We hunted and hunted for close to six hours. And we had that one kokku ( that I caught ). We decided to stop our expedition for the day. One the way back we saw a bunch of ducks in the field.
Me : ethra arumayaya thaaravukal ( something like…"cute ducks" )
D : Thaaravirachi kazhichittu ethra nalayi aliya( Its been long since we had Duck Curry )
D signed all of us to stop and remain silent … he had spotted something.He gave his everything on that shot... As usual he missed it. He was so pissed that he held the gun to his side and took 2 shots just to vent his anger. We went to my house and decided to cook our kokku. We were 8 ppl and we had to divide that 1 kokku (Jesus fed 5000 ppl with 5 bread.. but even he might have found this difficult.) Suddenly Omana chechi walks in with a dead Duck….and accused me of shooting her duck. My grand mother asked me whether I did that…I told her that nothing of that sort happened. She showed us the Duck.. It had a bullet wound in its neck. I looked at D … I knew where it came from. It came from that bloody 2 random shots D took to vent his anger. Here was a guy who missed a shot when he was so close to the kokku (Crane) that his breath disturbed its feathers. And he strikes this one on the neck…
Omana chechi (OC) had apparently seen me from the other side of the field (which is a good km and a half away). I told her that it was not me alone, but she insisted that she saw me only (you know ppl….I am a little horizontally challenged ). Supposedly , she had a conversation with Paulose chettan when she saw me.
OC : what is that think moving in the other side of the field
Paulose : It has to be Confucius ( me ) or Kesavan ( local elephant u know) … no one else can be spotted from that distance in this village.
Me ( to Omana chechi ) : I didn’t do this…I assure you.
Omana chechi : I don’t want to know who did this…I just want my money. You know
this duck used to lay 2 eggs everyday
Me ( thinking ) : Obviously, I cant confirm it with the duck since it is dead.
Me : How much do you need ?
OC ( not OCR ) : 200 bucks.
Me : Sorry chechi… I appreciate your gesture, but I don’t plan to start duck
business anytime soon…I don’t want the whole bunch you have. so just
give me the price for that single murdered duck.
I paid the money she demanded. I was a little sad because we didn’t have money to buy OPR ( some rum you get for 100 bucks – Kalabhavan Mani called it Oru gatheem Para gatheem illatha Rum) for our routine vaalu vekkal mahamaham ( read…puking festival ).
B assured me that he had the money that his mother gave him for her medicines and we shall use that for now ( Its all about priorities in life…thats what I taught them first ).We were happy again…we can divide 1 kokku and 1 duck with 8 ppl now. We made the curry and drank OPR in our rubber shed ( used to be our thaavalam ) . We were happy…but there is a tragic ending to most good things …
Once upon a time……..
14 years ago
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