My In-laws
Chapters 1. Kuyang
Some of the stories are adapted from folklore, which often occurs in the community where the author comes from, the name and place of the incident I accidentally did not mention. But you must know the urban figure named Kuyang and Palasit comes from Kalimantan, which is known as the city of a thousand water.
Happy reading!
Lara is very happy to be married to a young man who is the wrestler of women sekecamatan where she lives, it turns out Lara the luckiest woman can be his wife. In addition to having a handsome face, her husband is also a descendant of a well-to-do and respected family.
Lara's marriage occurred because of an arranged marriage, but she was very happy to accept it, besides that she was happier because her own mother-in-law chose her as a daughter-in-law, which unhappy daughter-in-law was instantly accepted by the in-laws in their extended family.
Summarizing the story, the agreement after marriage, Lara had to be taken to the next village where her husband lived, her parents were heavy to release their only daughter to be carried by the husband's family. But Lara calms them down on the grounds that she is very happy with the marriage, and she is willing to stay at her husband's house with her parents and siblings.
"Lara, actually mama can't take your leave". Mama Hanum said.
"Mama must not be so, after all their village is still a subdistrict with our village, I promise I will always visit you". My words calm my dear mother.
"Lara, let's go home!". My mother-in-law Najah took me home with her.
"Yes mother, come on!?". Lara cheerfully replied to him. "Ma, Dad, Lara's coming with Najah's mom, huh?!"
Both of Lara's parents nodded, her father still able to accept her departure, but the mama did not seem to let her go. But Lara is married, and it's her duty to carry out the responsibilities as a wife. Lara approached mama Hanum, she kissed her forehead while saying goodbye, her hands refused to take off her hands, then the mother of Najah pulled her slowly while persuading mama Hanum not to grieve.
"Hanum, you don't have to worry! I promise to take care of your daughter, and I won't let her be sad!". Mama Najah persuaded mama.
With heavy mama Hanum let Lara come with her husband's family, they also went out of the house to the Car of the in-laws. Some neighbors witnessed Lara's departure while whispering quietly, he did not pay any attention to their words, because he thought Bunda Najah was a respectable and good woman.
The car runs slowly, Lara treats her mother and father who are standing in the yard of the house to let go. The car glided for a long time, Lara's husband had gone home the day after the wedding because there was important business in the city, until finally Lara's mother-in-law came to pick her up to go home. Shortly after, they arrived at Lara's husband's house. Lara's husband's youngest brother came to help them take down her bag and bring her into the house.
"Mother, give Lara's sack to me!" Fadil took the bag from his mother's hand.
"Bring in the house, yeah! Later Lara will bring her room!" mother of Najah.
"Good, mother!" obediently Fadil according to, Fadil disappeared into the house from the outside seemed dim atmosphere not illuminated by light.
" Lara, come on in!" mother Najah invited me in.
Lara nodded with a smile towards him while following him into the house, suddenly the fur of Lara's neck stood up, whether there was a mystical air that approached her from the beginning she stepped foot into her husband's house.
Our Lady of Najah caught a confused Lara, she smiled gently at Lara as she pulled her hand and invited her in.
"Mother, why don't you turn on the lights?" Lara was curious so asked because their house was not illuminated by lights at all.
"We like the dim atmosphere, because it is cooler than the light that makes the room hot, especially during summer like this". Mother Najah explains the reason why their house is dark and dim.
Lara tried to justify her in-laws explanation, because with the dark atmosphere, the room would feel cool and cold. But deep inside her little heart whispered, something is not right in this house.
Before marriage, Lara had never been here, knowing only from people about their grand and grand home, and all our wedding ceremonies were held in my village, because the mother of Najah does not want to bother going back and forth from my village to his village even though it is not far away. Besides his condition was sickly, his legs began to be abnormal because of the cholesterol he experienced, making him walk like a person (sorry) limp. Even so, her elegance and beauty are still visible.
That said, he was reportedly a very beautiful and youthful woman in his village, his eyes were sharp, his smile and his face was dignified, when talking to many who were sympathetic, he said, whatever decision he made was certainly approved by the citizens including village tips. Imagine, Lara's mother-in-law has an important position in her village. Lara was proud of all that.
"Lara, tonight you're going to sleep alone, your husband's Fadli is coming tomorrow morning, because the business of duty in the city is only finished at eight o'clock, after which he will return".
"Good mother!" Lara tried to calm down.
Lara's chest was pounding, not expecting the first night in this foreign and magnificent house to sleep alone, even though her husband's house, but she was still new here. The beginning of the challenge for Lara, especially she does not like darkness.
"Because you're new here, you don't have to cook for dinner, you've asked Fadil to buy food in the barn, now you can rest while putting your clothes in the closet, please!!" Mother Najah sent me to the room.
"Well mother, I'll put my clothes on first!" Lara came into the room.
A musty, fishy, and unpleasant and moist smell pierced Lara's nose, out of whose room is it?! But since he entered, the unpleasant smell had disturbed his sense of smell. U....!!!
"Aaaaaa.. si.si..who's there?!" Lara screamed in shock as she entered her husband's room.
Meaaaw, it turns out that a black-brown cat with sharp eyes came out from under the bed, out of nowhere, which he must have fallen from above. Lara's heart was almost dislodged, "Oops empus, if you want to surprise me don't do this, deh!" Said Lara while stroking her chest.
Not until there, Lara suddenly heard a strange sound out of nowhere, but her ears clearly heard it even though she was faint. The sound was like someone was eating food greedily with screeches so delicious, instead of delicious food, Lara even smelled the fishy smell of fresh blood.
You must be surprised, the newlyweds room usually smells good with the fragrance of flowers or perfumes, but not with Lara's bridal room, it seems to come to a place that has long been uninhabited. But Lara doesn't really care about that.
"Maybe my husband is busy with his duties that often go out of town, so he never had time to clean his room let alone decorate the bridal room for our first night!" Lara murmured in her heart. "And I understand the situation of Mother Najah who began to be sick at her age which began to twilight, she was a widow. My husband's father had been married to another woman for a long time, and settled in another city with his new family!
As for Fadil, my husband's youngest brother who is rarely home because of school and likes to hang out with young people his age!" Lara told herself in her heart.
You guys must know how it's gonna be? Means Lara and her mother-in-law will often live alone in a large and luxurious house but it looks haunted.
Seeing the state of this magnificent house that looks outdated, Lara intends to make it beautiful even though her mother-in-law does not like the light of the lamp, at least Lara promised to clean the dust and cobwebs that began to nest in the corner after corner of the house. Yang Lata was surprised, people as rich as them why not pay the errand boy to clean a house that big.
"Oh, I don't want to bother with these trifles, I promise to start a beautiful life in my new home, my husband's house!" Lara was determined in her heart.
Two months Lara at her husband's house, sometimes she visited her parents' house, the marriage went normal and smoothly like other households. Lara was lucky despite not dating, but her husband was a very responsible and kind person.
And as they entered the third month of marriage, they were surprised by the good news, Larat was pregnant.
"Darling, don't work that heavy, huh?! You're pregnant!" Fadli advised Lara gently.
"Of course, but I can take care of myself, don't worry!". Lara smiled.
"Let's put an onion, a little mirror and a needle or scissors under your pillow!" Fadli asked Lara to do all that.
Lara was surprised, at once her heart was congested, because she knew the custom of the tradition in their place with such objects must be to drive away the evil creatures of man so-so, so-called, the owner of black magic is a charmer and a lover, anyone will submit to that person.
"Are I here, honey?" Lara asked curiously, Fadli instantly covered Lara's mouth with his finger while whispering softly.. .
"Just be on guard, baby! I don't want our baby to be bullied by that evil creature" Fadli said.
"But you've made me so scared." Lara grimaced in fear.
"In one village in our district there must be people who have the knowledge, right?! Moreover, you're a stranger in this village, so it's not wrong for me to worry". Fadli explained the reason.
"But it's true, what's wrong with me following your advice!" Timpal Lara's.
Lara's pregnancy has stepped on the second week, Fadli often out of town, and Fadil returned late at night, sometimes dawn just back home, so Lara was only alone at home with the mother of Najah. The state of the house is still the same as the beginning of his arrival, Mother Najah forbade Lara to clean up on the grounds that she did not want to move and change the order of goods and furniture in her home. Even though Lara felt engap, but she had no right to argue against him.
"Yes already, let this magnificent house with a fairly slovenly and humid condition. As for my room, I used to clean it every day, at least I slept in a clean and beautiful room." Tell Lara to herself.
"Lara, no fishmongers are passing by today, will you cook for lunch? White rice with side dishes 'iwak wadi' (fish marinated but not dried, but instead soaked in a container of salt water) which is in the green?"
"Okay mother, I really like the wadi iwak, I will definitely eat a lot today". Reply Lara with pleasure.
People in the area where Lara lives must know what is 'iwak wadi', a very delicious side dish sprinkled with fried shallots, delicious eaten with warm white rice accompanied by Cucumber or Watermelon.
Lara rushed to the kitchen and began to cook rice, while the mother of Najah was in her room, because the pain began to recur so that it made her less able to do activities.
Lara began to heat the pan to fry the 'iwak wadi' while taking the 'iwak wadi' from the glass glass glass glass glass green relics of ancient times. Lara's hand tried to scavenge 'iwak wadi' mixed with salt water in the lake, but she did not find any fish. Lara did not want to be prejudiced, but her instincts said something else.
"There's no fish at all!" He murmured in his heart.
Lara again scavenged the contents of the gap that did not look anything by her, because of the thickness of the gap and the green color plus the dim room. To get rid of her curiosity, Lara took a sieve, then she caught one by one the contents in the pot.
Lara's eyes widened, not the 'iwak wadi' she found, but long objects such as goat's stomach, Lara's head began to get dizzy and nauseous. But Lara did not want to disturb her mother-in-law, she returned to look for the 'iwak wadi' into another belanga, because there are three similar belanga neatly lined up.
The two leaves are the same, all look like goat's entrails, long, twisted with a pale color because it is preserved with salt water. Lara was still silent, not wanting to ask her to Najah's mother.
Not desperate, Lara again looking for 'iwak wadi' into the third belanga, nil. It contained the same everything, Lara began to wonder and wonder.
"Why does this family preserve goat's stomach?!" Chirps Lara wonder.
Out of curiosity, Lara took the container and put some of the goat's stomach to be shown to the mother Najah.
"Mother, I can't find the wadi iwak that you mean, fill the three bells in the bellies of all goats!" My words told Mother Najah.
Mother Najah was wide-eyed, seizing the container containing the goat's stomach and devouring it raw while snorting like a starving person. "Hmmmm fresarrr, delicious chubby (ari-ari) this" said the mother of Najah.
Lara was shocked beyond measure, it turned out that the hold she held was a melodic, part of the newborn's organ, her mind began to hallucinate various things.
"You're so sassy! Why did you lure me with this pot?!" Ask Bunda Najah rudely to Lara, only this time he snapped at her.
Lara did not answer, because her mind was filled with millions of questions and feelings, fear and surprise.
"It turns out my mother-in-law is KUYANG, a human being who adheres to black magic for the love, charm, beauty and authority he has. I never thought of any of that!" Lara was astonished to see her in-laws devouring the ari-ari.
Lara was shocked and confused as to how, moreover she was pregnant, would she subvert her future grandchildren as well?! Lara began to be careless, because she knew a kuyang would drink dar*h pregnant people, menstruation and eating baby's ari-ari can even overlap sensitive people, to eat organs in the tub*h is the nesting place. Just imagining Lara being horrified, let alone happening to her, and the creature was now in front of her eyes, Lara wanted to scream out loud.
Fadli came from his duty, he approached Lara and her mother because he heard the mother who was scolding Lara.
"Look, your wife is so presumptuous, she opened my disgrace in the room". Said Mother Najah ketus towards Fadli.
Fadli was wide-eyed, and slowly grabbed hold of her hair as he ruffled it, perhaps confused that Lara knew her true identity.
"Yetoo!" Fadli shouted hysterically whether he wanted to say what sentence, of course he went wrong in front of Lara.
Lara who is still surprised to be lunglai, it turns out that she has been at home with a 'myang', human sucker dar*h, and predator org*n in tub*h women who are pregnant. It feels like Lara wants to run away from reality alone, but her relationship with this family is getting closer because soon their flesh and blood will be born from her womb.
Yes, if it is born, is his grandmother able to withstand the naps to not*nngsa future grandchildren later? Lara is saddened to accept the reality of her complicated life.
