Chapter 67 The story of the fisherman and the male fish-3

So he took off his clothes, dug a hole on the bank, buried the clothes, and then smeared cod liver oil all over his body, and then went into the sea and dived into the water.He opened his eyes and saw that he was very comfortable.The water cannot submerge him, and he can move freely, no matter whether he moves forward or backward, turns left or right, goes up or down, and swims freely.Surrounded by water on all sides, he seemed to be in a transparent tent, very comfortable. "Friend, what do you think?" The male mermaid was concerned about the fisherman's safety. "Very good! Your words are not false at all." The fisherman was satisfied.

"Then follow me." The male mermaid led the fisherman forward. The fisherman followed the male fish to enjoy the beautiful scenery in the sea.Wherever he passed, there were mountains facing each other. Various fish and turtles had different shapes, some were like buffaloes, some were like cattle, some were like dogs, and some were like people.All kinds of fish and turtles ran away when they saw him.The fisherman felt strange, so he asked the male mermaid, "My friend, why do all the fish and turtles we meet run away?" "They are afraid of you. For of all the creatures created by Allah, man is the most fearful."

The fisherman continued to roam the sea with the male mermaid, enjoying the wonders.They came to a towering mountain, and when they were about to walk over it, they heard a roar.The fisherman looked up and saw a black shadow bigger than a camel, roaring and rolling down from the top of the mountain.He was taken aback, and hurriedly asked the male mermaid, "My friend, what is that?" "This is the Dandong fish. It rushed towards us and wanted to eat me. My friend, you can yell at it, before it comes to eat me, you can yell at it." The fisherman let go of his voice and roared, and the Dandong fish was frightened to death by his roar, and rolled down to the bottom of the sea without a sound.Seeing the end of the Dandong fish, he couldn't help being surprised and exclaimed: "Praise be to Allah! I didn't use a sword, I was unarmed, and this huge monster couldn't stand my cry and died!"

"My friend, you don't have to be amazed. I swear to Allah, even if there are tens of thousands of these guys, they can't stand up to a human's roar." The male mermaid said, leading the fisherman to a city under the sea . When the fisherman saw that all the residents in the city were women and there were no men, he asked the male mermaid, "My friend, what is this place? What do these women do?" "This is the Women's City, because the residents in the city are all women, so it is called the Women's City." "Do they have husbands?"

"No." "Without a husband, how can they conceive and have children?" "They were exiled here by the king. They don't conceive and don't give birth. Women in the sea, whoever offends the king, will be sent to this city to be imprisoned and not allowed to go out for life. Anyone who sneaks out of the city will be punished. Animals can eat her. Except this city, other cities are cohabitation." "Are there any other cities in the sea?" "There are many." "Is there a king in the sea?" "Have." "My friend, there are so many wonders in the sea!"

"What you see is only a small part. Haven't you heard the old saying 'beauty in the sea is better than land'?" "You're right." The fisherman replied while carefully watching the women in the city. They were as beautiful as a bright moon, with long hair draped over their shoulders.The difference is that their hands and feet grow on their stomachs, and their lower body is a fish tail. After the fisherman and the male fish left the city of women, they were taken to another city.There were crowds everywhere, men, women, old and young, all of whom looked like the women in the Women's City, and everyone had a tail.They were all naked, without clothes, and did not see the market for buying and selling.

The fisherman asked the male mermaid: "My friend, why are people here naked and not wearing clothes?" "Oh, because there's no cotton in the sea, and you can't sew clothes." "How do you get married?" "Many people don't marry at all, and as long as a man likes someone, he will live with her." "It's not legal. Why don't you propose to the woman first, give her a dowry, and then hold a wedding ceremony, and finally get married?" "Because people in the sea believe in many religions. There are Muslims who believe in Islam; there are Christians; there are Jews; there are other fetishisms. It is only Muslims who are fashionable to marry."

"You don't wear clothes, and you don't do business. When you get married, what do you use as a dowry gift? Pearls and gems?" "Pearls and gems are as worthless as stones to us. Anyone who wants to get married among Muslims only needs to hunt for a batch of fish of all kinds, usually a thousand or two thousand, and there are a little more. In short, it is decided by himself and his father-in-law through consultation. After catching enough fish, the family members, relatives and friends of both men and women will gather together, hold a wedding banquet, send the groom to the bridal chamber, and the bride and groom will officially become husband and wife. After marriage, the husband will usually Fishing supports the wife, and if the husband is incompetent, the wife supports the husband by fishing."

"What if such scandalous things as adultery happen between men and women?" "If the adulterer is a woman, she will be sent to the City of Women and confinement; if she is a pregnant woman, she will be executed after the child is born. If a daughter is born, she must go to the City of Women with her mother, known as 'The illegitimate daughter of a harlot', let her die there; if a son is born, it is sent to the palace, and the king kills him." The fisherman was very surprised when he heard the way of punishing the adulteress.Later, the male mermaid took him to another city for sightseeing.

The House of the Male Mermaid The male mermaid took the fisherman through one city after another, watching and sightseeing to his heart's content, and visited 80 large and small cities in total.Every city has a different style.He curiously asked the male mermaid: "My friend, are there any other cities in the sea?" "Yes. The cities I show you are only in my hometown. There are countless cities in the sea. Even if it takes a thousand years, I will show you a thousand cities every day, and each city will let you see a thousand wonders. Then, what you see is less than a twenty-fourth of the beauty of the strange city in the sea."

"In this case, let's stop here for our tour. Because these cities and wonders have already satisfied me. And in terms of food, I'm with you. For eighty days, I don't burn every morning and evening. I'm tired of uncooked fish." "You said burning, boiling, what's the matter?" "The so-called burning and boiling are our cooking methods. For example, a fish, we put it on the fire, and by burning or boiling, we can make a variety of food with different tastes." "We live in the sea, where do we find fire? We don't know these methods, so we eat raw fish." “We have to fry the fish in olive oil or sesame oil and it tastes great.” "We don't have olive oil or sesame oil here either. We grow in the sea, and we don't know many things in the world." "Yes. You took me to visit a lot of cities this time, but I haven't been to your home yet." "We are still far away from the city where I live. It is in the area where I took you to the sea. I took you so far, just to let you visit more cities in the sea." "I have visited so many cities, enough is enough. Now I just want to see the city where you live." The fisherman said his wish. "Okay, I'll take you there right now." The male mermaid said and led the fisherman back.Let's go, let's go.Finally came to a city.He said to the fisherman, "Here! I live in this city." The fisherman saw that the city was smaller than any other cities he had visited.The male mermaid led him into the city, came to a cave, pointed and said: "This is my home. The houses in this city are caves of all sizes. The houses in the sea are almost like this. If people in the sea want to settle down, they must first ask the king for instructions, explaining where they want to settle. The king then sent a team of fish called "Longol" to the place where he settled to help him build a house. They pecked the cave with their sharp beaks and built a house. They don't want to pay, only let the master fish as their After the living room is pecked, the master will have a place to live. The living and communication of people in the sea are like this, and the gifts and rewards between each other are generally inseparable from fish." The male mermaid explained, and then said: "Please come into my house." The fisherman went into the house with the male mermaid, only to hear him call: "Child!" Following his call, his daughter came out. She had a face as beautiful as the moon, a pair of big dark eyes, a slender figure, and a buttocks. Plump, with long hair and fish tail, completely naked.When she saw the fisherman, she asked her father: "Father! Who is this bald-tailed man with you?" "This is the friend I made on land. The fruit I bring to you every day is what he gave to me. Come over and say hello to him." As expected, she was obedient and greeted the fisherman cordially. The male mermaid said to his daughter, "It is our good fortune to have a distinguished guest! Go and prepare meals to entertain the guests." In a short while she brought out two fish as big as lambs.The male mermaid said to the fisherman, "Please eat." Although the fisherman was tired of eating fish, he was hungry and had no choice but to bite the bullet and chew the fish to satisfy his hunger.At this time, the male mermaid's wife came home with her two young sons.She is graceful and beautiful, and her two sons each hold a fish baby in their hands, like children on land eating courgettes, eating very sweetly.Seeing the fisherman with her husband, she asked casually: "What is this bald tail?" So she, her two sons and her daughter looked at the fisherman's buttocks curiously, couldn't straighten up laughing, and shouted: "Oh! By Allah, he is a man with a bald tail!" "My friend, did you bring me to your house on purpose to make your wife and children laugh at me?" protested the fisherman. "I'm sorry, my friend. Because there are no bald-tailed people here, they are always brought into the palace for the king's entertainment. My children are young and ignorant, and my wife is short-sighted. Don't talk to them Care about it." The male mermaid explained and apologized to the fisherman, and then yelled at his family: "Shut up!" He also comforted the fisherman with good words, dispelling the dissatisfaction in the fisherman's heart. When the fisherman saw the male mermaid king in the sea comforting the fisherman and apologizing to him, suddenly ten rough men broke into the house and said to the male mermaid, "The king got a report that a man with a bald tail came to your house. Really?" "That's right, here! That's him." The male mermaid pointed at the fisherman and replied, "He's my friend. He's coming to my house as a guest. I'll send him back to land in a while." "We must take him away so that we can make a errand to the king. If you have something to say, please come with us into the palace and talk to the king." "My friend," the male fish turned to the fisherman, "I'm sorry! I can't disobey the king's order. Please! I will accompany you to the king. Allah, I will intercede for you before the king. You don't Afraid! The king saw you and knew that you came from the land, and he would respect you and let you go back to the land." "Just do as you say." The fisherman agreed to go to the king. "Allah bless you! Let us go." The male mermaid and the fisherman went to the palace with the rough men.When the king saw the fisherman, he couldn't help laughing for a while, and then said, "Welcome, bald-tailed man." The people around the king also laughed, and shouted, "Look! He is really a bald-tailed man!" Amidst the laughter, the male mermaid walked up to the king unhurriedly and said, "This is a man who grew up on land and is my good friend. He is not used to living with us, because he only eats barbecue or Boiled fish. I implore Your Majesty to show mercy and let me send him back to land." "Since he doesn't want to stay in the sea, I promise you. After I entertain him with a banquet, you can send him back." The king agreed to the male mermaid's request, and then ordered: "Hurry up and get food to entertain the guests." The king's attendants obeyed the order and immediately put out all kinds of fish and meat, treating the fisherman as a guest.The fisherman had the honor of being the king's guest and had a hearty meal. The king asked him, "What do you want me to reward you? Just tell me." "I implore Your Majesty to reward me with pearls and gems." The fisherman asked the king for a reward. "Take him to the jewel storehouse and let him choose whatever he wants." The king readily agreed to the fisherman's request, and the fisherman and the male mermaid went to the king's treasury together, picked out many precious jewels, and returned with a full load. The male mermaid broke up with the fisherman. The male mermaid led the fisherman to leave the capital and return to his home.Before sending the fisherman back to land, he took out a package, handed it to the fisherman, and said: "Please accept this package and help me take it to Mecca. This is a small gift for the Prophet Muhammad, to show my respect for him." .” The fisherman accepted his gift, but did not know what was in it. The male mermaid sent the fisherman back to the land, passing a place on the way back, the fisherman saw people cheering, singing, and holding a big feast. People gathered in groups, singing and dancing, as if it was some kind of happy event.He curiously asked the male mermaid, "They are so happy, are they celebrating a wedding?" "No! They're not getting married, but dead people are doing funerals." "Someone died here, do you still want to gather people to celebrate?" "Yes, that's the case here. But what about yours? What's it like to die on land?" The male mermaid is also curious about the situation on land. "People died on our land, and relatives and friends all mourned and wept for the dead, especially the women, who always slapped themselves, tore their clothes, and cried to death." "Give me back the gift I entrusted you to give to the prophet." The male mermaid stared at the fisherman with wide eyes. The male mermaid wanted to return the gift, and after going ashore with the fisherman, he suddenly said to him decisively: "I am determined to break up with you! From today, we will break it off!" "What do you mean?" The fisherman was puzzled. "Aren't you humans who grew up on land the appendages of Allah?" "Yes, it is an appendage of Allah." "But when Allah took back His appendages, you were unwilling and even wept bitterly. In this case, how can I entrust you with the gift of the Prophet? On the contrary, when you give birth to a child, you are full of joy, In fact, the soul of the newly born is also the deposit of Allah, and when Allah takes back his deposit, why do you not want to, worry about it, and cry? If this is the case, making friends with the human beings on the land is a good thing. For us, it doesn’t have to be.” After the male mermaid finished speaking, he dropped the fisherman, dived into the water, and disappeared instantly. The fisherman dug out the clothes buried on the shore, put them on, and returned with a full load of pearls and gems. Overjoyed, the king went to meet him and greeted him kindly, "How are you, my son? Why did you take so long to come back?" The fisherman narrated his experience of traveling in the sea.The king was surprised and envious when he heard this.At last the fisherman told the king that the male mermaid broke up with him.After hearing this, the king complained: "You told him the situation on land, this is your mistake!" Fisherman Abdullah missed the male fish and continued to go to the beach every day.He called to the Mermaid, wishing to be reconciled to him, to exchange gifts with him, but he was never echoed or seen again. Abdullah the fisherman went back and forth every day from the palace to the beach, and from the beach to the palace.After a long period of time, he knew that hope was in vain, so he stopped thinking and stopped going back and forth in vain. Together with his parents-in-law, wife and children, he lived comfortably and happily in the palace until he was old. ① "Dharma Sea": Chapter 1