Chapter 26 two children

Standing on the balcony of the palace, the king shouted to the people crowded in the courtyard: "I report good news to everyone, and I congratulate the whole country! The queen gave birth to a prince, who will honor my noble family. It will also be your pride and honor, and he will inherit the land left by my great ancestors. You can cheer and sing! Because your future rests on this noble man from now on." People yelled and shouted, cheers and singing soared into the sky.This little prince will be raised in the cradle of prosperity and wealth, grow up in the majestic and prominent palace, and then control the life and death of his subjects. He will control the behavior of the weak: he can use their bodies at will, and their souls Can be destroyed at will.And people cheered, sang, and staggered for it.

The residents of the whole city are praising the strong and despising themselves. They sing the name of the dictator, but the angels cry for the insignificance of these people.At the same time, in a dilapidated thatched hut, a seriously ill young woman was bedridden, and a baby wrapped in tattered clothes was held in her hot arms. The woman was young, but age had doomed her to poverty, and poverty is misfortune, so people ignored her: she married, but the tyrant killed her weak man; she knew everything, but God A little visitor was brought to her that night; the child bound her hand and foot, and left her without work and life.

The street became quiet again after the noise of people.The poor woman took the child in her arms, and watched it weeping, as if she were going to baptize it with her own clear tears.She said--the voice was piercing, and five internal chess pieces burned: "My heart! Why did you come down from the world of the soul? To share my pain and misfortune? Or to show pity for my infirmity? You Why leave the angels and the vast firmament, and come to this narrow life, full of misery and humiliation? I have but tears, my only seed! Can you be fed by tears and not milk? Can a bare arm make clothes for you instead of cloth? Small animals may eat grass and spend the night in their nests and be safe; birds may eat seeds and sleep happily on branches; but you, my child! There are only My infirmities, groans and sighs!"

As she spoke, she hugged the child tightly, as if trying to make the two bodies become one.She looked up at the sky and cried loudly: "Lord, please have mercy on us!" The cloud dissipated, revealing the face of the moon.The moon shines brightly, shining into the window of the small hut, and the molten moonlight pours down on the two corpses.