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'HÀ RẦM HÀ RẠC' Hà Rầm Hà rạc, The Gold pit the silver, the gold treasure the silver treasure or the hole of gold, the hole of silver also known as Hố vàng hố bạc, hầm vàng hầm bạc is the story in the Vietnamese folktale. Although the story the has many versions which is depended on the ethnic in Vietnam, it teach us to love the family and not to be greedy

Summary

Long ago, there was a rich family includes a a father and his twos sons. . One day the, the father got illness and died. On his death bed, he told his children to unite and love each other. After their father's death, two brothers still lived with each other for a while until the elder brother got married with a young rich lady who was pretty, cunning, selfish and greedy As of the appearance of the sister-in-law, every changed. The young elder sister-in-law did not want to live with her husband's elder brother so she urged her husband day and night to divide their father property. Although the elder brother love his younger brother, the elder brother finally decided to do as his wife desired One day, the elder brother, his wife and younger brother gathered to divided the property. The elder brother said:

- Now we will divide the property into three parts: the masculine (đực), feminine (cái) and the child/cub ( con). I'm the first-born. I and your sister-inlaw have the responsibility to worship the ancestor so we will take all the the things that is belonged to the feminine and cub such as the house (cái nhà), the wardrobe (cái tủ), table and chair (cái bàn, cái ghế)... which is belonged to the "feminine" part and the buffalo (con trâu), the dog (con chó), chicken (con gà)... which is belonged to the "cub/child) part

The divide last until night that make the younger brother felt impatient any more. He took the falx ( machete, knife or axe that is used for cutting wood, Vietnamese word as: rựa) and said:

- This is belonged to Masculine part (đực rựa) so it is obviously mine

Then he left the house immediately in that night while his brother and sister-in-law laughed for the success of their cheat. As of the dividing date, the younger brother routinely went to the wood to cut tree for wood then brought to sell in the market. One days, because of the tiredness,he woke up when he was sleeping. Saw the new moon, he mistake that he overslept so he rushed into the forest to work. When he reached the ege of the forest, he realize that he had mistake so he lie down and continue to sleep under the big tree. He did not know his sleeping lace is the usual playground of the pack of the monkeys. When the monkeys came, and saw the younger brother was sleeping, they thought he was the corpse so they carried him to bury Halfway, the monkeys discussed: -Hà Rầm Hà Rạc, Bury in the gold pit or the silver pit - Hà Rầm Hà rạc, Bury in the gold pit not the silver pit. Said the monkey Chief

They carried the younger brother to the gold pit, put him there and returned to their playground. The younger brother got up and saw he was lying the pit that he is surrounding by gold pieces. He quickly took the gold and returned to his old place. He used the gold he took from the pit to buy house, garden, field, buffalo and improve his own life. The rumor about the woodcutter became rich after only one night soon reach the elder brother and sister-in-law which made they was in doubt One day, on the death anniversary of the father, the younger brother came to the brother house to invite the elder brother and his wife to join the anniversary party in his house. The elder brother and his wife quickly came to his younger brother's house in order to find out the truth When they reached his brother house and saw him rich with the big house, many servants, the elder brother and his wife asked the younger brother about the course. And the younger brother honestly told the story to his brother and sister

After hearing this, the elder couple borrowed their younger brother the falx and quickly left the anniversary without practising the rite. The elder brother took the elder sister-in-law and the falx went into the forest, to the place that their younger brother used to sleep. They soon reached that place. The elder brother and the wife lied down under the tree, observed the new moon and waited for the monkeys. They eagerly wait to be carried to the gold pit. They expect to be richer than their younger brother for now they got not one but two people. The more people carried by the monkeys, the more gold they would took Later the monkeys came. The greedy elder brother and the sister-in-law pretended to be dead. Seeing there were two corpses this time, The monkeys also carried at the same time both the man and woman to bury The whole elder brother's family eagerly waited to arrived the gold pit When they was passing the deep abyss on their halfway, the monkeys stopped and asked each other:

- Hà Rầm hà Rạc, bury in the gold pit or the silver pit? - Hà Rầm Hà rạc, bury in the gold pit - one monkey said

The chief monkey said:

- Hà Rầm Hà Rạc, God pit we buried before, this time we buried in the silver pit

When hearing these words, both the elder brother and his wife got up and spoke out loud:

-Bury in the gold pit! Please bury us in the gold pit

Realizing the couple were still alive, the monkeys got frighten. They dropped out their hands and threw both the covetous husband and wife down to the deep abyss. The greedy couple of elder brother and the sister-in-law fell to the deep abyss. They both screamed in terrifying as they met their deaths in the abyss. That deserve the greedy elder couple

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