Truyện 34. Tiếc gà chôn mẹ

Xưa có một người đàn ông tính rất vũ phu. Đối với vợ con, hơi động một tý là hắn đánh đập không tiếc tay. Hắn ham chơi gà chọi, ham đến nỗi trên đời ngoài gà ra, hắn cho không còn thú gì tiêu khiển hơn thế được. Lần đó hắn mua được một con gà thật tốt. Con gà ấy có nước đá rất hay, đã từng đoạt được nhiều giải. Hắn quý gà vô cùng, chăm sóc từng ly từng tý một.

Một hôm hắn đi chơi xa, dặn vợ ở nhà trông nom con gà cho mình. Hắn dọa: - Mạng của nó tức là của mày đó!

Ngày hôm đó gà mấy lần chạy ra ăn đỗ phơi ở sân. Người vợ ngồi chặt củi gần đấy đuổi mãi không được. Một lần, sẵn con dao chặt củi, chị cầm ném đuổi gà. Không ngờ dao trúng vào cổ, con gà giãy lên đành đạch, một lát thì chết.

Thấy con gà cưng của chồng chẳng may vì mình mà chết, người vợ xanh cả mặt. Nghĩ đến những trận đòn của chồng, nàng gạt nước mắt khóc. Nàng bảo mẹ chồng: - Con không may đánh chết gà. Chồng con về chắc sẽ không để yên cho nào. Nhưng con đã có mang được bốn tháng nay, biết làm sao bây giờ?

Bà cụ đáp: - Con đừng lo, để mẹ nhận là mẹ ném cho. Chả nhẽ nó lại ăn thịt mẹ nó hay sao?

Người chồng trở về, vừa bước chân vào nhà đã hỏi vợ: - Con gà đâu?

Người vợ run rẩy chưa kịp đáp thì người mẹ đã bảo: - Tao nhỡ tay trót ném chết nó. Rồi ta sẽ đền tiền cho mày mua con khác.

Hắn ta nổi giận đùng đùng, hất hàm hỏi vợ: - Mày thổi cơm mau mau cho bà ấy ăn no đi!

Cả nhà tưởng hắn dọa dẫm bà cụ. Nhưng cơm nước xong hắn cầm thuổng đi trước, bảo vợ lấy dây trói tay mẹ lại, dắt đi sau. Ra đến cánh đồng, hắn hì hục đào một cái huyệt, quyết định chôn người đã làm chết con gà quý của mình. Nhưng ở trên thiên đình, Ngọc Hoàng đã thấy hết được tội ác của thằng con bất hiếu, liền sai Thần Sét xuống trị tội ngay. Vì thế, huyệt vừa đào xong bỗng đâu trời nổi một cơn gió lớn, giữa đồng có một tiếng nổ rất to. Thần Sét đã nhảy xuống từ khi nào, đánh hắn ngã xuống một bên huyệt và thích mấy chữ vào mặt.

Thiên hạ nghe tin đồn đổ xô đến xem rất đông. Khi quan về khám, sai lấy dấm bôi vào mặt, thấy nổi lên tám chữ "Quý gà chôn mẹ, tội ác không tha". Ngày nay ở vùng Bắc-ninh có còn cái bia ghi câu chuyện trên. Câu rủa Con trời đánh cũng là do truyện ấy mà có.

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Truyện 35. Giết chó khuyên chồng

Truyện 36. Cha mẹ nuôi con biển hồ lai láng, con nuôi cha mẹ kể tháng kể ngày

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List of Vietnamese fairy tales

Vietnamese fairy tales includes many stories as Tam and Cam; So Dua; Hundred – knot- bamboo tree... which were spread in folk. Each stories has its own meaning. I think I can not translate exactly each word into english but I will try my best to convey its meaning to you. Hope you like them!

Wishing pearl

De was a young boy. His parent was servants of a landlord. Every morning, De led landlord’s cattle to meadow and brought them back at nightfall. De used to be excited in playing with his fellows and when he was in his game he didn’t care anything. Many times the cattle he herded ate rice on field and the owners used to beat him pained but he still left cattle and joined in his fellows. One normal day, he and his fellows had a swimming competition. An award was given to the winner that he couldn’t refuse. Therefore, he participated in the competition and left his cattle on a wild hill. They swam and dived in water until noon and when they walked on ground, a cow had disappeared. The cow belonged to no one but his master. Children separated to find the cow but the cow seemed to vanish they couldn’t find it. Sun was going to down, children made their ways to home they left De staying at there. Day stayed at there alone crying. After that, he fell in sleep. Latter, he was woken up b...

Thuong Luong

Thuong Luong was common name of creatures which are in people’s imagines. They are distant relatives of dragons. While dragons are worshiped as gods, the gods ruled rivers and sea and the gods can make rains, Thuong Luong is not respected as dragons that the creatures are too amorous, combative, wild, and have bad behaviors. All most of them like to harm people.

My Chau and Trong Thuy

Once upon a time, there had a king, named An Duong Vuong. After many years fighting, he get a large area. The king planed to build a castle but whenever it had been built as tall as a men’s height then it was ruined. The king was unhappy. Therefore, the king had made an altar to pray God for few days until an early morning, a old man from seaside went to talk him God Turtle was going come to help him. The king was very happy and forced soldiers to wait on the seaside. The next day, in the water appeared a big gold turles toward seaside. The soldiers invited God Turtle to set sat on a big gold platter and brought to the king. The God Turtle told the king that the castle couldn’t have finished because of demons. God Turtle helped the king to kill the demons so all demons was killed. Besides, the God Turtle help the king design a castle look like a seashell with many gate levels. Half a month later, the castle had been finished. The king was very pleased but a little worry. He a...

So dua - Coconut boy

Once upon a time, there in a village had a couple who worked as servants for a landlord. Although they were over fifty years old, they had ever not had a child. They were sad about that, but they had never given up to dream about a child. One day, it's a very hot day, when the wife was working in the field and felt very thirsty. She seeked for water, but she didn't see any but a little water in a skull which was in a hole beside an ancient tree. She had no choice but to drink it. Right the moment she drank, the feeling of cold water running from her throat to her stomach made her felt very comfortable. As a magic, she was pregnant after that short time. Then, the husband died before he got the happiness looking his child be born. After nine months and ten days, the wife gave birth a son but he didn't look like any child on the world. He had no feet, no leg, and even no body. He just had a head with full of eyes, nose, ear, hair and mouth on it. He didn't ugly but was ...

Thanh Giong

Once upon a time, a woman was old but she had not given birth a child. One day, when she went to her field, she saw a stranger footsore on the ground. The big footsore made her surprise and said: “omg, this footsore is so big” the she put her foot into the footsore. More 9 months later, she gave birth to a little boy named Giong. The boy was extraordinary that he was over three years old but had not spoken. He only knew lying and smiling. vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com That year, the enemies they were known An planed to attack the country of the boy. They were merciless. Wherever they had gone, houses were ruined, fields were fired, people were killed. The sight behind them is mess of corpse and blood and ashes.The King was worry he forced his servants to look for person who could fight against the enemies. One day, a servent went to Giong’s village while the woman was holding the boy in her arms, she said sadly that: “Giong, I wonder that when you hav...

The tale of watermelon

Once upon a time, a young man whose name was Mai An Tiem was a slave. He was sold to a King named Hung Vuong . Mai An Tiem was clever, he learned vietnamese language very fast. Futher , he knew so many stories, places and could do everything so good so he was liked by Hung Vuong very much that wherever Hung Vuong had come he also came with him. Three years later, he was Hung Vuong let to become a noble and was stayed in a building near the castle. Besides, Hung Vuong made his daughter become his wife. Mai An Tiem now had wife, a five-year-old son, servants and assets. He seemed to lack nothing. Although he had never been arrogant people still were jealous with his his luck. vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com One day, people who were participating in a party complimented as much as they could but he only said: “That because of ...

Thi Kinh Bodhisattva

A person had been born times, lived other lives. Each time being born, the person was always a monk or a nut, lived with strong religious belief. She or he had passed nine lives but still didn’t reach Nirvana. At the tenth, the person was reborn in the form of a girl. She was daughter of a normal family who lived in Cao Ly and her name was Thi Kinh. Thi Kinh was a calm, kind-hearted girl. She was the person who loved her mother and father, using to help them homework. When she grew up, he parent let her married with a student whose name’s Thien Si. Thien Si was born in normal family, not richer than her family but he was very hard in studying. Therefore, Thi Kinh had nothing more pleased than undertaking all homework for her husband to have time to study. One normal night, Thien Si sat on floor reading book while his wife, Thi Kinh, was staying by sewing. Front their face was only an oil lamp. Later, Thien Si felt tired, he laid down his head was on his wif...

Crow and Peacock

Once upon a time, both Crow and Peacock were best friends and had same feather colors, gray. They knew themselves were ugly so they didn’t appear front of other birds. Peacock in Crow’s eyes was uglier than him because Peacock had a small head and a long neck that they didn’t connect to his body. vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com One day, Crow talked Peacock: “A painter was painting nearly so we should come and steal some colors to paint on our feathers and make it beautiful” said Crow Peacock bowed his head. That day, the painter hadn’t finished his picture so he left his jar of colors on ground and took a nap. The first time, they stole a paintbrush and some jars then hid them on mound middle lake nearly. The second, they planned to go and steal again but the panter had woken up and came his home so they only took a jar of ink and a pocket of purl he had left. “Right, we start painting, yet” said Crow Crow made Peacock lie down and began painting. Crow painted v...

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