Min Thein Kha - Do I have to answer every time you ask?

Chapter (1)

During one part of my childhood, I traveled to various towns and cities, making a living by preaching by sign language on the crowded streets near the markets.

One day I arrived in Taunggyi.

Then, he opened a small sign shop and preached signs on a nearby building. After preaching signs in the morning, he had to wander around the neighborhoods in the afternoon to find a place to live. For several days before he found a place to live, he lived in the Tat-Oo Monastery in Myay Phyu Village, Taunggyi Township.

As I mentioned above, I was looking for a small apartment to live in, and one day I received a message that there was a small apartment available in a quiet neighborhood, so I went to that apartment. It was a three-story, two-room house. I assumed that the owner lived in one room and the other was the room that I would rent.

Because there is more land, the yard is neatly fenced.

I am standing at the gate....

"Host, host, please allow me in."

I shouted.

"I'm allowed in, come in."

"I heard him answer in a childish voice."

I pushed open the gate....

"Do you have a dog?" he shouted.

"There are no dogs, only geckos."

He replied in a childish voice.

"Don't be ridiculous, sir, I'm here to rent a room."

I shouted back.

"No kidding, sir. I'm also waiting for a room to be rented."

"He replied in a childish voice. So I pushed open the gate and went inside.

I went up to the three-story, two-room house. I couldn't find anyone... "

"I'm here," I said....

"Sit down when you get there," a child's voice came from the roof, and I looked up and saw a child about nine years old sitting on a rafter, patching the roof. So I...

"Hey.... kid, where are the people in this house going?"

When asked, the child said...

"I'm just a member of this house, I'm just fixing the roof for my older brother to live in."

"Say it," the child said, and with great agility, he climbed down from the rafters, then came and sat down next to me.

"Uncle, I don't rent a house. Where are the adults going?" I asked. The boy...

"The elders went to the market, they'll be back in the evening. Talk to me about renting a house for my older brother."

"The child said. I looked at the child. The child was wearing cheap shorts. I was hesitant to talk about renting a house with such a small, insignificant child.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"It's called a gecko"

"The child replied. I smiled."

Before I entered the yard, I asked if there was a dog, and he said no. I understood why he replied, "There is a gecko."

"Uncle, I'm renting your apartment," I said, and Tauk Tae...

"That's what my mother said, brother."

"Yes," he replied. I said "uncle," but he just called me "big brother."

"So how are we going to do it?" I asked, and the answer was...

"The rent is (50) kyats a month, big brother. This is the room you will live in."

He said.

"How much is it on the first?"

I asked again and the gecko said...

"No deposit, no deposit, no refund, you have to pay three hundred dollars."

He said.

"I've only heard of this once, because it's a non-refundable extortion."

"What do you mean by that?"

I had to ask again.

“It cost one hundred and twenty to repaint the roof so that my older brother could live there, and it cost eighty to buy paper to cover the walls of my aunt’s room so that my older brother couldn’t peek in,” Tauk Te replied.

"Why should I peek into your aunt's room?"

"I wrote to my brother as my mother told me. My aunt's room is not big enough, and my brother doesn't peek in. My aunt can still peek in on my brother. So I'll have to patch up the holes."

"Taoke said."

"I shouldn't have asked you to put the money in my pocket for the sandalwood paper, lest your aunt spy on me."

I said,

"Don't tell me, brother, it's best that everything went smoothly. Brother, it would be fine if you stayed here, and I would be useful to you. Brother, I have to do whatever you want, so I won't charge you a fee," said Tauk Tae.

I was impressed by the agility of a nine-year-old child. Then the gecko...

"My mother is a very good cook, so if you pay for a meal with her, it would be fine. The meal will only cost you one hundred kyat, a cup of rice, a cup of soup, a bowl of rice noodles, and some snacks," said U Tauk Te.

"What is a sticky?" I had to ask.

"I'm talking about you, big brother," Tauk Te replied.

"I was thinking about the cost of a hundred kyats a month. A hundred kyats a month is not much. A meal costs just over sixty kyats. So if I rent a room, I think it will be convenient not only for living but also for food and drink."

Then the light....

"My mother is a hunter, my mother, I, and my aunt live together. My aunt is an old woman. She also sells at the market with my mother. She will be useful to my older brother."

He replied.

"How can your aunt be of any use to me?" I asked.

“He will wash and iron, so my brother will pay him a monthly salary. If it is sixty kyats a month, my aunt will wash and iron my brother’s clothes. Then, my brother, the rent is fifty kyats, the food is one hundred kyats, and the cleaning fee is sixty kyats. If you save two hundred kyats, everything will be fine for my brother. It is two hundred and ten kyats a month, and it only costs seven kyats a day,” said Tauk Te. Therefore, I...

"If it stays like this, it'll be fine, Maung Tauk."

"Big brother, I'll be moving in tonight."

I said.

"It would be great if my older brother moved. I have to ask him what I want to know. I can't ask my mother. My mother is not very good at writing. I can't ask my aunt. Some people don't have the intelligence or knowledge. My older brother will answer my questions," said Tauk Te.//

"What do you want to ask, Maung Tauk Taek?" I asked back.

“I thought about some things.

"There are many things I can't think of, I'll have to ask my brother about them," Tauk Te said.

"What kind of things are also geckos?" I asked back.

"I won't tell you now, big brother. I'll ask you later, big brother."

"The gecko replied. Then I said goodbye to the gecko and returned. When evening came, I took my bag and my bed and moved to the gecko's house. | When I moved, the gecko and the gecko's aunts had already returned home. | The two women were beautiful women.

The gecko's mother was beautiful and graceful. The gecko's aunt was elegant and graceful. Their cheeks were rosy, as if they had never been painted.

I asked Tauk Tae's mother... "Tell me your name, my name is Aung Tun. What about Wai Din , I'm called "Min Thein Kha." I'm from Yangon and I'm not married." Tauk Tae's mother laughed.

"I'm not married either. I'm a widow. Are you a widower?" she asked me back. I said...

"I'm a loud speaker, God gave me, the scriptures gave me,

"There's no point in beating a woman casually."

When I said that, my mother said...

"A woman is not an object to be beaten with force. If you love to beat her that much, I'll leave the mats tomorrow. If the sun is hot, I'll beat you with a stick."

He said.

I was impressed by the humor of the mother of the gecko and went. In my mind, I thought, would it be good to take this woman as a wife and settle down? However, if I take the widowed mother of the gecko, they will say that I am carrying a burden on us.