As they were living on the edge of a forest, far away from any human intervention. The old lady knew how to make weapons from sticks, hunt small animals using the knife and also how to set traps to catch small games.
She thought all these to the little boy when he was 3 years old. To her surprise he watched her do the stuff once and repeated the same stuff flawlessly on his first try itself.
By the age of 4, he was not only a good hunter of small games and birds. He had even learnt all the herb lore from the old lady.
She had to show him the plants and explain about their medicinal properties once and the next time he would get her the required herbs exactly. She was amazed by the speed of his learning and his memory power initally. As time went on, she got used to his talents and started teaching him how to make different type of medicinal paste and their properties and uses.
Along with his learning speed and extraordinary memory, she also started noticing an increase in his strength. He started collecting woods and twing from the nearby forest area and bring it back effortlesly. Which, usually weighed more than the boy himself.
She found that he had even learnt how to cook just by watching her do it and even can prepare herbal soup which can work wonders.
One day she was down with a fever and was unable to get up . To her astonishment the boy prepared her hot herbal soup which not only soothed her throad and congested lungs, but also brought her fever down in no time. It even tasted delicious.
Once she recovered from her fever, she asked the boy about how he made the soup and the answer he gave stunned her for few minutes.
Grandma, I saw that you were having difficulty breathing and had grimace on your face whenever you swallowed your saliva. Your fever was also high. So I mixed the herbs used for chest congestion, herbs used for reliving throat pain and brewed a concoction. Then mixed it with hot vegetables soup. Your fever was caused due to those two things. Once you took medication for those two symptoms, your fever automatically came down.
The boy had learnt everything his grandmother can teach him and can even perform them flawlessly. Which made the old lady sigh with relief thinking about her old age and that there was no need to worry about this boy after her demise.
She was confident that, in near future if she passes away before the boy reached 10 years, the boy will be fine on his own without much of a trouble. He was talented, strong, careful, observant and she was sure that he had the ability to overcome any difficulty he faces.