Soon, the villagers who could hear the noise got up. They carried the weapons such as bow and arrow, wood, some rock and anything they could grab.
They surrounded the date plum tree, wishing to gave the monkeys the lesson because they dared to steal the date plums in the night.
One man said that" Well, they all come here. Get down now, monkeys. I'll cut you one by one."
Another man asked the first man that " How can you cut them? You only have a rock not a knife. How can you cut them by a rock."
He answered that " Come on, I just make a comparison. Do you get it? A comparison!! You know?"
Each of 80,000 monkeys was very frightened of death. So they were panicky and didn't know what to do.
A female monkey said that "Oh boy! Oh boy! What are we going to do? We're going to die."
One of the monkeys said that " Right. We should be careless. We enjoy eating too much."
When the great monkey saw that the monkeys were very frightened, he found the way to calm them so that they wouldn't be too scared and die of the heart attack.
The great monkey consoled the monkeys and told that "Don't be frightened, guys. There're many things that humans need to do. Let them stand over there and wait. If we don't go down, they can't climb up. Keep eating the plums. Just wait for a while. Soon humans will do something else."
When he saw that the monkeys'feeling was getting better, the great monkey told them to count the monkey
in the crowd whether they were. But after counting, there was one missing from the crowd.
A monkey said that " One of us is missing. It's Senaka. Why is he absent?"
The second monkey said that " What!! Senaka, the great monkey's nephew? Where is he going?"
Another monkey said that " Well...Well...Could he be caught by humans? I'm so worried about him."
The second monkey complained that " And still you can eat. It's really touching."
The great monkey knew that Senaka's absence didn't caused by being caught. He firmly believed that soon Sanaka would find the way to help them.
The great monkey said that " Don't be scared. Though Senaka isn't here. I believe it doesn't mean that he was caught. Let's wait for a while. I think Senaka can find the way to help us."
One of the monkeys asked the great monkey that " Is that true, Master? I'm so scared that I can't do anything. Yum, yum."
Another monkey ridiculed that " Are you really scared? You almost eat the plums on the tree up."
Senaka, the great monkey's nephew didn't accompany with the crowd of monkeys. Actually, Senaka was sleeping while the monkeys were going to the village. When he got up, he was very surprised that he couldn't see other monkeys in the woods.
Senaka said to himself that" Umm... (Yawn). Hey! Where have all the monkeys gone? Why is the forest so quiet today? What happened?"
Senaka tried to find the clue that told him where his monkey friends had gone. Finally, he found several footprints heading for the abandoned village. Senaka realize at the time that the crowd of monkeys went there to get the date plums.
Senaka thought that" Umm.. looking at the footprints, I guess my friends must go to the village to eat the date plums. I'd better catch them up. I enjoy sleeping too much. I don't know if the plums are gone now."
Senaka followed the footprints until he arrived at the village. When he saw many villagers carrying the weapons stood around the date plum tree, he realized that there must be something bad happening to his friends.
Senaka knew that " No way. If I let it go on like this, my friends must be killed by humans. I have to find the way to distract their attention so that my friends on the tree will be to run away . Let's put it this way."
Senaka grabbed baby cloth that was hung around there and put it on in order to disguise as a boy. He walked into a house where an old lady was sitting and spinning cotton string.
Senaka was dressed in child clothes as speak to the old lady that " Granny, it's very dark outside. I want to go to the toilet. Could I borrow you torch?"
She said " Yes, of course, boy. It's right there. Take it and give me back later."
When he got the torch. Senaka ran to the house that located windward and then used that torch to start the fire at the roof of that house. The wind that blew helped the fire rage faster. It burnt the house so fast.
When the villagers who standing around the date plum tree saw it, they left the crowd of monkeys and helped put out the fire abruptly.
A man shouted that " Hurry, guys. Fire! Let's put it out. Otherwise, it'll burns down the whole village. Leave the monkeys alone. Let's put out the fire first."
When the people left to put out the fire, the crowd of monkeys took the chance to run away from the date plum tree. Each of them didn't forget to take a date plum in order to give it to Senaka for he came to help them.
A monkey said that" Hurry up. Let's go now before they finish putting out the fire."
Some female monkey said that "We really have to thank Senaka. We'd better take some date plums with us and give them to him."
All of the monkeys talked together happily that " Alright. Alright.... Hey, hey. You'd better swallow it before you talk. You're really something. You stuffed yourself like that, yet you still didn't stop eating."
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