13 prototypes of robber stories

According to legend, there used to be two brothers: one was a wealthy shoemaker and the other was a poor farmer. One day, the farmer was working in the field and saw thirteen people under an oak tree. Each of them was holding a sharp knife. Anyone who saw that would be frightened. The farmer thought: They must be robbers! So he hid quickly. He saw the group of people approaching the oak tree, and the bandit leader shouted: "Oak tree, open the door!" Sure enough, the oak tree cracked open, and the bandits came out one after another. The farmers hid in place and continued to investigate. After a while, the robbers came out one after another, and finally the bandit leader came out. "Oak tree, close the door!" Upon hearing the order, the cracked hole in the oak tree closed.

After the robbers left, the farmer decided to give it a try himself. He walked up to the oak tree and said, "Oak tree, open the door!" The oak tree split open and he got into the tree. There is a ladder inside the tree that leads to the ground. He went down the ladder and found a cave; in the cave were thirteen piles of gold and silver treasures, each pile piled from the bottom to the top of the cave. In addition, there were several piles of gold, several piles of diamonds, and several piles of Napoleon gold coins. The farmers looked at the piles of gleaming gold and silver treasures, and they were really dizzy and feasting their eyes. After looking at it for a long time, he began to put the gold coins into his jacket pocket. After it was full, he put it into his trousers pocket. Then he tightened his trouser legs and tried his best to put the gold coins into his crotch. In the end, he couldn't hold it anymore, so he dragged himself back home with heavy steps, tinkling all the way.

"What's going on with you?" His wife looked at the way he walked and asked in surprise. The farmer poured out the gold coins from his pockets and trouser legs, and then informed his wife what had happened. He thought it would be best to get a liter of wine to estimate how much it cost, but he didn't have anything like that at home, so he had to go to his brother's house to borrow one. The shoemaker was puzzled: "What on earth does my brother want to measure? He has always been a poor man, and I want to see what he measures." So he glued a fish bone on the bottom of the shoe.

After returning the fishbone, the shoemaker immediately checked to see what was caught on the fish bone. Ah, a Napoleon gold coin! Think about it, what a look on his face when he saw a gold coin!

He immediately went to his brother: "Tell me who it is I gave you this money!" The farmer informed his brother about the matter. The shoemaker said to him: "You have to take me there too! I have children and a daughter, and I need money more than you!" So the two brothers drove two animals and took four They came to the oak tree and said, "Open the door, oak tree!" After filling all four sacks, they left. Back home, the two brothers added to their fortunes and divided the gold, diamonds and Napoleon gold coins equally. Now they both have a lot of gold and silver and can live comfortably. Therefore, they agreed: "We have a comfortable life now, don't go to that place again, otherwise we will die!"

Although the shoemaker also agreed, he always wanted to hide it from his brother. Go steal again alone, because he is a greedy guy. He got there secretly and waited for the robbers to come out of the oak tree; but when the robbers came out, he didn't even count the number of them, so he rashly walked into the tree hole. As a result, he was in bad luck: the one who walked out of the oak tree was not Thirteen, but twelve robbers; it turned out that the robbers had noticed that someone had come to the cave and stolen their things, so they left one robber there to look after them. The robber suddenly jumped out, caught the shoemaker by surprise, killed him like a pig, cut his body into pieces, and tied him to two tree branches.

The shoemaker's wife saw that her husband was not coming home, so she went to the farmer to inquire. "Brother-in-law, no good, something happened! Your brother went to the oak tree again, but he hasn't come back yet!"

The farmer waited until dark and came to the oak tree. He saw his brother's body chopped into four pieces and tied to a tree branch. He untied the body, put it on the back of a donkey, and carried it home. When the shoemaker's wife and children saw the body, they burst into tears. In order to bury her husband's whole body, the shoemaker's wife asked another shoemaker to sew the body together.

The shoemaker's wife used the money left by her husband to open a small hotel and became the proprietress.

At this time, the robbers were wandering around the city, trying to find out who had taken their gold and silver treasures.

One day, a robber came to the shoemaker who was sewing the corpse and asked him: "Friend, can you sew two stitches on this shoe?"

"Stop it," the shoemaker said. A shoemaker who was quartered can sew it, so how can he not sew this shoe?"

"Which shoemaker?"

"My colleague is the one who was quartered. A shoemaker in the fourth section of the corpse, the husband of the innkeeper’s wife.”

In this way, the robbers knew that the innkeeper’s wife used the stolen gold and silver to do business. They got a big wooden barrel, and eleven robbers hid in it; the barrel was placed on a carriage, and the other two robbers drove the carriage into the street. They stopped at the door of the small hotel and said: "Kind boss lady, let's put this bucket here temporarily, okay? Can you get us some food?"

"Don't be modest. ," the landlady said, and went to order noodles for the two coachmen. At this time, the landlady's daughter was playing beside the carriage and heard voices in the barrel. She leaned over and listened, and heard someone say: "We are going to send this girl to the West soon!" The girl was startled and hurriedly ran out to inform her mother. The landlady hesitated, then took a pot of boiling water and poured it into the barrel, scalding all the robbers inside to death. She then went to entertain two other robbers. She brought them two bowls of noodles and poured two glasses of narcotic wine. After the two robbers fell asleep, she chopped off their heads. The proprietress said to her daughter: "Now go and ask the judge."

The judge came. When he learned that these thirteen guys were robbers, he praised the hotel proprietress because she had eliminated harm for the people.

(Basilicata region)

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