Jamu Gendong - Young Widow Gebetan Brondong

Chapter 6. Staunch

Prasojo and Parmin walk behind the backs of the Linga. Like the travelers guided by the tour guide, the two men seemed to be impatient to see how the climber's condition. Sounds a little strange indeed when there is a climber who fell from a steep cliff can still survive. But whatever it is could happen. All by the will of the Divine.

"Why did you get to this place Ndhuk? Shouldn't you have gone home selling jamu?"

Prasojo who followed where Lingga's destination tried to open the conversation while circulating his gaze around. Enjoy all the atmosphere. Tropical rainforests, rivers, waterfalls, cliffs, and the majestic Mount Slamet stand as if to be a very soothing panorama. Panorama that increases gratitude for all the beauty given by God and it is appropriate to always be maintained and preserved by humans.

"Back selling earlier, I feel so hot sir. Therefore, I decided to soak first in that river. Just a few minutes I was soaking it turns out I saw a figure of a climber stranded on the river bank, just below the waterfall."

"Are you Ndhuk? Your existence turned out to be a way of help for the climber. If there's no you, somehow fate."

Lingga only smiled faintly listening to Prasojo's words. For him, it is not only him who becomes a way of help for the climber.

"And I won't be able to do anything if I don't meet with the sampeyan sir. It's all arranged by God, I'm the one who met the climber and the existence of a canoeyan who can get the climber out of there."

"What kind of climber is Ndhuk?" prasojo asked as if he was curious.

Linga paused for a moment her footsteps. From where he stood, he pointed towards the climber who was still leaning on the boulder. "That's it sir. We better get down there and you can see it in person."

Linga and others increasingly accelerate their footsteps to be able to get to the place where the climber is. And, after arriving right in front of the climber, Prasojo could only show an expression of immeasurable shock.

"God? What are you actually experiencing? Why are you like this?"

Seeing the face of the climber who was filled with scratches and bruises on the temple made Prasojo shudder in horror. The torn clothes make this climber look even more miserable.

"S-I don't know what I'm really going through sir. When I woke up, suddenly I was under a curse and helped by the woman."

"All right then. After this, we will take you to our village. For a while we'll take care of you until your condition recovers." Prasojo squinted both of his eyeballs. "Do you remember what your name is, son?"

The climber seemed to think hard like someone who was remembering something. But in the end he shook his head. "No sir, I don't even remember what my name is. My head feels so dizzy trying to remember."

"No sir, I don't mind. S-I actually feel happy because it was named by the Father."

"Yes, let me help you lie on this stretcher. After that, we'll get out of here."

For a moment, the climber who was named Kukuh turned towards Lingga. "You're coming with me too, right? Don't leave me alone!"

Prasojo who heard the stoic utterance could only laugh softly. From what this young man said, such as implying that he only believed in the Linga as a good person and a sincere person.

"Eh, I...."

"You just calm down, son. This phallus lives in the same village as the one you will occupy but you cannot get close to Lingga."

Lingga speech trimmed by Prasojo. The man seemed to understand that the Linga could not answer anything. So he took the initiative to respond to the staunch speech.

"Why Sir? Why can't I get close to him?"

"That's because Lingga is married, son. So you have to keep your distance from people's wives."

The staunch can only stare at this fat herbalist selling lady in silence. I don't know what happened but he felt a little unwilling when he heard this woman was married.

It turns out she's married. But why do I feel that this woman is still holy and untouched at all?

Do not want to linger in this place again, in the end Kukuh laid on a stretcher. Prasojo and Parmin began to swing their footsteps to explore the tropical rainforest terrain while carrying the body of Steady who was on this stretcher.

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