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Feast for Hungry

Feast for Hungry

BR Raksun

 

Everyone knows that these days, with our enhanced technology, such as CCTV and DNA evidence, being a successful criminal is almost impossible. Because of the over-glamorous heists portrayed by Hollywood, most people assume that, in reality, crimes are almost impossible to get away with it. However lots of high-value robberies or burglaries have been attempted in all times, and this is one type of a house robbery in day time with so many eyes alert while a marriage function is going on.

 

 

It was the story of a poor man who was once the rich and popular. His name is Johnson and his father Ben was a big business magnet in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. But he faced huge losses in his business and by the end of his life everything is lost. John is left as the poor man.

 

As you know, when you lose pelf, your fame will go to the dogs. It so happened with John. So he migrated to Heembeek , a small village in Brussel.  Later, when a second church was built around this growing hamlet and the two parishes were separated, that became two villages called Neder-Heembeek ("Lower Heembeek") and Over-Heembeek ("Upper Heembeek").

 

It was the time when John is in search of a small job. Though he is well educated and well refined to be in high class society, due to poverty he is just looking like a beggar in rags. So people think him as an inferior man and they are not ready to give him any job.

 

John got a small place in the village to live where he asked his wife and children to stay. He wondered in the village till afternoon for any job, but it was not fruitful. He is hungry and thirsty. He is much worried for his family than his hunger.

 

In one big house, some festival is getting celebrated. The house is very big, so John thought that the house owner must be a very rich person and the festival may be something like a marriage.

 

By that time he reached nearer, some tasty food items are getting cooked in the kitchen and the good smell of the dishes like some different broths getting cooked attracted his appetite.

 

He could not stop his feel of hunger and like a thief, he entered the kitchen.

 

Just then he saw a woman there before a big bowl of broth on the fire and she is dropping something in that big vessel of broth. As she saw john, she yelled "thief! .. thief!..."

 

John is not better than a thief and he is caught soon and brought before the land lord of the house.

 

The landlord is Stephen who is a big business man also. He gazed john and said, I am seeing you first time my dear thief, what is your name?"

 

"I am john. I am not thief." John said as if he is offended by the word thief.

 

"I know, no thief accepts the identity, naturally.. so you are a marriage thief, right?"

 

"When I said I am not a thief, how I can be branded as a marriage thief or festival thief, sir? I came to this village for a job. But unfortunately, nobody gave a job and I am hungry. If you want to say some one as thief, it is my hunger who has brought me in to your kitchen, so you can call my hunger as a thief."

 

John's way of talk and his polished tone made the landlord think that he is not a thief, he is really in search of a job.

 

When john said that his father Ben was a big business magnet, but as he lost all his property in the business, he was helpless and came here from Brussels.

 

The landlord Stephen knows Ben, so he thought, what John said is true.

 

"It is okay, I will see some job for you. Today my daughter's marriage is getting celebrated here in the city. Eat and rest, we meet again tomorrow."

 

He ordered his servants to give him food on his table in the same room. When food is served, john is eating as he is hungry and Stephen is very happy for giving food to one unknown hungry man on the day of his daughter's marriage.

 

After John finished eating, he asked him take food for his wife and children also.

 

"Thank you sir, I especially like to say that the GOLDEN BROTH is excellent!"

 

Stephen looked at John's face, with a doubt, that why he is saying the Broth as Golden.

 

When he expressed his doubt, John said what he saw in the kitchen when he entered there.

 

The woman dropped a long golden necklace in the bowl of Broth.

 

When Stephen asked his workers to search the bowl, they found that jewel which belongs to the bride to be wedded on that night.

 

John recognized who dropped that necklace in to that bowl and the thief accepted that he did the crime.

 

The other day, John met Stephen who helped him to start a business with new angle of thought and with the help of the landlord Stephen, he became soon a big business man like his father.

 

[The End]

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Text: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Images: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Editing: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Translation: -
Publication Date: 06-25-2015

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