little Prince

Chapter 27

Beside this well in the desert is a dilapidated stone wall.The next night, when I came back from work on the plane, I saw the little prince sitting on the wall with his legs slumped.I heard him say, "Why don't you remember?" He said, "This is definitely not the place."

There must have been another voice answering him, and I heard the little prince answer, "Yes, yes, the day is right; but the place is not here..."

I continued walking towards the wall.I could not see whom the little prince was talking to, nor did I hear any other voices.The little prince was still answering: "Of course. You can find out where my footprints started in the sand, and just wait for me there. I will go there tonight."

I'm about 20 meters away from the wall now, but I still can't see anything.

The little prince was silent for a while and said: "Is your venom effective? Do you promise that it won't make me suffer for a long time?"

After hearing this, I walked forward anxiously. I didn't understand why the little prince said that.

"Then come now, I'm coming down!" said the little prince.

At this time, I also walked to the corner, and immediately looked towards the foot of the wall, and I was shocked.Just around the corner, a yellow snake straightened up and rushed at the little prince.Once this yellow snake bites you, it can end your life within half a minute.I quickly reached into my pocket, drew my pistol, and ran over.

However, as soon as the snake heard my footsteps, it burrowed into the sand like a jet of water.It moved unhurriedly through the crevices of the stones, making a soft sound like metal clashing.

As soon as I reached the wall, I held my little friend in my arms. His face was as pale as snow.

"What are you doing? You actually talked to the snake!" I untied the golden scarf he had been wearing all the time.I wet his temples with water and let him drink some water.At this time, I dare not ask him anything, he looks so weak.

The little prince looked at me seriously, and put his arms around my neck.I felt his heart beating like he was dying after being hit by a bullet.he told me:
"I'm glad you fixed your machine. You'll be home soon."

"How do you know?" I asked him suspiciously.

I came this time just to tell him that I had fixed my machine after all hope had gone.

He didn't answer my question, but continued: "Me too, today, I'm going home."

Then, he looked at me sadly, "It's much farther and harder for me to go home."

I clearly felt that something very bad was going to happen to my little friend.I held him in my arms, like holding a child, tightly.But I can still feel that he is slowly sinking into a bottomless abyss that I can't touch. I want to reach out and grab him, but I can't catch him no matter what.

The little prince looked into the distance with very serious eyes.

"Look, I have the lamb you drew, the box for the sheep and the muzzle for the sheep..." He laughed sadly.

I held him for a long time before I felt his body gradually warm up.

"Little guy, you're frightened," I told him.

He must be scared, that's for sure!

But the little prince smiled at me gently and said, "I think I'll be even more afraid tonight."

I realized again that the irreparable would still happen.I felt that my heart was cold all of a sudden, like being soaked in ice water for an instant.I can't bear the thought of never hearing his laugh again.During this week, the laughter of the little prince was like a spring in the desert to me.

"Little prince, I still want to hear you laugh."

The little prince didn't smile. He said to me, "Tonight will be the first anniversary of my arrival on earth. My planet will be in the sky above the place where I landed last year. Look, that's it."

"Little guy, you said the snake thing was a nightmare?"

The little prince still didn't answer me, he said to me: "The important things are invisible."

"Yeah." I can only nod at this moment.

"It's like my little rose. If you fall in love with a rose on your planet, even if it's common, even if you look up at the night sky and don't see your stars, even so, when you see When you look at the sky, you will still feel sweet and happy, as if all the stars are blooming with your favorite flower."

"Yeah." I think I'm going to cry.

"This principle is also like water. You see, when you draw water, you turn the pulley, pull the rope, and make these tools creak. The well water you drink for me is like music. Do you know that? This water is the best water I have ever drunk."

"Ah."

"At night, you look up at the stars. My star is too small to show you where it is. But it's better. You can think that my star is between these stars. Then, you will love all the stars in the sky. These stars will be your friends. And, I have a gift for you."

The little prince laughed.

"Little guy, kid, I love hearing your laughter!"

"This is my gift to you, like a gift like water."

"What gift are you talking about?"

"The stars that people see are not all the same. To the traveler, the stars are guides that point the way. To others, the stars are little lights. To some scholars, The stars are what they study. To the industrialist I met, the stars are money. But none of these stars can speak."

"What do you mean by saying this?"

"At night, when you look at the sky, and I live in one of the stars, and I laugh in one of the stars, then it will seem to you that all the stars are facing each other. If you laugh, all the stars you see will be laughing stars!"

Having said that, he laughed again.

"Then, after you've comforted yourself, you'll be glad you got to know me. We'll be friends forever, and you'll want to be with me, to play, to laugh. Sometimes, you'll even Involuntarily open the window and look at the sky and laugh. Your friends will wonder. Then you can say to them: 'Yes, the stars always make me want to laugh!'

They'll think you're crazy.At this time, my pranks will embarrass you.It's as if instead of stars I gave you a bunch of little bells that will make you laugh. "

He is still smiling.Then he gets serious:

"Tonight, if you know this, don't come."

"I do not want to leave you."

"I'm going to look miserable, I feel like I'm going to die. You go, don't look at this, it's not necessary."

"I'm not leaving."

The little prince looked worried about me. "I'm telling you this because of the snake. If it comes back again, it will bite you. Snakes are very bad things. They always bite people casually."

"I'm not leaving."

At this time, the little prince seemed to have remembered something, and he was no longer so worried, "By the way, the venom is gone when it bites for the second time."

I didn't see him leave that night.He left quietly while I was asleep.

When I found out he was gone, I started looking for him.

At last they caught up with him, who was walking firmly and quickly.He just said to me, "Oh, you're here."

At this time, he took my hand and said to me very worriedly: "Why did you chase after me, you will feel very uncomfortable seeing me like that, I may die, I hope this is not true."

I was silent.

"You know, I'm still a long way home, I can't do that, I'm too heavy right now."

I still don't speak.

"However, it's like throwing away the old stuff, and there's nothing to be sad about."

I remained silent.

He was a little discouraged, but quickly picked himself up again, "It's going to be fine, you know. I'll definitely watch the stars too. All the stars are wells with rusty pulleys, and all the stars will fall." Give me water to drink."

I can't speak.The little prince went on: "What fun it will be! You will have five hundred million bells, and I will have five hundred million wells."

After he finished speaking, he was also silent, and the little prince finally cried.

"It's here, where I landed, you go, let me stay by myself for a while."

He sat down because he was scared.

The little prince kept saying: "You know, my flower is so weak, and I have to take care of it. It can't protect itself at all, and it can't resist the harm of the outside world."

"My flower... I am responsible for it! And it is so weak! It is so innocent! She only has four insignificant thorns, to protect herself and resist foreign enemies..."

I also sat down because I couldn't stand anymore.

"That's all, I said it all," he said.

He hesitated, then stood up.One step forward, and I can't move.

There was a flash of yellow light near his ankle.

For a moment he couldn't move anymore.He didn't yell.He fell to the ground lightly, probably because of the sandy ground, there was not even a sound at all.

(End of this chapter)