mail - this is 送. Once it is in their hands, it has been given to them, this is 给. So, 送给 is really just the equivalent of the English word "to give".

I'm sure I've just lumped a bunch of technically unrelated grammatical structures together and all the linguists are cringing, but this unprofessional little concept helps me decipher bunches of verbs, so tough linguistic cookies.

<a href="https://www.sohu.com/a/291450108_100010175">Source here</a>.
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<h4>老爷爷的帽子</h4>
冬天到了，北风<span class="highlightText">呼呼</span>地吹，天气很冷。有一只小鸟真可怜，它在树枝上冷得发抖。

一位老爷爷走来，看见了小鸟，心想："这只小鸟多可怜呀，这么冷的天，它一定会<span class="highlightText">冻死</span>的。"小鸟对老爷爷说："风把我们的窝<span class="highlightText">吹走</span>了，我们没有家了。"老爷爷说："别着急，我来帮你们想办法。"老爷爷就用自己的帽子给小鸟做鸟窝，帽子真暖和。

小鸟想到树林里还有许多快要<span class="highlightText">冻死</span>的小鸟，就把它们都叫来，一起飞进了老爷爷的帽子。它们非常感谢老爷爷。以后老爷爷也天天来看小鸟，小鸟们每次都<span class="highlightText">唱歌给老爷爷听</span>。

有一天老爷爷没有来，原来他病了。小鸟想："一定是爷爷把帽子给了我们，自己<span class="highlightText">着凉生病</span>了，我们赶快给老爷爷做顶帽子吧。"小鸟们就用自己的羽毛做了一顶帽子<span class="highlightText">送给</span>老爷爷。老爷爷非常感谢小鸟，他的病很快就好了。

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Winter had come, the north wind blew <em>whoo whoo</em>, and the weather was very cold. There was a small pitiful bird, sitting on a tree branch so cold it was shivering.

An old man walked by, saw the little bird, and thought to himself: "This little bird so pitiful, on a day as cold as this, it will surely freeze to death." The little bird said to the old man: "The wind blew our nest away, we have no home." The old man said: "Don't worry, I'll help you think of a solution." The old man then used his own hat and gave it to the little bird to make a nest, the hat was very warm. 

The little bird realized that in the forest there were still quite a few little birds who would soon freeze to death, so it called them all to come, and together they flew into the old man's hat. They all profusely thanked the old man. Thereafter, the old man came every day to see the little birds, and each time the little birds sang a song for the old man.   

One day the old man didn't come, turns out he was ill. The little bird thought: "Surely [because] the old man gave us his hat, he caught a chill and got sick, let's quickly make a hat for the old man." So the little birds used their own feathers to make a hat and gave it to the old man. The old man profusely thanked the little birds, and his illness was quickly cured. 

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