starfruit tree ( cây khế)

There was a family with two brothers, both parents died. The two brothers worked hard, so there was enough to eat in the house. Wanting to have fun at home, the two of them got married. But since having a wife, the brother was born lazy, so much hard work, all poured into the couple's younger brother.
The couple stayed up late at night and woke up early, trying to plow, weed, put manure, and rice better than before, so when the season came, the harvest was plentiful. Seeing that, the older brother was afraid that he would take the credit for more, and hurriedly discussed with his wife to let the younger brother and his wife live separately.

Going to live separately with his wife, the younger brother was divided by his brother to have a shack, in front of the house was a sweet star fruit tree. The couple did not complain a word, all went to the forest to cut firewood to bring to the market to sell, then went to work as a hired laborer.
As for the older brother, how many fields he had, he gave them a split, so that he could not enjoy the happiness with his wife. Seeing that I didn't complain, my brother thought I was stupid, even more arrogant, didn't come to my house and didn't pay attention to me anymore.
The happiest days of the couple's brother and sister are the days of star fruit. All year round, the couple has been fertilizing and catching worms, chasing ants for star fruit, so the star fruit tree is green and shady throughout the small garden, the fruit is even on the branches close to the ground. with hand can.

One morning, when the couple carried the burden and the basket was pulled from the star fruit tree, they were about to climb up to pick the fruit and bring it to the market to sell, when they saw a strong vibration on the top of the tree, as if someone was climbing. The couple looked up and saw a very large bird eating ripe yellow star fruit. The couple stood under the tree watching the birds eat, waited for the birds to fly away, then climbed up the tree to pick fruit. Since then, every morning, when the couple went out to pick star fruit, they saw birds on the tree again. Seeing someone, the bird continued to eat, leisurely for a long time, then flapped its wings and flew away. Birds eat like that for a month, star fruit trees are full of fruit.

One day, waiting for the bird to finish eating, the wife said half-jokingly to the bird: "Bird, if the bird eats like that, what else is the star fruit of my house! My star fruit tree is about to run out of fruit, bird!" The bird suddenly craned its neck, narrowed its eyes as if smiling, and replied: "Eat one, return the gold! Sew a three-gang bag, take it and store it". The bird repeated the sentence three times, then flapped its wings and flew away.
The couple saw the bird talking was surprised, but seeing the bird telling them that, repeated it to themselves three times, heard it clearly, so they thought and wondered.
But then the couple did as the bird said. The wife took a few squares of brown cloth and sewed a bag for her husband, exactly three gangs across.

The next morning, the couple had just finished eating when they saw a strong wind blowing the dust in the front yard, and in the blink of an eye an extremely large bird landed in the middle of the yard, turned its head into the house and called out a few words as if to say hello. . The husband carried the three-gang bag to the yard, the bird lay down, turned his neck to signal him to sit on his back. He sat on the bird's back, clinging to the bird's neck tightly. The bird stood up, stretched its neck, flapped its wings and flew up to the blue sky. Birds fly high, hiding in silver clouds; When flying low, it is over the green forest, rolling hills and mountains. Then the birds flew out to the vast sea, the high blue waves hit the slopes of the small islands, causing white foam to rise. He sat on the bird's back and saw the sea was blind, did not know where the shore was... Suddenly the bird flew into an island full of white rocks, blue rocks, red rocks, already five colors, reflecting brilliant light, he had never seen before. hour. The bird flew a wide circle around the island as if looking for a place to land, then flew in narrower circles, over the rocks, sometimes he thought he was about to hit giant rocks. Flying in front of the wide and deep cave, the bird slowly descended. Setting foot on the island, he looked everywhere, absolutely not seeing a single creature, not even a blade of grass or a deep bird.

The bird signaled to him to enter the cave and take whatever he wanted. At the entrance of the cave, he saw all kinds of stones as clear as glass and amber of all colors; Some are as blue as a cat's eye, some are as red as the sun, and some are as numerous as stones. Seeing that the cave was deep and wide, he did not dare to enter for fear of getting lost. He picked up some gold and diamonds and put them in a three-gang bag, then climbed onto the bird's back, signaling the bird to fly back.

Birds expressed joy, nodded their heads, stretched their necks and cried a few times, then flapped their wings and flew into the blue sky, over the sea, through the forest, over the mountains. The sun just stood still, the bird landed in a small garden with a sweet star fruit tree. The wife saw that her husband returned safely, was overjoyed, ran out to stroke the feathers, expressed her thanks, and signaled to invite the bird to fly up to the star fruit tree to quench her thirst. The bird flew up to the star fruit tree to eat for a while, then called three times as if greeting the farmer and his wife, and then flew away. Since then, birds have come to eat star fruit from time to time.

Rumors that the younger couple were suddenly rich flew to the ears of the older couple. My brother and his wife rushed to visit my house to investigate. Listening to her honest story, the brother offered to exchange all his possessions for a thatched hut and star fruit tree. The couple was only worried that the younger brother would not change, did not expect the younger brother to happily agree immediately.

The brother and his wife were overjoyed as if they were opening flags in their stomachs, immediately handed over all their possessions to the younger brother, and the next morning moved to the tran hut.