
“Sial the boy really hasn't kapok apparently.” Umpat Joko when the car he was riding was away from there.
“Are we going to re-destroy the garden belonging to him Boss?” Tanya Tokrep one of Joko's men.
“We will lose if we damage it. Now, we'll just harvest his vegetables. If he won't sell it to us, then we'll steal it. Later tonight gather the others. We work overtime to harvest all the vegetables in the garden Seno.”
“Don't forget to bring the stairs. We will later go up the stairs just to get into the garden Seno.” Joko.
Joko is now increasingly furious with Seno. He did not understand why the man made a fence just for the vegetable garden. If this were the case, Joko would be quite difficult to steal those vegetables. He had to climb the wall to do it.
“Why don't we just break the padlock from the fence of his garden Boss? Why must we pass through the wall Bos.” Ask Tokrep astonished. Some were simpler but this Boss instead chose such a difficult way.
“That's because I wanted to give a surprise to the boy. Tomorrow morning he'll be in a happy state heading for his garden. But, after opening that gate, it was not the vegetable ranks he saw, but the empty plots of land.”
“Wouldn't that be a great surprise for him?” Joko immediately imagined the miserable face that Seno would show in the morning after the man opened the gate of his garden. Just imagining it makes Joko happy.
“Alright Boss if you want. I'll call the other kids.” Answer Tokrep.
“Then, later tonight bring as many rabbits as you can find.” Joko's orders.
“For what else are rabbits the Boss?”
The weirdness of his boss has not healed yet. Not just this once did Tokrep receive a pretty strange order, he often got it. Fortunately, the payment given by Joko was quite large, so Tokrep was willing to survive as his men.
“Of course it's for my little gift to Seno. Let the boy think that his lost vegetable was eaten by the rabbits.”
…
In the evening, Tokrep managed to gather twenty people to be invited to harvest the Seno garden. They carried five large cages containing twenty rabbits. Not only that, they also brought six stairs to carry out their mission tonight.
Tokrep and his colleagues also put up the stairs in a quiet place and not visible from the road. One by one they went up. Three ladders are outside and the other three ladders they will put inside. That way, their mobility will be easy.
The first thing they did was to bring the rabbits into the garden. Then follow the empty bamboo wicker basket to place the vegetables later. Joko was also present in the operation tonight. He wanted to see for himself how the vegetables in the garden Seno.
“Ck.” Joko clucked her tongue after seeing the vegetables that were there. “Simply Seno managed to sell these vegetables at high prices. This vegetable has good quality. This is even better than the vegetables I used to put in a large supermarket.” Joko Gumam.
“Tokrep now quickly harvest that vegetable. We should harvest these vegetables as much as possible. But you have to do it carefully not to spoil the vegetables.” Joko's orders.
“Good Boss.”
Tokrep then walked to the vegetable patch that was closest to him. From the flashlight that was on his head, it was a patch of kale. It must be quite easy to pluck these kale. He doesn't have to put a lot of energy into doing it.
Unfortunately, what Tokrep imagined would never happen. When he pulled the kale from the ground, the kale did not move in the slightest. It made Tokrep slightly frown.
“It's pretty weird. Why this kale is not also uprooted. Alright I'll try one more time.”
Now Tokrep used his two hands to lift the kale. Again what Tokrep did did was fruitless. The kale still stands firmly in its place.
“Eh why is it getting weird like this? I've used both of my hands. But why is this still inalienable.” Tokrep Gumam.
In the eyes of Tokrep, this kale is like a kale in general. Nothing special is visible. Then, why is this kale so difficult to remove? Is this an artificial kale? However, Tokrep smelled the distinctive smell of the plant from this kale in front of him. Why is it so hard to harvest it?
“I can't believe that this kale is hard to harvest. I'll prove that I can pull you out.”
Tokrep then rose from his squatting position. He then made a plan to pull the kale from the ground. Two hands he used to pull the kale with all his strength. Still no change.
Instead of pulling the kale, Tokrep's body fell backwards. That made the man's anger rise.
“Sials. Even I can't beat a kale? If until people find out I, Tokrep, failed to pull a kale, they would definitely laugh at me all out.”
Tokrep did not give up. Several times he tried to pull the kale, but still failed. He then changed by removing the same kale. The result is not much different from the previous kale.
In the end after twenty minutes of trying, Tokrep ran out of energy. He surrendered. The man then spread his eyes around her. He was quite surprised to know what he saw.
From earlier Tokrep focused on plucking the kale in front of him so that he was not aware of the surrounding situation. Some people who participated in the activities tonight turned out to experience a fate not much different from him.
Currently they were sitting limp with a body full of sweat on their bodies. They were also the same as Tokrep, having not managed to harvest a single vegetable.
Seeing that not only he could not harvest vegetables in this garden, Tokrep breathed a sigh of relief. At least not only he was having trouble. This means that the ones who have problems are not them. But this garden.
Someone then walked up to Tokrep. “Krep, what the hell is this? Why can't vegetables in this garden be removed? Do you intend to do our work?”
“Where do I know Mat. I alone could not pull this kale from where it was planted. You see for yourself I sweat a lot just like you. So, where might I prank you if I myself was like this too.”
“Yes this garden is quite strange in my opinion. Do you know why?” Ask Tokrep astonished.
“This garden was originally the same as the garden in general. Previously, Mr. Wira and Mr. Sahad often harvest vegetables in this garden, right? Those whose bodies are not muscular can easily harvest vegetables here.”
“But, after Seno's parents died and this garden he held, all changed.”
“Iya I also feel this garden is changing. Why can't we who are muscular pull out a single plant here. While Mr. Wira and Mr. Sahad previously could.”
“I think, this garden is protected by the spirits of Seno's parents. You know, the bus they were riding on had a pretty tragic accident. I don't think their spirits are calm yet. It's not yet forty days of their deaths, is it?”
“Ih don't talk that horror. There is no way this garden has a waiter.” Tokrep said in disbelief while circulating his gaze with a feeling of anxiety.
Right after Tokrep said that, a cold wind blew against their bodies. It made the feathers of Tokrep's neck stand up.
“Mat, I feel the air here more and more horror huh?” Tokrep.
“You're right Tokrep. I... i... escape.” Said Mamat who was now directly running away from Tokrep.
Seeing that, Tokrep did not want to be left behind. The man also ran as fast as he could. He then preceded Mamat who was in front of him. What the two of them did made the others feel astonished.
They looked at each other and did not understand what was really going on. Even so, the others got up from where they were sitting and left from there. They thought their existence in this was already known to others so made Tokrep and Mamat leave from there.
After all, they were unwilling to continue this grueling and quite strange work. A vegetable alone cannot be removed by an adult.
Even some of them try to work together to attract a vegetable. But still failed. Even when stepped on the vegetable did not suffer any damage.
…
“Why are you back empty-handed?” Joko asked who was waiting for them from behind the fence.
After checking the vegetables in the garden, Joko came out of the garden. This he did just in case. If something happened, he could escape easily. After half an hour of waiting, Joko simply did not see his men who finished harvesting.
Previously Joko had ordered if there is a vegetable basket that has been filled, they must immediately take it out of the garden. But no one brought out the vegetables from the Seno plantation.
Now he saw how his men one by one came out of Seno's garden through the stairs. But they did not carry anything in their hands. This made Joko angry. Actually what they do there.
Tokrep walked over to his boss. “Bos better we go from here. This Seno garden is haunted. The vegetables there cannot be harvested. I've pulled it as hard as I can, but the vegetables that are there are inalienable.”
“There is such a thing. This must be you guys bragging. If you really want to work with me, don't brag like that.” Joko said in disbelief.
“This is really Mr. Joko.” Answer Mamat. “We've been trying so hard to be bathed in sweat like this. But I can't pull out a single vegetable. Seno's garden is haunted I don't want to go there anymore.”
After saying so, Mamat left there without waiting for a response from Joko. Some of Mamat's friends followed the man's steps.
Seeing Mamat and his friends leave, Joko becomes anxious. If they left, who would help him harvest? Doing it alone with Tokrep will reduce the amount of vegetables they harvest.
“Hey, hey, wait a minute. I've paid you guys. Why are you guys leaving like that. Your work is not finished.” Joko.
“No we won't be willing to set foot in Seno's garden again. The money you give is no longer able to be withdrawn. That is the fee we deserve after draining quite a lot.”
Mamat's voice was getting smaller and smaller. This indicates that when saying this, Mamar still stepped away from there.
“Sials. I was in vain to pay them dearly. Tokrep what exactly happened? Why won't they continue their work?” Ask Joko to Tokrep.
“Ehm... that's the Boss, can't we talk about that somewhere else? I'll explain everything to you but not here.”
Mamat's words were still ringing in Tokrep's ears. Seno's haunted garden awaited the spirits of his parents who died in an accident. The wind that did not stop blowing, it made Tokrep even more afraid of lingering here.
The wind that hit his body felt like a hand caressing his body. Tokrep wants to get out of here.
After being persuaded several times, Joko finally wanted to leave from there. They stopped at Joko's truck, which was parked a hundred meters from Seno's garden.
“Now say everything!” Joko's orders.
“As I said before Boss. Seno's garden is strange. Vegetables can't be pulled from the ground. Mamat who had a muscular body alone could not do much.
“Although very hard to believe but it's true. How could I lie to you. There's no benefit to me. Wouldn't I get a big bonus from you if I managed to harvest all those vegetables? So trust me.” Tokrep.
Hearing Tokrep's explanation, Joko fell silent. It's true what his men say. There was no benefit if he lied. So everything Tokrep and Mamat said was true? Is it that hard to pull vegetables from there?