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GIỠ HAO JRANG chapter 6

“Hey Giông, GiỡHreng, GiỡTuKrong!
Hey DamPhan, MaKlen, MaJong!
Hey BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong!” said  BiaSơdrăngMatAnar,
“This is delicious rice. This is silver fish, gold fish greasy. Everyone, let’s eat together. If anyone who don’t want to eat my rice and my fish, pour away”.
“Don’t say that BiaSơdrăngMatAnar”, said Giông, “No one here can’t refuse your food. They look delicous and we are all hungry.”
Then Giông invited all others to enjoy the food. Giông turned to BiaSơdrăngMatAnar and said: “BiaSơdrăngMatAnar! Come here and join with us. Let’s have something to remember the first time we meet.”

BiaSơdrăngMatAnar smiled fruity. She said:
“You and everyone let fill full your stomaches. I just ate at home and now still fill full.”
Giông, GiỡHreng, GiỡTuKrong, DamPhan, MaKlen, MaJong and BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong ate. All of them spoke out praises.
“Rice delicous, fish greasy as like their mistress beautiful”, they said.
BiaSơdrăngMatAnar heard the things. Her face went red she felt embarrassed.
Almost people stopped eating they started drinking and smoking while BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong was still eating. Giông started took a conversation with BiaSơdrăngMatAnar he asked her everything.
“Please don’t be ashamed and don’t be angry. I ask to know your name. I see to be familiar with your face. We will continue our fight for long time and hope we will meet you again”, said Giông.
“I’m not”, said BiaSơdrăngMatAnar, My shame ‘s now just big as a grain of rice. My parent named and I am called BiaSơdrăngMatAnar.
“You’re beautiful, as like sunlight shiny, as like forest flowers radiant and full of vitality,” said Giông. “Can you stand up and walk?”, added Giông.
 BiaSơdrăngMatAnar stood up. She gently walked few steps away then turned back.
Giông asked her to smile, she smiled. Giông asked her to talk, she talked. Giông observed her for a while then he said:
“You’re beautiful that nothing on your body’s ugly. White teeth, sweety smile, straight legs, slim waist. Your hair’s straight and smooth. If you agree, I want you to marry with my brother GiỡHreng.”
BiaSơdrăngMatAnar didn’t refuse and GiỡHreng also agreed. Then, they, BiaSơdrăngMatAnar and GiỡHreng gave the other silvery and golden bracelets.
“Let the thing at that, we must turn back our fighting”, said Giông, “after the fighting we will organize a wedding for BiaSơdrăngMatAnar and GiỡHreng and dink as much as we can in the wedding”.
People stopped smoking and drink they were ready to turn back their fighting. Giông turned to BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong.
“Hey BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong”, he said, “Stand up and fight with me”.
BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong stood up. He took his shield and grabbed his brass-handle knife with silvery blade. He started dancing. Giông also had his shield and spear in his hands. They were going to fight.
“Hey BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong! I’m going to burn your beard”, said Giông.
As soon as he said a flame spit out from his shield. The flame reached to sky, spread out ground and started chasing after BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong. BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong’s scared he ran, found places to hide himself. Kept running, BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong cried loudly along the way he ran. Giông’s always after BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong though it’s daytime or nighttime. The flame spitting out from his shield burned BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong’s beard and the hair on whole BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong’s body were also burned. BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong now was black he had no hair on his body.
Giông started ridiculing BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong.
“BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong you get ill. Why all your hairs fall out? You look different not like BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong august and strong before”, said Giông.
BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong didn’t reply Giông he’s angry but silently he sat on ground tears dropped from his eyes. That day was the day BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong felt saddest and painedest.
BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong knew that he couldn’t win Giông and his fellows.
“I can’t keep fighting with Giông, GiỡHreng and the others I will lose my life in a day. the longans had lost, I also will die and I will lose everything. I have to escape going to Ghost village though it’s away from here but it’s secret place and it’s where my brother AtauYangBul lived”, thought BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong.
Then, BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong ran he ran toward Ghost village, as fast as he could but he couldn’t hide himself from eyes of Giông and his brother GiỡHreng, the talent people and having many magics.
Giông, GiỡTuKrong, DamPhan, GiỡHreng, MaKlen, MaJong stood looking and pointing to BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong they laughed. They talked to others.
“Look! BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong is running”, then they laughed again.
“Omg! Our gigantic buffalo with seven tails is escaping running toward Ghost village with AtauYangBul”, they joked, laughing.
Then, Giông, GiỡTuKrong, DamPhan, GiỡHreng, MaKlen, MaJong with BiaSơdrăngMatAnar, BiaBơngBơh, BiaSơngLong chased after BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong. They joked, yelled along the way they followed BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong. The crowd of people went though it’s daytime or nighttime. They went for a long time until they arrived Ghost village, the end of the world, home of AtauYangBul brother of BokKiekLaDiaKlaKong. The place was always covered by shadow but Giông, GiỡTuKrong and others could see the wealth at there. All people praised the place, home of ghots and monsters wealthy and beautiful.
“I’ve seen any village which is prosperous, beautiful and firrm like this is since I was born”, said Giông.

The village had many protection layers, eight silvery walls, nine iron walls, a layers with full of poison snakes, a layer with hot-water stream, a layer with gigantic rocks which reached sky, a layer with a rotten-water stream which rotted any creatures wading in, a layer with endless dark covered on and the last, the layer with full of gigantic thorn-bamboo trees which reached sky.

"Translater: Hung Nguyen"
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