The Boastful Man
Once upon the time, there was a man named" Neay Khvek". He was born in a poor family. He was not only poor, naive,poorly educated, but also very boastful.
one day his father told him to help his grand uncle with building a house . Neay Khvek got up early in the morning , dressed himself and walked out with an axe in his hand.when he was traveling half way he ran across an old man who was the chief of the house builders his grand uncle had hired to supervise the construction of his house.
The old man said: "Where are you going, nephew, carrying an axe in your hand?" "Neay Khvek"replied: "well, my grand uncle has hired me to supervise the construction of his house. And where are you going, grandpa?
"your grand uncle has also hired me to build his house ," replied the old man.
"So you will also be one of my workers, won't you? " said "Neay Khvek".
The old man replied : "Yes, i'll do whatever you tell me to do, but please don't order me to remove too heavy things because i am old".
"Neay Khvek" said: "No problem! I have been a chief of construction workers for a long time, so I can assign work to all the workers in accordance with their age." Then, they kept going.
As for "Neay Khvek", he did not know that the old man with whom he was walking was really a good supervisor of construction workers. And the old man also thought that Neay Khvek was really a chief of construction workers as their village were so far apart.
At the construction site, he did not know what to do but to scratch his head near the pile of wood.Upon seeing that,his grand uncle said: "Why do you stand here doing nothing? Go fetch water and chop firewood for me! How can you be a construction workers when you can not even split a bamboo straight!
Hearing that, the old man did not say anything. He just look at Neay Khvek with a smile and thought this man was really boastful.
Neay Khvek kept boasting so often that all the villagers hated him and bore im a grudge.
One day there was a tiger entering the village. the local people panicked and ran back to their home, carrying sticks to protect themselves , As for Neay Khvek he was carrying a stick and boastfully said:" At fist i thought you were all brave. Why are you so cowardly? Now come with me to kill the tiger . The tiger never eats a living man. I'll kill him and make a pipe out of his fang .
Out of hatred and a wish to harm Neay Khvek ,the villagers descended their homes and took Neay Khvek to wait near the place where the tiger was hiding. they lied him that they went to look for tiger's whereabouts, but in fact, they all climbed up the trees to hide themselves.
A moment later, smelling a human being, the tiger came out of the nearby forest and bit and clawed Neay Khvek to death.
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