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The Story of Cay Khe


Cay Khe ( kind of star fruit tree )

Once upon a time, one family living in a countryside had two brothers, staying together very happily. But one day their parents became sick and passed away. They left a whole property and a house with a garden and a little star-tree to their children and expected the elder brother would take care of the little one.

However, soon after the parents died, and the elder brother inherited all of the property, which included a house with a garden, he gave only a little star-tree to his younger brother and forced him out of the house. As a result of this , the little boy lived alone with only a star-tree for company. He talked with the tree like he would talk to a good friend. Everyday he watered it and took very good care of it. Day after day, they grew up together. In spring, the star-tree bloomed very beautifully and had sweet fruits. The young man was so happy about it.
But every morning, there was a bird, flying in the star fruit free to eat most of sweetiest and biggest fruits. He was so sad and worried about it, and didn’t know how to survive if a bird ate all of his fruits, he just cried and pleased a bird was taken a look to his situation and back ground.
A bird still kept eating and eating … as usual , then a bird said to a young man :
“ eat a star fruit , give a gold bar . Make a three- wide hand bag to keep it ” .
A young man was very happy and did it exactly as the bird said. In the following morning , after eating star fruits , the bird took a young man flying to an island of jewellery and allowed him to get whatever he liked . He just got enough in to a three-wide hand bag and asked a bird bring him back to his tree. Since then he became a well-known of richest man in area and married a beautiful girl .

In his wedding , the elder brother was also an honour guest . They met up very happy and in their conversation , he opened to share story of a bird with an island of jewellery to the elder brother . After that his elder brother asked for him to exchange of inherited property with a house and a garden to a star fruit tree. The little brother was agree with it .

The elder brother was very happy and thought he would be very rich tomorrow, even much more than his little one. He started to prepare making a six-wide hand bag to be waited for a bird coming to eat star-fruits in the morning as usual.
In the following morning day, a bird came to the tree and after eating star fruits , the bird said to the man : “ eat a star fruit, give a gold bar . Make a three- wide hand bag to keep it ” . Immediately , he answered to the bird that he had it already , pleased take him right now . The bird took him to fly to the island of jewellery and let him get whatever he wanted. The elder brother got not only full of his six-wide hand bag , but also all his pocketful and wore on his hands and his body with jewelleries. Then the bird brought him back to the tree, but when flying over sea , it was too heavy and the bird was exhausted on the way . The bird dropped him in the sea with all his property .
Translated by Kim