"There's gold here," he said.The moon shone on the face of the Arab who had seized him, and in the man's eyes the boy saw death."He's probably got more gold hidden in the ground." They made the boy continue digging, but he found nothing.As the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy.He was bruised and bleeding, his clothing was torn to shreds, and he felt that death was near."What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life," the alchemist had said.Finally, the boy screamed at the men, "I'm digging for treasure!"And, although his mouth was bleeding and swollen,he told his attackers that he had twice dreamed of a treasure hidden near the Pyramids of Egypt.The man who appeared to be the leader of the group spoke to one of the others:"Leave him. He doesn't have anything else. He must have stolen this gold."The boy fell to the sand, nearly unconscious.The leader shook him and said, "We're leaving."But before they left, he came back to the boy and said, "You're not going to die. You'll live, and you'll learn that a man shouldn't be so stupid.Two years ago, right here on this spot, I had a recurrent dream, too.I dreamed that I should travel to the fields of Spain and look for a ruined church where shepherds and their sheep slept.In my dream, there was a sycamore growing out of the ruins of the sacristy, and I was told that, if I dug at the roots of the sycamore, I would find a hidden treasure.
“他有金子。”一个人说。月光照在那个人脸上，男孩从他的眼睛里看到了杀气。“地下一定藏着更多的金子。”于是他们逼迫男孩挖下去，但什么也没挖到。他们开始殴打男孩，直到天放亮才住手。男孩被打得遍体鳞伤，他感到死亡正在逼近。“如果你必死无疑，钱对你又有什么用处呢？钱能用来使人免于一死，这种事并不多见。”炼金术士曾这样说过。“我在找一笔财宝！”男孩终于喊了起来。尽管他的嘴被打伤，并肿得很厉害，但还是告诉这些人，他曾两次梦见埃及金字塔附近埋藏着一批财宝。那个看上去像头领的人半晌没有说话，后来他对另一个人说：“放了他吧。他不会再有别的东西了。这块金子大概是偷来的。”男孩脸朝下扑倒在沙地上。那领头的一双眼睛在寻找他的目光，然后说道：“我们走吧。”但是在他们离开之前，他转向男孩说道：“你不会死的。你将活下去，还会明白人不能太愚蠢。差不多两年前，就在你待着的这个地方，我也重复做过同一个梦。我梦见自己应该到西班牙的田野上去，寻找一座残破的教堂，一个牧羊人经常带着羊群在那里过夜。在我的梦里，圣器室所在的地方有一棵无花果树，我被告知，如果我在无花果树下挖掘，定能找到一笔宝藏。
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