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Singer and enemies

Lang-dao village under Hung yen province, long time ago, was a place which bore beautiful girls who sang very well. All of them worked as singers.
That time, Daiviet was invaded by Minh a country was in the north of the country. Few years passed, they had encamped in all of the country. They placed two large camps in Lặng-dao village that was very firm but was near a swamp. Therefore, that place had many mosquitoes living in. Their enemies scared mosquitoes so they forced people to give them cloth and sew for themselves sleeping bags. Every night, a person was responsible for tying sleeping bags as others put themselves into then untying when sun rose.
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The enemies was sinister they killed people living in the village to have their joy, caught girls and forced them to serve them, slaughtered beasts to make their party. All most of people had to escaped from the village to save their lives but a beautiful singer who was caught to serve them. The singer both sang very well and was great in dace. So the enemies very like her and she was also clever in taking care of them. Days passed, she had their trust. At last, they let her to be responsible of tying nad untying the sleeping bags.
The clever singer caught the chance. She asked for seven men to give her their hands. they planned to harm the enemies. She found her way to bring seven men to go in the camp and pretended as them. Every night, they waited for enemies fell in sleep then they carried sleeping bags throw down the swamp. Course the people had been thrown into the swamp was died without finding their bodies.
One day, the general of enemies notice that number of armies decreased. So he made them to counted everyday but number of armies continued decreasing. The general had forced his armies to found out what happened but they had never thought that they were harmed while they were sleeping. Then they thought that a god had done that thing. So, the general decided to unload the camps and went to other place. Because of intelligence and bravery of the singer the village peace again.
THE END
"Translated by Hung Nguyen"

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