Chapter 15: The Journey of Suffering (15)
The storm of lust overturned the eaves of comfort, erected a decaying pavilion on the collapsed ruins, the benevolence and kindness burst out with the warmth of tolerance, and drew a fire between the cold blades, the sprout of power sucked the rain and dew of wealth, and went back and forth between the lost and the right path several times, the silk thread of marriage connected with the mellow fragrance of roses, and under the grinding of suffering, the elixir of love was bred, the shadow of darkness devoured the flame of light, and the blank color was smeared in the broken memory, and the warm morning light baked the dark side of the soul, and realized the meaning of life at the corner of death。
Realistic illusions have deceived other people's eyes but can't deceive their own eyes, sibling emotions have stifled the seeds of hatred but intensified the contradictions of love, the key of reason has opened the shackles of sensuality but fetters intellectual wandering, life is not only optimistic but also pessimistic visits, and at the moment when happiness is transformed into pain, all the perfect scores are likely to suddenly fall to zero.
When the eldest princess heard that her brothers and sisters were wantonly slaughtering the people on the border and raising the banner of rebellion, she hurried to the main hall of the castle to ask the monarch to forgive their sins, and the monarch Lu Mingxuan ordered the soldiers to escort the second princess, the second prince and the third prince who were imprisoned, and he wanted to ask them in front of the eldest princess why they didn't get rid of themselves first and killed the defenseless people, the second princess, The second and third princes said that they could accept his rule for the time being, but the people of the country of the stars so quickly took refuge in him and they could not bear it, and the relationship that had been built up over the years could not compare to his persuasion in a few words, and the monarch Lu Mingxuan asked the soldiers to unshackle them to restore their personal freedom.
He looked at the eldest princess and signaled that they should enjoy every minute and every second of the reunion, the eldest princess, the second prince and the third prince hugged each other shoulder to shoulder, toe to toe, and the monarch Lu Mingxuan then also walked over with his feet, he knew that the reason why he did not have the sin of rebellion after all was not because of family affection but because of love, the eldest princess and his true feelings diluted the scars of memory and firmly reflected the beauty of the distance in his eyes, and the pain had already turned into a butterfly in a dream and flew to a place that the dawn would never touch......
How many times does the ruthless desire have to be cut off by reality before they are willing to give up the struggle for power, when the dream is completely reduced to the product of desire, whether the lofty ambition still remains the same, how many times the scar of consciousness has to be paralyzed by the suppressed nerves before the bright smile can be reproduced, when trust becomes an excuse for interests, whether the deep friendship is still eternal, how many times does the long dark night have to be touched by the light before he wants to be the son of the day, and when the perfect disillusionment is turned into a broken bubble, whether the blazing flame is still warm as a torch.
Whether it is consciousness that determines matter or matter that determines consciousness, whether family affection is mixed with the gyokuro of love, whether love affects family affection or family affection affects love, whether happiness is embedded in the ocean of pain, whether pain controls happiness or happiness controls pain, the complexity of the human heart may be just an abscess that is simply unwilling to be broken, and insight into oneself and others in the quiet and noisy world.
After the monarch Lu Mingxuan acquitted the second princess, the second prince and the third prince, they still had evil thoughts, and the dark image of power was rooted in the bones no matter how they were stifled. After the second and third princes left the country of Dieche, they decided to ask for help from the wild people and strange ghosts hidden in the deep mountains, and they first went to the halfway of the mountain range to find the traces of the wild people, the red clouds clinging to the rugged mountain road, revealing a hazy fairy aura in the quiet forest, and the faint light and flame soaked in the fragrance of the stamens, condensed into a star in the gentle birdsong.
The second princess, the second prince and the third prince finally came to the halfway point of the mountain through thorns and cliffs, and they knew that the cave not far away was where the wild people lived, so they hurried over to get their help as soon as possible, and the wild men guarding outside the cave asked them why they had broken into the situation of the wild men for no reason. The second and third princes said that they were in trouble and wanted the leader of the wild people to help, and the wild men who were guarding outside the cave went into the cave and told their leader that three strangers had asked to see them, and the leader of the wild people heard them and agreed to help them fight for the world, and the second princess, the second prince and the third prince took out the gold coins on their bodies and asked them to make sure that they had these gifts.
The leader of the savages said that the revival of the rise of the kingdom of stars was their greatest glory, and that the other rewards were only a dispensable dream, and the second princess, the second prince, and the third prince said goodbye to the savages and then went down the mountain to visit the strange spirits at the foot of the mountain, and they crossed the rivers and meadows to reach the eerie tombs, the dark haze covered the edges and corners of the earth and eroded the towering hills into deep ravines, and the fierce west wind tore off the wings of the remnant snow and froze the huge wild fruits into shriveled cores. The second and third princes knocked on the tombstones, making a sound from grave to grave, and then suddenly heard a roar that burst through the defense line in their hearts.
Countless strange ghosts crawled out of the grave and gathered around them, the second princess, the second prince and the third prince shrank and said that they wanted to seek the help of the strange ghosts, the strange ghosts didn't say anything but shook their white fingers a few times, the second princess, The second prince and the third prince knew that the strange ghost meant that they did not do futile business, and that if they wanted to get their help, they had to pay them a large amount of gold coins first, the second princess and her party touched the money bag and dumped all the gold coins at the feet of the strange ghost, and the strange ghost counted the gold coins all over the ground and shook his head indifferently, and the second princess and his party understood that they would not take their lives because of this money.
So they promised that as long as they took the country of the stars, no matter how many gold coins they were willing to pay, the second princess and her party left the wild and strange ghosts to go to their own country to rebuild their morale, they would not give up resistance because of a defeat and became slaves, the shame of defeat always reminded them that the light of happiness must always rely on their own efforts rather than others' charity, that trace of pity is like a stinger piercing into the flesh and blood, and can no longer arouse the motivation to move forward......
What happens in the moment when day and night alternate, whether the desolate illusion will be repeated in the near future when the light does not penetrate every area of darkness, whose attention is attracted by the moment when love and hatred collide, when the change of power is as changeable as the platter of games, whether the melody of happiness can no longer sow joy in the field of tears, how much humanity is annihilated in the moment of the firefight between freedom and slavery, whether the soul of death can begin to awaken at the end of tragedy when crying is accompanied by fear and ruffles the eardrums.
Redemption, bursting from the light source of love and burning itself to illuminate others, desire, degenerating from the original intention of dreams into a walking corpse, faith, rising from the bright horizon and then warming the heart and the whole world, salvation is not to curb desire or uphold faith, finding one's place in the cycle from birth to death or from zero to whole is the most important thing.
The wild man and the strange ghost followed the second princess, the second prince and the third prince to the border of the country of stars, and they looked at the people immersed in the idyllic life and decided to put forward a fair condition, that is, when they defeated the soldiers of the country of Butterfly, they would also become free people, they did not want to return to the remote mountains to be a lonely ghost, but to enjoy the ordinary and warm days like them.
The second princess and her party exchanged glances and agreed to their request, and then led them to the place of blood baths that they had secretly established to gather their cronies, the wild men and the strange ghosts walked among the soldiers as if they had met their comrades who had been reunited for a long time, and they raised their fists together against the yellow sand and storms in the sky, the world of light was beautiful but could not replace the cruelty of darkness, and the emotions torn apart when the twilight began to swallow a glimmer of light on the horizon had long drowned out all comfort and peace......