"You are queen if you do what your mind suggest, not what others ''

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As patches of dark faded away I passed through thick woods leaving many kingdom's behind on the way to Lahore. I'm riding mostly through woods nearby countryside of coming kingdom's on a way. I knew each and every way to pass through these thick jungles... I'm very much aware of the bandits, burglars who are the main reason of my choosing this path.

These woods are thick like true lovers who didn't determined to stay separate long and always stick to each other. Trees are mostly long, medium and short in heights on top of it emptied spaces filled with throny bushes and mostly wild animals are howling, barking. During night time this thick woods became even more scary than day time. Even during daytime they always spread dark even sooraj devta is sitting on its full glory.

It's noon already and still light of source didn't fully touched the ground, it's already lost in its long thick branches. Due to its thickness bandits, burglars didn't mostly came to find there catch in these woods. So, for me it's safe to rode like a common country men. I rode bahadur only on a very narrow passage which was maybe made by feets of continuous visits of villagers for wood fuel in woods.

I just checked the time on my pocket watch which showed the noon. This incredible little spherical magic box tells me the time in mathematics. It came from far kingdoms of other lands in west... Chinese merchants bought it when they visited there and sell in our hindustan while crossing silk route to their native country.

It's a present given to me by my elder brother who is crown prince of our small kingdom, when I finally learned reading and writing Gurmukhi script and punjabi Language which is my mother tongue and also learned the basic calculation and magic of numbers.

I feel proud to be educated to write my name.. To wrote letters to my other childhood friends who got married few years back.

As I'm in my thoughts..

Mithu start chirping who is flying ahead of me.

Paani.. Paani

Aaab.. Aaab

Suddenly I feel the light breeze flowing calming my nerves and relief sent to my whole body. I knew it I'm near the two brooks who confluened in a harike village__ Ravi and sutlej are names of those fresh water channels. This natural scenery always took my breath away whenever i passes this area during my journeys to my mother's paternal kingdom.

I reached their at the beautiful scene of nature where they meet together and then flow together like no one separate them again this life, seems like deep lovers, pink lotus flowers were flowing on them giving the peace to my tired eyes. I stopped their for a while under the shade of large peepal tree, and then continued my journey toward my in-laws kingdom.

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I reached at the suburbs of lahore city at beautiful countryside with fields filled with green rice, bajra and millet fields. Field workers were irrigating the rice fields, some were plucking the wild weeds from rice fields, and i am riding bahadur through narrow paths along the large green fields. Sun was moving toward western kingdoms after making us boil like hot water and giving relief to mankind, sky is filled with orange yellow patches and white cotton pillows and suddenly light breeze was start blowing makes like wind before the nature's shower.

I pulled the strings of bahadur and rise its speed to reach the palace before rain gonna touch the ground, mithu was flying ahead of me enjoying the cool weather after a hot long journey. I crossed many villages before i reached near the main city of lahore. Men folk were returning homes after work, womens bickering with fruit, vegetable with vendors, tangas were moving fast before darkness and raindrops engulf them.

After riding few paths ahead greenery was looking ahead of me, large patches of land filled with trees of different sizes stands in a certain patterns of rows looking amazing like i reaches the gardens of heavens.

Seems like i die early and reached the heavens before meeting my prince.

In centre of those large fields of fruit trees long beautiful road was waiting ahead of me with gulmohar trees on its both sides standing like red army with red flowers hanging on its brsnches and many of them already covered the road after falling from trees, this rose filled road seems like never ending road which seems like i rode bahadur since eternity, where did they hide their kingdom's palace.

I suddenly got remember, and i called mithu who was flying ahead on this road of heaven.

"mithu ...mithu come back "

_he fly back and sat on my left shoulder.

"Aaab...Aaab"

"did you remember the instructions which i give to you before starting this journey" i asked him.

"Aaab..Aaab durr....durr mahal....mahal"

"Good boy , now stay away from the eyes of kingdom's people as i told you know one gonna get to know that you came with me, understood" i told him as i got the glimpse of large castle.

"Aaab..Aaab"

"Okay now fly back in this fruit filled baghs enjoy your meal and came back to me at night time without getting notice, i will wait for you in open space or any balcony, understood"

"aab...aab"

...then he fly back toward his meal.

He is my little intelligent pet, works as my personal spy whenever i needed him or else he enjoy being himself flying around me and sometimes resting on my shoulder.

And now i stood at the large gates of palace where pehredaars were marching at the gate like tight security has been followed around the large mountain like walls stood around the beautiful palace, made of red marble seems to be found outside in this dusk and drizzling start falling on ground making the fragnance of wet soil filling the nostrils in cold cozy weather turned from a hot boiling weather.

The look on the faces of those pehredaars were like megaliths from stone age when they acknowledged my presence, height touching like long fruit trees, with large big turban on head, holding long spears in hands,and moustaches look like someone forcefully pulled from skin and made them enlarge and pasted on jaw after making spirals,like they went to same barber for same design.

And dressed up in same typical mughal pehredaars.

One of them came toward me "who are you??" looking at me from his tree height size roared, making me self conscious what if they found out real me ? It's not like i am afraid from these bulky stones, i just afraid of my real identity not to reveal in front of these bulky stones.

His voice without emotion roared in drizzling.Couldn't they asked in a soft manner.

What a grand welcome in my in- laws kingdom of their future daughter-in-law, no one ever recieved this much adoration, before.

How sweet ??

I am the future queen of this kingdom, i want to yell on them,but instead, calmly.

"I am soon to be brother- in- law of crown prince of this kingdom" i spoke in my very manly voice as could i erupt from my dried throat.

After long interrogation at main gate because i am in very casual clothes like common country people and when they got satisfied that i am actually brother in - law of crown prince of their kingdom, they kept my bahadur for staying him at royal stable and with utmost respect they took me towards a royal guest quarters stay for my rest and after that king, queen and crown prince will gonna meet me at their royal dinning hall. They have a royal tanga waiting for me to sit inside , journey toward royal guest quarters, entire ride inside this large spacious palace was like a magic like i reached palace of heaven, passing through beautiful path around garden filled with colorful flowers and in a centre standing a large white water fountain sprinkling around in a large circle around the fountain, everything seems like a dream, beautiful dream, trees of mangoes were standing around the wall loaded with yellow green mangoes.I never seen such a beauty in my whole nineteen years of life.

...miracles of nature.

Royal guest quarters were just beside the main royal palace but couldn't be seen easily as they were hides with a large bamboo trees as shed around royal quarters, everything of this palace were magnifacent like jewel, luxury was glowing from every corner of this palace even from small herbs of grass to large monument like palace.

Royal tanga moves inside the path through those bamboo filled sheds and stopped at a beautiful mini palace like structure made from red marble.I got down from tanga and moves inside as few stone pehredaars walked ahead of me, inside was a large spacious hall filled wooden seated arrangements with silk cusions and pillows on them between sitting a large wooden table on whose above beautiful lamp was glowing.

I got sit down on one of the silk cusions and relaxed my muscles as i put my bare feets on floor covered with seems like dacca muslin.

" Yuvraaj, you are welcomed here in royal quarters of our kingdom, you can stay here as like you want, if you want anything just called any sewak, all of them are just waiting for your demand. This whole quarter is yours around your stay here, on king's demand you can rest now , your bedroom is on above floor, your clothes and hot water bathe is already waiting for you in your room. After two hours you will being called for dinner with royal family, until then you can relax yourself from this long journey" then he bow and walks out the quarter, seems like a senapati, everyone here is bulky stones with designed moustache fashion, his spiral was little less than outside stone pehredaars.

Then varieties of sharbats made of juicy fruits were served to me in hall, seems like a kitchen is also present in this quarter.

After that i ascend the stairs and reaches my bedroom which is also large like a hall with king size bed resting in centre , at one corner large mirror was standing and also a glittering royal clothes were hanging at one side of wall. First thing i did was took a hot bathe inside large tub like container filled with mild water, which soothe my muscles, then i dressed up in yellow colored men's clothes and tied a red punjabi turban at head which i know very well how to tie in front of a large mirror, and hanged my sword at side.

Now, i am fully dressed up as a royal young man, but now i am very much scared to face my future husband. Seems like not so very wise decision to came here hiding my identity and disguised as my elder brother's getup.

Suddenly someone knock at my door, and my hands got pale suddenly i wish i just eloped from where or i just marched back to my kindom. But now i already came a far ahead in this plan.

I look at my small metal object, on which needle stops at eight__two hours like passed in a blink and i kept it inside pocket of my kurta.

Now is the time to face reality, Aaab.

I walked toward door and after gaining strength i opened the door but looses all my strength after my eyes landing on a tall young strong another stone like man with beautiful designed moustache with just slight curve upward,this looking elegant and beard on his chisled jaw and crown like beautiful turban sitting on his head, his black dark eyes holding a certain authority that i feel suddenly weak infront of this male hunk of specimen.

Now what kind of pehredaar he is ??

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Reference:

Good morning dear beauties and gentleboys

Hope you like this update..

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1st pocket watch was invented by peter henlen in 1510 in nuremberg, germany.

The pocket watches which started to be produced in late sixteenth century, they only showed the hour. It was not until 1680 that minute hands were added to clocks.

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Rivers mentioned in this update ravi and sutlej meets at south of harike village.

But at present it is a ramsar wetland site known as "Hari - ke - pattan", with harike lake is largest wetland in northern india in border of taran taran district and ferozpur district of punjab state in india.

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Here, in this book lahore kingdom is fictional, do not get confuse with the actual palace of lahore governor at 1599, whereas khwaja shams ad-din as its governor at that time, under mughal empire during akbar's reign.

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Sooraj devta --- Lord sun

Sevak --- Servant

Bagh --- Fruit orchards

Royal tanga --- Royal Cart

Pehredaar -- Security guard.

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Hope i give the authentic information regarding our past.

Stay tuned for further updates.

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22nd May' 2021

~ Preet.