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"Hey, Neang Nuth! If any girl, in the future, wants to be my wife, she
must fulfill duties of wife. That is, if she can take the scarf to the riverbank
for me to take a bath, I will marry her." Neang Nuth replied, "My
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Bandit took a junk and left his wife that night. He arrived at a
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Talking about Neang N uth, when she got up and

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When she arrived at the island of Sethei Bamphlagn Chhmougn, Neang

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her husband. She asked the millionaire in order to land her junk and to
look for her husband. When the dishonest millionaire saw the junk with
lots of luggage arriving, he was very happy and tried to use the same
trick. When they were having a party, the millionaire asked a servant to
hide the gold turtle in Neang Nuth's junk. Luckily, Neang Nuth brought /
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journey. The millionaire charged her of stealing his turtle. She refused
and claimed, "If there is your gold turtle in my junk, I agree to give you
all of my luggage and my junk." "If we can not find our gold turtle in
your junk, we agree to give you all of our servants and wealth," the
millionaire negligently boasted. After they both reached an agreement,
the millionaire asked his servants to look for it. They tried to search
everywhere in the junk, but they found nothing. Not succeeding in playing
the trick, the millionaire gave Neang Nuth all his wealth; however, she
did not accept all of it. She needed only five junks full with lots of luggage
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