Unique short stories|Rudy

The guests took dinner and went to the way of their respective places. The bride and groom also breathed a sigh of relief after the religious and social rituals.

The night was passed slowly. Those who found space in the yard started sleeping ...

Everyone tired all day also started snoring... Peace was slowly prevailing in the house...

The groom's father Janakray and mother Savitaben also made arrangements for everyone and now they were trying to rest there ...

Rudy, a cowherd from the village, reached there. Rudy had two rupees in her hand.

She came intending to give blessings to the bride and groom. She was sitting awake in her hut waiting for the rich and famous people of the village to disperse.

It was Janakray who named her Rudy.

From today, about twenty-five years ago, one evening, she came here by wandering from somewhere ... her condition was like semi-insane ... Janakray gave her shelter. She even forgot her name ...

With the consent of the head of the village, she was given the job of herding cattle. What would her expectation except for two loaves of bread?

She has been grazing the cattle of the village for twenty-five years .. but did not forget the favor of Janakray. ....

The day Rudy came to the village was a happy day at Janakray's house because on that day the childless Janakray had adopted a child from the orphanage...

and Rudy would occasionally come to play with this child .. and to help Savitaben with the housework...

No one in the whole village had seen her anywhere except this. Grazing cattle and sustaining one's own life is her life mantra ...

Savitaben called her son and daughter-in-law from the upstairs room to respect her wish.

Janakray's son studied higher and got a high position in a government job..and his wife also a well educated, Rudy knows that..Rudy should not stay without expressing happiness in her own way on every happy occasion of Janakray and Savitaben...

After being called once by Savitaben, the bride and groom came down from the upstairs room but they called for Rudy, neither of them liked it… But to respect their parents, both of them bowed down to Rudy…Rudy blessed them both by giving a one rupee coin in her fist and went back to her hut without saying a word.

However, Rudy, who never expected anything from anyone in the village ... Rudy who lived a completely apathetic life ..... At the wedding of Janakray's son, was as excited as a member of the household. Rudy, who never wore good clothes one day, had been sitting well dressed in good clothes since this morning…

Someone even said, " Rudy why are you so excited like your own son's wedding today?”

"Yeah, that's it ..... today is my 'Bhaila's' wedding .." and she giggled .. no one had ever seen her so happy before.

Four or five days after the wedding, Janakray and Savitaben arrived at her hut by getting the news of Rudy's serious illness. They found out that she had not even taken a single piece of food in her mouth.  Janakaray immediately contacted the local doctor.

Rudy's survival was almost impossible.

Gradually realizing that her life was getting complicated, Savitaben asked her to know her last wish, "Rudy, if you have any wish, we will fulfill it."

Rudy's hands were joined and tears in her eyes.

She was saying in intermittent words ...

"Fire my pyre by your Saurabh. No ...... my ... son .. Saurabh ... I gave birth to him by compulsion ...... left him ... in ... orphanage .. ... you brought ... I ... followed him ... here .. spent my life ... laid down .. to see him happy... "

And Janakray's son Saurabh set fire to Rudy, cowherd's pyre, and the whole village began to cry.

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