Once upon a time, there was a couple who had a one month baby. The husband was very lazy and tricky. He always found the way to fool his wife. One morning, he pretended to be sick. He told his wife that he really hurt his arm and needed to stay at home so that he could not go to find firewood with her. He asked his wife to go alone and promised to take care of the baby.
The wife had to go to find the firewood alone while the husband looked after the baby at home. While he was taking care of the baby, he noticed that the top of the baby’s head was moving up and down. He thought that there might be an insect or other strange creature inside the baby’s head. He was worried about this so he used the needle to pierce the baby’s head in order to take the thing out. Unfortunately, the baby died. The man was very sad he wrapped the baby by the mat and took it to bury in the forest. Along the way to the forest, he saw an eggplant tree. Being so exhausted from the journey, he stopped near the eggplant tree and picked the eggplant to eat in order to ease his hunger. While he was eating, his baby fell out from the mat. Without knowing that his baby dead body was not in the mat, he continued walking to the middle of the forest. He buried the mat under the ground thinking that it was his baby dead body. After he had finished, he went back home. He passed the eggplant tree and saw the baby lying dead neat the tree. He did not recognized his own baby, instead he felt relief that not only his baby who died but also the eggplant’s baby.
And he hurried back to his hut. When his wife arrived, she asked for the baby. The husband then told her that the baby was dead. He consoled her that not only theirs, even the eggplant’s baby was dead. The wife was extremely sad. She asked him to take her to the place where the eggplant’s baby lied dead. The woman was shocked and miserable to find that it was her baby who lied dead under the eggplant tree. She was also disappointed that her dumb husband could not even recognize his own baby.