Kong Hean - Book Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, there was a man named Kong who had two wives names Neang Am and Neang Kom. One day, Kong and his two wives went to visit relatives at a village in the remote area. Along the way, there was a vicious tiger, Kong accompanied his wives to a dense forest where the tiger always chased the people and animals to eat.
When they arrived there, the tiger came out of the forest and roared from the distance towards them. Kong, not knowing where to flee from the tiger, Kong ran into a wood cave, urinating and shaking with fear Neang Am and Neang Kom cooperated to hit the tiger until it was dead. Seeing the tiger die, Kong hurriedly came out of the wood cave and further hit the dead tiger with a wooden stick, his two wives blamed him and said “The tiger was killed, there is no need to hit it more; what a coward man you are!” Kong Shouted at his wives, “No woman dares to tiger, the only man is strong enough to kill it!”. Then, Kong pulled outlines to tie the tiger and carried it into the village.
When the dead tiger was carried into the village, all the villagers came to see it and asked, “How did you kill this tiger, because it was very cruel and ate countless people, cows, and buffaloes?” Kong’s wives replied “When our husband, Kong, saw the tiger run to us, he hides in the wood cave, while we were joined together to beat to death!” he shouted at them by: “No woman dared to kill the tiger, the only man is strong enough to kill it! When the tiger sprang over me, I used my methods of fighting so that I could hit it!” Kong boasted to the villagers while showing them the martial arts. Every one of the villagers was very proud of Kong, so he was named Kong Hean.
Kong Hean was very famous in that village. His fame spread out to the King and Kong Hean was invites to serve the army. A little later, there was a war to fight against the invasion of the enemy. The King ordered Kong Hean to fight with the enemies. When the royal order was given to Kong Hean, he was very frightened and did not know how to escape from this fighting because it was the king’s order, and tried and hopelessly.
His both wives when they entered and asked: “What is the matter that makes you lie helplessly?” Kong Hean told his wives “Because the king ordered me to make war now, and I am scared with this battle, I don’t know what to do!”. His wives replied, “Don’t worry, my dear! Give us his responsibility and get up to have meal happily and take a bath nicely!”.
After preparing and it was a good time for Kong Hean to salute the king for the battlefield and request to take his wives with him. Kong Hean sat on the head of the elephant while his wives, at the back behind him, escorted by many soldiers before and after his elephant as the parade of the armies along the road.
When the parade was getting nearer the enemies, Kong Hean was frightened nearly to die, excreting and urinating, and was shivering with fear as if someone shook the elephant's head. Supposing that Kong Hean was shaking it to go toward the enemies, the elephant ran ahead of soldiers and no one could follow it. When the enemies saw Kong Hean galloping the elephant, they thought that he was a strong commander, so they were nervous and defeated ran for their life. Kong Hean saw that the enemies were defeated and ran away, he was very proud and boasted at the facials. The officials when they saw Kong Hean excrete and urinate so badly, they asked: “Mr. Commander, why did you excrete in faces and urinate?”. Kong Hean immediately replied: “If we went to excrete and urinate while fighting in the battle. the enemies may come and kill us!”. When the officials and soldiers heard that, some, intelligent, knew that Kong Hean was afraid of the enemies, and some, not so clever were very proud of Kong Hean.
Kong Hean, after winning the battle and returned to the kingdom. As the king knew that Kong Hean defeated the enemies, he was very happy and appointed Kong Hean a high-ranking official. Since then, Kong Hean was even more boastful.
Later, there was a cruel crocodile that usually ate people and merchants who operated the business by the waterway. People were very afraid of it no one dared to go into the water or to get on the boat there. When the king knew this, he ordered Kong Hean to catch the crocodile. Kong Hean having heard this order, he felt very nervous but dare not refuse it, so he accepted to the order.
When he got home, Kong Hean told his wives “My dear, now the king gave me an order to catch the very cruel crocodile in the water, this time I cannot escape from death as the crocodile will bite me to death. Previously, it was better to see on the land, but this time it is in the water, how can I come back alive. It was the king’s order how can I deny? Thus, I’ll go and jump into for the crocodile’s food at once!” Then, Kong Hean pretendedly called for his children and nephews to catch the crocodile. When everyone knew that Kong Hean went to catch the crocodile, they crowded went to see him.
When Kong Hean reached the harbor, he saw the crocodile swimming close to the shore and right to a place where there were two trees growing next to one another with a crotch. Kong Hean jumped into the water there intending to allow the crocodile to eat him. But, when the crocodile heard the sound of jumping into the water, it was startled and then jumped up into the crotch in the middle of its body and could not forward or backward. Kong Hean, who dived into the water, rose up seeing the crocodile was sticking up in the crotch of the trees, he called for his relatives raise the spears and trust the crocodile to death. People there, supposing that Kong Hean caught the crocodile and threw it up the trees, were very fearful of him.
When he saw that crocodile was killed, Kong Hean was an event more boastful and told the king that he caught the crocodile and threw it up on the land. The King, then was much happier and appointed Kong Hean a higher-ranking official, and provided him with power as well as many rewards.
