Japanese folk story: the story of the Moon Palace Teen

once upon a time, a teenager lived on a hillside with a monkey.

because his hair, face and body were red, and who opened his head, everyone called him akana.

akana is loyal and kind, and never resents anyone, doubting who, curses whom.

he worked very hard, whether or not others were present, and took good care of the monkeys.

but every day, bad-heart monkeys are lazy.

to collect firewood, fetch water and cook, it leaves akana alone.

one day, akana picked up a peach from the mountain, and he planted it in the yard, and soon it sprouts, and looked up, and soon the peach was filled with trees.

peaches are beginning to ripe, and greedy monkeys want to eat these fruits all by themselves.

"akana, let's bet on the peaches.

whoever sells them first, cut off the lost head." "you lose, you cut your head off, i don't do it!" the monkeys crawled in the trees with their tumblers, took down the red and fresh ripe peaches, threw them into their tumbles, filled them up and picked them out.

and when akana reached the tree, there were only green and hard peaches, and he took some of them and put them in the cherries, and went to the city to sell them.

the monkey's peaches were sold soon, and the passers-by looked at akana's peaches, nobody bought them.

akana had to pick up peaches and walk through the village alley, shouting dumb and not selling any.

it's dark, he's hungry, he's exhausted, he wants to go home, and he's afraid the monkey will have to chop off his head and he won't go back.

at that time, the monkeys were grinding with a firewood knife on the grinding stone and waiting for akana to return。