Rudra was completely shocked and he was not able to understand what he should do. If he chose his wife and child, he would destroy everything. But he had no idea whether he would live after following that curse or not, due to which he was afraid of taking the risk.
Rudra was going towards his house with a very sad mind. When he reached home and knocked on the door, his wife opened the door with great joy but she was surprised to see Rudra's sad face.
Rudra went straight inside without looking at her as if he was shocked. His wife felt that Rudra was still angry with her because of yesterday's incident. She did not know what was going on in Rudra's mind.
Seeing Rudra go, Seema called him and said, wash your hands and face, I will serve food for you. After this, Seema went to serve food. Even after some time, when Rudra came to eat, his face was still sad.
Now Seema came to him and keeping her hand on his shoulders said, "I will do as you say, I don't want to go to your village. I will go there only if you ask me to go there and will take the name of that village again, but you should smile a little". Hearing this, Rudra became very emotional and suddenly started crying, after which Seema held him.
"What is the matter, I have never seen you doing this before today" Seema said sadly. "Look, if you do this then what will happen to me".
Now Rudra calmed down a bit. "If you are sad because of this child then we will..." Seema was saying this when Rudra held her mouth.
After which Rudra looked at her and said, "What is your or my child's fault in this, if anyone is at fault then it is Aadesh".
"What is the matter, why are you taking your father's name like this" Seema said surprised.
"You don't know that when I was only 12 years old, my father made a mistake due to which the whole village has become childless today. Whoever has a child in the village, that child is burnt alive on the same day." Rudra said with some anger.
"I am not able to understand what are you saying." Seema said with fear.
After which Rudra made her sit near him and started telling about the rest.
"After the death of that priest, many priests came to the village but some would run away in fear and some would die. Everyone thought that the spirits were killing them all but it was not so."
"When father took me to the hospital, father went to the doctor there but I was sitting there. That day I saw the dead body of the priest because no one in the village was ready to perform his last rites."
That day the family of that priest had also come there and they were crying a lot. His son was talking to the doctor and I was listening to their conversation secretly. "Doctor, what are you saying? My father had no enmity with anyone, then?" the boy asked the doctor in surprise. "Look, everyone here is saying that your father was killed by ghosts and they are not ready to understand what I am saying. Your father died due to consuming poison and no one wants to know who poisoned him," the doctor said to the boy.
Even after that, both of them were talking but my father was looking for me in a hidden place, due to which I had to leave their conversation in the middle. After that, I went to my father and started going home with him. In my eyes, there was only one man who knew everything, that was that Tantrik, but I have never seen him since that day, maybe he has sat down for some meditation or he has left that area. In those days no one was ready to come to our village, everyone considered our village to be cursed.
After a few days my father kept the priest's son with us. He used to play with me and always stayed with me, he became my first friend in the village but sometimes he used to have seizures. The doctor said that he had suffered a big shock due to which he had become in this condition.
When father took him home, my respect for him increased again. Everything was going well when one day suddenly what everyone was afraid of happened.
It was the night of a lunar eclipse. That night a man had gone to another village with his four friends. It was very late in the night for him to return. His friends were stopping him.
But he was very drunk due to which he was not ready to listen to anyone.
Those people were coming back at night with a lantern. On the way, they started passing by this tree. The other three were very scared but then he shouted in anger, "Listen O tree, because of you we have to live in fear today, I am not afraid of you".
After some time all three of them together started pulling him back but he was not ready to listen.
After which one of those three men said in fear, "I cannot live here anymore, this man is alone but I have my whole family, I am leaving".
After saying this the man started leaving from there. "Go away you coward, run away from here" the man said in anger.
The other two stayed there with him. The next day when people found that both of them did not return home, everyone started searching for them. The whole day passed but they could not find those three anywhere. The fourth man was also silent and was not telling anything to anyone. Whoever was there with him,
When I asked him, he said that he had returned from there early.
Then that same night, once again everyone heard the same sounds which used to come from that tree. The chirping of bats was heard in all the four directions. Once again an atmosphere of fear was created in the whole village, after which all the people gathered outside my house.
"Mukhiya ji, today again the same sounds are being heard, let's go and see what is happening".
On hearing his words, father also went with him. I also wanted to go with them but stayed at home with my mother.
I was searching for Ankit everywhere but I could not see him anywhere in the house. He came back at night after which I asked him everything.
He told that the bodies of the three people who had disappeared were also hanging upside down from the tree and the thread tied to the tree was also missing. Maybe someone had removed it.
"But who would have removed that thread?" thinking this Seema said.
"Maybe one of them must have taken it out, who else could it be?" Rudra said in a little anger.
Seema got lost in thoughts after listening to Rudra. "What are you thinking writer saheb?" Rudra asked.
"After listening to you I don't know why I feel that apart from those three there was a fourth person who must have opened the thread of that tree, I don't think that any of these three had the courage to open the thread of the tree, they had seen death very closely due to which it was not in their power to do this" Seema said softly.
After which Rudra said smilingly, "But why would anyone do this, what benefit would anyone get from this?"
After all what did Aadesh do that Rudra was angry with him, what happened to those three that night, was Seema's statement true and was there a fourth person there too, was there a curse on the village?
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