Benji's Truelife Stories

Several years ago in a certain land there lived a beautiful woman with children and a loving, hardworking husband who was devoted to his family. However this woman had unfaithful ways.

One day she realized that she was pregnant with another child. While her husband was happy and devoted himself to preparing for the baby's birth, this woman became deeply worried in her mind for she alone knew that the child growing in her womb was not sired by her husband.

To worsen issues,the man with whom she'd had an adulterous affair was a very
fair, light skinned man with a big,visible mole-like birthmark near his left ear. Down to the smallest child, everyone in the community knew that anyone born into that family would certainly have this unmistakable birthmark. The birthmark was that family's curse; the birthmark was that family's blessing.

After much worries and thinking, this woman decided to quietly run away for in those days an adulterous woman would face severe humiliation and much ridicule from everyone while a Man who slept with another man's wife would be beaten up, ostracized and made to pay a very hefty fine.

She cooked up a plan and hired a man from another town to visit her family pretending to be a messenger from her own village, which was several days journey away. This fake messenger then showed up and informed her in the presence of her husband that her old and frail father was dying and wished to see his grandchildren before his demise. This woman started crying. Her husband did all in his power to comfort his beautiful wife. He even wept secretly.

When it was time for her to depart, her husband was advised by a certain wise man in the community not to allow all his children follow their mother to such a very distant land and so the husband told the wife to take only the last born with her. This decision secretly pleased the wife, for she had been racking her mind of a way to make this happen without making it obvious that she wanted it.