In the past, during the reign of King Hung Vuong, our country had high mountains, wide rivers, beautiful weather, and sunshine, but the fields were sparse, and the fruits did not have many sweet and fragrant things like now. The seventh King Hung Vuong had a foster man, Mai An Tiem, who was sponsored and had a superior position. The king who loved Mai An Tiem often gave precious things. Usually, the mandarins get a little fortune from the king, cherish and praise; As for An Tiem, he said: "Lost, debt is debt!" and see usually those things. When it came to the king's ears, the king pierced it, saying: "Can we let it rely on its strength to see if it dies?". So one morning, An Tiem suddenly saw soldiers coming to take his wife and children off the boat, unfortunately bringing something. He said it would take forever for us to make a blunt sword for ourselves. The sails stretch, the sailboat moves forward. The white sand beach, the green trees on the shore gradually disappeared, then the foam, rubbish, traces of the population disappeared, now only the sky and the blue water are one color. The next day the boat arrived at a small island. They let An Tiem's ​​family come ashore with five days of food and a pot, then set anchor and turn around. Lady Ba, An Tiem's ​​wife, held her child and watched as the boat gradually moved away and disappeared, tears as small as rain. From now on, she would never be able to share the first corn with her neighbors, or tell a family story under the moonlight! Returning to the deserted island, she was even more terrified and scared, not knowing what to eat to make a temporary living for the day. An Tiem led his wife and children to find a temporary rock hole. Then he took his sword to explore. The island is really desolate, with only a few plants and a few sea birds. Looking for a while, I found a few sour fruits and wild vegetables to eat temporarily to relieve hunger. Since then, An Tiem grows vegetables and finds fruit every day, and Ba goes to the beach to look for clams and mussels. An Tiem's ​​eldest son, imitating his father, also worked hard to make bird traps. But then the bird gradually got used to the trap, sometimes the boy did not catch a feather all day. There are many fish but no net, the fruit is in season. Therefore, the main food of An Tiem's ​​wife and children is still some wild vegetables that he grows into garden vegetables. The life of the four people is extremely difficult and hard, just like a bird. However, An Tiem still believes that one day, he can make his life better. One day, a bird was eating outside on the beach and saw An Tiem coming, quickly flew away, leaving a red bait. An Tiem picked it up and saw that it was a piece of melon with two fingers. He thought that if birds could eat it, maybe people could eat it, so he tasted it and found it sweet. He ate the whole piece of melon and picked up the seeds to pack. Sitting down to rest for a while, feeling cool and relieved from hunger, he was happy, took a sword to dig up a piece of land and sowed seeds. A few days later, the seeds sprouted leaves and sprouted, spreading all over the land. Lady Ba also helps her husband in the early afternoon take care of some strange ties. The husband and wife were thrilled to see the first few flowers bloom, and then bear fruit, at first with the little finger, after a while it was like a mouse, then a piglet. Seeing it growing like never before, An Tiem did not know when to pick it. One early morning, hearing the crows cry in the yard, Ba said to her husband: - It's desolate here, crows never gather, now they're screaming in one place, there must be something strange. Come see how! When An Tiem went to the beach, the crows flew away, leaving behind the melon they had just pecked in a few places. He cut the melon. When he cut the melon, the whole family was dazzled by the bright red color of the melon's intestines. Here and there in the middle of the red, there are black seeds like jet seeds and covered with a white shell with a green border. The two children craved to drip water, and Mrs. Ba kept praising the delicious fruit. An Tiem carefully cut a small piece for each of them to try. Four people as one, praising the sweet taste, the gentle aroma of strange fruits, eating not only does not hurt the intestines, but also feels less thirsty and healthy. At noon, An Tiem boldly chopped all the melons for his children to eat until they were full. At that time, An Tiem's ​​whole family was overjoyed, carried each other to the beach, picked the dark melons to bring back, and the rest took turns watching the fruit. And from there, they kept growing more and more. All the farming tools consisted of a blunt sword and a few sharpening stones, so adding a melon stump would add a lot of sweat and tears. But they take care of them wholeheartedly, so that the melon variety is getting more and more wrong, the bigger the fruit, the thicker the meat forever, the thinner the skin, the sweeter the taste. Every time he picks a melon, An Tiem takes a few marked fruits and releases them into the sea. The drifting melon disappeared countless times, the new moon and the old moon did not know how busy, An Tiem was still not discouraged. Sure enough, one day, a boat stopped by to ask who had grown precious melon varieties, in exchange for selling on the mainland. Since then, An Tiem was able to change the food he used every day and also built a beautiful cottage. As for King Hung Vuong, from the day he left An Tiem on a deserted island, the king was assured that An Tiem was already dead, sometimes thinking about it is also a pity. Until one day, when the attendant offered a strange fruit, the king ate it well and asked about the whereabouts, only to find out that it was planted on the island by An Tiem. The king thought he was wrong, sent a boat to pick up An Tiem's ​​family. An Tiem and Mrs. Ba were overjoyed, collected all ripe melons and seeds to distribute to neighbors, and taught how to plant and take care of them.
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