The little prince also pulled out the last few baobab seedlings. He's a little sad. He thought he would never come back. On this day, these chores made him feel particularly cordial. When he waters the flowers for the last time, he will cherish her. He found himself on the verge of tears.
"Goodbye." He said to the flowers.
But the flowers didn't answer him.
"Goodbye." He said it again.
The flowers coughed for a while. But not because of a cold.
She finally said to him, "I was really stupid just now." Please forgive me. I hope you can be happy. To his surprise, the flowers didn't complain to him at all. He stood there at a loss and held up the cover. He couldn't understand why she was so gentle and quiet.
"Really, I love you." The flower said to him, "But because of my fault, you didn't pay attention." It has nothing to do with it. However, you are as stupid as me. I hope you can be happy in the future. Put the lid aside, I don't need it anymore. "
"What if the wind comes?"
"My cold is not that bad ... at night.
"If there are bugs and beasts? ……"
"If I want to know butterflies, I can't stand two or three inchworms. It is said that this is beautiful. Who else will come to see me? You're going to fly away. As for big animals, I'm not afraid. I have claws. "
So, she naively revealed her four thorns and said:
"Don't be so goofing around. How annoying! Now that you have decided to leave here, go! "
She was afraid that the little prince would see her cry. She is a very proud flower. ...
Chapter 10:
In the nearby universe, there are several asteroids such as 325, 326, 327, 328, 329 and 330. He began to visit these planets, trying to find something to do and study there.
There lived a king on the first star ball. The king sat on a very simple but dignified throne, wearing a big dress made of purple and black fur on a white background.
When he saw the little prince, he shouted:
"Ah, here comes another topic."
The little prince thought, "He has never seen me. How can he know me? "
How did he know that in the eyes of those kings, the world was simple: everyone was a subject.
The king was very proud because he finally became someone's king. He said to the little prince, "Come closer and let me have a good look at you."
The little prince looked around, trying to find a place to sit down, but the whole planet was filled with the king's gorgeous white and black fur robe. He had to stand there, but he yawned because he was tired.
The king said to him, "yawning in front of the king is against etiquette." I forbid you to yawn. "
The little prince said shamefully, "There is nothing I can do. I have come all the way here and haven't slept yet. "
The king said, "well, I order you to yawn." I haven't seen anyone yawn in years. Yawning is a new thing for me. Come on, yawn again! This is an order. "
"It makes me a little nervous … I can't yawn …" The little prince said with a red face.
"well! Hmm! " The king replied, "Then I … order you to yawn suddenly, suddenly …"
He mumbled, showing a little irritation.
Because all the king wants is for his majesty to be respected He can't stand disobeying his orders. He is an absolute monarch. However, he is very kind and all orders are rational.
He often said, "If I turn a general into a seabird and the general doesn't obey my orders, it's not the general's fault, but mine."
The little prince tried shyly. "May I sit down?"
"I order you to sit down." As the king answered, he solemnly moved his robe with black flowers on a white background.
But the little prince thought it was strange. Why does the king rule such a small planet?
He said to the king, "Your Majesty … please forgive me. I want to ask you …"
The king said quickly, "I order you to ask me."
"Your Majesty ... what do you rule?"
The king said simply: "I rule everything."
"Everything?"
The king gently pointed to his planet and other planets, as well as all the stars.
The little prince said, "rule all this?"
"rule all this."
It turns out that he is not only an absolute monarch, but also the monarch of the whole universe.
"So, do the stars obey you?"
"Of course!" The king said to him, "They must obey at once. I am not allowed to be undisciplined. "
Such power surprised the little prince. If he has such power, he can see not only 43 sunsets a day, but also 72 sunsets, even 100 or 200 sunsets, and he doesn't have to move a chair! Because he remembered his abandoned little planet and felt a little sad, he boldly made a request to the king:
"I want to watch the sunset, please … order the sun to set …"
The king said, "If I order a general to fly from flower to flower like a butterfly, or order him to write a tragic play or become a seabird, if the general doesn't carry out this order, is he wrong or am I wrong?"
"Of course it's your fault." The little prince answered affirmatively.
"Exactly," continued the king. "The requirement for everyone should be what they can do. Authority should first be based on rationality. If you order your people to throw themselves into the sea, they will have to get up and change their lives. My orders are reasonable, so I have the right to be obeyed. "
"What about my proposed sunset?" Once the little prince asks a question, he will never forget it.
"Sunset, you will see. I must set the sun, but according to my ruling science, I must wait until the conditions are ripe. "
The little prince asked, "When will this wait?"
Before answering, the king looked through a thick calendar and said slowly, "hmm!" " Hmm! Sunset is about … about … 7: 40 tonight! You will see that my orders will be followed. "
The little prince yawned again. He regretted not seeing the sunset. He's a little bored. He said to the king, "I don't need to stay here any longer." I'm leaving. "
The king is very proud, because he just had a theme and said:
"Don't go, don't go. I appointed you minister. "
"What minister?"
"Um ... Minister of Justice!"
"But there is no one here to judge."
"It's hard to say," said the king. "I am very old, I this place is small, there is no place to put Luanjia, in addition, I am tired to walk. So I haven't been to my kingdom! "
"oh! But I have already seen it. " The little prince said, leaning down and looking at the other side of the planet.
There's no one there either ...
"Then judge for yourself!" The king answered him. "This is the most difficult. It's much harder to judge yourself than to judge others! If you can judge yourself well, you are a really smart person. "
"Me? I can judge myself anywhere. I don't need to stay here. "
The king said, "Well ... Well ... I think there is an old mouse on my planet. At night, I hear its voice. You can try. You can get a death sentence from time to time. So its life depends on your judgment. However, you should use this mouse moderately and forgive it after every sentence, because there is only one mouse. "
"But I don't want to be sentenced to death. I think I should go. " The little prince replied.
"impossible." Said the king.
But when the little prince was ready, he didn't want to upset the old monarch, so he said:
"If your majesty wants to be obeyed to the letter, you can give me a reasonable command. For example, you can order me to leave in one minute. I think this condition is ripe ... "
The king answered nothing. At first, the little prince hesitated, then sighed and left …
"I sent you as my ambassador." The king quickly shouted.
The king showed great authority.
The little prince said to himself during the trip, "These adults are really strange."
Chapter 11:
On the second planet lived a vain man.
"oh! A person who worships me came to visit! " As soon as the vain man saw the little prince, he shouted at a distance.
In the eyes of vanity, others become their admirers.
"Hello!" Said the little prince. "Your hat is very strange."
"This is used to greet people." The vain man replied, "When people cheer me, I greet them with my hat." It's a pity that no one passed by here. "
The little prince doesn't understand what this means. Say, "hmm? Really? "
The vain man suggested to the little prince, "You pat the other hand with one hand."
The little prince clapped his hands. The vain man humbly raised his hat to meet the little prince.
The little prince thought, "This is much more interesting than visiting the king." So he clapped his hands again. The vain man raised his hat to meet him again.
The little prince did this for five minutes, and then he got a little tired of this monotonous trick and said:
"What should you do to make your hat fall off?"
But this time, vanity will not listen to him, because all vanity can only listen to praise.
He asked the little prince, "Do you really admire me?"
"What do you mean by admiration?"
"Admiring is to admit that you are the most beautiful person on the planet, the most clothed person, the richest person and the smartest person."
"But you are the only person on your planet!"
"Make me happy, please come and enjoy me!"
The little prince shrugged his shoulders gently and said, "I admire you very much, but what makes you so interested?"
So the little prince walked away.
The little prince said to himself on the road, "These adults must be very strange."
Chapter 12:
On the next planet visited by the little prince, there lived an alcoholic. The visit was short, but it made the little prince very sad.
"What are you doing?" The little prince asked the drunk, who sat there quietly, with a pile of wine bottles in front of him, some full and some empty.
"I drink." He replied in dismay.
"Why do you drink?" Asked the little prince.
"In order to forget." The drunkard replied.
The little prince has several poor drunkards. He asked, "What have you forgotten?"
The drunkard bowed his head and confessed, "To forget my shame."
"What are you ashamed of?" The little prince wants to help him.
"I'm ashamed that I drank." When the drunkard finished speaking, he never spoke again.
The little prince left puzzled.
On the trip, he said to himself, "These adults are really strange."
Chapter 13:
The fourth planet is an industrialist's planet. The man was so busy that he didn't even look up when the little prince arrived.
The little prince said to him, "Hello. Your cigarette is out. "
"Three plus two equals five. Five plus seven equals twelve. Twelve plus three equals fifteen. Hello. Fifteen plus seven, 22. Twenty-two plus six, twenty-eight has no time to order any more. Twenty-six plus five, thirty-one ouch! A * * * is 500 million 162273 1. "
"500 million what?"
"hmm? Are you still there? 5.0 1 billion ... I don't know what that is. I have a lot of work … I am serious, but I never have time to chat! Two plus five equals seven ... "
"5.0 1 100 million what?" Repeated the little prince. Once he asks a question, he will never give up.
The industrialist looked up and said:
"I have lived on this planet for fifty-four years and have only been disturbed three times. The first time was twenty-two years ago. I don't know where a scarab came to bother me. It made terrible noise and made me make four mistakes in an account. The second time, eleven years ago, was rheumatism, which was caused by my lack of exercise. I have no time to wander around. I am a serious person. Now ... this is the third time! The result of my calculation is 5. 1 1 billion ... "
"Millions of what?"
Knowing that there is no hope of peace, the industrialist said:
"Millions of little things, these little things sometimes appear in the sky."
"flies?"
"No, it's some shiny little things."
"Is it a bee?"
"No, this is a golden little thing. These little things make lazy people think. I am a serious person. I don't have time to think. "
"Ah, are they stars?"
"Yes, it's a star."
"What are you going to do with these 500 million stars?"
"Five hundred million stars, 162,731. I am a serious person and I am very precise. "
"What are you doing with these stars?"
"What do I need it for?"
"yes."
"Do nothing. They all belong to me. "
"Are the stars yours?"
"yes."
"But I met a king ..."
"Kings don't possess, they just rule. This is not the same thing. "
"What's the use of asking for so many stars?"
"If you have money, you can buy other stars, if someone finds other stars."
The little prince said to himself, "This man thinks a little like that drunkard."
But he asked some questions:
"Why do you have stars?"
"Then who do you think the stars belong to?" The industrialist gave the little prince an unhappy answer.
"I don't know, it doesn't belong to anyone."
"Well, they are mine, because I thought of them first."
"Is that enough?"
"Of course. If you find an ownerless diamond, then the diamond belongs to you. When you find that an island has no owner, then the island is yours. When you first put forward an idea, you got a patent certificate, and the idea belongs to you. Since no one thought of possessing these stars before me, I will possess them. "
Chapter 14:
The fifth planet is very strange. It is the smallest of these stars. There is only enough space on this planet for a street lamp and a person to light it. The little prince can't explain why he needs a street lamp and a lamplighter on this planet, which is located in the corner of the sky and has neither houses nor residents.
But he guessed: "Maybe this person is not normal. But he is better than a king, a vain man, an industrialist and an alcoholic. At least his work has some meaning. When he lights up his street lamp, it is as if he has added a star or a flower. When he put out the street lamp, it was like letting a star or a flower sleep. This job is really great and really useful. "
As soon as the little prince came to this planet, he greeted the man who lit the street lamp with great respect:
"Good morning. -Why did you put out the street lamp just now? "
"Good morning. -This is an order. " Replied the lamplighter.
"What's the order?"
"Is to put out my road lights. -Good evening. "
So he lit the street lamp again.
"Then why did you light it again?"
"This is an order." Replied the lamplighter.
"I don't understand." Said the little prince.
"There is nothing to understand. An order is an order. " Replied the lamplighter. "Good morning."
So he put out the street lamp again.
Then he wiped his forehead with a handkerchief with red squares.
"What I do is a terrible career. It made sense before. Turn off the lights in the morning and turn on the lights at night. The rest of the time, I will rest during the day and sleep at night ... "
"So, the order changed later, right?"
The man who lit the lamp said, "The order has not changed. This is a tragedy!" The earth turns faster every year, but the order hasn't changed. "
"What about the result?" Asked the little prince.
"As a result, I am turning every minute now, and I don't even have time to rest for a second. I turn on the light every minute and turn it off! "
"That's interesting. You only spend one minute here every day?"
"It's not interesting at all," said the lamplighter. "We have been talking together for a month."
"A month?"
"yes. Thirty minutes. Thirty days! -Good evening. "
So he lit the street lamp again.
The little prince looked at him. He liked the lamplighter to be so loyal to his orders. At this time, he remembered that he had moved a chair to look for the sunset. He really wants to help his friends.
"I tell you, I know a way to let you rest. You can have a rest whenever you want. "
"I've always wanted to rest." Said the lamplighter.
Because one can be both loyal and lazy.
The little prince went on to say:
"Your planet is too small, three steps can be around a circle. As long as you walk slowly, you can stay in the sun. When you want to have a rest, just walk like this ... Then, as long as you want during the day. "
"This method can't help me. What I like in life is sleeping. " Said the lamplighter.
"What bad luck." Said the little prince.
"What bad luck." Said the lamplighter. "Good morning."
So he put out the street lamp again.
On the way, the little prince said to himself:
"This person will be looked down upon by others, such as kings, vain people, drunkards and industrialists. But only he won't make me laugh. This may be because he cares about other things, not himself. "