The story of Alibaba and the forty thieves

In medieval Persia, there were two brothers. My brother Geximu is a wealthy businessman, and my brother Ali is a poor woodcutter.

One day, when Alibaba was chopping wood, he saw a group of robbers carrying treasures. They shouted "open sesame" at the cave, and the door of the cave opened. The robber hid the treasure in the cave. After the robbers left, Alibaba went into the cave and took home a bag full of gold and silver.

Alibaba borrowed a scale from Geximu, saying that the weight of the gold coin was discovered by Geximu, and truthfully told the origin of the gold coin. Ali told Geximu not to take too much, as it would be discovered by robbers. Lured by the treasure, Geximu forgot Alibaba's instructions and pretended for a long time, forgetting the password to open the door.

At this time, there was the robber's footsteps outside the door. Geximu was discovered by robbers, who killed Geximu. The robber knew that Geximu had a younger brother, Alibaba, so he plotted to kill Alibaba.

The robber dressed up as a businessman, and the clever Alibaba recognized the robber leader, but pretended not to know him and gave him a banquet. After the robber leader was drunk, Alibaba burned a pot of hot oil and poured it into the oil drum, killing all the robbers in the oil drum.

Alibaba called the police and took away the bandit leader, and all the robbers were punished.

Finally, Alibaba got a cave full of treasures and lived a very rich life.

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Alibaba and the Forty Thieves is a world-famous folk story from The Arabian Nights. However, Mr Yong Puhao, a researcher in Arabic literature, pointed out: "Garland first introduced the translation of Arabian Nights to western French scholars. After translating and publishing seven volumes of Arabian Nights, he discovered many oriental stories one after another.

It has been translated into five volumes and published one after another, including the stories of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, which are not found in the original Arabian Nights. "According to this view, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, and Arabian Nights are all independent Arab folk stories.