As Arjun and Karan came out from the school and were walking towards Arjun's home they could notice a small cluster of people scurrying around carrying boxes of different sizes.
They immediately understood it was the machines they had ordered a couple days earlier being delivered to the local warehouse. They had yet to find a place to open their printing press so Madan had allocated them one of his warehouses for temporary use.
As they got near they could hear Bhargav shooting orders at the workers. Madan was sitting at the warehouse entrance smoking his pipe. Arjun went ahead to enquire about the progress to Madan while Karan joined Bhargav to offer help if needed.
Madan who noticed Arjun coming near him put out his pipe and asked "How did the meeting at the school go? any issues that i should help you with?". Arjun with a smile mentioned that there were no issues and everyone had already agreed to help with making the All in One.
It took another half an hour for the unloading to be completed. Once they were done Bhargav approached both of them and handed Arjun a couple sets of bond papers to Arjun.
Arjun who was initially confused took a glance at the bond papers and was surprised immensely. These were the documents for permission to establish the press and the other set was of Madan transferring seventy five percent of shares to Arjun.
No one could describe how surprised Arjun felt at this moment. How could the permission be approved within a single day? wasn't it common knowledge that establishing a company took a very long time during pre liberalization days? how come it was done in a single day.
It was then that he noticed Madan with a smirk on his face. He understood, this was the power of connections and wealth. Especially during these days when wealth was scattered and very few people were into both politics and business one could only imagine how deep Madan's hands were into the district administration department.
Arjun was impressed by his partner. Even in his past life it took over a week to get the approval from the government. He then asked Madan to lend him Bhargav for a while.
He wanted his help in explaining to his parents. If he went alone they would absolutely slaughter him, He realized this when his father was already angry at him for spending over three hundred rupees on gifts. According to his father this money would be enough for their family necessities for entire month.
Bhargav alongside Arjun reached their home. When Pratap noticed Bhargav coming to his home he invited him in and offered some tea and snacks.
Once Bhargav made himself comfortable Arjun called his mom for the discussion too. Once they were seated Arjun handed his father the documents he had received earlier.
Pratap who already had a bad feeling in his heart upon noticing his son coming with the village head's assistant took the papers and started reading them.
Meanwhile Arjun started explaining his parents about his plan to establish a printing press together with Karan. He also mentioned that he would be investing eighty thousand rupees for seventy five percent shares and Karan would be investing fifty thousand rupees for the remaining shares.
Pratap who was busy reading the permit papers for the printing press was stunned.
"Wait eighty thousand rupees? where did you get that amount of money from? you're not thinking of taking it from me are you? let me remind you i only make around thousand rupees a month and you want eighty thousand?" Pratap started shouting his mouth of at Arjun.
Arjun could only embarrassingly glance at Bhargav but noticing he did not have any reaction said to his father, "The money is already invested, we bought the necessary printers and raw materials already"
Noticing his stares Bhargav too agreed with Arjun and mentioned "Yes Pratap garu Arjun has already invested the proposed amount and the goods have already been delivered to the village"
Pratap by now had too many questions in his mind but noticing Bhargav sitting to his side he could only push them down his throat. Kavitha meanwhile had no reaction, It seemed as long as Arjun was fine and healthy she would not question any of his decisions.
Once they were done with the tea Arjun bid farewell to Bhargav and returned to his seat. He knew there was a storm coming and he had to wither it no matter what.
Pratap who was already bursting with anger by now started asking questions to Arjun.
"Where did you get the money from?"
"Didn't you only have twenty thousand? how did become eighty thousand?"
"Did you do anything illegal while you were outside?"
As he went on his questions grew more and more outrageous. Arjun sat there watched his father rant for another five minutes. Once he was done with his rant he slowly started to explain what happened during his visit to Vijayawada.
He first started with their visit to Chava printing press, His meeting with Vladimir, how he accompanied Vladimir to make sixty thousand while helping him acquire the goods he needed, His agreement with Madan and finally how they bought two offset printing machines and raw materials worth over forty thousand.
Once he was done he relaxed and waited for his father to digest the information. Pratap meanwhile felt like he was sitting on a pile of needles.
What did his son say? he made over sixty six thousand rupees within a couple of days!! that was five years of his salary for the love of god!! And even more astonishing was he had poured it all into buying a couple of machines and raw materials.
What more could he say? ask him to return the materials? even he knew that would be impossible. Also what was Madan doing trusting his son and his friend with fifty thousand rupees that too in a lopsided deal where he only took twenty five percent.
He did not know whether the world was going mad or whether he was the one going nuts. He tried pinching himself to check if this was a dream. It took him quite a while to recover from this shock.
Kavitha meanwhile was more interested in the All in One Arjun had mentioned and started asking more about it. As they were engaged in their conversation Pratap suddenly stood up mentioned he was going out for a walk and left.
It seemed he had yet to recover from the shock. After all a ten year old kid making over seven years of his income within a week could break any man's heart. Arjun could only sigh and left him to it. He was sure that his father would have more questions once he returned but at least he had already accepted the outcome.
In the future it would be much easier for him to deal with similar situations. He felt if he had not informed his family and took a little longer till after the exams when according to his expectations he would be making around five lakhs from the venture, He felt it would shatter his father's fragile heart.
He then explained to his mother about the need of logo for the company. Arjun noticed Kavitha's eyes lighting up. His mother who was not really interested in many things had this side too? she then bombarded him with questions about how he wanted the logo to look like.
Arjun proceeded to explain the logo should be in either Red or Black and should be very simple. He wanted the logo to be easily remembered by anyone, especially kids since this venture was catered towards kids. He asked if including a pen or a book would be possible in the design.
He also mentioned that the design should be done by the end of the week. Kavitha further enquired about other minute details about the logo and the places where it would be used.
Arjun who had never thought this deep about the logo could only make up things as he came across new questions his mother posed. It was his first time seeing his mother so involved into something and he was happy for her.
Meanwhile Pratap returned and noticing how serious his wife was silently signaled Arjun to go outside for a chat. Once outside his voice turned strict, "Arjun it's good that you're getting into money but you should never forget your roots and promise me you'll not stop concentrating on your studies. If your grades ever go down i will take the control of Press to myself. If you are okay with these conditions i am okay with anything you do going further".
How could Arjun not understand what his father was worried about. He promised he would not forget the two conditions and also mentioned even if this venture turned out to be a failure he would take it on the chin.
Pratap was happy with his son's thought process. He felt proud of being his father, He too was starting to feel his son was destined for greater things.