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Chapter 4- Jab they Met
A month had passed since the arrival of Kunwar Pratap and Ajabde.
Kunwar Pratap resumed his duties as Yuvraj and supported his dajiraj in the business dealings as well as political duties.
While in the other hand Ajabde took up the responsibility of teaching underprivileged children who could not afford education. She also helped the municipal corporation in any little way she could. When people would ask her why did she comeback as she was so well educated. All she would say is yahan humari zyada zaroorat hai.
One day while she was at municipal corporation she saw some papers. It were some documents relating to digging of Wells in Bijolia as there is a severe water shortage. She asked Mr. Prasad the mayor about it as she had not seen at least one new well.
Ajabde :Prasadji Yeh papers ke anusar yahan ab tak 8 naye kuwe hone chahiye the.
Prasadji: Kya kare baisa ranaji ne paise nahi bhijwaye. Aur bohot sari batein hai
Ajabde: hum bhi ek letter Likhenge ranaji ko.
She sat down to write a letter.
While on the other end in Udaipur every one in the palace was busy with the preparation of a party. It was for Kunwar Prataps 25th Birthday.
Maharani sa : hume vishwas nahi ho raha kunwarji intne bade ho gaye.
Kunwarani Nandini : han Jija pata hi nahi chalta ki kab humare bache bade ho jate hai.
Rajmata: han jaiwanta Baiji. Hume lagta hai ab aap ko Kunwar Pratap ke vivah ke bare main sochna chahiye.
Jaiwanta Baiji started to think about it.
The next day Kunwar Pratap was in the study with his dajiraj.
The letter from bijolia had arrived.
Kunwar Pratap read it out. Ranaji was furious.
Ranaji : how dare they lie. Itne warshon se humne paise bhijwaye hai.
Kunwar Pratap : aap shant ho jayiye. Koi baat toh hogi. Jis tarah se Yeh patra likha gaya hai hume aisa lagta hai ki kuch Na kuch gadbad jaroor hai.
Ranaji: arthart?
Kunwar Pratap : pata nahi hum swayam wahan jayenge.
Ranaji: theek hai aap parso Chale jayiye. Kal ke utsav ke baad.
The next day everyone wished Kunwar Pratap. There was a grand celebration in the palace.
Many royal Princesses were invited. The plan was to see if Pratap was interested in any of them but to his Ranimas dismay he did not pay attention to any of those gaudily dressed girls. Both Pratap and his Ranima were unaware that the girl who would steal his heart was in the near by district of Bijolia waiting for the reply of her aggressive letter written to ranaji.
At night Jaiwanta Bai asked her son Kya aap ko koi achi nahi lagi.
To this he replied nahi Ranima. Ab hum sona chahte hai kal hume bijolia jana hai.
The next day.
Kunwar Pratap got ready for his one day visit to bijolia. It was a 2 hour journey.
On the other end in Bijolia Ratan was dancing around her Jija saying dekiye Jija kal ke utsav ki photo. Kunwar Pratap looks so handsome.
Ajabde did pay any heed and said itne paise utsav ke bajay bijolia ke Vikas main legate toh aj bijolia ki Yeh dasha Na hoti.
Just then Prasad ji arrived:
Prasadji: Khamma Ghani mamrakji Hansabai ji.
Mamrakji : Ghani Khamma ap yahan.
Prasadji : woh hum Ajabde Bai sa se milne aye the.
Just then Ajabde arrived
Ajabde : Khamma Ghani Prasadji boliye.
Prasadji : Ghani Khamma baisa jo patra apne ne likha uska jawab dene swayam Kunwar Pratap ane Wale hai. Ve yahan dus baje tak aa jayenge. Aap bhi a jayiye.chalte hai.
Ajabde wished he would not have said anything in front of her datta. She had not told him anything.
Mamrakji was furious.
Mamrakji : aap samjhti kya hai apne aap ko. Himmat kaise hui aap ki Yeh sab karne ki. Hansabaiji key dijiye apni beti se ki kahi nahi jayengi ve.
And left for work
Ajabde pleaded saying hume jana hoga masa. Bijolia ke liye. Her mother gave in n said par apke datta ko Yeh pata nahi chalna chahiye.
It was 10 o'clock.
People gathered in the baithak. Ajabde arrived as well. To her surprise Kunwar Pratap was already there. She thought to herself that he is punctual. She looked at him he was indeed very handsome tall well built.
Ajabde asked herself to control and concentrate.
Kunwar Pratap stood up and said.
Kunwar Pratap: kisne likha tha woh patra?
Ajabde : Humne.
Kunwar Pratap looked at her she was dressed so simply. Her cotton salwar kamiz. Her long hair were braided with a few flicks falling on her face which kept on irritating her. He could not imagine that this girl had written the letter. She looked so innocent naive unusually beautiful. Kunwar Shakti who had accompanied him was smiling at his Dada bhai. Kunwar Pratap came back to his senses.
Kunwar Pratap : aap ko aisa Kaun lagta hai ki rajgharana aap ki sahayta nahi karta.
Ajabde : lagatar patra likhe ke baad bhi koi financial support nahi mila hai. Aap ko dekhna hai toh hum aap ko sa boot dikha sakte hai.
Kunwar Pratap : woh toh hum bhi dikha sakte hai ki paise bhijwaye gaye hai.
Ajabde : toh aap ke liye samasya badgai Kunwar sa koi rajdrohi hai aap ke government main.
Kunwar Pratap was taken aback by the confidence of this simple girl. Yet as he started in to her eyes she quickly looked down.
Kunwar Pratap : aap Ka naam kya hai?
As she was about to answer a girl called from behind Jija datta... gussa.. jaldi chaliye.
This unknown girl ran from there and Kunwar Pratap was too shy to ask anyone about her. He told the rest of the people that he would look in to the matter and left.
At Mamrakjis house he was furious he yelled at Ajabde and declared ab hum is manhoos Ka vivah karwa denge. No one said a word.
Ajabde went to her room and started crying. Suddenly she remembered she had disrespected Kunwar Pratap by not answering to his question. But she had other problems. She fell asleep while crying.
There in his room Kunwar Pratap could not stop thinking about the unknown girl.
Kunwar Shakti: pehli nazar main kaisa jadu kar diya tera ban baitha hai mera Jiya...
Kunwar Pratap : bhai Shakti bas
Kunwar Shakti : it's OK Dada bhai.
Aap apne Dil ki baat humse keh sakte hai
Kunwar Pratap : Acha toh suniye kal hum bhes badal Kar bijolia jayenge Yeh pata karne ki Kaun hai iss sab ke peeche. Ab jayiye so jayiye. Shubhratri
Kunwar Shakti left without saying a word his Dada bhais eyes had scared him.
Kunwar Pratap composed himself and slept thinking about the unknown girl.
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