Patok Tumbal Village
CHAPTER 10 PREPARATION OF CUSTOMARY CEREMONIES
Budi and Dirga then took a mop, as well as water to clean the floor they accidentally dirty. Alia was asked by Jamal to watch over them, because who knows they do it again if only alone.
Budi and Dirga had a little chat earlier, they felt that what they saw just now, did not look like a statue eye. But something alive, Budi and Dirga wanted to conclude that it was an animal's eye, but what kind of animal his eyes were that big in this area here.
"There's no bear here?" Confused Mind.
"There are, at least, pigs" replied Dirga.
"What do you talk about?" Ask Alia.
"Animals" replied Budi. "Other than bears, what animal has big eyes?" Ask Budi.
"Dinosaurs." Answer Alia.
"So. I mean the cave, what animals are there in Indonesia, but the eyes are big?" Ask Budi.
"What's the matter?, you want to keep big-eyed animals?" Ask Alia.
"No Alia, not that. We were just wondering if the big eyes that lit up we saw earlier, it didn't make sense that the eyes we saw were the eyes of a statue." Said Dirga in disbelief.
"Judek. Let it be clear, tomorrow we go to where you see the eye, so that you yourself conclude it directly, whether the eye you see is the same as the eye on the statue or not" Reply Alia.
Budi and Dirga just nodded, and thought about doing Alia's suggestion tomorrow.
* * * *
The clock shows at 05:41, all Muslims are praying dawn together. After the prayer, the others plan to help each other process the mushrooms they got yesterday, becoming side dishes to eat later.
Budi and Dirga who had been sitting down to clean up the mushrooms, suddenly recalled the matter last night. Instantly Budi and Dirga stood up, and invited everyone to come with them to the back.
At first Budi and Dirga were scolded by Jamal, for forcing the others to come with them. But in the end, everyone still went to accompany Budi and Dirga, because Dirga offended friends who helped each other.
"Where are you taking us?" Ask Early
"A little more" replied Dirga. "Well, there's garbage there, we see it there" Dirga said, referring to the garbage they dropped last night.
Everything was approaching in the direction Dirga showed. When he got there, Jamal and Fitri without fear, immediately opened the bushes in front of them. Behind the bushes, there is a statue of a tiger that Fitri meant last night.
"Dirga,Memore. What you saw last night must be this" Fitri said, showing the statue behind the bushes to Budi and Dirga.
"Hahaha, it's true that it's just a statue. Your time until running around is only because of the statue of doang, which has clearly been the place to stay." Early ejek while laughing loudly.
"Eleh, who was helped by residents because of fainting in the forest gausah sok mocking" Reply Dirga upset.
"Udah ah's. Now it's clear, if all you two see it must be just this statue. So mending now we go home to continue our work earlier." Alia.
"Yes, if not the quarry is done, we can have a side dish for lunch later" Saut Ulan corrected Alia's words.
"Yes, too, fear that what you see is a wild animal that roams around here, it is also dangerous if so" Reply Jamal.
Fearing that what Jamal said was true, we all finally decided to ask the cadets for help on this matter later. For now, we all came back first to process the mushrooms that were done earlier.
After finishing processing the mushrooms, we just realized that the mushrooms are mostly. So we decided to share it with the kades as a sign of gratitude, as well as go to discuss the problem earlier.
Dirga and Jamal decide to go down to continue car repairs, the rest leave for the village. On the way to the village, we did not meet any residents who usually greet us while working in their fields/paddy fields.
When we arrived at the village, we saw the residents gathering at the village hall, preparing something.
Early on, Budi, and Ulan decide to join the citizens, to find out what they are doing. While Alia and Fitri went to the house of the kades sir to bring the cooked mushrooms earlier.
When you want to knock on the door of the house, sir Kades suddenly came out. Alia and Fitri almost knocked on the head of a pack of kades.
"I'm sorry sir, we almost knocked on my head" Fitri said.
"Hhh, papa. You're either excited if you want to get out of the house, you're either gor if you're at the door." Reply mr. kades. "Oiya sit down first" said Mr. Kades.
"Ah yes sir thanks" replied Alia and Fitri, while sitting on the chair on the terrace of the house of the kades.
"If you may know, is there anything you want to talk to your father about?" Ask mr. kades.
"Ah, here sir. Actually last night my friend saw something in the back of the house. So we came here, which is to ask the father for help. Who knows you can help us check if there are any wild animals that roam behind where we stay, sir." Alia answered asking for help.
"Alright son, later you ask for help some residents also to check around there. Actually there are some residents who experience the same thing, as seen by friends son Alia." Reply mr. kades.
Mr. Kades told us both that what was seen by some residents, is a large-bodied deer that has long been sought by residents. If the residents managed to catch the deer, then the deer will be used as an offering for the traditional event which will be held in the village hall for two more days.
He said, this customary event is held every two years, when three days before the full moon arrives. In order to carry it out, it takes a deer as an offering, the bigger the deer, the better.
After talking, Alia and Fitri also gave the dishes they made earlier with the others to Pak kades. After the kades sir received it, and put it, the three of them went together to the village hall.
Arriving at the village hall, Alia and Fitri saw Ulan was helping the mothers clean the ingredients to make seasonings, while Awal and Budi helped make torches and seats from the bamboo hemisphere.
Mr. Kades called some residents to help him check around where we were staying, if there were any signs of deer they were looking for, then they would set traps around the place they marked.
Hopefully, the ones wandering around our place are the deer that sir Kades means, not something invisible.
Alia and Fitri head to Ulan's place and the mothers, to help with their work. The ingredients are so many, it indicates that there will be many dishes that they will make.
Throughout the hours we all helped the villagers, fatigue was not too pronounced. Everyone was very friendly to us, we joked and laughed together. There was not the slightest bit of awkwardness between all of them.
"Let's take a break first, we've made lunch for everything" said Susi, while putting dishes on the table above which is composed of various kinds of food.
