"When he grows up, he will need to lie, because the lie is a work tool"

From: Father Zef Pllumi

I can't tell how old we were: two or three years old. I was alone at home. Nana had gone to the cousins. I felt the need to go outside and went to the forest behind the house, 20-30 m away. At the beginning of the forest, under some bushes, I noticed a chicken coop with three eggs in it. I cried deeper into the forest, but when my father brought me home, I took those three eggs in my shirt. I left them near the fire and went and got the fultera, because I loved fried eggs immensely when my nana used to give them to me. I threw water on Fulter because I didn't know how to drink at that time, but I was without my mother and Fulter who had a lang. The fire was almost extinguished. Then I broke the eggs one by one, one after the other, but they melted in the water. I had listened to my mother, who sometimes when she gave me the eggs, said: "Duel and spoil it" and sent it away. So the three eggs were "broken" and I didn't put them on the fire at all, but I went out with all the eggs and threw them over the wall of the field, which I couldn't reach by crossing; I threw the eggs together with all the white shells. After a few hours, the grandfather brings back Nana from the cousins ​​and starts cleaning the house. He had gone and looked at the oven, but he had not found any eggs there. Don't bother me.

A little later, Ndou, my aunt's son and my oldest friend, who, together with my father, kept the barren sheep, which they kept in a hut there in the barn, while the lambs fell in the sheep's fold, went up to the house where he was. and a shed for them.

Nana, I felt him say to Ndou:

- I had a furnace here behind the house in which there were two cows, but when I returned from the fields I did not see any corn there. Who will eat those woes, someone the snake or someone else?

- Who was at home? - said Ndou.

- Only little Preka - said Nana.

- A small touch is a big hassle and it doesn't take long to finish - Ndoi told him.

- No, there is no way; he is too small, he is afraid of ashes in the forest!

- Who has an ash frig in the forest? He is a terrible child! - said Ndou.

After a few minutes Ndou called:

- Nanny, nanny, come on, see where he has thrown the shells!

Dada went and saw. Then he took my hand and led me to the earring.

– Did you take it there in the oven?

- No, no!

- Tell the truth, who took them?

- I don't know, I don't!

Ouch! Little page, how long do you want me to be a bad bastard? Tell the truth, you drowned!

- I didn't take them, no!

Then she removed a wing of reeds to the marsh, under which was a bed of birches, the ones that had the softest thread for the thread that was to be woven, because they were the strongest birches. He took out a birch tree from that closet, pulled down my panties and began to hit me on my backside, yelling at me several times.

- Don't lie, cheeky!

I screamed as hard as I could. My back got red scars and I think I still feel the pain today. Meanwhile, Nana was shouting:

- Page, don't lie but tell the truth!

My luck, at that time my father came with the dust. He saw me here in the dome of the sky, he came to dada and said:

- Hey you, are you thinking that you want to strangle the boy with me?

- You don't want to drown him, but you want to teach him to never lie to you in his life, because this little cheek has already started lying.

- Really?! But when it grows up, it will lie more, because the lie is a tool or a work tool; he has seen ustallars who with the hammer, the ministry, the saws and saws there in that vest also have the root, otherwise they don't find work. Don't lie to the little one, see how you got the birch tree three times longer!…

Baba Gjeto took me from my mother's hands and began to smooth the red scars of the birch, while saying:

- I saw you getting fat because you're getting married - and he started kissing me on the cheek.

In truth, I, like all the children of the world, did not enjoy being kissed by anyone, especially men like my father, who shaved their heads for two weeks, and the hair of the doctor's cheeks seemed to me as if they were rubbing against my skin. hedgehogs, but that day I enjoyed those kisses, especially when my father told me to help him milk the sheep and then a beautiful king would forgive me.

He sat there on a stone and held me close to him while the sheep passed one by one in front of him, along with the kings who moved their tails waiting to suck the tamil from their mother. Meanwhile, I was touching with my little hand and those little ones were squirming.

Once upon a time, a sheep came to my father who had a very beautiful coat, mottled, black and white. My father told me:

- Does a king want to forgive them?

- Yes, - I told him.

I also kissed the king on the head, while he moved his tail quickly, he bumped his head into mine.

Nana was sitting on the other side of the earring gate and said to father:

- They are doing the two laramanas together, they are sacking our houses!

- Everyone loves their friend! - said father.

After a while all the sheep entered the fold with their kings. Baba did not empty the milk into the drum where Ndou, the son of the mother, had joined it, but gave it to the mother and said:

- Take the sheep tamil that has the mottled king and wipe it to the boy, why do you want the king and the boy to suck a tit!

- O man - answered nana - what new ideas are bothering us!

Father choked me and brought me home. He asked my mother for a seat and sat me down near the bed, while he himself took a stool and sat next to me.

- Bania gadi you gave the boy with the tamil of that sheep that has a different king!

Nana put the tamlin on fire, then the muer bluden (wooden plate) flattened it as much as I could eat. When the tamli boiled, he threw it on the plains on the bluden who was in the police (sergeant).

I ate them with great taste, and it seemed to me that none of the loaves was as good as that of the sheep that had the different king.

- Did you like it? - dad asked me - now I'm going to sleep because dad will pick you up and take you to bed. Tonight we sleep together because other times you slept with Nana. After all that oil, I fell asleep by the fire.