Long, long time ago, lived a poor family in the countryside. They had a daughter called Lida and another son called Liya. At that time, school was very far away from their home. Lida didn't learn at high level because she was busy taking care of her brother and helping to do farming with her parents.
When Liya grew up, his parents sent him to school. He hadto learn all day. Therefore; studying at that time, the studentsliving far needed to take food to eat at school.Vuthy's parents were rich in this village so they had good food for their children to take to school. While Liya had only pounded salt to eat with rice.
Before Liya went to school, his mother stuffed rice into a box made from palm leaves and packed pounded salt for her son. At that time Liya picked up a shell of salted egg to pack the pounded salt because it was easy for him to put it.
Liya was the poorest child in the classroom. So other children always hated and humiliated him like this and like that which caused him not to dare to play with other children. Every time of the recreation, Liya always took his book to read again and again to remember and to ease his boredom.
At lunchtimes, Liya dared not to take part in having lunch with other children because they had delicious food. So Liya sat far from others and ate rice with salt in the shell of salted egg. All of the children said, "Look! Liya has nice food and eat alone!"
At break time, they played jump-robe, Leak Kon Saeng (hide scarf); some played jump-squares and played OU game happily. While Liya sat and read his books and glanced at them nearly losing his patience.
Liya sat longer and felt asleep there. When the class started, all pupils came into the classroom. Schoolmistress did not see Liya, and then she walked to the place where he used to get rest and saw him sleeping. The schoolmistress woke him up, "Liya! Get up, it is time to start the class". Liya woke up and asked, "Where are they, teacher?" The teacher replied, "They have already entered the classroom".
As soon as Liya entered the classroom, they yelled, “A good sleeper comes last". The teacher blamed all students, "This comes from the fact that you all don't permit him to play with you and that is why he feels asleep like that. From now on, you all must not hate Liya anymore because he is your classmate”.
Liya always was in the first standing in his class every month. While Vuthy who studied with him got poor mark every month. Vuthy's father asked his son, "Why your study is always worse than Liya's?" Vuthy told his father, "Liya is good at studying because he eats rice with salted egg every day". Vuthy's parents wondered why Liya had salted egg to eat if his family was such a very poor family.
The next day at lunch time, all students wanted to be good at studying so they ran and grabbed the salted egg from Liya. At that time the salted egg was broken and spilled the salt on the ground. Vuthy made a slip of the tongue, "My god! It is salt! I suppose it is the real salted egg". The teacher and students saw like that and felt a pity on Liya. Later they always offered little food for Liya and allowed Liya to play with them every day.
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