Floating Boat

29

...The Port Thugs Complex...

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Danger !. Impossible Eden believe but real. The dock that is not far from the center of the village turns out that at night the thugs will come combing the dock. Eden was told by those who were in the dock especially the porters.

On the first day of Eden guarding Phinisi's ships had Daeng Guru. Smoothly sweet, interference on the dock is not visible. The second day, even the third day, is still comfortable doing his job.

After entering the fourth day, he was startled by cries from the dock facing the ship he was guarding.

"Tax money, woeee...! pay port tax."

Hearing the screaming from the pier, Eden opened the door of Phinisi's room he guarded. From inside the ship, Eden saw there were some thugs who were again wandering on the dock. The thugs were not only holding stones, catapults, wood, but also machetes.

"Port tax money, woeee....! I have to pay if it's docked here. This is our area, the hysterical Dragon area, within our sanctuary."

Small stones such as pebbles are heard again creche on the Phinisi ship. Looks like those thugs pelted the ship with the ones they were holding.

"This father !." Eden Said.

It would be a kind of threat to him if Eden didn't come out to meet them. In a nervous, fearful state, he tried to take something that could be given to those thugs.

Before Eden and the same others seemed to be guarding the ship out, first his voice had reached the ears of the thugs.

"Please don't throw us. We're going out to pay tax. But don't throw this ship again."

The representative of some of the ship's guards was Eden. He spoke boldly, though nervously. These thugs, all holding machetes. How to fight if death is in sight.

Eden tried to talk his wish to the thug. Finding solutions to sustain life.

"Die this this this way" Eden let out a long sigh. He was frightened but because not only he was in the harbor, he ended up still meeting the thugs.

"We are here the same as you, we are immigrants who come to make a living. You're asking for port tax money, how much ?. Tonight, we may not all be able to pay for it but there is tomorrow. Come again tomorrow night to ask him to prepare." Eden asked for the kindness of those thugs.

There are bald, large bodies, the kriten again tattooed do not want to listen to the negotiations, they then throw again the ships in the harbor. "Not tomorrow night, this shubuh, you will have to pay if not only your ship is destroyed but you will also go to the hospital." A somewhat ferocious female thug from a male thug delivered so.

"If I may know, how much is the port tax ?." Eden asked for clarity.

"How much tax money do they have to pay Bro ?." Sahut the kritl while asking his other friend.

Basic thugs when it comes to money, they race to answer. The business of waking up people to sleep so that the shubuh does not mind, can not wake up people who are still sleeping, we sin. Not thinking so.

Again the woman replied, "for tax money, the ships here pay fifteen thousand. There are how many ships that do not pay taxes so far, have wanted three months, no taxes come in. Because we woke you up in the morning, the pay was ten thousand. For a ship called the Ocean, its owner Arasyid has been three months delinquent."

hearing that, Eden looked confused. He thought, just mengantasan ship owner told him to guard his ship when there is a problem that he has not solved. Then Eden was told to pay for it.

"On behalf of Arasyid please come forward, do not wait for an invitation so that the machete we hold does not float and land on your neck."

Eden grew trembling when he heard again the word machete that would land on the neck.

"Where is this ?." Ask the other ship's guard to Eden.

Brands are all confused and apprehensive.

Instead of him using the name Arasyid he should use his name. It was impossible for the name given by the ship owner to be acknowledged in front of these thugs. Similarly, he will take his life. If only he had money, Eden could have paid him. He had even received a third salary, which was enough to pay the taxes he had been in arrears for how many months.

"On behalf of Arasyid please go forward, we once again emphasize to move forward. Don't test our patience, life for us is a prison."

In a forced situation, Eden came forward to explain to the thugs. With a frightened face, trembling body, he tried to speak that he was only entrusted with guarding the ships of Phinisi belonging to Arasyid.

"Oh, that Arasyid is not you. We've met him a few times. He is old, you are younger. O..., you want to lie to us !."

"No, I don't dare lie. I am not an Arasyid. I only worked for him to look after his ships. If you guys really want taxes, I have money but it's just this."

"What money. Your money is not enough. Have the man come to the dock now otherwise not only the pebbles will be scattered on his ship but maybe he will cry over the ships. We're going to burn it, like last year the ships on this dock were a lot of fire. That's what we do, prison for all of us is common, Bro !"_

"You want to call Arasyid here now or this machete will hurt you."

The heart of Eden and all the other guards felt like they were going to be dislodged. The thugs were so fierce, they were not even afraid of prison.

In the big problem it was fortunate that someone who might be a transportation officer accidentally heard a noise so that he came to the scene where we were gathered.

"What happened ?." Said the man.

Haha...!. That thug who looked so good, so good, uh right in question, all seemed to be getting better, soft, and pretending to us.

"No sir !. They're our family. Answer the tattoo of one of the thugs.

"You better go home ! don't make trouble here. This is not a place to make money, they just make a living just like you. If you want to find money don't be lazy port children. They should have been taken care of. I know, you guys are thugs in this area right ? you can move here because there are illegal orders that you hold. I know who your boss is, so before I report you guys you better disband"_

"One more, as long as I'm on duty here. I don't want to hear voices like that. Let alone the voices even if you want to enter this port, you must give me permission. Tell your superiors that I forbid you from entering the harbor by making a fuss. There are subtle ways to ask for money, even if you are thugs, try to get into the ship properly and ask the ship owner that you want money. It must have been, rather than asking for a dark tax, it's not that good."

We were saved by the arrival of the officer. If it wasn't for him, don't know, what our fate would be like at the pier.

Eden just looked better, he felt grateful because the lackey thug was gone.

"Sir, thank you for your help !."

"No need to thank you, your safety is my responsibility. I'm on duty here to monitor the state of the dock. Here, indeed if at night, the usual thugs come asking for money on tax grounds. The thugs lived not far from this pier. Their daily work here as dock porters but as they work, their appearance changes. Tattoos, long hair and other looks are actually fake. Just try tomorrow look fine, you'll see them here working"_

"Then I say goodbye. You guys survived duty and always be careful."

Eden returned to the ship he was guarding. While walking, he did not end up thinking about the actual conditions of living in Makassar. What causes them to do that.

Does Resky know in outline about the life of thugs in the city of Makassar, especially in this port. Kan, Resky's house is not far from here. If he didn't know, it couldn't have been that time he told me that life in the City was so cruel.

"That's it !." Own baby.

It's part of a living constellation. Eden took the bucket to water the deck of the ship. It's good, if Eden befriended the thugs so that security is maintained while in the port of Bugis Makassar.

Whatever it is, Eden wants to be safe. Making friends with anyone is not forbidden as long as the self remains a good human being.

Even lost love can come back if we are kind to each other.