The Saint GiongAn invasion by the An enemy ravaged the country during the reign of the sixth Hung King.. Everywhere the drum rolls of the war mingled with the cries of the victims.. The
Trang 2The Saint Giong
An invasion by the An enemy ravaged the country during the reign of the sixth Hung King Everywhere villages were set on fire and the population massacred Everywhere the drum rolls of the war mingled with the cries of the victims
The King sent messengers out to every corner to discover a hero capable of saving the homeland
At this time there lived a woman in Ke Dong who was no longer very young but still celibate One day, on crossing the garden planted with aubergines, she saw the enormous footprint of a man One does not know why but she had the idea to compare the footprint with her own Scarce!y had she put down her foot then she felt a strange sensation Some time after, she found that she was pregnant Ashamed, she abandoned her native village and went to live in the forest At the end
of twelve months she brought a handsome boy into the world
As she was homesick, she returned home with her son and again started to cultivate aubergines and to fish for crabs and snails to satisfy her needs and those of her little Giong
She courageously faced everything, but one thing meanwhile saddened her Giong, nearly three years old, neither spoke nor laughed The whole day he remained motionless where she had left him
The day the royal herald passed through the village hardly had the speaking horn become silent when the baby, standing up abruptly, called:
"Mother, will you invite the King's messenger to come in here for a few minutes?"
His mother, very happy, called the messenger