Chapter 106 The Story of the Cobbler Meyer Roof-1

According to legend, in the city of Cairo in ancient Egypt, there lived a cobbler named Meerruf.He is kind-hearted, follows the rules, and is an honest and responsible person, but in stark contrast to him is his vicious, mean, and extremely vicious wife Fatweimer.Because of her insidious, unscrupulous, and vicious attitude toward others, everyone nicknamed her "Evil Lame".He is vicious and vicious to people outside, and he doesn't treat his husband Meyeruf as a human being at home, and always rides on his head to do his best.Nagging and swearing all day long.Meyerruf is too honest, no matter how unreasonably his wife beats and scolds him, he still adheres to the tenet of "don't expose the family ugliness" and swallows her anger.

Due to the poor family circumstances, Meerruf spent all his hard-earned money on his wife, and he often went hungry.His wife doesn't care about these, she only cares about enjoying herself.One morning, his wife suddenly said to him: "Meilruf, go and buy me some honey pastries and come back and enjoy. Remember! Honey." "I hope that Allah will help me to buy you the honey cakes. I swear to Allah, I don't have any money in my hands now!" "I don't care if Allah helps you or not. Anyway, you have to buy me honey cakes. If you can't buy them back, then you just wait and see. Tonight I will punish you like the wedding night No."

"I believe that Allah is Almighty and Merciful," Meyerouf replied, leaving the house feeling restless and depressed. He came to the mosque for morning prayers, and kept muttering: "Lord, please buy me pastries, and don't let me be angry with that shrew tonight." So Meyerruf stayed in the shop all the time, hoping to mend more shoes for others, so as to earn enough money to meet his wife's needs. But most of the day passed, and no one came to mend the shoes.The longer he waited, the more he felt uneasy, and the thought of his tigress-like wife became more and more terrifying.Because he doesn't even have the money to buy bread to satisfy his hunger, isn't it just wishful thinking if he wants to get honey cakes?For this reason, he was terrified, and he didn't have the mood to wait any longer, so he locked the shop door and walked aimlessly along the street.

He passed by the pastry shop by accident, and stayed there involuntarily, looking at the pastries displayed there without saying a word, with tears in his eyes. The boss saw his expression and asked, "Maerruf, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying, can you tell me?" "You know, my powerful wife gave me a problem again today, forcing me to buy her honey cream cakes, but today I waited in the shop for a long time, and I didn't receive a single job. How can I satisfy my wife's insatiable desire without earning enough money to buy bread to satisfy my hunger? It's pitiful to say, alas! It seems that I will suffer again tonight, so I am very scared."

The boss smiled when he heard what Meerruf said, and said, "What's the difficulty? How many catties of pastries are you going to buy?" "Five catties is enough." So the boss weighed five catties of cakes for him, and said, "I have butter, but I don't have honey, but I have sucrose here, which is no worse than honey. Just let her eat as she pleases, okay?" "Okay, then you can give me sucrose." How dare he be too demanding when buying on credit. The boss fried the pastry with butter, poured cane sugar on it, handed the pastry to him, and asked, "Do you still need bread and cheese?"

"If you can give it to me, of course I will be grateful." The boss handed him bread for two dollars, cheese for five cents, and cakes for five dollars, and said, "Meilruf, you owe me seven dollars and a half. Take it and serve your wife well." Here's fifty cents left, take it to take a shower. Wait a few days, when you have work to do and make money, pay me back when you have enough money. " He thanked the boss, took pastries, bread, and cheese, and said to himself while walking proudly: "Praise you, Allah! How merciful you are!" Before he knew it, he had returned home.

When his wife saw him coming back, she asked, "Have you completed the task entrusted to you?" "Thanks to Allah, I bought it for you." He replied, putting the food in front of his wife. She glanced at it and saw that it was made of sugar, so she said angrily, "Didn't I tell you to buy me one made of honey? How dare you go against my word and buy me sugar cakes!" "I didn't buy it, I got it on credit." He answered his wife aggrievedly. "Nonsense! You know I never eat cakes that are not made of honey." She was furious and slapped her husband, "Go, you bastard! Why don't you buy me the cakes I want to eat today? Skinned you." She said and beat, and her fists rained down on Meerruf's cheeks, finally knocking out one of his teeth, and blood flowed all the way to his chest.

Out of exasperation, Meyeruff gave his wife a gentle pat on the head, and now she was snarky and rascally.She grabbed hold of her husband's beard and yelled loudly, crying and making noise.Neighbors in the neighborhood ran to her house and persuaded her to let go, and untied Meerruf.All unanimously accused her, saying: "We used to eat sugar cakes! How could you be so rude to poor Meyerroof? It's your fault." The neighbors tried their best to persuade her and settle the dispute for her husband and wife, but as soon as the neighbors left and went home, she reverted to her old ways, put on airs, and swore she would not eat cakes. I was so hungry that my stomach was on fire.

"Since she vowed not to eat it, let me eat it." He thought to himself, so he picked up the pastry unceremoniously, chewed it, and ate it sweetly.The wife looked at him with hatred, and cursed viciously: "Eat it! I hope you swallow the poison and destroy your stomach, and I will be happy." "What nonsense are you talking about?" he said with a smile as he ate, "You swore not to eat this, so let me eat it. Allah is merciful! Well, I will buy you honey cakes tomorrow, Let you enjoy it alone." Meyerruf always comforted his wife with good words and repeatedly expressed his submission, but she returned the favor with complaints, nagging, babbling and cursing.In the early morning of the next day, she rolled up her sleeves without asking indiscriminately, and wanted to beat him again.Meyerruf timidly dissuaded him, saying:

"Don't hit me, wait for me to buy you another honey cake to satisfy your wish." He rushed out of the door as he said, rushed to the mosque, said morning prayers, and then went to work in the shop . No sooner had he sat down than two of the judge's servants came into his shop, and said to him, "Get up! Come with us to the judge, for your wife has sued you." He cursed helplessly: "May Allah punish her!" Then he got up and went to the court with the guards, only to see his wife with her elbows wrapped, her face stained with blood, standing in front of the judge, crying and talking non-stop. .

When the judge saw Meyerruf, he said angrily: "How do you behave like a man, bully your wife casually, hurt her elbow, knock out her teeth. Are you not afraid of treating your wife like this?" Will Allah punish you?" "If I really bullied her and knocked out her teeth, then please ask the master to punish me according to Allah's will. The actual situation is like this..." She recounted the whole incident of the entanglement in detail, and said: "Fortunately, many neighbors from the neighborhood were present at the time, and they were able to testify for me. " The judge was a good man with a sense of justice after all.In order to calm things down, he generously donated a quarter of a gold coin to Meyerruf, and said: "Take it and buy some honey cakes for your wife, I hope your husband and wife can reconcile." Just like before, we respect and love each other.” "Master, you'd better give her a reward and go buy it herself, she is the most difficult person to serve." So, the judge handed the money to his wife and conducted mediation for them face to face.Finally, he said: "At home, wives should obey their husbands and listen to his words, while husbands should care for and love their wives. Only in this way can the family be harmonious and happy." The Meyerruf couple accepted the mediation of the judge and expressed their willingness to reconcile. They both walked out of the court, then broke up and walked in their respective directions.Meyerloof went back to the shop and went to work.But no sooner had he sat down than the servants came into the shop and shouted to him, "We have worked hard all morning, and you should pay some tip." "The judge didn't even ask me for money, so why do you ask for a tip?" Meyerruf flatly refused them. "You don't know what to do. You don't pay our tip. It seems that we have to force it." They talked and shoved Meyerruf out of the shop.Meyerroof was forced to pawn his cobbler and get some money to pay them before sending them away.Afterwards, Meerruf sat down slumped, resting his chin in his hand, thinking that he would not be able to work without tools, and when he was worrying, two big ugly men suddenly appeared in front of him and said: "Let's go! Come with us to the judge, your wife has sued you." "Didn't the judge just mediate for us?" Meyerruf asked strangely. "We came by order of another judge to whom your wife sued you." He cursed the shrew a few words, and had no choice but to follow the guards to the judge again. He said to his wife: "Didn't we just reconcile? Why are you suing me again?" "There is still a dispute between you and me. We haven't reconciled. It's impossible to just let it go." His wife answered him decisively. Meyerruf excitedly described the entanglement between him and his wife in detail from the beginning to the end in front of the judge, and finally said: "The previous judge has already mediated for us, and we also expressed on the spot that we want to reconcile as before. , somehow she came to you again." "You whore!" The judge was furious after hearing Meyerruf's narration, and said, "Since the mediation has been done and you have indicated that you want to reconcile, why are you suing me again?" "He hit me again afterwards." She slandered her husband in public. The judge had no choice but to persuade them patiently, mediate for them, and finally asked: "You guys reconcile. From now on, husbands are not allowed to beat their wives again, and wives should also behave themselves, and don't violate their husbands again." After listening to the judge's advice, they apparently reconciled. At this time, the judge told Meyerruf: "Give the servant some tips." Meyerruf had to pay part of the money mortgaged for the cobbler tools to the guards.At this time, there was not much money left, and he returned to the shop dejectedly.He was overwhelmed by this sudden disaster, and he was in a daze, like a drunk. When Meyerruf stayed in the shop alone, feeling helpless, someone suddenly ran into the shop and said to him: "Meyeruf! Hide quickly, your wife has sued you to the high court, the judge." Abby Terberg sent for you!" Hearing this news, Meerruf felt that trouble was coming again, and the only way was to run away.So he immediately closed the shop door, bought bread and cheese with the two yuan left from selling tools, and fled desperately. At that time, it was the middle of winter and the weather was very cold.He braved the severe cold, ran to the outskirts, and walked into a valley.The sky was not beautiful, and suddenly it rained cats and dogs, and he was soaked through, shivering like a soaked chicken.He went forward in spite of the cold and rain, and finally came to a place called Erdili, and found a broken house that no one lived in, so he went in desperately to avoid the rain.Thinking of what happened to him, he wept sadly, sighed and said to himself: "Hey! Where shall I run from this whore? Lord? Please, take me far away where she can't find me." Just after he finished praying, the wall suddenly cracked open, and a tall, very strange and terrifying giant appeared in front of him, and said to him: "You disgusting fellow! Why do you come here to harass me and make me so noisy? Can't rest? I've been here for two hundred years, and no one has ever harassed me like you. What are you going to do? Tell me, and I can help you achieve your goal, because your appearance is pitiful." "Who are you? What do you do?" Mayroof ventured to ask. "I live here, this is where I live." Meyerroof recounted the details of his quarrel with his wife from the beginning.The giant heard this and asked: "Would you like me to send you somewhere where your wife can't find you?" "Very willing to!" "Then step on my back." Meerruf obeyed the giant's command, stepped up and rode on his back.With him on his back, the giant flew into the sky and flew in the air non-stop. It flew from evening to dawn of the next day before landing on a high mountain.The giant put him down and said: "Go down the mountain and you will see a city gate. You can go to the city and live in peace. Your wife will never find this place in this lifetime." He gave his orders, left Meerruf, and left him. Meerruf stayed on the top of the mountain in a daze until the sun rose and illuminated the hills, and the whole earth was lit up, and then he woke up and said to himself, "It's so bad for me to stay in the mountains all the time." There is no way, let me go down the mountain according to the guidance of the giant, and go to the city to find a way." After making up his mind, he acted immediately, and when he reached the foot of the mountain, a large city with towering walls appeared in front of him.When he went into the city, he saw the crowds in the city bustling and bustling, and he felt refreshed and happy.Because of his Egyptian attire and attire, he was very conspicuous in the street, and passers-by crowded around to see him.One of them asked him: "Hey! Looking at you like this, you look like a foreigner." "Yes, I just came here," Meyeruff replied. "Where are you from?" "Egyptian." "You must have traveled a long time to get here?" "No, I just left home yesterday afternoon." The person who was talking to Meerruf laughed for a while, and said to the people on the left and right: "What nonsense do you think he is talking about?" "What did he say?" people asked. "He said he left Egypt yesterday afternoon and is now here." People gathered around immediately, and everyone made fun of Meerruf and said: "If you are not crazy, you will never say such a thing! How could you leave Egypt yesterday afternoon and come here this morning? Do you know how far Egypt is from here?" Is it? Let me tell you, there is a year’s journey between the two places.” "You are the lunatics!" Meerruf retorted. "I am honest. I will never lie if I say anything. If you don't believe me, look, this is the bread I brought from Egypt, and it's still fresh." He showed them the bread that was beside him. People gathered around to watch, and they were surprised and unbelievable, because the kind of bread was completely different from the local ones.More and more people gathered, and everyone rushed to tell each other: "There are Egyptian breads, go and see!" So his reputation spread in the city, some people believed him, some said he was a lie, and taunt him.When the commotion was in full swing, a wealthy businessman rode a mule and led his servants and passed by here.He dispersed the crowd and said to them: "Aren't you ashamed to bully a stranger like this and make fun of him casually?" He scolded them and drove them away, none of them dared to speak back.Finally the rich businessman said to Meyerruf: "Come with me, man! Don't pay attention to those shameless and dirty people, and don't be afraid of them." In the majestic big house, invite him to sit on a chair like a throne, and order the servant to open the suitcase and take out a set of clothes worth thousands of dollars for him to wear. Meyerruf's appearance was already extraordinary, and wearing a set of gorgeous clothes made him look even more generous, as if he was a prominent figure in the shopping mall. The wealthy businessman treated Meyerruf as a guest of honor and entertained him with rich and delicious meals.After eating and drinking together, they sat down and chatted together.The wealthy businessman asked, "Excuse me, brother, what is your name? What did you do in the past?" "My name is Meyerruf, and I've been mending shoes for a living." "Where is Mr. from?" "Egyptian." "Where exactly do you live?" "Are you familiar with Egypt?" "I'm Egyptian too." "Oh! I live in the red lanes of Cairo." "You must know the residents in the red alley, right?" "Of course I know each other, for example..." He said many people's names in one breath. "So do you know old Ahmad Attaru?" "Why don't you know him? He is my neighbor. There is only a wall between my house and his house." "Is he all right now?" "Yes, he is in good health." "How many sons does he have?" "He has three sons. The eldest son is Mustafa, the second is Mohamed, and the third is Ali." "What are they doing now?" "Mustafa is very good and is now a teacher; after he got married, Mohammad made a living by opening a spice shop next to his father's shop, and had a son named Hassan; as for Ali, he was very close to me when I was a child. Good, I play with him every day. At that time, we often pretended to be the children of Christians, sneaked into the church, stole the books inside, and sold them to buy snacks.Once someone found out and told the parents to strictly discipline us and stop stealing, otherwise we would sue the king.His father beat and scolded Ali to please them.After that, Ali ran away from home in a fit of anger. For twenty years, he has been missing, and no one knows his whereabouts. " "Haven't you realized that I am Ali, the youngest son of Mohammad Attaru? You were my childhood friend, Meerruf!" Ali and Meyerruf reunited after a long absence. They were ecstatic to meet their old friends in a foreign country. They greeted each other and were very close.Ali said, "Meerruf, tell me, what are you doing here when you leave Egypt?" Meyerruf recounted the abuse of his wife Vatwimer, and finally said: "I couldn't bear her abuse, and I had to run away from her. In a broken house, when I was thinking about my life experience and was crying sadly, a giant god suddenly came out and asked me why I was crying. I told him what happened to me, he pitied me, sympathized with me, and was willing to help me out of the predicament, so he let I rode on his back. After flying all night, I landed on the mountain near the city at dawn. I followed his instructions to go down the mountain and enter the city to find the way. Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the city, I was surrounded by people Questioning. I told them how I left Egypt yesterday and came here today, but they didn't believe it, and it was thanks to you passing there that I was able to get rid of them and come to you. That's why I left Egypt and came here What about you?" He added another question: "How did you come here?" "You know, I never had the opportunity to study, and from the age of seven until I grew up, I lived a wandering life. I wandered from one place to another, from one city to another, and finally came to this city known as 'The City of No Fraud'.Seeing that the people in the city are still honest, compassionate, and willing to care for and help the helpless poor, especially they are credulous, so I had a plan in my heart and said to them: 'I am Businessman, I rushed here first, ready to find a warehouse to stock up. ' My words won their confidence.I said to them again: "I need money now, who of you will lend me a thousand gold coins?"When my goods arrive, I will pay for them. 'They really gave me a loan and met my requirements.I bought goods with one thousand gold coins, sold them the next day, and earned 50 gold coins back. Afterwards, I bought goods and sold them at the same time, constantly expanding my business. At the same time, I often contacted the local people and respected them .With the improvement of my own reputation and the expansion of business, they treated me differently, and the friendship between them became better and better.In this way, my wealth accumulated more and more, and finally became a well-known businessman. " After Ali talked about his own experience and the way to make money, he enlightened Meyer Ruf to get rich like him. He said: "Dude, you know, as the saying goes: 'The world is full of deceit' and it also says: 'If you don't do it for yourself, the sky will kill you.' If you master this philosophy of life, you can do whatever you want when you go to a place where you have no acquaintances." If you tell people: I am a cobbler, I am poor, and I escaped from Egypt because I was afraid of my wife. Not only will people not believe you, but they will ridicule and laugh at you. If you say that a giant god sent you here If you come, people will hate you and no one will come near you. They will say: This man is entangled with the devil, if you associate with him, you will bring disaster. In this way, you will be notorious It’s bad for you, and it’s bad for me, because they know I’m an Egyptian.” "Then what should I do?" Meyeruff asked Ali. "Let me teach you how to do it. Tomorrow, I will lend you a thousand gold coins and a mule, and I will send a servant to follow you to the city to meet those honorable merchants. Before that, I will sit with them myself. together. As soon as you appeared, I rose to meet you, greeted you, kissed your hand, and tried to show respect to you. I asked you about the goods and said: 'Have you brought some kind of goods?' You Immediately replied: "There are many." When they asked me about your situation, I took the opportunity to brag, saying that you are a millionaire, donate money to others, and are very generous. Of course I will not forget to ask them to replace you Find a house, a shop. If there are beggars who come to ask for money, you can give them whatever you want, so that they will believe that I am not lying, and let them admire your wealth and generosity in front of the facts. Then I will hold a banquet Take care of you, invite business colleagues to accompany you, and create an opportunity for you to meet them, so that they all know you and you get to know them. In this way, someone will open up the market for you and pave the way for your business The way of buying and selling. I promise you'll get the knack of it before long, and you'll be a millionaire in no time." The next day, Ali gave Meerruf a thousand gold coins as promised, decorated him with a set of gorgeous clothes, and asked him to ride a mule and take his servants to the business field.When he was ready, Ali asked: "May Allah arrange everything for you. As a friend, I will try my best to help you. Don't be afraid. You should completely forget about your hometown and your wife's behavior." "May Allah bless you." Mayruf thanked him for his kindness, and was led to the market by his servants. At this time, many businessmen had already gathered there, and Ali sat with them.As soon as he saw Meyerruf, he got up to greet him, rushed to him, and said, "Hello, great merchant Meyeruf! Long time no see, very welcome to you, a famous philanthropist." He said, when In the face of other merchants, he kissed Mayerruf's hand affectionately, and continued: "My colleagues, let me introduce you to the world-famous rich merchant Mayeruf." Then Mayeruf jumped off the mule, Merchants came forward to greet him one after another. At this time, Ali was busy introducing them one by one in front of the businessmen. He asked Meyerruf to say hello to them, and then everyone sat down and talked face to face.The merchants asked Ali: "This gentleman is a businessman?" "That's right. He has always been a businessman, and he is a well-known big businessman. His capital is very strong. I'm afraid no one here is qualified to compete with him, because he inherited the business of his grandfather and father for two generations, and his The ancestor is well-known in the Egyptian business circle. He has established business offices in India, Yemen and other parts of the world. His generosity and kindness are also very admirable. Everyone will gradually understand his situation in the future and respect his status! In addition , and hope that everyone will help him. You must know that his intention to come to this city is just to visit the mountains and rivers, just to walk around. Because his wealth is unimaginable, naturally he will not come out to make money Tired of running around. It may not occur to you that I myself am one of his servants." Ali continued to publicize, boast, and express his gratitude to him. All this made the merchants have a very good impression of him. They all respected him very much and surrounded him enthusiastically to flatter him. He poured wine for him to drink, and even the top figures in the business world came forward to get close to him and curry favor with him.Just as the businessman expressed his sincere welcome and admiration to him, Ali suddenly changed the subject and said to Meerruf: "Master, did you bring any goods this time?" "A lot." Meyerruf replied very simply. Ali showed Meerruf many precious silks and satins before he came here, and told him the names of various silks and satins.At this time, someone asked him: "Have you ever shipped yellow wool this time, sir?" "Yes, and many." "Is there also an antelope-colored cloth?" "Needless to say, there are many." To all the goods asked by the merchants, Meyerruf always answered "there are many".Then he said to Ali: "If a colleague wants to buy a thousand loads of precious cloth, I only need to take it from one warehouse, which is enough to satisfy his wish, and there is no need to open other warehouses." While Meerruf was chatting enthusiastically with the businessmen, he found that beggars came to beg. Some of the businessmen present gave 50 cents, some gave a little more, but most of them did not Nothing.But when the beggar came to Meerruf, he generously took out a handful of gold coins and rewarded the beggar.The beggar didn't expect to get so much reward at all. They were grateful in every possible way and sincerely blessed him.The merchants were amazed and admired when they saw Meyerruf being so forthright, and praised: "He rewarded countless gold coins to beggars in the emperor's habit. It's a bit unbelievable! If he is not a big man with a wealth of 10,000 yuan and a top rich man, it is absolutely impossible for him to do this." After a while, another female beggar came to beg, and Meerruf also gave her a handful of gold coins.The female beggar was grateful and prayed for him.The news spread quickly.So many poor people came to beg one by one.Meyerruf treated everyone equally and responded to every request, and gave everyone a handful of gold coins in turn.After a while, the one thousand gold coins were distributed.So he just clapped his hands and sighed: "I believe that no matter what difficulties we face, Allah will grant our wishes." Seeing Mayrruf clapping his hands and sighing, the leading figures in the business world felt strange and asked: "Why are you sighing?" "Ah! The vast majority of the residents in this city seem to be living in poverty." Meyerruf talked about his perception, "If I knew this was the case, I should have put all my money in the saddlebag Bring it with me, so that I can help them at any time. Now I am afraid that my cargo is far away from here, and I am afraid that I will not be able to arrive in a short time. I have always refused to refuse beggars. No matter how many or how little, I must give them a little. But the money in my hand is gone, if the poor come to beg again, what should I do?" "Say to them: 'May Allah bless you.'" The merchant's leader taught him how to cope. "I am ashamed to say such words, and this is why I am distressed! Now I only hope to have a thousand gold coins at hand, and use it to temporarily relieve the poor. As long as my cargo arrives, all problems will be solved. It's solved!" "It's easy to handle." The leaders of the business community understood his difficulties and intentions, so they immediately sent their servants to fetch a thousand gold coins and lend them to him for temporary expenses.Meerruf immediately continued to give money to the beggars who came to him for begging. It was not until midday prayer that he followed the merchants into the mosque to worship, and placed the remaining gold coins in front of the worshipers and distributed them to them.So people all know this great philanthropist named Mayerruf, and everyone sincerely blesses him. After praying at noon, and returning to the market, Meerruf proudly borrowed another thousand gold coins from another wealthy businessman, and continued to give alms to the poor.At that time, Ali was staring at him to do something good, but he was anxious and couldn't interfere with him.At this time, it was time to pray again, and everyone made an appointment to go to the mosque to pray.Meyerruf also gave the rest of the money to poor people who attended church. Back in the market, Meyerruf continued to borrow money, and generously gave alms and relief. Before the market closed, he had already spent 5,000 gold coins.Whenever he borrowed money from wealthy businessmen, he always said to them: "Just wait for my goods to arrive. You can choose whether you want money or cloth. Anyway, I have plenty of goods." That night, Ali held a banquet to clean up the dust for Meyer Ruf, invited all the business people to accompany the guests, and let him sit at the head.At the banquet, the topic of Meerruf was always silk, cloth, pearls, and precious stones. Whenever someone mentioned a certain kind of goods, he would rush to say: "The cargo you are talking about is abundant in my pack." The next day, Meerruf went to the market, made friends with the merchants, borrowed money, and used it to help the poor. He continuously borrowed with his left hand and gave out with his right, every day.In twenty-two days, a total of 60,000 gold coins were borrowed, but the large amount of property and cargo he boasted was never heard of, and a stitch of stitches was never seen, which caused the merchants who lent him to be worried and confused. There was a lot of discussion. Someone said: "Maerruf is always borrowing money from us, and he keeps giving money to the poor, but his pack never arrives. What's the matter?" Others said: "It seems that we can only ask Ali, his fellow countryman, to find out the situation." The merchants made an appointment to come to Ali's house together and asked him, "Ali, haven't merchant Meyeruf's loads arrived yet?" "Be patient, don't worry! The cargo will arrive soon." Ali comforted the merchants while finding an excuse to send them away, then went to Meyerruf and asked, "Maerruf, what are you doing?" What good thing is that? Why do you fail more than you accomplish? Do you know that those businessmen are restless because of their loans. It is said that you have borrowed 60,000 gold coins from them and rewarded them all. How can you pay back this huge loan if you don’t do business?” "What happened? Is 60,000 gold coins a big deal?" Meerruf asked angrily, "I will pay them back when the load arrives. At that time, if you want cloth, give them cloth, and ask for cloth." Gold and silver, give them gold and silver." "Allah, my lord! Do you really have goods?" "A lot," Meyerruf replied boldly. "You dirty and shameless fellow! This is what I taught you to speak to people, but now you are telling me the exact same thing. Well, let me expose your truth to people." "Stop talking, get out of here! Do you think I'm a pauper? Tell you, I have everything in my cargo. I don't rely on those merchants and philistines. When the cargo arrives, I will Repay them double." "You shameless fellow!" Ali was furious, "Aren't you ashamed to say such things to me?" "You are my friend, so I won't talk to you. As for the merchants, tell them to be patient for a while, and we can talk about it when my load arrives." After he said that, he walked away. Ali sat there alone, helpless, and sighed to himself: "I flattered him at the beginning, but now I curse him, so I would be a liar to my face? This is not going back on my word and beating myself." The mouth? If everyone knows that I am such a person, how can I gain a foothold here in the future.” Thinking of this, he hesitated, and when he was in a dilemma, the merchants found him again. They said to him, "Ali, have you asked him for us?" "My fellow merchants, I am deeply ashamed of him. He owes me a thousand ducats, and I have nothing to do with him. Before you lend him the money, you did not consult with me. Therefore it is not my duty to collect your debts. You ask him what he wants. Go, and if he won't pay, you'll have nothing to do but sue him to the king, and say he's a fraud, and won't pay back the money he borrowed. I think the king will take care of you." The merchants understood the meaning of Ali's words, and they went to the palace to complain. While complaining, they asked the king to make decisions for them, saying: "My lord, there is nothing we can do with this smug businessman. He brags boldly that he has a lot of goods coming soon, so he borrows money from us, and gives all the money he borrows. If He is a poor man, so he must be reluctant to spend his money like water, and give countless gold coins to the poor. If he is really a rich man, it will not be proved until his load arrives. He keeps bragging about how much he has. The pack was about to arrive, and he himself had come in advance to make preparations, but we saw nothing. Whenever we talked about a certain cargo, he boasted to us: "This kind of cargo, I brought it in my pack." There are a lot of them.” But after such a long period of time, there is no news of his cargo. 如今他向我们借贷的金钱，已经达到六万金币。这笔巨额借款，不知他怎么还得起。 "