𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞

65

the next day....early morning Noyon woke everyone up saying they needed to do some shopping
"ma....we are in the middle of Durga Puja i mean, price will be sky high of everything and that if we find any shop open." Ferdousi said following behind Noyon and behind them came others

"oh! we'll, I've a friend here who is an expert in them, she selected and kept few exclusive sarees for us and kurta-payjama and dhotis for our men."

and.... true to her word, each female bought 5 sarees on average just for the occasions to come, even though for a fact Noyon parrish always had some kind of obsession with her Saree collection, which is huge and enviable. But she said she'd come and visit right after puja ends.

so, later after they had some light lunch at Noyon's choice of restaurant, they left for "Nil Shayor", their village.

their vacation officially started.........

"পথ বেধে দিলো বন্ধনহীন গ্রন্থি.....আমরা দুজন চলতি হওয়ার পন্থি"
[ the endless path is charted out for the two of us....the lovers of wind ] Noyon said

"Rabindranath Thakur's famous poem - Shesher kobita" Mayur replied looking out......

while Ferdousi sighed "listen driver....you drop all of us off here, our mom, just want two of them to go" She teased making everyone of them chuckle

"rubbish" Mom's face turned red

"poem is over and so am i......I'm starving. How far is your Nil Shayor" Cole whined

"yes! how far is your Nil Shayor, Noyin" Alec asked stretching his leg as far as he could

"half an hour at this speed" Noyon looked at her watch and said

"how do you know!" Ferdousi asked, clearly irritated

"speedometer says 60kms and milestones i just saw 30kms away" Mayur answered

And.....she was right, half an hour later they passed a huge concrete gate and officially entered the area of Nil shayor and they drove through the pebbled road to the mansion that had old style lampposts both side.....

few minutes later a huge old rod iron gate opened infront of them....
"uh! finally" Jess, Ferdousi's husband groaned, making Ezekiel straightened up on his seat.....

to say Ezekiel King was surprised would be and understatement, surely he was waiting to be surprised but he wasn’t really expecting an actual medieval palace which was more of a his mother-in-law's famiy's ancestral mansion which was built probably at the time almost 200 hundred years ago......before british raj started. He looked around,

it was huggeeeeee.

Noyon parrish's family the DEV ROY'S was once very rich Zamindar(landlord) at the time.....and even though monarchy ended, they tried to maintain the same grandeur as much as they could which wasn’t easy at all.

"whoooa.....Yohan and Natalie are missing big time" Cole exclaimed

"welcome,...welcome" two men and 3/4 servants came out running towards them as 7 people stepped out of the car one by one

"dada...ক্যামন আছো"

[ how are you brother ] Noyon and Alec hugged her elder brother and said....."and let me introduce you to our guest of honour" She whispered looking at two of her daughters and son-in-laws....she asked them to come forward

"hello...i'm Dr.Pinakpani Deb roy.....the eldest of all....hope you didn’t have any trouble finding our humble abode...Jess how are you, Ferdousi everything good ? and He might be....."