When Erdan came back, Jiang Jin's mother had already cooked the dumplings for him and put them in the study.

He threw the two books in front of Jiang Jin, and then turned his head to concentrate on dealing with the dumplings.

Jiang Jin looked at the two books in front of him, and without special screening, he could determine which one was a children's book and which one was an adult book from the covers of the two books.

The children's cover has everything in its bells and whistles, a plane, a pilot, a strange snake, a red rose, a special fox, and a peculiar planet.

The cover of the adult version is much simpler, with a tiny planet on which a man sits and only a back that seems to be watching the sunset.

To be honest, when he heard the title of "The Little Prince", Jiang Jin didn't have any thoughts about reading it, because the name really sounded like a standard fairy tale.

It's just that there are two versions of such things that attracted him and gave him the urge to take a look.

He opened the children's version first, like the beginning of many fairy tales, in the third person.

On a strange planet, there is only one person on it, his name is the little prince, his planet is very small, every day he has to get rid of the seedlings of the baobab tree, but one day, suddenly a seed floats over, and the little prince is not sure whether it is the seed of the baobab tree or not......

The idea was peculiar, but Jiang Jin wasn't very interested, or for an adult like him, it was just a fairy tale. No matter how good a fairy tale is, it is just a fairy tale, even if it is a Grimm fairy tale or a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, it will not make him much interested.

Closing the children's version, he opened the adult version again.

He didn't have much hope for the coming-of-age version, and he opened it entirely because he wanted to see how the author had written two versions of a story.

"When I was only six years old, I saw a wonderful ......illustration of a python in a book about a primeval forest called 'True Story'"

"I, first person?" Jiang Jin frowned, he was thinking, who is this first person?

If he had read all the children's versions, he would soon have found out that the first person was the pilot that the little prince had met on Earth, but he had only read the beginning of the children's version, so he couldn't figure out who the first person was for the time being.

The first person describes several paintings of his childhood, Jiang Jin feels very interesting to watch, of course, not just funny, he seems to be beginning to understand what the author wants to say, but these things have not yet formed a specific outline in his mind.

After reading the first chapter, Jiang Jin didn't even see any connection between the two books, at least from the beginning, it was completely unrelated.

However, when he saw the second chapter, when the protagonist's plane broke down in the desert and had to be stranded, and met the little prince the next day, Jiang Jin finally saw the connection between the two books.

"Draw me a sheep, please?"

This is the first sentence of the little prince, and it is clear that the protagonist is startled by the sudden arrival of the little prince, who is amazed at why the little prince appears in this desert and does not look lost in the slightest.

The protagonist tries to ask where the little prince came from, but the little prince insists that he draw a sheep for himself.

And then...... The protagonist first paints him a picture he had drawn before.

"No, no, I don't want a python, it has an elephant in its belly. The little prince exclaimed.

The protagonist is surprised, he didn't expect the little prince to be able to understand this painting, because the adults say that it is a hat, and when Jiang Jin sees this painting, he also thinks that it is just a hat.

When he saw this, Jiang Jin was a little enlightened, he understood why the author had to work hard to lay out those paintings in front, and it was this gap that he wanted to talk about, the gap between children and adults.

Adults don't understand the world of children, they think children are too young to understand anything, but they have lost their imagination, or the ability to see through the essence.

Looking further back, Jiang Jin sighed at the author's whimsy and amused at the author's clumsy painting skills.

Through the mouth of the protagonist, Jiang Jin knows the story of the little prince, he knows the proud rose, and he also knows the clever fox and the tricky snake.

"In one day, I saw forty-three sunsets. ”

"You know, people always love the sunset when they're feeling depressed. ”

Jiang Jin saw the loneliness of the little prince, and also sighed what it was like to watch the forty-three sunsets.

"To me, you're just a little boy, just like thousands of other little boys. I don't need you. You don't need me either. To you, I am nothing but a fox, like thousands of other foxes. But if you tame me, we are indispensable to each other. To me, you are the only one in the world, and to you, I am the only one in the world. ”

Jiang Jin saw what the fox said to the little prince, and at first he felt a little awkward about the word tame, but after listening to this passage, he had a new understanding.

He looked at Erdan, who had just finished eating dumplings next to him and looked bored, and thought to himself, does he also have a tame relationship with Erdan?

He is the only second egg he knows, and he is also the only brother Jiang he knows, there are thousands of children who were having a snowball fight outside just now, but only the second egg in the middle is the second egg, and everyone else is not the second egg.

He thought of the girl from a high school class, with a ponytail, two dimples when she laughed, and always spoke softly.

He liked her, but then they separated.

Jiang Jin was a little puzzled for a moment, did he tame her, or did she tame her?

Was she different to him from the thousands of other girls with ponytails and two dimples when they laughed?

After thinking about it for a long time, Jiang Jin didn't come up with an answer.

But one thing is for sure, the girl with the ponytail and now I don't know where it is, is not a rose that belongs to him.

He thought of his first girlfriend in college, it was his first love, they had sweetened and quarreled. The girl was like his rose, and eventually, like the little prince, he left his rose.

There are many, many more, and the planets that the little prince passes through are insinuating and satirizing something.

It wasn't until the whole book was finished that Jiang Jin sat in a chair in a daze, and the second egg next to him looked at him and smiled: "Why are you hysterical? What do you think?"