Have you guys ever heard of a story about the salty fish bag?. NO!, okay I'll tell the it like it is.
One morning LONG! LONG! LONG! ages ago back in the land, a Hmong mother is preparing foods for a big family feast. She told her two oldest daughters to go invite their grandma. Problem is because everybody lived so far away in different villages back than, the girls had never been to their grandma's house before. The mom gave them the direction and pack them some meal, "When you girls reach a split path, take the right one, that one lead to your grandmother's house. The left one lead to a old witch's house, and I don't want you girls to be there". The girls repeated the direction back to their mom to make sure they got it right and than off to see grandma they went.
And finally in the afternoon the girls reach the split path, the older one said "I remember mom said it's the left one, and don't take the right because it lead to an old witch's house". The younger sister disagree and said "I remember mom told us not to go left because that's the way to the old witch's house, mom said for us to go right". The sisters ague for awhile and like always, the older young win. So left they went.
The girls kept walking along the path and finally it to an old small house in the middle of nowhere. The younger sister said "See, I told you so. This doesn't look like grandma's house". The older sister ague back "We've never been to grandma's house before, how do you know". The younger sister answer "I think grandma will be living in a village similar to our, instead of way out her by herself". The older sister suggested that they go knock on the door and ask if that's their grandmother's house so they did.
An old lady with long dirty white hair all the way to her feet open the door and said "I knew you guys were coming to visit me today, welcome". The older sister went right in and make herself comfortable, the younger sister thought to herself how weird that the old lady said she knew they were going to visit her. The older sister call the old lady grandma and told her all about the big feast. The younger sister stay really quite while to two talks for awhile.
Than the old lady ask them for a favor, she told them that it's been a long while since she fix her daughter's hair and since they are her nieces she wanted to fix their hair before heading out. The older sister agree and to make her younger sister feel more comfortable with their grandma, she told the younger sister to go first. As the older sister watch her grandma fixing her younger sister's hair she notice, each time the old lady find a lice she pick it up and eat it (back than everybody has a lot of lice).
When ever the old lady eat a lice, her finger nails seem to grow a little longer. The older sister started thinking about the advice her mom gave them and really started to worry. She quickly think of an idea and said "Oh, grandma, it's late so you go ahead and finish up with my younger sister's hair and I'm going back home first to help mother prepare for the feast". The younger sister noticing something SALTY FISHY is going on so speak out "Oh, older sister, you can't leave me and grandma behind. I don't remember the way back home and grandma had never been to our house". The old lady interrupted and handed the older sister a bag of rice and said "Here, you go on first, throw these rice behind you as you walk back home so we can find the way to your village". And off went the older sister being selfish, leaving her little sister behind to rescue herself.
The younger sister is very scare by now and tried to think of an idea to rescue herself too. As the old lady still fixing her hair she can tell when ever the old lady stop to eat a lice, the old lady whisper to herself "Yum!, your lice tasted so good. Maybe you'll taste even better". This make the girl even more scare in the situation but she quickly came up with a plan. "Grandma?", she asked the old lady "it is kind of late like my older sister said and we should hurry up". The old lady didn't seen to care for a minute but the younger sister kept talking "You can finish fixing my hair when take a break half way home and than I can fix up your hair too before we reach to my house". The old thought for a minute and agree so off after the older sister they went.
The older sister reaches home first and it's already beginning to get dark, she told her mother about the wrong path and the rice she'd pour on the road. All the people there got really mad at her for dissing her little sister and is scare because she had left rice trail for the witches to know where they are. Meanwhile, the younger sister and the old lady reaches the split path and stop to rest. "Okay", said the old lady "Let me finish up your hair and you can finish up my hair". As the old lady started to fix her hair again she kept asking question to bother the old lady and than finally it's her turn to fix the old lady's hair.
The younger sister looked around her and said to the old lady "Grandma, why don't you come sit down over here in this log so you'll be comfortable". She got the old lady to sit on a log close to a bunch of small trees with bunch of branches, and as she is supposely fixing the old lady's hair she tied one end of the old lady's long white hair to a single branch and the other end to another branch. When she got all the old lady's hair tied to all those branches she took off running home. The old lady than realize that the little girl know she's not the real grandma and tried to go after her but can't because her hair is tied to the those tiny trees. The little girl can hear the witch scream and roar in anger as she ran as fast as she can home. The witch pull and pull and she pulled her scalp off with blood dripping all over her head and ran after the little girl.
Finally the younger sister reaches home and everyone was happy to see her still alive. After the reunion she told everyone what she did and that the old lady is coming to the village to look for her so they hide her and her older sister in a big bag hanging at a corner of their house. The old lady reaches the village but had transform herself into a much younger lady and ask everyone what's going on. Of course everyone already know she's a demon because the girls told them and back than a lady just won't go to someone else village and ask what's going on. She sniff here and go there, sniff there and go there. The villagers asked her what is she doing and she said that they've cooked so many good food that she's just sniffing the foods (but for real, she's sniffing for the girls).
She sniff, sniff, sniff and made it to the girls' house. Everybody was scare to stop her because they knew she's a demon so she invited herself in. She sniff, sniff, sniff to the big bag hanging at the corner and asked the family what's in it. They've told her that it's just some SALTY FISH they've kept for later. The old lady look closer at the bag and there was some liquid dripping from the bottom, she touch it with her index finger and lick it "SALTY FISH" she said and left and never seen again. The SALTY FISH liquid was from the girls being scare and crying in the bag, it's their tears. Don't get the wrong idea.
How you guys like my story!, I didn't made it up. Ask around, maybe some OG's might have a better side of it than mine. PEACE!.
