a long time ago, in a remote and small hmong village named poonai there was this girl named nkauj. she was pretty, fair skinned, long dainty femme fingernails, she was a good girl...the kind you wouldn't mind for a wife.
her bf was this man by the name of zeb. he was ugly, but manly and knew how to sweet talk to the ladies. he was poor but a hardworker. his village was 2 days walk from nkauj's village. so after visiting her, he tells her that he has to go back home now and he plans to work hard making hmong knives (cuz he was good at making knives) to sell and doing other odd jobs so that he can save up to come back and marry her. he said he loved her very much and asked her to wait for him for 6 months until he returned. it would be a long wait, but after 6 months they'd be together for always.
zeb returns home, made his knives sold them. as the months rolled by he made enough money to pay for his wife's dowry. as he was preparing to leave on the last day of the sixth month when the wheats and the rice were ready to be harvested, his mother became ill. his father asked him to stay and take care of his mother cuz he was the only child and his father needed his help at home. he told his father that nkauj would be waiting for him, but his father guilt tripped him to stay.
so he stayed and the days became weeks and weeks became months and his mother got better. he then decided to make the journey to pick up his wife nkauj. he got to her village and things seemed out of place. it seemed abandonned, houses were poorly maintained, pigs and chickens were out of their pens roaming freely. he went to nkauj's house and she greeted him. she was pale and looked sickly but she smiled and hugged him and said she missed him. she didn't think he would come back. he apologized and explained his situation.
they had makeup sex. she tried to make him some food but it was just rotten worms and dirt. he thought it was wierd and said he'd go fishing and bring them some fresh food later. he went fishing and he fell down this ridge sliding onto some hmong ppl walking by. he scared the bajeezus out of them and they said to him are u a ghost or a man. he said of course a man. and they say really? i had to ask cuz this area is haunted. he said really? by whom? she said by the ghost of this girl named nkauj. he said really? my gf is named nkauj and she lives over there. they said OMG, ur gf died months ago and the village got abandonned cuz she was haunting it.
of course he didn't believe her. so he went back home with the fish he caught to his gf. she started to cook it and apparently she forgot some hot pepper from across the room. and when she didn't think was looking, while he was washing his face, she stretched her long arm to grab the peppers. zeb saw this in the water he was washing in and got really crepped out.
later that night when he slept next to her, he felt she was very cold. he realized she was probably dead and the ghost the hmong ppl told him about. so he told her he was gonna go pee. she says hurry up, don't leave me or i will come find you. he tells her i won't leave u, i love you. as a sign of trust, i'll tie this string to ur hand and i'll tie it to my hand too so u know i'lm still outside. as he goes out, he takes his gourd with water with him and ties the other end of the string to a tree and places the gourd on a brach so that it dripped slowly like he was peeing.
he then ran for his life. the ghost thought he took too long and went to investigate and found that he was gone. she was mad...so she chased him. he ran and ran and she nearly caught up to him, but he made it to a nearby village. he pounded on the door and found refuge. the village monk was summoned and was able to ward off his dead gf nkauj.
after he made it home, they changed his name so that his gf wouldn't be able to find him and take his spirit. one day after many years, his friends invite him to go hunting. since the incident he had lived a secluded life so he decided eh why not. so he goes hunting and they split up. the sun fell and his friends started to search for him to go home. they call him by his new name Dr. Tom, but no one answered. they try a few more times and thn they say strange he doesn't answer. maybe he's not used to his name yet and think we are talking about the real Dr. Tom, so they call his old name Zeb. as soon as they did this, his gf heard his name and took his spirit away. all they ever found was his dead body.
THE END.
hope you like it.
it's a true story.
