"I feel very sad when I see all living beings devouring each other," the prince said sadly.
After Zhang Si heard this, he suddenly felt worried and scared.
He was afraid that his son would have the idea of becoming a monk, so he immediately thought: It is time to marry the prince. As long as he finds a beautiful wife for the prince, he will always feel happy and be nostalgic in the world. Then, it will tie up the son's wandering heart.
Zhang Si thought of this and immediately had an idea.
He said to the prince, "It's getting late, let's go back first." After Zhang Si finished speaking, he picked up the prince and prepared to drive back to the palace.
The prince refused to leave. He said, "I don't want to go back, I want to stay here."
Zhang Si was anxious, tears streaming down the old man's face unconsciously.
When the prince saw his father so sad, he couldn't bear to flirt with him, so he followed his father back to the palace.
From then on, Zhang Si had one more thing to worry about. He was unhappy all day long, worried that the prince would really run away from home one day.
When the prince was seventeen years old, Zhang Si summoned all the ministers to the palace for a meeting.
Zhang Si said: "Now that the prince has grown up, it is time to find a beautiful princess for him to marry. My dear friends, do you have any good ideas?"
The ministers discussed their recommendations one after another, and finally, everyone unanimously recommended a woman named Wang, who was as beautiful as an immortal, with a decent face, smart, intelligent, and knowledgeable in etiquette;
This woman's name is Mary, a princess from a nearby country, and the king's name is Wang Erhan. Prior to this, monarchs from more than a dozen small neighboring countries came to propose marriage. Either Wang Erhan did not agree, or the palace master looked down upon her.
But this time, Zhang Si asked a matchmaker to propose marriage. Wang Erhan wanted to reject the marriage again, but he was worried that Nanzhao was a rich and powerful country, and if he didn't agree, he would get into trouble and be attacked...
When Wang Erhan came back from the court, when he thought of this, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, and his sadness came to his heart again.
When Mary saw her father sighing, she stepped forward and asked, "My father usually comes back from court with a smile on his face and in high spirits. Why is he sighing so much today? What's the reason?"
When his beloved daughter asked about it, Wang Erhan had no choice but to tell her that Zhang Si had asked a matchmaker to come to propose marriage today.
After hearing this, Mary leaned on Wang Erhan's arm, blinked her big autumn eyes, and said: "Father, don't worry, send an envoy to tell the king of Nanzhao that only the unmarried man who can win me will win the contest." , I will marry him. I will not marry anyone else."
As a result, in the competition to recruit a bride, the prince defeated everyone who competed, and finally defeated Mary. In the end, Wang Erhan had no choice but to marry the princess and became the crown prince of Nanzhao.
Although Wang Erhan and his eldest son Wang Tianlei are unwilling to do so, and the eldest son is not married yet, how can the younger daughter hold the wedding first?
Unexpectedly, she had something to say first, and the princess fell in love with the prince of Nanzhao at first sight, and showed affection for his subordinates during the competition...
After the prince got married, the couple was extremely loving and had a happy marriage. The two were often inseparable, walking, standing, sitting and lying together everywhere.
The princess is smart, and the prince is extremely intelligent. The two talk about literature and martial arts, and they are in harmony with each other, and they enjoy the happiness in the world.
However, the prince and the princess only played with each other and were not very close physically. Whenever night falls, the prince will sit quietly in a room alone, shutting out people and things. He is in the world, his mind is in the sky, he can't think of the world, and he has no desire for the world of desire. It is clear and clear, as if there is no cloud in the blue sky.
The Crown Princess sometimes gets emotional and wants to get close to the Prince.
But the prince suggested: "Wouldn't it be nice to put many flowers in our room and even on our bed, so that we can appreciate them often?"
The princess immediately followed the prince's instructions and placed beautiful and bright flowers in the room. The fragrance of flowers was refreshing, and the whole room suddenly became beautiful and full of charm. The princess couldn't control her feelings and wanted to get closer to the prince.
The prince said: "No, the flower juice has stained the bed mat." After a long time, he said: "Bring a piece of good white cotton cloth, put it in the middle, and look at each other, wouldn't it be nice? Why really How close is it?”
The princess immediately brought a piece of white cotton cloth and spread it between the two of them. The two of them admired each other and felt more affectionate. They were really full of infinite spring.
The princess wanted to get closer to the prince, but the prince said: "No, the sweat and dirt on the human body will definitely stain this white cotton cloth."
Therefore, the princess did not dare to approach the prince. The maids all suspected that the prince had some health problem and was unable to behave as a man.
The prince heard the suspicions of the maids, so he pointed his hand at the princess's belly and said: "The way of husband and wife, the love between a man and a woman, comes naturally. After the pregnancy, you should give birth to a boy."
The Crown Princess was indeed pregnant for ten months before Zhang Zhongliang's father, Zhang Si, was critically ill. Weil Nida drove thousands of miles to report to the Crown Prince, saying that Zhang Si was critically ill and asking the Crown Prince to immediately return to the country to see his father for the last time (this is a story later) , will be shown later).
Two flowers bloom, one on each side. Let me talk about it first. After Zhang Zhongliang married Mary, the daughter of the neighboring king Wang Erhan, Zhang Si thought that he could feel at ease. He thought that the prince had his own concubine, so he should love himself as much as I love the queen. My dear concubine, I no longer think about becoming a monk.
How Zhang Si wanted to see the prince share his worries, inherit the throne, rule the people, and become a virtuous monarch before he grew old! However, the great Lord of the Underworld has his own plans.
The sun and the moon reincarnate, and in the blink of an eye, the prince turns nineteen. Although the life in the palace is singing and singing every day and having fun every night, the boredom of life hidden underneath the happiness and tranquility always makes people feel like this. of depression and waste.
The magnificent palace can never accommodate broad and broad thoughts, and the colorful and talented women can never comfort the sentimental heart.
The prince liked to walk slowly alone in the quiet paths of the garden, and he liked to sit in the shade of the dense trees and meditate.
The white clouds in the sky are the strings plucked in the prince's heart; the flowing water underground is the vitality rushing in the prince's heart. The caged bird is about to push open the locked iron door and fly high, and the free mind is about to break through the trapped barriers and soar into the sky. The prince stepped out of the soft and luxurious life he was used to. He wanted to go to the human world and see what the real world looked like.
On this day, the prince said to his father Zhang Si: "Father, I have stayed in the palace for too long. I want to leave the gardens in the palace temporarily and go to the countryside outside the city."
Zhang Si was very happy when he heard that the prince wanted to go out for fun. He thought that the prince was unwilling to perform conjugal ceremonies in the palace and was easily restrained, so he wanted to go to the countryside to relax. Zhang Si immediately agreed.
Before leaving, Zhang Si specially ordered his men to clean all the roads that the prince passed, and to repair the gardens and temples in the suburbs. After everything was arranged, the prince went to the palace to say goodbye to his father, and then left the palace.
At that time, the prince went out from the east gate of the city, leading from front to back, which was really spectacular. The crowds of people watching along the road were as crowded as mountains and seas, like wind and clouds. When they heard that the prince was traveling, they all came out of their homes in order to catch a glimpse of the prince's grace.
The prince felt very strange to see so many people coming to see him. But as soon as he came out of the palace, his body and mind suddenly relaxed. Seeing everyone so lively and happy, he was also greatly affected, and his frowning forehead temporarily relaxed.
The prince greeted the men and women on the roadside, and the mighty motorcade moved forward surrounded by onlookers.
The group of people left the capital, and the prince's heart was filled with joy. Suddenly, there was an old man with gray hair on the roadside in the distance, hobbling step by step towards the direction of the prince.
His back was almost bent, and he looked extremely weak and tired. The prince felt strange and asked the coachman to stop the car. He asked the coachman Wang Wu, "Who is this?"
Wang Wu replied: "He is an old man."
The prince asked again: "What does it mean to be old?"
Wang Wu replied: "This person was once a baby, a child, and a teenager. As time passed by, he gradually changed from a child to an old man. At this time, his body was also different from that of his childhood. He became weak; his appearance was different from when he was young in the past, and he became old and ugly; his body became weak as a whole, and the food he ate was not easy to digest; his strength gradually became weaker; whether he was sitting or sitting, It is very painful whether he is standing or standing; like this, he has only a few days left to live. Therefore, this is called old age."
The prince asked again: "Is this the only one who ages, or does all life grow old?"
Wang Wu replied: "All lives must go through this process, and they should grow from young to old."
When the prince heard Wang Wu's words, a great distress surged into his heart. The prince thought silently in his heart: The sun and the moon keep passing by, time moves, and the years change. Aging comes to people as fast as electricity, and the human body will immediately become fragile and undependable. Although I am very rich now, can I avoid such an encounter? Why are people in the world not afraid of this situation?
When the prince was young, he didn't like living in this sentient world. Now seeing such a scene triggered the already hidden feeling of disgust and suffering, and now the feeling of sadness and disgust with the world was deepened.
The prince sighed and suddenly gave up the idea of going out for fun. He immediately asked Wang Wu to turn the car around and drive back to the palace.
