Asti Girl Carrying the Curse
Chapter 232. A Belief
Outside Pakde Kerto's room, Asti was only able to look at the face - a face that looked at him with pity or concern for the loss of his family members. Especially in a situation full of difficulties it was even used by the two brothers Juwono, for his personal interests.
Bulek Ratih can no longer hide his sadness, until he hugs Asti tightly. Bude Mayang and Pakde Muin also seen emotions due to the actions of the man. But the man was already trying to find the facts of the incident. Although, unfortunately, the case has been closed, because it was over twenty years ago.
Not many traces are left there. Even many parents, elders of the relatives of Emilia who closed the story from their own children and grandchildren. Because it is very painful to remember that very tragic event. Too terrible, also sad with the loss of life from family members Emilia, after the big house burned people in the middle of the night. ..As a result of the emotions and ambitions of someone who is able to justify all means to get his desire.
Soon Bulek Ika caught up with Asti and and patted her shoulder. Trying to raise the young woman. " Ask Mr. Kerto , Asti! Why didn't your mother go back to Java ? It was also impossible for the young woman to forget her newborn baby just like that!"
Asti's outstretched hand immediately caught Leon quickly... It seems like Asti needed her husband it gave her strength. This time he must be able to withstand all his emotions that continue to overflow and seem to be spilling over... He just wants to get the truth. Although he must prepare himself, to get even the most bitter reality!
Led by Leon, Asti again entered the room. Pakde Kerto's face still looks very sad and suffering... But the man realized, he also did not want to carry all the burden of sin and his guilt to his grave later.
" Pakde, why didn't Emilia's mother return to Sendang Mulyo village?" ask Asti sharply.
Lost already the respect and pity for the old man. The man who was also conspiring with his sister was for this invisible crime. Especially the Winangun family.
Man is silent for a long time. Set one by one his somewhat stingy breaths - nasal. Those outside the room also listened and felt the tension.
" When his grandmother was buried... Emilia seeks the whereabouts of her missing parents. Because the situation there is not conducive, there is a lot of talk and unclear news about the incident that happened to Mr. Jaffar and his wife. Pak Kushari assisted other relatives to persuade Emilia to return to Java. Moreover, his half-brother was willing to wait for their two younger brothers who were still in hospital, because they were very badly injured. Suddenly, Emilia had left her brother's house, where they had been accommodated. That day, Mr. Kushari bought it
a plane ticket for her and Emilia to return to Java. It seems like Emilia has gone a long way somewhere..."
" Who then told Pakde Yusuf and his brother to move from Surabaya?" ask Asti again.
The man's eyes blinked in disbelief. Indeed Mr. Kushari still has contact with Brother Emilia who is guarding his two younger siblings in the hospital! But a few years later, Bude Ayu got information from neighbors who had been to Surabaya ... His half-brother Emilia opened a cigarette shop on the side of a road with his sister... Pak Kushari gave them enough money to leave Surabaya immediately. Though he was also the one who drove Ayu and Pak Harjo Winangun around all corners of Surabaya City, looking for the whereabouts of Yusuf and his sister for 4 days. But the effort turned out to be in vain.
" Kushari! He wanted the Winangun family to remain dependent on him, and always needed help from him .... Mr. Harjo Winangun has a lot of money... From the hektaran harvest of his rice fields and his coconut groves."
Mr. Muin looked at Pakde Kerto's pale face. " Why do you like to take advantage of other people's difficulties, anyway ? The family of Emilia suffered a disaster but you are the lucky ones... How many tens of millions of funds given by Mr. Harjo Winangun to find the whereabouts of Emilia. Not to mention his brother and sister, who were expelled from Surabaya. It turns out that Mr. Kushari is behind all this hassle!"
" What does Mr. Muin mean?" ask a village administrator Sendang Mulyo, who has since listened to all the events in the room. A room that is not suitable for patients who are sick with stroke like Pakde Kerto.
"'From the information I received, both of Emilia's parents were at the house of another resident when the fire broke out... They were injured because they were persecuted by hostile relatives. Until taken to their hometown, to avoid even greater conflict. For among the merchants there, they still had kinship. Emilia's father had to have her leg amputated... Because the wound was only treated with village medicine, did not immediately get medical help. He asked other relatives to help his eldest son take the youngest brother away to get out of the area... Looks like Yusuf's back to Surabaya... But he could no longer work at the company before because of months of permission to go to Banjarmasin, waiting for his youngest brother to recover enough."
Now Asti only believes that his brother and sister are still healthy and live in Surabaya... This time Asti will ask for the help of Mr. Muin to find their tracks. Although he still has little evidence in the form of marriage books from both parents and two diplomas belonging to his mother, Emilia Sakinah Jaffar. A diploma when the young woman attended school in her village, in Banjarmasin City. Another diploma when his mother was attending a private High School in the city of Yogyakarta.
Lek No the bittersweet... Although a bit angry and disappointed with the man who was lying sick.. His hand slipped a white envelope. There was little money for the man to simply buy food that was worth eating.
Yesterday Tarjo was very scared when he was found in this house. The man, who is more than 35 years old, is not really a responsible man.. He did not want to work at all, but already had two children who attended elementary school. His job was just hanging out in an obscure workshop near a coffee shop.. Across the provincial street near a branch office of a regional bank.
Mr. Muin's threat made the silly man cringe - thin heart. Although the act of breaking the windowpanes in Asti's house was not reported to the authorities, everyone in the district already knew the face of one of the throwers, in the viral video.
" We're home, huh?" leon whispered to Asti who was only able to nod her head... His body was weak, his mind was branching.
Could it be that Emilia was captured by that person who was hostile towards her father? Though Mr. Jaffar always traded in an honest and trustworthy way... But many people do not like him. Until he was appointed head of the trade association there ... Or did Mr. Kushari deliberately scare Emilia, so that she immediately left the city?
Asti's head is getting pulsating. In his mind was still ringing whispers of a heavy and somewhat stinging male voice... It used to be that little Asti only heard a glimpse of the conversation of three men in front of the Joglo house. They were assigned to guard the house . While he fell asleep in the main room, which is Mbah Kung's room... As long as he was sick or not feeling well, it was the old man who hugged him all night. Until the fever goes down.
At that time the situation outside the house was very quiet... It has been two days Bude Ayu and Mbah Harjo Winangun went to Surabaya... Lek No and his family still occupy the back house... Asti had just recovered from his illness and was not taken away. She is guarded by Tati's mother, Mbah Harjo's distant niece.
Years passed, then Asti realized that the voice of the person who whispered in front of the Joglo house, was the voice of Pakde Kerto. Asti's feathers goosebumps all... The man planned to deceive the Winangun Family especially related to the Asti Mother's family... Apparently, the enemy of the Winangun family is the person who has been a good friend of Mr. Harjo Winangun. The two Juwono brothers were like sheep-furred wolves, pretending to be good, in order to deceive their enemies.
" Asti, you just move in back here, same Bulek! If your body is not good" asked Bulek Ratih.
Asti staggered down from the side door. Lek No managed to memapah Asti's body like powerless... Seeing the state of Asti, Mr. Muin offered Mr. Sumardi who is the administrator of the village to join his car. In the middle seat, Leon laid Asti's body, with his head resting on the lap of Bulek Ratih.
"'We'll take it to the puskesmas, Bune?" ask Lek No worriedly.
" No need, sir! Asti was still a bit in shock... Let's go Leon kid, let's go back to Joglo's house!"
Leon deftly turned on the car engine to leave the courtyard of the mansion, which seemed to want to collapse if there was a big wind coming... From Lek No's story... The Juwono family had already fallen economically over ten years ago... Along with the pain of Mr. Kushari... A year later, Bude Ayu's ex-husband died at his first wife's home from a heart attack. In addition to carrying a mountain of debt because many of his efforts are no longer profitable... The lives of both his wife and children are very wasteful because they like to spend time.
Since the death of Mr. Kushari, Bude Ayu widowed again. But the woman could escape from the golden cage. Indeed Mr. Kushari bought him a pretty nice little house on the border of both villages, with a certificate on his behalf... The tiny house was filled with good furniture and various electronic items today. He was not only Bude Ayu who bought two-wheeled vehicles, but Asti as well. He said it was a gift because his niece his wife was attending school at a SMK on the county border, so needed a new reliable matic motor.
All that Bude Ayu left, because he did not want to fuss with his stepchildren. Ever since the woman returned to the Joglo house, she never looked back. To his past full of suffering, humiliation and humiliation for his status as the third wife of Pak Kushari.