Chapter 72 The Story of Sinbad the Navigator-5

Not only did he not come down, but he clamped my neck tightly with his legs.I saw that his two feet were as thick as buffalo hooves, he was clamped too tightly, and I couldn't drop him. In the end, I couldn't even breathe, my eyes blurred, and I fell to the ground, and I didn't know who I was. Soon he relaxed his legs, pressed my back and shoulders, and beat me violently, until I woke up from a coma.I was in terrible pain, so I had to struggle to get up, swallow my breath, let him ride on my neck, and obey his orders.He asked me to pick fruit for him to eat. If I moved a little slower, he would punch and kick me, which was more painful than whipping me.He treated me like a prisoner, riding on my neck all day long, and pulling urine and urine on my body.When he was going to sleep, he clamped his legs and stuck my neck. I regretted pity him very much, otherwise I would not have fallen to this point.

He treats me like a human being.I was exhausted and miserable.He sighed secretly: "I treated him kindly, but he abused me. I swear to Allah, from now on, I will not dare to do good deeds again. " I couldn't bear the abuse and was so distraught that I just wanted to die so that I wouldn't suffer it alive. One day, I carried him to the pumpkin patch where there were many dried pumpkins.I picked the biggest pumpkin, dug a hole in it, removed the pulp, put some grapes in it, sealed the hole, put it in the sun for a few days, and made homemade wine. Take a few sips to relieve your sorrows and forget your pain for a while.I get drunk every time I drink, and I always wake up refreshed and in a much better mood.

One day, I poured myself a drink as usual, and he pointed to it and asked, "What is this?" "It's a good drink to boost your spirits." At that time, I was a little drunk and extremely excited. I walked around the woods with him behind my back, singing and dancing to the beat. Seeing my excited expression, he gestured to me and asked me to give him the wine.I obeyed his wishes and had to hand him the pumpkin wine bottle.He took it and drank the rest of the wine in one gulp, threw the pumpkin on the ground and smashed it to pieces.Afterwards, he had a drunken attack, his eyes were hazy, and he swayed from side to side when he walked. Soon, he became very drunk and his muscles relaxed.He was completely out of control, his body fell to one side, and he passed out.So I stretched out my hand and pulled away his two thick legs that were tightly clamped around my neck, and threw him to the ground.It all happened so suddenly that I still didn't believe I was free from the disaster.

I was afraid that he would hurt me after waking up, so I found a big rock from the woods, aimed at his head and hit him, and immediately his brain burst and he died.Allah will not have mercy on this bad guy. From then on, I lived happily and easily on the deserted island alone, just waiting for the ship to pass by, hoping to be saved.At that time, I just recalled my previous experience and various encounters, and sighed to myself: "Oh! Thanks to the gift of the great Allah, I escaped from death and only waited to return to Basra to be reunited with my family!" On this deserted island, I am looking forward to it vaguely.

After a long time, one day, I finally saw a ship appearing on the sea.It sailed towards the island, stopped by the sea, and I was immediately surrounded by travelers who landed.They asked me about my background and how I got to the island.When I told them about my experiences and encounters, they felt incredible and said: "The old man riding on your neck is called Old Man Hai. No one who is riding by him will survive. You are extremely lucky. Praise be to Allah, who gave you new life. " So he gave me something to eat, gave me clothes to wear, and took me along. Our small boat sailed in the vast sea for several days and nights, and came to a city called Monkey City, where the houses were majestic, and the doors and windows of every house faced the sea.It is said that when night comes, people in the city will leave their homes and go to sea to spend the night by boat, fearing that monkeys will come down the mountain to rob them.I was curious and wanted to go into town and have a look.By the time I got back from my tour and returned to the beach, the boat had already left.I regretted that I shouldn't go to the city to play. Thinking about the experience of meeting the apes and my companions last time, I felt sad and sat alone by the sea and wept.

At this time, a local man came up to me and said to me: "Sir, you seem to be a foreigner." "Well, I'm a poor stranger. I used to be a businessman who went overseas by boat. I passed by here and went to the city for sightseeing. As a result, I came back a step late and the boat drove away." "Come and spend the night at sea with us. If you stay in the city at night, the monkeys will come and hurt you." Before he could finish speaking, I got up and walked away with him. We rowed about a mile out to sea and spent the night.In the early morning of the next day, they rowed to the shore again and went home separately.

They do this every day and night, and it has become a habit.There are many monkeys around the monkey city. They steal the fruit from the orchard outside the city to eat during the day, hide in the mountains to sleep, and rush into the city in groups at night to hurt people.One of the strangest things happened to me in the Monkey City, when one of my fellow-shippers said to me that night: "Sir, you are a stranger, do you have a job in the city?" "No, I don't know what to do. I was originally a businessman, very rich. I hired a big ship by myself, loaded with money and goods, and sailed overseas to do business, but the ship sank on the way, and I am blessed by Allah. Bless, hold on to a wreck plank, and be saved."

The local man listened to my words, handed me a cloth bag, and said, "Here is this bag for you, take it with the people out of town to collect stones. Come on, I will take you to meet them and entrust you to them. Just learn from them, and maybe you will have some income that can help you go home." So we went outside the city and filled the cloth sacks with stones. Not long after, someone came out of the city. We walked over, and the person who brought me said to them: "This is a foreigner, you take him there, teach him, let him do something to make a living, and if you do good deeds, you will be rewarded. "

These people are very friendly to me and take me along.Like them, I came to a very wide valley with a bag of stones by my side.The valley is full of tall and unreachable trees, and there are countless monkeys living in groups on the trees. When they see us, they climb up the trees to hide.The companions took out stones from their pockets and kept throwing them at the monkeys on the tree. The monkeys on the tree imitated their actions very cleverly and picked fruits from the tree to fight back.In this way, as soon as you came, I threw it back and forth. I took a closer look at the fruit thrown by the monkey, and it turned out to be a coconut.

Following the method of my friends, I chose a tall tree full of monkeys, took out stones, and threw them on the tree one after another.The monkeys picked coconuts from the tree and threw them down.I haven't finished throwing the stones in my pocket, and the ground is already full of coconuts.I filled a sack full of coconuts and everyone went away happy.I found the friend who introduced me to the partners, gave him coconuts, and thanked him for his help.He refused and said to me: "You keep these coconuts and sell them, and use the money you earn." He gave me another key and told me: "You can put the leftover coconuts in the hut. , In the future, you will go out to collect coconuts with them like today, and the money you get from the sale will be kept for expenses, and some will be saved, and slowly accumulate, which can be used as travel expenses when you go home in the future.”

"Thank you very much and may Allah bless you." As he said, I carried a bag of stones with my friends every day in exchange for the coconuts dropped by the monkeys.In this way, I worked hard for a long time, stockpiled a large number of coconuts, sold many of them, made a lot of money, and lived happily every day. One day I went for a walk on the seashore and saw a merchant ship moored by the seashore.I ran to tell the landlord that I was going home by boat. "It's up to you," he said. So, I thanked him, took my leave, went to the captain to explain the situation, then moved the coconuts and other items on board, left Monkey City, and started the life of sailing and traveling again. Everywhere our boat went, I sold coconuts, sometimes exchanging coconuts for goods, and made a lot of money. One day we passed by a small island where cloves and peppers abound.I took the opportunity to exchange the coconut for a good deal of pepper and cloves which I carried with me.Then we successively passed the small island of Gumar, which produces sandalwood, a large island with an area of ​​500 miles, which is rich in sandalwood, and an area rich in pearls.I exchanged coconuts for pearls from divers. Looking at these glittering pearls, I couldn't restrain my inner joy and thanked Allah devoutly, saying: "Blessed by Allah, I'm so lucky, I can earn a lot this time." A lot of money." I arrived in Basra by boat with many precious items exchanged for coconuts. After staying for a few days, I returned to Baghdad to reunite with my family. After the navigator Sinbad talked about the experience of the fifth voyage, he said: "My fifth voyage is both thrilling and interesting. Now please eat." After the meal, he still asked the attendants to take one hundred gold coins and give them to Sinbad the foot. Sinbad the porter returned to his home full of joy with the reward. In the early morning of the next day, after finishing his morning prayers, he went to the home of Sinbad the Navigator as scheduled. After his relatives and friends arrived, Sinbad the Navigator began to talk about his sixth voyage. Brethren of the sixth voyage, you know that I came back from my fifth voyage and was once again in a state of great joy, feasting and romping all day, forgetting all the hardships and hardships of the voyage.Until one day, when I was overjoyed, a group of merchants suddenly came to my house, full of travel and dust, looking very contented.I looked at them, touched by the scene, and thought of the joy of meeting family and friends when I returned from my old travels, which aroused my idea of ​​going out to travel and do business.So I made up my mind, took the goods and came to Basra.There happened to be a large ship full of goods and passengers ready to go, so I took the ship and set out with them. We walked and walked on the sea incessantly, and visited many towns and islands.I did business along the way, visited the Range Rover again, and enjoyed the joy of traveling. One day, when the big ship was sailing peacefully, the captain suddenly let out a wild cry, then threw off his turban, pulled his beard, slapped himself, and burst into tears.His behavior caused everyone to worry, and then panicked, surrounded him and asked: "Captain, what's going on here?" "Tell you, travelers: our ship is lost, we are on the wrong course, and we are sailing in an unknown sea. If Allah does not save us, we are all lost. Come on, everyone, prayers, peace Ra save us." Said the captain climbed on the mast, ready to lower the sail. But the hurricane roared, and the windroof was broken, and the rudder was broken by the waves.The unbalanced boat drifted with the waves towards a high mountain.Sitting on the deck, the captain sighed: "Only Allah bless us! I swear to Allah, we will be in a catastrophe, and we cannot escape the bad luck." We were all desperate at that time, weeping and saying goodbye to each other for the last time.Then, the big ship hit the rocks, the hull was smashed, and all the passengers and cargo fell into the sea.The people almost all drowned, and the rest climbed up the mountain, and I climbed up the mountain. And this mountain turned out to be a terrifying deserted island, with many broken ship boards and creepy human bones piled up on it.All this proves that ships in this place often hit the rocks, and these things were pushed ashore by wind and waves after the ship sank. The shipwrecked people were scattered on the deserted island, and I was terrified. The scene in front of me was so horrible that I became a little delirious, and walked around the deserted island crazily.I went to the highest point by chance and found that there was a swift river in the island, flowing out of one mountainside and flowing into the opposite mountainside. Looking carefully at the two sides of the river, there were gems, jade and all kinds of precious ores scattered on the island. Splendid and eye-catching, there are also various precious agarwood and ambergris on the island.Ambergris is like wax, it melts when heated, flows to the seashore, and smells fragrant. After it is eaten by whales, it changes in their stomachs, and then spits out from the whales mouth, congeals into lumps, floats on the water, and changes color , shape, after floating to the shore, it is collected by passengers and businessmen who know the goods, very valuable and valuable.The ambergris on the deserted island originates from the high mountains that no one can climb up. We live on a deserted island, carefully observing various phenomena of nature curiously, and can't help but sigh and admire the ingenious workmanship of Allah's creation. We found some food on the seashore, stored it up, and ate a little every day or two, barely sustaining our lives.Some of the fellow sufferers died every day, and all of them died of abdominal pain and exhaustion when they died.More and more people died, and then they all died one by one, leaving me alone living on the desert island.The food was about to run out, I was sad and lonely, and sighed: "I am going to die in front of me, and my partner will collect my body. The situation is fine, what should I do now? I only hope that the great Allah will save me."