CONFINEMENT

CH 107 - BARA IN A HUSK

The streets of the Beach Country began to darken, the shadow of the trees was shrouded in a thick afternoon, the cold air began to feel bone-chilling.

Torchlight seemed to be winding in the wind in each corner of the residential house Manguntur residents, saw a train slowly down the dirt road that divides the bedside of the night.

The residents also began to rest after a day of jibaku with their respective activities leaving a quiet atmosphere of day.

Sayup heard the song Mantram Gayatri chanted by the voices of raucous developers praising the majesty of the Creator racing with the sound of singing the animals of the night are mutually simple.

Many changes that occurred in Batubulan village, especially the banjar Manguntur, since the event of the king of starch that befell the role model of the village as if to uproot the cheer of every citizen.

Previously before the tragic incident, usually the residents always chat every afternoon until evening even though only by sipping wine and talking lightly unwind daily, daily, small children appear to play and chat in front of their homes before moving to the contest, the women seem to squeak Canang while joking although sometimes only limited to daily life.

Now the atmosphere disappeared, which seemed only a silence every day.

The train stopped at one of the houses, saw two riders descending, one of them having someone next to him.

The two men were Muhibbin and the Holy Kingdom of the nephew,

"Be careful, Nduk."

"Let's help Mr. Lik." said Muhibbin want to memapah Raya Suci.

The little girl smiled at the uncle,

"No, no, Mr. Lik."

"Let me learn to walk as usual."

"Later if Mr. Lik keeps helping me, I can't be independent."

"Then when can I heal" the Sacred Kingdom said to Muhibbin as it continued to smile spoiled.

Muhibbin only replied with a nod and a smile after what the Little Girl said, The young man observed the steps of the Nephew who was stumbling with a stick in his hand.

"Mr Yu, Ms Yu .. I'm home!" the voice of the Kingdom broke the silence of the house.

Seen from the direction of Dlod Hall a girl with a cheerful smile greeted the two.

"Why are you coming home till evening?"

"What is not tired, all day follow Bli Ibbin to Surau?" ask the girl who is none other than Sekar at the Holy Kingdom.

"Son, Ms. Yu."

"Wong in Surau, I only sleep there is no activity after cleaning the graves of Mbah Uti and Bu Lik." replied Raya innocently.

"Yes, he just sleeps."

"It must also be accompanied by a hum, like a baby." Muhibbin said with a smile on Sekar.

"Ah, Mr. Lik."

"I was sleepy." Holy Hail to the Uncle.

Seeing the behavior of the two people in front of him, Sekar only smiled faintly, The girl approached the Sacred Kingdom, and,

"Well, aren't we hungry?"

"So Mbak Yu cook pepes tilapia and plecing juke."

"It just so happened that We Sapat brought some tilapia fish here." said Sekar to the little girl in front of him.

Raya looks excited after hearing the words of Sekar.

"Come on, Miss Yu, I'm so hungry."

"So in Surau I was not made anything by Mr. Lik." Raya's smile broke while glancing at her Uncle.

"That's you,"

"So Mr. Lik didn't offer food."

"You said you ate at home and your mother cooked you." said Muhubbin to Raya.

"Yes, I would have thought that Madam Yu would cook well, Mr. Lik."

"If I had eaten in Surau, I would not have eaten at home."

"When I want to be cooked by Mr. Lik as well." replied Raya spoiled.

"Basic hu, son of a lot of wits" Muhibbin said as he ruffled his nephew's hair.

The three laughed with mischief, too,

"Already, Bli Ibbin clean the body first, and Raya is also like that."

"Mbak Yu will prepare food in the kitchen" Sekar told Muhibbin and the Holy Kingdom.

both of them left Sekar who walked towards the kitchen.

**

The night air was getting colder, shortly after cleaning the body, Muhibbin and Raya followed Sekar who was busy preparing dinner in the kitchen.

There was a crackling of burning wood and flames from Tumang made of bricks and clay polish on each side, making the atmosphere of the room warm, warm, dimar Ublik light illuminates the kitchen that looks simple but looks clean and neat, looks dishes on top of a bamboo hall in the corner of the room neatly arranged.

All three enjoy dinner with joking and laughter interspersed as if removing all the burden and problems that have occurred.

Raya and Sekar sat together in the bamboo hall, while Muhibbin sat in a small wooden Dingklik in front of the fireplace.

"Oh yeah Bli, Disya was here with Puan Rizza and Diera."

They send greetings to Bli Ibbin and Raya." said Sekar while enjoying his food.

Muhibbin only smiled a little hearing from Sekar's sister. The young man did not budge and was busy eating delicious Jukut Plecing made by Sekar.

"Disya also advised to meet with Bli Ibbin in Selasar Rumah Budaya."

Muhibbin got up to the shower near the kitchen after putting food down and washing the dishes in his hand, The young man sipped a glass of water before replying to the words of his adoptive brother,

"We'll see, Gek."

"Bli didn't promise to be on the show."

"Because currently the Ajik heritage farm needs attention and in Surau there have also started to be children who learn to teach."

"They are the children of the nomads who are far from the other banjar just to learn to teach Bli." said Muhibbin while sitting back in front of the fireplace with a cigarette tucked in his finger.

"Raya wants to see the show, Mr. Lik."

"During this time I have never been Mr. Lik to see entertainment." Whine Holy Kingdom to the Uncle.

The little girl seemed to want to get up and carry the dirty dishes in her hands but Sekar held back and took the plates that were in the hands of the Sacred Kingdom.

"Here, let Madam Yu wash."

"Raya wash your hands." Sekar told Raya, The little girl nodded and cleaned her hands then sat back in the bamboo hall and tidied up the remaining dishes.

From the shower not far away near the kitchen, Sekar chimed back.

"That's exactly what Raya said, Bli."

"Once in a while we take him for a walk to enjoy the beauty of the Beach Country and watch the art performances that are here."

"Part also activities on the farm can be during the day and in the afternoon Bli can teach students to teach Bli."

"Toh also the performance at Selasar Rumah Budaya held at night as usual." Sekar added to the Brother.

Muhibbin only heard the two loved ones, the young man smoked a cigarette and exhaled his smoke slowly.

"Yes, later Bli will try to be present at the event" replied Muhibbin briefly.

Sekar and Raya smiled excitedly at Muhibbin's answer who was still sitting in front of the fireplace.

***

While in a magnificent house in the city of the State of the Beach, there was a woman in a pink hood standing on the edge of the open window, her eyes fixed on the night sky that looked bright, clear, the star sprinkles are like grains of sand at sea and look beautiful crescent moon hanging between them.

Stylish air hit the woman's face, her veil blushed showing her delicate well-groomed hair, rubbing the stomach that looks protruding with her clasped hands.

"Hem-hem." the voice of a man cleared his reverie.

"Here you look."

"I'm looking for you in the living room and I can't find you there."

"What are you daydreaming about?"

"Bapi and Mami are waiting for us to have dinner" the man told the woman by the window.

"You eat first, I'm not hungry yet" said the woman briefly without turning toward the voice.

The man approached the woman and hugged her from behind.

Suddenly the incident made the woman angry and turned to push the body of the man who was currently in front of her,

"Seto, don't be so rude!"

"Never dare you touch me!" said the woman glared at the man she called Seto.

"Hi, you're my legal wife!"

"I deserve to be treated as a husband!" sukar Seto is no less high.

"Will you avoid me until when, Wati?"

"Do I have to break it all down in front of Papi and your mother and Timoti's father that you have always refused your duties as a wife?"

"And the seed that is in your womb right now is not my flesh and blood."

"My patience is running out to keep pretending that our marriage is okay" concluded Seto snorting resentfully at the woman in front of him who is none other than Sariwati.

"Do it!"

"Just do it to everyone."

"I'm not afraid."

"But you must remember, before you complain about all that, you will see my body lying lifeless."

"And don't expect me to think of you as my husband!" sariwati shouted up pitam.

"We'll see!" seto replied full of anger, The man came out leaving Sariwati alone in the room.

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Note Author:

*King Pati: Murder.

*Gayatri mantram: Praise to the Gods.

*Plecing Carrot: Vegetables made from kale and peanut seasoning typical of the island of Gods.

*Tumang: Fireplace furnace for cooking rice.

*Dingklik: Small chair made of wooden board.

*Dimar Ublik: Oil lamp.

*Carawitan: Gamelan Art

*Drama Gong: Classical drama performance art with traditional costumes and Balinese island stage decorations accompanied by gamelan, similar to Wayang Wong in Central Java and Ludruk in East Java.