Chapter 8 Madol Duwa


                                                     A Strange Gest

                

Next morning, Jinna cooked rice for the breakfast because they were getting ready to go to the other side of the island. They wanted find the truth about (discover) the mystery lying in that part of the island.  Suddenly Upali heard Jinna yelling and he ran where Jinna was. Upali saw Jinna was bitten by a snake and he was screaming in pain. Upali ran and took their gun and he was going to shoot the snake. Jinna didn’t allow him to do that.

After the snake went out from the cave Upali asked Jinna angrily / crossly “why didn’t you let me kill that snake?”

Jinna replied “She came because she loves you”

Upali surprised and asked Jinna “How would a snake love a human? If she loves us why did she bite you?”

Jinna replied “She doesn’t love me, she loves you. She bit me because I took you out from your beautiful family”.

Upali became obsessed and he ran to fetch Podi Gamarala. But Jinna didn’t allow him and he said “this is not a severe pain because that snake didn’t bite me properly”

Because of Jinna’s wound they couldn’t go to follow that boat that night. After 8 days Jinna could stand up properly. When Jinna could stand they went to sell manioc. (tapioca/cassava) They sold tapioca for 2 months. So Madol doowa was famous in Colombo because every day they came to sell tapioca and people started calling the vegetables that they grow in Madol doowa, “Madol doowa” vegetables. / people started referring to the vegetables that they grow in Madol doowa, as “Madol doowa” vegetables. People started visiting Madol doowa every day.

One day a famous family came to Madol Doowa with Podi Gamarala, and they ate rice cooked by Jinna. Jinna and Upali told them about the mysterious things that they have faced such as the light and the boat. The daughter of that famous family said “please don’t go to follow that boat until we come next time. We ll come with my father’s gun.

Once day an official came to the island and they lend a loan to Upali and Jinna and they said you should pay it back to us somehow. Then the famous family came again to that island with their gun, and they were going to follow that boat. They waited until the boat arrived but on that day they could see neither the boat nor the light. Because of that the family thought that it was a made up story and blamed Upali and Jinna and left the island.

The official came again and asked to pay the loan back but Upali and Jinna couldn’t pay that because they didn’t have that much of money / that amount. So the officer became angry and said “this is a land owned by the government. You don’t have permission to cultivate in this land” Upali said that when they came first to the island, it was covered with weed, and they put a lot of effort to clear and cultivated in the island. That officer said “you can’t cultivate in state-owned lands without permission”

Again Upali said to himself “will we have to leave Madol Doowa?” that officer said “if one person buys this you must leave Madol Doowa. Even now, there is a plenty of people who would like to pay a very high price to buy this land.  Podi Gamarala said “even if they come again, we will never give away this island to them”.  

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