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Translation (Rita Seng Mai)
I am going to tell you about a tasty soup. Once in a village, there was a stingy woman. She always went to the house where there was a praying ceremony and ate there. She not only ate there, but also took some food home. The villagers were curious about how she was surviving, so one villager went to her house as a guest. He told her, "Grandma, can I sleep here for a night?" She told him, "You can sleep here, but I can't feed you anything." After a while, the boy told her, "I want to drink some water." Then, she gave him a cup of water. Later, he told her, "I am hungry. I want to eat food." She said, "No, I don't have any food." He told her, "I saw some food above the fireplace. Can you give me that food?" She thought, "If I don't give him some food, he might think that I am too stingy. I think I should give some." Then, she put some fried rice on a small plate and gave it to him. In fact, the rice was already hard. The rice looked dried out, so the boy thought, "The rice is really hard. I can't eat it. I need some soup to eat. I will ask her about soup." Then, he asked her, "Grandma, can I have some soup?" The grandma said, "No, I don't cook any soup. I don't have it." He told her, "Grandma, I will teach you how to cook soup." She asked him, "How to cook it?" He told her, "Let's cook some stone soup." Then, she thought, "It might not cost anything if that is only stone soup." So, she agreed, "Okay. Let's cook it." He told her, "Grandma, go pick one stone and make it soft." She just picked up one stone and started cooking soup. After cooking for some time, he tasted a spoon of soup and said, "It's really delicious." When the old lady tasted it, it was really bland and not tasty at all. She said, "No, it's not delicious." Then, he said, "Oh, really? Then, why don't you add some salt there?" So, she took some salt and added it to the soup. After some time, the boy tasted the soup again and said, "It's delicious now." Then, the lady tasted it again too. She said, "No, it's not good." Then, he told her, "You have some garlic and onion, don't you? Put some into the soup." She was stingy, so she added only one or two onions to the soup. The boy tasted it again and said, "It's tasty." But the lady said, "No, not at all." Then, he said, "Shall we add some peas to make it tastier?" He asked for some peas and added them to it. After the peas were soft, he tasted the soup and said, "It's delicious now." The lady tasted it and found it tasty. She said, "It's a little bit good." Then, he told her, "Shall we make it more delicious?" She was thinking, "What should I add more to be delicious? I will eat lots of rice with that soup today." Then, she asked him, "What shall we add?" He replied, "I saw some meat when you opened your pantry earlier. Let's add it." She added just a little piece of meat to the soup. Then, the soup became really delicious. The boy drank a lot of soup and ate lots of rice. The lady was a bit angry because she needed to use her ingredients. On the other hand, the boy ate lots of rice and continued his journey happily.
Transcription (La Ring)
Grai mu ai shat mai ntsin a lam hpe bai tsun na re. Moi kalang mi hta da mare langai kaw grai maji ai dinggai langai nga ai da. Dai dinggai gaw gara nta kyu hpyi ai ngu kaw sha hkan sha ai da. Kyu hpyi ai nta sha hkan sha nna she shi gaw sha mayu shi sha ai sha n-ga na she dai nta na shat mai ni hpe bai la mat wa ai da. La mat wa rai she dai mare na ni gaw "Dinggai ndai dai ram ram maji ai gaw nta kaw hpa sha sha ai mi re" ngu na she chye mayu na she la langai mi gaw sa manam ai da. Nta kaw sa manam re she "E adwi ngai daina sha pyi gaw nang kaw yup na yaw" ngu tsun ai da. Dai she dai la wa gaw dai dinggai gaw "Yup chyawm gaw mai ai lu gaw nlu jaw sha ai" ngu tsun ai da. Dai shaloi she dai la wa gaw e dai shaloi she kachyi mi na jang she "Adwi e ngai hka grai lu mayu wa ai" ngu na tsun ai da. Shaloi she hka gaw shi lu jaw lu ai da hka gaw nmari la ra ai re nga yang hka gawm mi jaw lu ai da. Dai she "Dwi ngai shat grai kaw si wa ai" ngu na bai tsun ai da "Shat nnga ai" ngu tsun ai da. "E adwi wo wan rap ntsa kaw ashat nga ai dai jaw sha rit le" ngu tsun ai da. Shaloi she shi gaw "Gai njaw sha yang mung ngai hpe grai maji ai nga na ra ai" ngu na she dai shat kangau ban kaji ai kaw na she wa jaw sha ai da. Dai gaw grai ja mat loimi ja mat sai da. Dai she ja ja rai jang she shi gaw "Yi ndai kaman sha yang gaw nmai ai shat mai ntsin naw san yu na re" ngu na she "Adwi shat mai ntsin nnga ai i" ngu yang she "Yi shat mai ntsin ngai nshadu sha ai nlu ai" ngu tsun ai da. Shaloi she "Adwi nang hpe ngai langai mi tsun na yaw shat mai ntsin shadu ai ladat sharin ya na yaw" ngu tsun ai da. Dai dinggai gaw "Kaning hku gara hku shadu na rai" ngu tsun jang she "Nlung tawng shat mai ntsin shadu sha ga" ngu tsun ai da. Dinggai dai gaw myit yu ai da "Yi nlung tawng nga yang gaw ngai na gumhpraw nma ra ai sha shat mai lu shadu na hku nga" ngu na she "Mai ai" ngu tsun ai da. Dai she "Adwi nang nlung tawng langai mi sa kashin nna shapyaw u yaw" ngu tsun ai da. Dai dinggai wa mung nlung tawng sa hta la nna she shadu ai da. Shadu re shaloi she e dai la wa gaw "Yi dwi grai mu sai" ngu tsun ai da. "Grai mu sai" ngu yang she dinggai chyim yu yang gaw asan nga ai da "Yi nmu la ai wa hpa mung nmu ai wa" ngu jang she "Yi adwi dan nga yang adwi nang jum kachyi mi lu ai nre i jum kachyi mi bang u" ngu ai da. Dai hku ngu jang she dinggai dai jum kachyi mi bang ai da. Dai she jahkring loimi na jang she dai la wa "Yi dwi grai mu sai" ngu tsun jang she dinggai dai bai chyim yu yang jum sha asan nga ai da. "Yi nmu ai wa" ngu tsun ai da "Nmu ai law" ngu tsun jang she "Dwi nang shakau hkyeng shakau hpraw lu ai nre i" ngu bai tsun ai da. Shaloi she dinggai jan gaw grai maji ai sha langai lahkawng sha shaw ya ai da. Dai bai bang ai da "Yi dwi grai mu sai bai chyim yu u" ngu bai tsun jang she bai chyim yu jang dinggai jan gaw "Chye nmu ai law" ngu bai tsun ai da. "Grau mu hkra adwi nang kaw shapre nga ai nre i" ngu tsun ai da. Shapre bai hpyi ai da dai dinggai jan shapre kachyi mi bai bang na bai shapyaw ai shaloi she "Yi dwi grai mu sai ya gaw grai mu sai" ngu tsun ai da. Dinggai dai mung dai lu yu yang she mu ai da loimi mu ai da "E ya chyawm loimi mu sai" "Raitim ndai hta grau mu hkra lama mi naw bang ra ai dwi" ngu tsun ai da. "E hpabaw bang ra ai rai ndai hta grau mu hkra gaw grai mu jang gaw daina ngai shat pyi shat aging sha yu ga" ngu dinggai dai dai hku myit la ai da. Dai hku myit na "Hpabaw naw bang" ngu yang "Mi adwi nang chyaung eain hpaw ai i dai hku hpaw ai shaloi ngai wo npu kaw ngai shan mu ai dai bang ga" ngu da. Dinggai dai kachyi mi mahti bang ai da kachyi mi mahti bang na she e shan hkawng dai hku shat mai ntsin shadu sha shaloi she grai mu ai da. Grai mu na she dai manam wa mung aging sha ai da. E dai dinggai mung aging sha timung shi na myit na shi na gaw shi dai grai maji ai rai ni ma mat ai re nga jang gaw loimi pawt mayu ai da raitim manam wa gaw aging sha la na bai hkawm mat wa kau da ai da. |
