Once upon a tim there was a girl named
Heiyainu. Her mother died when she was in her tender age. Her father got
married a second wife who born a son. The father had left the house and had
gone for his business trip in the interior hills. Before his leaving, he had asked
his second wife to take care of Heiyainu and his son.
Everyday, Heiyainu worked hard to extend
help to her step mother. She went to the field and collected red spinach,
sorral and mint. She also went down in the lake and river and caught fishes.
After returning to her home, she had given the fish and vegetable items to her
step mother who sold them in the market. The money gotten from selling the
items had purchased rice for the family. While the step mother had gone out in
the market, Heiyainu rendered household duties. She also took care of the step
brother. When the step brother cried for his hungry, she along with the crying
brother had gone to the neighbours and fed the boy with breast milk from women
who had also child in her arms.
With the step brother grew up day by day,
and able to mix with the local children in their playing, she felt happy. The
step brother had not eaten his rice and meal if there were not his step sister.
He also paid great respect to his step sister. Both the sister and brother
loved each other. The neighbours had envied on their lovely nature. However,
Heiyainu afraid of her step mother who always took strict vigil upon her step
daughter. The step mother always asked Heiyainu to stay her indoor in the home
while she was away in the market. Sometimes, she scolded her step daughter
without any reason.
The step mother was feeling happy whenever
she used her step daughter’s bad name. Sometimes, the step daughter was beaten
without finding any mistake. One day, the step mother along with her son had
taken the afternoon nap in her bed. Thinking that her step mother was sleeping,
Heiyainu took her bath along with her friends. When the step mother got up, she
saw cattle trespassing inside their garden. The cattle had brokenthe old bamboo
fence and eaten the vegetables grown inside the garden. To see the unhappy
scene, the step mother called her step daughter in harsh words. Without
completing the proper bathing, Heiyainu ran soon towards her house. Having come
to know that her step daughter would be mixing with her friends for bathing in
the pond, the step mother drew Heiyainu by her hands up to the pond and beaten
her step daughter in presence of her friends. Besides, Heiyainu wa pushed down
into the water of the pond by holding head. Heiyainu’s friends had intercepted
the step mother when their friend was beaten black and blue by a stick laying
there. However, the step mother had rebuked the Heiyainu’s friends for
interfering in the family matter. Heiyainu had nothing but crying. The step
mother had not only rebuking her step daughter in harsh manner, but also blamed
Heiyainu’s late mother. When the name of her late mother was mentioning without
any reason, Heiyainu requested her step mother, not to mention any more of her
late mother.
Heiyainu said, “Please be not dispraised
the name of my late mother. Oh! My step mother, you can make physical torture
upon me whatever you like.” The step mother started beating Heiyainu until
blood oozing out from her mouth. The step mother left Heiyainu without taking
care even though he suffered bleeding injuries. The disheartened Heiyainu came
towards the backward of her house and looked up in the sky. She prayed to the
soul of her late mother and said, “Oh! My lovely mother don’t you see what I am
facing troubles.” Surprisingly, the step mother came out from the house in
haste and again beat the step daughter, pulled her down the ground. Later, the
step mother closed the door of the house from inside. Heiyainu left alone
outside the house all the night. She was not given any meal. She felt hungry.
The other day, after beating seriously, Heiyainu was kept indoor all the day
long while the step mother had accompanied with her son gone to the market. On
their returning from the market, Heiyainu was seen crying at the courtyard of
the house. On seeing it, the step mother had closed the door from outside. On
that night, Heiyainu cried bitterly and prayed to the Almighty to live her with
her late mother. Hearing the woes of her child,
Heiyainu’s mother in the form of dove flew down and perched at a bamboo
pole near the countyard of her house.
The bird in her chirping vocal consoled the
crying child. Heiyainu did not know the dove was transformed into from the soul
of her late mother. So she said to the dove don’t make coo coos. After crying
the whole night, she took a sleep in the early hour at the doorstep of her
house. In her dream, her mother came and said, “Oh My lovely child, if you are
in distress and full of woes in the human life come and follow me. Transform
into a bird so as to love a free live. I will send a bird king – Langmei – for
becoming what you like.” To follow what her mother said in her dream, Heiyainu
at last decided to transform her soul and body into the bird – Lanmei. The next
morning Heiyainu with basket went out to search vegetables in the field. While
she was collecting the vegetables, flock of birds, Langmei were seen flying
across the sky. The bird flock was led by Langmei king. On seeing the birds,
Heiyainu at the top voice said, “Oh! Langmei king, oh bird, I am Heiyainu in
woes and distresses. My late mother told me she had given responsibility to
your king for transforming my body and soul into the Langmei bird. Oh please
drop some of your feathers.” On seeing the plight of the girl, the birds had
dropped several feathers. She gathered the feathers and hidden in her house
without giving any knowledge to her step mother. The other day, while in the
field, Heiyainu sought the help of the same birds. She said, “I want to join
your flocks. It is better to join in your flock than to live with the step
mother. Please drop some feathers.”
Everyday, Heiyainu had done in the same manners. So the collections were
large enough to make a large feather for flying. One day, while she was collecting
the feathers at her courtyard, his step brother had seen. Her step mother had
also gone to the market. On seeing the collection, the step brother asked what
to do with the feathers. Heiyainu disclosed what she would like to her step
brother. She lovely made a sisterly kiss to her younger step brother and said,
“Oh! My lovely brother, I am very distressed and full of woes. On this life
would not be meeting again. I would transform my soul and body into the life of
bird – Langmei from this day.”
The step sister and step brother cried.
While they were crying, the flock of the Langmei birds led by its king flew
across their courtyard. On seeing the flocking birds flying, Heiyainu said, “Oh
King Langmei from today’s onwards I will join your flocks. Please be received
my warmly.”
The flock of the birds and its king had
flown down the courtyard. The king of the bird said, “If you decide to join our
flocks, you may join today”. Saying this, the king who had a magic diamond
inside his beak was handed over to Heiyainu. Before leaving the courtyard,
Heiyainu bade a tearful goodbye to her step brother. She said, “Oh! My lovely
brother, you stay alone, I am leaving the house.” Saying this, she placed the
diamond inside her mouth. With the full supports of the bird flocks, and with
the support of the feathers arranged beautifully life the feathers of the
birds, Heiyainu flew up from th courtyard. While she was flying into the sky
along other birds, she saw her brother a following her on the ground.
Heiyainu told in her loud voice, oh my
lovely brother you could not be able to chase us. You are human being. Flying
over the sky, Heiyainu saw her step mother was full of surprise but looking
upon the flying bird flocks. After some time, Heiyainu’s father who gone the business
trip in the interior hills had returned to his house. He also purchased clothes
and eatable items for his daughter. Upon reaching home, he made a lovely kiss
to his son and distributed sweet meat to him but he asked his second wife where
had gone his daughter. The wife was trying to give evasive replies. But the son
had informed his father that his step daughter had transformed into the bird –
Langmei because of the excessive tortures of his step mother. After inquiring
to the neighbours, the man also came to know that his second wife had not given
proper meal and treatments to her step daughter. He was full of angry and
scolded his wife. The man was unable to take a proper sleep in thinking of his
daughter. Next day, the holding his day’s meal was standing and waiting at his
courtyard to see flying of birds. Whenever, there were flying bird flocks, the
man asked, “Is there my lovely daughter Heiyainu in your flock”? The bird flock said, “No”. Everyday, the man
was doing in the similar manners. One day, a flock of Langmei birds were flying
across the courtyard of the man. The man asked the same question. After knowing
it was the Langmei bird flocks, the man soaked with tears in his eyes said, “Oh
my lovely child Heiyainu, I am returned, let us take food together.”
On hearing the voice of her father,
Heiyainu slipped away from her flock and flew down near her father. Amid crying
and tears in the eyes, the father said, “Oh my love child, I have purchased
your clothes, come again at my house, eat whatever you like.” Hr also asked his
daughter, “Have you not a sense of feeling for your father?” Though, she had
joined the bird flocks, Heiyainu did not forget her father and step brother.
Seeing the tearful face of her father, Heiyainu had not any means but to cry
aloud. She said, “My life is full of tears, my fate is to separate with lovely
father, I could wait till the full grown of my step brother.”
Oh! My flock birds are far away from me. I
would have to miss them. Oh! My lovely pa, I am flying to join my flocks.
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