四川省阿坝藏族羌族自治州茂县中学

Eat Straw Sandals

Narrated By Bai Fusheng

Recorded By Wang Yanhui

Translated By Yang Jin

The Black Tiger General in the Black Tiger Qiang Village was resourceful and courageous; He was also good at directing troops, meanwhile he was very competitive humor, joking around. It is said that there is such a story circulating among the black tiger Qiang Village crowds.

People said：Once ，the Black Tiger General went into a town and came into a restaurant for meal. A shouting cook (run hall chef and officer) saw he was a person who came from the mountain village. The shouting cook thought that he was honesty, could be taken for fun and joked: "Hi, young man, you are late today, the eldest brother didn''t come, only the second brother (leftovers) treats guests! The Black Tiger General heard only the leftovers; He didn''t become angry, but calmly said:" Bring some freely! Don’t care about a boss or an employee!” The shouting cook deliberately played jokes on him, did not give him hot leavings of meals, but chopped the dishcloth on the shoulders, put it into a bowl and gave him the bowl and yelled: “voluntariness comes!”

The Black Tiger General saw meal that the shouting cook brought it that was black mass, couldn’t’t see it’s face clearly, didn''t know what it was? A closer looked it, only to find that was towel pieces. It was not something to eat at all! He wanted to get angry, but he saw the laughing expression of the shouting cook. Just like people said: "Stretching out his hand won’t beat somebody who has a smile face.”So the Black Tiger General endured dander and said: "oh, I asked you to give a bit hot food. Why do you bring this to me?" The shouting cook said with smile:" you said to bring some voluntariness? Only this thing from day to night that follows me, it is convenient to use. Somehow you said that it isn’t right, or I listened to the wrong? I''m sorry, I''m sorry, I change it, change it right away. "

The Black Tiger General went back to his Village, remembering that once the shouting cook played a joke on him, he decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. also to play a joke on him.

The Black Tiger General let clever virtuous wife go to high mountains to get six arris onion (a foot or so long, six LengZi, there''s the strange smell, like a kind of onion.) When they were dried ，then the Black Tiger General twined a pair of straw sandals, and then also using some grazing twined several pairs of straw sandals.