Arab Folklore Story: The Tale of Smart Abu Nuhus
of all the ancients who can remember now, who are the authors of the pranks? some say it is, others say it is, but those with real knowledge say it is abu nuwas.
his whole life was a series of jokes and cleverness.
as long as he wants to make people laugh or to make smart people look bad, he will not let go of a simple country boy or a king.
on one occasion, abu nuwas was said to have built a two-storey building.
when it was built, he wanted to sell it, but no one wanted a two-storey building.
subsequently, abu nuwas persuaded a wealthy businessman to buy the second floor.
after the rich man moved in, for months, abu nuhuas strongly encouraged him to buy the floor downstairs.
the businessman refused.
one morning, abu nuhuas recruited a large number of workers and brought them home.
he ordered them to tear down the wall.
the merchants heard noises upstairs and ran to the window to see what was going on.
it was a large group of workers under the command of abu nuwas who took a cross and dug walls.
"what are you doing?" he shouted.
“if this floor below the house cannot be sold, i will tear it down.” abu nuhuas replied, “you better watch your floor and don't let it fall on my workers!” wait, wait, wait! the businessman shouted, "i buy, i buy!" he bought the floor downstairs.
he bought the first floor to preserve the second floor.
when the deal was made, abu nuhuas sent the workers away.
even the king will not escape abu nuwas.
one night, the king dreamt that a lot of silver had been buried in the abu nuwas's house, and the next day he sent a group of workers to dig.
his wife had no choice but to stand by and let the workers dig the ground and the walls.
later, the workers concluded that there was no silver there.
upon his return, abu nuhuas discovered that a tunnel had been dug beneath the walls, and that there was a pit in the ground, and his wife was crying.
abu nuhus said, "it doesn't matter, i'll give it back to the king." he told his wife to cook a pot of rice.
when the meal was ready, abu nuhuas put a little meal on the plate and covered it gently with a handkerchief.
he watched the fly come and fell on the towel, and some of the flies climbed in for rice.
the next morning, when he had not moved the handkerchief, he went to the king with a plate.
“i want to complain,” he said to the king, “i charge those who came to my house without permission and ate my food.” the king is not sure that abu nuhus is pointing at the sarcasm.
didn't he know that abu nuhuas meant the workers who had gone to his house to dig the ground? abu nuhuas lifted the towels over the rice plate and three flies flew out.
"that's what i'm accusing of," abu nuhus replied.
king smiled.
"what do you want me to do?"You allow me to punish flies." "Well, the king finds it very interesting to say, "I give you the right to punish flies.
When you see a fly, you can fight." He wrote the verdict on paper and signed it.
Abu Nuhus made a stick with a big hammer.
Wherever he goes, he beats flies with this stick.
And as soon as he saw a fly on a date in the market, he beat it and spread it all over the earth.
And if he saw a fly in the fruit, he would also have taken it down with a stick, and beat it to waste and made it worthless.
The boss protested, and Abu Nuhuas said, "I'm not fighting fruit, I'm fighting flies." Says he showed them the message signed by the king.
He's been doing this for a long time, and he's getting tired of this kind of mess, some of them being funny.
Even the King had to laugh at what he did。