Morrede walks alone with his wife and son, a child. Only three of them. This Morrede is always a daring hunter, always hunting for wild deer. One day, the next day after fishing, Morreda said to his wife in the morning:
“We need to make a move and move to another place.” The wild deer bones that we have accumulated are very heavy. You need to crush them and melt the fat out of them to make it easier.
Morrade went hunting for wild deer. Well, how can a wife not listen to her husband? Breaks bones, fire drowns. The child is different - everything around the mother is confused. The wife thinks: “Oh, how is it that the husband, having gone to hunt in the middle of the Yenisei, came so soon? You can hear the man coming. How did he come so soon?”
You can hear him approach the door, open the door, only his hand is visible. The child's hand beckons, calls to him. Mother says to son:
- Oh, dad is playing with you. He beckons you with his hand. Well, go to him, go, grab your father’s hand.
Well, what does the child understand? I caught my father's hand. The child's hand caught him and pulled him out into the street. Aw! How can a child not cry? Crying.
- Well, child, don't cry. You will also live well at my house, just like at your mother’s.
When the old woman came out of the tent like the wind, the man and the child ran away.
The boy thinks:
- What is the man carrying me saying, where can you hear his mouth? He has no head, his eyes are where his hands start.
- Well, boy, what are you looking at?
- I'm looking for your head.
- Oh! I never had a head.
It was summer. In the morning we finally reached the chum. Oh! A lot of plagues. Three times seven tents stand, they hold the prick. Every day he hunts wild deer in the water. Well, the baby stopped crying completely. The man who brought it, like a father, holds it, like a mother, holds it. The name of these headless people is Laharenga-ngotu (Mouth on the stomach). Oh! Some Laharenga-ngotu say:
- Oh, brother! Won't you give it to me, boy?
- Hey! Where will I get a child? I won't give it away.
Well, a whole year went by like this. Another year's summer has arrived. They were sitting on the bench again. Well, there were still wild deer, and a lot of them were hunted.
- Well, father! Make me a knife. “I can’t pick meat without a knife,” the boy says.
Well, Laharenga-ngotu made him a knife:
- Well, guess now.
Then the hottest time came.
The owner of Laharenga-ngotu says to his younger brother:
- We need to split up. We need to split into two heaps.
Brother says:
- Well, what a problem, let's split up.
- Let one bunch of geese go to hunt, and let the bad people stay here, hunt by the water.
Well, they were divided, everyone was divided. Only the most daring left. Let a week have passed since they left.
The boy says:
- Oh, father! I won’t sleep at night, I’ll play outside.
- Well, go play, what a problem. Just don’t go far, play near the chum.
Well, the boy goes and plays. I reached the place where there were branches on the bank, a lot of branches. Oh, the branches, as it were, are turned upside down. I cut holes in the bottoms of all of these branches. I covered these holes with sand and rubbed them down. So the branches all became perforated. I just left one intact, pushed it into the water and sat in it. When he drove away from the shore, just as Laharenga-ngotu everyone stood up. They say:
- Oh! It’s as if the child didn’t disappear. We need to get him.
Everyone followed him alone on the branches. Oh! Some of the Laharenga-ngotu say:
- Oh! There has never been any water in my branch. Where did the water come from?
So they spoke, and all their branches became full of water. All the people who were riding in the branches drowned in the water. The boy himself walked back through the water in his branch. Laharenga-ngotu killed all the women. He killed everyone and decided to follow the road of those Laharenga-ngotu people who went to hunt geese.
Oh! The plagues became visible in the distance. Oh! Chumov has arrived. The younger Laharenga-ngotu laughs:
- Damned people! Why was the child allowed in alone? If he gets lost, how will he find the plague?
In the evening they lie in the tent and eat. One old woman says and chatters:
- When this child came, what kind of blood came into my eyes?
- What kind of blood, grandma? Wild blood?
- Don't know.
The boy says:
- Well, what will it be? This is the blood of the wild. My father*98 didn’t get enough wild ones. My father said this: let the argishat come to the place where we gather in the fall when they stop hunting.
Here the owner of the daring Laharenga-ngotu says:
- How is this so? Why did they stop fishing before we returned? They had never stopped working there before we arrived. It’s true that the wild one passed there right away, which is why the hunt ended so quickly.
Then the next day they argishiled. Now the child says to himself:
“We’ll get to that place, and they won’t be there.” What will I say then? Now, however, I am missing.
Well, they arrogated, they arrogated. Oh! We spent the whole day arguing. The ground was already a little frozen. Now while they were walking, it began to rain. The frozen ground has thawed. You can't walk at all, you'll sink up to your knees. The owner, the younger brother of that Laharenga-ngotu, who was the boy’s adoptive father, rides ahead on the farm. All the time he falls off the ground and falls. But the man in front holds the bow in his hands all the time.
He says:
- Oh! I'll break the bow. Ready the ground became bad. Hey guy, hold the bow. When I fall from a deer, I can break my bow.
Well, having said this, he gave the child the bow. Here is a boy pulling a bow with his feet.
- ABOUT! It's tight, it's a disaster! Well, however, if I pull it right away, it will be fine.
Laharenga-ngotu keeps looking back at him. But still he doesn’t look here. The boy quietly put two arrows on his bow. This man is very close, two steps away. No matter how daring he is, where will he go? Then the boy shot two arrows*99. Like a fish, the boy was afraid. Laharenga-ngotu himself was frightened. At first he jumped far on the ground, but then fell off it and sat down. The vein above the heel of his legs was cut. Then the guy returned to Argish. The old woman and another woman were stabbed to death. Numerous people were killed, some were drowned in water, some were stabbed to death with a knife.
Then he went, walked and found his father. I came to my father, and that’s it now.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru