Asti Girl Carrying the Curse
Chapters 122. Fact-Finding
The garden to the right of Asti's house has been cleaned by the fathers in a row on Sunday. The plan is that the place will later be used as a car park and can also be set up additional tents for the upcoming three-week Asti wedding
Because the land along the left shophouse can also be used as a moto parking lot, because it has received permission from the landowner. Fortunately, the place has often been cleaned by Mr. Spirit if there is too much leaf litter scattered in the wind.
Usually, Ms. Ning is quick to respond to the matter of preparing consumption for residents who are working on royong. Sometimes Assisted by Asti, they prepare the dough in the morning, before Asti leaves for the market at 7:30.
Back then, Ms. Ning made fried bananas, bakwan and tofu fill for devoted working people. Bu Jum will make sweet iced tea as a thirst-busting race. The ice was provided in a large thermos with stacked plastic cups placed on a table in front of Asti's house.
" Mr RT, can Permission be made portal for the entrance in this village?" ask Joko.
" For what, Mom?"
" Look after it, sir! Later we put one young man to help Mas Yanto here. Portal we will make wheeled so that it can be easily opened and closed quickly. In anticipation of a crime, sir!."
" Can, Mom!"
Incidentally there are still wheels left when Joko makes a kitchen table and a 12kg gas container box for the tent stall. He used to make it with wheels to move easily, after the stalls closed.
Just ask for help, Mr. Ayip, who has a welding business across the shophouse. The wheels are then mounted at the end of the closing portal. While the portal pole is obtained from the rest of the iron for the entrance and exit bars of the shophouse.
The job of cleaning the garden is over. The fathers-sitting rested on the land that had been cleared of thorny bushes and wild plants. They are engrossed in enjoying the fritters made by Ms. Ning on the sidelines of a cold iced tea drink. Feels fresh while relieving fatigue.
Mr. Rob spread almost 5 kilograms of crooked salt throughout the edges of the garden to repel snakes. Especially the little snakes. Fear of endangering children or residents who often pass the road in front of the garden every day.
While Pak Ayip was working to connect two iron poles to be the size of the width of the road in front of Asti's house. The pole was installed near the wall of the shop.
The portal will open in the morning before 05:00 and will be closed at night. Even if there are citizens who pass by at night , young people who monitor the security of the shophouse will be enough to recognize its citizens. For they have been neighbors for many years, except for newcomers.
" Wow, Mas Joko's idea could be this too! Our village is safe" cried Mr. Sembodo when the portal pole has been installed Pak Ayip. The portal is easy to close and open because it uses wheels. So just be encouraged. Its height is only 50 cm.
Soon Joko gets a message from Mas Bambang. It turns out that the stalker continues to be sought by motorcycle gang children with very hard effort. In fact, not even three days, they were able to track him down the whereabouts of the prankster.
The motorbike came from one of the residents of the house in the Satrio residence complex. Joko stared at the photo of Satrio's foot that Barep sent after getting the facts on the field. So there's no way Asti's ex-husband did it. The man apparently suffered a broken leg bone due to menzolimi ex-wife and her son. Because he had a permanent disability in his leg due to a motorcycle accident a few months earlier. So who is the man who rode the motor sport to investigate Asti's house?
At this time, it is very common for motorcyclists to use a full face helmet, also masked. So Joko has not been able to recognize that person's face. It was time for him to move back to the city.
" Want to look at us, bro? I wait!" Bambang replied when he heard that Joko was coming to their city.
In the morning, Joko invites Firman to come with her to go to the next town. He deliberately borrowed Asti's car to disguise his arrival to the city. He had good reason to come to the housing complex. Especially seeing Ibu Anggita.
Of course, the mother of the twins was very happy with the arrival of Joko to his house. Two months ago, Bu Anggita's husband once stopped by a tent stall. After he returned from Yogyakarta to his home. He came to the stall with his nephew his wife who was a young Doctor. They ate at the stall to let go of fatigue while chatting for a long time with Joko and some workers there.
" Come in Mas Joko!" sapa Bu Anggita and Eyang Uti are friendly. Firman to look dumbly at the beauty of the face of the mother of two twins whose face looks like an Indonesian film artist who is famous for being beautiful and youthful.
The Word is ashamed. Because it is so awkward to face with Mother Anggita who laughed amusedly to see the act.
" How are you doing Mas Joko stopping by our house?" ask Ibu Anggita.
" This, Bu Anggita, Eyang Uti. Asti plans to get married on the 27th. If there is free time please come to Asti's house in Simpang Tiga."
" Ho, this is real, huh? Not a hoax, is it? " Said Eyang Uti happily.
" I'm sorry, you didn't use the same invitation card. Because Asti just wants to give thanks. As a prayer just so that the wedding this time goes on forever."
" Amij!" exclaim Ibu Anggita fast.
" Tell Asti, we're coming. It's a private party, huh? Of course I won't spread it anywhere."
" It's not really a secret either, Mom! Only Asti is not good at spreading this happy news, if heard by certain people, especially the new Satrio family. For him, as long as the marriage is legal because it is registered in KUA and recognized by the state!"
Ibu Anggita also clearly wrote the names of some friends who are close to Asti, to come to the wedding. Of course Asti does not mind if Ibu Anggita will invite Mbok Bayah, Ibu Imelda and people who are in the law firm's office.
" I'm sorry, earlier Ms. Anggita. Is Satrio still on duty in this town?"
" Okay, Mas Joko! He was only placed in the office. No longer working in the field. His legs are still supported with crutches! Yesterday Satrio refused to be referred to a major hospital in Semarang. Because there is a part of the bone in his leg that is not perfectly connected in the previous operation. So I want to re-operate. Only, the cost can not be covered from the agency. Too expensive!"
" Is there any other occupants in the house. How, it looks kinda lonely?"
" There's a lot of people there, Mom... It's just the longer the house gets scarier for us. Zahra gave birth to a baby who was deformed because his head was slightly enlarged in recent months. There was Zahra's mother and a woman who took care of the house and the baby. There is also his cousin Zahra who used to drive and pick up Satrio work by being his driver. Because Satrio still uses a cane to walk!"
Firman and Joko looked at. " Did Zahra's cousin like to use black sports bikes, Mom?"
"'Ma, that big black bike Ryan's got, right?" ask Ibu Anggita to his mother, Eyang Uti.
" Ryan's Zahra's cousin? Yeah, it's like." Answer Eyang Uti. " It's the bike, you know. Mas Joko's! The thunderous shock shocked everyone. Thankfully I am not hanging. There was also a baby in the house.."
" Said the security guard at the front mosque, Ryan once intercepted a motorcycle gank in the middle of the city. So it's a fuss in front of the complex" said Ibu Anggita again.
" I don't know about that family, it always causes trouble. Zahra used to stay at the house even though Satrio was still Asti's husband. Now the young man hanging around on his expensive motorbike is doing things with the young people in this town."
Ibu Anggita's report was clear enough for Joko. They're saying home. Together with the twins who ran home from school. The two twins hugged Joko tightly because they had never met her for a long time.
" Next to Akbar's house, huh? Play the same Akbar there."
Mother Anggita nodded after telling the young woman to bring the twins into the house and change clothes. But the twins survive on the front porch to see the departure of Joko who this time brought a red Honda Jazz car owned by Asti.