Legend of the Mosquito
Let the story begin...
There once was a husband and wife who loved each other dearly and affectionately. On the day of the couple's wedding, they had sworn to never leave one another. If one day something unfortunately happen where one of the couple died, then the other person would join and accompany the one dead to the underworld.
Not long after the couple was married, the young wife suddenly died of unknown causes to the shock of those around her. No one could have described the pain and sorrow of the husband. After the wife's death, the husband attempted suicide every chance he got but all attempts ended in failure under the careful watch of his family.
Near the day of the wife's burial, a monk showed up to tell the young man of a method to bring his wife back. The young man was eager to hear what this monk had to say so he listened to every single word and realized that the method was not difficult at all. All the husband had to do was to be a live healthy person who would persevere and then it would succeed.
What the idea was is that the live person had to cuddle with the deceased to transfer warmth to her three times a day, every day. If this method was followed exactly without stopping every day for three months and ten days, then the dead will come back alive.
The husband was very gracious to the monk and began to do exactly what he had said, with the hope of his love coming back to him. Each day he hugged his wife, trying to transfer his heat and warmth into a cold, dead corpse.
Only three days after he started, the corpse had begun to smell from decomposition. The smell spread throughout the neighborhood. Everyone around the area began to assemble into an angry mob and wanted the family to bury the body. As a last resort, the young man begged the town to help him build a boat so that he could take his wife to another place.
Many people from the village were more than happy to help him in this mission. Within half a day the husband was able to leave with his beloved wife's body. The boat continued to drift endlessly along the river and the husband still held onto his wife each day without stopping.
Although everything seemed hopeless, the man was filled with anticipation for his beloved, who looked as if she was just sleeping peacefully. After awhile on the boat, the couple had finally reached a new place with a green, open space where the husband began to set up camp and find food.
Coincidently while the young man was out getting wood, he met an old man with a cane wandering underneath the open sky as if he was just taking a leisure walk. From head to toe the old man didn't seemed out of the ordinary except for his hair and beard, which were white as snow. "Why would an old man be wandering out in a place like this?" Finding this odd, the young man pondered as to who exactly was this person standing in front of him.
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