At noon the next day, just after lunch, Kirton admitted that he had completely conceded defeat. In fact, since returning home yesterday afternoon, he has felt a strong desire to explore like an ant, crawling around his body, making his heart itch. He ordered himself not to think about it anymore, but he was even more uncontrollable to guess the aftermath of the story he had heard yesterday, as if he had obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It seems that Sean is not right at all, the wonderful feeling that that massage parlor brings is indeed addictive. After hesitating, Kirton couldn't care about his face. He picked up the phone and dialed Sean's number. After the phone was connected, before he could speak, he heard Sean's laughter on the other end of the phone: "Haha, Kirton, how is it - I can't help it - I know, with your strong curiosity, how can you hold back and not finish listening to that story-—— come on, Lu Hua and Lan Xi have already come over now." Since Sean's mentality was all accurate, Kirton didn't bother to be reckless, he asked directly: "Where did you tell me to come - your house or that leisure club-" "Come directly to the door of the Yatan Leisure Club." Sean said, "I'll wait at the door with Lu Hua and Lan Xi." "Okay, I'll be right away."

Kirton hung up the phone and immediately went out. Half an hour has passed since taking the taxi and getting off at the destination. Kirton found that the three of them were waiting at the door of the massage parlor. After he walked over, Lan Xi said dissatisfiedly, "Why are you so slow, we arrived more than ten minutes ago, waiting for you to go in together." Kirton said embarrassedly: "I've taken a taxi, and you still think I'm slow - I really didn't expect you to be more anxious than me." ”

Sean smiled and sighed: "I persuaded you to come yesterday and didn't want to come, but today you are addicted to more than me." "You're less proud." "I just want to finish yesterday's story." After listening to the ending, I won't come back - it's not addictive. "Please come and enjoy it, and you say it like you're doing my favor." Sean shook his head and said, "Forget it, stop talking nonsense, let's go in." ”

It was the same room yesterday, the same bed, and the four of them lay down separately - to their surprise, even the corresponding masseurs and readers were still in the exact same lineup as yesterday. It's as if these people are waiting for the four of them. Kirton didn't have time to think about it, he lay down on the massage table, drank a few sips of orange juice handed by the masseuse, and urged the gentleman next to him who was reading the story: "You can continue yesterday's story." "Okay." The reader smiled slightly, while suggesting that the masseur could start to proceed.

- The fisherman trembled after the devil, not believing that he could get out of danger. They walked straight ahead, past the suburbs, over the mountains, to a wide valley with a clear lake at the bottom. The devil waded into the lake and said to the fisherman, "Come with me." So the fisherman followed the devil down to the lake, and when he looked down, he was astonished to see that there had not been a single fish in the lake before, but when the devil had passed by, white, red, blue, and yellow fish swam up on the lake, which he had never seen before. The devil dived into the water, circled the depths of the lake, and then floated and said to the fisherman, "Cast your net to fish, but remember, you can only fish on the surface of the water, not under the net, and you can only catch one fish of each of the four colors." ”

The fisherman did as he said, took off the net, scattered it on the surface of the lake, and down the net, and caught four fish, one for each color. It can be on the water, one for each color of fish; Second, you must only offer these fish to the king as treasures, and you must not sell them at the market, let alone take them home and eat them—this is very important, and you must remember it!" The fisherman asked, "Is it any good for me to do this-" The devil laughed, "just do as I say, and you will be rich in the future." In the name of Allah, I swore that since the fisherman looked at the fish in the net and asked, "What should I do next—will I take these fish and sell them?"" The devil said to him: "When you go back, bring the fish to the palace and offer them to the king." If he asks you for this fish later, you can come to the lake and call him again. But you have to keep in mind two things: first, you can only come to this lake every day to catch a net of fish, and if you are only a devil, you can only repay you with the devil's methods. But you need not doubt that if you do what I have just told you, good luck will come to you. Now, Allah will bless you. So the devil said this, and went headlong into the lake and disappeared.

The fisherman returned to the city with the four-tailed fish, thinking about his dealings with the devil along the way, and felt very strange. He returned home, took a bowl, filled it with water, and put the fish in the bowl. The fish got water, became active, and swam around in the bowl. The fisherman followed the devil's instructions and carried the fish into the palace with a bowl on his head. The king was amazed at the four-colored fish that the fisherman had paid tribute to, for he had seen it for the first time in his life. He instructed the prime minister: "Give these fish to the cook, and let her fry them seriously." ”

It turned out that there was a female cook in the palace who was good at cooking, and it was sent as a gift by the Greek king three days ago, and the king did not know her skills. He asked the cook to fry the fish in order to test her craft. The fisherman remembered what the devil had told him not to eat the fish, and he wanted to tell the king, but on second thought, the devil only told him not to eat the fish, and did not say that the king could not eat them, so he did not speak. The vizier brought the fish to the kitchen, gave it to the cook, and said, "Today someone has brought four fish to the king." The Lord wants you to show your skill, cook it carefully, and let the king enjoy it happily. When the prime minister had finished his orders, he returned to the king. The king ordered him to reward the fisherman with forty gold coins, and the prime minister did as he was told. The fisherman was so happy when he received the reward that he staggered home, and was so happy that he sat down and stood up for a while, thinking that he was in a dream.

He used the bounty money to buy food and necessities, and spent the night happily with his family. The lady of the palace was going to make a delicious meal before dinner, according to the king's will. She was ready to cut the fish with her knife, when the four fish suddenly raised their heads in unison and said clearly and loudly, "Don't kill us, or else." We're going to scare you to death when we die!" The cookess was so frightened by this scene that she fainted and fell unconscious.

After a while, she slowly woke up, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that all the four fish in the bowl were gone, and she was surprised and sighed, "Oops! The first time I went out on the expedition, the barrel of the gun broke first!" She was so anxious and angry that she fainted again. At this time, the prime minister came to the kitchen, and when he saw the cook unconscious, he kicked her. The cookess woke up and wept and told the prime minister in detail what had happened. When the prime minister heard this, he was amazed and said, "What a strange thing it is." ”

The next day, the prime minister immediately sent someone to call the fisherman and shouted, "Fisherman! Give me four more of the same fish you sent last time. The fisherman didn't know what was happening, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he came to the lake, got out of the net, and caught the same four fish on the water, and sent them to the palace in fear. The prime minister once again brought the fish to the kitchen, still to the cook, and said, "Fry it in front of me, and let me see this strange thing with my own eyes." The cook, having had the experience of the last time, trembled with fear, but did not dare to disobey, and only trembled and walked to the basin containing the fish with her knife. The four fish raised their heads again as they did last time, and said, "Don't kill us, or we will scare you to death when we die!"

The cookess threw away the knife in fear, but this time she was mentally prepared not to be stunned again. At this moment, she and the prime minister's eyes widened and saw that a hole suddenly opened in the ground, and four fish spontaneously jumped out of the basin and jumped into the crack, and then the ground closed and quickly returned to its original state.

The prime minister was very surprised, and said, "This matter is difficult to conceal, and Cong must report it to the king." So the chancellor went at once to the king and reported to him this strange thing. When the king heard this, he said, "I must see it with my own eyes." Then he sent someone to summon the fisherman, and within three days, he sent the strange four-colored fish into the palace again. The fisherman hurried to the lake the next day, caught four fish, and sent them to the palace in time. The king ordered the fisherman to be rewarded with four hundred ducats, and told him to go back, and then said to the prime minister, "Come, fry these fish yourself before me." ”

"Yes, yes." The prime minister replied, and immediately took the knife from the cook to cut the fish, and walked to the basin containing the fish, and was about to pick up one of them, when the four fish raised their heads together and said, "Don't kill us, or we will scare you to death when we die!" The king was shocked, and then he put his sword at his waist and said, "I want to see how terrible these strange fish look when they die!" As he spoke, he swung his sword and slashed at the fish in the basin. At this moment, a hole suddenly cracked in the wall next to it, and out came a beautiful young girl, wearing a blue silk scarf, beautiful earrings, a bracelet on her arm, a rare gemstone ring on her finger, and a rattan staff in her hand. The girl pointed the end of the cane at the basin containing the fish, and recited a spell, which was immediately overturned, and then in the blink of an eye, the four fish disappeared into the crack in the wall with the girl, and then the wall closed and returned to its original state.

All those present were stunned by this scene, and the king was particularly shocked, and said: "You cannot remain silent about such a thing, for these fish must have a strange origin." So he ordered the fisherman to enter the palace and asked, "Fisherman, where did you get these strange fish?" and the fisherman replied in trepidation, "from a lake in the valley outside the city." "How far is it from here-" "Your Majesty, about half an hour away." ”

Hearing the fisherman's words, the king was anxious to find out what was going on, so he ordered his men to set out at once. So the king's men and horses drove out of the realm with great and clear banners. The fisherman leads the way. They passed through the suburbs, climbed over the mountains, and came to a vast valley. At the bottom of the valley surrounded by mountains, I saw the lake. I saw that the water of the lake was clear, but it was bottomless. Inside, red, white, yellow, and blue fish are swimming. Everyone was amazed, because they had never seen anything like it, and no one had ever seen the lake. The king asked the older men, and they all said, "We have never seen this lake in our lives." ”

The king pondered for a moment, then ordered some of his guards to take out the large fishing nets he had prepared before, and ordered: "Catch me dozens of fish from this lake, and I will carefully study what is strange about these fish." The guards immediately cast their nets to catch fish. In order to catch more fish, they stretched their nets deep into the lake to catch them. The fisherman remembered that the devil had warned him not to net the fish under the water, but how could he dare to stop the king's command—he could only stand by and observe with trepidation. When the net was closed, the guards felt that the net was very heavy, as if they had caught a lot of fish. They laboriously dragged the nets up, and everyone was shocked and frightened when they saw them—in the nets, in addition to the four colored fish, there were dozens of human corpses! They were all dressed in pieces, some of them looked like they had just drowned, but some of them were completely rotten, and they didn't know how long they had been immersed in the lake. Many of the people present immediately vomited, and the fisherman was so frightened that he almost fainted. It was a horrible and terrifying scene they had never seen before.

The king was shocked and said: "By Allah, I will find out how these people drowned in the lake, and find out where the lake and the fish came from, before I will return to the palace." So he ordered his men to camp in the mountains, and said to the shrewd, capable, knowledgeable, and experienced prime minister, "Tonight I want to hide quietly in my tent alone, and all the princes, generals, and servants will stand in the way." Tell them that I am not feeling well, that I cannot be interviewed, and that I am not allowed to reveal my true intentions to anyone. The prime minister obeyed the order and carefully guarded the outside of the tent.

In the evening, the king changed into civilian clothes, put on his sword, quietly left the tent, and climbed the mountain in the night. He trudged until dawn and continued to walk day and night in spite of the heat and fatigue. When the day came, he was glad to find a dark shadow in the distance, and said, "Maybe I can meet someone who can tell me the origin of the lake and the fish." "When I got closer, the black shadow turned out to be a palace built of black stone, with two gates, one open and one closed. The king came to the door and knocked softly, but there was no answer. He knocked again a second and third time, and still no one answered. He knocked violently for a while, but still no one answered, and he thought, "There is no doubt that this must be an empty house." So he plucked up courage, broke through the door, came to the bottom of the porch, and cried out, "O man who lives in the house! I'm a stranger. I'm passing by here, can you feed me with hunger-" He shouted three or four times in a row, but still no one answered. The king mustered up courage and spirit, and went into the hall. The house was empty, but it was well arranged, and everything was made of silk, which was very rich.

The ground is covered with glittering carpets, embroidered curtains hang in front of the windows, and four vaulted halls surround a spacious courtyard with stone benches and fountains, and four golden lions squatting by the pool, with pearl-like water in their mouths, and birds in the courtyard, and golden nets in the air to hold the birds. It's a strange place to see how there is no one in such a luxurious palace. Strange mountains, lakes, four-colored fish, and palaces, the wonder in the king's heart was even greater. Helpless, he sat down in front of the door, bowing his head and pondering. At this moment, he suddenly heard a melancholy sigh, and the voice whispered, "I hid everything you have there, but you expose yourself." Drowsiness passed away from my eyes, and in exchange for insomnia......" The king stood up, looked in, and saw a curtain hanging over the door of the hall. He reached out and lifted the curtain, and a young man sat in a bed behind the scenes, more than a foot high.

This is a young man with clear eyebrows, dazzling brilliance, and a well-established figure. When the king saw the young man, he greeted him with joy. The young man sat upright, dressed in an Egyptian robe embroidered with gold thread and a crown of pearls, but his brow was full of sorrow. He politely returned the salute to the king, and then said, "Forgive me because I am disabled and cannot get up to meet you." "You're welcome, young man, now I'm your guest. I have come to you for an important matter. "Can you tell me the origin of the lake, the four-colored fish, and the palace—and I wonder why you live here alone—why you are so miserable—"

The young men listened to the king. Tears flowed down their faces. The king was puzzled, and asked, "Young man, why are you weeping with sorrow?" and "How can what happened to me make me not grieved?" It turned out that half of the young man's body from waist to feet had turned to stone, but the upper half of his body was still conscious. When the king saw this, he could not help but feel sorrow, and said, "Young man, you have added new sorrow to my old wounds. I originally came here to inquire about the four-colored fish, but now I need to know you more than the fish. There is no choice but to look to Allah, the Almighty, for help. Young people, please tell me what happened to you. ”

The young man let out a long sigh: "I myself had a bizarre and strange experience with the four-colored fish, and if I recorded it, it would be a good admonition for future generations." ”