Asti Girl Carrying the Curse
Chapter 231. The Unforgivable Sin
" Asti, come in! " Call Mother Ika Sawitri, wife of Mr. Kades Darmaji Hendardi, who often called Asti Bulek Ika.
The woman who was standing near the door of the room immediately grabbed Asti's arm and led her into the room. Immediately Asti obediently sat on the wooden chair beside the wooden cot where Pakde Kerto lay.
" Sir, this is Asti coming!" whispered Ika's Mother.
Pakde Kerto's eyes opened... He turned his head slightly to look at Asti. However there were tears flowing down the old man's thin cheeks.
" I'm sorry... Asti! As a parent, I am not setting a good example for my children and grandchildren...!" said the man shrewdly.
" Why apologize to me, sirde! I have never met Pakde for a long time. Last I remember, at that time Pakde was angry with Bude Ayu in front of Joglo house and in the village office. With cruelty Pakde insulted Bude with harsh words and slovenly... I will always remember that humiliation, Sirde! Also with the other sins that Pakde has made with the late Mr. Kushari, to destroy my family!"
" Deg!"
Asti's resolute words made the old man's breath even more congested. The man tried to hold back his crying. " Yes... I committed many mistakes and sins with your family!"
" Pakde should apologize to Mbah Kung and Bude Ayu!" Asti said poignant.
Everyone who was there was surprised ... As far as they know, Asti is not a vengeful person. But all the words spoken are true. While the biggest mistake of the once very arrogant man was more directed at two members of the Winangun family who were gone. His grandfathers, Mbah Harjo Winangun and Bude Ayu Sulaksmi, whom they were unaware of, had already fallen into the trap of their devious game, only with the aim of dredging the wealth of Winangun's treasure.
" I'm sorry, Nduk! Have done khilaf to them. I'm sorry..."
" Is that a khilaf, Pakde? Instead Pakde had planned the crime with Mr. Nasri and Pak Sabar ... The Joglo house was empty at the time... But I just remember now, because the person who ordered the crime turned out to be Pakde Kerto Juwono!"
" You, you... Have you heard of all my plans?" said the man was scared.
" Yes, now I'm new, ngeh! After hearing the voice of a pack like this... It was a bit hoarse when whispering . I was sick and slept in the main room of the Joglo house. Of course for a 10-year-old little boy a bit confused by the talk that turned out to be a secret... How vile you are! Making Grandpa and Bude stuck with the plan to feel indebted, right?"
Pak Sarno advanced and stood beside Asti. Hugging half of Asti's still trembling body held back all her emotions and anger. It turned out that little Asti heard the plan between Pakde Kerto and his men who were asked to keep the Joglo house empty when Pak Harjo and his son went to Surabaya. They were escorted by Mr. Kushari and his driver. Mr. Winangun just got a report from a neighbor beside the house, if he met with his brother Emilia and his sister in Surabaya a week ago. The two Asti uncles were selling in front of a large shop in the city of Heroes.
Little asti was not taken as well because of newly cured chickenpox disease. So Mbah Harjo asked for the help of others to take care of his granddaughter when they were going to travel for a long time. At that time in their village many children were attacked by a disease that is often called Chicken Fox or varicella, due to a long dry season, with very hot, dry and dusty air.
Bulek Ratih also had to watch his two children who experienced similar symptoms of the disease. So the three children were separated in two different houses.
There was a cry from Pakde Kerto tergugu... Little Asti had kept that secret for quite a long time. Unfortunately, he did not know too well the people who planned the crime.They spoke in front of the porch of the Joglo house, while whispering - whispering plus the darkness of the night. Sometimes their shadows are visible from the dim headlights.
Almost two months later, Bude Ayu asked his father, Pak Harjo Winangun to accept Pak Kushari's proposal. I don't know who made the hot-tipped gossip in the two neighboring villages. If Bude Ayu often go alone with Mr. Kushari. Though the man who already had two wives was intending to run for the election of the village head next door.
For the village people, to advance in the Pilkades would have to spend no small amount of capital. It could be tens to hundreds of millions. In order to muffle the rumors, Mr. Harjo asked his son who was also a long widow was married to Mr. Kushari. Of course, the news was shocking to everyone. Although it has been almost ten years Bude Ayu widowed, but she is an honorable widow. She divorced her husband who was a soldier. Moreover, the life of the Winangun family was quite prosperous at that time with abundant rice crops, a spacious garden and two large houses that protected all members of the Winangun family.
Asti also began to feel shunned by her friends after she entered Junior High School. At first the girls were just whispering, as she passed through several classrooms every time she entered and went home from school. But before he sat in the 9th grade, the young women they spoke openly in front of him and away from him. Sometimes people throw their face away. Some even spat full of disgust as they faced each other.
It turned out that the whisper was deliberately done by Mr. Kushari on an old woman who worked as a housekeeper in the house of Mr. Camat.. Moreover, Mr. Camat's daughter was also in class with Nastiti Anjani or Asti... Pak Kushari's relationship with Bude Ayu also faces many problems. Because both his wife and his children always interfere in everything. Sometimes blames the woman bluntly - the light that becomes the third wife is her father. Be Bude Ayu often go home to his parents, on the grounds of caring for his father who is sick. ... Though the house he occupied in the village of Sendang Waru was already in the name of Bude Ayu himself . As compensation from Pak Kushari's promise to make her the third wife and she was elected as the new head of Sendang Waru Village.
" Have you heard of their crime plans, Asti?" bulek Ratih whispered in disbelief.
Indeed, Mr. Kushari and Pak Kerto were very good to Mr. Harjo Winangun. But in any friendship, Grandpa Asti was always paying exactly whatever goods were used for his personal needs. Like renting a truck to bring rice harvest or coconut harvest. Renting a car to travel to visit another Pak Harjo family who live outside the city. Because since he was exposed to high blood pressure, his old car was immediately sold.
He did not dare to drive a four-wheeled vehicle anymore because his disease often recur. After being examined by a doctor, Asti's grandfather experienced complications due to his disease plus his age
Asti immediately stood up from her seat which gave her a sense of unease. " Pakde, Please forgive Allah SWT. Repent Pakde! Mumpung is still given age... Asti has been sincere and forgiven all the evil deeds that Pakde Kerto and Pak Kushari have done to my family. Here Asti does not want to judge Pakde. For all these things Asti has handed over to Allah SWT. He is the owner of the secret of all mankind's life...."
The cry of Pakde Kerto began to fall! Everyone hears with a heart... What a person in distress and helplessness is then to realize and remember all his sins and deeds in the past...
" Asti just reminds me of Pakde Kerto! How many families of Asti's friends in the old school, which Pakde's economy destroyed with fraudulent business deal practices! Their lives are hard! Because Pakde has taken their rice fields, gardens, houses and cows to pay the debt... Has Pakde apologized to them as well?"
Everyone is still silent... So Pakde Kerto also practice loan sharks by lending capital to farmers in other villages! Is there anything worse that Mr. Kushari has done who actually died earlier than this brother... Is it dangerous and takes the lives of others?
Pakde Muin... He never investigated the actions of this man, as it focused on the man who used to marry Bude Ayu in series...Of course Bude Ayu was able to survive for 6 years his marriage with the pongah man. Which only gave him insults and scorn from other Juwono relatives..
Deserve Ayu looks very upset after Pakde Kerto refused his request to no longer work on rice fields owned by his family... That guy doesn't care! Because only from the rice fields of the Winangun family, his family can still eat. After one by one the peasants began to refuse to sell their crops to the man.
In some villages began to mushroom the establishment of village unit cooperatives. The general body helps a lot with all the needs of farmers. Some even lend money with low interest and installments that are not burdensome.
The warehouse - the large warehouse owned by Mr. Kerto over time began to empty... Even some rice stores and grocery stores began to close because there was no supply of cheap produce... The situation continues to dissolve... Even some of the freight cars were sold from dozens of trucks and pick up cars... Until the warehouse was purchased by others and turned it into another business because it was located on the edge of a large and crowded street...
Asti stepped out of that gloomy room... Suddenly he understood the man's plan first with some of his men... It should have been Mr. Kushari who brought Emilia and her brother to Banjarmasin... Since the tragedy came, the two families have had various problems to the point of destroying everything.