Dagon Khin Khin Lay - Message

The entire universe was silent and peaceful. The golden moon king, riding in a chariot from the sky, was gazing at the world's peace with satisfaction, spreading his rays like the rays of a silvery moon.

The location was part of the eastern Tanintharyi Yoma mountain range, between the towns of Palauk and Palaw, on the road from Dawei to Myeik. The area was surrounded by dense, steep forests, narrow rubber plantations, mines, and shacks. To the west, the vast ocean with no shore visible, and to the east, the landscape, from the mountain range to the land of Yodhya, was strangely still, as if a lifeless spirit had painted a large painting.

At that time, the place where this tradition first emerged was within the boundaries of the “Shwe Pyi Tan” mine, which was more than fifty miles away from Palaw by mountain road. The Shwe Pyi Tan mine was owned by a Burmese rich man who was particularly fond of white lead and who was especially fond of foreigners and foreigners. The work was very large, and the factory building and the upper class workers, including the rich, managers, and engineers, lived in large and small houses, and the merchants who depended on these workers to buy and sell, and the Shwe Pyi Tan mine was like a village and a city on the Tanintharyi plain.

At that time, it was the time of the seven pure stars, as mentioned above, at midnight, and the people in the various buildings around the Shwe Pyi Tan metal mine were also fast asleep, in line with the rest of the world.

Just then, the silence was so quiet that even the slightest touch of a leaf could be heard, when the sound of a six-gun burst from the house of the Shwe Pyi Tan mining magnate Maung Maung Myint suddenly shattered the silence. The sound of the six-gun, which sounded like six consecutive shots, echoed with the sound of the mountain, so unlike the sound of a gun, it sounded like a city-destroying cannon. Every young and old person around the Shwe Pyi Tan mining area woke up from their sleep and ran towards the place where the gunshot had been heard.

The mine manager, U Tun Tha, and the engineer, Ko Thet Pe, who were closest to the house of the rich man, Maung Maung Myint, were the first to run to the house with the Dharawan boys. As soon as they came to the front of the house, they were shocked by what they suddenly saw, as if they could not believe their eyes.

They thought that their rich man's house had been broken into by robbers. However, what they saw was completely different from what they had expected, and they were shocked because they had never thought that they would ever experience such an event in their lives. What they saw was the rich man's young wife, Nwe Nwe Ri, standing at the top of the brick stairs, holding a still-smoked revolver tightly in one hand, and with a fierce and cruel expression on her face, she was staring intently at a young man who was lying on the ground at the bottom of the stairs, pressing his hand against his wound and dying.

The group of people who arrived, led by the manager U Tun Tha and the engineer Ko Thet Pe, looked back and forth between the boss and the deceased. Seeing the stern face of the boss and the fact that it was dark and dark in his territory, they thought that the deceased had come with an improper intention to harm someone, whether it was a person or a thing, and that he had come to resist him. However, the fact that the boss was completely dead and had no choice but to comply with the government law and had become obligated to report the incident to the police, they approached the boss with a sad face to ask about the situation. As if realizing his mistake, Nwe Nwe Yi, without saying anything to U Tun Tha and Ko Thet Pe, handed the revolver he was holding to U Tun Tha and suddenly turned back into the house with a sad face.

The servants who had come out of the house and the workers, both young and old, who had gathered outside, were left speechless as they watched the strange and indescribable event. Then U Tun Tha and U Thet Pe began to move, and they came closer to see the man lying face down on the ground, facing the death procession.

“Hmm... is this person Maung Thein Swe from the store?”

“Oh.. yes, there is a man from Dawei who comes here sometimes and sells silk fabrics…”

"Oh... this young man is a good man. How could he come to the rich lady's house at such an inconvenient time?"

"But the rich lady is a very gentle woman. If she wasn't so naughty, she wouldn't have done such a cruel thing."

"That's true. It's hard to imagine. This man is a good merchant and gets along with everyone. He is very popular with people. He can go into and out of all the houses of the nobles in this area. He is also very good at speaking."

“But this man is said to have been secretly having an affair with a prostitute named Shwe Go Mae Tint for the past four or five months. This woman named Shwe Go Mae Tint is a bit of a troublemaker. When she was young, she used to seduce officers, Englishmen, and rich people. She must have moved to Dawei about four or five years ago because her scandals in the country were so frequent. Now her work is in human trafficking, opium, alcohol trafficking, gambling, and clubs, and she is also secretly hiding. Because of these jobs and businesses, she always wears diamonds and gold all over her body. “I don’t know how this boy fell into this prostitute’s trap.”

"Well... this person's story doesn't matter. What should we do when this kind of thing happens when the boss is not around? It's hard to call the police and hand him over to the boss. It's not good to keep this crime a secret."

"We don't plan things either. We just follow the boss wherever he goes. When the boss arrives, he has to manage it himself."

As they were talking about this and that, only the senior manager U Tun Tha and engineer Ko Thet Pe became the leaders. Therefore, U Tun Tha

"Now, Ko Thetpe... you take me to the boss. I'll stay here and watch."

"Okay, U Tun. How else can you call the boss?"

"Where?"

"I just landed in Dawei early one morning. I said I would stay there for three or four days."

"Which house will you live in?"

"Usually, the rich man's wife and servants take him to stay in his own house, which he built for them when they came. Since he is alone, he usually stays at the house of the rich man's friend, U Toe Maung."

“Okay... I’ll go down by car now,” he said, and when Ko Thet Pe left, U Tun Tha ordered some people to take care of the body, and then he went up to the house where the rich lady was lying down. The servants, who were all in a daze and not knowing why, followed U Tun Tha quietly. U Tun Tha suddenly couldn’t find the rich lady. From the living room, he searched the room with his eyes, and in the small study on the other side, he saw the rich lady lying down, pacing back and forth under a dimly lit flashlight, through the Chinese door frame.

When U Tun Thar went to the door to inquire about the cause, he found that it was locked from the inside, so he could not enter, so he had to wait in the large living room, watching the shadows. The living room was similar to the place where the incident began. On the round glass table was a silver cigarette case, a piece of cigarette butt in a brass ashtray, a few cigarette butts spilled on the shiny, stained carpet, and on the two-seater sofa near the glass table, the waist of Nwe Nwe Yee's newly knitted wool sweater was stuck in a corner with ivory needles, and the woolen knot was lying two or three yards away. Again, when he saw a place where he had slipped and fallen in the middle of the room, and a slip and fall on the tiled floor before reaching the top of the brick steps leading to the main door, and blood stains, he thought more clearly that it had been done very cruelly, and U Tun Thar began to think deeply about the government's punishment that his teacher would incur for this great crime.

The small, dimly lit reading room is surrounded on all four sides by Chinese card doors to provide plenty of ventilation inside and out. The five full moons outside shine brightly into the room, while the overhead lights illuminate the room.