**Heer had gone to the river to fetch water, and Ranjha was sitting alone, so Kaidu, in the guise of a mendicant faqir, came to him and begged for alms in the name of God, and retired towards the village. **
**When Heer came back from the river she asked Ranjha where the other half of the pastry was, and he told her that a crippled faqir had come and begged in God’s name. Heer replied, 'Ranjha, where have your wits gone? That was no saintly faqir but my Satanic uncle Kaidu who goes about to destroy me. **
**The heart of Heer was scorched with anger against Kaidu. So she ran and overtook him in the way and fell upon him in her wrath like a tigress. Half of the pastry fell on the ground, and the other half Kaidu snatched from Heer, and having secured his prize, the cripple ran off as fast as his crooked legs would carry him to the village. **
**Kaidu came before the council of village elders and said, ‘See, here are the pieces of pastry which Heer gave to Ranjha. Will you now believe when I tell you she is a shameless hussy?’ The elders came and told Chuchak what Kaidu had been saying in the assembly of the elders. Chuchak was wroth and said, 'Kaidu is a talebearer and a liar; he chases moths all day. **
**Kaidu said to Milki, ‘For god’s sake get your daughter married.’ Heer withstood her parents to their faces and refused to give up Ranjha. **
**Scandal Spreads in the village and Chuchak dismisses Ranjha and then recalls him **
**When Ranjha brought the cows back that night Chuchak was wroth, and he called Ranjha and in the presence of all his kinsfolk rebuked him saying, ‘Friend, give up the buffaloes and go away.’ **
**Thereupon Ranjha threw down his shepherds crook and blanket and quit Chuchak’s herd of cattle, even as a thief leaves the hole in the wall when he hears the watchman’s footsteps. And he spoke to Chuchak in his anger, ‘For twelve years I have been grazing your buffaloes and now you turn me away without wages.’ Ranjha in a rage shook the dust of the Sials off his feet and gave up the service of Chuchak. **
**Milki said to Chuchak, ‘All the people curse us for having turned the cowherd out without paying him his wages. Go and beseech him to come back. Tell him Heer is disquieted by his absense.’ Chuchak said to Milki, ‘Go you and pacify him.’ **
**Milki having found him, she entreated him saying, ‘Do not fret over much about the quarrel you had with Chuchak. Parents and children often fall out in such small matters. Come back and milk our buffaloes and spread Heer’s couch. Since you have gone she has been much displeased with us. Our cattle, our wealth, the Sials and heer are all yours.’ So Ranjha Hearkened to the words of Heer’s mother, and once more became Chuchak’s herdsman. **
When Heer came back from the forest her parents sent for the Qazi. The Qazi said, ‘It is not becoming for the daughter of Chuchak to talk to cowherds and penniless coolies. In a few days the messengers of your wedding will be here. The preparations for the marriage are all but complete. The Kheras will bring a marriage procession in a few days to take you to the house of your husband.’ **
**Heer replied to her father, 'As wine-bibblers cannot desert the bottle, as opium-eaters cannot live without opium, so i cannot live without Ranjha. The Qazi was wroth and said, ‘Nobody can stop or stay this wicked girl. heer’s pride knows no bounds. She must be given in marriage at once.’ **
**Heer called aside one fo her girl friends and sent her to Ranjha at once with the following message, ‘My parents and the Qazi are oppressing me and my life is being taken from me even as sugar is pressed out of a sugar mill. You, friend, are living happily but an army of sorrows is invading me.’ **