My wife is the daughter of someone else
In that village there was a glutton. One day,he was invited to a feast. After eating his fill, he still asked the host for a big pack of sticky rice for his wife and children at horne.
On the way home, he saw a big tree by the road and came there to take a rest. While sitting for the rest, he looked at the pack of sticky rice, muttering to himself :
- My wife is the daughter of someone else and it is she who gave birth to my children. Thinking carefully, I have no relation with them at all. Why don't I eat the sticky rice but keep it for them, eh?
Thus, he opened the pack and ate up the sticky rice.
Three precious sons-in-law
That rich man had three daughters. After a long choice, he got three precious sons-in-law. He was a careful man but, what a pity, his sons-in-law were all careless in speaking.
One day, at the beginning of the new year, the rich man had a house newly built and held a feast for it. After drinking and eating a lot, the first son-in-law went out for a walk and came back very late at night. He banged the door but heard nobody answer it so he cried noisily:
- What a house! It's so like a prison that I can't push the door open.
The rich man got angry with the first son-in-law so he complained to the second one:
- I've spent ten thousand dongs on the house but he has no heart to say such unlucky words!
The second son-in-law said:
- Why does it cost so much? As for me, I'd not buy it with one thousand dongs!
The rich man was very unpleasant and talked to the third son-in-law about it, and he got the following words from him:
- He's right. It will be lucky to sell the house with such a price otherwise when a fire happens, the house may not cost even one dong!
