It Was a Great Day - 02

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CHAPTER: 2 – THE BLACK GOLD ECONOMY

Set-Up 3:

It was the year 2025 when I was studying in my ninth grade and back then all the gold everyone had bought due to various advertisements of new Jewellery stores and Gold Loan Banks was adulterated with excess copper and later on the quality of gold tarnished and the money you get on selling it was peanuts. This lead to the BLACK GOLD ECONOMY which is the illegal trade of the PURE GOLD, as the pure form of gold i.e. in the form of coins or biscuits were given in ration and that too only the rich could afford and due to demonetisation a layman couldn’t buy.”

The narration continues….

“When these all were happening our Founder/Principal had made an order to Ayyanar Annachi who was doing this Gold Smuggling secretly behind the market. Ayyanar Annachi could do this because apart from being a Merchant / Trader he was a local Don having a decent number of goons working for him.

The founder of our school was very into making a 5 feet tall gold Ganesh statute to become more prosperous as suggested by his family astrologer and to pay for the gold he increased the school fees.

You all heard the SAMBAR TO THE GUN SHORT VERSION OF THE STORY which is just a gist of the actual tale but what had exactly happened I later came to know as time passed.

Scene- 4: Annachi and The Founder “Siddha Venkatadhipathi”

Annachi from his Market calls Siddha

Annachi: Hello! Siddha, I have sent you the required quantity of the POTATOES to you for your School’s Lunch along with the regular vegetables i.e. 2 baskets, but the basket with POTATOES will have a swastika symbol. It should be used for tomorrow’s lunch but not for today.

Siddha: Okay, I will see that the cooks use the vegetables correctly. And I have dropped my card in the RETURN BASKET along with the rejected vegetables. Swipe the card and return it afterwards.

GIRL/ (SPEAKER):  “Siddha’s plan was to send his loyal man to collect his gold that day night from the basket in the storeroom before the cooks open it for the next day’s lunch. In their code word POTATOES means The Gold and RETURN BASKET – the cash which was banned a year before to make the digital transaction compulsory.”

But one thing he didn’t know was that the Store Room and Kitchen’s Supervisor was a police informer who knew that Siddha was buying gold from Annachi for past two months and was waiting for an opportunity to catch him red-handed. And his wait was over when the sambar spilt out on the floor because of me which forced the cook (Unaware of the dealing) to go to the storeroom for the second basket to make some more which allowed the police force to pounce on our school.”

And Annachi?

At AYYANAR MANDI

Annachi on his telephone to one of his goons.

Annachi: What you are saying? Siddha has revealed everything…….Shit!!

He then slams the phone’s receiver and asks his men to hide anything and everything GOLD and things related to it in an old bungalow behind his shop as the police are coming with the search warrant.

My father, Kandhavel worked as middlemen who bought the vegetables from Annachi and sold it to the vendors in a contract form. The rest of the story was which happened in my father’s presence.

SCENE – 5: (GOLD AND CASH)

The henchmen of Annachi were hiding along with the gold and waiting for their boss’s call. To pass the time they started playing Rummy and started placing bets. The game and their madness went to its zenith were one of the goons in a fit of anger pulled out his pistol and threatened to shoot the other guy just then a stone out of nowhere hit his elbow which made him drop the pistol. The pistol hit the table and it accidentally fired a bullet.

The Police arrived at the place tracing the gunshot.

The whole scene was explained by my father as he came home.”

The NEWS was simultaneously showing two things one – Siddha –Annachi’s arrest and the Parent’s Protest against fee hike getting solved because of the above issue to which the family of three watched the TV with the peace in their hearts.

FINAL CHAPTER AND SCENE: Conclusion (Back To The Auditorium )

Girl: “I then made up my mind and studied hard, did my masters in Agriculture… now brought back half of our organic methods of cultivation to use and stand here as Shalini Kandhavel aka THE GREEN LADY talking to the future of our Nation in this INSPIRON conference.

Extra but Final Shot:

Every day is a test and it’s a chance God gives us to strengthen ourselves according to our own capacity. He knows what to give us.

Rohan was not what I needed, so I diverted myself away from him which helped me get back to my studies as it was my necessity. God wanted me to become the person I am today. I forced myself to fall for Rohan which was neither my goal nor my requirement. This led to unnecessary depression and I was about ruining my education.

He laughed and bullied at me because I didn’t have the money that he had but at the end of the day the world bullied him for the same money.

Like the saying goes STOP CHASING THE WRONG ONE, THE RIGHT ONE WON’T RUN”

That day was not the worst day of my life but a GREAT DAY because if something is wrong or unusual in your life, wait for the proper conclusion. We all deserve a Good story ”

The end.

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