Chapter 215: Making Up Stories
The story takes place in New York, USA, and he saw it in a book.
A New York businessman sees a young pencil salesman in ragged clothes on the street, and he feels pity. So, he threw a dollar into the pencil seller's bucket and walked away. But after a few paces, he felt that he had done something inappropriate, so he hurried back, took a few pencils from the pencil seller, and said apologetically that he had forgotten to take them, and that he would forgive the young man for his negligence. Afterwards he said, "You are a merchant like me, and you have something to sell, and you have a price tag on it." ”
After some time, at a social occasion, a well-dressed salesman greeted the businessman and introduced himself: "Sir, you may have forgotten me, but I will never forget you, you are the one who has given me back my self-esteem." Before, I thought of myself as a beggar selling pencils until you told me that day I was a businessman. The New York businessman did not expect that his simple words at that time would change the fate of a man in an embarrassing situation.
"Xiaolong, what can you do?" Hearing Zhao Long say that there was a way to make the entire Dark Elf clan come over, Amagil looked at him curiously.
Zhao Long, who couldn't reveal himself as a traverser, changed the story to his own experience after some thinking and reminiscing.
Grandma's story goes like this: A few years ago, when I came back from a training experience outside, I wandered around the street of the camp and observed, and I saw a young man in ragged clothes, who was sitting on the street selling paintbrushes without a leg. I saw that he was pitiful that no one was buying his inferior brushes, so I threw a few gold coins into his basket with his brushes, and walked away. However, after walking a few steps away, I realized that I was not doing what I was doing, so I hurried back and retrieved a few brushes from him, and said that I had forgotten to take them. Please forgive me for my negligence. Before leaving, I said to him, "You are a merchant like the people who run shops in the camp, you have something to sell, and there is a price on it, come on." ”
The year before last, when I was taking Lulu to buy something on the street, I met him in a newly opened small shop, and I didn't recognize him at the time, but he recognized me first. At that time, he said to me, "Elder Long, you may have forgotten me, but I will never forget you. You're the one who gave me back my self-esteem. Previously, I thought of myself as a hopeless beggar selling brush disability until you told me that day I was a businessman.
"Grandma didn't expect that my simple words at that time would change the fate of a person who was in an embarrassed and disheartened situation." Zhao Long, who finished the story, pretended to sigh.
"Little Dragon, you mean, we can't make the Dark Elves feel that we are pitying him, but that we are respecting him?" After listening carefully to the story, Amagir thought for a long time and asked Zhao Long.
"Yes, I guess what the young Grandpa Armas said at the time may have made them feel that you were pitying them instead of helping them, so the Dark Elves refused." Zhao Long guessed.
"Then now call Armas and ask. Let's see if he can recall the conversation at that time, and we'll know by then. Hearing Zhao Long's words, Amagir immediately asked the soldiers to call.
Soon Amasasia came.
Hearing that he wanted to remind himself of going to the Dark Elves more than two hundred years ago, Amasasia's face turned into a bitter melon face.
How could he have forgotten about it? He still remembers it vividly.
It was the first time I had been treated like that!
After thinking for a long time, Amasasia, who was short of breath with his head down, was about to say something after taking a long breath when three people appeared at the door.
"Grandpa, why are you here? Come on, sit down. Zhao Long who got up to greet him. Let the three of them come in and sit down.
"Auntie, next to Varif is the first wise man of the Rogge Continent, Elder Dicakane. Next to him is his daughter Dicaton deeply. Amasthasia got up and pointed to two of the three who entered the door and introduced Amarjir.
Then he introduced the Kane father and daughter, "Elder Kane, this is the prophet of our elven race, Amagir. ”
Kane and Don, who had come to the elves for the first time, saluted the prophet deeply, and after a while of mutual praise, everyone sat down again.
"Why didn't you come here without a notice?" Amasasia asked the Coalition Elder who had suddenly arrived.
"I'm here to find Long and Aunt Jill and you, are you discussing something?" Kane learned the names of Variif and others, and replied that he had a two-faced relationship with the leader of the elven clan.
It's strange to everyone!
Kane, who is in command of the rebuilding of his homeland, will come all the way here?
Especially after hearing that Kane came to find him, he was even more puzzled.
"We're talking to Xiaolong about Amasasia's trip to the Dark Elf Lands. Elder Kane, in the portrait is the mother of the earth, the god of faith of our light elves, which is the goddess Athena that Xiaolong said. Amagill replied with a smile as she first came, looking at Kane in a trance, who was hung with a portrait in the middle of the wall.
"It is worthy of being the goddess chosen by the light clan, amazing." Kane, who withdrew his gaze to look at Amagir, complimented.
"Thank you for your compliment. Come, taste the freshly picked fruit of our people, yes. Is there anything you guys are doing this time? Amagil, who had asked the soldier to bring a few large plates of fruit, said to Kane.
"Aunt Jill is not in a hurry to do our business, let's talk about your business, Tasha, what's wrong with you? How do you have a bitter gourd face? Seeing Amasstasya's bitter melon face, Varif asked them to continue with their conversations.
Zhao Long briefly told the three people who had just arrived about the previous matter, and then everyone looked at Amasasia and waited for him to speak.
"I went there as Aunt Jill had instructed. When I went there, the soldiers and I saw a barren and dilapidated environment, and we saw the dark elves who lived a hard life without three meals, and their faces were thin and yellow. When I arrived, I asked the soldiers to give them the gifts we had brought with us. Also, I asked everyone to take out everything in their inventory. Their patriarch, Rize, and the rest of the Dark Elves were happy to accept it, and we were warmly welcomed by them. But when I offered to relocate them to us, the Dark Elves' eyes changed. Their eyes changed from friendly to hostile, and they threw back all the gifts that I and the soldiers had given me, when I was thrown all over the body by eggs and tomatoes. ”
Zhao Long, who listened carefully, understood.
As soon as Amasasia heard that he was going to be asked to recall this incident, he would turn into a bitter melon face.
"What did you say to Tasha at that time? Elaborate on the conversation you had at that time. Feeling strange, Variif asked him to get to the point.
"At that time, I said to them like this: Now that the Hell Race is prosperous and the Human Race is declining, the living environment of our two elven races is very poor after separation, and if we don't get together again, the living environment will only get worse and worse. So I implore you to leave here and live in the dwelling place of the Light Elves, and to merge with us. ”
"That's right, how could their attitude change in an instant?"
Zhao Long and the others thought strangely.
"Tasha is wrong, he makes a mistake that ordinary people make, but it is often the most deadly, and everyone thinks it doesn't matter." As they pondered the question as it came up, Varieve spoke up.
"Huh?" Everyone looked at Varif strangely.
They don't know where Amasasia is wrong, especially Amasasia himself.
"Tasha, what you said earlier is true, but your last sentence is wrong." Valif, who has been known as a super diplomat on the mainland for many years, pointed out the reason why Amasasia would fail and be thrown eggs and tomatoes.
"Oh, my last word?" Amasthasia asked, puzzled.
Everyone who looked at each other was even more strange, "The last sentence?" ”
"Yes, you may not have noticed the last sentence. Taxia, you who are also elves must know that your elven race is a race with very strong self-esteem, and it is one of the strongest races on the continent. You'd rather die than accept help from others, right? ”
"That's right, our elven race is too arrogant because we have too strong self-esteem, so we are misunderstood by other races as too arrogant, but, does it matter?"
"Yes, it's too big. Think about it, what would happen if you suddenly asked to move your family to a place where you have lived for many years, let go of your self-esteem and go to the fence to integrate into a completely unfamiliar and constrained environment, instead of going to a new development environment where you can make your own decisions? Variif said to everyone.
Varref's slap woke up Amagir and Amasasia, and made Zhao Long and the others completely understand.
"I see. The Dark Elves, whose self-esteem is strongest on the Rogue Continent, are like a group of lions who eat and are hungry every day, but they are free and can decide everything by themselves, and they don't look at people's faces. If one day they are suddenly asked to put down their self-esteem, exchange their freedom and decision-making for that daily food and clothing, and look at the faces of others, this is a more difficult thing for them to accept than killing them, which is an insult to them. Zhao Long nodded and said to everyone.
"Alas! No wonder their attitude changed in an instant, but I didn't expect that just because I didn't express my meaning properly because I said a few words wrongly, it actually caused a great opportunity for the two races to reconcile. Amastasha, who understood, sighed with regret and self-reproach.
"That's right, although they lived a hard life at that time, they were not reduced to the point of showing other people's faces to live, no wonder Tasha and them would have broken up unhappily after the worst of them, it would have been good if I had gone at that time." Amagir took the blame on herself.
"Actually, you don't have to blame yourself, it's not too late, now is a very good opportunity." Kane spoke out to comfort the two parties. (To be continued......)