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Chapter 81 - Home, sweet home

As they neared the village Arjun woke the two up and asked them to get their clothes in shape as he did not want them to leave a bad first impression in the minds of villagers and his family.

Once they reached the village Arjun asked for Balram to take these two to the factory while he carried the ice fruits home. Sari seeing Arjun come with a cover in his hands was absolutely thrilled and quickly took it away to inspect it while Pratap and Kavitha too came out to get him inside after which the family of four quickly gulped down the ice apples which absolutely felt refreshing as they chewed them down the throat.

Arjun then headed with his father to their temporary factory and could see people unloading from the trucks while the workers who had come from Russia were signaling them on where to place. Arjun had totally forgotten about the language barrier and decided to hire a language translator temporarily until these people stay around and informed about it to Lalitha and asked her to take care of the matter.

He headed to meet up with Bhargav who let him know that he had hired a few local fishermen who usually handled packaging at the local pier to do the unloading which Arjun was very satisfied with. The two workers meanwhile came to Arjun and complained about the lack of a local transformer which would determine where they would place certain machines to which Arjun could only apologize and promise to get it settled as soon as possible.

Bhargav upon learning their complaints informed Arjun that the Mandal electricity board has already informed him that they would do the transformer installation on the upcoming day which Arjun immediately translated to the workers who then left to handle rest of the unloading.

Arjun meanwhile called for Lalitha and enquired about the lodging for these workers, which she had already taken care of and made sure it was in the vicinity of Arjun's own home so they could contact him if there was anything of need since nobody else in the village could speak the same language.

Arjun then went ahead to help with the unloading but there was nothing much for him to do except for translating their instructions which the local workers were very happy about as they were already having trouble properly understanding what these two foreigners wanted them to do sometimes.

After they were done with the unloading Arjun then asked for Bhargav to show them to their new home and invited them to visit his house for their dinner once they were done with getting refreshed and he asked the truck which had the cooler in it to stop at his house as he did not want to trouble his father to trolly it all the way from the factory to their home.

When Pratap questioned Arjun what the other card board box the truck was carrying to their house Arjun just said it was a surprise and got into the truck and went ahead alongside with his father. Once they were near the house Balram who had just come out of his freshened up helped out Pratap in getting the cargo down and all this commotion made Sari run out in excitement as she was sure her brother was up to something new again.

Once they placed it inside and unpacked everything Sari rubbed her eyes to see if it was real after which she went ahead and hugged the air cooler and exclaimed Anna, you said you wanted to buy one last week and you've already bought one?

Pratap meanwhile glared at Arjun with questioning eyes prompting Arjun to explain the whole story about the incident at the port. After getting the gist of it Pratap did not know what more to say, even though he wanted to encourage Arjun he really couldn't after getting to know Arjun had taken the cooler instead of the future people but it did make sense since they did not really know those people.

Once they plugged the thing and turned it on however most of his complaints vanished as he too felt they were living too much under the shell and the raising temperatures were already becoming too much to handle for Kavitha who had never really experienced such life before eloping with Pratap.

Sari meanwhile did not say a word and just carried her pillow near the cooler and lied down on her flat belly enjoying the cool air. As they were enjoying this feel the two Russians made an entry which made Saritha jump in air screaming ghosts seeing their white skin and white hair to which the entire family laughed out loud.

Arjun then explained to Sari who they were and introduced the two new foreign uncles to her. Although afraid at start she soon got adapted to them and even started to annoy them to play with her but stopped once Kavitha scolded her to behave.

As Arjun had already informed Kavitha about wanting to invite them to dinner earlier she had already done the necessary cooking and they went ahead to the dining table to have their dinner. The two foreigners had nothing but compliments about the dinner and the hospitality they were receiving from Arjun and his family, after all it was their first time seeing such a humble owners in their life. If someone told them earlier that such people exist they would probably have laughed on their face and shut them up but this experience taught them a good lesson in life to always stay humble no matter how rich you are.

Once they were done they bode farewell to Arjun who handed them a couple of bedsheets as he was worried they might not have brought along any but they rejected saying it was already hot and they would probably not need them. Frankly had it not been the attractive bonuses Vladimir had promised them they would never have accepted the offer to work in such a hot country and that too in such a remote place but they were slowly starting to like the place contrary to their expectations.

After they were gone the entire family got together making Arjun explain his trip events to them. By the time Arjun was half through the story Sari had already fallen asleep on Kavitha's lap making him stop the story. Arjun was glad she fell asleep at the right time as the upcoming segment was about the fifty thousand bribe which he was unsure how Pratap would respond about and wanted to avoid mentioning it all together and this was the perfect opportunity which he grasped with both hands saying he too was tired from all the journey. Pratap was sure there was something else as Arjun did not really look so tired but looking at the sleeping Sari he reasoned he would question Arjun later and the entire family finally went to sleep next to their new air cooler.

The next day it was already around Seven thirty by the time Arjun woke up and that too was because of Sari who sat on him and started shaking him to wake him up. He then went along with her to the school to drop her off since the board exams were already over and the school returned to normal timings and it was finally time for the other class exams.

Arjun expected to see bunch of waste books thrown around as this was what he did after his board exams but when he enquired the headmaster about it he got to know that the junior kids had all assembled on the last day of their senior's exams to snatch their exams. Even though he had heard about such things in the past seeing or hearing it in person gave a new perspective to Arjun about how much committed these kids were about their studies which was a very rare sight to see in the future times.

Just as he got out from the school he could see Karan along with his father with a book in his hand, it seemed Madan had come to drop of his son for the exam so he went ahead to greet them and as he approached he could hear Karan boasting he already had made over five lakhs from the press commission and even though it was not yet handed it still counted as his earning as Madan had already promised this was Karan's project.

Madan did not know how to reply and was already starting to regret his choice of handing those shares to Karan. Although it made him look more into the business side of things it made him neglect his studies and sometimes not even care about it in the least. Luckily he saw Arjun approaching and he gave a pleading look to Arjun who immediately understood what he meant and Arjun too gave a five minute class to Karan about why studies were important too.

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