Yes. Prakash replied stamping and signing the documents returning them to Bhargav who went outside the office along with the office boy and handed him the suitcase and another note of five hundred rupees as a tip for which the boy thanked him repeatedly after which Bhargav made his way back.
Noticing none of the three were at the docking station Bhargav enquired around and went ahead to the bar after learning they had gone ahead. Arjun had already informed the workers to inform Bhargav once he returns to avoid extra confusion.
Seeing Bhargav entering the bar Arjun quickly waved his hands and signaled him to join them. Bhargav declined the offer to drink when Sergei offered using the excuse of driving and handed Arjun the permit papers.
How much did he leach Anna?
entire suitcase kiddo, i am sorry. I had thought thirty thousand would be enough given our previous dealings but that guy straight away denied all those once i slipped up that i was no longer working under Madan.
It's okay anna, we can make them back. Key is that we got the permit. Who knows how much he would have demanded if you did not have even that relation.
Yes, we can only think that way. So let's go?
Wait for this guy to finish this bottle and we can go.
Seeing Arjun and the other two guys staring at him continuously Sergei understood that it was time to leave and quickly downed the bottle while Arjun went to the nearby telephone booth to call the shipping company and asked them to come to the port since he had already paid the initial deposit.
They walked to the docking place and were waiting for the trucks to arrive when Arjun noticed a middle aged man in his white shirt and white Dhoti with a kid holding him trying to argue with one of the port officers. curios Arjun walked nearby and listened in on the conversation.
Sir...the ten thousand i gave you last week were already my entire savings sir. Please release the shipment.
No man, it's not enough.
What do you mean sir? it was you who said it was plenty last week.
That was last week when my superiors did not know about this. Now they have already taken away the money you've given me. Am i supposed to become a sheep for you and let you take it away for free?
Sir, but i don't have any thing else sir. The guy was even trying to bow and touch the officer's feet but the guy just looked away at the antics and remained stubborn.
Look buddy, either you come up with at least five thousand or the shipment stays here.
The guy did not know what else to say and kept pleading the officer.
Arjun understanding the gist of it approached the table where the officer was sitting and questioned the guy who was pleading. How long has the cargo been sitting uncle?
The guy felt someone had finally come to support and looked at the voice with eyes filled with hope. But noticing it was a kid his hope quickly died down while the kid he was holding quickly blurted out a week before the guy could close her mouth.
Arjun then took the paperwork from the guys hand and skimmed through the important bits.
It was a consignment of imported quality air cooler parts. Arjun assumed this was the full products instead and the parts were just a way to disguise. each cooler would probably sell for over five thousand outside and this guy must have gotten them from some other country where electronic goods were much cheaper which was very common occurrence in these times.
Together they could be sold for around a lakh and fifty thousand meaning the guy might not be so poor as he was showing but since he had been haggling for the past fifteen minutes or perhaps even more Arjun knew he really had no money left.
The officer meanwhile glared at Arjun and questioned Who are you kid?
The one who's going to pay you.
Stop joking kid, this is not a place to make jokes the man in white admonished Arjun and quickly went back to pleading the officer and the officer too no longer paid any attention to Arjun.
Arjun already slightly irritated placed the file down and signaled for Bhargav to come along with the cheque and wrote down the five thousand the officer was asking for and handed it to the officer.
The officer looked back and forth between the cheque and Arjun and replied don't try to fool me kid, do you how big of a crime it is if your cheque gets bounced.
Bhargav interrupted him and said you don't need to worry, i don't think your superior would have permitted our shipment if we didn't have that bit of money on us and handed him their stamped documents.
The officer immediately recognized his superiors signature and understood this kid was not a fraud and the real deal meanwhile the man in white and kid kept staring at the duo of Arjun and Bhargav wide eyed.
The officer quickly signed the documents and handed back them to the guy and asked them to leave still unsatisfied. After all he wanted to annoy the guy more but since he already had the money in hand he did not care anymore.
Meanwhile the guy kept thanking Arjun for the help as soon as they were outside and mentioned he would pay back immediately once they sold their goods and asked for Arjun's contact info.
Arjun then introduced himself and Bhargav and asked for their names and got to know that the guy's name was Sundaram and the kid introduced herself as Leela.
Arjun then mentioned that he did not need to pay back as he could pay back in another way which took Sundaram by surprise prompting him to enquire meaning behind Arjun's words.
Well just give me one of the coolers and we are even Arjun replied back.
The guy was taken aback once again seeing Arjun recognize his goods even though it was never mentioned on paper and agreed to Arjun's request after thinking for a while.
Sundaram then handed Leela to Arjun as he had to go ahead and load his goods onto his trucks and having Leela in such an environment would be dangerous to the kid.
Leela meanwhile stared at Arjun with starry eyes and mentioned So cool!!.
What do you mean kid? Arjun enquired her curios what this little kid meant by those words.
You were so cool back there Anna. I too want to grow up big and help dad just like you did.
Ohho... good for you kid, what class are you in right now? Arjun replied rubbing her head.
I am in my first class Anna.
Are you from Vizag?
Yes anna, we live nearby why?
Just asking. so why do you want to help dad so much?
Leela then explained how her parents worked hard everyday and especially her dad who was busy almost his entire day and did not even have time for her but Arjun could not see a hint of disappointment on her face and questioned back if she was not upset for it?
Leela replied well they always say they are doing this for our family, i want to spend more time with them but seeing them work so hard i don't know how else to help them and just be happy when ever they can.
Arjun was surprised at how mature this kid was and wanted to gift something and immediately remembered the extra drawing book sets he had made Balram place in the car earlier.
Arjun always had the habit of taking along his products wherever he travelled in his last life and it carried on to this life too. Arjun then made Bhargav fetch one of those sets and handed them to Leela mentioning it was one of their products.
Leela curiously looked at the books but held back from taking them until Arjun mentioned he would be disappointed if she did not take them.
She quickly browsed through them and asked Anna can i draw like this too? pointing at the Teju drawing in the start page.
Yes kid, if you work hard i am sure you absolutely can which made her immediately promise she would do exactly what Arjun had said and made Arjun write his details in the last page in one of the books and put them inside her backpack seeing her father approaching with a worker who was moving a trolly.
This is your cooler Arjun, just call me if you have any troubles with it Sundaram mentioned handing his visiting card to Arjun.
Arjun was surprised that such a small business man had his own business card to and decided to make the press print some for him and his employees too.
Arjun asked Bhargav to push the trolly and bid goodbye to the father and daughter duo and left since their trucks had just arrived too.