How can there be no movement at all? Zhang Si thought to himself. Seeing that the prince was still at home at this time, he felt relieved.

"Perhaps, my plan was right, the prince knew that the outside was closely guarded, and he retreated in the face of difficulties, so he dispelled the idea of becoming a monk." Zhang Si comforted himself like this.

Seven days of intense life made the crown princess and the palace ladies waiting beside the prince so tired that they almost collapsed, today is the last day, and it has entered the night.

"The prince will never become a monk again." The ladies of the palace thought so, and let go of a heart that had been empty for many days and nights; The crown princess also had the same thoughts. However, she did not let her guard down, and she still tried her best to guard the prince and prevent him from waiting for an opportunity to go out.

However, many days of stressful life made them so tired that they fell asleep at every chance and never woke up again.

Therefore, by the seventh day, the people up and down the palace were overcome by fatigue, and at night, everyone packed up their work early and prepared for a good night's sleep.

The prince saw that the guards were so tight that he had no way out, so he could only wait secretly. Although his heart was extremely anxious, it was still normal on the surface, and he didn't even think that there were waves rushing in the turbulent sea beneath his calm appearance.

The crown princess, who was waiting by her side and never left her for a few days, was so tired that as soon as the shift came down, she lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. She had three very important dreams, and basically every one of them was a nightmare.

She was so frightened that she woke up every time she dreamed. When she woke up, she felt even more frightened, so she told the prince about her three dreams, saying, "I have had three nightmares in the past few days, and each time I woke up in the dream, so I felt very scared. ”

The prince asked, "Then what kind of dream did you have?" ”

The crown princess told the story of what she had seen in her dream: "When I had my first dream, I dreamed that the moon had fallen to the ground; In the second dream, I dreamed that all my teeth were falling out; In my third dream, I dreamed that I had lost my right arm. Every dream is terrifying, and it still frightens people when they wake up. ”

Then the prince said to the princess, "You see, now that the moon is still in the sky, and your teeth have not fallen out, and your arms are still well on you, what is there to fear?" You should know that these dreams are false and untrue, and you should not be afraid. ”

The crown princess said to the crown prince: "I privately suspect that what I saw in my dream must be a sign that you are going to become a monk. ”

The crown prince turned to the crown princess and said, "You just need to sleep well and don't worry about it." As the saying goes, suspicion breeds ghosts. Otherwise, something ominous will happen to you. ”

The crown princess listened to the prince's words, and temporarily let go of her mind, and because she was tired all day long, she urgently needed sleep, so she said good night to the prince, and then fell asleep on the bed.

The night was very deep, a bright moon hung quietly in the high sky, and the bright moonlight sprinkled leisurely from the sky, covering the golden palace with a layer of beautiful light veil; In the distance, the jagged trees are clustered in groups, and their shadows on the ground are as if they have been soaked in water, which is very shallow and moving.

The earth was restored to its original appearance, and suddenly turned from a noisy time and space to nothingness.

At this time, the crown prince got up from his seat, and instead of going to sleep, he went to the palace and outside the palace to make a round. Everywhere I went, there was a dead silence.

He walked through the noisy land of song and dance in the day, and he saw all the singers and dancers sinking into their sleep like wooden men. Some of them have their capes scattered and lean on their instruments; Some landed on their hands and feet; Some lie on each other's pillows, staggering; Some tears and snot, messy and horizontal; Some of them salivate in their mouths, and they are extremely dirty. It's really an ugly and disgusting picture of the impermanence of the human world, how can there be the slightest beauty? For example, the plantain tree has no solidity inside.

The crown prince sighed deeply, "What kind of elegance and peerlessness, what kind of national color and fragrance, it is so false and untrue, it makes people feel impermanent!" ”

The prince looked at his wife and all the singers and dancers, and saw that their bodies were divided into hair, fingers and claws, bone marrow, braincase, bones, teeth, skulls, skin, muscles, tendons, and blood lipids, as well as heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, intestines, feces, urine, saliva, and the outside was like a big leather bag, and there were some foul-smelling and filthy things in the bag, none of which could be called strange. But they are unconscious, not only competing to fumigate their bodies with fragrance, but also to dress themselves in gorgeous costumes.

However, all of this is external, short-lived, like borrowed things, which will one day have to be returned to someone else, and the borrowed ones will not last long.

The prince thought to himself: even if a person can live for a hundred years, he will use up half of his sleep, and he is always entangled in worries and troubles, and there is not much time for joy in it. Why do people in the world often see the above scenes, but they are always unable to realize it, and even crave attachment without repentance? In the three worlds of past, present, and future, nothing else can be relied on, and there is only one thing that can be pursued and attached, and that is the perception of wisdom and the awareness of the Tao.

The prince thought again: Yes, it's time to become a monk.

At this time, everyone inside and outside fell asleep, and everything was silent. Then the prince woke up the coachman and said to him, "Go and bring my mount." ”

When the coachman saw that the prince suddenly asked him to lead the horse, and that it was in the middle of the night, he trembled all over his body and was very afraid.

He thought: The prince must be going to become a monk, and the king has a strict order that no one is allowed to let the prince out of the city, and if I go and bring the horse here, won't I be guilty of deceiving the king? But the prince's orders must not be disobeyed.

I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't think of the best of both worlds.

"What should I do?" The coachman was so anxious that tears fell from his eyes.

In the end, the coachman had no choice but to muster his courage and whisper to the prince: "The king has a strict order, and the prince will not let you go outside these days; And tonight is so quiet in the dead of night, and it is not a time to play and watch, nor is it a day to defend against enemies, why do you suddenly ask me to lead a horse in the middle of the night? Where do you want to go? ”

When the prince saw that the coachman was hesitant and refused to lead the horse, he patiently said to the coachman, "I will now subdue the source of troubles for all living beings in the world, so you should not go against my will." ”

When the coachman heard this, he knew that the prince was about to become a monk. When his heart was in a hurry, he began to cry out loud.

He wanted this cry to wake up the crown princess and the others, so that they would know that the prince was about to become a monk, so that they would come out to stop him.

However, all the people in the palace fell asleep, and not one of them heard the cry of the coachman.

The coachman wept for a long time, and when he saw that no one got up to stop the prince, he had to obey and take the prince's mount.