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The next morning

The next morning

By stephen millionPublished 12 months ago 3 min read
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Ali Sa and Zulu spent the night in peace and joy. The next morning, when the emerald-green woke up and put it away, she sat there, cut some silk into a curtain, painted all kinds of birds and animals and strange flowers and plants according to her own wishes, and embroidered them carefully with gold, silver and colored thread. Eight days later, a gorgeously embroidered door curtain was finished. It is full of lifelike flowers, insects and birds, can be called an artistic treasure. She rolled up the curtain with satisfaction and handed it to Ali Sa with the following command:

"If you take this curtain to the market, it will be enough to sell for 50 gold. But be careful not to talk to the passers-by. Otherwise, I will suffer the tragedy of separation. They won't leave us alone. They want to disturb the world and insist on dividing us."

"I see, yes." Ali Sa promised that he would not disobey her.

So she took the embroidered curtain to the market place and sold it to the merchant for fifty gold pieces, as the emerald had commanded. Then he used the money to buy silk, colored thread and necessities for daily use, and gave the excess money from the sale of the door curtain to the Zubai Green to keep. In this way, Ali Sa and Zubai Lu Fu sang and followed each other, husband and wife, self-sufficient life.

The emerald has been working hard, painting and embroidering. Every eight days she was able to make an artistically embroidered curtain for Ali Sanar to sell. Time flies, a year soon passed, and this loving young couple, Zubai Green, respect each other, raise eyebrows, live a stable and happy life, coupled with savings gradually wider, they seem to have a bright future.

One day at the beginning of the following year, when Ali Sa was doing his usual business in the market, he gave the embroidered curtain to a middleman for resale. The middleman found a Christian transit customer. The customer would pay sixty gold for the curtain, but Ali Sa wouldn't deal with the Christian.

This was a very calculating customer. Seeing this, he raised the price to one hundred gold and bribed the broker with ten gold. The broker explained to Ali Sa the high prices his customers were offering in order to entice him to sell the curtain to the Christians for more money. "Don't worry about the Christian, my Lord," he said. "He will do you no harm."

Other businessmen at the time also joined in encouraging him to make a good deal.

Because everyone was trying to persuade him, Ali Sa had to sell the curtain to the Christians. With the money in hand, he left the market with trepidation. Along the way, the Christian customer sneaked behind him, his doubts swirling. Unable to help it, he demanded:

"Why are you always following me?

"I need to get into the alley across the way. Don't worry! God willing, you won't be short of anything." Christian told a lie to get through Ari Sa.

When Ali Sa returned home, he saw that the Christian was following his house every step of the way. He felt very uncomfortable and shouted at him: "You bastard! What are you trying to do, following me like a shadow?"

"Oh, for God's sake, give me a drink of water. I'm dying of thirst."

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