U Aung Thein Myat - Burmese Traditional Humorous Stories No. 2

Isaiah the Baptist

Nga Mu and Hmein are palm juice drinkers and opium drinkers. Nga Mu only thinks about drinking and drinking, so he has no home to live in. Nga Hmein also knows nothing but opium, so he has no home to live in.

The villagers chased the two away when they arrived. This was because they stole to get money from palm sap and opium.

So Nga Mu and Hmein went to another village to work. The Thalayan lodge, where most people stayed, was noisy and crowded, so they met at the empty cemetery lodge. Occasionally, they slept at that lodge.

One night, Nga Mwein arrived late. While Nga Mwe was lying on the bed with his head on the bed frame, the bed shook slightly, making him feel dizzy and wake up. He was not a drug addict, but a drug addict. His hideous body was covered with large ears.

There was no time to run down to Nga Mu, so he wrapped himself in a blanket and sat down among the bushes.

“Hey... you stink, you stink,” the one with the red spot on top shouted. “You think so, where is the stink?”

Nga Mu stood up quickly. He counted with his fingers.

“One... two... three, one... two... three, now... where is the idiot?”

He counted the others with his fingers. He left him out, so there were not four.

"Hey, I'm also feeling like a jerk."

Another one followed the red-headed man's lead, causing him to get dizzy again.

“Your uncle, there are no people here, one... two... three, three... two... one, where are the people, we are all alone.”

"Far away, there are nine places where people come from this temple, in the public square, right? But people keep coming, and no one has seen the seven pots of gold under the stairs of the temple."

"Where did you find me? I didn't come to this place to find a pot of gold. I came to cry."

The two of them laughed happily.

"That's strange, I cry at home, but I cry when I come to this place."

The two of them laughed again, and then continued talking about their adventures. They got up late at night and pretended to be drunk.

When he reached the forest, he turned back. The car had not yet arrived.

Nga Khin was caught stealing a robe from the back of a house, so he was sent to the chief's house and put in a dungeon. The next day, Nga Khin was still in the dungeon. By that time, Nga Mu had dug up the gold pots from under the cemetery.

He sold a pot of gold and bought a house with the money he earned. He had a house to live in, a place to sleep, and a magnificent mansion.

When Nga Khmein escaped from the prison, he immediately went to the cemetery. He waited for Nga Mu. Nga Mu did not come. After waiting for many days, Nga Khmein fell asleep on the cemetery one day and woke up at midnight.

Nga Khmein was in a state of despair because he could not get opium. He was also suffering because he could not eat rice. Meanwhile, three sables climbed onto the platform. Nga Khmein raised his head and looked. | The opium-eater's dull sense of smell could not immediately see the danger. Therefore, he could not think that mixing with the sables would be safe.

"Ha.. you're a disgrace, you're a disgrace.. you're a disgrace"

As soon as they sat down, a monkey would scream. When they looked, they saw a curled-up monkey.

“Don't be so rude, isn't that a rich man?” The others stood up. They all gathered around Nga Khin.

"What a long, chubby nose, huh?"

While the monkeys were laughing, one of the monkeys grabbed the monkey's nose and tried to pull it.

"My dear... My dear, I'm sorry."

"The little baby under the long, fluffy baby is making a sound."

The monkey was a strange creature to the monkeys. They laughed, they laughed. The other monkey wanted to hear the sound coming from the slit under its nose, so it pulled its nose back.

"Aw...ha...ha, it hurts... it hurts," the others laughed back.

They pulled their noses, and Nga Hmein screamed and laughed, causing Nga Hmein to feel as if he was in trouble as the others.

Because the nose grew long, and when the guests came down from the stage laughing loudly, the nose of the hawk remained six cubits long.

Nga Khine carries his six-foot-long nose in his hand as he wanders through the village. When he reaches out, he rests his nose on his shoulder.

People despise and hate opium users, but they give them money because they want to see their noses.

After wandering for many days, showing off his six-foot-long nose, one day, the owl arrived in front of a large new house.

"If you want to see a strange nose, come and see it." The new house is U Nga Mu's house.

U Nga Mu knew that this voice was that of his friend, Hmein, so he went out to look.

"Let's bring that long nose into the house, okay?"

U Nga Mu was a fat, well-dressed man. He was dressed in nice clothes and was so neat that he didn't recognize Nga Khin. Hey, boy... I only recognized him when he called me Nga Khin. I hugged U Nga Mu and cried.

"How did a real person become an elephant?"

U Nga Mu asked with a laugh, but Nga Khin answered with tears in her eyes. U Nga Mu took Nga Khin to his house and waited for him at the cemetery at night.

It's midnight. Everyone is covering their ears and crying.