Once upon a time there was a poor young man named Yunus. He was so poor that all he had left was a shirt to cover his body and a pair of straw shoes. Despite this, he remained optimistic, saying, "I have the most wonderful things, and that is the clothes and the shoes I am wearing, and I dare say that no one in the whole world will ever walk down the street in the same garments, and therefore I am the most special of people!"
Although many people thought it would be hard for this guy, who liked to deceive himself and others, to live, he had a way to feed himself, and that was to go to the garbage heap and pick out what he could eat, and every time he picked up a piece of leftover bread or a rotten apple, he would get down on his knees and pray, "Thank you, Allah, for what you've given me!"
Once, he came to the garbage heap and rummaged around for half a day, when he suddenly saw a piece of torn blanket, for which he had no intention of picking up something that could neither be used for eating or drinking nor worn on his body, but then he saw the embroidered pattern of Hubal (the Lord of the Gods in Arabian mythology) on top of the blanket, and it attracted his attention.
"Oh, who threw a blanket embroidered with a god in such a filthy place!" Yunus sighed in shock as he picked the blanket up and took in the design on it.
Only the broken right palm of Hubal, who was in charge of divination and divine affairs, was fitted with a golden palm on the design, "My God, this is the very symbol of the Lord God!" Yunus draped this blanket over his body.
He jumped gently, and to his surprise, his whole body soared up, then, higher and higher, and before his eyes floated the light of the sky and the shadows of the clouds and the ten thousand hectares of waves, and he shrieked, and flew, and in the sky, like a bird of prey that crashes in disorder, and he saw before his eyes a vast desert, on which there were seven or eight Arab merchants with white cloths wrapped around their heads, and a camel that had collapsed. This group of Arab merchants is actually a group of murderous robbers, they are nomadic Bedouins (Arab nomads), originally lived a life of driving sheep by the water, and later became the "spice road" and "silk road" on the bandits, specializing in stealing India, Persia, Rome, and other countries. Specializing in sneak attack India, Persia, Rome and other caravans, robbing a large number of spices, gold and silver and silk.
Due to the attack by the enemy, this group of bandits managed to escape to here, only eight people left, the only camel also died.
They are arguing about how to distribute the camel's urine in their hands, which is a rare treasure for the Bedouins, as it is used to bathe against mosquito bites, is used by men and women as the best shampoo (and in real life, too, as is well-documented), and is also the bane of the devil's existence!
Zahid, the leader of the robbers, said, "We have two large barrels of camel urine, how to allocate a bit not enough ah, let me think about it."
At that moment, Yunus fell from the sky wrapped in a flying carpet and crashed into the dunes, and one of the robbers was so frightened that he threw away a bucket of camel urine.
Seeing the jug of camel urine fall to the ground and the yellow urine flow into the dunes, Zahid angrily roared, "Catch this bastard, he must compensate us for our losses!" With that, he drew his curved moon blade and put it on Yunus' neck.
The bearded bandit Mulik said, "Boss, this guy fell from the sky, what the hell is going on?"
Seeing this group of people with knives on their necks, and seeing how they were dressed, Yunus understood that he had met robbers, in order to survive, he made up his words, "I am a messenger of the Lord God Hubal, because I lost my way and came here."
"What, you are a messenger of Hubal, hmmm, I don't believe it." Zahid, the leader of the bandits, said.
Mulrik said, "Boss, it's better to be cautious, we saw him fall from the sky with our own eyes."
"Well then, to verify that you're not lying, you'll resurrect the dead camel, and anyway, you're a messenger of the Lord God Hubal, you should have that skill." Zahid said.
Yunus was shocked, "No, no, no, according to the instructions of the gods, any person or animal that dies, their souls have to go to the presence of Allah to be judged, however to Hell or Paradise, and it is not permissible to call them back."
"Well then, as a second best, why don't you take the camel's urine that you just spilled on the ground after knocking it over and change it back, so that this urinal is filled with camel's urine again, which will prove that you are a messenger of God." Zahid said.
After Yunus took the urinal, he said, "Yes, but while the messenger of God is doing his magic, all mortals must close their eyes and must not peep."
The robber Mulik reverently put his palms together and said, "Of course, we mortals should close our eyes, how can we dare to pry into the messenger's performance of the spell." Thus, all the eight robbers closed their eyes.
When Yunus saw that they had all closed their eyes, he picked up the urinal and turned around, and personally sprinkled urine into the urinal, and when he knew that the urinal was full, he turned around and said, "Well, I have done the spell to make the jug overflow again with camel's urine."
Zahid opened his eyes and smiled grimly, "O good messenger of God, now, I command you to drink this pot of urine yourself!"
Mulrik exclaimed, "Boss, how can you disrespect the messenger of God!"
"Idiot, I just pretended to close my eyes and peeked in to see this guy pissing into a jug, but lied to us about casting a spell to turn out camel urine!" Zahid said.
Yunus pretended to be surprised and said, "So you peeked in on me casting a spell, no wonder you said I peed into a jug, it was because of your disrespect that made you hallucinate before your eyes."
Confronted with the forceful Yunus, Zahid was so enraged that he ordered his subordinates to rush up and cut him into pieces.
However, the bandits hesitated, not knowing whether Yunus was a messenger of the Lord God or not, and stood there with their swords in their hands, staring at each other.
Yunus said, "It is easy to verify whether I am a messenger of God or not, messengers fly and mortals do not fly, let me fly and show you!"
So Yunus took a few steps back and draped the flying carpet over his body, and Zahid roared, "Don't let this liar get away!" And he came after him with his sword.
But his men were worried that Yunus was a messenger of the gods, and fearing that his behavior had angered the gods, they came to stop Zahid from attacking Yunus.
With that, Yunus smoothly jumped up using his flying carpet and flew into the air, and as he swept over the heads of the bandits, he took with him the only jug of camel urine they had left!
Zahid watched as Yunus escaped, and in his anger picked up his sword and hacked away, killing six of the bandits under his command in one breath, as Mulik fell to his knees and begged for forgiveness, "Boss, I swear I'll help you find that crook you just found, please don't kill me!"
Zahid, not wanting to be left without a single henchman, spared him.
Second, Aisha
Zhugula Castle is like a fairy tale conjured up in the desert, with its ancient and relaxing castle and birds flying over the desert oasis, making it seem as if people have traveled to a beautiful fairyland.
As soon as you walk into the castle, you can see a green and clear canal winding through it, Arabian-style wooden boats leisurely through it, and seabirds and amusement, the river bridge connecting the two sides, the shore is full of dense palm trees and date palms.
The owner of the castle, Mohammed Waham, was a wealthy man who owned his own territory, army, and subjects.
Waham's daughter, Muhammad Aisha, has come of age, and in order to find his daughter the right man, Waham issued a decree saying, "I have the most valuable treasures in the world, and whichever young man can come up with the treasures that make me feel refreshed, he will have the qualifications to marry my daughter!"
After the news was announced, countless young men from all over the world scrambled to meet Waham with their magical treasures, dreaming of marrying the beautiful and rich Aisha.
However, no matter what kind of treasures these young people came up with, in front of Waham, they were all worthless trinkets. Looking at the countless young people's gloomy departure, he was also worried thinking, "Is there no sincere young man in the world with real treasures to marry my daughter?"
It is said that Yunus flew into the air after escaping from the sword of Zahid, the leader of the robbers, and taking his only jug of camel's urine, and circled the blue sky for a long time, gradually learning to control his direction.
From the air, he caught a glimpse of the old fortress in this desert oasis, and saw that the uppermost floor of the fortress was a prominent garlanded platform, on which a beautiful Arab maiden was gazing over the railing, mesmerized by her graceful figure and beautiful face.
Yunus immediately draped himself in a flying carpet to the platform of the old fortress, and the maiden on the platform was none other than Aisha, who was startled, but instantly composed herself, and asked with a smile, "Are you the one who is ready to come and marry me?"
Yunus was a little confused, but faced with such a charming girl, he had to go along with it, "Yes, ah, yes."
Aisha said, "That's quite a special way for you to appear, well then, different lad, do you have any special treasures, preferably something my father never had."
"A special treasure, ah, I do!" Yunus remembered the camel's urine that he had snatched from Zahid, and he thought, "That would be considered a special treasure."
So he took the urinal out of his arms, and when he opened the spout, the fishy odor of camel urine wafted out from inside.
"What is this?"
"This is a treasure for you, camel urine."
"Oh my God, what are you talking about, actually teasing me with the urine of an animal and calling it a gift for me, how dare you!" Aisha said.
In his defense, Yunus said, "I heard the nomadic Bedouins say that camel urine can be used for bathing and poured on the hair to make it silky and protect it from mosquito bites, so if you don't believe me, you can try it." With that, he dumped a jug of camel urine on Aisha's head. The urine soaked all over her body along with her hair.
Aisha cried, "Help, a psychopath came into my room and insulted me!"
Yunus, not knowing what was going on, panicked and said, "Don't cry out, girl, I'm doing this for your own good!"
But, within moments, a group of soldiers pushed open the door to her room and stormed the platform, rushing at Yunus with their shaggy hair.
Yunus was scared, in a hurry, he unlocked the body draped in a flying carpet shaking hard, a blast of wind blew, these soldiers were unsteady, was blown backwards dozens of steps, next, he will be flying carpet draped over his body, jumped hard, flew into the air ......
Three, the spirit of the dead
Yunus was afraid of being caught by the soldiers in the castle, and thought to himself, "How dare she think that I am insulting her when I have clearly meant well by pouring a whole jug of camel's urine, the treasure of the Bedouins, on her head, and if the soldiers she calls out to catch me, they will surely execute me!"
He soared in the azure sky draped in a flying carpet, when the sun slowly went down, and a curved moon too the sky shimmered with a golden light, and suddenly a woman's voice rang out behind him, "Put me down, you bastard, and believe it or not, my father will chop you up and feed you to the eagles!"
Yunus looked down behind himself and saw a young girl hanging from the rear extension of the flying carpet, who was none other than Aisha.
It turns out that Yunus, after wielding the flying carpet to repel the soldiers rushing on the castle, hastily rolled up the flying carpet and leapt into the air, and unexpectedly accidentally rolled Aisha into the flying carpet and flew into the air as well, at this moment, Aisha came back to her senses from the panic, and began to make a loud noise.
"Oh my god, so you're in my flying carpet, you must hold on to the flying carpet, if you let go you'll fall to pieces!" Yunus warned.
"I'm going to tell my father, you villain!"
"Who is your father?"
"I'm surprised you don't even know my father, who is Muhammad Waham!"
"Oh, so you are the daughter of the Lord of Castle Jugula!"
Aisha made a big fuss and had to ask Yunus to put herself down, even pulling Yunus with her hands.
Yunus did his best to control the flying carpet's flying direction in the sky, and at this moment, being pulled hard by Aisha, he lost his direction at once. "Hey, don't pull on my hand, we're about to fall!" "I don't care, if we're going to die, we're going to die together!"
Just like this, the two people pulled and tugged in the sky, the flying carpet completely lost its direction, and planted straight towards the desert on the ground.
With a plop, Yunus and Aisha fell into a container of blue water.
"Oh my god, where is this?" Aisha exclaimed.
"Stop yelling, it's your fault we fell just now, I feel like we fell into some big bottle." Yunus said.
Yes, these two did fall into a bottle, and a devil's bottle at that.
Just as the two men were arguing and pulling in the sky, two devils appeared on the desert, one called the Spirit of the Dead, and the other called the Spirit of the Winds, and there they were making a bet, and the Spirit of the Dead said, "I'm the loneliest man in the world because I'm a devil that countless dead souls have gathered together on the Silk Road, and look at all that yellow sand, and listen to all that camel bells ringing, and all the merchants who died but never return home again, and I am exactly what they are, and they are exactly what I am."
The Spirit of the Wind said, "Let's make a bet, if someone shows up in front of you in three days, you won't be considered the loneliest person."
"Haha, I'm an undead, where would someone be able to pick me up immediately ah, let's make a bet, if I lose, willing to offer you wine agar."
"Okay, it's a deal!"
What do you know, just as the Spirit of the Dead finished speaking, Yunus and Aisha fell from the sky, directly into the magical bottle he was holding.
The Spirit of the Wind laughed out loud and said, "It still takes three days, three seconds later someone comes to you and jumps into your magic bottle, you lost too quickly!"
The Spirit of the Dead became furious, and he turned away from the Spirit of the Winds before stepping forward on the yellow sands of the Silk Road.
Yunus cried out in terror from inside the bottle, "Hey man with the bottle, we're in your bottle, would you please pour us out!"
The Spirit of the Dead yelled at the bottle, "Bastards, you're the ones who even made me lose a bet, you're the ones who made me have to pay tribute to the Spirit of the Wind and pander to him, I'm going to walk to the deepest reaches of the desert and bury you all inside the yellow sands for all eternity!"
"Wait, my dear devil, I am the messenger of Hubal, you must not dishonor me!" Yunus said with conviction.
"Hmph, I am the Spirit of the Dead on the Silk Road, and how Hubal did not guide us when countless of our merchants died away from home." The Spirit of the Dead spoke and continued to march into the desert.
"Hey, don't bury me in the desert, then I will never see my father, Muhammad Waham, or return to my beautiful hometown, Jugula Castle!" Aisha cried and pleaded.
The devil laughed loudly and said, "So you are the daughter of the fortress master Waham, great, I heard that your father is for your marriage, soliciting the whole world can come up with rare and exotic treasure of the men, claiming that the person who has a special treasure is worthy of owning you, what a rich father."
Yunus took the opportunity to say, "You lost the bet, is it necessary to pay tribute to the Spirit of the Wind ah, this matter is good to do, as long as you use Aisha as a hostage, blackmail the master of the Castle of Jugula Waham, who for the sake of his daughter can give you countless treasures, so that you can give it to the Spirit of the Wind, to fulfill the betting promise."
"Well, you have a point, I'll pour Aisha out of the bottle and exchange her for gold and silver treasures." The Spirit of the Dead said.
Aisha angrily said to Yunus, "I can't believe you, you bastard, betrayed me!"
Yunus hurriedly put up his index finger and whispered, "It's not like that, the camel's urine on you hasn't dried up yet, quickly wring out your long hair and robe, squeeze out the urine and drip it into the urinal." Saying this, he took out the urinal and placed it in front of him.
"What are you going to do?"
"The Bedouins have told us that camel's urine can subdue the devil, and when the Spirit of the Dead puts you out later, you will sprinkle the camel's urine from this jug on him!"
"I dare not."
"I believe in you, the daughter of Muhammad Waham is beyond valor!"
For some reason, Aisha gained strength from Yunus's eyes, and after nodding, she wrung all the urine from her hair and robes into the urinal, and then, crawling up to the mouth of the magic flask with it in her hand, she called out, "I'm right at the mouth of the flask!"
The Spirit of the Dead held the magic flask in his hand and poured it outward gently, and Aisha fell into the palm of his huge hand.
"What a beautiful girl, you could get a lot of treasure in exchange for you!" The Spirit of the Dead said.
Aisha sat in the palm of his hand and said, "Are you the embodiment of the countless spirits of the dead on the Silk Road, may I see you up close and personal, Honorable Devil!"
"Of course." The Spirit of the Dead brought his face close to Aisha on his hand, and he too was eager to take a closer look at the daughter of the Jugula burgomaster.
Suddenly, Aisha raised the urinal in her hand and poured the urine onto the Spirit of the Dead's face, the Spirit of the Dead screamed and his huge body fell to the ground, Aisha took the opportunity to jump to the ground and picked up the magic vial, pouring it hard, but was unable to pour out the Unus inside.
She took the urinal and aimed it at the Spirit of the Dead, saying, "You hurry up and let Yunus out, or I'll pour the rest of the camel's piss all over you!"
The Spirit of the Dead was so scared that he had to pour Yunus out of the magic bottle as he was told; in fact, the urinal in Aisha's hand had been empty long before.
Yunus looked at Aisha gratefully and said, "Thank you for saving me, I'll take you back to your castle!"
Aisha was also very thankful to Yunus and said, "It's my fault that I got you into the devil's bottle too, if it wasn't for you, I would never see my father in the future."
Yunus put on a flying carpet and took Aisha up in the air towards the beautiful Jugula Castle.
Four: The Fierce Zahid
Yunus took Aisha on a flying carpet back to Castle Jugula.
Incredibly, the whole castle was no longer the emerald jewel of the oasis; the old castle was crawling with green withered vines, the ruins had replaced the opulent beauty, spiders were weaving their webs to their heart's content in every attic of the castle, monkeys jumped and crawled recklessly on the roofs of the buildings and in the windows, and snakes and rats had taken over the whole castle.
In the narrow aisle in the center of the castle complex, many merchants drove their camels from here through to other trading ports. These were Egyptians, Romans and Carthaginians, all dressed in different costumes.
At that moment, a Bedouin suddenly raised his whip and shouted, "I declare my sovereignty over this place, for I am its conqueror!" This man was none other than Zahid, the leader of the bandits.
With that, he began commanding his men to overrun the castle and collect tolls from other travelers passing through on commerce.
Aisha was shocked by what she saw, and wondered what had happened, and where her father and the original people in the castle had gone!
Yunus found a merchant in the castle to ask questions, and finally learned the truth, the original, he and Aisha fell into the spirit of the dead in the magic bottle, the bottle of a day is equal to the world after a year, so when they escaped from the bottle, the world has been a year and a half.
During this year and a half, Waham, the lord of the fort, led all the soldiers of the city to go out in search of Aisha, and after walking into the vast desert, they met Zahid, the leader of the bandits, and his henchman, Murik.
After a year of development, these two Silk Road bandits gathered hundreds of men and formed an army specializing in robbery, and they saw that Waham's guards were carrying so much gold and silver, how could they let go of this great opportunity.
So, Zahid ordered Muriq to lead the men to rush out and attack Waham and his guards, although the guards after a stubborn resistance, but also killed many robbers, but in the end, the whole army was destroyed, Waham was defeated and died, the body is still in the desert do not know where to go.
Zahid successfully robbed, and then came to the castle of Jugula, led the army to ransack the castle, and then put a fire, the castle burned down, and left, because the desert did not find a better place to stay, so they returned to the castle of Jugula again, occupy this place, as a post for the merchants to and from the post, and charge a fee.
Knowing all this, Aisha was so grieved that she said to Yunus, "Everything is ruined for me and it is no longer possible to live!"
At the critical moment, Yunus gave her a reason to live, he said, "Your castle is still there, I am still here, you have to live for all this, first of all, we have to find Zahid, with him there will never be peace on the Silk Road!"
Aisha agrees with him, and together the two go to the Prophet Nicholas in the temple of Jugula to ask him for advice on how to defeat Zahid.
Who knows, Nikolai fell in love at first sight when he met Aisha, stating, "I can help you subdue Zahid, but only on the condition that Aisha marries me."
"No, that will never do!" Aisha said.
"What if, I can bring your father back to life and give you back Castle Jugula?" Nikolai asked.
Aisha hesitated for a long time before agreeing, "If that is the case, I will grant your request."
Yunus looked at the beautiful Aisha with great pain in his heart.
After negotiating the terms, Nikolai said, "Zahid's whole body is immersed in holy water and hence is invulnerable to swords and guns, and only his navel is his only weak point, and not only that, he always has a huge marble in his sleeping room, and this stone is his wife.
A few years ago, his wife was turned into a marble because she was unfaithful to him, and he invited a sorcerer to do a spell to turn her into a marble, and then he regretted it, but the sorcerer died, and no one in the world would be able to restore his wife's true form, so Zahid puts this piece of marble in his bed wherever he goes, and sleeps with the stone every day."
Yunus asked, "Prophet, do you mean that you want me to hide inside the marble and attack Zahid's navel when he comes near?"
"I will only provide you with information, the solution is yours to figure out!" Nikolai said.
So Yunus himself took a flying carpet and flew into Zahid's bedroom, and sure enough, he saw a marble sitting on his bed, and he applied poison directly to the top of the marble and hid under the bed.
At night, when Zahid returned to his room, he fell straight onto the bed, wrapped his arms around the marble and said, "My dear wife, it was only when you turned to stone that I felt that you were my true love and would never fail me again!"
Suddenly, he jumped up with a shriek, he felt he had been poisoned, when Yunus, who was hiding under the bed, jumped out and stabbed him in the navel with his sword, and Zahid fell to the floor with a strange cry.
V. Arabian Nights
Yunus came to the Prophet Nicholas with the hand of Aisha and told him, "Zahid has been duly punished, what is the next step in restoring Waham's life?"
Nikolai looked at the wispy smoke wafting out of the Divine Lamp and said, "Waham is not actually dead; he collapsed with serious injuries when he was attacked by Zahid's army, and at that moment, coincidentally, encountered the Spirit of the Dead, the god of death in the desert. This devil took him away as a dead soul on the Silk Road, and to retrieve Waham you will have to beg the Spirit of the Dead, but, as he is a devil, no one can approach him."
Yunus and Aisha looked at each other and wondered in unison, "The Spirit of the Dead has suffered the remediation of the two before, and it will not be easy to approach him again."
Still, Yunus said with high spirits, "Well, now that we know that Vaham is in the hands of the Spirit of the Dead, that's enough."
After leaving Prophet Nikolai, Aisha anxiously asked Yunus what was the best way to do it, and Yunus said, "Remember the bet the Spirit of the Dead made with the Spirit of the Winds, and the Spirit of the Dead lost the bet and had to pay tribute to the Spirit of the Winds with treasures and wine for all eternity, so let's go to the Spirit of the Winds and figure out what to do."
"What's the point of going to the Spirit of the Winds, and how do we tell him?" Aisha asked.
"The Spirit of the Winds is a devil who loves beautiful women, he lives in the desert where the wind and sand are the greatest, and if you show up there, he will definitely show up, and then I will plead with him." Yunus said.
In this way the two went together to the place in the desert where the wind and sand are greatest, and met the beautiful woman Aisha, and the spirit of the wind did appear.
Yunus said to this devil, "The Spirit of the Dead has taken Waham, the master of Castle Jugula, captive, so we would like to ask you a favor."
"What favor?" The Spirit of Wind asked.
"Didn't you make a bet with the Spirit of the Dead, and as a result, he lost, promising you that he would always pay tribute to you, and we are asking you to make the Spirit of the Dead release Vaham and return him to his daughter on the condition that you give up this claim." Yunus said.
"Haha, well, so I can do you guys this favor, but when it's done, this beautiful girl must marry me!" The Spirit of Wind said.
"Okay, her name is Aisha, she is the daughter of Waham, the unrivaled beauty of the world, if you can do what we say and make the Spirit of the Dead release Waham, Aisha will marry you." Yunus said.
Although Aisha was very angry in her heart that Yunus was using herself as a bargaining chip, she was willing to agree to any terms if she could save her father.
With that, the Spirit of the Winds went to find the Spirit of the Dead and asked him to release Vaham on the condition that he would give up his claim after winning the bet.
Waham rejoined Aisha, and the father-daughter duo embraced, while Yunus unfurled his flying carpet and said, "Catch me and fly back to the castle!" The three turned their eyes up in the air and flew to Jugula Castle, the Spirit of the Wind was furious at the sight, he thought Aisha was going to break the contract, so he got up and turned into a tornado to follow closely after the disaster.
At this time, the night is already deep, a round of curved moon hanging in the sky, the lower edge of the moon corresponds to the top of the castle, looks beautiful.
After Yunus brought Vaham and Aisha to the very top of Jugula Castle, the Spirit of the Winds chased them down and asked hideously, "What, to a breach of contract, no one in the world can break a contract to the devil!"
"It is not that we have broken the contract, but, there is still a vow to be committed, our Aisha is to marry another as promised." Yunus said.
"That's right, Aisha is going to marry me, and our covenant preceded yours!" The Prophet Nikolai was seen flying to the top of the castle.
The Spirit of the Winds was very annoyed and said, "The pacts are legitimate in no particular order!"
Prophet Nikolai said, "Then let's see which of us is the strongest and who is qualified to marry Aisha!" So Nikolai and the Spirit of the Wind made law and fought.
One of them was a devil, and the other was a prophet with spells, and they fought without a fight, and after five hundred rounds it was still a fight, so they fought and fought, and fought until sunrise, and fought and fought until sunset, and month after month, and year after year ......
Waham rejoined Castle Jugurra, and he He reorganized the caravan, earned money, set up guards, built the castle, Jugula Castle has returned to the prosperity of the past, not only this, in the suggestion of Aisha, the castle has an additional function, that is, as the Silk Road to the merchants of the free post, for these travelling caravans to provide the water and drink food in the oasis of the desert.
At Waham's suggestion, Aisha married Yunus, so what about the Spirit of the Winds and Nikolai, hundreds of years have passed, and they're still fighting now, still winning and losing ......