Many years ago, there lived a poor orphan girl named Mah Bongsu.
She worked as a maid for a rich woman named Mak Piah. Mak Piah and her daughter Mayang always
treated her badly. Mak Piah always instructed her to work hard and often didn’t
give her enough food.
One day, when Mah Bongsu was washing her clothes by the river, she
saw a big snake approaching. She was about to run away when she saw the snake
bleeding. Mah Bongsu took pity on it and took it home to cure it.
While Mah Bongsu was attending to it, the snake peeled its skin.
Apparently, the skin turned into gold! Mah Bongsu was happy. Every day, the
same thing happened and as a result. She became wealthy. She quit working for
Mak Piah.
Mak Piah was curious how Mah Bongsu accumulated her wealth. She
spied in Mah Bongsu’s house and found out that it was the snake which gave her
wealthy.
Soon Mak Piah asked her daughter Mayang to go to the river to find
a wounded snake. Mayang found one and took it home. However, they didn’t treat
the snake with love, so the snake bit them, which resulted in their death.
Meanwhile, the snake at Mah Bongsu’s house recovered. One day, Mah
Bongsu didn’t find it. Instead, she found a handsome man at the spot where the
snake was. Apparently, a witch had turned the man into a snake.
The man, who was actually a prince, asked Mah Bongsu to marry him.
Mah Bongsu agreed. Since then, people named the river where Mah Bongsu found
the snake Sungai Jodoh.
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