The Apricot Benefits

  Written by: Najia Nijat

 

Fahim and Lima are playing in the lane. Fahim says to Lima that if she replies to his mental question, he would give her a gift.

Peddler arrives and asks Fahim to asks his mental question.

Fahim asks the following question:

“A roaster is standing on a wall. One side of the wall is soil and the other side is grass. Which is side is safe for the roaster to lay an egg?”

Lima says grass but Fahim considers it wrong. Lima becomes angry and says that grass is softer than the soil.

Peddler asks her to think about the question first. Lima says that she understands now that the correct answer is that the roaster does not lay an egg.

Peddler gives a doll to her and a ball to Fahim as a gift and he goes to another lane.

Second Lane:

Farida asks her brother, Emal to pick up apricots from the tree but Emal says that he doesn’t like apricots and nor want Farida to eat them.

Peddler arrives and after greeting, he picks up some apricots. Farida wants to eat them. Peddler wants her to wash them before eating. Peddler says that eating apricots has many health benefits. Emal asks about its benefits.

Peddler says: “apricots increase and purify the blood, strengthen bones and the human body, and keep the skin fresh."

Emal also picks up apricots from the tree and says that he would also eat them. Peddler tells them a joke about the apricots and children like it.

Peddler goes to the other lane.

The Lane of the Story:

Sana and Jawid are waiting for the peddler to come and tell them the new episode of Rashid Story.

When peddler arrives, he asks about the previous episode.

Sana says that When Rashid and Shah Perai wanted to leave the garden, the magician arrived on her magic broom.

Jawid says that Shah Perai and Rashid hid behind a big tree but the magician saw them and asked to come near her.

Sana says that the magician captured both of them and said that she would eat them soon. The magician cast a spell on Rashid and Shah Perai.

Peddler tells them the third episode of Rashid Story.

Third Episode:

Magician kept them in a magic tower in the garden which did not have any gate. Rashid and Shah Perai were begging the magician to let them go home because their parents ordered them to take care of the home but they did not.

The magician says that why they did not accept their parents’ order. The magician went somewhere and asked them to do something for her fever and he would decide later to release them or not.

Shaperai wanted to clean magician’s house. She saw a big toy monkey. When she went near it, the monkey said that he was a boy and when he did not accept her mother order, the magician changed him into a toy monkey.

A Doll said that she was a girl and she came to magician’s garden without her mother permission, the magician changed her into a doll.

Shah Perai started crying and said to Rashid that the magician might change them into toys too.

The doll said: “the magician has put his talisman in something in the tower. If anyone could find it, we all would be released from her prison.”