Chapter 52: The Way of Conversation of a Smart Man

"I think the teacher would be very happy if he found out. Freya lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes, and said softly: "When Avril danced merrily in front of Odom's tomb, almost all the members of the Peric family wanted to kill this evil woman who dared to defile the grave of the family heir, and only Odom's soul sat on his tombstone, full of joy and sang to Avril's dance with the most familiar voices of the two. All people, only Avril, who has a heart with Odom and can hear the song of his soul, knows how happy Odom's heart is at that moment, and in order to fulfill his lover's dying wish, Avril is willing to bear all the vicious scolding in the world. ”

"Nobles and dancers?" said Pannis, patting Christo's leg lightly, and said with a smirk, "It's one of the ten classic tragedies of modern opera, and you actually use it to describe a person's happiness." ”

Of course, it is tragic because it is mutilated, but it is precisely in this mutilation that we can better appreciate the rare happiness that is fleeting. Freya took out a cloth towel and gently wiped the smooth base of the sculpture, and said with a gentle smile on her face: "For the sake of this momentary happiness, we would rather endure the sorrow of the whole play, which is like our lives, and in order to pursue that fleeting happiness, we do not hesitate to soak ourselves in eternal pain." ”

"Well, the theatrical life is a very undone work of art, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is even a philosophical work. Pannis nodded, "Riley's talent is destined for his writings to be celebrated throughout the world of Yara, and he deserves to be remarkable, provided that he doesn't cut his own throat on the twentieth day after he finishes writing." ”

At the moment of completion of his theatrical life, Mr. Riley had already pursued the fleeting pleasure he had pursued all his life, so he did not want to endure the pain of life anymore and chose to turn a moment of happiness into eternity. Freya fell silent suddenly, plucked one of the few white flowers from her breast, carefully placed it on the grave, and then continued: "You are not him, how can you be sure that he does not prefer to escape from this world for which he feels miserable forever after tasting the most mellow wine of his life than to be praised by the whole world?"

"Hehe, Murat's theories are often dismissed as sophistry, girl. Pannis followed behind Freya, also placed the small white flower on his chest on Christo's tomb, stroked the clean base of the statue, and said with a smile: "A long time ago, when we were still fighting side by side, a certain lion once told us the story of two scholars in the history of his homeland, and although we laughed at him, the two men must have ended up punching each other as a conclusion, but we still wrote down this story. ”

"Oh?" Freya's shining eyes looked at Pannis, and she asked with interest, "Is it a similar theory?"

"Yes. Pannis nodded, "The story is actually very simple, one scholar says to another scholar, you see the fish under the bridge, swimming around, you must be very happy." Another scholar retorted, "You're not a fish, how do you know if a fish is happy or not?" The first scholar retorted again, "You're not me, how do you know that I don't know if a fish is happy or not?" Well, although there are more later, I guess if there is a bad character, there should have been a fight by now. ”

"Poof", Her Royal Highness the Princess covered her mouth and let out a suppressed laugh: "You guy, you are using this kind of story to tell me, I am not you, how do I know if you can be sure?"

"Hey, I didn't say that. Pannis's smile looked a little similar to that of the lazy fox at home: "These are just your own associations, I just retold a story I heard from someone else." ”

"Alas. Freya hid her smile, sat down on her legs on the lawn in front of the grave, leaned her back against the tombstone, looked up at Pannis, and asked seriously, "O Pannis, why do you deliberately change the subject to sophistry now?"

"I didn't change the subject. Pannis blinked, and said as if innocently, "Wasn't that what we were talking about sophistry just now?"

"Since you have admitted that to some extent we are all smart people, then don't do something that is inconsistent with the identity of smart people, okay, this kind of behavior is an insult to each other's intelligence. Freya's smile was like that of a mother watching a naughty child playing a prank, and she shook her head with a bit of doting and helplessness: "Or do you really not know what I want to convey?"

Pannis sighed softly, no longer forced to smile, and with his hands on his back looking up at the pine needles above his head, he answered Freya's question with silence without saying a word.

"Oh, you see, in fact, you know it in your heart, you always know it. Freya held her chin and smiled, "You even say that many times you know our hearts better than we do, right?" ”

"Maybe. Pannis smiled and sighed, "But so what?

"yes, what's the point?" Freya said to herself, as if to Pannis, "You used to say that you don't like comedy because you think it's too exaggerated to be in reality, but you don't like tragedy because you think it's too heavy to make people hopeless. ”

"Yes, I said that. Pannis nodded, "But I don't understand, what are you going to prove when you mention these things now?"

"If you're not playing dumb right now, it's that you really don't recognize that your attitude has exposed your innermost thoughts. At this time, Freya threw away the mask of the simple and kind princess, revealing the maturity and wisdom that she had cultivated in a world full of hostility and intrigue: "Your attitude shows that you hate tragedy from the heart, and reject comedy only because it is difficult to appear in reality, because it is unreal, so fundamentally speaking, you actually like comedy, you like to see everyone in the play get happiness, and it is reasonable to get happiness, do you think I am right?"

"Maybe you're right. Pannis was silent, his body motionless, and even a few butterflies took him for a stone, flapping their wings and landing on top of his head. After a long time, the butterfly suddenly startled, and Pannis laughed self-deprecatingly, and whispered, "Maybe I really have this idea in my subconscious." ”

"That's right. Freya squinted her eyes and said meaningfully, "So, what would you do if you were in the play and you found that you couldn't make everyone in the play happy?"

(To be continued.) )