Translate Chapter 26 of The Little Prince

There is a ruin of an old stone wall by the well. The next night, when I came back from work, I saw the little prince sitting on the wall with his legs hanging down. I heard him talking:

"Why can't you remember?" He said, "Definitely not here."

There is probably another voice answering him, because he has a cavity:

"no! Don't! Is that day, but the location is not here ... "

I walked on to the stone wall. I still haven't seen or heard anyone talking to the little prince. But the little prince replied again:

"... of course. You will definitely see where my footprints began. You just have to wait for me there. I will go there tonight. "

I walked twenty meters away from the wall, but I still didn't see what the little prince was saying.

The little prince was silent for a moment and said:

"Your venom is very severe? Can you promise not to let me feel pain for a long time? "

I stopped anxiously, but I still didn't understand what was going on.

"You go now, I want to go down! "said the little prince.

Then I looked at the root of the wall and got a fright! Right there, there is a yellow poisonous snake standing in front of the little prince. The venom of this yellow snake can kill people in less than half a minute. I felt in my pocket, took out my pistol and ran over. But on hearing my footsteps, the snake slowly got into the sand like a dry water column. It unhurriedly drilled through the cracks in the stone and made a slight clang.

I ran to the wall and just held my little prince in my arms. His face is as white as snow.

"What's the matter? How can you talk to a snake! "

I untied his golden scarf, wet his temples with water, and let him drink some water. But now I dare not ask him anything. He looked at me seriously and put his arm around my neck. I think his heart, like the heart of a dying bird shot, is beating weakly. He said to me:

"I'm glad you found what your machine lacked. You can go home early ... "

"How do you know?"

I'm here to tell him that I have successfully completed the repair work, and there is no hope!

Instead of answering my question, he said:

"Me too, I want to go home today ..."

He went on to say sadly:

"It's much farther for me to go home ... it's much harder ..."

I really think something unusual has happened. I held him in my arms like a child, but I felt him fall straight into the abyss. I tried to catch him, but there was nothing I could do. ...

His eyes were stern and he looked into the distance.

"I have the lamb, sheep box and sheep mouth cover you drew ..."

He smiled with a sad expression.

I waited a long time before I felt his body getting warmer and warmer.

"Son, you're just scared ..."

He's scared, that's for sure! But he smiled gently:

"Tonight, I will be more afraid ..."

Once again, I feel that something irreversible is going to happen. I feel my heart suddenly cold. I know in my heart that it is unbearable to never hear his laughter again. This laughter is like a pool of clear water in the desert to me.

"Son, I still want to hear you laugh ..."

He said to me:

"It will be a whole year by this evening. My planet is just above the place where I fell last year ... "

"Little fellow, are the stories of snakes, dates and stars all nightmares?"

But he didn't answer my question, just saying:

"Important things are invisible ..."

"Of course ..."

"It seems to be a flower. If you fall in love with a flower on a star, you will feel sweet and happy when you look up at the starry sky at night, and all the stars in the sky are full of flowers. "

"Of course ..."

"It's like water. Because of the pulley and well rope, the well water you gave me to drink is like a wonderful music ... Do you remember ... how sweet the water is! "

"Of course ..."

"At night, look at the stars. My star is too small for me to tell you where it is. It's better this way. You can think my star is among the stars. Then, you will like to see all the stars in the sky … these stars will become your friends. In addition, I also want to send you a gift ... "

He smiled again.

"ah! Little guy, little guy, I like to hear your laughter! "

"This is my gift to you ... just like water ..."

"What do you mean?"

"The stars in people's eyes are different. Stars are guides for travelers. For others, the stars are just small bright spots. For scholars, the stars are the object of their study. For the businessman I met, a star is money. But these stars will never tell you, but your stars will never be seen by anyone ... "

"What did you say?"

"At night, when you look up at the starry sky, because I live on one of the stars, because I am laughing there, all the stars are laughing in your opinion. Those stars you see are just laughing stars! "

At this moment, he smiled again.

"So, when you get comfort (people always comfort themselves), you will be glad to know me. You will always be my friend. You can't help laughing with me. Sometimes, you will unconsciously open the window ... at that time, your friends will be surprised to see you smiling at the stars. At that time, you can say to them,' Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' They'll think you're crazy I might embarrass you ... "

At this moment, he smiled again.

"It's like I gave you not stars, but many small bells that can laugh ..."

He smiled again. After that, he suddenly became serious:

"Don't come tonight ... you know ..."

"I will never leave you."

"My appearance will be very painful ... it's a bit like death. Is the way it is, you don't come to see these, don't have to ... "

"I will never leave you."

But he began to worry.

"I say this to you ... it's also because of snakes. Don't let the poisonous snake bite you ... This poisonous snake is very bad. It bites for fun ... "

"I will never leave you."

And at this time, there seems to be something to reassure him:

"By the way, when the snake bites the second bite, there is no venom ..."

I didn't see him on the road that night. He left quietly. When I finally caught up with him, he walked fast and resolutely. He just said to me:

"oh! Why are you here ... "

So he took my hand. But he is still very worried:

"You shouldn't do that. You'll be sad. I'll look like I'm dead, but it can't be true ... "

I was silent.

"It's too far. I can't take this body with me. Too heavy. "

I was silent.

"My body is like a peeling old bark, and there is nothing sad."

I am still silent.

He was a little depressed, but he still braced himself and said:

"What do you think, this will be too beautiful! I will also look at the stars in the sky. Every star will become a well, and rusty pulleys will be installed in the well. All the stars will give me water to drink ... "

I am still silent.

"How interesting it will be! You will have 500 million little bells, and I will have 500 million pools of clear water ... "

At this moment, he was silent because he was crying.

"Right here. Let me take a step alone. "

Then he sat down because he was afraid. But he added:

"You know ... my flower ... I'm responsible for her! But how fragile she is! She is so naive! She only has four insignificant thorns to protect herself from foreign aggression ... "

I couldn't support it any longer, so I sat down. He said:

"Well ... that's it."

He hesitated, then stood up and took a step forward. I can't move.

I saw a yellow light flashing near his ankle. He stood motionless for a while without shouting, and then fell to the ground slowly like a tree. Because it is in the sand, there is no sound.