Tumbar Houses

The Origins of the Mardani Family 9

"pick up the sari, mbak. I'm home"

ratmi shouted from outside the gate.

"mas, that ratmi's home.!!"

hartini said to her husband with a face full of relieved smiles.

"ratmi.."

said Harjo lirih, with a sparkling face.

Hartini has opened the gate.

"you-you. mbak Hartini, right.? where's Mas Harjo??"

ratmi then ran towards the porch of the house owned by the Darso jury, spreading his gaze in all directions.

"ratchem..."

Harjo called out with tears beginning to drip.

"mas...why did Harjo just visit me? why mas? I'm tormented to be here"

said Ratmi who continues to shake his brother's shoulder, looks disappointed face.

"sorry ratmi, forgive mas. hiks. hyks.."

"but this time, Darso's mas will bow to me"

the reason is, their guess must be true that Ratmi has done something in the forest.

"where have you been for these seven days?"

ask Harjo to make sure.

"from the forbidden leweung forest, mas. to meet the ma'de dasimah Susana, because he can get what I want."

ratmi replied with a heavy tone of voice.

Plakkc..

Harjo landed his hand on ratmi's cheek.

"stop it all, before you get deeper and deeper."

Harjo.

"NO. leave this house right now, and don't visit me here anymore."

ratmi said with a stern look.

without speaking again, Harjo and Hartini left the residence of the Darso mansion.

sari looked at Ratmi with fear. Because, sari felt ratmi was very changed.like not ratmi when she was, meek with polite speech.

now Ratmi's gaze moved on the sari, looking inside with a smile on the tip of her lips and then approaching the sari.

the heart beat of the cider beats unobtrusively.

"ratmi.."

sari lirih

"mom, you're a good man.I won't hurt you."

say ratmi with a heavy tone, while stroking the neatly knotted hair.

ratmi then sauntered into her room, when she was in the room, she found the sacred bed in her room.

not his fear, but ratmi smiled grinning.

at dusk, a black sedan car belonging to the Darso juragan came into the yard.

a man was seen coming out of the car, the man was disheveled, with disheveled hair, and a pale face.

"ratmi.. ratmi, where are you ratmi.?"

"mas darso? it's with you, mas.??"

tanya Sari was amazed by the condition of her husband who looked different.

"where's ratmi??"

"a-there's in her room, mas."

said sari while pointing towards ratmi's room.

"mas darso"

ratmi called out with a soft tone of voice.

"dek ratmi. mas miss you very much deck, mas can not sleep well because it keeps thinking about you."

sari stared at her husband's astonishment, greatly changing.he was more gentle towards ratmi.

"rest, mas. I'll make you a drink."

said sari.

"no, let me make it."

ratmi's word.

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"Go from this palace, never come here again."

his screams while staring cynically, a thirty-two-year-old man, he was Karlina's older brother.

it appears that Karlina and Dito have been expelled from the palace court owned by Kanjeng darma.

while staring with vengeance, Dito took his wife Carlina to leave his residence.

Karlina was holding a baby boy who kept crying.

"where should we go, mom?"

asked Karlina who kept crying.

"we went to Pak'de Darso's house for a while, it just happened that there was ratmi's mother. right??"

dito replied with a smile with a sad look.

the workers in the tea garden belonging to the Darso master, looked in wonder at Karlina who kept crying.

however, they the garden workers were reluctant to ask.

now Dito and Karlina arrive at the residence of the Darso master.

"excuse me, mas. mbak ratmi her, is there.?"

dito asked the gatekeeper.

"there's. Please enter Raden Dito."

let them in.

"please sit down, den. let me call you first."

said housekeeper juragan Darso.

"mas, will we be accepted here.?"

asked Karlina was hesitant.because, she knew very well the character of the Darso master.

a waiter brought two glasses of warm tea.

"Dito.. What's wrong with you?"

ratmi asked as she frowned, she was slightly astonished to see there were some big bags.

"you're kicked out of kanjeng darma, mbak."

ratmi rounded her eyes, it turned out that all this time not only her self was oppressed, but, Dito felt.

"well, then let's just stay here."

ratmi's edict

"but. mbak, what about pak'de Darso? is he allowing?"

ask Dito.

"you take it easy, Darso will definitely let you stay here.he will obey all my words"

replied Ratmi who was smiling at the tip of her lips.

"not pak'de Darso..."

Karlina stopped her speech when she saw Dito who placed her index finger on her lips.

but again Ratmi just smiled at the tip of her lips, looking at it.

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"sir, it's been almost two years that the kids haven't come home yet."

said Sumiarti who had missed her children so much.

"no need to worry, Harjo must be taking good care of his sisters."

answer the mugini while gently stroking his wife's back.

"but, my feelings have always been bad about our children, sir."

"it's just your feeling, Mom."

mugini's reply convinced his wife, even though he himself felt something had happened to his children.

...****************...

"what should I tell my father and mother later"

harjo lirih

"but it would be nice to tell father and mother, about ratmi and Dito, mas."

"Hartini's right, Jo."

said sari who suddenly came and surprised the two married couples.

"mrs sari..."