Wednesday, May 14, 2014

GRANDPA MIALAI AND GRANDMA MIALAI STORY

Tamialai and Yiaymialia is an elder fisher family and poor. They live in a village alone the Mekong River. These spouse no child to increase member or to represent lineage at all.

Their house roofed with palm leaves and construct up from land, bank of the river. This house is a heritage of them. On the left and right side of their house they plant vegetables, such aas gourd, winter melon, herb, citronella and chili etc.

At the rainy season the sky is very dark cloudy. The river water flooded up equal the bank of river and bring with firewood and a great crowd of water hyacinth. The vilalgers, as well as Tamialai and Yiaymialia hurry up to untie the boat and raw quickly toward to catch floated firewood for use.

The wave of river at the rainy season causes the bank of river continued to collapse.The kind of neighbors always help to move this poor house from the destroy place.

The sever flood ruins the house, vegetable plants and li vestock of Tamialai and Yiaymialia. A rooster rears up and flaps the wings and crows up, because of the present of chocked mouse that climbed to meet a cat on the inclined and broken roof.

Since that day they go to live at the hill distant from that place. Now they clear forest off to plant. Everyday they work hard, but their living is sti ll poor like before.

Their age is going to old, but they don't commit good merit in religion and also don't share gift or go to pagoda yet. Because of poor they never think about deed merit at all.

They always go to the forest when the sun shines and come back when the sun starts to set. When they arrive home, Tamialai takes a bath on the ground and cleans his body. He doesn't help her wife to cook yet, the sun sets off.

The oil lamp near the hot kettle lights the bedroom. After dinner they sit and eat arecas and smoke cigarette. At the same time, they think about their poor living. The difficult time makes them discouraged and tired everyday. Suddenly they know one way and smile with morale hope.

A week ago they wear new and nice dressed and bring fruits, flowers toward a big of kind palm tree stay behind their garden. They burn incenses and give flowers and intive the Spirit of the forest to eat the offering of fruites that they prepare on the mat near the drunk.

After the offerings ceremony, they pray and beg treasure from the Spirit. They need property at the end of their lives. At the same time, Yiaymialia dances very well with rhythm of music drum. Tamialai gives the Spirit more offerings. This event makes the other Spirits surprise and happy. They come to watch in a great numbers.

After watching with joyful, all Spirit offOl'est return to their place. The angel of the big tree very compassionates and mercies to Tamialai and Yiaymialia, but the angel has only rank of Spirit of the forest. He doesn’t have treasure to give to them. He doesn't pause his pity, so he flies to heaven and ask treasure from Indra. Indra knows that, this elder spouse don’t have destiny to receive treasure at all. Because of insistent beg, 10dra gives to him.

As the angel of the big tree get a jar of gold from Indra, he takes to and drops off in front of their house at mid That night this poor spouse awake each other in hurry and go to the garden at dark time, so they oppose the jar of gold. They are unlucky.

The angel doesn't forget about, so he takes that jar to drop down at gateway of the garden, to wait them come back at the evening. But unfortunately when they nearly arrive at the gateway, Tamialai wants to eat fresh vegetables with fish paste sauce, so he goes to pick vegetables in different place, and then go out. They oppose lucky again.

The angel of the big tree unreasonable with their repeatedly unlucky, so he recalls tbe word of Indra “This poor spouse no fortune from the past to receive treasure. Every time they always get away from treasure like someone plays to hide. Angel wants to win this, tomorrow when they are eating lunch; he will take the jar of gold to drop down before their face. They very happy and surprise with the gleaming gold in the jar.

Tamialai tells YiaymiaJia to go home and cook rice and bring to the garden for eat. They wait until dark time coming up. They start to bring treasure to home. They do like this to hide from villagers. Along the path,Yiaymialia thinks that "I will become millionaire, no lack of young men want to love me! So I don't trust my husband at all". After thinking, she puts poison in the rice of her husband.

Tamialai keeps watching gold at the garden and think like his wife too “If I keep my wife maybe the beautiful young ladies don’t dare to love me”. After thinking, he cuts bamboo and peels to make arrow for kill his wife.

At the evening, his wife carries a package of rice on her head to the garden, suddenly Tamialai hides his body close to the big trunk and he lifts arrow up and shoots into the heart of his wife. So his wife falls down and bleeding, suddenly he goes and grasps the package of rice from his wife and eats before hi s wife with hungry and fear. Finally, Tamialai to be poisoned and twitched until die with his wife at that time.

Tamialai and Yiaymialia living with poor and tired in their lives. When they get treasure, nearly become millionaire, suddenly they kill each other without using their gold yet. Because of crazy about gold they think very foolish, without nostalgia, dare to destroy each other and desire new lover and young. Impossible to help! The Spirit of big kind palm tree brings back the treasure to Indra.

- The END -

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