Thousand & One Nights: 121st Night

The young man visited the Christian trader and said, "I was busy selling my stock, I did not have time to come to you and collect my money. I have sold every crop she had left me. Now you know why I eat with my left hand.
I have made a mistake. I should have told her that I exhausted my money fully. But my pride did not allow me to open my heart. Like a meteor, she came into my life, and disappeared. I am here to make you a present of all the money you collected for my sesame. It is only a small portion of what she had bestowed on me. The law of your land is harsh, and the administers of it too. But your people were very sympathetic to me. Even the soldier whom I had wronged was sympathetic to me."

The young man added, "I have prepared a load of merchandise for trading. Are you going with me abroad?" The Christian trader set out with the young man. They came to China. But the young man returned to Cairo. Here, the Christian trader asked asked the king of China, "Is my story more adventurous and amazing?"
The king replied, "No. It is not more amazing than the story of the hunchback. I must hang all of you for the death of him." 

Then the steward of the King's kitchen came forward, and said, "O happy king, if I tell you a story that happened to me last night, before I found the hunchback in my house, and if you find it to be more amazing than the hunchback's story, will you grant us our lives, and let us go?"

The king replied, "Yes, if I find it to be more amazing than the story of the hunchback, I will grant all of you your lives."

The break of dawn 



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