Kampung Kembang
Chapter 13

Mr. Arifin continued to pay attention to the way the young man worked. Mr. Edi who no longer felt his waist pain immediately approached the young man who was now busy doing his work.

"That's den! Let me do it again, because my waist doesn't hurt anymore."

"No sir! You must rest! Don't work yet." The young man remained chuckling while remaining focused on doing his work.

"But Den, I'm used to it. So Aden doesn't have to worry." Said Mr. Edi to the young man who even though Mr. Arifin was still watching them.

Mr. Edi immediately plucked the grass even though the young man insisted on preventing it from working.

"Okay then! If you want to keep working, it's okay. But let me help you, Father! Because my intention here is not because I want to be in salary as well. But I sincerely want to really help ease the work of the father so that the father remains in the salary by the master and is not reduced. I have no problem working hard to help my father, although I am not in salary nor is anything important I can ease the father's work."

Hearing the words of the young man who remained firm on his stance and passion in work. Mr. Arifin began to believe that this young man is suitable to live in this village and will always be eager to work even though not in salary. Then Mr. Arifin began to say.

"It seems you have a passion for work."

The young man could only look at her for a moment while nodding.

"What's your name, son?" Mr. Arifin asked.

"I don't know sir!" The young man replied as usual. Mr. Arifin was beginning to be astonished.

"Why can't you know? Don't you have a name?"

"I'm having a memory loss sir." The answer.

"Ohh, so it looks!"

After finding the young man's answer. Mr. Arifin went to monitor the other herdsmen. After Mr. Arifin left, the Roses that still remained in the saung began to approach them.

"Kang, let's go to town now! Lord Rama must have been waiting for us." Take the forced rose.

"Wait a minute! There is still a lot of grass. If this father who does it himself will be until when the completion? But if we work together, this job will be done quickly." The young man remained firm.

"If this is not hunted until the afternoon, next time we go to the city. I want to help your uncle. Tomorrow we go to town or another time." The young man insisted.

The rose could only be silent and resigned to the young man's words.

*****

At the home of Mr. Arifin.

Rama was waiting for the rose and the young man did not come.

"Where is the rose and the man? He said he wanted to go to the hospital. The turn of the car is ready, he's not coming." Rama muttered a little. Then he pulled his car out of the garage.

Not long. Mr. Arifin came and saw his son pulling out a car.

"Where are you going?" Ask Mr. Arifin.

"Rama's going to town." Rama answered without looking at his father.

"Why go to town? It's at war!"

"Rama had to take someone who was helped by the citizens of that time to the city well. Rama wants to take her to the hospital and find her family." Reply Rama who is still focused on checking his car engine.

"What did you bring him into town for? Let him stay in our village." Said Mr. Arifin.

"It's very noble that your heart will help someone you don't know find his family."

Rama was immediately confused by the words of his father.

"Dad said it's best not to! It will be very troublesome for you. Moreover, the situation in the city is currently not okay. I'm afraid you're okay, son. Sacrificing yourself to help others actually makes you fall into danger. I don't want that to happen. Better let him stay in this village."

"If he stays in this village. It would put his life in danger. His condition needs doctor's care. If not immediately taken to the hospital, he will continue to experience memory loss."

"It's okay! Try to think, if you take him to the city, how can you find his family when our country is still on the verge of war? I'm sure, not necessarily his family survived the battlefield. It's a waste that you look for it with wet sweat and your life is at stake. And not necessarily meet, especially when he is losing his memory, how to look for it if himself does not know the face of his family."

Rama began to digest the words of his father which he thought had a point as well.

"It's best that he stay here for a while, until this country stops war. There is no shelter other than our village that is still unknown to the Dutch troops. Here he can be an extra worker. Even he himself told my father that he could work without a salary."

"Dad you mean, you want to hire him?"

"Yes! It's better to hire him than to bother returning him to the city. Not necessarily where he is?"

'But the young man was sick. The wound must be treated immediately."

"You don't have to worry! There's a healer here, so why bother taking him to the hospital?"

Rama tried to digest his father's words and thought 2x to help the young man go to town.

*****

In Sawah.

Rama came to see the Rose who was waiting for the young man to stop working.

Rama began to explain by repeating the words of his father earlier not to bring him to the city while the city was on the verge of war.

The rose was silent without twitching, he could only be silent listening to the advice of Rama.

"Roses, it's better that he stay in this village alone, until the war is over, we can take him to the city and find his family."

"Good sir. Whatever sir's advice, I wish him all the best."

"Really! And you'd better give him a name for a while until his memory recovers for him to have a name in this village."

"Really sir! Rose please give me a name so I have a name in this village." The young man suddenly.

"Wait a minute! Give me time to think about it first. I don't have an idea to give it a name." Saying Confused Roses.

"Then you talk to your father and mother first, so that they can help find a name for her." Advice Rama. The rose is yes.

After that Rama left while monitoring the other workers who worked in the rice fields.

Then Rose told the young man to rest because he had been working all day without stopping, the young man who was exhausted finally according to the Rose's order to rest.

...*****...

...Seriate....