Chapter 27 hunchback story

In ancient times, there lived a tailor in the capital city of China. He had a cheerful disposition and liked to play games. He often took his wife out for walks and games.One day, the couple went out for a walk in the early morning, and they didn't return until sunset.On the way, they encountered a hunchback.This hunchback gave people a sense of humor, and his speech and behavior made people forget their depression all of a sudden, and couldn't help but feel happy.The tailor and his wife looked at the hunchback with great interest, and when they were happy, they asked him to go home with him, and they all had dinner and fun together.

The hunchback moved as soon as it was moved, and it was almost dark when we arrived at the tailor's house.The tailor immediately went to the market and bought fried fish, steamed buns, lemons and grapes, and treated the hunchback with a big dinner.They ate happily around the dining table.The tailor's wife took a large piece of fish and stuffed it into the hunchback's mouth, covered his mouth jokingly, and said: "In the name of Allah, you will definitely swallow this fish whole, you are not allowed to chew, swallow it quickly, swallow it quickly." As expected, the hunchback swallowed as ordered, and a big meaty fishbone hooked his throat, choking him until he couldn't breathe. After a while, he was choked to death.The tailor was stunned and couldn't help sighing:

"There is no other way, I only hope that Allah, the Almighty God, will save you! This poor creature, whether he will die sooner or later, why did he die at our hands!" "Can't you just sit still like this?" The wife complained anxiously to the tailor, "We are sitting on a raging fire." "Then what should we do?" "Come on, you come and hug him, I will put a silk handkerchief on his face, then I will go out first, you will follow me, we will get him out in the dark, on the street, you As you walk, keep saying: 'My child, your mother and I will take you to the doctor.'”

According to his wife's instructions, the tailor followed his wife out with his hunchback in his arms, and the wife shouted as she walked in front: "Oh! My son, get well soon. It really hurts me! But I know that such smallpox is indeed easy to catch everywhere." The couple walked, talked, and asked for the doctor's residence along the street, so that the whole street would know that their child was ill.Finally, they finally found the home of the Jewish doctor. The doctor's black maid heard them knock and opened the door for them.Seeing the tailor couple, she thought they were holding their child, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"We are taking the child to the doctor," said the tailor's wife. "Here is a quarter of gold. Take it to your master, and let him come down to see our child. The child is very ill." When the maid turned and went upstairs, the tailor and his wife took the opportunity to break into the doctor's house. "Put the hunchback down," said the tailor's wife, "and let's get away." The tailor hastily lowered his hunchback and let him lean against the stairs, and the two of them ran away in a hurry. The maid went upstairs and said to the doctor: "There is a couple in front of the door who came to see the doctor. They said that they would give you a quarter of the gold coin and ask you to see the doctor for their child."

The doctor was very happy to see the gold coin, got up immediately, and hurried downstairs to see the patient.When going downstairs, he kicked the dead hunchback, tripped and fell, and the hunchback rolled downstairs.The doctor got up and shouted: "Oh! Moses and the Ten Commandments! Aaron and Lai Yueshu! How could I kick this patient, make him roll down, and fall to his death all at once. I am very sorry for this man who died at home What about the dead body!" The doctor tremblingly carried the hunched corpse upstairs and told his wife what happened just now. "Why don't you think of a way?" said the wife. "If you sit still until daylight, we will be ruined, me and you will die! Come, let's take him up on the platform and put him next door. Go to that Muslim's house."

It turned out that the doctor’s neighbor was the head kitchen of the palace. He often brought the meat from the palace home, causing cats and mice to steal it. When no one was at home, even the dog would climb over the wall and go down to eat it. So a lot of meat wasted.At this time, the doctor and his wife, one holding the hands of the hunchback, and the other holding his feet, slowly put him down along the wall, letting him lean against the corner of the room.After doing all this, they quietly sneaked back to their own home. When the hunchback was lowered, the steward had just returned home.He opened the door, entered the room with a candle, and immediately saw someone standing in the corner.

"Ah! On my life," he cried, "well! So it was a man who stole so much meat from me! You stole my meat, and I kept blaming cats and dogs, so many cats and dogs in the alley What happened to the dogs, and it was you who climbed down from the roof and stole it!" he cried, and at once he went to pick up a sledgehammer, and struck the hunchback several times in the chest. The hunchback was knocked down to the ground, motionless, and the steward became panicked, sad and depressed, and sighed: "There is no way, I hope Allah, the Almighty God, will save me." He thought that his life was at stake, and cursed : "These nasty meats! May Allah curse them. Is this man's life so ruined by my hands?"

When he took a closer look, it turned out to be a hunchback. "Isn't it enough for you to be a hunchback?" He said, "Do you have to be a thief to steal oil and meat? My Lord! Please bless me and cover up my sins." He groped all the way to the corner of the street during the night, let him down secretly, let his hunchback lean against the door of a shop, and then ran away. At this moment, a very drunken Christian businessman, stumbling around, was about to take a bath.He muttered: "Hurry up! It's almost time to take a bath!" He staggered to the hunchback, sat down to untie his shoelaces, and suddenly saw a person standing beside him, so he got up, thinking that this person was trying to steal from him Tangled.It turned out that his turban had just been stolen last night, and he was aggrieved by it.So he punched the hunchback hard on the neck, and the hunchback fell down immediately.The businessman was very drunk, and while yelling "Catch a thief", he took advantage of the situation and threw himself on the hunchback, clutching the hunchback's neck tightly with both hands.

When the inspector heard the sound and arrived, he saw the businessman riding on a hunchback, beating and beating. "Why beat people?" asked the inspector. "This man wants to grab my head wrap." "stand up!" The Christian businessman stood up.The inspector went over and saw that the man had been beaten to death. "Okay!" said the inspector, "the Christians have killed the Muslims." So they tied up the Christians and took them to the yamen. "Christ! Virgin Mary!" cried the Christian businessman angrily. "How could I kill a man? How could he die when I only punched him? How quickly he died!"

Afterwards, the Christian businessman sobers up, regains his senses, and spends the night in prison sadly and hunchbacked. The next day, before the judge executed the murderer, the magistrate pronounced the Christian businessman guilty and led him to the gallows. When the noose was wrapped around his neck and he was about to be executed, the kitchen manager suddenly rushed over.He pushed his way through the crowd, and when he saw that the Christian merchant was about to be hanged, he squeezed his way up to the executioner with all his strength, and said in a loud voice: "Don't hang him, I killed this man." "Why did you kill?" the judge asked. "When I came home last night, he was climbing down from the roof and trying to steal my things. In a fit of anger, I hit him in the chest with a sledgehammer and killed him. Because of fear, I carried him to the street. , leaning him in front of a shop. But now I think, I have killed a Moslem, and I can't let this Christian die, now please take my life and hang me." After hearing the steward's surrender, the judge acquitted the Christian businessman and released him. "Hang this man." The judge pointed to the kitchen manager and ordered the executioner. According to the order of the judge, the judge took the noose from the neck of the Christian merchant, put it around the neck of the steward, and led him to the gallows, ready to hang him.At this moment the Jewish doctor pushed his way through the crowd, rushed to the gallows with a cry, and said: "You can't hang him. It wasn't he who killed him, but I. It's like this: I was at home yesterday, and a man and a woman came to seek medical treatment. They brought this hunchback and asked the maid to give me a quarter of gold." , Said it was to treat him. A man and a woman entered my house and asked him to rest on the stairs, and they left. I fumbled downstairs to see the patient, but I couldn’t see clearly in the dark, so I kicked him He fell down and died immediately. My wife and I carried the body onto the platform and managed to get it to the steward's house, because he was our neighbor. The steward went back and found the hunchback in his house. Thinking it was a thief, he hammered it He knocked him down and thought he killed him. I killed a Muslim by accident, but I don’t want to take another Muslim’s life intentionally!" Because of the Jewish doctor's surrender, the judge ordered the judge: "Let go of the steward, and hang the Jew for his life." The executioner put the noose around the Jewish doctor's neck again, and was about to undo it when the tailor suddenly broke through the crowd, ran to the gallows, and said to the executioner: "Don't hang him, it wasn't him who killed him, but me. It's like this: I went out for a walk yesterday morning, and when I came home in the afternoon, I met this drunk hunchback. He was beating a snare drum and humming a little tune. I invited him to my house and served him fried fish. My wife offered him a piece of fish and stuffed it in his mouth, and he swallowed it and died. My wife and I took him to the Jewish doctor's house, and his The maid came to open the door, and I said to her, 'Tell your master to come down quickly and see our child.' At that time, I gave her a quarter of gold.When she went upstairs to notify the master, I put the hunchback on the stairs and slipped away with my wife.The doctor went downstairs and kicked him, thinking he had killed himself. " "Is that true?" he asked the Jewish doctor. "Yes, that's true," replied the doctor. "Let go of the Jew," said the tailor, looking at the judge, "and let me pay for it." "This is really a strange thing that can be recorded as historical materials." The judge was very surprised when he heard the tailor's surrender.Immediately ordered the judge in charge: "Let go of the Jew, and according to the tailor's surrender, hang him." While putting the noose around the tailor's neck, the executioner said, "It's very troublesome! You have to hang that one at a time, and this one at a time. In the end, no one can die!" That hunchback was originally a dwarf for the emperor's amusement, serving the emperor anytime and anywhere.After he got drunk and slipped out of the palace, he didn't return to the palace for two days.The emperor ordered to inquire about his whereabouts.The courtier went out to inquire about the situation, and returned to the palace to report to the king: "My lord, the hunchback is dead, and the body was sent to the yamen. The judge wants to hang the murderer. But it is very strange. Whenever he announces the crime and is about to hang him, someone always comes out and admits that he is the murderer. He killed himself, and several people have turned themselves in, and everyone has told the reason for the murder." So, the emperor ordered the guards: "Go to the execution ground and pass the judge into the palace, and ask him to bring all the prisoners to see me." When the guards arrived at the execution ground, the executioner was about to start sewing just as he was getting ready. "Wait!" The courtier stopped the executioner, conveyed the emperor's will to the judge, and then ordered people to carry the hunchbacked body, and brought the tailor, Jewish doctor, Christian businessman and steward into the palace.When the judge saw the emperor, he knelt down and kissed the ground, and reported the incident to the emperor.The emperor was surprised and excited when he heard this. At this time, a barber who had just entered the palace stood up and watched the scene.He is very strange. "Your Majesty!" said the barber, "why is the tailor, the Christian merchant, the Jewish doctor, the Moslem steward, and the dead hunchback all here? What is the matter?" The emperor smiled and said, "Come, tell the barber what happened to the hunchback at supper yesterday, and everything that the Christian merchant, the Jewish doctor, the steward, and the tailor talked about." When the barber heard all this, he said, "This is the wonder of wonders!" Then he shook his head and said, "Show me the hunchback." So he sat down close to the hunchback, and moved his head On his own lap, after carefully looking at it, he burst out laughing and almost fell to the ground. He said: "Everyone dies for a reason, and the death of a hunchback is especially worth recording." His words and deeds baffled everyone, including the emperor. "Your Majesty, I swear by your grace, this hunchback is not dead, he is still breathing." The barber said, took out a jar from his bag, opened it, took out an eye drops bottle from it, and took the oil in the bottle Then he took out another iron clamp, carefully inserted the iron clamp into the hunchback's throat, and pulled out a piece of fish meat covered in blood and with bone fragments.The hunchback suddenly sneezed and got up, full of air, he wiped his face with his hand and said: "Allah is the only Lord and Muhammad is His Apostle." The emperor and all the people were amazed and laughed like hell. "In the name of Allah," said the emperor, "this is a miracle, nothing is more strange, my subjects," he continued, "have you ever seen a person who died and came back to life?" Is it? If it wasn't for the barber, the hunchback would have died from suspended animation." "In the name of Allah," said the people in unison, "this is truly one of a kind." The emperor was surprised, and ordered the people in the palace to record the story of the hunchback and keep it as a historical document; on the other hand, he rewarded each of the Jewish doctor, Christian businessman, and manager with a set of expensive clothes, and then let them all go home. They also each received a set of expensive clothes from the emperor.Since then, the tailor started sewing in the palace and received a monthly salary; the hunchback still accompanied the emperor, talking and laughing, and got a high salary; the barber became the emperor's personal attendant, cutting hair for the emperor. They each got a job and lived comfortably and happily.