Mystery of water

PART 5

Mark and his father were very close to the house of old lady but luckily they passed the old lady's house ..
Mark felt relaxed....
Meanwhile Mark was passing through a play ground...
He saw his friends playing in the ground...
One of Mark's friend saw him there and he got it that something was wrong with Mark so he went to Mark and said "Comeon Mark you are too late today let's play"....
Mark was shocked listening to this....
He was not knowing what he should say....
"What ? Oh... I got it !! Mark you wanted to come here for playing in the morning " Mark's father said....

Mark had a strange look on his face....

"Alright you may enjoy here if you had told me before I would have allowed you.." his father added...

Mark smiled....

"Ok my dear son you play with your friends I am going back to home" his father said and departed back towards home....

Mark's friend asked him about the situation what was happening....

Meanwhile Mark got an idea.... He thought of taking help from his friends so that they can collectively reach to the solution of this problem...

So he brought his group close to him it was a group of 9 children including Mark ....
He told the story that the old lady told him....
And also told about the 6:30 AM story....

The group was also now eager to know about this question....
They decided to fight against this problem collectively...

Mark took all of them to the old lady's house....

"Hi... These are my friends I told them the story and the past... Now with collective effort of all of us .. we are going to reach to the solution of this problem..."

The old lady smiled and said " It is very nice of you all... I have not found anyone taking this much interest in the topic .."

The old lady asked the group to come back tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM....

The Group scattered back towards their home... And everyone had only one thing in their mind and that was the questions of drinking water...

Mark had some different questions rising in his mind ... He was Praying that the old lady should be present tommorow she shouldn't die....

Yet Mark had a thought of the dream he watched so he was yet thinking over it ....
He slept thinking the same and the next morning he was up on time....

He got freshed and ran in the name of playing with friends...
The group got gathered at the old lady's house....
The old lady was happy seeing everyone on time...
She took everyone behind some houses near the drinking water shop....
They were looking by hiding themselves behind those houses....

The next thing what they saw made everyone shocked....

Yes !! Here were the carts pushed by the guards of the palace
The same carts about which Mark had heard secretly....

Almost 8 carts passed with 3 barrells of water inside each of them...

The security guards of the palace were pulling and it were the carts which were brought full of water from outside...

Mark and his group had reached to the conclusion of one more question ... And that was from where the water comes...But why was it charged...
The old lady smiled and said "see this is what the King does to earn he sells the water...
So in this way secretly brings the barllel of water inside"....
Mark and his group now decided to do something and take some action ...
They had studied in schools that water is available free in nature they wanted to work on the money charged for the drinking water...

The old lady said...
Comeback tommorow at 3:00 AM I will show you something more...

Mark and his friends were shocked... "Now what is left ?" One of them asked ...

The old lady smiled and said "This is just a way too fool the people living in the village"

"What ? Making fool ?" Mark asked...

"Yes" ..The old lady replied..
She further said " The barllels which you saw on the carts were empty"....

"What ? Empty ? No water inside ?" Asked Mark...

"No... And for that only I m calling you back at 3:00AM " said the old lady...

Mark and his friends are shocked and confused....