A long time ago, there lived two brothers in a certain city in Persia. The older brother was called Gosimu, and the younger one was called Ali Baba.After the death of their father, the two of them each received a limited amount of property, separated and supported themselves, and each made a living.Soon the money was spent, and life became increasingly difficult.In order to get food and clothing to make ends meet, the brothers had to run around day and night, bearing hardships and standing hard work. Later, Gosimu married the daughter of a wealthy businessman by luck. He inherited his father-in-law's property and started to do business.Due to the booming business and rapid development, Gosimu soon became a well-known wealthy businessman.

Ali Baba married the daughter of a poor family, and the couple lived a poor life.Except for a dilapidated house, there are only three donkeys in the whole family.Ali Baba makes a living by selling firewood. Every day, he drives his donkey to the jungle to cut firewood, and then carries it to the market to sell, so as to make ends meet. One day, Ali Baba drove three donkeys up the mountain to cut firewood.He gathered the dead trees and dry firewood he had cut down, tied them into packs, and let the donkeys carry them.When the firewood was cut and ready to go down the mountain, a puff of smoke suddenly appeared in the distance, filled the sky and flew straight up, rolling towards him, and getting closer and closer.After getting close, he saw clearly that it was a horse team rushing towards this direction.

Ali Baba was afraid, because if he met a gang of criminals, the donkey would be taken away, and his life would be in danger.He was full of fear and wanted to run away, but because the group of people were getting closer and closer, it was impossible to escape from the forest, so he had to drive the donkey loaded with firewood to the forest path and climb up by himself. Take shelter in a big tree. The big tree grew beside a huge and precipitous rock.He hides his body among the dense branches and leaves, and he can see everything below clearly from above, but the people below cannot see him.

At this time, the group of people had already run to the tree, stopped their horses, and stood still in front of the big rock.There are forty of them in total, all young and strong, quick in action.Ali Baba took a closer look, and it seemed that this was a group of robbers blocking the way. Obviously, they had just robbed a caravan full of goods and came here to share the spoils, or they were planning to hide the loot. Thinking this way in his heart, Alibaba decided to find out. The bandits tied the horses under the trees and removed the heavy saddlebags, which apparently contained gold and silver jewels.

At this time, a man who looked like a leader came to the big rock from the jungle with a heavy saddle bag on his back, and murmured, "Zesame, open the door!" Following the shout of the leader, the big rock suddenly appeared A wide doorway, so the robbers filed in.The chief came last. As soon as the leader entered the cave, the gate closed automatically. Because there were robbers in the cave, Ali Baba hid in the tree to watch and did not dare to go down the tree. He was afraid that they would suddenly come out of the cave and fall into their hands and be killed.Finally, he resolved to steal a horse and slip back to town with his donkey.Just as he was about to descend from the tree, the cave door opened suddenly, and the bandit leader came out first. He stood in front of the door, counting his followers, and seeing that they had come out, he began to chant a spell, saying:

"Sesame, close the door!" Following his shout, the cave door automatically closed. After the leader's counting and inspection, no problem was found, and the minions went to their own horses, put the empty saddle bags on the saddle, and then jumped on the horse one by one, followed the leader, and walked away. Ali Baba stayed on the tree to watch them, and did not come down from the tree until they were gone without a trace.The reason why he didn't dare to come down from the tree rashly was because he was afraid that some of the robbers would suddenly return. At this moment, he said to himself: "I want to test the effect of this spell, to see if I can also open this cave door." So he shouted loudly: "Zesame, open the door!" The door opened immediately.

He walked in cautiously, and when he raised his eyes, it was a big hole with a dome, and the light coming in from the ventilation hole on the top of the hole was like lighting a lamp.At first, he thought that since it was a robber's den, there would be nothing but darkness.But the fact was beyond his expectation.The cave is full of belongings, which makes people dumbfounded.Heaps of silk, brocade and embroidered clothes, piles of colorful felt carpets, and countless gold and silver coins, some scattered on the ground, some in leather bags.Suddenly seeing so much gold and silver wealth, Ali Baba was convinced that this must be a treasure cave accumulated by robbers for generations.

After Ali Baba entered the cave, the cave door closed automatically. He has nothing to worry about, and he doesn't care, because he has mastered the activation method of this door, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to get out of the hole.He is not interested in the treasure in the cave, he desperately needs money.Therefore, considering the carrying capacity of the donkey, he decided to get a few bags of gold coins, bundle them in firewood, and throw them on the donkey to transport them away.That way, people won't see the purse and will still see him as a woodcutter chopping wood to get by.

After thinking about all this, Alibaba said loudly: "Zhima, open the door!" Following the sound, the cave door opened, and Ali Baba took the collected gold coins out of the cave, and immediately said, "Sesame, close the door!" The cave door closed with a sound. Loaded with money, Ali Baba drove the donkey back to the city quickly.When he got home, he hurriedly unloaded the pack, untied the firewood, moved the bag containing the gold coins into the house, and placed it in front of his wife.Seeing that the bag was full of gold coins, his wife thought that Ali Baba had taken a risk and robbed someone, so she scolded him, blaming him for not being ungrateful and doing bad things.

"Am I a robber? You should know my character. I never do bad things." Ali Baba defended a few words, then told his wife what happened in the mountain and the origin of these gold coins, and poured out the gold coins. Brains piled up in front of her. Ali Baba's wife was very pleasantly surprised when she heard this, and she was dazzled by the shining gold coins.She sat down and was busy counting the gold coins.Ali Baba said, "Look at you! If we keep counting like this, when will we finish counting? If someone comes in and sees this situation, it will be terrible. Let's bury these gold coins first."

"Okay, just do what you say. But I still need to measure how many gold coins there are, so I can have a count in my heart." "It's something to be happy about, but you must be careful not to tell anyone, otherwise it will cause trouble." Ali Baba's wife hurried to Gosimu's house to borrow a measuring device.Gosi's mother was not at home, so she said to his wife, "Sister-in-law, can you lend me your measuring instrument?" "Okay, but what measure do you want to borrow?" "Just lend me Xiaosheng." "Just wait a moment, I'll get it for you right away." Gosimu's wife agreed. Gesimu's wife is a very curious person, she wants to know what Ali Baba's wife used to measure, so she brushed a little beeswax on the bottom of the inside, because she believes that no matter what you measure, it will always stick a little on beeswax.She wanted to use this method to satisfy her curiosity. Ali Baba's wife didn't understand this technique, so she hurried home with liters, and immediately began to use liters to measure gold coins. Ali Baba just dug the hole, and when her wife finished measuring the gold coins, his hole was dug too. The two of them worked together, moved the gold coins into the hole, carefully covered them with soil, and buried them. There was a gold coin stuck to the beeswax on the bottom, but they didn't notice it at all.So when this kind-hearted woman returned the Sheng to her sister-in-law, Gosimu's wife immediately discovered that there was a gold coin stuck inside the Sheng, and she felt envious and jealous. She said to herself: "Ah! So they borrowed my liter to measure gold coins." She thought to herself, how could a pauper like Alibaba use liters to measure gold coins? There must be some secret here.