157. Chuyện cây táo

Ngày xửa ngày xưa có một cây táo to. Một cậu bé rất thích đến chơi với cây táo mỗi

ngày. Nó leo lên ngọn cây hái táo ăn, ngủ trưa trong bóng râm.
Nó yêu cây táo và cây cũng rất yêu nó. Thời gian trôi qua, cậu bé đã lớn và không
còn đến chơi với cây táo mỗi ngày.
Một ngày nọ, cậu bé trở lại chỗ cây táo với vẻ mặt buồn rầu, cây táo reo to :
- Hãy đến chơi với ta.
- Cháu không còn là trẻ con, chảu chẳng thích chơi quanh gốc cây nữa.
Cháu chỉ thích đồ chơi thôi và cháu đang cần tiền để mua chúng.
- Ta rất riếc là không có tiền, nhưng cậu có thể hái tất cả táo của ta và dêm bán. Rồi
cậu sẽ có tiền.
Cậu bé rất mừng. Nó vặt tất cả táo trên cây và sung sướng bỏ đi, Cây táo lại buồn
bã vì cậu bé chẳng quay lại nữa.
Một hôm, cậu bé – giờ đã là một chàng trai – trở lại và cây táo vui lắm :
- Hãy đến chơi với ta.
- Cháu không có thời gian để chơi. Cháu còn phải làm việc nuôi sống gia đình. Gia
đình cháu đang cần một mái nhà để trú ngụ. Bác có giúp gì được cháu không ?
- Ta xin lỗi, ta không có nhà. Nhưng cậu có thể chặt cành của ta để dựng nhà.
Và chàng trai chặt hết cành cây. Cây táo mừng lắm nhưng cậu bé vẫn chẳng quay
lại. Cây táo lại cảm thấy cô đơn và buồn bã.
Một ngày hè nóng nực, chàng trai – bây giờ đã là người cao tuổi – quay lại và cây
táo vô cùng vui sướng.
- Hãy đến chơi với ta.
- Cháu đang buồn vì cảm thấy mình già đi. Cháu muốn đi chèo thuyền thư giãn một
mình. Bác có thể cho cháu một cái thuyền không ?
- Hãy dùng thân cây của ta để đóng thuyền. Rồi cậu chèo ra xa thật xa và sẽ thấy
thanh thản.
Chàng trai chặt thân cây làm thuyền. Cậu chèo thuyền đi.
Nhiều năm sau, chàng trai quay lại.
- Xin lỗi, con trai của ta. Nhưng ta chẳng còn gì cho cậu nữa. Không còn táo.
- Cháu có còn răng nữa đâu mà ăn.
- Ta cũng chẳng còn cành cho cậu leo trèo.
- Cháu đã quá già rồi.
- Ta thật sự chẳng giúp gì cho cậu được nữa. Cái duy nhất còn lại là bộ rễ đang
chết dần mòn của ta – cây táo nói trong nước mắt.
- Cháu chẳng cần gì nhiều, chỉ cần một chỗ ngồi nghỉ. Cháu đã quá mệt mỏi
sau những năm đã qua.
- Ôi, thế thì cái gốc cây già cỗi này là một nới rất tốt cho cậu ngồi dựa vào và
nghỉ ngơi.
Hãy đến đây với ta.
Chàng trai ngồi xuống và cây táo mừng rơi nước mắt.

Con người thường là như vậy đó ! chỉ nghĩ đến những gì có lợi cho mình mà không cần biết người khác như thế nào

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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!

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...

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 ...

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...

2. Black dragon, the abandoned son of dragon family

The first black dragon' s born with whole body in black color, bigger than his brother and especally, he had only four toes on each foot (like half-black dragons having four toes instead of five). The ugly appereance made him not to be admitted by other members in his family that they thought he's half-blood dragon though the pure blood's inside him. Therefore, black dragon's not inherited the ability, controling natural phenomena, water, wind, cloud, thunder... After that, black dragons continued to be born and almost of them were not admitted and couldn't control any natural phemona.

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.

Tam and Cam

Once upon a time, there had a little girl named Tam. Her mother died early so her father decided to remarry on purpose the stepmother would take care of his little daughter. The stepmother gave birth to a girl, named Cam after that. Then, her father died after few years. Tam had to live with her stepmother and her sister, Cam. Since the time, she was forced to work hard, all housework, while Cam had to do nothing. One day, the stepmother gave Tam and Cam each one a corf to caught fish. She promised that who caught full her corf would receive a piece of red silk. Tam and Cam went to field together. She was hard to catch fish while Cam only wondered around till afternoon and had nothing in her coft. Cam pointed at Tam’s coft and realised it is full, thinking seconds, she said gently: “sister Tam, your head is mud, you should wash it or mother will punish you” Belive Cam, Tam went to river nearly. She left her corf on the shore, waded into water to wash. Cam, meanwhile, stayed on t...

1. Blue-flame lamp

Once upon a time, in a country, there had an old soldier. He spent almost his life to dedicate to his contry, his king. But, when he turned old, injured and couldn’t fight anymore, he was abandoned. “I don’t need you anymore”, said his king, “I will not give you money or anything like that because I only give it to people who are serving me”. The soldier left the castle. He spent half that day wandering. He went to a forest when the sun was downing. There had only one tent in that forest and the owner of the tent was no one but a witch. The soldier saw the light emitted from that tent so he had no hesitation approaching the tent and asked the owner to have a place to sleep. “Dear Madam! Could you treat me a meal and a place to sleep. I’m so hungry”, he said. “Alas! No one’s stupid to treat a soldier old and useless. But, I will help you if you promise me to do one thing”. “What’d you need me to do?” he asked. “Help me plow my garden”, she said. The soldier agreed. H...

Clever wife has idiot husband

Long time ago, that had a woman working as a weaver. She was clever woman but had an idiot husband. One day, she gave rolls of cloth to his husband and said: “Sell them only if people pay two hundreds and forty coins a roll.” vietnamesefairytales.blogspot.com The husband went to market to sell he spent much time staying at market, inviting people to take a look his cloth but he didn’t sell any roll. Till an old man came and bought two rolls but he didn’t bring money. Therefore, the old man said to him: “Come to my home to get your money after you finish. My home is also in this village.” “Where is your home?”, asked the husband. “I live in a place which has a crowded market without sellers, has flutes spread tunable noise by themselves and has one-knot bamboo tress.”, said the old man then he went. Late afternoon the husband pucked up his cloth and went to find the old man. He asked people about the place the old man had described but none knew the place ha...

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