Chapter 11: The snake hat

The Little Prince

For the first time that Jaijin left the palace, he left Seoul to go to the disaster site. Became the king’s physical condition was not capable for traveling. Jiwon hoped when the victims saw the prince appearing with the marquis, they wouldn’t be too disappointed to see the two most useless royal family members.

"They are all homeless people after the flood. You should think carefully before you speak." Jiwon reminded Jaijin, but he didn't know that such a warning was useful or not.

They were wearing shirts, suit pants, and an ugly jacket (semi-formal and friendly), followed by a large number of reporters, and came to this temporary shelter converted from the school gym (fortunately, the protesters did not follow them to outside of the capital circle, or the Imperial Household Agency and the local police worked together to successfully clear the field), the victims lived in a room built with simple partitions, you could only distinguish the bedroom and aisles by the foam mats on the floor, there was almost no privacy at all.

Jaijin chose a young couple with children to start his visit. He squatted in front of the entrance of the room, and “knocked” on the non-existing door: "Hello, is it convenient to bother?" After being invited, they took off their shoes and kneeled on the on the floor mats. Jiwon was responsible for to express the sincere condolences: “Is here comfortable? Is there sufficient food and clothes?” Jaijin was attracted by the baby who is still learning to climb: "How old is he?" "Can I hug him?" The new prince hugged the baby after he got the permission, then began to discuss with the parents about the subject of “my nephew and niece learned how to climb or walk when they were...months old.“ Another older child came over at this time: "Uncle, please eat senbei."

"Thank you." After Jaijin took it, he put the biscuit in his jacket pocket, and took out a candy from his pocket in return.

Then they visited an old couple. The old man were surprised when seeing them on their knees, they finally had to sit cross-legged. The old man also held Jiwon’s hand and wept excitedly: "Your Excellency, I was so happy when you were born, I kept the newspaper clippings at that time, I had kept it carefully until...but unfortunately, the house was washed away. " Jiwon was very shy, but after he got up and left, he asked the secretary Suwon: “Could you find another one? Try National Library, or some other places to find the old newspaper.“

Finally, they came to a classroom, which was used as nursery of the children victims. Jaijin carefully looked at the children’s paintings hanging on the wall one by one, and eagerly discussed the content with the painters. After watching it all, he went to the corner and squatted down and said to a little girl, "Could I have a look at your painting?"

"His Royal Highness, her mother is missing, and she came here for two days without saying a word." The teacher explained.

Jaijin didn't say anything. He picked up the colored pencils and drawing paper on the table, and drew a simple picture, and showed it to the little girl: "Guess what it is?"

"This is a hat!" The child next to him answered loudly.

"No! Guess again."

"This picture is so scary." The girl said, "A snake has swallowed an elephant, look! Here is the head, this is the elephant's buttocks." She stretched out her fingers to illustrate.

"Ding Ding Ding" Jaijin imitated the sound effect of the variety show, and took out candy from her pocket and gave her: "Give you a prize."

Other children rushed to surround him to ask for more candy, Jiwon watched Jaijin took more sugar out from his pocket, but he didn't gave out the Senbei he just received.

 

That night, the Queen made an exception to allow Jiwon to stay in the palace. In the dark chamber, Jiwon let Jaijin to cuddle on his arm: "I have a crazy thought." He whispered, "You would be a good king. "

"No better than you, hyung," Jaijin replied, "Every time you take something seriously, you can do better than anyone else..."

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