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Rebirth

A poor student had old parent to take care of. He worked as a child teacher to have money. Later, a landlord invited him to his house and opened a class for him to teach. It’s so lucky because he could teach the children in daytime and practised in nighttime. It’s very kind of the landlord to let him stay in a building which stood in his back garden, very quiet and airy. Besides food the landlord provided him every day, he was given money from people who had their children following his class.  
The landlord had a daughter who was old enough to marry. And when the student came, a love started blooming in their hearts. The girl used to find the way to meet him though meeting a boy in their time was forbidden if she was not allowed by her parent. So that their love grew up in secret, turned much strong each time they met. But, she was so scared that her parent would be angry if they knew about that so she didn’t talk to them.
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Their loved continued few years till a day. A landlord in their area sent a matchmaker to there and asked the girl to be his daughter-in-law. Her parent immediately agreed because they saw no one matched with their daughter than son of that landlord but when they asked their daughter, she seemed unhappy. They had never thought that their daughter who was known as an obedient girl now turned headstrong. Therefore, they tried to convince her but it had nothing better. At last, the girl had to admit that she had a lover and he was none but the student who was staying in their mansion. The landlord couldn’t keep his calm after he heard. Immediately, he forced her not to meet the student again and hurriedly sent a person going to hurry the wedding. While the girl couldn’t stand against her family, the student also couldn’t do more he didn’t dare to show his desire to the landlord. Therefore, the decision of the landlord almost would be done.
One year got passed. The boy, the groom had prepared all things for a wedding and that made the girl feel more confused. She had no none supporting. Later, she thought about harming herself. The night before she was brought to groom’s house, she sneaked to the building where her lover was. They had a conversation whole the night. Till early morning while her lover didn’t notice, she took out a vial of poison and drank. It’s looked like she was having deep sleep she died in peace and in her lover’s arms. Her lover, on other hand, couldn’t be easy like her he had feeling both nervous and pained. His lover had died and indeed she died in his arms without any explain. He really pained that he cried in silent, forced himself not to spread too much noise. Tears filled full of his eyes, dropped on ground. But which was more important he had to hide her body before any body discovered.
“People will not believe me”, he thought, “And when I am prisoned, who will take care of my parent?”
The more he thought, the more he felt confused. At last, he had no choice but to do a thing he had never thought about, burying his lover under his room floor. Hurriedly, he found a shovel, dug up the floor and made a deep hole. Later, he hug his lover one more time, cried.
“If God gave me chance, I will never let you go away from me”, he cried.
Then, he pick a pen, wrote on her hand.
“At moment we can’t get married.
But, if we can rebirth, I will marry with you that time.”
Later, he laid her in the hole and bury, arranged the bricks in exact their places. He cleaned the room cleanly, didn’t leave any mark on ground. After that, he went to bed and waited for sunrise.
The landlord ordered his servants and his family to search for his daughter as he couldn’t find her at morning. People searched everywhere in the mansion they also went to the groom’s house to search but they didn’t find her. Few days had passed they had no sign. The landlord strong belief that his daughter had harmed herself at somewhere far away from home. Besides, he didn’t want to make the thing loudly coming to greed mandarins and soldiers. Consequently, he and his family only lamented to people who were very close to them. The missing girl only became a story of their neighbors and then was forgotten.
But, if we can rebirth, I will marry with you that time.”
But it’s nothing when the mandarin told them his love story which he had kept in secret for many years. He told the story with eyes filled full of tears. At last, he pointed at landlord’s daughter and said:
“She was reborn. I can believe but that is true. God is real”.
 Later, the landlord allowed the mandarin to marry with the girl and a happy wedding was held with attendances of the king and other mandarins. After that, the mandarin brought his wife to his hometown to meet his family. He also didn’t forget to bring her to house of the landlord couple who he had stayed in his home before. The landlord’s mouth immediately fell open as he saw a woman was like his daughter. Of course, he had much more surprise as the mandarin told him about his dead daughter. Firstly, he didn’t believe but after servant dug up the place the mandarin pointed and found the bones, he trusted that what he was heard was true his daughter had died.
Though, the mandarin still considered the landlord couple as his parent-in-law so he had two parents-in-law and treated all them well. He and his wife had a happy life until they died.
THE END
"Translator: Hung Nguyen"

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