Chapter 46 45. Phil Blau

Once upon a time, there was a young man. At the end of his studies, his father said to him: "Son, since your studies are over, you should go out and start a business. I will give you a boat, and you will learn to transport goods and start a business. Be serious. Work, I hope you can earn a living independently as soon as possible, the sooner the better!" He gave his son seven thousand crowns as the capital of his business.The young man set off.His ship had sailed quite a distance, but he had bought nothing.At this time, he drove the boat into a port and saw a coffin parked on the shore. People passing by threw money into the coffin.

"Why do you put a dead body here?" he asked. "Dead people should be buried!" "That man died in debt," he was told, "according to the custom here, a man who has not paid his debts cannot be buried when he dies. Now, rely on the charity of passers-by, and wait for the money to be enough for him." When the debt is paid, we'll bury him." "In that case, tell everyone that all his creditors will come to me, and I will pay his debts. Take him to the burial at once!" People spread the word about it.He paid every debt he owed.But by the time he paid off that man's debt, he himself was penniless.Therefore, he returned home.Father asked: "You came back so quickly, what's going on?"

"My ship was sailing on the sea, and I met a group of pirates by chance, and they robbed me of all my capital." "Don't feel bad, boy. Thank God they didn't kill you! I'll give you money again, but don't venture out to sea in that area next time." He gave another seven thousand crowns to his son. "Dad, don't worry, I will take another route!" After speaking, he set sail again. Sailing in the middle of the sea, he saw a Turkish galleon.He thought to himself: In this kind of place, making enemies is not easy making friends.Go visit them, and invite them to be your guests.So he boarded the Turkish boat and asked:

"Where are you from?" "We come from the East." "What is the shipment?" "Only transported a beautiful woman, nothing else." "Who are you going to sell this beauty to?" "We sold it to whoever wanted it. She was our Sultan's daughter, and we kidnapped her because she was a great beauty." "Let me take a look." He looked at it and asked, "How much are you going to sell her for?" "Seven thousand crowns." So the young man gave the pirate all the seven thousand crowns his father had given him, and took the girl to his ship.He baptized the girl[2], married her, and took her home to her father.

"My dear son, you are welcome back, I can guess what kind of money you made..." "Father, I bring a rare treasure, You must be smiling when you see it! Never have you seen a girl so lovely: She is the daughter of the Sultan of Turkey, I brought her home as my first item! " "You fool! You brought this back?" The father threw a tantrum at the two of them and kicked them out of the house. Poor couple!They don't know what to do. "What shall we do now?" he said anxiously. "I don't even have a penny." However, the girl said, "Hey, I can draw beautiful pictures. When I finish the pictures, you can sell them outside. But remember, don't tell anyone, these pictures are drawn by me."

At this moment, the Turkish Sultan sent ship after ship to look for his daughter.It just so happened that a boat sailed to the town where the young couple lived.Many people disembarked and disembarked.The young man saw a lot of people coming from the city, so he said to his wife: "Draw more pictures, we will definitely sell them today." She really painted a lot, and said: "Sell it, but at least 20 crowns each." He came to the town square with the painting.The Turks are coming.When they saw the painting, they started talking about it. "No one but the Sultan's daughter could paint such a picture! Only she can do it!" They came forward and asked the young man for the price of the painting.

"These paintings are very expensive," he replied, "at least twenty crowns each, and they will not be sold if they are less." "Well, we've bought them all. We'd like to buy some more, though." "Go home and talk to my wife. She painted these pictures." The Turk followed him to the house and saw the Sultan's daughter.They tied her up and took her back to Turkey. The young man was heartbroken.Now, he has no wife, no job, and no money.He went to the port every day, looking for a boat that would take him to sea, but he couldn't find one.One day, he saw an old man fishing in a small boat, and said, "Old man, your life is much better than mine!"

"Son, why do you say such things?" "Old man, how I want to go fishing with you!" "Come on, if you want! You fish and I paddle, and maybe we'll catch something good!" So the young man boarded the boat.They agreed that in the future, they will share blessings and difficulties, and live together.For a start, the old man gave half of his supper to the young man. After eating, they went to bed.At this time, there was a sudden storm, and the wind blew the boat up and down with the waves, until it drifted to the Turkish port. As soon as the Turks saw the boat, they took it for themselves.Two fishermen became their slaves, and they brought them to the Sultan.The sultan sent them to tend the garden: the old man tended the vegetables, the young men tended the flowers.Two slaves befriended other gardeners.In the Sultan's garden they lived comfortably.The old men made guitars, violins, flutes, clarinets, and piccolos, and the young men played these instruments and sang.

In order to punish his daughter, the sultan imprisoned her in a tower with his maids.Hearing the beautiful music and singing in the garden, she thought of her husband far away. "Only Fair Brough (as she called him) could play so many instruments, and only he could sing so beautifully. Who plays instruments and sings in the garden?" Unable to open the shutters, she looked through the aperture and saw that the young musician was none other than her husband. Every day the maids brought a large basket to the gardeners to fill with flowers.So the sultan's daughter said to her maids, "Put the young man in a basket and cover it with flowers, and bring him here!"

The gardeners thought it was fun, so they put the young man in a basket, and the maids carried him into the tower.As soon as the basket was put down, the young man got out from the pile of flowers, and suddenly found his wife in front of him!They hugged, kissed, and told everything about their goodbyes.Then, everyone discussed how to escape. They had a great ship loaded with pearls, precious stones, gold, and jewels.First they sent Fair Brough into the hold, then the Sultan's daughter, and then the maids one by one.Once ready, the ship set sail. When the boat was on the high seas, Fair Blau suddenly remembered the old man.He said to his wife: "Honey, I have to go back to the shore, although I may lose my life if I do so! But I can't break my promise! Because I promised the old man: I will share happiness with him forever, Difficulties are the same!"

They turned the boat around and went back to the shore, where they found the old man waiting for them.They helped him into the boat, and they sailed out to open sea. "Old man," said Fair Blau, "let's divide the property now. Half of this property will be yours, and the other half will be mine." "Then your wife will also share," said the old man, "you will have half of her, and I will have the other half!" "Old man," answered the young man, "I am very grateful to you, and I will give you all the wealth on board, but let me keep my wife." "You are a generous young man. Tell you what, I am the soul of the dead man you paid for the burial. You have had such good fortune only because of that good deed you did." He wished the young man happiness and then disappeared. The boat sailed slowly into the port of his hometown, and salutes saluted him from the shore: Fair Blau—the richest nobleman in the world—has returned with his wife!Waiting for them with outstretched arms on the bank was his father. They lived happily ever after, Too bad nothing was given to me. (Istria region) -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ [1] Sultan is the title of the old Turkish monarch. [2] Baptism is a Christian initiation ceremony.Turks believe in Islam, and Westerners believe in Christianity.