The Bond of Our Love
CHAPTER 24 - The Threat of the Rentier
PRAANG....!!
"Geek!!" Pekik Bu Sakinah was frightened while covering her pair of ears with her palms. Trying to disguise his hearing from the noise of sounds that feel deafening. The sound of things being thrown and slammed until they broke and scattered on the floor. The group of loan sharks who are ravaging the contents of his house.
"Juragans. Please don't destroy my house!" Sakinah cries out to the elderly man known as the cruel loan shark of her village.
"If you don't want me to destroy your entire household, quickly pay off your old lady debts!" Snap the moneylender named Sigit with his haughtiness.
"Sorry Juragan. But I don't have the money to pay off that much debt in such a quick time" Ms Sakinah replied with a trembling body in fear.
"It's none of my business! I have given you time to pay off your debts! But apparently you want to play games with me huh"
"Sorry Juragan. Actually, if calculated, all my debts are paid off. But the Juragan just kept raising the interest. Until we've had more trouble paying it off!" Resist Ms. Sakinah with her face down and scared.
"Oh... So you dare to blame me?" Juragan Sigit said in a pressing voice as the mangosteen narrowed his eyes. It seems that Sakinah's words managed to anger her.
Finally the gray man glanced at the three men who were standing not far from him. Then give the code through the eyes.
The three burly men nodded. As if they understood the code given by the spokesperson, they approached Sakinah and dragged her violently.
"Come on!"
"Let go! What do you want to do to me?! Let go, I beg you!" Sakinah rebelled as she cried out to the men who were treating her inhumanely.
But free. His voice and cry were like the wind to them. They did not respond to him in the least. Sakinah is getting more and more scared.
How not? He was dealing with three large-bodied men with faces that looked ferocious and frightening. As for her, only a deformed woman with both legs was stumped. It was simply impossible that he could face, let alone fight against all of them.
"Take off my mother!!"
The three men immediately stopped their activities, when a woman's loud voice surprised them.
Instantly they all turned their heads towards the source of the voice. No exception, Sakinah was so relieved to see her daughter who had just arrived at their home, with Rahul behind her.
"Zahrah!" Call him in a hoarse voice. His face was wet with tears. Zahra ran and hugged her mother.
"Mothers. You're okay, right?" Zahra was touching her mother's body. Starting from the face, so panicked with the condition of his mother, in the hands of the heartless people.
"Yes son, I'm fine!" Ms. Sakinah replied with a body that was still shaking from shock.
Zahra turned her head, glancing at the four men who were pushing against her mother.
"Are you not ashamed?! How dare it be with a weak old man!!" He said with fire.
"Hahaha!!" Juragan Sigit pulled Zahra's arm to get close to her forcibly.
"Take me off!!" Shouted Zahra trying to release his arm that was blocked by boss Sigit.
"Hey Sakinah. If you can't pay off your debts. I have a way that you can be free from all your debts" said Sigit smiling cunningly.
"What do you mean, huh?" Tanya Bu Sakinah stammered. The feeling became unpleasant, hearing the words of the leech. Moreover, looking at Zahra who was in his grip.
"I will marry, and make your daughter my fourth wife. She is so young and beautiful. Surely he's still virgin?" Said Sigit with a grinning smile looking at Zahra from top to bottom eagerly.
"Sorry Juragan. My daughter is only 23 years old. I am not willing, my only child is used as a debt repayment! Especially as a fourth wife, just to satisfy the desires of the Scouts!" Resist Bu Sakinah firmly rejected the idea while pulling Zahra's hand.
"I also don't want to marry an old and perverted man like you! It is old instead of multiplying worship, so that later when picked up the angel of death your life is not stuck. But instead multiply sin by still collecting usury, and thinking of finding a new woman who can satisfy your bird!!" Timpal Zahra with high notes.
"Brazed girl! How dare you curse and insult me?!" Makian Zahra made the Sigit boss angry again. With bulging eyes the old man raised his hand and slapped Zahra hard.
THE PLAAK!!
Fortunately, there was Rahul standing right in front of the door. So that the chest of his field can be a shield to hold Zahra's body from falling. Rahul's reflexes immediately hugged Zahra as the girl's body pierced her.
"That's enough! Can't you speak well without having to resort to violence?! Is this how you treat women?!" Tegur Rahul with a loud voice.
"Who are you, dare to interfere in my affairs. This is my business with them. So don't try to involve yourself in our business" said Sigit cynical.
"Juragan, he's a nobody. Only a blind man hitchhiked with them" replied one of his men standing behind him.
"Oh. Because they are allowed to live in their homes?"
"I'm nobody here. But I'll never let you hurt Zahra or Sakinah!" Rahul answered with a voice that shook.
"It's also big that your guts are blind" Juragan Sigit glanced at his three men with a stern look. "Give the blind man a lesson. So he knows who he's dealing with"
"Ready Scouts" Like a buffalo chocolated with his nose, the three large-bodied men immediately acted in accordance with the orders of the jury. They looked at Rahul like a lion ready to devour his prey.
"Hul, careful. He has three men" Zahra who is still in Rahul's arms can only tell and warn the man.
"Yes. You get rid of it with Mom" Rahul releases Zahra from his embrace. Realizing that he was about to be attacked, he pushed Zahra gently and gently so that she could get away from him. So that he can face the three loan shark's men without hurting Zahra or his mother.
The three men ran and attacked Rahul according to his boss' orders. Fights are inevitable. They ganged Rahul by raising fists and kicks at the man's face, chest and stomach.
However, by relying on his sharp hearing, little Rahul can compensate for the fight.
"Huldom! Be careful!!" Pekik Zahra was upset, when the attack given by the Sigit juragan's men on the face and other parts of Rahul's body hit the target. To make the man hurt.
While the coach Sigit smiled with satisfaction when three of his men excelled in the fierce fight.
However, it did not drag on for too long. Because in the end, the fight was overrun by Rahul. The fist, kick, and punch he gave through his cane was enough to make the three men unable to wiggle. And can only surrender to accept defeat, because it has been battered and defeated.
"Basic is useless! Facing only one blind man you're not a dick!" Curse the coach Sigit on his three men with mounting anger.
"Sorry-sorry" One of his three men dared to answer with their faces down in fear.
"I am blind. But that doesn't mean I'm weak and can just be quiet. Watching you do something wrong to them. Before I lose control, and do what you're not expecting, I ask you to, get the hell out of here right now!" Rahul said with a pressing voice.
It made Sigit snort angrily. Then he pointed at Sakinah.
"Sakinah. This time you and your daughter survived because of this sibuta of yours. But remember, it does not mean that the issue of accounts payable between us is finished. I gave you one week to pay off your debt. If not, you will know the consequences yourself! Let's go" threatened skipper Sigit.
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Aaw!" Rahul grimaced in pain as Zahra compressed the cuts and bruises on his face.
"Ra's swallowed" said Sakinah.
"Yes Ma'am"
"Rahul, sorry. Because of the debt problem of Mother and Zahra, you become like this" said Ms. Sakinah with a feeling of guilt.
"Mmm, no Ma'am. I don't have to apologize. I'm okay anyway. But, if you may know. What do Mom and Zahra owe that guy?" Rahul asked curiously.
"Then, about three years ago. His father Zahra was admitted to the hospital, and had to undergo heart ring surgery. The cost was quite large, and we didn't have that much money. Finally, we decided to borrow money from the Sigit boss. He was a ruthless loan shark in this village. The money we borrowed, the interest was quite large. And the flowers continue to increase every month. We are getting more and more difficult to pay it off. In fact, Zahra's salary for two years as a nurse was exhausted because of that. Fortunately, I have a cake business and a food order. And yes, the results are good, for the cost of daily meals and pay for electricity" said Bu Sakinah Pilu.
"Indeed, how much is your nominal debt to the Sigit boss?" Rahul is curious.
"Three hundred million. That includes the flowers. Actually, we used to borrow only eighty million for Dad's operating expenses" Zahra replied with a long sigh.
Rahul feels empathy with the mother and child's problems. Surely their lives are very depressed because they have to be in debt for years. But amazingly, they can still smile cheerfully, and be grateful for the life they live.
