Asti Girl Carrying the Curse
Chapter 248. The Unexpected News
The room felt cold and quiet. Asti woke up with a very heavy head and kept turning. His vision grew brighter until he began to notice the circumstances around him. Is this like a room in a hospital?
" Asti, are you awake?" bulek Ratih asked gently.The woman's soft hand stretched out holding her forehead.
" Where am I, Bulek?"
" It's still at Mr. Prayoga's house.. This room used to take care of Eyang Astuti when he was seriously ill! How do you feel, Asti?"
" My head is so dizzy, Bulek?" asti whispered crying. The news from Pakde Prayoga was very surprising. Like a powerful punch that hit all his thoughts. It also feels like it's passing through its bone joints. They were so close, the brother of his mother. But why stay away?
From outside the room, Leon comes with a woman in a white coat. He looks patient and has a lot of experience. Is that woman a doctor?
" Dear, you fainted for a long time... Let it be examined first by Doctor Goddess Imaniar, huh?"
The woman seemed to be friendly and gentle. He had asked permission to remove Asti's shirt on his chest. A metal object that feels cold touches it on the surface of the skin from under the neck to the chest. Many times the woman's doctor gave instructions when examining Asti carefully. He also checked his blood pressure, with a digital tensimeter.
" A lot of rest, yeah. Ma! Mother's blood pressure, pretty low... Please watch his food. Don't mind much. Is Mom still nursing the Grandpa?" ask the Goddess again.
Asti simply shook his head or nodded to answer the doctor's question. The head feels heavy to lift a little
The woman saw the baby girl being held by her nanny on the front porch. Leon rubbed the baby's head.
Little by little Asti began to tell the doctor about the state of his body. But he only fell silent, when he felt this sadness, continuously destroying his self-defense. He should stay healthy and sane, because he has two children who are toddlers and need to be cared for and cared for properly.
Leon kissed Asti on the forehead when the doctor said goodbye. The doctor woman was escorted out the door. There is a prescription to redeem the medicine he was given. Doctor Dewi served in Sumber Sari Village puskesmas, as the head of Puskesmas there. The puskesmas building is located next to the main highway of Sumber Sari Village. Right next to the old office building.
" Let's, Doc. I'm bringing it back! " said a young man. He was the driver of Mr Prayoga. Using his matic motorbike to pick up the doctor who was still on duty at his workplace. Of course the woman would take a call from Mr. Camat Prayoga. As the number one person in the region.
Asti tried to get up from a bed that looks like an iron bed in the hospital, because it can be set high and low in the head.
" Yang , we live in this temporary house with Qani and Bu Jum. At the request of Mr. Prayoga. Let Akbar return to the inn, with the others. Believe that... There's Ibu Ratih, Ninuk and Putri who will look after you! You have to be stronger... Because Pakde Prayoga knows a lot about all your parents' lives."
Asti was crying in her husband's arms. The sadness is so painful. But he also wants to know how his mother's fate continues there, in her homeland. I can no longer go back to Java. But she still has a baby.
What causes a mother to leave her newborn two months ago? Is there a big barrier that makes an Emilia unable to return to Sendang Mulyo Village? The young woman could no longer hug her baby, lulling... Moreover, waiting for him until he grew into a teenager to grow up. Even Asti had to undergo two marriages in his life. Until he had a healthy and funny pair of children.
Lek No appeared in front of the door of the room. His face looked concerned. He patted Asti on the shoulder.
" You are strong, Asti! I've called Mr. Muin, he has left for the city of Malang..."
Leon smiled slowly." Hopefully, Mr. Joseph and his family will come here to see you. If no? We're all going to Malang, to see him. After the payment business at the village office is finished!"
Bu Jum was still holding Qani in the yard next to the house. The rest of the Asti family returned to the inn. Mas Jayeng, the driver of Pak Prayoga, took the suitcase of Asti and Leon clothes and also the needs of Qani and Bu Jum.
Assisted by Leon, Asti was pulled out of the room. Again, there was one crackle of medicine that the doctor Dewi gave, for him to drink. The drug is almost the same as the prescription given by Doctor Mursito a few weeks ago.
In the living room they re-assembled.There is still Lek No, Pak Sampurno and his wife also Mr. Prayoga's wife as well. They welcome the arrival of Asti who looks confused with her pale face.
" Sorry, Asti... Pakde also just got this information a month ago... During this time Joseph hid his identity and his brother, for the safety of their lives. Because of the other party's threat. What I never finished thinking, one of the men who threatened it instead married your late bude!"
Asti leaned weakly on Leon's sturdy body... The man who was his father's cousin kept telling stories. Until his mother's brother heard, there were some important people in a town using the name Winangun..It was in this man that he begged for protection and protection. It turned out that the man who helped him was still related to their relatives who came from a village in Central Java and East Java repair.
" Your birth oms were once looking for you to the village of Sidodadi... He's quite relieved, seeing your life better. Especially after hearing you divorced your first husband, because the man cheated on you with another woman . But he was still afraid of the threat from the Juwono family. So he's just monitoring from afar ..."
" I mean, Pakde. Is there a sister's mother monitoring my life ?"
" Yes, your mother's younger brother had to undergo several operations due to getting injured in the fire. She was raised by her half-brother in Surabaya. They continue to get threats from the Juwono brothers who continue to try to get rid of them. That cunning guy is also very evil. He had a lot of interest behind your mother's departure... "
" After growing up, your mother's sister was quite calm, because there are still descendants of her brother who live in Java. I don't know what revenge happened to the man who used to be his mother's ex-lover, so they want to destroy all children descended from Ibu Sarifah.
In that incident, Grandma and her sister tragically died. To come out to help Joseph leave his homeland, so that the revenge will not destroy everything. Even more surprising, when they got the news when Emilia never returned to her husband's village in Central Java.
" Where Om do I live, Pakde?"
" So far, only Joseph knows. Because he doesn't live with his stepbrother... Joseph was also married and had a family... His deformed legs did not prevent Ardi from working and having his own business!"
" Of Ardi? That's my Om name?"
" Yes, in fact they can change the name and identity of the origin, because many important letters were destroyed and damaged in the fire. But they still respect the big names of the families listed on their birth certificates... Your grandmother and Grandfather in Banjarmasin died about ten years ago.."
They're speechless... Until Mr. Sampurno and his wife decided to return to Madiun. Mas Jayeng also came with a suitcase of Asti and Leon clothes, a large bag belonging to Bu Jum and Qani. Akbar will be guarded by Princess and Ninuk.
" Are we not troublesome, Mr. Prayoga and the family are here!"
" Leon, you're Asti's husband. He's like my own son... In the Winangun family, we are relatives and brothers...That is the value of our extended family. Since long ago, our great-grandfathers served the great kings of Yogyakarta and Surakarta. We are not descendants of blue-blooded nobles. But the descendants of the warriors, who worked hard to prosper the lives of the people and the people!"
Asti was already in the arms of Hernani's mother, Pakde Prayoga's wife while listening to the next story.
Initially, they were less sure of the story told by Mr. Sampurno, when a young man who claimed to be relatives who came from Sendang Mulyo Village came to visit his home. Joko came to Sampurno Hardiman Winangun's family just to berilaturrahmi.
Joko has his own interests in the Madiun region. To get official data and facts about the vast land in Sumber Sari village to be sold.
Mr. Sampurno was convinced that he was Asti's cousin, after Joko showed photos of Asti, as well as Joglo houses relics of their ancestors who did not change much in the past 50 years. Only then did Mr. Sampurno believe.