VI
Aah!Little prince, that's all. I've come to understand your melancholy life.For a long time, the only pleasure you had was watching the gentle sunset.This new detail, which I knew in the morning of the fourth day.You were saying to me,：
"I love watching the sunset.Let's go watch the sunset!”
"But wait.……”
"What are you waiting for?”
"Waiting for the sun to set.”
- At first, you look surprised, then you laugh at your own stupidity.You said to me,：
"I always thought it was in my hometown!”
- Indeed, as we all know, it is noon in the United States, and in France, when the sun sets, it is only in a minute that the sun sets in France.Unfortunately, France is so far away.And on an asteroid like yours, you just have to move your chair a few steps.So you can always see the afterglow you want to see……
"One day I saw forty-three sunsets.”
In a little while, you said,：
"You know, when people are really depressed, they always like the sunset.”
"Forty-three times a day, how can you be so depressed?"”
The little prince did not answer
VII
- The fifth day, or the matter of sheep, the Little Prince's life secret to me.It seemed as if after a long time of thinking in silence, what had come to pass, he suddenly asked me without a head：
"Sheep, if you eat small shrubs, it will eat flowers?"”
"What it touches and what it eats."Even the thorn flower?”
"There are thorns to eat!"”
"So what is the use of thorns?”
I do not know how to answer.I was busy removing a screw from the engine that was too tight.I found that the machine seems to be very serious failure, drinking water is also almost finished, worried about the worst possible situation, very anxious.
"So what is the use of thorns?”
Once the little prince raised the question, never let go.The damn screw irritated me, and I answered him casually：
"What Thorn, what are not, this is purely a poor performance of flowers."”
"Oh!”
But after a moment of silence, he said to me with a feeling of discontent：
'I don't believe it!The flowers are small, simple, they always try to protect themselves, thinking that with thorns can show their strength……”
I am silent.I was thinking, if this screw goes against me, I'll knock it out with a hammer.The little prince is disturbing my thoughts again.：
"And you think that the flowers……”
"Forget it, forget it!"I don't think anything!I'm answering you casually.I have some serious work to do.He looked at me in surprise.
"Business?”
He looked at me with a hammer in my hand, and his fingers were covered with oil, and he was lying on a piece of machinery that was so ugly as to be unspeakable to him.
"You talk like the adults!"”
This is kind of embarrassing to me.But then he said, " I don't know."：
"You can't tell anything apart ... you mix everything together!"”
He was really annoyed.Shaking his head, golden hair trembled with the wind.
"I've been to a planet where a red-faced man lives," he said.He never smelled a flower.He never saw a star.He didn't like anyone.He has done nothing but reckoning.He always said,‘I have serious business, I am a serious person’.It made him proud.He doesn't look like a man. he's a mushroom.”
"What is it?”
"It's a mushroom!"”
The little prince was pale with anger.
"For millions of years the flowers were making thorns, and for millions of years the sheep were still eating the flowers.To find out why the flowers so much effort to make their own little thorn, this is not a serious thing?Does the war between sheep and flowers matter?Isn't that more important than the account of that fat, red-faced man?If I knew a flower that is the only flower in the world, and there is only one on my planet, and there is no other place, and a little sheep's huhuhuzi just destroyed it all at once, does not it matter?”
His face was red, and he went on：
VIII
- Soon I learned more about the flower.On the Little Prince's planet, the past has always been the growth of some very simple flowers only one layer of petals.These flowers are very small and take no space at all and never bother anyone.They open in the grass in the morning,and they fade in the evening.I do not know where to come a seed, suddenly one day this seed Bud.The little prince was particularly careful to keep an eye on the unusual youngster: it might be a new baobab.However, the seedlings soon ceased to grow, and began to breed a flower.Seeing a big Bud grow on this seedling, the little prince felt that there would be a miracle from the bud.However, this flower hidden in its green room for a long time to dress themselves.She carefully selected her future color, slowly dressed up, with a piece of her petals, she did not want to be like Yu beauty as soon as the birth of a full face of wrinkles.She wants to bring herself to the world with a bright and dazzling liezi.Yes, she is very pretty.She wore her hair in a tousled manner for days and days.Then, on the morning of the day, just as the sun rises, she opens up.
She had done so delicately for so long, and she said, yawning：
"I just woke up, I'm sorry, but my hair is still messed up……”
The little prince could no longer control his feelings of love：
"How beautiful you are!”
And the flowers say it with a smile.：
"Yes, I was born at the same time as the sun……”
The little prince saw that the flower was not too modest, but she was indeed charming.
She then added: 'It's time to eat breakfast, please think about preparing some for me.'……”
The little prince was a little embarrassed, so he took a watering can, called a pot of clear cool water, watering flowers.
So, in this way, the flower tormented the little prince with her sensitive and suspicious Vanity.One day, for example, she told The Little Prince about the four thorns in her body：
"Tiger, let it claws come!"”
The Little Prince captioned her post: 'there are no Tigers on my planet, and Tigers don't eat grass.'
“I'm not grass, " said the flower softly.”
"I'm so sorry.”
"I'm not afraid of tigers, but I hate the wind.You don't have a screen?”
“The Little Prince thought, " I hate to go through the House ... this is not good luck for a plant, this flower is not good to wait on……”
"You have to protect me at night.Your place is too cold.It's not a good place to live. the place I used to live.……”
But she did not go on.When she came, she was a seed.What other world has she seen.She told PEOPLE she was making up such a low-key lie that she was a little shy and coughed up two or three times.Her move was to make the Little Prince vulnerable, she said.：
"The screen?"”
“I'll get it.But what you're saying is,……”
So the flower let go of his throat and coughed a few times, still to make the Little Prince regret his own fault.