The Suffering of Si Kembang Village
Surprising secrets

Tegal Mayang Village

Morning and evening breezes. Rotating day and night. Tired of waiting, wounded in longing. So long.... That's how Danu feels now.

Regret covers his heart that is getting worse and longer. Residing in his mind, a string of questions filled with the name of the girl he loved so much.

Will Nilam come back to her?

Will that sweetest time ever come back to pet her?

Will the love warm her up?

"I miss you so much, Nilam. Forgive my stupidity."

Sitting on the window sill of his open room, Danu looked down at the soft night sky studded with the blink of stars.

"My stupidity doubts you. It is my folly to set aside my convictions, and to believe these lying eyes."

One blink of his eye unraveled the droplets of cuts on both sides of his cheeks, wounds he had created himself.

Until a sound of foot clattering ran, breaking his thoughts that were dissolved in the puddle of his longing.

He saw Didy running somewhere.

"Dy...!" call loud. He came down from the window, barefoot and ran after Didy. "Didy where are you going?!"

Didy stopped his quick steps. Danu breathlessly approached towards him. "Where are you going, run - run, night - night?" asked Danu with a hunting breath.

"Hmm.. hmm...." Didy made his gesture - his sign language gesture with a grieving face. Danu clearly understood.

"What?! Mbok you're pinsan again?!" ask Danu to worry. Didy just nodded.

" Yes, we're going to your house now."

The two of them ran as fast as lightning, towards Didy's residence with Grandma.

Arriving at the hut where Didy lived, they immediately approached Mbok Parmi, his grandmother Didy who was helplessly rolled on a weathered mattress.

"Mhd... Mbok Parmi's." Danu patted - patted the old woman's cheek softly.

"Emm...." Mbok Parmi's voice sounded weak.

"We're going to the hospital, Mbok" Danu asked.

Namu the old granny shook her head. "But Mbok's condition is quite severe. Let the doctor treat Mbok."

Didy was confused. Then he started moving his hand.

"But Didy doesn't have the money for his hospital fees, brother."

"You don't think about it. Brother Danu there's a little mistress. For the shortcomings, we can ask for help Mr. Kades," said Danu.

"Don't, Lek. Mbok does not want to trouble you," Mbok Parmi refused with a soft voice.

"It's okay, Mbok. I'm sincere," said Danu sincerely. "Dy, you wait here. Brother to Mr. Kades' house first,"

"You want what, brother?"

"Sister will borrow his car for a while to take Mbok to the hospital. If only use the bike Brother, kasian Mbok. He must be cold, Dy." Didy nodded in understanding.

Danu breezed out towards the residence of the chief of the hamlet, which was about two hundred meters from the residence of Didy.

Some time later, the sound of the roar of the car was heard in the courtyard of the hut where Didy lived. Danu came in a hurry followed by a man behind her.

"Come, Dy. We lift Mbok's body. Take it to Mr. Kades' car."

"Let me help you, ma'am," said the man who came with Danu. He is someone who was sent by Mr. Kades to replace him to help Danu take care of Mbok Parmi.

Short story.

Mbok Parmi is now being treated by a doctor in a hospital treatment room, the same place where Nilam first knew Kenzie.

"You're Miss Parmi's family?" ask a woman in a nurse's uniform.

"Yes, Sus. We are his family" Danu said, approaching the nurse.

"Mom Parmi wants to see you guys."

"Well, Sus," said Danu. " Come, Dy. We're in."

"Mas Danu's. I just wait in the car. If there is anything, Mas Danu please call me," said Kades' man.

"Yes, Sir. Thank you," Danu replied.

Inside the treatment room Mbok Parmi.

"How are things Mbok? Already better?" ask Danu gently.

"Morning, Lek. Thank you for helping me."

"Same - same, Mbok. It is our duty as fellow human beings. We are neighbors." Danu smile.

"Yes, Lek. May God repay all your kindness."

"Amen."

"Di.... There's something important that Mbok wants to talk to you about."

"What do you want to talk about?" didy asked in his sign language gesture.

"Here, Lek."

Didy pulled out a chair to sit next to Mbok Parmi.

Danu just kept quiet to pay attention.

"It's time Mbok told you everything, Lek."

"Tell me what, Mbok?" Didy frowned not understanding.

For a moment Mbok Parmi was silent staring at Didy's bead of close-knit eyes.

"Laws.... Mbok.... Your mother's alive, son."

Deg!!

Didy rounded his eyes perfectly.

Instantly her heart was beating fast. Danu too.

"What do you mean by mbok?" tanya Danu represented Didy who was still speechless in confusion.

Mbok Parmi turned to look at the sky - the sky of the square room. Then start to explain slowly.

That afternoon Mbok Parmi who was still around 45 years old was busy picking tea leaves on the same plantation where Nilam worked. But it was still managed by a different owner.

Arrive - arrive....

Bugs!!

A young woman bumps into Mbok Parmi's body with a baby in her cradle. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, Mom."

"It's okay - what. Why are you so scared, son?" ask Mbok Parmi.

"Help me, Mom.... I'm in pursuit of Dahlan's men."

"Dahlan's men? Why are they chasing you?"

"Dahlan wants to take my son."

Mbok Parmi frowned. "Sit down first. What's yourname?"

"Love, Mom."

"Alright, Beloved. Tell me slowly - slowly. Why would Dahlan want your son?"

They are now sitting on a shabby mat where Mbok Parmi rests.

"This child is Dahlan's son, ma'am."

"What's? Are you Dahlan's third wife?" mbok Parmi asked.

The girl named Kedasih shook her head.

"No, Mom."

"Then?"

A moment of silence. Then start to explain slowly.

"One year ago.... Dahlan asked my shaman's mother for help. To make this tea plantation land, it could fall into his hands at a cheap price. But the impatient Dahlan, forced my mother to do her ritual in a quick time with a short time that she had set herself."

Mbok Parmi caught the tired face of Kedasih.

"Drink first, son."

Kedasih received a bottle of water from Mbok Parmi's hand, and gulped it down before resuming his story.

"Then?" ask Mbok Parmi.

"And my mother failed. Because Dahlan's time is too short." The 23-year-old girl lowered her head. "Then Dahlan.... Dahlan raped me as punishment for my mother's failure. Until some time later, I got pregnant and gave birth to this child."

Mbok Parmi surprised not kepalang.

"Yes, God.... I didn't expect Dahlan to be that cruel," he said concerned. " Where exactly are you from? Why did you just see you here?"

"My mother and I live at the end of this village. We live there without neighbors. Until no one can help us."

"Then how did you get to the chase like this?"

"Dahlan knows, I gave birth to this child, Mom. And he wanted to take it from me. He ordered his men to take this boy."

"Then where's your mother?"

"Mothers... Mum...." Her crying broke unbearably. "Dahlan's men killed my mother."

Mbok Parmi was surprised.

"Why did they kill your mother?"

"Because the mother keeps trying to prevent them from taking this baby, ma'am. They pushed hard on my mother's body until she fell, and her head was hit by a big rock. And Mother. Mother died instantly. Then some of them brought my mother's body. And throw it somewhere."

"Yes, God... Then how can you escape from them?"

"There were two men who came to my aid and confronted them, as they dragged my body to be brought before Dahlan. One of them told me to run as fast as possible."

"Therefore you ran all the way here?"

"Yes, Mom. Help me. I'm scared, Mom."

Parmi looked at him pity.

"alright. Let's wake. You're coming with Mom to the house."

Kedasih.

But on the way to Mbok Parmi's house, Kedasih stopped his steps.

"Why stop, son?"

"Mom. please take my son. Take care and raise him."

"What do you mean, Love?"

"So I go with Mom, still they'll find me. But if it's only my son you bring, then he'll be safe. I have to leave this village by myself. So even if they find me on the way, my son is safe with Mom."

"But, Son...."

"Name Didy. Please take good care of him, ma'am. Someday, I'll go back to see him."

"But where are you going, my love?"

"Come, Ma. For sure I should go as far away from this village as possible."

Young Mbok Parmi was silent for a moment.

"Well, I'll take care of Didy. Take care of yourself - fine. Be careful, and don't get caught. It's a little money. Use it for your provisions on the journey." Mbok Parmi handed over some money to Kedasih.

"But, Mum...."

"Get it. It's okay - what. I'm sincere."

"All right, thank you, ma'am." I accept the money with doubt. "Oiya, Ma'am, whose mother's name? Because if one day I go back to see Didy, I can easily ask people using Mom's name."

"You're right, son. People used to call me Mbok Parmi."

"Mbok Parmi. I'm picking up my son, Mbok."

"Yes, Beloved. Mbok will take care of him as best he can."

Before giving the baby Didy to Mbok Parmi, Kedasih looked at the face of his little whiz was clingy, then kissed his forehead deep. Her tears are flowing.

"Goodbye, Son. Well - good here the same Mbok. Mother loves you... Didi."

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