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Chapter 9 Temptation of Eros (2)
A few days later, the prince and his friends came to the capital of Karnataka.The young minister dressed the prince and himself as travelers and went to an open field in the suburbs to set up a tent.After all these things were settled, the courtiers found a divination woman and asked her to help predict the prince's luck.Later, the prince asked his friend why, and the courtier replied that the old woman who specializes in divination is not sure about the present, but she is very accurate in predicting the future.

"Damn it! Are you talking about something immoral?" asked the prince angrily.The courtier's answer was no, but he had to tell the truth.

At this time, the courtier saw an old woman who was sitting in front of her house spinning and weaving.The two young people came to the old man, greeted her politely, and said, "Old mother, we are travelers here, and we have a lot of goods coming in. We are now looking for a place to live. If you can rent Give us a room and we'll pay you high rent."

Looking at the two young men in front of her, the old woman actually liked them very much in her heart.For the two young men were handsome, thick-browed, and generous-looking.After hearing these words, the old man kindly said to them: "I have a hut, as long as you like, you can live in it." After speaking, he took them to that hut, apologized for the shabbyness of his house, and told them You can rest now.

After a while, the old man came to the hut, sat down and began to do household chores.The minister's son asked some questions about her family, relatives and other personnel, and asked her what she did for a living. The old man replied: "My son is a servant in the palace. King Dantavat thinks highly of him. I used to be a king. The eldest child is the nanny of Princess Parmavadi." She continued: "Although I live here, the king gives me food and drink. I go to see the princess every day. She is a peerless beauty and smart. Kind, versatile. Later, I didn't do anything in the palace, and I was alone at home, and I often felt sad when I was alone."

A few days later, the young Mulamkud slowly recovered under the care of the old man, and his face became rosy.The old man was going to the palace to see the beautiful Princess Parmavadi the next day, and the prince begged her to send her a letter written by him.The old man was very kind, and she told him that she would slip the letter into the princess' hands secretly.

"Son," said the old man happily, "if it's something urgent, you don't have to wait until tomorrow. Write the letter quickly, and I'll send it to the princess right now."

The prince was almost jumping for joy, and he went out at once to find his companion, to tell him the happy news.The courtier was reading a book in the garden as usual, and the prince racked his brains on how to write this letter, how to use rhetoric and how to arrange the sentence structure.He was also afraid that his language would be too clumsy, and the feelings he expressed would not be sincere enough.Seeing his bewildered look, the minister's son smiled. He comforted the prince not to bother, then took out a bottle of ink and a tube of sharp pens, and took a piece of pink letter paper with flowers.When everything was ready, the courtier quickly wrote a few lines.After writing, the courtier folded the letter paper and put it in an envelope, and then drew a beautiful lotus flower on the back of the envelope.The courtier gave the letter to the prince, asked him to give the letter to the old man, and then waited for a reply.

The old man staggered towards the palace with the letter.As soon as he arrived at the palace, the old man saw the princess sitting alone in her bedroom.Seeing the old man coming in, the princess stood up immediately, bowed respectfully to the old man, then asked her to sit down, and began to hold hands and greet her.After exchanging pleasantries, the old man said to the princess: "Oh, my son! You are drinking my milk, I watched you grow up, thank God for your beauty, health and kindness. The only thing I want now is The thing is that you can have a happy life so that I can go away with peace of mind. I have a letter for you today from a young man who is by far the most handsome and perfect man I have ever seen young people."

The princess carefully looked at the lotus flower on the back of the envelope for a long time, and then slowly opened the letter. The contents of the letter are as follows:
she is a pearl

deep in the sand
This pearl exists for the crown
She radiates pure and beautiful light
she is a ray of sunshine

Let the haze and cold of winter fade away without a trace
She lit up my heart like that for a moment

But left me in a hurry
She is my sweet dream given by God
Come when I'm dying
That brief moment of happiness surges
soon became a passing cloud
light

Please illuminate my heart again
Pearl

Please light up my eyes again
sweet dream

please hug me again

No!This world can't be heaven
Here's a side note: To make these poems work so well, the minister's son repeated the last stanza three times.He said: The hearts of lovers are either full of prayers, despair or ecstasy.This time he adopted a prayerful tone.And the following two verses express despair:
The joy of life is dead, dead
The sun is swallowed by the darkness bit by bit
The fire of hope in my heart is extinguished
What can save me from the grave now

As he said, it's a sign of the disappearance of happiness

Oh the pearls are mine again
It's so bright and refreshing during the day
It's all real, no more nothing
God gave me a sweet dream

oh heaven is here
Princess Parmavadi read the poem carefully from beginning to end, showing contempt.She tore up the letter, and said to the nurse very angry, "Oh, you bad nurse, go away and take this home." She pushed the torn paper to the old man, "Give it to that fool. I don't know how he is so stupid. You go, don't do such a thing in the future."

The old man was very sad when he heard this, and went home sad.Mulamkud was waiting for the old man to come back on the road.The old man told the truth about what happened, including the contemptuous expression of the princess.The prince was very disappointed. He seemed to feel that someone had shot an arrow in his chest.Fortunately, he is relatively lucky, he can also discuss countermeasures with a friend.

"Don't worry, don't despair, my prince!" said the minister's son, who felt that the prince was very sad now. "You don't understand what she means. You will understand later: nine out of ten women are saying' No', but she meant 'yes'. This morning should have started off pretty well. The woman asked where you learned it from, but she meant 'who are you?' '"

The next day, the prince revealed the statement of the minister's son to the old man, and the old man said that he thought so too.The old man decided to go to the palace and talk to the princess about it again.She came to the palace again, hugged her princess happily, and then said to her: "The king's son has been fascinated by you by the pool. This month, on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the prince came to my house and asked me to convey to you He means: 'As promised, here we come.' At the same time, I also want to tell you how this prince is worthy of your love. You are simply a couple made in heaven."

After hearing these words, the princess became even more furious. After she painted sandalwood on her ten fingers, she stepped forward and slapped the old man heavily on the face, and burst into tears: "You witch, immediately Get out, didn't I tell you? Don't say such stupid things in front of me."

The prince who fell in love, like the old nanny, was very sad about this situation, but the courtier explained the woman's reaction in this way: "Sandalwood was painted on the ten fingers, and then the old man was slapped. It means that she will meet you in the dark night, but how will you pass the ten nights when the moon is shining?" The courtier also told the prince that Princess Parmavadi is too smart and definitely not an easy wife to manage.The minister's son is especially annoying to quick-witted women.He had heard that in the land of the snake (the underworld), the relationship between the debating priest and the learned female writer had always been bad, and it was similar on earth.Since he became a philosopher, the women he likes are the kind of women who are small and exquisite, plump, talkative, have low IQ, and value material things more.

After returning to the hut, the minister's son said to the prince that he should be good at using all his wisdom to deal with the problem.This advice, however, was rudely rejected by the prince, as it had no direct connection with his immediate concerns.The minister's son blamed himself deeply for not listening to his father's teachings, so he decided that he would not actively give advice in the future, unless the prince came to him on his own initiative, otherwise, he would just convey it.

Ten moon nights passed, and the old man came to the palace again.This time the princess wore saffron on three of her fingers, and again she slapped the nurse across the face.The courtier explained that the princess hoped to meet again in three days, and the prince would definitely see the princess on the fourth day.

Three days later, the nurse came to the palace again.The old man kindly asked about the princess's body.The princess was as angry as before, and took the old man to the west gate, called her "Elephant Trunk Mother" (the mother of the Two-faced God, who later had an elephant's head), and drove her away with a wooden stick.After hearing this, the courtier pondered for a while.After a while he said: "The Princess means that she will see you tomorrow night, at the door of that door."

The next day, when night fell and the first star lit up in the sky, the minister's son began to make the prince get ready as soon as possible. In fact, the prince spent most of the day taking care of it.He carefully shaved his beard over and over again, trimmed his mustache very neatly, trimmed his eyebrows into curls, plucked out the surrounding fine hairs with tweezers, and drew a few bright antimony lines on his eyelids , with a very bright sectarian symbol on his forehead, chewing betel nuts in his mouth, the color of his lips has become very bright.

"Everyone will think you're talking about a stupid girl, not a princess, hell," interrupted Wickram, not wanting his son to hear such a frivolous story.

He had his neck shaved clean (continued the vampire, speaking very quickly, as if he did not want to be interrupted), the tips of his ears squeezed red, his teeth painted with brass The layer of dye on the fingertips also makes the fingers a lot more graceful and refined.He adorned himself with care: a beautifully woven turban that took two hours to make; a regal brown coat, chosen just for the date; he looked like a hero— —the kind of hero girls look up to and adore.

Moulemkud asked how the people around him were doing, and he smiled happily when they said "wonderful".So he asked the minister's son how he could perform best.

"Become a conqueror, Your Majesty the Prince." The young man said, "If you appear as a conqueror, then when you want to win a woman, you will try to influence her. Make her feel She loves you, and she will adore you. Your actions should show that you have her as nothing more than a slave, and that she will be your servant. But first of all, notice what a man calls humility and women call it humility. A deadly 'virtue' for cowardice. Again, after avoiding the obstacle of 'humility', I would also say that you must not fall into the trap of bursting with confidence. But a young woman her age , once she is ready to fall in love, her defensiveness will be completely lost. That's all, let's go."

The two young men crept through the shadows of the wood until they came to the west gate of the palace, and found it ajar ajar.The minister's son slipped in and saw the gatekeeper dozing off.Behind him, a veiled woman stood there, seemingly waiting for someone.Then he quietly returned to his master, encouraging him to go boldly through the little door.He listened outside the door for a while, then returned to the old man's hut.

As Mulamkud walked down the stairs, he felt the veiled woman grab his hand and lead him to move briskly forward.After passing through several arches, entering some dark corridors, crossing several thresholds, and climbing a set of stone steps, they came together to the princess' residence.

The magnificent room in front of him almost made Mulamkud faint.After calming down, he looked around the room, and the joy that overflowed from his soul made his whole body light (the Indians have a saying that unexpected joy makes the body very light).The room was like a fairyland: the most expensive spices burned in golden censers, the most beautiful flowers were inserted in vases inlaid with jade; The characters in the paintings hanging above are full of magic, and the viewers seem to be brought into a magical world.A flower bed and a bench covered with gold satin and decorated with fresh jasmine flowers are placed in one corner of the room.Flower oil holders, betel box, rose water bottle, trays and silver four-tier containers are placed at the other end.

(End of this chapter)