Chapter 946 Still the Little Prince

[The next planet the little prince visited was inhabited by an alcoholic.

The visit to this planet was very short, but it made the little prince very sad.

A drunkard sat there silently, with a pile of wine bottles in front of him, some filled with wine, some empty. The little prince couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing?"

"I drink."

he replied gloomily.

The little prince asked again: "Why do you drink?"

The drunkard replied: "In order to forget, in order to forget my shame..."

The little prince already felt a little sorry for the drunkard. He wanted to save the drunkard in front of him who looked very depressed, so he stepped forward and asked with concern: "What are you ashamed of?"

"I'm ashamed that I drink."

After the drunkard finished speaking, he never spoke again.

The little prince left in confusion. During the journey, he said to himself: "These adults are really weird."]

Lu Yu'er smiled bitterly, remembering that she had confessed to Luoyang, but was rejected. During those days, she had used wine to drown her sorrows more than once. The result was just like what Li Bai wrote in his poem: raising a glass to relieve sorrow makes me even more sorrowful...

Just like the little prince said.

These adults are really strange.

After a slight pause, Lu Yu'er continued to look down. Before arriving on the earth, the little prince had visited six small planets. Each small planet had only one resident, in order: the king, the vain person, the drunkard, and the businessman. , the lamplighter and the geographer.

king.

drunkard.

People who love vanity.

Having finished reading these, Lu Yuer continued to read the stories of the businessman, the lamplighter and the geographer. As a result, the last three stories were similar to the previous ones.

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Let us look at businessmen first. Businessmen are very busy.

[In the fifty-four years I have lived on this planet, I have only been disturbed three times. The first time was twenty-two years ago, when a scarab beetle came from nowhere to disturb me. It made a terrible noise and caused me to make four errors in one account. The second time, eleven years ago, was an attack of rheumatism caused by my lack of exercise. I don't have time to hang around. I'm a serious person. Now...this is the third time! The result of my calculation is 500 million...]

Yes, a businessman is a miser.

He only cares about how much property he owns, and his eyes are always fixed on the numbers on the account book. This makes his life always full of busyness, and he doesn't even have time to flick the ashes from his cigarette.

The little prince found him boring.

Therefore, when leaving this planet, the little prince kept sighing like "It's so weird, adults". It is certainly strange to ignore life itself for some meaningless numbers.

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Moving on, this is the story of a lamplighter.

["I work in a terrible profession. It used to be reasonable. I would turn off the lights in the morning and light them up at night. For the rest of the time, I would rest during the day and sleep at night..."

"So, then the orders changed, huh?"

The person who lit the lamp said: "The order has not been changed, and that is where the misfortune lies! For some reason, the planet rotates faster and faster year by year, but the order has not been changed."

"What's the result?" asked the little prince.

"As a result, now, the planet rotates once every minute, and I don't even have a second to rest, because I have to light up and turn off the lights every minute!"]

This is a planet where one minute makes one day!

The lamplighter is a loyal believer who is bound by rules and regulations.

He is a model of sticking to the rules. No matter how great the objective situation has changed, he does not dare to deviate from the "laws of his ancestors" in the slightest. Even if the little prince gives suggestions, he is not willing to accept them.

However, the ending of the Lamplighter’s story is somewhat meaningful:

[What the little prince did not have the courage to admit was that he missed this admirable star, especially because there were one thousand four hundred and forty sunsets there every twenty-four hours! ]

Little prince, he is very lonely...

He didn't want to admit the loneliness in his heart. He liked sunset very much. He liked that there were 1,444 sunsets every twenty-four hours on the narrow planet.

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Finally arrived the geographer.

[I am not an explorer. I don't have a single scout under my command. Geographers do not count cities, rivers, mountains, oceans, or deserts. Geographers are too important to run around. He cannot leave his office. But he could see the detective in his office. He questioned the investigators and recorded their recollections. If he thinks the recollections of an explorer are interesting, the geographer investigates the character of the explorer. ]

The geographer is a pedantic scholar who cheats the world and steals his reputation.

Relying on his status, he never left his study. He believed that exploring cities, rivers, mountains, oceans and deserts was the business of explorers, not geographers.

However, the geographer pointed the way to the little prince: "The planet Earth has a very high reputation."

Under the guidance of the geographer, the little prince finally arrived on the earth. This huge planet is a world of weird adults with countless kings, vain people, drunkards, businessmen, lamplighters and geographers!

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"With such a childlike style of writing, is it really the Theking teacher who wrote "No One Survived" and "White Night Journey"? Is it really the national writer Luoyang who can write martial arts and science fiction..."

Lu Yuer was completely convinced.

Although the previous "Fairy Tale King" is also a fairy tale, the style can be imitated by adults. Now, this "The Little Prince" is really from the perspective of a child, showing the various unpleasant things in the adult world from the perspective of the little prince.

This writing style is unheard of!

However, we have to admit that when the little prince made that sentence [These adults are so weird], the power was very strong!

In the end, the little prince left the earth.

Because in the world of adults, there is no love for him, no concern for him, no home for him, he wants to return to his own little planet, there is a warm home worth his nostalgia...

This is a good book.

After reading it, Lu Yuer came to this conclusion.

At the same time, she also felt that "The Little Prince" is not a fairy tale at all. Although the language is a bit childish and looks like a child's tone, this book tells stories about the adult world throughout the book.

"These are not important."

"I can't wait to translate this work."

Lu Yu'er's eyes burst into a bright light, and she turned to the first page of "The Little Prince" again. The last time she was so excited was when she just got the translation task of "Sherlock Holmes"...