Chapter 2: Beginning
If Aunt did not take the lock of the cupboard and hold an apple in her hand, Blue would not have gone to the shore of the lake outside the town with her mother on a blustery afternoon. It was Aunt 's invitation from the beginning to soak her clothes whenever she came to her grandfather's house. "Aunt , why did you wash yours and not hers?" said Blue
She asked her mother. To that, she said, "She is the last child of the family. She was born at the moment when I thought that she would not touch my mother. She is ten years younger than your last father-in-law. Have you seen her foot? It has six fingers like the moon. So Grandpa Bhala caressed her and brought her up as if the moon is shining in the house. That's all." Even though she is big, she treats a small child. She pretended to be a motherless daughter and pretended to be a bandhvi. What are girls? What are girls? Her father taught her everything from how to pick a leaf to how to dance a yakshagana. Blue's behavior was always surprising to her. Basuri, full of chicks, has come home to give birth. It's been two weeks without seeing her. Amma Janu, who sits yawning in the evening, reminds me of me?' She tunes in. Dad adds, 'Then go early tomorrow morning'. Whenever Mom goes home, she doesn't go with Blue. She likes to stay at home with Dad, do some work and get Shahbaz, but this time she came with Mom because it was a school holiday. Her sisters-in-law, who were on her skin just as the sun was touching her, made her stay at home with her. While drinking tea, Aunt called Amma to her room and showed her a pile of clothes, placed her hand on her stomach and sighed. Next morning, Amma, who had to leave for town, went to the lake with a pile of clothes, and called Neeli, who was playing with the children outside. Blue dreamed of many days without seeing the pile. If she sees any food, these children will eat apples like hawks. That's why they keep everything under lock,'' said the little girl, hiding an apple in her dress, she left. She followed Neeli on the pretense of following her mother and came to the bank of the lake.
Aunt was relieved that there was no one in the lake as it was late afternoon. All the complaints about the sisters-in-law, which had been bothering her for a long time, started to come out. While the mother, who was washing the clothes, was listening to her words without saying anything, Blue's attention was only on the fruit under the chick's clothes. It is not that mother likes all these things, having improved and married four children at home, it has become natural for her to live together. Manasanna can never hurt. The family loved the girl who had been taken away from her mother at the age of ten and grew up in their laps like crazy, so together they cried out in pain and were angry at her words.
Sitting on a rock in the shade, Blue was the only one standing in the sun waiting for Aunt to come out. He ended up talking about his in-laws like setting fire to a string of firecrackers
Aunt took out the apple from under her apron. It was shining blue but the red color was completely filling the stone. After wiping the fruit again with a rag, the little girl ran her long fingers along the rind and removed the rind, placing the edi fruit between her front teeth and slicing it in half. At that sound Blue's mouth burst out as saliva. Blue saw the part of the sliced apple and said, 'Oh! She thought that the inside of this fruit is the same color as a grapefruit. As she watched, she ate the fruit and without leaving even a piece of the stringy part between it, she licked the part with the seeds and wiped her hand on the towel. , Desperation suddenly rose up and she looked towards her mother. At last she could have given her a piece of fruit. She turned to her mother who was washing clothes without looking at her. Oh, what happened? As the little girl said loudly, 'Don't come in the sun, you would have broken your head if you saw it now', she came again with grief and started crying loudly. Meanwhile, the mother, who had finished washing the clothes, stood in the sun and hugged her daughter, who was reddened, with her wet cloth. Blue started reigning, 'Ho...' as if all the sorrows in her mother's lap were gone. Although the mother did not know the reason for the sudden crying of her daughter, thinking that maybe she was bored because the two of them were talking and did not notice her, to cheer her up, she threw a flat stone parallel to the water and said, "Aka Maga, look here, tell me that a frog jumped into the water." Seeing Blue, she also threw a stone. As she was disappointed to see that her stone sank without flying, mother told her how to throw the stone. Blue's frog also jumped in the water a couple of times. Seeing her daughter's game with envy, the little girl said, "Your daughter has been clinging to you like wax for the whole day. Have you seen the same thing? After leaving the milk, she pushed the children into another room and closed the door with her husband. In the middle of the night, she woke up her husband to urinate and run to come, Karkeshi." Saying She repeated her complaint again. Mother did not pay any special attention to her words and said, "It's hot.
Blue's passion for apples started recently when she was studying in a Hindi school in the village and was starting English lessons from the fifth grade. Although she had seen a picture of a beautiful red fruit on the first page of that book, she had hardly noticed it until Lena arrived. As Akkoru told her, she read 'A for Apple' and turned the page. But Lina, who was new to the school, put her hand forward as if she was going to say something while Akkoru was teaching it, got Akkoru's permission and said something like ``An apple a day, keep the doctor away''. Leena, who had learned both Hindi and English in a city school, read all the English lessons quickly and made Blue feel inferior. Curious to know what she said about things like Akkuru Verygood, Blue asked about it during lunch. Lena stroked her bobbed hair, "Oh Ada? "If Dina eats an apple, she can keep the doctor away. That means we won't get diseases, you know?" she said with a wink. Surprised by her words, Blue asked, "Yes? Is that a big fruit?" "Hmm, it's like my mother ate a raw apple when she was in my stomach. That's why, look, my cheeks are like an apple." Leena looked different from all the other children in that school. Her father was a forester and was transferred to this village, so she was inevitably enrolled in the village school.
When she came home in the evening and stood in front of the mirror, Neeli felt that her cheeks were stuck to the bones of her face. Once my mother thought that if she had eaten an apple while I was in her stomach, she too would have been born as a plump beauty like Lena. Even now, she thought that she could eat an apple a day and keep the doctor away and get red cheeks like Lena. But she had never seen this fruit either in the stalls in her town or in the fair market, so she was worried that it would not be available here. If it is found in the town's Santa, she can bring it to her father even if it has fallen. Blue started her conversation. "Even when I am in the city, I can't find anywhere to eat in this town, but my father and mother go to the city once a month, they spend a lot of time watching movies, and they keep it in the fridge and eat until they run out," she winked and laughed. One though Blue wanted to ask about its taste
Kadi was shy and quiet. She attributed a taste to herself that it must be very tasty because she eats it every day. During the painting period, she picked a large apple and filled it with color to fill the blue edi sheet.
Blue remembered an apple when she went to Dadpete to sell the bananas she had grown at home. She tugged at his shirt and asked with desire, "Dad, will you pick some apples for me when you come from town?" Dad, who was in a hurry to leave, did not look at her and said, 'You sold the apples in the field, and the bastards will eat them all? Aka where are you? Look, I have brought moon guava fruit" he said and left. What's more, this evening, a blue dream bubble burst like an enchanted girl named Apple caught him. On other days Neeli, who used to run away and eat the name of Chandaperale, only today she munched on the fruits of that inhabitant. When he was a child, he went to the neighbor's garden and plucked moon pears, and scolded him for being a cactus. In the garden of his house, apart from pears, purple, violet, pineapple, rasabale, jambunera and other fruits were plentiful. But now an apple was grown in her mind and all other fruits looked insipid.
Unable to stop the desire to eat, Blue was spending days without opening the page with apples in her book, and when she saw the red fruits piled up on Aunt 's shelf, she again gave wings to the bird of desire. But Aunt did not leave a single piece in her hands. She was disappointed. That night, while sleeping, Nurusala thought that she should have asked her mother for an apple. When she went to someone else's house, she should not touch her father's words, who always told her that she should eat only if she wanted something like this. She just covered herself and slept. When she woke up with a bit of a chill in the night, Mom and Aunt had finished their talks and fell asleep. In the light of the moon peeping in the window, the doors of the cupboards were visible. The girl had left the key there to take the night pills. I wanted to turn the key slowly, open the door and shove a fruit into my mother's bag. Neeri immediately remembered Basavanna's vow that her favorite Gouda teacher at school used to tell her, "Don't steal, don't kill." When she did something wrong, she would knock her ear like all the girlfriends in school did, and she would say, "It's all wrong." She decided that she should give up the desire to eat this apple, but no matter how many times she thought about it, every time the apple came in front of her eyes, the desire disappeared
There was no way to stop it, while all the worshipers were holding hands and ecstatic when they went to see Ganesha at Dodappa's house, only Blue was enjoying the pleasure of a woman's touch by laying her hand on the fruit of an apple that was weighing in the fruit basket tied to the temple of the god. On the ninth day of the festival Ananta Nompi, on the ninth day of Ananta Nompi, a piece of fruit tied to Ganesha's mantapa should be stolen and eaten and freed from sin. Happy with the license She fell asleep. That year, when Ananta went to fasting to eat the fruit, the apple somehow fell and only a string remained and mocked her. She tore a sweet mango from the side and put it in her skirt pocket so that she would have to be in fear of exception for the rest of the year and got rid of exception.
Just then, an incident took place in the house that did not want the company of apples. Neeli's mother had brought home a couple of blue containers in the powdery glass that had been collected from all the seeds that had fallen after harvesting in government gatherings. Tired of the dirty aluminum and brass utensils in the house, she had a strong fascination for steel utensils that could be cleaned using mysoap. Very angry with her mother who took the power of her father, who was in charge of all the household, the quarrel went on and went to the point where she got her hands on her, the depressed mother slept with rice and water all day long. She remembered her father's words of "Don't eat, don't farm" and she brought home an apple and gave up her desire for fruit and turned her attention to her studies.
Blue, who was good at reading, got first place in the high school exam and got into college. Although Lena attended a residential school in a distant town, every time she saw the rows and rows of apples hanging from a string in the fruit shop along the way to college, she was reminded of the blue-eyed Lena. Along with that, the old dream of eating an apple was also sprouting. On Navratri days, she collected all the retail money that was given from house to house and put kumkum on it. Once, she went to the apple shop and said, "Give me an apple" that was hanging on a string. But the shopkeeper, who had not heard properly, placed a cage on the scale and started weighing the apples called 'Sebu Holatutte'.
Neeli, who remembered her father's words, panicked and said, "It's a girl." The shopkeeper looked at her strangely, and said, "Give it in kg. One hundred per kg." How much fruit can a woman get? Thoughts came to her mind one after the other, and Sadda walked away from there shouting, "Don't now, take it again."
There was a discussion at home about Aunt 's deteriorating health, Amrini could not even go to the hospital because of the paddy harvesting, Aunt told Aunt that she was not getting the food that her in-laws were preparing for Hattikichi. There was also talk about bringing her here after she was discharged from the hospital. In between seeing her and comforting her, one was thinking of going to the hospital, but remembering that her daughter Blue was going to college there, she decided to send her. In response to her mother's words, 'Apple meant her life, she kept it and ate it.' Even though the thought of taking an apple excited her, she did not think at night whether to ask for a kg of fruit at the fruit shop first or to ask for it first?
The next day, Neeli left for college early, she decided to go to college after taking care of Aunt . She stood in front of a shop that was opening another one in the town and said, "How much are apples per kg?" She started weighing the five red fruits and placed them on the scale and checked whether to keep the other one or not by looking at the needle of the weight. Blue started walking towards the hospital with a fruit in one hand and a fruit in the other. On the way, the desire to eat an apple again sprouted in her, how could she take a fruit from it? It started to feel. He didn't even carry a bag to keep the little one out of sight. What will she think if she sees it? A thought came to mind. Up to high school
Blue, who was carrying a cotton bag called Paticheela given to her by her father, fell in love with him while coming to the downtown college and took a fashionable band. That delicate bag, without bearing the weight of her books, crumbled to pieces within a month. From then on, like most girls going to college, she bought a rubber band to put on the books and kept everything in her hand and walked with her chest folded. Sometimes a senior graduate student teased her, ``kitab dood petha hai'', but she said she didn't mean it, and she walked on, only today she felt that if she had her bag, she could have put at least one apple in it. While going to the room where Aunt was in the hospital, the doctor was examining her. He talked to Aunt who was very relaxed, told her about the tumor cutting going on at home, and told her that her father told her that he would take her from the hospital. After hearing these words, Aunt 's eyes watered, "However, you have got a husband who is as big as yours, Bava is like you from the beginning, I mean, I love you more than a daughter." She started praising Bava. When she held an apple in her hand, Aunt took one from it and said, "Eat it, son, when you are hungry in college, finish college and reach your Kadinur." How much longer?" she insistently put it in her hand. She kept the blue apple wrapped in paper.
Blue left the hospital thinking how good it was that she had kept eleven from stealing. If the vehicle went through the busy city road, she was late for the college and left on the hilly road. Blue, walking on the deserted road, remembered the words of Basavanna, which the Gowda Master used to tell her every day, "Don't steal, don't kill, don't play fake". She came across the road. Every time she came from the hilly path, Blue used to take that path whenever she met her. Whenever she met, the grandmother carrying a small load of wood on her head would not speak a word, but would bring Kaii to her mouth and give her food. Blue did not know whether she was crazy or dumb, but whenever she found her, she was always met with a load of wood. A retail coin was placed in her hand, she put her hand on her head and screamed. Blue fumbled in her small purse for retail. But she couldn't find any other money except a twenty note given by her father. Grandma once again took her hand to her mouth and held out her blue palm. The sadness in her mouth stirred the blue apple. Unbeknownst to her, Idi's grandmother's hand joined her hand. Lina's eyes sparkled in the blossoming grandmother's mouth.
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