Mystery of Coastal Village

Chapter 42. The Suspicion of the Princess on Aldi

"Okay, everybody!" take Mr. Hasan.

They all nodded and immediately walked over without anyone else talking. About twenty-five minutes they finally reached the petis processing plant that was peeped at by Aldi last night.

Ms. Hasan immediately joined the other workers who had arrived first, preparing tools and materials to be used in petis processing which of course the materials are in the other room. So they worked together transporting from the next room to that room.

While Bu Hasan and the others prepared the materials, the Princess preferred to accompany Aldi to take a walk in the place.

"Take it out, brother!" Aldi nodded and followed the Princess' steps towards the hearth.

"What is Put, where do you cook?" ask Aldi.

"Yes Kak, this is a place to cook fish water to become petis," said the Princess with a sweet smile.

"Sweet smile you unfortunately you are still a child and I have made a vow to Tata," inner Aldi. "But if you want to be cheated, you can." Again Aldi spoke in his heart and chuckled to himself.

The princess looked to be frowning. "Why did Aldi even chuckle? Is something funny?" Princess feels strange there must be something wrong with Aldi.

"Ah no sister just remember the same brother friends," said Aldi around.

"Oh." The princess only nodded despite wondering why she remembered her friend Aldi could laugh. Did something funny happen to Aldi's friend? I don't know the Princess does not want to know and does not need to know she does not care at all because she does not know a friend from Aldi.

"Water fish?" ask Aldi again.

"Yeah Putri air results of fish stew pindang. Later will be processed in this furnace, given additional ingredients and then boiled here."

"Why not just use the stove?" ask Aldi curious because modern times are now all sophisticated. Why even still use an ancient fireplace like the furnace in front of him now.

"This is Kak village and also a small factory. So if everyone has to use a gas stove, the cost of production swells and will certainly be more expensive and will not produce the same results compared to the cost of production. The owner of this business will go bankrupt. After all he said using firewood then the taste obtained from the processed fish water becomes more fragrant petis. He said that the Princess also did not understand, just heard the words of mothers like that."

Aldi only mangosteen just heard the story of the Princess who he said knew from the mothers.

"That's the fish's stew water." The princess pointed to a large plastic drum located near the wall of the room.

"That?" Aldi was shocked not to see that the Princess appointed was brown water only according to Aldi's vision last night from the warehouse ventilation up there.

"Why is Aldi surprised?" asked the Princess astonished to see Aldi's expression that seemed unusual.

"It's okay," Aldi replied briefly and tried to hide his facial expression to keep the Princess unsuspecting.

"Did Brother Aldi know something that the Princess does not know in this place?" The girl was still curious to see Aldi who still looked shocked when he pointed at the plastic drum. As hard as Aldi

hiding, the look of his face can still be guessed by the Princess.

"Where is there? Aldi is only here for a few days. New people of the time' know better than the old inhabitants. No way, right?"

The princess looked at Aldi's face as if she wanted to see the man seriously or not.

"No, you don't know anything" said Aldi and the Princess just nodded.

Aldi breathed a sigh of relief the Princess did not urge him to be honest.

"Go there if Aldi wants to see!" The princess pulled Aldi's hand to get closer to the plastic drum.

Actually Aldi wanted to refuse, but his hand had been far pulled by the princess and now they had arrived in front of a plastic drum. The Princess' hand stretched out to open the plastic drum cover while Aldi seemed to grimace at it. He recalled how the strange man last night stuffed finely-blended human flesh with a large blender and put it in the water and stirred it.

"Damn." By looking at the water alone Aldi was disgusted let alone touch and even consume it.

"Why, Brother Aldi, does it seem disgusted?" ask the Princess again because Aldi looked grimacing staring at the turbid water.

Aldi just shook his head.

"It looks like Big Brother is disgusted to see this water. Is there anything you know considering that early in the morning you saw your brother running from this place?"

Aldi looked into the Princess' eyes. It seems like the little girl knows something.

"Don't look at me like that, Princess is uncomfortable" said the girl when in fact it is not uncomfortable but afraid.

"Eh sorry. About this water brother is a bit disgusted because the color is not clear it makes it look like dirty water. In addition, the aroma is so fishy that makes you want to vomit." Aldi did not want the Princess to suspect that she was afraid of him discussing the incident last night at that place. He could die if a strange man last night finds out he's been spying on him.

"Yaaaa, Brother Aldi. The name of the boiled water is certainly not going to be clear, sister," protested the Princess. Seeing Aldi who seemed to want to nausea, the Princess immediately closed the plastic drum again.

"We're going there yuk!" The princess now pulls Aldi's hand towards the mothers who peeled the garlic.

"Well if here the fragrance is not abis," said the Princess.

Aldi nodded and sat down with the mothers at the place. "May I help peel the bells, ma'am?"

"By son, here's the knife." A mother gave Aldi a knife and the man immediately peeled the onion while the Princess just looked.

"Put, Nak Aldi, Mom, you came home to find Aldo. This has been called," said Mr. Hasan to the three.

"Yes, be careful."

"Yes." Yeah."

Mr. Aldi also left the building while Aldi was even invited to tell stories by mothers. Invited acquaintances and asked where and what his purpose to the place.

"Actually me and my three friends were sent by campus to this place to study the lives of its people in this village. Because according to the lecturer, this village is unique itself. No motorized vehicles can enter and all residents are even obedient even though living without motorized vehicles in this day and age is very difficult. In addition, the number of jobs or businesses that are engaged by the community in it is also a special attraction," explained Aldi at length and mothers seem to nod at Aldi's explanation.

Seriate.