Khin Hnin Yu - Dreams of One Thousand and Five Hundred Nights

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The raindrops were beating down on the tin roof with great force. The thunder was also very loud. The branches of the trees were rustling under the strong monsoon wind. Every flash of lightning made the room sparkle. He closed his eyes tightly. Not out of fear, but out of fear of the silence. The night should be cold and still. Shouldn't everyone be quiet? But under the bright moonlight, the little black birds were flying. And some flowers bloomed at night. Sometimes the darkness of the night could still awaken the hidden feelings, didn't it? It would be worse if the night was dark and quiet. That's why he liked the wind howling and the rain rattling like this. He didn't dare to open his eyes yet.

But my mind went back to the stories of my childhood. In the stories of my childhood, lightning strikes. A snake scares me. Seeing a mouse, I jump up in fear, but the girl falls and the boy has to pick her up. And so the story begins.

God... God... He likes to make noise. He was scared of the thunder on the other side, so he came to hug him. Oh my... Oh my... He screamed in shock when his forehead touched his.

"Uncle..are you hot?"

He shook his head and opened his eyes. Khin Hla's face was hovering over his.

"It's not hot, it's not hot"

He screamed in a daze. In fact, he wasn't unconscious yet. He was warm. The wound in his thigh was stabbing, sharp, and throbbing.

Khin Hla looked down, her waist still unstretched. Under the high-waisted shirt, she could see the soft flesh in the loose bra. Her breasts were moving. She closed her eyes again. The wound didn't hurt much, and she shouted loudly, "Oh!" "Uncle, why?" "The wound hurts." Khin Hla, let me see."

Khin Hla squeezed his leg again.

Don't look, don't look, just go to the front of the house to see if U Pho Tun and others have returned." "He hasn't come yet, Uncle. If he does, it will be obvious." Khin Hla smiled and looked at him. His smile was scary. His eyes were so bright. "Oh.. How can I hear it with the sound of the rain? Go and wait in the front room."

He shouted as if he was scolding her and pulled his leg out from under Khin Hla. Khin Hla didn't want to leave and went out of the room.

It's okay, it's okay. He sighed. In fact, the wound was even more painful when it touched the edge of the mattress. His body temperature was also rising. U Pho Tun and his friends were very reluctant to come. It was very dangerous to be in his bedroom in the dark of night with a young woman. He thought she was a young woman. Khin Hla was in her thirties. She said she had separated from her husband when she was 20.

The connection is strong. They say they do business. Sometimes they come to my older sister Daw Mya's house and stay for a month. And then... the woman disappeared for a year. He didn't know the situation. Daw Mya said she was his niece. Now he left Khin Hla to look after her again.

He gritted his teeth and endured the pain of the piercing wound. If he could not bear the pain and scream, Khin Hla would come back if he heard his screams. God... God... If he could show his wound, then the story of the time when he showed it in the cave would probably be true. He was not the only one who had never seen a woman like Issingkara. He would suffer the consequences of his unbearable pain.

He heard the sound of the door opening and people's voices from the front of the house, and when he saw U Pho Tun at the door, his heart sank. Dr. Kyaw Maung also followed.

“Uu Pho Tun, ask Daw Mya and Khin Hla to boil water, but don’t let them enter the room.”

He was actually afraid that Khin Hla would come back, so he shouted without even saying goodbye to the doctor.

“It’s cold, it’s so cold, I asked Mae Mya to make coffee.”

Both U Pho Tun and Dr. Kyaw Maung came to his bedside.

Dr. Kyaw Maung first examined his wound and then measured his temperature.

"A person who has spent his whole life in a classroom with books only now wants to plant trees. I spent the whole evening digging ditches and digging the ground in the rain. I went to Sawbwa Kyi Kone to get some bananas, and I returned just before nightfall."

U Pho Tun was speaking to the doctor with compassion and anger.

"Then why does the iron pierce the thigh?"

He felt like laughing as he answered the doctor's question. In fact, there were previously flowers growing on the beds he had planted. U Pho Tun had the beds removed because he wanted to plant his own. When he removed the beds, a piece of iron wire and a piece of wood were left behind. He sat down on the wood. And since he was digging the soil, hadn't it been raining?

“I planted trees to make you healthy, Doctor,” he replied curtly. “I also gave you a shot to prevent iron poisoning. I also gave you medicine to reduce your fever. I was about to close my shop because of the heavy rain, and U Pho Tun came to pick me up.”

The doctor did what he had to do while talking. Daw Mya and Khin Hla brought coffee.