Chapter 293: Mentality

The eldest princess's face kept changing, and she was silent for a while and said, "You want to tell me that I want to cherish what I have now?" If I continue to mess around, if one day my father no longer loves me, he will marry me off casually, right? At that time, I'm afraid I won't send someone to check the man's details first, right? ”

Fang Xie hurriedly shook his head and said, "Your Majesty will naturally not be really bored, and the minister can feel Your Majesty's love for you." Just now, the minister just made an analogy, but in fact, he didn't mean it. The minister thought, Your Highness, when you feel pitiful, most of the children in the world are actually more pitiful than you. ”

"How so?"

The eldest princess said: "You also said just now, ordinary children can rush into their mother's arms and be coquettish, and wait to ride on their father's shoulders to have fun." But I have forgotten the appearance of the queen mother, and as for the father, I have not been close to him for a long time. You say that most of the children in the world are more pitiful than me, but I don't think it...... Although ordinary families are poor, children can see their parents every day, they can be coquettish, they can cheat, and they can cry. ”

"Your Highness, that's because you don't understand ordinary people."

Fang Xie said seriously: "When you envy them, they are envious of you tenfold and hundredfold. Ordinary children have to work in the fields at a very young age. Where do parents have so much time to love their children for the sake of livelihood? They go out early and return late, and their hands and feet are blistered with blood, just to make ends meet. And children, at a very young age, have to learn to take care of themselves, wash their own clothes and cook. ”

"What His Highness doesn't like to eat, they will treat it as a delicacy. Clothes that His Highness does not like to wear, they will regard as neon clothes. Toys that His Highness does not like, they will consider treasures. ”

Fang Xie smiled and said, "Your Highness envy that they can be with their parents all day long, but they are envying Your Highness for being carefree. It is true that they spend more time with their parents, which is something to envy. But Your Highness, you have more than they do...... Your Highness, you said that you have forgotten the appearance of Empress Daxing. The minister can't even imagine what the minister's mother should look like. ”

"Alas......"

The eldest princess let out a long sigh: "It turns out that this world is full of unhappiness. ”

"Your Highness is wrong again."

Fang explained: "In this world, there are still more happiness. ”

"Your Highness is unhappy because what the minister just said is pitiful. But Your Highness, do you think that if the children are not happy, then what is the purpose of the struggle of parents? As a father, who is not struggling for the sake of the child? Maybe they will snub their children, not to give them a better life? And happiness is actually very simple...... As long as you lower your greed a little bit, you will be much happier. ”

"Your Highness just said that in order to meet Your Majesty more, you will not hesitate to cause trouble...... I think this is indeed a good way. However, such a method cannot last long, because in the long run, His Majesty will think that you will always be an ignorant child. ”

"You mean, I can't do that again?"

The eldest princess asked, "But how can I get my father to accompany me more?" ”

"First of all, try to understand Your Majesty's fatigue...... The Great Sui is so big, thousands of people, thousands of territories, how hard does Your Majesty have to work every day to take care of such a big family business? If Your Highness can understand this, you will be able to appreciate Your Majesty's hard work. And then...... As a daughter, she behaved more well-behaved when her father was tired, handed a cup of tea, rubbed her shoulders and thumped her back...... I think it will make people feel better. ”

"So you're a nice guy."

The eldest princess glanced at Fang Xie and took a deep breath and said, "No one would talk to me about such a thing. ”

Fang Xie smiled and said, "Because Your Highness, you make people feel the distance." ”

"Distance?"

The eldest princess didn't understand.

Fang explained: "Because Your Highness, you are always losing your temper, so whether it is your subordinates or your friends, they will be afraid...... They feared that they might accidentally anger His Highness and invite disaster. This is the distance, the distance that makes people's feelings thin. In fact, the reason why Your Highness feels lonely is because you lack friends...... Your Majesty is indeed too busy, but if Your Highness can make some friends, you will experience another kind of happiness. ”

"Friends?"

The eldest princess shook her head: "I have no friends. ”

Fang explained: "That's because His Highness himself has isolated himself from a high place. ”

"Shut up!"

The eldest princess glared at Fang Xie and said, "Don't think that if I just said that you are a good person, you are qualified to criticize my life." Are you showing off that you have friends? If you say another word, I'll have your tongue pulled out!" ”

Fang Xie was stunned, and said in his heart that this highness turned his face faster than turning a book. One second ago, I could talk calmly, and a second later, it was like a different person. He was stunned for a moment, then simply closed his mouth and took a step back, saying no more. The two men fell silent, and the atmosphere immediately became a little cold.

Seeing that Fang Xie stopped talking, the eldest princess became more and more angry: "Do you think it makes you embarrassed to talk to me?" ”

"The minister still wants a tongue."

Fang Xie said seriously: "Your Highness said just now that I pulled out my tongue without closing up. Has Your Highness ever seen a tongue pulled? The minister has seen ...... When he was in the border city, he caught Meng Yuan's spy who was lurking in the city, and after the interrogation was over, he would pull out the person's tongue first. Stretch your mouth open with iron tongs, then put the clamp into your mouth, clamp your tongue, and a person behind you holds the spy head, and the person in front pulls it out...... Sometimes the whole tongue can be pulled out, and sometimes it will be broken. ”

"The blood is spurting out like a waterfall, and His Highness may not know that the blood that has just spurted out is warm and smells fishy. The taste of blood is a little sweeter than fishy, much thicker than water. The blood gushing out of the tongue of the person who had his mouth gushing out of his mouth ran down his jaw, and he was able to soak through the front of his clothes in no time. People who don't have a tongue often have only two outcomes, one is to bleed too much and die. Second, if you are lucky, you become dumb. ”

"Enough!"

The eldest princess covered her ears vigorously: "I don't want to hear it anymore." ”

Fang Xie sighed: "I just want to tell Your Highness that a person's tongue is not the tail of a gecko, and it can grow again if you pull it out...... You are Her Royal Highness the Princess, and sometimes a single sentence can decide a person's fate. You say that someone pulls out someone's tongue, maybe it's just a scaring word. But the guards don't think so, they do. The next time you see this person, he opens his bloody black hole and mouth without a tongue to greet His Highness, what will His Highness think? ”

"Ahh

The eldest princess shouted, her face as pale as paper: "Please...... Say no more. ”

Fang Xie glanced at the eldest princess expressionlessly, was silent for a while and said, "Your Highness, you just see too few things. You know it's a terrible thing to pull out your tongue, so you're going to use it to scare people. But you don't even know what's going on. You're complaining that you don't get much fatherly love, but have you ever thought about it...... You also have three younger sisters, and three other princesses, who have not seen your majesty all year long. ”

Hearing this, the eldest princess raised her head violently and opened her mouth but didn't know what to say.

Fang explained: "Your Highness, maybe you will think like this, because the status of the other three princesses is not as noble as yours, and it is natural for Your Majesty to snub them. But how could His Highness know if they were bitter in their hearts? When the minister said these words today, he had already crossed the rules. But every sentence of the minister is from the bottom of his heart, if you want to make the princess happy at this moment, the minister can at least tell a joke for an hour, but, what about after the joke? His Highness is still not happy. ”

"Let His Highness see the suffering of others, and then think about his own suffering, it is really nothing."

Fang Xie thought for a while and said, "Dare to do it, please ask Your Highness to go out of the palace for a walk." ”

"Out of the palace?"

The eldest princess was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Where to go?" ”

"Just go for a walk."

……

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Market

The old lame man led Fang Xie to find the ten elite vegetable markets outside the palace.

Fang Xie walked in front, and the eldest princess, who had changed into ordinary clothes, followed behind. She looked curiously at this filthy mess with surprise in her eyes. Her beautiful boots stomped on the sewage-covered ground, and soon the boots were dirty. She carefully dodged passers-by, lest she dirty her clothes.

The two maids behind her covered their noses, as if they couldn't stand the smell of the place.

The last time Fang Xie came here, it was the middle of winter, and the dirty water on the ground was frozen. But now that the weather is getting warmer, it's getting dirtier and dirtier.

"Chang'an City...... How can there still be such a place? ”

She couldn't help but ask.

"There are many such places in Chang'an City."

Fang Xie said as he walked: "In the life of ordinary people, where is there so much silk and silk, so much gold and silver jewelry? Your Highness, a box of rouge is enough for an ordinary family's expenses for a month or even a few months. You see...... The fish seller, he used to have two children, one of whom died of smallpox. The second child was finally raised to the age of ten, but because he was born prematurely, he was too weak to have money to buy ginseng nourishment, and he died after an illness at the age of ten. ”

"That merchant, his wife is not in good health and cannot get pregnant. But in order to continue the incense for him, he still asked for a child. As a result, he died during childbirth, but the child was saved. Therefore, this merchant would tie the child to himself every day, feed some rice cereal when he was hungry, and sleep in the back basket when he was sleepy. Exposed to the wind, sun, freezing rain, the child and the father are together all the time, but are they happy? ”

At this time, the cry of a child was heard in the distance. The eldest princess looked in the direction of the voice, but found that a thin, middle-aged man who was still well-dressed was slapping a child fiercely. The child was only six or seven years old, and soon his little face was red and swollen.

The beaten child cried and shouted, "I don't dare to ask for anything anymore, I don't dare to ask for food anymore." Grandpa, please, don't hit me again. ”

Nearby, a smaller-looking boy, dressed in beautiful new clothes, smiling proudly as he ate with a sugar gourd in his hand.

A woman with a bit of grace knelt on the ground and begged the middle-aged man to stop beating. Her shoulders twitched violently, looking so helpless.

"How did that kid offend him, he was so vicious!"

The eldest princess asked through gritted teeth.

Fang Xie shook his head: "That's also his child, that man is the owner of this vegetable market, this land is his, and the vendors have to give him money to set up a stall here." The difference is that the little boy who eats the sugar gourd is born to his wife, and the little girl who was beaten is the child of the concubine. It was his concubine, the child's mother, who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. ”

"Ahh

The eldest princess exclaimed, and her face became extremely ugly.

"Your Highness thinks that child is pitiful?"

Fang asked.

"Why didn't the woman resist?"

"Because he's a concubine."

Fang explained: "That kid is also the boss's blood and bones, and he is also his own." But in his eyes, it was no different from a slave. If the concubine is a son, then when he grows up, he will not inherit a copper coin property. If it's a girl, when she grows up, she may be spoiled by her biological father. ”

"Why...... Why is this the case? ”

The eldest princess murmured, her eyes full of sadness.

"There's nothing fair about this world."

Fang Xie said lightly: "It just depends on what kind of mentality you use." ”