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Chapter 10 Temptation of Eros (3)
Each layer of the container holds the essence made of rose leaves, sugar and spices, refined sandalwood, saffron powder and precious musk.Colorful jars of preserves were strewn across the crystal-white floor.There are also other jars containing various sweets (bottles are considered evil by Indians, and judging by the description of this scene, they are).Maids dressed in various costumes stood side by side according to their positions and identities. Some recited dramas or beautiful poems, some danced lightly, and some played various songs with their shining fingers and shiny arms. Traditional musical instruments, ivory lutes, ebony wind instruments and silver-plated hemispherical bronze drums make harmonious music.All in all, all possible entertainment appliances are here, and words alone cannot describe the magnificence and elegance of this room.

At this time, the woman wearing a veil—the Princess Parmavadi approached him, lifted the veil from her face, and revealed her true face.Mulamkud was simply shocked by the beautiful face in front of him.She seated him in the gazebo, powdered him with sandalwood, put a garland of jasmine around his neck, sprinkled rosewater on his hair, and began to lick him with a peacock with a gold handle. A feather fan cools him down.

Prince Mulamkud knew very well that no matter how hard he tried, he could not get rid of his stupid nature. He said to the wonderful man in front of him: "This fan is not worthy of your delicate hands, (this big fan It is in the shape of an umbrella, the handle is about five feet long, the edges of the fan are neatly trimmed, and the pictures on the fan surface are very beautiful and exquisite. Usually, the servant will stand behind the chair and fan this kind of fan for the master.) Why bother, as long as you see , I feel extremely cool and comfortable. Give me the fan and sit here."

"No, long live my king!" Parmavadi said quickly, with a charming smile on his face, "You came here for me, and I should serve you like this."

At this time, the princess's favorite servant came over, took the fan from the princess, and said, "This is my duty. I should serve you. You can talk about it."

So the lovers started chewing betel leaves.After eating the food in the agate box, the two soon entered into a tender and lingering conversation between lovers.

At this moment, Betal, who was telling the story, stopped suddenly, perhaps to catch his breath.After a while he went on to say:
Its daybreak.The princess hid the prince.When night came again, the lovers reunited and continued their pleasant conversation.In this way, the days passed by.

The prince is deeply infatuated with the princess. For 20 years, he has been living under the strict discipline of his parents. Now, he has completely released himself in front of this stunning beauty. For her, he is willing to give up the whole world.He felt lucky for his good luck. Fate had cast a treasure ten thousand times more precious than Mai Rushi for him when he was young.Parmavadi's beauty, elegance, and wisdom fascinated him, and he could hardly count her good qualities.Every morning, in the company of his lover, he worked hard to learn prose and poetry, such as this proverb about poets:

Who can regain yesterday?Who can predict tomorrow?

Eat, drink, love!The rest are not worth mentioning.

"He uses every means to learn, my lord king!" the devil said to himself, completely oblivious to the "hum" and "bah" sounds from King Wickram's mouth, "after this period of study, , he is already as clever as his lover."

Parmavadi, as we have seen, is a very bright girl, naturally surprised by her lover's dullness, but she likes him, which is in sharp contrast to her character.At first, she acted like so many ordinary women, thinking that he would have a rich imagination like herself, which was far from the case.This is what people often say "great wisdom is like a fool". She thought that what was disguised under this image must be super strong imagination and mature and keen judgment ability.Can't nature show his wisdom in his heroic brow?His beard is so fascinating, how can it be possible that he has only the qualities of generosity, nobility and tolerance?Who else but a hero would have these eyes?Parmavadi was lost in his fantasies.The Moulemkud, who took hours to write a few lines of poetry, didn't pay attention to meter and even misplaced adjectives.Even so, the princess remained infatuated with him and smiled lovingly at her lover.She just laughed when she uttered wise proverbs and what her lover said dimmed like the faint light of a firefly.When she sees that his grammatical mistakes have other meanings, when he repeats other people's jokes, when he uses slang, in her eyes, the lover has the infinite charm of simplicity and simplicity.

She suspects that her lover is plotting all the schemes to win her heart.In fact, however, intelligent women tend to become very blind in matters closely related to themselves.So she said nothing about it.But it was not long before the prince, dazzled by love, spoke out all the slander of love by the minister's son, and the warning that the beautiful princess would eventually fool her husband.

"If I don't take revenge on this bastard in this life," the beautiful princess listened with an angelic smile, while making up her mind in her heart, "I will become the gardener's ass in my next life!"

After secretly swearing, the princess praised the prince to the utmost, saying that his intelligence and wisdom were unmatched, and said that she had always been very grateful, and now she only wanted to become his slave.But she also said that her soul would be at peace only when she met his loyal friend.

"But I believe," she went on, "that my Mulamkud must know perfectly well where his little Parmavadi's soul lies, so that besides asking her to love him, to like him, to adore him, to kiss him, She is not allowed to do anything else!" After saying this, the princess kissed him, convincing him how pedantic and out of place the young courtier was.

Time flies, and a month has passed in a blink of an eye.Because of overeating and lethargy, and never going out to hunt, Mulamkud became very irritable and depressed.His face was as yellow as wax paper, and his eyes were dull.He yawned incessantly, as if he had liver disease, and complained of headaches, loss of appetite, and restlessness.When he is alone in the dead of night, he will think: I have given up everything, but the friend who can help me find happiness-I haven't seen him in 30 days, and I don't know how he is now.

Just as he was thinking wildly, the princess came to his room.The clever girl saw what was on his mind and quickly came up with a countermeasure.She first expressed surprise, saying that he was always changing, and just when he was about to lose his temper, she quoted a wise man:
"A barren wife may be replaced by another woman in the eighth year of marriage; in the tenth year her children are all dead; in the No. 11 year she bears daughters; she will complain about the injustice of fate. "

When the princess realizes that the prince will take this passage as an allusion to his love, she immediately explains that she is referring to his friend who forgot about him:
"My God!" she asked in the sweetest voice, "here you can enjoy the most wonderful happiness, but your heart is not here-how is this possible? Why do you hide me? For fear of me Will you be unhappy? Please don't think of your wife so badly, how could I have the heart to separate you from your friend? He is our benefactor, without him, how could we be together now? "

Having said this, Parmavadi advised him to leave that night and not come back until he regained his composure.She also asked him to bring some sweet meat and cakes to the young friend as a token of her admiration and respect.

Mulamkud hugged the princess tightly like crazy, thanking her very much for understanding him-this made the princess very angry, but she did not show her true inner thoughts on her face, lest her secret be exposed.She quickly turned and left to get the most delicate pastry in the snack box.

Soon she was back with a bag full of all kinds of sweet meats.When the prince was about to leave, she put a bag of sugar plums in his hand and told him it was for that dear friend.In fact, she has tampered with it, and no matter how good his taste is, he will not notice it.The princess was secretly delighted at these seamless preparations.

After numerous parting embraces, the prince walked out of the palace safely with the princess's "gracious" gift.He was in a good mood and walked briskly, and he arrived at the old lady's door not long after.It was very late at night, but his friend was still sitting on the cushion.

As soon as they saw each other, the two young men hugged each other passionately, and then chatted cheerfully about the most intimate topics.The prince looked at his courtiers very haggard, which made him feel very strange and confused.It turned out that this good friend was worried that the prince would be persecuted by the powerful princess.For Mulamkud at the moment, the princess is like an angel, and his new residence is like heaven. "If the talent is properly used, it will bring happiness to a man in the world of two." He said to his friend very solemnly.

But this good friend just shook his head after hearing this.

"Once you've found it, you won't be so stubborn and fastidious," said the young prince in other words, which had once won the princess' heart.

"Hey, you must be jealous of her!" The prince joked mischievously, but the courtier didn't respond, which made him feel a little disappointed: "I know, you are jealous of her intelligence and her love for me. In this world There is no more perfect creation than her. Even a misogynistic man like you, as long as you can feel the message she conveys, you will also have the desire to have her. Look! This is what she carefully prepared Little gift! Eat it quickly, she made it for you with her own hands." The prince took out the sweet meat from his pocket again, "She also said: Thank God, Moulem Kudshin is a man, not a philosopher!"

"This is a message from her! This is what she prepared specially for me!" The good friend asked dryly, "Would you like to tell me how she reacted when she heard my name? "

"That night, I was sitting alone in a chair, thinking of you, and very worried about you. At that moment, the princess came in. She understood what I was thinking, and asked me why I was so sad. I told her you were very sad. Smart. After hearing this, she allowed me to come out of the palace to see you, and also suggested that I bring you these sweet meats. Eat it quickly, and I will be happy."

"Long live my king!" said the courtier, "please allow me to speak my mind: first of all, you should not let her know of my existence, so that she will think that you told her the secret of your right hand and let her go in a blink of an eye. The left hand knows, and you should not share it with another person. Secondly, you should not let her know that you cherish the relationship with me, especially a servant who is not worth mentioning. No matter which woman it is, Doesn't like her lover's or husband's friends."

"What should I do?" the prince asked irritably, "When I fall in love with a woman, I will tell her everything about me without reservation, and I will not consider her inner thoughts at all..."

"When you become more mature, you will throw away these habits." The courtier interrupted the prince and said earnestly, "At that time you will understand that love is just a contest between the sexes. A game of skill: one side tries desperately to gain as much as the other tries to lose less. In the end, the better side wins the game. What you just said is just a habit That's it, and after a year you'll find out that it's easier to betray your thoughts than to hide them. But that's why it's so much fun between the sexes. When you're thinking 'what if she found out What can I do?''What if she doubts me?', you will try to suppress your inner vulnerability in front of her.——Isn't this a kind of fun? You still put these 'well-prepared' gifts Take them away together, otherwise, I will be innocently poisoned to death like those untouchables."

"How is this possible?!" The prince shouted in surprise, completely stunned by the words of the courtier, "No one will do what you said. Even if a person is not afraid of his own kind, at least he will be afraid of the punishment of the gods."

"Why don't I know this truth." The courtier replied, "But, a woman who is in love, what else is there to be afraid of? But, prince, it is easy to know the result." Then he took the old woman "You will see that this poor dog is about to turn into a three-headed dog (the dog that guards the underworld in Indian mythology, guarding Yama), and guards the gate for its amiable master."

(End of this chapter)