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Chapter 5: Zurich City Festival

The next day, they woke up and got ready.

 Their guide Senorita arrived. 

She said, "Hurry up we should leave now!"

"It's too early; we will go after 1 hour," Siya said. 

"No, no, we should leave now because Zurich City is the largest city in Switzerland. It will be late night while returning."Senorita said.

They got ready and left.

 After one hour they reached there. It was indeed a beautiful city.

"Very beautiful decoration! Is this city always clean and decorated?"Abha asked.

 "No, no! Today is their festival. This is the biggest cultural city in Switzerland. This big festival is held every three years. The event takes place in central Zurich around the lake and rivers with market stalls lining the streets and stages with live entertainment. We are going there now."Senorita explained. 

They reached there and were amazed to see everything. Many people were dressed in different costumes. Live entertainment was going on the stage. Games and rides were arranged, food shows were going on on another side. Concerts, river shows, air shows were magnificent to see. There were many stalls on the street.

"This is the chilbi!"Senorita said. "What?" All said in a confusing voice.

"Chilbi means funfair."She replied. 

They all danced and sang with people celebrating the day. They enjoyed it a lot.

 "I am so hungry. Can we go to eat something?" Abha asked. 

"Ok, so let's go to a food stall."Siya said.

 "How would be a burger stall? No, let's eat pizza, no French fries, no spring rolls, no cupcakes or noodles..." Abha said excitedly watching the different stalls on the street. 

"Be silent Abha, let me think. Let's eat water balls."Shakti said.

Everybody agreed to her and went towards the water balls stall. They ate full of their heart's content.

"This is the best water balls (Golgappa) I have ever eaten," Manaswi said.

 Indeed it was marvelous. They asked the lady serving them in the water balls stall the reason behind the wonderful and tastiest water balls that she was making because they have never tasted such water balls in any of the countries.

 "Madam, I am using the recipe, as usual, the others are using. But the difference between them and me is the emotions."She replied calmly. 

"What do you mean? I didn't understand."Khushbu asked in confusion.

"I am not the one whom you are considering. I am in the top 10 list of richest ladies in Switzerland."She started explaining. "You all would think that I am rich and wealthy, so I would have all the happiness in the world. But wealth is not all the happiness, because it cannot provide you all the satisfaction."

Manaswi asked, "So what is the satisfaction did you get by doing this work?" 

"I don't do this work every day. I come here with my stall at every Zurich festival. Because when I see the smiling faces of the people, it is a very happy moment for me. I cannot describe it in words. I don't take any money from them."

 "Truly you are a kind soul. We are so satisfied with your conversation. Today we have got the key to a happy and satisfying life."Shakti said. The lady was kind and generous to everyone. She was the richest lady in Switzerland but suffered from depression. Doctors suggested she should spend more time with nature. She later found real happiness with her people. She started feeling satisfied when see people happy around her. She started doing many charity works and putting stalls in the Zurich festival.   

Suddenly, there was a crash on the road. It was like an earthquake. Everybody looked and saw that it was a small asteroid. Thankfully, no one was injured. People were so frightened, so the chief of the festival made them silent and said, "It was a fearful incident, but now everything is fine, so there is nothing to worry about."The people got silent and after a while, they forgot everything and again started celebrating.

After enjoying the whole day, they went to their hotel and ate their dinner. When everybody was talking about the day, Shakti was in deep thoughts. They asked her about what she was thinking of, she replied, "I am thinking about that lady." "Did you mean that rich lady who disguised herself as a worker of water balls stall?" Siya asked. "Yeah, I am. "She replied.

"What happened? Why are you thinking about her?"

"She was so interesting. I want to write a newspaper report about her."

"But you are not a journalist, Right?"Abha asked.

"Abha, don't be so silly! Do you remember our friend Rita?"Shakti asked.

"Yeah, I know. She was so amazing."Siya said. 

"Yeah, she is a journalist now. I will give her my report."Shakti said.

 "Nice idea!" Manaswi said.

While everybody was talking, Diksha was sad looking at her phone. 

Khushbu asked her, "What happened to you Diksha?" 

"There's a problem. In our office, we have to do research on a very different topic." Diksha said. 

"Which topic is it?" Khushbu asked her.

 "Topic is 'The Chocolate Land'. 100 years ago, some people from a place named chocolate land. The research was started about where this place exists, but then it was stopped. After these many years, this research is restarted." Diksha explained.

 "Does this fantasy really exist? Who were those people? How did they come here?" Manaswi asked her. 

"I don't know, this research has restarted to find these answers." She replied.

"Whatever it is, we are not the researchers, so now let's go to bed. I am so tired. Let's go for sleeping." Siya said. 

All slept talking with each other.