Truyện 60. Quận Gió

Ngày xưa vào đời vua Lê Thánh Tông ở kinh thành Thăng-long có một tay đại bợm. Hắn đã định tâm lấy của ai là thế nào cũng có kết quả. Hắn từng làm cho bọn quan lại và bọn trọc phú mất ăn mất ngủ. Đã nhiều lần các quan Phủ-doãn cho dò bắt nhưng hắn ẩn hiện như thần không tài nào tóm được. Vì hành tích của hắn nhanh như gió chỗ nào cũng vào lọt nên người ta gọi là Quận Gió.

Một hôm vào dịp gần Tết, nhà vua ăn mặc giả làm một người học trò nghèo đi dạo phía ngoài kinh thành để xem xét dân sự. Tình cờ vua đến gõ cửa nhà Quận Gió. Vua làm bộ túng bấn nói: - Tôi ngồi dạy học ở phường Đồng-xuân, năm hết Tết đến được ít tiền về quê, chẳng may bị kẻ trộm lấy mất hết cả, nay xin cho trú chân một đêm mai lại đi.Quận Gió thấy khách nói thế liền đáp: - Tôi sẽ vì ông mà giúp đỡ ít nhiều để làm tiền ăn đường.

Vua thấy nhà y cột xiêu vách nát, hỏi: - Nhà ông tôi coi bộ cũng không giàu có gì, làm sao mà giúp tôi được.

- Chả giấu gì ông tôi vốn là Quận Gió đây, nghe nói ông gặp vận đen, tôi rất thương tình, vậy để đêm nay tôi cố thu xếp cho ông một món.

Nói rồi rượu mời khách uống và nói thêm: - Tôi chỉ lấy của nhà giàu giúp người nghèo thôi, mà phải là của bất nghĩa tôi mới lấy, còn như những người làm ăn lương thiện tôi không bao giờ động đến. Bây giờ ông thử xét xem có nhà nào giàu mà gian ác bất lương cứ cho tôi biết, tôi sẽ vì ông giúp đỡ. Lấy của chúng nó không có tội vạ gì hết.

Vua nghĩ một lát nói: - Có nhà ông Bá Vân ở phía Đông thành đấy, hắn có cửa hàng buôn bán giàu to, giàu có cự vạn.

Quận Gió đáp: - Nhà ấy cho vay một lớp vốn năm bảy lớp lãi, lấy được. Nhưng ta cứ nuôi cho béo rồi sẽ lấy sau.

Vưa lời nói: - Tôi thấy nhà ông gì gần đây ruộng sâu trâu nái, nhà ngói tường dắc, coi chừng thế nào?

- Không được! Nhà ấy trần lực làm ăn, trời chưa sáng đã dậy ra đồng, mặt trời lặn mới về thổi cơm, cần cù như thế, không nên lấy. Thôi! Có anh quan coi kho kia hay ăn bớt của công. Hôm nay nhân thể tôi đi lấy cho.

- Thực thế à?

- Tôi đã tra xét kỹ. Hắn lấy của công mỗi ngay một ít, đưa về quê tậu vườn tậu ruộng có đến hàng trăm mẫu.

Vua tò mò muốn biết xem tài nghệ của Quận Gió bèn đi theo, Quận Gió trước ngần ngại nhưng sau cũng bằng lòng, và bảo: - Trước khi lấy, tôi sẽ cho ông thấy đủ tang chứng là của phi nghĩa, nhưng ông phải giữ cho thật im lặng mới được.

Đoạn bảo thầy đồ giả nai nịt gọn ghẽ rồi cả hai cùng ra đi trong đêm khuya. Đến nhà viên coi kho, Quận Gió bảo vua đứng chờ ở bụi, rồi cắt giậu tìm cách mở cửa vào nhà. Sau đó, chàng dắt vua vào buồng mở hòm lấy ra năm nén bạc đưa cho vua xem và nói: - "Đây là bạc hắn mới trộm của kho về để riêng chưa dùng đến. Thôi ông cầm lấy về quê ngày đi mà ăn Tết, đừng có la cà đâu để chúng bắt được. Tôi sẽ tìm cách làm cho hắn không biết là đêm nay có trộm".

Vừa nhìn thấy trên mỗi nén bạc có mấy chữ "ngự khố bạch kim", tin lời Quận Gió là đúng và thầm khen hắn có tài. Vừa đi luôn về cung, giấu bạc dưới chân thành. Sáng hôm sau là ngày nguyên đán, trăm quan vào chầu chúc vua muôn tuổi. Vua cho gọi chủ kho đến hỏi: - Nhà ngươi đêm qua mất trộm phải không?

Thấy hắn không đáp, vua lập tức sai viên Trung sứ đến dưới chân thành lấy năm nén bạc về. Vua đưa cho hắn xem, hắn cứng lưỡi không trả lời được, đành cúi đầu nhận tội. Quận Gió sau đó được vua vời vào cung ban cho hiệu là ''ăn trộm quân tử" và ban thưởng rất hậu.

Hết.

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Vietnamese fairy tales

Vietnamese historical stories

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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!

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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Thach Sanh and Ly Thong Chapter 1

Chap 1: fight with huge snake Once upon a time, a woodcutter and his wife were over sixty years old but they had had not any children. Although they were sad, they still did good thing and hoped God would give them one child. At last, their kindness had come to King of heaven who requested his son to fly down and reincarnate to be the old couple’son. They had just enjoyed the happiness for a short time. Then, the old man died, before his son was born. Vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com After that, the woman gave birth to a beautiful, strength boy. She named him Thach Sach. The poor boy grew up with no father then his mother also left after few years living with him. They only left him an ax and a pair of shorts. Day by day, he went to forest, cut tree, split them then took to market to get money. When he was thirteen, king of heaven forced his servants down to teach him magic and martial arts. Then they was back heaven, Thach Sanh continued living alone in...

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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