14 chapter 14

"No one will take the name of the bastard Bisan and his child in the house."

Basanti was moaning in pain in her in-laws' house. Dai mother had arrived. In the shadow of fear and fear, Basanti was sobbing in pain. The midwife was comforting. After a while the sound of crying of the child came. The mother-in-law sitting outside and the grandmother-in-law said,

"Crying feels like it is a boy. That's how boys cry."

Then the midwife came from inside and said,

"congratulation"

Without listening to the whole sentence, mother-in-law and grandmother jumped with joy, then the midwife said, "You are so happy to have a granddaughter that too. Had the grandson been there, I don't know what he would have done.

Mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law's hands and feet suddenly became cold. He scolded the midwife and said,

"Tell me the truth, what happened? son or daughter?"

The midwife said tremblingly,

"Mistress is a girl"

The mother-in-law taunted in a loud voice and said,

"Its the same sister who had died by jumping in the well has come."

Basanti wept bitterly and shouted,

"She was not dead, she was killed."

Mother-in-law came in and said,

"Don't scream. To die or be killed is the same thing. Have you come as your daughter?

Hearing this, Basanti's blood boiled. He looked at the girl with hateful eyes. From here a disgusting feeling arose in the mind of the mother towards that child. Then loud noises started coming from outside,

"Hey! The brown buffalo went somewhere, she ran away somewhere."

The girl's uncle came gasping and said,

"I searched the whole village. Brown buffalo is not to be found anywhere."

Then came the voice of Basanti's father-in-law shouting,

"I don't know what kind of wretched buffalo has been born, which has been living for 20 years disappeared."

Basanti bowed her head

"what happened? Was getting two sips of milk, now that too will not be available.

Basanti's mother-in-law used to give her two sips of milk only till she was a child in her stomach because her mother-in-law had complete langar. There were four brothers-in-law and three nanands, but she does not say anything when she does not get milk.

There was whispering outside.

"Given a daughter, that too wretched"

Hearing the whispers of those people, Basanti looked at the girl's face. The girl smiled as soon as she saw her mother, but did not know why Basanti did not like her smile at all. Then the eldest girl came and fell in love with her mother. Basanti's husband had gone to his job. One and a half months had passed since Basanti's chanting. She started doing all the household chores. I don't know what fate he had become. The food was not even available to fill the stomach. There was only a heap of utensils. His 5 hours were spent in washing dishes. She could not pay attention to both the girls.

Then one day Basanti's father brought another girl's chhichhak. Due to lack of time, I could not come early. After coming, he told Basanti's father-in-law to take Basanti to Pehar. Mother-in-law also filled yes without any hesitation and sent her to Pehar.

Basanti had become very weak and her face looked sick.

When she reached Pehar, hugging her mother, she wept bitterly. She told the mother about the behavior in her in-laws' house as well as not paying attention to her husband. It was only a couple of days after Basanti came to Pehar that Pandit ji was implicated in some village case. Pandit ji was the main accused in this case done by the government. When Pandit ji came to know, he was shocked and upset. Panditji had nothing to do with these things. But a straight man dies. When Basanti heard it, the ground slipped under her feet. He stared at the little girl and mumbled to herself.

"The wretched started feeding here too."