Episode one & Two
"Whose child is that?, where is the cry coming from?" asked Okori, already feeling irritated and angry about the cry cutting short his train of thoughts.
"Adaobi !!, Adaobi !!!, go and check whose child that is and make her stop crying at once".
"Nnayi, the cry is not from this compound but from out side, it seems it's coming from the woods" answered Adaobi from outside the room. " Nnayi ! It's seem u have to come and check it out, we don't know the exact direction it's coming from".
"Show me which direction it's coming from, but hope your children and that of your co wives are inside the house".asked Okori, coming out of the house with his cutlass and stepping into the woods.
"Yes nnayi, they are all inside, but nnayi please be very careful", Adaobi replied, looking worried.
Okori keeps searching through the bushes and tree, following the sound of the cry, till he saw a woven basket from afar and move to get a closer view.
" Who in the god's name left this child here, such a nice looking child, some mothers are just heartless", okori lamented with worries and concerned written all over his face, picks up the child and examines the child, " chineke Le !!!, It's a boy, a boy, ohh what an irony, I have been praying to the gods to bless me with a child, I have offered countless sacrifice but nothing to show for it yet, but here is a woman who the god's has blessed with a male child and she abandoned him here in the woods for wild animals to feast on, what a wicked world we live in".
Places the child in his arms like a mother who wants to breastfeed her child and swings the child to stop him from cry, the cries of the child stops gradually, and he bends and picks up the basket, turns and start heading back to his house.
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Episode 2
"Adaobi !! Please tell your co wives to leave whatever they are doing and meet me in my chamber immediately and you come with them too". said Okori, walking towards his room with the child in his hands.
"Yes nnayi" replied Adaobi, also walking into the house to call her co wives.
Everybody was seated, the place was silent, the sound of the silence was deafen.
"My wives, I have called you all here to discuss an important issue with you all, you all know what happened about three days ago when I found this child am carrying, and I had to take him to the igwe, to explain to him everything about this child, and after much deliberation by the igwe and the elders of this village, a search party was organized to look for the mother or parents of this child and so far there hasn't been any results, so it was decided but the igwe and elders that I will have to take care of the child like my own pending when the parents will be found and if not found, l become the father, and knowing how much I needed a male child, I had to take the offer".
"Nnayi, so how do we go about it now"? asked Adaobi, feeling concerns.
"Nnayi, the child should be given to me to take care of, as a new mom that I am, I can raise both up" suggested oby.
"Oby, you should know your place in this house, you are the last wife amongst us, you should wait for nnayi or Adaobi the first wife to decide and not you", Nneka said, shouting at Oby, obviously angry at her.
"Who are you to shout at me, i just gave a harmless suggestion" replied Oby, shouting back at Nneka.
"Silence you two, must you two always quarrel at any opportunity you get, we have a serious issue at hand" replied Okori, with a raised voice. "But what Oby said is actually right, her baby is still breast feeding and this child also needs breast milk, but not withstanding, it is the responsibility of you all to take care of him and raise him well, Oby, you will breast feed him and Adaobi will give him the needed home training that he needs because she has the well behaved children amongst you all".
"But nnayi, I can also train him well" said Nneka
" Like you trained those harlots of yours you call daughters" oby raised her voice, facing Nneka.
"May the gods cut your mouth into two, are yours better, as young as they are, their private part have welcomed more visitors than Nwoye the village prostitute". replied Nneka, getting up to fight Oby.
"Will you both keep quiet and sit down" shouted Okori, already getting pissied off by the two wives.
" Sorry nnayi" both chorused.
"Nnayi so what name do we give to him" said Adaobi.
"He will be called Chikelue, because the gods have given me my own share of a male child".
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