
Nella stopped occasionally, taking a breath while holding the man she helped.
"Huh, this guy's heavy." He walked towards the house. His breath was wheezing, sweat filling his forehead.
When she finally got home, Nella immediately laid the man's body on her bed. Nella wiped gently clean the man's body, which was filled with cuts and mud,
"What a pity this man. Handsome but poor luck."
Nella then cleans up and goes back to thinking what she should do with the man to quickly get out of her stupor. Then he, heading to Gea's house, tried to ask his best friend for help. Gea is Nella's best friend since childhood, so if Nella has any difficulties she always asks him for help.
After the Gea house. He told me about the incident that happened to him earlier. Then Gea goes to Nella's house to make sure the poor man is.
"What a pity for her, Nella. His body is full of wounds" Gea said concernedly.
"You saw for yourself ‘kan, I was confused how to take care of him. The hospital is only in town, the transport vehicle only comes once a week, and just yesterday the vehicle passed by. Midwives and mantri only come here once a month, and only two days ago did they come." Nella is exaggerating. He was confused and agitated, afraid that if not treated properly, the wound on the man's body became infected.
Like getting a breath of fresh air in the face of this problem, Nella suddenly remembered about her grandmother who had taught her about traditional medicine.
"Oh yeah, almost forgot me. Grandma ‘kan once taught me the treatment of using leaves and powerful forest roots to heal wounds." Nella flicked her finger, remembering her grandmother's message.
"Well that. You can try it on that guy, La," Gea responded.
"But you help me, Ge?" Nella begged Gea. Her best friend was unable to refuse Nella's request to agree to help take care of the stranger.
Gea is in charge of finding tree roots and leaves in the forest on the edge of Nella's house, while Nella prepares a potion to drink the man as a body recovery medicine. Dropped bit by bit the potion water he made into the man's mouth.
"Uh, bitter." The groaning of the poor man's voice was heard, though with his eyes still closed. He could feel the bitter taste of the potion Nella made.
"Drink, this will make you better" said Nella softly.
After a few hours, Gea finally returned with the root of the medicinal leaf Nella requested.
"Nella, this is what you need." Gea placed a basket filled with leaf roots on the table.
"Yes, thank you, Gea" said Nella, smiling.
Gea nodded briefly, then sat down on the kitchen bench next to the cooking stove. Nella watched for a moment the herbs in front of her, to then start concocting various kinds of plants. His hands were very agile, took some plants, scratched them, then began pounding them until smooth. After that he applied the finished potion to the injured part of the man. The wound on the man's head was the most severe. Nella bandaged the wound with her clean cloth. Pieces and pieces of cloth had been neatly wrapped around the man's body.
"Gea, judging by the face and the clothes he was wearing, it seems like this man is not an ordinary person or a villager." Nella who analyzed the condition of the man, even though the clothes he was wearing were damaged and dirty, but it looks like the clothes he was wearing are good clothes.
"Yes too, huh? Looks handsome again despite his severe injuries but does not fade his good looks." Gea.
"You're this if you've seen a handsome man .... " Nella snorted at her friend who was fascinated by the man's good looks.
"Serious little dong, Gea. I'm worried if it's really important how?" Nella who was worried if the man was not a random person.
“Nella, we mean ‘kan well. If he's an important person, then we've done it. Already, do not think too much, just focus on taking care of it well. I'm home first yes, it's late."
Gea leaves Nella's house with Nella still confused and worried.
"Huh, come on, how about it." Nella has made her decision. From the beginning of helping also he did not think about this, now even confused by his decision to help the man.
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A few days later, the man's condition began to improve. Nella's extremely careful and painstaking treatment accelerated the man's wound healing process.
The man's fingers moved slowly, showing his consciousness starting to open his eyes slowly.
Nella who realized the man had come to her senses from her coma, smiled with satisfaction, and finally her efforts to take care of the man for days had been successful.
"You're sober!" nella was happy.
"I-I'm where is this?" The man looked around the house he thought was foreign.
"care for me? Akh .. My head hurts!" When he was about to sit down, he sighed in pain by holding his head.
"Don't move a lot your body is still limp." Nella helped the man sit down.
"Why am I bandaged?" The man held part of his body in a bandage cloth.
"And these clothes belong to who I wear... It's so ugly." The man blinked his eyes at the clothes he was wearing according to his ugly.
"It's still good that you change your clothes. It's my grandfather's clothes that I've kept for a long time that's why they're so ugly." Said Nella upset her kindness at the humiliation response.
"You... You're replacing my clothes?" The man hugging his own body feels awkward and embarrassed if Nella helps him change his clothes.
Nella nodded at a glance like her guiltless deeds put the man to shame.
"You're badly injured, and there's a lot of wounds on your body, if you don't bandage me I'm afraid of infection." Nella explained her concern at the man's wound. The man just nodded in understanding.
"And you've been unconscious for two days, you must be hungry." Nella took a plate of boiled cassava and a glass of warm tea water for the man.
"What food is this?" ask the man who has never seen the food Nella brought before.
Nella smiled at the man's question. 'What kind of person does not know the shape of boiled cassava. Surely he never ate it either, Nella's inner self giggled.
"This is boiled cassava. Eat, this is all I have to eat. "
The man then opened his mouth in a sign he agreed for Nella to bribe him. Piece after piece of boiled cassava into the man's mouth until it runs out.
After that Nella intends to ask about how she got to the bottom of the abyss.
"May I know what your name is?" asked Nella curiously.
"Name? I forgot my name. I don't know what my name is." The man replied in a daze, like a person who had lost his memory.
"Huh? How could you not know your own name. Or do you lose your memory because of the wound on your head?" Nella pointed at the man's head, who was appointed only shaking his head.
"Then you also don't remember the incident why can you enter the abyss which is basically this village?" Nella asked again.
"I don't remember anything at all. Akh, my head hurts, please don't ask me again." The man was in pain again.
"Okay, I won't ask you again. Rest, I want to work first. I'm just coming home later this afternoon." Nella's getting ready for work.
"You ... Do you want to leave me alone?" The man grabbed Nella's hand.
"I have to work, if I don't work, what are we going to eat?" nella said breathing.
"All right, but hurry back, huh?" The man put on a sad face.
"Yes." Yeah." Nella passed away to work.
“How is it if the man really doesn't remember anything, what should I do now?” muttered Nella, occasionally looking at the poor man and continued her steps to go to the palm oil plantation.
The man looked at the ceiling of Nella's house made of weaved weeds and the walls of wooden planks.
"Although this house is very simple but comfortable as well" said the man.
"Uh, I want to pee "Look next to him there is a bottle, he immediately made the call of nature using a bottle, because his body is still not able to stand and walk by itself, he immediately made a call of nature that uses a bottle, because his body is still unable to stand and walk by itself, he had to do it lying down.
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