Pieces of fried fish

Bhulu stays at the village of Harish nagar. His maternal grand mother lives in the next village Kusumpur. Sometimes Bhulu’s mother requests Bhulu to visit Kusumpur just to take any news of Bhulu’s maternal uncle’s house. Bhulu therefore visits there and brings all good news from them.

It was a Sunday. That day too Bhulu in his mother’s behest left for Kusumpur exact at 4pm. After fifteen minutes he reached there by cycling. Maternal grand mother as usual became very pleased to see her grandson. She said, ” Wow my son, you have reached in precise time…. ” Bhulu asked her, ” Why gramma, how this time is accepted as precise time? ” Gramma replied, ” Your elder uncle is catching fishes from our pond. Today big fishes have been trapped in his fishing line. I know that you are all fond of fresh fishes from pond. “

Bhulu actually liked these types of fishes very much. So he welcomed his gramma’s offer with a great pleasure. At once he went to his uncle to watch him catching fishes.

There Bhulu spent about two hours and bade a good bye to his granmma. Granmma requested him to wait for few seconds and asked him to take one fresh fish. Now Bhulu refused to take it with an excuse that his mother would get annoyed to take such a big fish in this late afternoon. But granmma forced him to take it because she already has had cut the fish into pieces and cleaned them properly. Then Bhulu agreed to take those pieces of fish kept in a tiffin box happily.

Bhulu at once left his maternal uncle’s house with that tiffin box. On the way, he met with a crowd thronged in front of a house. Bhulu stood there for a moment and came to know that a teenager girl who had been suffering from covid for a long time but at last she died in that very morning.

Bhulu for once peeped from behind the crowd and took a glance of the dead body and left that place.

On entering house he handed over the tiffin box to mom. His mother gladly took the box of fishes and within half an hour she completed frying and cooking fishes to curry.

When dinner time had been ahead Bhulu’s mother went to her kitchen just to arrange for dinner. But there she screamed in a shrill voice. Bhulu and his father got anxious and rushed to kitchen just to note that a pretty young girl was having all the pieces of fried fish. Bhulu recognized the girl because she was the same girl who had died of covid that morning. Bhulu called his parents and informed this in details. Bhulu’s father requested all to leave the girl alone and let her having fish curry to her content. That night Bhulu’s family had left that item untouched. Next morning whole of fish curry was thrown into garbage.

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