Vardaan 1...The Ultimate Boon

Chapter 24: If You Ask, You Will Get (Part 1)

Coming out of Uttarasaadhaka Gurukul, Batuk felt that he had ruined his life because of his mistake. Although his conscience did not accept that, he felt that he was not able to deny the words of his greatest pradhanaacharya based on his meager intelligence.

Returning to his hut, Batuk came to know the truth that the thought of poverty that had arisen in his mind due to fear, had its real birth in the mind of his wife.

Batuk was surprised as well as happy. Getting spoiled is a normal thing, but only those who restore the spoiled situation are called heroes. Batuk had the opportunity to become the hero of his story.

That opportunity was given to him by the stupidity of his drunkard master.

Brahma Kaal had already started in between the conversation. So Batuk and Swaraa did not wake up the next morning. When both of them woke up in the afternoon, there was a lot of difference in their mental states.

Swaraa was worried about getting up late, but Batuk woke up with new energy. Batuk knew the goal and he had also seen the way to achieve the goal.

Batuk immediately started his efforts. He sowed four seeds each in the four fields of the landowner and waited.

Plants did not emerge for fifteen days. When Batuk dug up the seeds, he found that the seeds were hollow. There were only their outer layers left.

"How foolish of me, the seeds on which forty acres have been staked, how can they be hackneyed?" Batuk scoffed at himself.

Batuk decided to find out more information about those seeds. After showing the seeds to many experienced farmers, elders, and vaidyas of the surrounding, he consulted deeply with them.

Fifteen more days passed, and apart from the unsuccessful results of twenty pages, nothing came to his hand.

Batuk was deeply disappointed.

"You don't like being sad, keep trying, Mother Nature can answer anytime," Swaraa said while giving courage to Batuk.

Swaraa's efforts gave hope to Batuk again. He realized that both of them were thinking in the same direction. Batuk thought again, flipping through the pages of his research.

Batuk found that till now he had tried everything possible. He had tried every method and every trick. He realized that even though he had not achieved the desired results, what he had achieved had increased his farming knowledge tenfold within a month.

Batuk realized that he was on the right track. Mother Nature is giving him the basic knowledge to become an expert in farming. He thanked Mother Nature from the depths of his soul. Just at that moment, an idea flashed in his mind.

"The bettor must have grown these seeds in his fields. That's why he gave so many seeds to Zameendaar Rakeshchandra."

Then Batuk planned to secretly go to the fields of the opponents. Within a few days, he got a big shock when he came to know that those seeds were not grown in the fields of any five landowners. Their servants and farm laborers did not know anything about seeds.

Batuk's eleven-day run was ruined again.

Batuk was returning sadly when he received a message from an old farmer. He immediately went to meet him.

"Ants eat the seeds in the ground itself, that is why they become hollow lying in the ground." The old farmer told.

It was the first small step towards the big way of Batuk's success.

"There is something that attracts ants to these seeds so much that they eat them deep in the soil." Batuk thought in his mind.

After thanking the old farmer, Batuk went towards his house.

Thinking came to Batuk's mind that "A very large scale variation of soil is also possible. Who knows whether these seeds have a habit of a particular soil and climate? It is also possible that it is the seed of another country."

Surrounded by all such questions, Batuk reached the Zameendaar took a horse, and set out on a journey.

Batuk had thought of going somewhere else, but he did not know why he went toward a well-known mound.

Batuk could see his barren field from time to time.

In the absence of Batuk, Rakeshchandra did not let Swaraa lack anything. Swaraa found that even her mistress's behavior had changed a bit towards her.

Batuk went on sowing four seeds each in the fields of different soils of every village he came across on the way. The way of the four-day mound was covered by Batuk in seven days.

On reaching the mound, Batuk saw that the crops of the fields had been harvested and a new crop had been sown. Two men were collecting things in the hut.

After talking Batuk came to know that those two were assistants of Dev, Jagdeesh, and Rasik who were returning to their homes after harvesting.

The men also told Batuk that in a few days, two more assistants would come here to take care of the fields until the harvest.

Only then did Batuk understand the secret of his barren field and the green fields of his friends.

Batuk went to his farm and apologized to him and promised that he would take care of him like friends. He thanked nature and started digging.

Both the men were surprised to see his spirit. After working hard for three days and three nights, Batuk plowed his field. After one day he sowed in nine different ways. Water was available in the ponds built by them. So he did not face any problems with irrigation in the absence of rain.

The eighth morning brought happiness to him. Yellow-colored plants were rising above the earth. The land of the mound had given him the old happiness again. He wanted to run away to tell this good news to Swaraa but he did not do so. He waited till the new men arrived.

During that, he saw that out of the nine methods he tried, three were successful. He wrote down his experiment in detail.