Prisoner Thein Win - Me and the Village Chief

( 1)

I have been dreaming for a long time. It may be because I did not sleep well. But now that it is December, I have been having long dreams. It is so cold that I am not only sleeping, but also eating. It may also be because I am walking. Long dreams are like a novel, full of suspense and suspense. Readers may criticize the author for thinking too much and creating a story in his dreams.

No, I can't. After writing the novel "Nang Kyar Nyo" for the whole month of November, I went on pilgrimages to Pyay, Taungdwingyi, Poppa, Bagan, and Nay Pyi Taw. When I returned home at the end of November, I had big dreams.

The dream I had on the night of December 1, 2013 was very strange. Although dreams are often forgotten, it is also very strange that I remember the dream in detail. In that dream, I was a village hunter from Inn Kone, a small village on the Yangon-Pyay highway, and we went to the forest near our village fields during the autumn break to hunt birds. Our traditional villager's habits, such as growing bamboo and vegetables, depend on this forest.

One morning, while I was inspecting the golden rice fields, I went to the place where the scythes and the scythes were placed at the edge of the forest. I saw pig tracks at the edge of the rice fields, and I saw that the herd of wild boars had invaded the rice fields where the milk was flowing. Therefore, I had set up scythes in advance at the edge of the fields and the forest. We did not have a gun to shoot. Only a small bow and arrow. I could only shoot small game birds.

If we had a gun in our village, we could easily shoot wild boars and deer. Now I rely only on the scythe and the scythe. The scythe is a small branch, a tomato or a ripe red fig is attached to the top of the scythe and a loop of string is placed around the scythe. The bamboo branch is used as a sling, and as soon as the chicken and the scythe pierce the red fruit, the sling breaks and the sling pulls the neck of the chicken and the scythe.

The nipkai is similar, a small hole is dug and the tip of the nipkai is held in place with a small stick. When the prey steps on the nipkai, the looped rope is pulled, catching one foot or hand and the nipkai is lifted up. The hunter knows this situation and has to strike from a distance with a spear, which is very dangerous. A single good thrust can kill the prey. If you are not sure, the prey will struggle to the death, and the rope will break, the nipkai will break, and if it is a large wild boar, it will still seek to attack.

That morning, I found a young wild boar in the thicket, so I beat it with a green bamboo stick and took it. In the thicket, I found a dead wild chicken and a large wild rooster. I put them in the hunter's bag that I had brought with me, put the thicket back in and returned to the village.

It is my daily job to inspect the rice fields in the morning and evening. That is why we have a constant supply of food at home.

When I got home, there were guests. A jeep was parked on the road in front of our house in the middle of the village. As soon as I saw the jeep, I knew it was the big hunters from Yangon, U Lay Maung, who usually come this season. They usually come with a full complement of followers and various guns. When I saw me carrying the piglet into the yard, U Lay Maung said to me..

"Huh...my nephew, is that right? Mon and Kala are waiting for you. My nephew is tired. The big hunting bag is also inflated. What are you doing?"

"Chicken and rooster... Uncle. It's been a while since you came. We've had enough for lunch and dinner. I'm so happy. When did you and Uncle arrive?"

"I just arrived... My cousin, I was having BREAKFAST in Mawby. What kind of people are you talking about now?"

"The wild boars have started to come down... Uncle. The other wild animals will come down too."

"Good... My uncle and I will also find food from wild boar, and the elk and deer will come down from the ripe rice."

I still have to say goodbye to the hunter leader, Father U Thein Lwin, and Uncle Lay Maung.

"When are you guys going to the forest? Tonight? Tomorrow morning?"

"Tonight. They built a bridge by looking at the footprints of the shooting range."

“Good ••• Father. The victims often come down at night.”

Mon, Aloo, and Kala, along with me, killed a wild boar and caught a chicken and a raccoon, and prepared lunch. Our small house was filled with people, like a charity house, with people making rice pots and cooking food. After lunch, the guests sat down in the front room while they ate their rice.

Mon, Aloo, and Ko Kala and I chatted over a pot of hot water, sharing our experiences in the forest.

In the late afternoon, we went through the fields to the edge of the forest, and I showed them the tracks of the wild animals. The hunters, U Lay Maung, studied the entrance and exit routes and chose two good shooting spots near the fields and the edge of the forest to build a lynx.

One is on a large mau tree near the entrance to the forest. Another is on a pair of mountain pine trees growing together near the exit to the forest. The forest is close to the village, so the bottom is clear. The view is good. It is a deciduous forest, so only large trees grow in the forest.

Since there was plenty of bamboo, Alu and Mon cut bamboo to build the linsin near the entrance, while Kala and I built the linsin on a mountain pine tree near the exit. Since we are experts, it took about (2) hours to complete. Since there are no large wild animals to pose a threat, the linsin will only be about (1) foot high. The mau trees have many branches, so it is easy to climb the trees, so there is no need for a ladder.

The Taungpinnai tree that Kala and I were responsible for was about 12 feet tall and had a smooth trunk, so we made a fish ladder. There were thickets of black bamboo nearby, so we found two straight branches and made a bamboo ladder. The nature of wild animals is that they have already chosen their usual way in and out, so they are not used to using a new path. There are branches that the king has planted around the entrance and exit.

After we built the huts, Father U Thein Lwin and the hunter U Lay Maung went up to the huts and studied them. They asked us to fix the things we needed. When the wild oxen were brought in, we returned to the village and had dinner. At about 8 o'clock in the evening, we divided into two groups and went up to the huts.

I, the hunter U Lay Maung, and Kala, went out to the lookout, while Abbu U Thein Lwin, Mon, and Alu went in. According to the nature of the forest, it became completely quiet at around 9 p.m., and we estimated the time when the wild animals would come in and climbed up to the lookout.

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The night was very quiet. The only sounds I could hear were the sound of crickets and the distant cawing of wild chickens. It was a moonless night, and the surroundings were pitch black. Even the fields that were free from the forest were not visible. So I held the EVEREADY fish-powered flashlight that my father had brought with me, and the hunter U Lay Maung was holding a 500 Winchester double-barreled rifle, and Kala was holding a 303 English rifle. I don’t know what my father and U Thein Lwin were holding.

At around 9pm, I heard a loud roar in the forest. I could also hear the sound of a wild boar leading a herd of wild boars. Then I could hear the roar of a deer close by, and the sound of a deer in the distance. Tonight, all the wild animals had gone down, and only the hunters were left.