Dagon Khin Khin Lay - Fae The Cha Me The Cha

Ri Lay was waiting at the tram stop at the top of Mingalar Market, ready to go to the market to buy the things she wanted.

He got off the tram that had arrived and sat down on a nearby bench. At that moment, the tram ticket seller came closer. Since Ri Lay had no change, he took out a five-kyat note and said, “Cheapest watch corner.” The ticket seller said that he could not pay the five-kyat note and offered the note so that he could get off the tram before it left. Ri Lay was about to get up from his seat when a man from the seat next to him gave the ticket seller the fare and took the note and put it in his watch case. Ri Lay looked at him in surprise, but was even more surprised when he saw the man’s behavior.

He was a handsome, educated young man in his twenties, wearing a gold watch, a silk scarf, a gray Bangkok tie, and shiny shoes. He had helped him with the tram fare, which was only six cents, as a courtesy to the traveler. He had put his five-kyat note in his pocket and was still standing there, so it would have been rude for him to ask for it, so he remained silent. However, in Yi Lay's mind, he was still not willing to accept the boy's disrespectful behavior, and when he looked at the boy's face intently, Yi Lay was even more surprised.

It suddenly occurred to him that the young man was none other than a Mandalay Upasa College student who had fallen in love with the Yankin Taung forest while he was out picking grapes with his school friends the year he left school after graduating from the tenth grade at Relay National School.

The young women of the Yi Lay clan were picking flowers among the large rocks on the hillside in the pouring rain, singing and dancing. They heard the singing of a group of students who had come to pick flowers from above, and they were laughing, laughing, laughing, and jumping. As the students were joking and pushing and shoving each other, two or three students slipped on the mossy rocks that were wet with rain and had grown moss, and they couldn't keep up with the slope, and suddenly they collided with each other and fell. The two or three young men who were sliding and the group of young women who were picking flowers were hit by the two or three young men who were falling, and the one who was in a fight with Yi Lay was the one we saw on the tram. Yi Lay was sitting on the lap of the young man who was falling, and he got up and got angry. While it was hard to laugh, anger was creeping in.

"Hmm... I'm like a blind person, knowing there are people here."

She pouted and muttered. The other young women pouted and stood up like Ri Lay, while the young man who was lying down patted her on the back and hugged her..

"I know you slipped up because you were rude, I didn't do it on purpose."

If you say it in a cool voice, a girl with a big mouth will say,

"Huh... I just knew it was an accident. If it's milky, I'll chew it raw."

As I was speaking, I heard a faint sound of opium coming from somewhere,

"Please don't eat the whole thing, I have a stomach ache."

When that voice came back, the girls and Riley became even more angry.

When Riley turned to look at the young man who had hurt him, he was even angrier and more determined to fight. When he saw that the boy had fallen from his chair like the others, he was still unable to get up, his eyes still closed, and the other young men who were fighting looked on in horror.

“Oh, I think Ko Thant Zin has forgotten.”

When he looked around and hugged his friend, the women were surprised and felt like they had to feel sorry for him and help him.

"Oh... do it. I don't know if I'll live or die here."

When a young man in his arms spoke, Riley stepped closer to help. However, when he saw that the forgotten man's hand was on the young man's waist as if signaling, he realized that he was being cunning. He smiled bitterly and suddenly took out a nearby bottle and poured ice water on his face, saying, "Forgetful people should be poured with water like this."

When he turned around and left, Maung Thant Zin, who pretended to forget, was left in the arms of his friends, feeling helpless.

Ri Lay began to imagine the above ancient incident as if it were a movie.

"Well... he's the one who's going to kill me."

I smiled and felt my heart ache even more. And so the tram kept going until it finally reached the corner of the market.

"Here, let's get some paper money."

So Thant Zin went down first, and Ri Lay followed behind, bound by the sound of the paper money.

When Thant Zin entered a nearby shopping mall, Rilay arrived at the entrance. As Thant Zin walked gracefully into the store and began to look at the items he wanted to buy, the salesperson approached Rilay, who was standing at the entrance, with a sad face.

“Come in, sir. What do you need? Look, sir, new goods have arrived.”

As he thought, it would be better for Rilay to look at the products without showing off than to stand there in a daze. As they looked at the beautifully displayed women's accessories, the sales clerk turned to Thant Zin and Rilay, showing them various accessories, making them want to buy.

"Oh... take it... take whatever you want"

Thant Zin turned around and said, but Ri Lay gave him a sideways glance, "Should I tell you about the king and queen?"

"I won't take anything, just change the money quickly," he said with determination.

Thant Zin smiled slightly and handed the spring he was holding to the sales clerk.

"Well... slowly, let me buy what I want. Now... wrap this up."

While saying this, he turned to Riley,

"You're not buying anything anymore, just take what you need when you feel like it."

Again, the salesman wrapped the spring in a paper box, as if he thought it was a couple.

“Yes, sir, buy it when it arrives. The new designer blouses were just sent from Yangon yesterday. This silk lace long-sleeved blouse also looks great on you, Miss.”

When he said that, Riley's face suddenly turned dark and hot. It was hard to speak harshly to the clerk. On the other hand, he was annoyed by Thant Zin's face, which was smiling and pleased. So he opened and closed the wallet in his hand with anger. The quick-tongued sales clerk thought that the couple was upset, so he looked at Thant Zin with a sweet smile and approached Riley,

"I have a lot of perfume, cosmetics, and other things. Please order what you need. If my brother buys them and my sister doesn't buy anything, it's not fair and we're being too frugal. Let's sell some for my sister."

I said it again. Riley, as angry as I was, was embarrassed to be angry, and he didn't even bother to correct the writing mistake. He was standing next to me.

"Anyway, buy something. It's too painful to talk about now. Here you go.."

Hearing Thant Zin's words, which were repeated in a gentle voice, he became more and more angry, and he handed over to the clerk a lace bodice, a bottle of perfume, a bottle of powder, a bottle of cream, etc., so that he would know that Thant Zin had nothing to do with him, that he had come from somewhere else.

"Do these things"

Saying this, he took out money from his leather bag,

"Oh.. come on, this is just a one-time thing."

Ri Lay was shocked by Thant Zin's speed as he quickly handed the money to the clerk.

Then the sales clerk, with a very cheerful face, wrote out a single voucher for the two packages and respectfully handed them to Thant Zin along with the money. Thant Zin could only smile, but Rilay was embarrassed and angry.

“Oh... a package is just this, give it to me,” he said, and the clerk, who was too familiar with the subject, said, “Oh... oh... I don’t know.”

Saying this, the machine gunner handed one of the two packages to Ri Lay, who took the package and quickly left in front of Thant Zin, leaving him alone.

However, as soon as I stepped onto the middle step of the mall stairs, I heard, "Wait... Wait... Here's the money."

As he spoke, he saw Thant Zin approaching, handing over a five-kyat note.

“Oh no... but I bought this for 4 kyats and 15 kyats. The tram fare is only one, five kyats.”

With a sour face, he said this and rode a nearby horse-drawn carriage towards the middle of the market, leaving Thant Zin standing on the brick steps, while the clerk inside the mall glanced over...

"This couple is just bowing down as they go."

As soon as I thought about it, I became confused and felt ashamed and embarrassed that I had made a mistake.