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Story 132: Hot Show Dry Wave Folktales
Hot Show Dry Wave Folktales
Author: Anonymous
In the valley, there is a very small house, and a very old couple lives in the house. Their hair was as white as a conch, and they didn’t even have a tooth as big as a pearl in their mouths. One day, for no apparent reason, the old couple got into a fight. The fight got worse and worse, and they even started arguing about separating the family. To put it bluntly, their family was so poor that they could play with sticks. They had nothing decent to divide, except an old and skinny goat.
The old man said: “Hey! Hey! I’ll catch the sheep’s head, you catch the sheep’s tail, and whoever the sheep goes with will get the goat, okay?” The old woman didn’t understand anything, so she nodded in agreement. When the two people pulled him, of course, the goat followed the old man! The old woman knew that she had been fooled, so she held on to the goat’s tail and finally broke the goat’s tail. She fell to the ground and watched helplessly as the old man took the goat away. When she got angry, she threw the goat’s tail into the pile of cow dung.
In winter, the north wind howled around the little house, and snowflakes hammered on her doors and windows. The old woman was cold and hungry. She looked around in the room to see if there was anything that could fill her belly. Finally, in the pile of cow dung, I found the goat’s tail, which was already dry and hard. The old woman held it like a treasure:
“Haha! Hot show dry wave! Hot show dry wave!”
She carefully put the dried goat tail into the stone mortar, planning to smash it into pieces, add some green onions, and boil a pot of tuba to warm her body. Who would have thought that as soon as the stone was hit, the goat’s tail jumped up, hopping around the old woman, and shouting: “Hey! Don’t hit me! Don’t hit me!”
A goat’s tail actually spoke human language, and the old woman was almost paralyzed with fear. I had no choice but to throw down the stone, sigh, and say with tears, “Oh! My life is so miserable, I don’t even have the blessing of eating a sheep’s tail!”
“Oh! Oh! Don’t cry! Don’t cry!” Rexiu Ganbo said, jumping into the old woman’s arms, jumping up again to help her wipe away her tears, and said in a delicate voice: “You treat me like a Well done, son! There will be butter, there will be beef, and there will be tsampa.”
The old woman smiled bitterly and shook her head in disbelief: “Oh, by the time you grow up, my bones will be rusty long ago!”
As for Rexiu Ganbo, he said to the old woman: “Hey! I’m leaving!” With a “squeak”, he slipped out through the crack in the door. In the middle of the night, the old woman was sleeping when she heard Rexiu Ganbo knocking on the door: “Hey! I’m back, open the door quickly! Open the door quickly!”
“You are not as big as a mouse. Come in through the crack in the door! Fly in through the skylight!” The old woman was shivering from the cold and so hungry that her belly pressed against her back. She lay on the broken mat and didn’t want to move.
“Hey! I’ve brought food and drink. Come and carry it! Come and carry it!” Rexiu Ganbo kept shouting.
The old woman groaned and opened the door, and saw a leg of cow, a lump of butter, and a large bag of tsampa outside. She laughed so hard that her jaw almost dropped. She grabbed the goat by its tail and kept kissing it on the face.
It turned out that Goat Tail flew outside a large manor and saw a few thieves punching a hole in the wall. Some carried out beef, some carried out butter, and some carried out tsampa. Goat Tail followed them quietly. . The thieves’ waists were bent, their legs were shaking from exhaustion, and they looked around, trembling with fear.
As soon as they passed the old woman’s door, the goat’s tail shouted loudly: “Catch the thief! Catch the thief!” The thieves Thinking that people in the manor were chasing him, he dropped his things and ran for his life like a rabbit. The butter, beef and tsampa went to the old woman obediently.
Not long after, the princess who lived in the castle asked the old woman to wash her hair. While combing her hair, the concubine said: “Hey! The greasiness on your robe is getting more and more, and the complexion on your face is getting better and better.
It seems that you are lucky because you separated from the old man!” The concubine said a few words , the story made the old woman feel sweet in her heart, her tongue itched, and she said proudly: “My son Rexiu Ganbo is very capable! No matter what kind of treasure he is, he can get it!”
These few words made the princess feel jealous. She sat on the cushion, neither drinking tea nor drinking alcohol, and her little mouth was so curled up that it could hang a snuff bottle. This time the king was frightened. He asked questions here and there, and then the princess said with tears in her eyes: “It’s a shame that you are still the leader of a country, and you don’t even have a Rexiu Ganbo!”
The king figured out the situation, sent someone to call the old woman, and cursed: “Bah! You three-tongued old woman, you are mumbling nonsense in the ears of the concubine! Your son Rexiu Ganbo is really capable, let him steal it tonight My lifeblood jade is ready! If you can steal it, I will give you whatever you want. If you can’t steal it, I will kill you black crow!”
The old woman was scared to death and didn’t know how she got out of the royal city. Along the way, she slapped herself three times in the mouth and said, “You old woman who can’t control her tongue, it’s too late to hang nine locks on her mouth now.” She cursed herself and hurried on her way. When I got home, I didn’t see the goat’s tail, so I had to cry and shout: “Come on! Goat’s tail! Come on! Rexiu Ganbo!”
“Hey! What’s the matter? What’s the matter?” Goat Tail was sleeping on the cow dung cake and stretched out. The old woman told the story of what had happened in the palace from beginning to end, and when the king wanted to kill her, she began to cry sadly.
“Hey! Don’t cry, I’ll go get the king’s jade!” After the goat tail finished speaking, he jumped on the old woman and withdrew.
Besides, after the old woman left, the king thought: “Hey, if the life-root jade is lost, it is no joke. No matter whether her son Rexiu Ganbo has any ability or not, I have to be careful.” He sent five hundred guards, The city wall was tightly guarded; five hundred fast horses were prepared with well-saddled saddles; five hundred muskets were also brought in, fully loaded with gunpowder; and five hundred vicious dogs were brought out and tied at the city gate. Gotta hold it tight.
At the same time, ask the maids to hold torches in their hands, and the male servants to carry gongs and mallets with them. As soon as Rexiu Ganbo arrives, they will immediately blow the gongs and light the fire, and the whole city will mobilize. He thought: Even if Rexiu Ganbo has the wings of a bird, he cannot escape from the king’s hand.
In the middle of the night, Rexiu Ganbo flew into the palace with a “chun” sound. Seeing the king’s arrangement, he burst into laughter. It led five hundred horses into the cattle pen, and tied five hundred cows to the horse pens; it drove five hundred dogs through the sheepfold, and drove out five hundred sheep and tied them to the dog pens; it Sent five hundred muskets into the firewood house, take out five hundred firewood sticks, and put them where the guns are. While the maid is sleeping, wrap a large handful of wheat straw around her head; while the male servant is not paying attention, scatter some peas under his feet.
After these things were done, it flew secretly into the king’s bedroom. Seeing the piece of life-root jade, the title came into the king’s mouth. When the king was sleepy, he passed it to the concubine’s mouth; when the concubine was sleepy, she passed it to the king’s mouth again. Passing it back and forth in this way, Rexiu Ganbo became more and more interesting. Then he slipped between the two mouths and gently and deftly took the jade. With a “snap”, it flew out of the window, and with a “clop”, it flew over the city wall and flew back to the old woman’s house.
The king and his concubine disappeared. The two people ran to the roof and shouted: “Arrest them quickly! Arrest them quickly! Rexiu Ganbo is coming!” Upon hearing this, the maid hurriedly lit a fire. Unexpectedly, the wheat straw on his head ignited, making him scream. As for the male servant, he ran to beat the gong, stepped on the peas, and a guy rolled down the stairs.
After hearing the order, the five hundred guards quickly mounted their horses, picked up their muskets, let go of the vicious dogs, opened the city gate, and chased them desperately. They shouted loudly: “Gouyi” and “Haoyi” and kept beating the horses. However, the horses refused to run, the dogs refused to bark, and the guns failed to fire. At dawn, the guards themselves laughed, because they were riding cows, carrying firewood sticks, and leading old sheep behind them.
The king had no choice but to make peace with the old woman. He summoned the old woman and praised her repeatedly: “Ah, your son Rexiu Ganbo is such an amazing hero! Please give me the life-root jade back to me. Whatever you want, I’ll give you whatever you want!”
The old woman and the goat’s tail hidden in her sleeve burst into laughter.
Narrated by: Nima Penduo, Chengguan Town, Shigatse
Recorded July 5, 1979
Compiled in January 1980
