U Nu - Tate Sane Thar

Son of Tateshina

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(1)

Ko San Tun loved his eldest son Ortha very much. He was the only one who cared about his younger brother.

The husband said that the benefactor U Shwe Kone was too demanding. U Shwe Kone's wife was too demanding. Ko San Htun often neglected other people. He and his wife Ma Saw Khin were no different. When Ko San Htun was angry with his son Maung Nu, he would make a big face. When he was even angrier, he wouldn't say anything to Maung Nu. He would yell at the people around him and yell at them. When he couldn't stand it anymore, he would go outside the house in a panic. But when he came home, he would buy his son something he liked to eat. He would buy him something he liked. Or he would buy some cooking supplies and cook special dishes for him. I will give an example to show how demanding he was. Ko San Htun was not a rich man. He was just a shop owner who owned a small cloth shop and a small tinkling shop in the Wa Khema market. But for his beloved son Maung Nu, he bought a horse and carriage with a roof. The town of Wa Khema was small. There was no place to ride a carriage. So, even among the rich people who were many times richer than Ko San Htun, only one rich man in the east, U Pe Gyi, had a horse-drawn carriage. He didn’t buy it for pleasure. He had built a large monastery in the far west of Wa Khema. When he got old, he could only go to that monastery by horse-drawn carriage. That’s why he bought a carriage. Ko San Htun had nowhere to go. He knew that there was no such place. But he had a strong desire to do something for his beloved son Maung Nu. To appease this desire, Ko San Htun collected the little horse and carriage and forced Ko San Htun to buy the horse-drawn carriage. He named his horse Mai Gyaung. Mai Gyaung was also very stubborn. Every time he got out of the saddle, he had to pull it out. Even so, no one else could get him out. Even the crazy Saw Hlaing who was holding him back had to be coaxed out of him.

Others were screaming and kicking in the saddle. Maung Nu’s mother, Ma Saw Khin, was not like Ko San Htun. Sometimes, if she couldn’t talk to her son, she would hit him with a stick, or if she didn’t have a stick, she would hit him with her hand and touch him like a cotton ball. While she was beating him, Maung Nu’s cousin, Ma Thein Tin, would always tell her not to hit her too much, or she would burst into tears. In 1912, Maung Nu was sent to the English-Burmese Secondary School in Wa Khema. Maung Nu was neither a scholar nor a scoundrel. Every year, when he took the entrance examination, he was always at the bottom of the list of students who passed the regular examination. Since he arrived at school, he had not cursed at adults. He had never shown any signs of aggression or insulted anyone in any way. This was

There was something special about him. That's why one day I went to Ko San Htun and said, "Your son doesn't curse at adults anymore. He doesn't show off. He doesn't insult you. I asked him, 'Have you noticed?'

Tun.. Okay. I noticed.

Well... that's an important distinction for your son.

Tun.. What kind of important distinction?

Nu.. If your son has any evil intentions in his heart, he will continue to insult adults. Judging by the fact that he is not insulting you now, it is not because he was bad in the past that he insulted you. His father,

It is clear that he was given a chance. So your son is not a bad person. If he is placed in a good environment, he will become a good person. If he is placed in a bad environment, I think there is a chance that he will become a bad person. But what I am saying now is not true. A five-year-old is still young. I want to wait a little longer.

From the age of five to nine, Maung Nu didn't see anything particularly good or bad in him. When he was nine, Maung Nu was in the fourth grade. So Maung Nu had more student friends than before. He also had more civilian friends than before.

Among these civilian friends, Pan Yi is different from the others. That is why it is worth telling a little about Pan Yi here. Pan Yi was a hard worker at sea. He arrived in Wa Khema as a boatman on a seagoing ship. When he became seriously ill with malaria, his boat captain took him to the hospital. Before he could leave the hospital, the boat left. When he was discharged from the hospital, he met Ko San Htun and came to the house as a cook. Pan Yi was 15 years older than Maung Nu,

She is very busy. Pan Yi works hard. She cooks and does not sit idle. She carries water. She washes clothes. She cleans the house. She waters the trees in the garden in front of the house. She delivers food to Ma Saw Khin who is out of the shop. She takes Maung Nu and Nyi Maung U, who is a year younger than her, to school. She picks them up from school. In the local language, Pan Yi is “very light-hearted. Because of his light-heartedness, he used to drink a lot of water after work at night, but his family didn’t like it, but they didn’t say anything. They ignored him. Once, Pan Yi didn’t stay long enough to go to the Ponya Kowtala club’s kathing until the pasaka was removed. So, one of the club’s elders, U Lu Kyaw, gave Pan Yi the little bit of Myin Phyu brand of beer that was still in the bottle after the elders had finished drinking. Pan Yi kept the beer in his room built with a wooden shelf outside the house, thinking that he would drink it properly when he had a good chance. One night, a good monk from Mandalay was preaching at the Ponya Kowtala club. Daw Gyi couldn’t go to the sermon because she was deaf. That’s why Daw Gyi, Maung Nu, Maung U and Pan Yi were the only ones left at home as housekeepers. Maung Nu and Maung U went to bed at nine o’clock every night, and before going to bed, Pan Yi took them to the bathroom and washed them. That night, after returning from the bathroom, Pan Yi sent Maung U to sleep and took Maung Nu to his room. When they got to the room, he closed the door and Pan Yi cut off the top of a cucumber with a knife. When he rubbed the top and the cut part of the cucumber, the slices came out. The slices were washed and Pan Yi cut the cucumber into small pieces. He also poured a small amount of beer into a glass that he had prepared. He mixed the alcohol with lemon and sugar water so that Maung Nu could drink it. According to his instructions, Maung Nu drank the alcohol with a slice of cucumber. From that time on, Maung and Pan Yi became close friends. Pan Yi was afraid that the elders who were kind to her would find out, so Pan Yi could not force Maung Nu to drink every night. Only when the elders were free did she allow Maung Nu to go to her room. When the beer was finished, Pan Yi and Maung Nu turned to Kasau again. Kasau was not very good for Maung Nu, and there were a lot of lemonades in it.

It was not bad for Maung Nu because he was given a drink. As bottle friends, Pan Yi and Maung Nu became close, Pan Yi took a step forward and asked Maung Nu to steal money from his mother's shop. Maung Nu would steal money every 2 or 3 days. Sometimes one kyat, two kyats, sometimes 4-5 kyats. Sometimes more than ten kyats.

He stole up to 100,000. He gave all of that to Pan Yi. To give him an incentive to steal, Pan Yi said, "I will buy Maung Nu with this money." He asked him what he wanted. Maung Nu said he wanted a soccer ball and a football that children play with. Pan Yi was a fool. So Maung Nu didn't buy it with the money he stole. He taught Maung Nu to steal soccer balls and footballs. This is how he taught it.

The bamboo hut has four entrances to the square-shaped cloth market. Four to the east. Four to the west. There are eight entrances in total. At each entrance are small grocery stores. Since these small grocery stores are Muslims, they open their shops at 1:00 p.m. every Friday. There is a small grocery store at the entrance to Maung Nu's mother's Ma Saw Khin clothing store. Pan Yi, who has to go to Ma Saw Khin for lunch every day, has the opportunity to study the situation of this store every Friday. That's why he knows very well where the weak spots of this store are. The back of these small stores is the wall of the cloth market. Small brick shops are built against this wall. On each of these shop benches is a door that connects each grocery store. When the shop is closed, the boards are removed from under the shop benches. They put two planks of wood on the sides and front of the shop to hold them in place, and locked them with monkey hands. When the shop was open, they opened the lock and took out one plank and put it under the seat. Over the years, the ones that were spread out were covered with cotton, the ones that were twisted were twisted, and the ones that were twisted were twisted. If you push some of these planks hard enough, a hole would form that a child could fit through. The balls that Maung Nu wanted were covered with a kind of net and hung from the ceiling of the shop. The children who played the game were placed on the shop floor. So, if Pan Yi wanted to steal the ball, Maung Nu would have to sit on his lap and stand on a stool. Then he would push the door hard. The hole that opened allowed Maung Nu to steal the ball. When he stole the game, he didn't have to struggle that much. Pan Yi pushed the bottom of the board and Maung Nu had to pick up the little one. If you steal, you will go to prison in this life. You may go to hell in the next life. Maung Nu had never heard of such things. That's why he was so happy to steal and often pestered Pan Yi to go and steal. But if you want to steal, you have to steal between six and six and a half hours before the market closes. At that time, Maung Nu's cousin Ma Thein Tin herself was in charge and forced to read the book, so Maung Nu was not allowed to steal whenever he wanted to. Only once every month or two. After he stole three more times, his friends who saw him steal told him. The shopkeepers, the Kuliyans, found out, and they complained to Maung Nu's parents, so they couldn't steal anymore. That's why Pan Yi's head swung to the other side like this. There was a Chinese shop selling salad at the night market on the Wa Khema River. The owner of this shop, a Chinese man, put various kinds of meat on a large plate and served it to the customer who came to eat. Usually, this Chinese man was drunk. So Pan Yi and Maung Nu ate about a dozen pieces of meat and then secretly put the meat they liked from the plate into their plates while the Chinese man was drunk. They would not get up. Stealing from this Chinese shop was more serious than stealing from Julia's shop because the owner had to be in front of them. It was difficult. Pan Yi told Maung Nu that he needed more caution and skill. Since he thought that the trick was true, he had to do a big and difficult job. Maung Nu was happy, thinking that he had become a careful and capable person. It seemed like he wanted to get a little higher.

Soon, a new idea came to Pan Yi's mind. According to this new idea, he made a money string from the planks of the kitchen that were about an arm's length wide and laid it on the ground. He scattered four or five grains of rice in the string. When the chickens from the neighboring house came under the kitchen and ate the rice from the string, Pan Yi pulled the string tightly. Maung Nu had to catch the chickens that were stuck in the string, and then the two of them cooked them and ate some with rice. Some with rice. This new idea became a Chinese dish that sold duck meat. Since they had chicken at home to fill their stomachs, the two of them did not have to go to the night market to steal. Soon after, Pan Yi and Maung Nu were sitting and drinking rice, Pan Yi suggested, "Hey, Maung Nu, let's play a game of chance." How should we play? This guy is a fool. He started playing with his wife because he thought that this was how it was done, and he started teaching her all kinds of tricks. After being together for so long, Maung Nu had grown to respect Pan Ri. She was a very capable person. He had already thought that she could give him a lot of good advice and wisdom. That's why after Pan Ri finished speaking, Maung Nu asked him with more respect than usual, who he should play with. At that time, Maung Nu and his house had about two maids. One was about 20 years old. The other was about the same age as Maung Nu. She was only a little over nine years old. I don't want to tell you their real names. So I won't call the eldest one Mae Tin. Let's just call the younger one Hla Reung. The next day, Pan Ri was putting a lot of food on Hla Reung's plate and Hla Reung said, "Listen to what I'm saying. I'll put a lot of food on you every day." Hla Reung said yes. After eating, Pan Ri gave Hla Reung a piece of money. Hla Reung was very happy. For the next three or four days, Pan Yi continued to treat Hla Reung like this. When Saturday came, Ko San Htun and Ma Saw Khin were at the shop at about one o’clock in the afternoon. Daw Gyi was sleeping. Ma Thein Tin and Mae Tin were out shopping. Maung Nu’s brother Maung U was also playing fan doh in front of the house. Pan Yi told Hla Reung and Maung Nu that they should play a game of “marriage” and brought them into his room, where the new bird was trying to climb. They were both still children. So much for Pan Yi’s teaching, what was the game of “marriage” that the two of them were playing? It was just a child’s game. One day, Pan Yi was sweeping the house and found some coins and bills on a table at the front door. In total, it was one hundred baht.

There will be enough. He wants that money. That's why he called Maung Nu and asked him to steal the money. Maung Nu did as Pan Yi told him.

Maung Nu's uncle, Ko Ba, is a fourth-grade teacher at Maung Nu's school. The money belongs to the school. The day before, the school clerk had gone home and had not yet handed it over, so he brought it home. The next day, when he was about to go to school, Ko Ba called Maung and Maung U and asked. Maung U, do you want to take this money? I don't want it.

Uncle. Did Maung Nu take it? Did he take it? Where? From Ko Pan Yi. Where is the money that Pan Yi gave Maung Nu? I don't know. The boy said he gave it to you. Don't lie.

I'm not lying. Hey, Maung Nu, what are you talking about? (Eyes wide open) Are you giving me money? I'm giving you money. Don't lie. Don't lie. Hey, Pan Yi. If you give me money now, you'll be fine. After the gaat, you'll be in trouble. I don't know. Ko Ba was gaat, so a teacher from the gaat came and took Pan Yi. When he got to the gaat, he only punched him three or four times. He said he would show me the hidden money. After getting the money back, the uncle explained the reason to his brother Ko San Htun and threw Pan Yi out. He didn't continue the case.

Three or four days after Pan Yi left, while cooking in the kitchen, Mae Tin started talking to Mae Thein Tin like this.

Tin Tin, I'm so glad you kicked out Ko Pan Yi. This guy is bad. A mean guy. Well......... He took Maung Nu to his room and beat him up. When? Tin Tin. He's been fighting like this for a long time. Why didn't you tell me right away?

It's a pity that Maung Nu will be beaten.

U Klae A. Just tell me. There are worse things. I'll tell Tin Tint now. What? This guy Pan Yi talks to me like a young man. At night, while the adults are sleeping, he often calls me to come sleep with him in his room. Every time he calls me, I just tease him and my mother. Tin Tin, just tell me.

One day he grabbed my hand in the kitchen. What did I do? He slapped me in the face. So he called me a scoundrel. Be careful. He told me that he would send Maung Nu to your cage. About 2 days later, about 100,000 kyats later, Maung Nu came into my cage and hugged me. I woke up and pushed him away. At first, it felt like a dream. Then I realized that it was Maung Nu and asked what this guy was doing here. I asked him to go back to bed and tell Tin Tint. Maung Nu left. He must have sent Pan Yi away. Of course, Tin Tint, this guy is doing his job. But he is very angry. I am not very happy to send him away. If something like this happens, tell me. I don’t like it to happen in my house.

When Ma Thein Tin came back to school, Ma Thein Tin called Maung Nu. Ma Thein Tin was very strict. She didn’t let him off the hook if he made a mistake. She hit him with her hand. She hit him with her thigh. When she hit him with a chicken feather, he didn’t fear his father. He didn’t fear his mother either. Maung Nu and Maung U, who didn’t even know that there was a chicken feather that was baked, were very afraid of Ma Thein Tin. Does Maung Nu drink the alcohol that King Panyi drank? He drank. How many times? Often. I heard you went into Mae Tin’s mosquito net. Yes? Yes. Go. Go and get the chicken feather. Tin Tin. Maung Nu is still a baby, this time please spare him. Mae Tin Oo Athar Nay. (To Maung Nu) Go and get the chicken feather. Maung Nu has to bring the chicken feather. Ma Thein Tin held the chicken's head with the chicken's head. She told him not to do that again, and she slapped Maung Nu on the buttocks five times. Maung Nu was afraid of Ma Thein Tin. But Ma Thein Tin slapped Ma Thein Tin gently and never cried. When Daw Gyi Thi saw Ma Thein Tin's slap, she looked at the bruises on Tu Chit's buttocks and burst into tears.

Chapter (2)

In December 1920, the first university strike broke out. Soon, this strike spread to middle and high schools, and Maung Nu and his friends also joined the strike. Maung Nu was in the 7th grade at the time. He was already over 13 years old. At that time, Maung Nu's behavior and speech had changed slightly from before, and people who knew him began to notice. Observers believe that this change was due to the student strike. The freedom teachings preached by the university strike leaders. At the national school, Maung Nu and his friends learned about martyrs, freedom struggles, and other books that changed Maung Nu's mind in some way. If these lectures and these books are 100% true, Maung Nu should only do good things. He should not do bad things. Now, there are good things in what he says and does. There are also bad things. It is interesting to hear from a close relative who knew Maung Nu well about this change. This close relative said this about Maung Nu: Everyone has two main parts, the brain and the heart. As they get older, some people's brains and hearts grow together, while others' brains grow faster than their hearts, and some people's hearts grow faster than their brains. Maung Nu falls into the third category. As he gets older, his heart grows much larger than his brain. Because of this extraordinary growth, even small problems that most people would consider minor become big problems for Maung Nu, and before his brain can even consider whether they are beneficial or not, Maung Nu often makes quick decisions based on what his heart is telling him to say or do. His decisions turn out to be huge. Because there are decisions to be made, once a decision is made, it is not easy to change it. When he says and does something according to that decision, his brain can think properly and realizes that what he said and did was wrong, Maung Nu feels very sad. After making such a mistake, Maung Nu often tries hard not to make another mistake. But Maung Nu, whose heart is bigger than his brain, cannot succeed by trying. He often regrets mistakes after making them. This is the 13th