Chapter 3 fisherman and four-color fish

The fisherman tremblingly followed behind the devil, he did not believe that he could escape.They went straight on, through country after country, and over hills and hills, until they came to a wide valley with a clear lake at the bottom. The devil waded into the lake and said to the fisherman, "Come with me." So the fisherman followed the devil down to the lake. The devil stood below and told him to cast a net to catch fish.The fisherman looked down and was surprised to see white, red, blue and yellow fish swimming at the bottom of the lake.So he took down the nets, cast them in the lake, caught four fish with one net, exactly one fish of each color.

The fisherman was very happy looking at the fish in the net. The devil said to him: "Fisherman, when you go back, send the fish to the palace and present it to the king. He will make you rich and rich. I swear in the name of Allah, now I can only repay you in this way, please Forgive me. I sank in the sea and waited for eighteen hundred years before I could see the light of day. I should repay you. From now on, you only need to come to the lake to catch a net of fish for the king every day. Don't be greedy. Now, Allah will bless you. " After the devil said that, he stamped his feet, the ground cracked, and he sank into it and disappeared.

The fisherman took the four-tailed fish back to the city, thinking about the process of dealing with the devil along the way, feeling very strange. When he returned home, he took an alms bowl, filled it with water, and put the fish in it.The fish got water, became active, and swam around in the bowl.According to the instructions of the devil, he put the bowl on his head and sent the fish into the palace.The king was very amazed when he saw the four-colored fish that the fisherman paid tribute to. This was the first time he had seen such fish in his life.He told the prime minister: "Give these few fish to the female cook and let her fry them seriously."

It turned out that there was a slave girl in the palace who was good at cooking, and she was sent as a gift by the King of Greece three days ago. The king didn't know her skills yet.He asked the cook to fry fish in order to test her skill. The prime minister took the fish to the kitchen, handed it to the female cook, and said: "Today, someone sent four fish to the king. The Lord hopes that you will show your skills and cook them carefully, so that the king can enjoy them happily." After the prime minister gave his orders, he returned to the king.The king ordered him to reward the fisherman with forty gold coins, and the prime minister obeyed and rewarded the fisherman.The fisherman was overjoyed when he received the reward, and ran home staggeringly. He was so happy that he sat down and stood up for a while, thinking that he was in a dream.He bought the necessities of life with reward money.

That night, the fisherman's family spent the night happily. According to the king's order, the female cook in the palace cut up and cleaned the fish, set up a frying pan, and then put the fish into the pan to fry.After frying one side, she started to flip the fish for the second side.At this time, a hole was suddenly opened in the wall on one side of the kitchen, and a very beautiful young girl came out of it. The girl was wearing a blue silk scarf, beautiful earrings, bracelets on her arms, He wears a ring of rare gemstones and holds a cane in his hand. The girl poked the end of the cane into the frying pan and said, "Fish! Remember the Old Testament?"

The female cook was so frightened that she fainted.The girl repeated her question again and again.At this time, all the fish in the frying pan raised their heads together and replied clearly and loudly: "Yes, yes." Then he chanted: "If you turn your back on you, We also turned against each other; If you fulfill the contract, We also perform; If you forsake your oath, We also accompany. " After the fish groaned, the girl overturned the frying pan with a cane, and walked back to the original place through the crack in the wall, and then the kitchen wall closed and returned to its original shape.

The female cook slowly came to her senses, and opened her eyes to see that the four fish were all burnt, as dry as charcoal.Surprised, she sighed: "The first time I went out, the barrel of the gun broke first." She was anxious and angry, and passed out again. At this time, the prime minister came to the kitchen and saw the female cook unconscious, so he kicked her.The female cook woke up, wept, and told the prime minister what had happened in detail.The prime minister was surprised when he heard this, and said, "This is really a strange thing." So he immediately sent someone to call the fisherman and shouted, "Fisherman! Bring me four more fish of the kind you sent last time."

The fisherman came to the lake, cast his net, caught the same four fish, and sent them to the palace in fear.The prime minister sent the fish to the kitchen again, and still gave it to the female cook, saying: "Fry it in front of me, let me see this strange thing with my own eyes." The female cook cut and cleaned the fish, set up the frying pan, and put the fish in the pan.This time, they just started frying the fish, and the wall immediately cracked, and the girl appeared in front of them again, her dress and the cane in her hand were exactly the same as the first time.She poked her cane into the cauldron and said:

"Fish! Remember the Old Testament?" Following the girl's voice, all the fish in the pot raised their heads and chanted: "If you turn your back on you, We also turned against each other; If you fulfill the contract, We also perform; If you forsake your oath, We also accompany. " After hearing this, the girl overturned the frying pan with a cane and returned to the original place. The wall immediately closed and returned to its original shape. The prime minister was very surprised and said: "It's hard to hide this matter, you must report it to the king." So the prime minister went to the king immediately and reported this strange thing to him.After hearing this, the king said, "I must see it with my own eyes." Then he sent someone to call the fisherman, and restricted him to three days to send that strange four-color fish into the palace again.

The fisherman went to the lake in fear and fear, caught four fish and sent them to the palace in time.The king ordered to reward the fisherman with four hundred gold coins, and then said to the prime minister: "Come on, fry the fish yourself in front of me." "Yes, as ordered." The prime minister replied, immediately brought a frying pan, washed the fish, and put it in the pan.When he set the frying pan on the fire and started frying, the wall suddenly cracked.This time, a burly man came out, like a bull and a remnant of the Woding clan. He held a green stick in his hand and asked in a rough voice: "Fish! Fish! Do you remember?" Old Testament?"

As soon as the words fell, all the fish in the pot raised their heads and replied: "Yes, yes, we have fulfilled the contract." Then they chanted: "If you turn your back on you, We also turned against each other; If you fulfill the contract, We also perform; If you forsake your oath, We also accompany. " The black slave walked over, lifted the branch, overturned the frying pan, and then disappeared from the crack in the wall. The king looked at the fish carefully and saw that the fish had been burned as dry as charcoal. He couldn't help being shocked, and said: "You can't keep silent about such a thing. This fish must have a strange experience." So he ordered the fisherman to enter the palace and asked: "Damn fisherman, where did you get this strange fish?" "From a lake in the valley outside the city." "How far is it from here?" "Your Majesty, the journey is about half an hour." After hearing what the fisherman said, the king was amazed.He was anxious to find out the secret, so he ordered his subordinates to pack up and set off immediately.So, the king's men marched out of the city in a mighty manner and with a clear banner.The fisherman leads the way.They passed through suburbs, climbed over mountains, and came to wide valleys.Seeing the lake with clear water, surrounded by mountains, and red, white, yellow, and blue fish swimming in it, everyone was amazed, because they had never seen such a scene, and no one had ever seen this lake. .The king asked the older people, and they all said: "We've never seen this lake in our lives." The king said: "I swear in the name of Allah, I will not go back to the palace until I find out the origin of the lake and the fish." The prime minister said: "Tonight I want to hide quietly in the tent alone. No matter the princes, generals, servants or servants, they will all stand in the way. Tell them that I am not in good health and cannot be interviewed. They are not allowed to reveal my true intentions." to anyone." The prime minister obeyed the order and carefully guarded outside the tent. The king changed into civilian clothes, put on his sword, left the camp quietly, and climbed up the mountain in the dark.He trekked until dawn, and continued to walk for a whole day and night in spite of the heat and fatigue.The next day he walked for another day and night, and when it was dawn, he found a black shadow in the distance. He was very happy and said: "Perhaps I can meet someone who can tell me the history of the lake and the fish." The black shadow turned out to be a palace built of black stone, with two gates, one opened and the other closed. The king happily came to the door and knocked lightly, but there was no answer.He knocked again for the second and third time, but still no one answered.He knocked violently for a while, but still no one answered."There is no doubt about it," he thought, "it must be an empty house." Then he took courage, broke in through the gate, and came out into the porch, crying out: "People who live in the house! I am a stranger. I pass by here, do you have any food, can you feed me?" He shouted three or four times, but still no one answered. He mustered up his courage and vigor, and went straight into the main room.The room was empty but neatly arranged, all the furnishings were silk, very rich, the floor was covered with shiny carpets, the windows were hung with embroidered curtains, and four vaulted halls surrounded a spacious courtyard. , There are stone benches and fountains in the courtyard, and four golden lions are squatting beside the pool, spouting pearl-like clear water from their mouths, songbirds are raised in the courtyard, and golden nets are set in the air to catch the birds.The scene here is puzzling, but no one came to talk to the king.Strange mountains, lakes, four-color fish and palaces made the king amazed and sullen. Reluctantly, he sat slumped in front of the door, bowing his head in thought.At this time, he suddenly heard a melancholy sigh.The voice chanted: "I hid everything from you, You expose yourself. Drowsiness passes from my eyes, In exchange for insomnia. ..." The king stood up at the sound, and looking in, he saw that there was a curtain hanging over the door of the hall.He stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, and a young man was sitting on a bed behind the curtain, the bed was more than a foot high.This young man is a handsome, radiant and handsome young man, exactly: A handsome young man with black hair and flour face, He appears before people day and night. There is no denying the mole on his cheek, Qiu peony has a sunspot. When the king saw the young man, he was overjoyed and greeted him. The young man was sitting upright, wearing an Egyptian-style gown embroidered with gold thread and a pearl crown, but his brows were full of sorrow.He returned the salute politely to the king, and then said: "Forgive me for not being able to rise to meet you because of my disability." "Young man, you are welcome. I am your guest now. I have come to you on an important matter. Can you tell me the history of the lake, the four-colored fish, and the palace? I want to know, why do you live here alone? Why are you so sad and miserable?" After hearing the king's words, the young man burst into tears, and couldn't help but chant sadly: "O dreamer, How many people have fallen by the master of the age, How many people stood up again. . hate aside, Without traceback: 'What has disappeared, why has it evolved like this? ' Because ah, destiny is the root of everything. " Hearing all this, the king wondered, and asked, "Young man, why are you weeping?" "How can I not be sad about what happened to me!" He lifted his robe and let the king see his lower body.It turned out that half of the young man's body was turned into stone from waist to toe, only the upper body was still conscious. Seeing this situation, the king couldn't help feeling sad and sighed: "Young man, you have added new worries to my old wounds. I originally came here to inquire about four-color fish, but now there are no fish In addition to the situation, I have to understand you again. There is no other way, I can only hope for the help of Allah, the Almighty God. Young people, please tell me what happened to you." "I'll tell you." "I'm listening, tell me." "I had a strange experience with the four-color fish myself. If I record it, it will be a good lesson for future generations." "What's the matter?"