THE SOUTHEAST EARTH FIRE GOD SWORD
PART 21
“Not too far.” Baojia said without looking at La Mudu because he was busy with tidying the table at La Pabise and his friends. “It only takes a drink of coffee by horseback, you guys have arrived at that port.”
La Mudu and his four new friends looked at each other. “Means we have to stay in this village for three days,”ucap La Tunggara.
“Ya would not want,”tanggap La Rangga Jo. Then asked Baojia, “Do you have some kind of lodging we can rent?”
“We have no lodging,”Baojia replied, “but we have an empty house in the back. My brother's house which a month ago moved to the king's city. If you want to wear it, wear it.”
“Thank you Mr. Baojia, for being kind to us,”ucap La Mudu while nodding to Baojia.
“It is precisely we who should thank Jawara mudu. If there is no Jawara Mudu maybe our fate was destroyed by the pangacau earlier,”sahut Baojia with his respect. Then he looked back and called out to Meilin. As the daughter approached, Baojia said, “Please clean the back house. Jawara Mudu and these young gentlemen would like to stay overnight for a few days.”
“Good, Fuqin..!”
“Oh, no need, Mr. Baojia. Let us clean it ourselves,”ucap La Mudu.
“Ah, it's okay, Jawara Mudu, count our favor,”ucao Baojia again, then say to his daughter, “Come May, go to the back.”
“Good, Fuqin...,” Meilin said, then stepped out of the food stall and walked west, behind the stall which was also a residence.
“Then just like that will also help..” Without waiting for a response from Baojia, La Mudu came out of the food stall with half a run, following Meilin. The four other youths followed him.
Baojia just shook his head slowly looking at the level of La Mudu and the four other youths. “Haiya..youth basics!”
The house said by Baojia was a nine-pole house, a size of a stage house that was quite large at that time. The furniture is still complete, because it is still sometimes used by the owner if it comes from the city and stay overnight. Only, the bed should be replaced with a clean pandan mat.
As Meilin cleaned the bedroom and bed, La Mudu helped along. Sometimes the two looked at each other and threw smiles. La Rangga Jo, La Tunggara, La Lewamori, and La Pabisa apparently slowly peeked through the walls of the room made of boards. La Mudu realized that, and his intention arose to prank his four new friends. To Meilin he said somewhat in a whisper, “Please Meilin shut her mouth and nose first.”.
Meilin did not understand La Mudu's words, but she just followed him. La Mudu then said, “The wall of this room is also like it is quite dusty..,”and you know his hand slapped the wall of the room quite hard. Dust scattered, then heard outside the sound of coughing crowded La Pabisa, La Rangga Jo, La Lewamori, and La Tunggara.
Hearing that, Meilin was unable to hold back her laughter, especially hearing La Mudu say to her four new friends in a half-stomping voice, “Everything does not like to peek! There, the horses are brought here and fed first.!”.
Without warning, the four youths outside came down from the house. La Mudu looked at Meilin and hid his laughter with her right palm. The same thing was done by Meilin.
After cleaning the room, La Mudu and Meilin sat around and chatted in front of the house. The air from the direction of the sea was relentlessly blowing, caressing the face. Meilin repeatedly removed some of their hair that covered their face to the side as a result of being blown by the wind.
“Meilin was born in this village or was born in China?” he asked La Mudu while looking at the pretty face of the girl sitting on the wooden chair in front of him.
“Mei was born in a village around the Yangtze River, in the Zhejiang area of Eastern China. We moved here ten years ago, ” Meilin replied as she stared at La Mudu's face.
“Oh so? Sorry, how old is Meilin?”
“One month May is twenty-one years old.”
“Means moving here at the age of May ten years, yes?”said La Mudu, then, “Mei single child..?”
“No,” sahut Meilin, “my second child. My brother is a boy, now he is visiting Java. While my sister died in the ocean when we moved here.”
“Oh....”just that's coming out of La Mudu's mouth. There is a feeling of being sliced to hear the story of the girl in front of him, before he asked again, “Why your parents decided to move here, even though according to Dato Hongli, my teacher, China is very far away. She's original from there too.”
“Yes my parents decided to move to this far country because my country was in a civil war. Then...where is Kak Mudu's teacher now?”
“True once, Brother. Thank you, Sis...,”ucap Meilin, “andaikata no Kak Mudu earlier, somehow fate Mei.”
“Yes, equally, May. Maybe the Adult has sent me until I can get here,” replied La Mudu.
“Could be, Brother,”sahut Meilin. “May was surprised, why there are still small-time vandals like them, even though there have been big troublemakers who came from Sangiang Island.”
“I mean May, the Red Lotus group is yes?”
“Iya's right, Brother.”
“They've stopped by to eat at your food stall?”asked La Mudu.
“Never again, Brother, but almost every time they enter the mainland, they will stop by at a meal at our stall..”.
“Did they never interrupt May?”There was worry in the face and the voice of La Mudu.
“No,”ucap Meilin. “For every reason they knew they would stop by, Mei immediately hid in a secret place. So, all this time May is still safe. I don't know next, Brother.”
La Mudu nodded slowly, diving into the worries that were in the heart of the beautiful girl in pure white in front of him. And to dispel those worries he said, “Not to worry, I guarantee you will be safe and fine.”
“Why can Brother Mudu be sure like that?”
“I do not answer now or anytime, but let time ensure that situation,” replied La Mudu, then smiled.
“Means Brother?”
La Mudu was about to say something, but when it was seen the voices of La Pabisa, La Rangga Jo, La Lewamori, and La Tunggara under the courtyard of the house with their horses. It seems that they all took grass for their horses.
“Dik Mei take me to the beach,” La Mudu told Meilin. “Come away from here?”
“Alright, Brother,”ucap Meilin. “Not far, Brother. Behind this village is the beach.”
Both of them came down from the stairs. To his four new friends La Mudu saying goodbye to a short walk.
“Excellent beauty is the son of the owner of the shop, such as anafari (realari),”praise La Tunggara while continuing to look without blinking Meilin's back until it disappears in the corner of the stall house.
“Iya, I also have a new age to see such a beautiful girl,”timpal La Lewamori also while shaking slowly.
“Beautiful and white like a swan,”soil La Pabise, don't want to lose.
“But the lucky La Mudu. He's a very lucky young man,”ucap La Rangga Jo. “From her gaze and glance, the girl likes La Mudu.”
“Yes natural, La Mudu is handsome, not ugly like you!” taunted La Pabise, greeted with laughter by the others. La Rangga Jo covered her mouth with her palms to hide her small laughter.
To Meilin's parents, Baojia and Fang Yin, La Mudu did not forget to ask permission to take the streets of his daughter.
“Yes, please, but you guys are careful, huh?”Baojia. The near-aged man stood side by side with his wife, his daughter Meilin and Jawara Mudu, who stepped away from them. On their faces, they showed smiles, because they were happy that their daughter could finally go for a walk with a young man. They were sure, Jawara Mudu was able to take good care of Meilin.
