In plain words
When the child was five years old, she died. So some of the villagers came together and placed the child in the Rāmaśaila āśram in that same village. The head of that āśram was Narahari Dās. They handed this five-year-old child over to him. He brought the child up with great Prema, engaged a teacher and began to have him taught. It was the custom in that āśram to tell the Rāmāyaṇa to the devotees who came in the evening. At that time the boy would go there, sit down, listen well to the story of Rāma and, little by little, sing it to himself.
One day, as the boy was singing the Rāmāyaṇa beautifully in his room in a sweet voice, he heard it from outside and rejoiced within himself. Children chatter all sorts of silly things, as befits their age. But this boy never joined in any other talk at all. He was always thinking of Rāma, singing songs of Rāma and composing ślokas. In the āśram Narahari Dās gave each one a task. He named this boy Rāmbolā. “Son, keep watering all these tulasī plants and look after them,” he said. Rāmbolā cared for those tulasī plants as dearly as his own life. He went on watering them, manuring them, cutting away the dried branches and picking off the dried leaves, and keeping the tulasī clean. He studied in the hours for study, and without wasting the rest of his time he served in that tulasī grove. All who came to pass the time there saw all that the boy was doing and, because he served the tulasī, named him Tulasīdās. It was not a name given to him. It was a name born from the people. This very name became famous. So, serving in this way, when he was alone he wove all that his guru had told of the Rāmāyaṇa into songs and ślokas and went on enlarging it. What he wrote in this way is the Rāmacaritamānas. In this way he went on singing the Rāmāyaṇa beautifully. Twenty-two years went by. The young man was virtuous. He was of good conduct. He was handsome. In the same village there lived a poor brahmin. To Narahari Dās: “Swāmi, we have an only daughter. We are thinking of giving her in marriage to this young man. What is your opinion?” he asked. Son, this too is very good. Narahari Dās said that in the world, according to place, time and person, and with regard to time, karma, cause and duty, it is good to give them a responsibility at that time, and that he would ask the boy and tell him.