Vardaan 1...The Ultimate Boon

Chapter 16: The Biggest Symbol Of Foolishness (Part 4)

Rasik could see that Dev's feet were eager to go out.

"...No my friend, my future is not in the fields. I am a scientist and as far as I remember, you want to be a businessman." Slowing down his voice, Rasik spoke almost trying to persuade.

Dev felt very bad hearing that. He felt that Rasik was talking like a madman.

"Yes, I am going to be a woodworker, but not now, that is my future. At present, we have to grow seeds on this mound. This test stands between our present and our future. Without breaking this wall of examination, we will be able to do nothing but a dream." Dev said while trying to explain the seriousness of the exam.

Dev had almost reached his tool. He was more surprised than why Rasik was not able to understand such a simple thing.

"You are still thinking of the exam..."

"....what else is there to think about here? Why are we living suffocating in these stones?" Dev said angrily.

Rasik became calm looking at Dev.

"You know what I'm thinking...to get out of here." Saying so, Rasik picked up his bundle and immediately came out.

Dev was stunned. He was eager to go out but Rasik had gone out. However, there was a difference between the intentions of both of them like earth and sky.

Dev was not able to understand what to say or what to do. Then Rasik came back.

"Suppose even if the soil comes out...then what?...from where will you get water for the plants? Now don't say you bring that from the river... you know better than me how far it is." Rasik made a last effort from his side and asked an important question.

Rasik was quite sure that except that farming anything else could happen on the mound.

"I have seen watermarks on the mound, it means that it rains here." With hope in his eyes, Dev said something like that, as if he was telling Rasik not to do that stupidity.

Dev felt that Rasik was foolish, whereas after listening to Dev's answer, Rasik understood that Dev had also become a victim of the same madness that Jagdeesh had started.

"My friend...you too have gone mad," saying Rasik went inside and lay down.

Dev stood helpless looking at both of them and kept thinking because due to Rasik's reaction, Dev's progressing steps had stopped.

A few more days passed.

Dev's conscience was Saying whatever Jagdeesh could do, he could also do it. One day he made his decision. He talked to Rasik for a long time. Both seemed to disagree with each other. All of a sudden they agreed at a point. Both came out of the cottage.

Dev had a tool in his hand and Rasik had a bundle in his hand.

Dev went to his farm and Rasik left the examination place.

Jagdeesh wanted to stop Rasik. Just then he remembered that it was a Personal exam, not a group exam. So he remained quiet.

Dev got involved in digging with full power.

Jagdeesh was very happy to see him.

Batuk didn't mind. All his attention was on his digging. His eyes were eager to see this fake farm as a real farm.

A few more days passed.

One morning, a loud screeching sound disturbed the sleep of all three. When they came out, they found Rasik digging his land.

"I am a winner...not a deserter," said Rasik while hitting the ground with his tool.

All three were very happy to see Rasik. There was more pride in that happiness.

"By the way, I am hungry for three days." When Rasik said innocently, all three laughed.

Everyone was digging. The fierceness of the sun had become moderate in front of their spirits.

"Do you believe that the soil will come out of our fields?" Rasik asked Dev.

"I have full faith," Dev responded without thinking.

Rasik stopped digging. He was panting due to fatigue.

"What if the soil is not found even after digging very deep?" Rasik asked thinking.

Dev looked at Rasik. Thinking something, he went to the cottage and came to Rasik with drinking water.

"So we will dig out the soil from the forest and fill it here to make a field." Dev made his intention clear and explained that he had wasted all his time, and now he would rest only after winning.

Rasik was taken aback. A smile automatically appeared on Rasik's lips.

"Oh! Wow, Dev! Looks like you will stop only after growing the crop." Rasik said, happy for his friend.

Dev gave a smile as a reply and handed over Rasik's tool to Rasik. Rasik happily took hold of the tool.

"Rasik, to be honest..." While speaking, Dev hit the ground.

"... I can see the crop." By saying so, Dev made his intention clear.

Dev's enthusiasm made Rasik's fatigue disappear. That quality of Dev used to make him a true leader. A true leader inspires his comrades through his deeds.

Within a few days, soil came out in both lands as well.

Rasik and Dev started dancing happily. Seeing both, it seemed that both had returned to their childhood. After being happy for a long time, both started crying. Batuk and Jagdeesh came and congratulated both of them.

"Friends, perhaps you too find gold?" Jagdeesh asked.

Crying, Dev hugged him.

and water was arranged without digging for two days. By spending two days, they saved four hours a day for the next ten days and kept digging almost all the time. They also gave up the afternoon rest. Even when there was moonlight at night, they would start digging.

In a true sense, they removed the difference between day and night with their hard work. Eventually, they got their reward too.

After one hundred and ten days of hard work, Jagdeesh's iron-like land had become farmland. Batuk did the same work in ninety-five days. Dev got his field ready in seventy days and to everyone's utter astonishment, Rasik got his field ready in fifty-four days.

Jagdeesh was happy that his thinking proved correct.

Batuk was happy that he also made the impossible possible with the help of Jagdeesh.

Dev's happiness was that he had achieved success through his willpower without any help from others.

The happiest was Rasik because he finished the work first despite long thoughts.

All four congratulated each other. No one slept till late that night.

Although the darkness of the new moon had spread on the mound, don't know how all four could see their fields waving in the milky light. Where till yesterday there were layers of stones, today there were fields filled with mud. These fields were not a field, but a real visible miracle.

A ditch on one side and only stones on the rest. Deep dug pits in the middle and soil filled to the brim.

There was a ditch on one side of the mound and there were only stones on all other sides. Some were small stones and some were very big stones, but now there were deeply dug pits in the middle of those stones which were full of soil.

All four secretly praised themselves and saluted the pradhanaacharya.