SAWMILL
190. I AM MY ANCESTOR

The morning after breakfast….

Pak Pangat did not go to work.he will be with me and Mas Agus heading to a special village area….

But from yesterday I why not think about my ancestors, not that my ancestors also live not far from there. Right across the river. Should I go there first to meet my ancestors?

Who knows, my ancestors will help me in my quest to find that Inggrid.

“Eh…. We should not go to the ancestors of Tina first, from yesterday we are here we have not been to the ancestral place of Tina mas”

“Iya…. Who knows they can help, or at least provide useful information for us mbak”

“Well that's mas.. Tina hope that Tina's ancestors will give help to Tina to quickly finish business with this demon”

“Try the question first to pak Panat mbak.. because the ancestral place mbak Tina it will be around there too, close to the fortress of china it”.

Pakat agreed with the idea that I threw, it's just that for a more clear place, Mr. Panat could not understand it.

If in our nature, the location of the village inhabited by my ancestors is in the middle of the forest, while what appears today there is no forest at all.

Around the river, there are only residential and residential residents…

Then later we have to calculate where the exact location of the village of Tina's ancestral inhabitants.

“Mbak Tina.. mas Agus, let's leave now, because we will find the ancestral place of mbak Tina”

“If you can know, there may be characteristics in particular mbak, so we can ask if later our estimates are in the middle of the forest”

“That's it sir, Tina does not know what the name of Mbah Tina, the characteristics of the village is also Tina do not know.

“Ya already mbak.. we make about it, anyway our estimate is in the middle of the forest in our time, well that's where the ancestral village of mbak Tina is” said pak Panat

“Eh sir …. Is it possible that the housekeeper or the driver of the warm pack knows the place?”

“Better not to ask them mas, we better find our own way, without involving those who are here”

“Let's go now...”.

In this period owning a car is something that is very prestigious, because having a private car at this time must be really the person who is.

I actually do not want a car with Mr. Panat, I am afraid if there are residents of the Chinese fort who see me and mas Agus semobil with Pak Panat.

Because actually the location of the Chinese fortress with my ancestral village is not far away.

But are they hostile, because our thinking between my ancestors and those across the river is hostile.

Because the one across the river wants to take over the area across the river or the middle of the forest.

But do not know anymore the truth is happening here, because it could be what we get info from Ingrid and our estimates are different from the reality that happens here.

The journey from Mr. Panat's house has arrived near the fortress of china. Mr. Panat put his car down to pay attention to something that should be my ancestral residence.

“It.... there is a kind of settlement... is there the ancestral place of Tina's mother?”

“If according to the estimate of the middle of the forest.. But try to get into the settlement first sir, later we find a house or settlement that is very simple pak”

“Because if according to Tina's estimation, the settlement should be a sawing house, then we are a bit to the middle of there sir, because Tina's ancestral place is in the middle of the forest which means there is in the middle of the settlement it”

After going in and out of the alley in the settlement that was appointed by Mr. Panat, I finally found an alley that I think I have been here.

“It looks like this gang is mas?”

“It looks like yes mbak Tina.. I remember the same tree that was around here mbak”.

“Try to stop first at the front house sir.who knows it is true that the house that Tina means as the ancestral home of Tina pak”.

“Parkiran near the tree first sir. Tina and mas Agus want to go down first, to see if it is true that the house is the house of Tina”.

Agus and I went to a very simple house.. A house that if I'm not mistaken I've been to twice.

Agus and I stopped in front of the fence to make sure that the house was really my ancestral home.

For this time the way of walking the two of us did not follow the way of walking the old people who had to walk bowed.

This house looks empty, first because the yard is dirty there are dry leaves that have not been swept, second because the door of the house is not open as when I and mas Agus came here before.

“Mas.. This house is dirty yes front page, anyways the gate of this house is closed, usually not covered mas..”.

“Yes maybe your mbah is in mbak, we knock on the door of his house just mbak”

Mas Agus opened the gate of the house and then walked in to knock on the door of the seemingly empty house….

Several times, Agus knocked on the door, but no one opened the door.

It seems true, the house is empty!

“Gimana. This house has no inhabitants.. Uh did we just ask the next door neighbor?”

“Then we meet next door only mas.who knows next door neighbor knows where my ancestors are mas”.

“But for this time how to walk we must match our age mbak...kita from now on only mbak.. So that who see the way we walk is not surprised”

Mas Agus gave a sign to Mr. Panat that we were going to the next door neighbor's house, so that Pangat did not come down to us both.

Agus and I walked slowly to the next door neighbor who was not so far from my ancestral house.

When we were in front of the fence next door, it happened that the owner of a middle-aged woman came out of his house…

“LHO MBAH SASTRO!”  she screamed at the woman who had just walked out of her house in shock

I and Agus answered, suddenly the woman went inside immediately….

“Mas... why does he know us, and our name is the same as when we first came to this realm”

“Don't know, I can't digest it yet and can't guess what's really going on here.. We follow the flow first mbak”

“The first thing we have to do as a person who is the same age as us is half dazed mbak.. how to remember and how to talk slowly is a characteristic of people who are the same age as us”.

Not long after that middle-aged woman came out with someone who was old as well.It was most likely that she was the mother of the middle-aged woman.

“Bu..kui (it) right Mbah Sastro yo?” the woman said to the old man who was her mother

There is no reason at all, because the old woman who turned out to be the mother of the middle-aged woman was watching me and mas Agus carefully.

He looked at me from the end of my foot to the end of my head..

“Tro.. Koe iki nang ndi wae! (you are everywhere)” shouted the old woman in front of me

Agus and I deliberately did not answer, as if we were senile.

We both just look towards the altar that just greeted me and this mas Agus.

“Come enter first mbah..Sutinah your son is still shopping.. You guys wait here inside Mbah” said the middle-aged woman holding my arm.

I was silent, but not with Mas Agus, mas Agus saw and pointed towards the car Pak Panat parked across from my ancestral home.

“Sopo kae mbah (who is mbah)?” asked the middle-aged woman who was holding my arm

“Bu... I want to go to the car appointed Mbah Sastro first.njengan wait here first bu” said the woman to her mother.

When the woman walked towards Pak Panat's car, Mr. Panat got down from the car and hurriedly came to the middle-aged woman who was walking towards her.

Hopefully, Pak Pantang can perform like me and mas Agus, hopefully Mr. Panat can explain where to find me and mas Agus without needing to tell me that there is me and mas Agus behind this old body.

I don't know what they're talking about, because of the position of the two of them near my ancestral home.. But not long after, Mr. Panat and the middle-aged woman headed this way.

“Monggo enter first sir. and Mbah Sastro .. monggo enter first at my house while waiting for Sutinah to come”

“Thank you bu” said Mr. Warmat

*****

“Actually how the story until Pak Bawono found this Mbah kung and mbah Uti, they have been missing for years, and his son named Sutinah has let this altar disappear” said the woman who introduced herself named Sriatun.

“So this is Sriatun... actually it has been a long time ago this name I do not know with me, I found them both in a village in dirty and unkempt conditions”

“Only because I no longer have parents, then both of these mbah-mbah I take home and I take care of like my parents at home”

“To be honest I just know the name of the two of them are here.. because all this time they never mentioned his name, I think they have forgotten, the term is senile Sri” bu.

“During my home, I hired two nurses who took care of both of them. “.

“Some years finally these two mbah condition is getting healthier, can already joke with me, although they still can not mention his name”

“Well yesterday they asked to be escorted to the streets.he said they both remembered something about a place to live, until finally they asked to stop at a house that was empty it”.

Hehehe pak Panat turned out to be adept at also making up stories…

Agus and I just kept quiet when Pakat told me about how he met us..

And luckily this middle-aged mother named Sriatun understood and believed what Mas Agus said.

“So like this Mr. Bawono. Mbah Sastro has been missing for several years, when it was these two mbahs wanted to go for a walk, and said Sutinah his second son of these altars kepin way there to the fortress china”

“Sutinah has actually prohibited the two of them from going there, but Mr. Bawono tauan whose names are sometimes like karepe dewe.

“Until one morning, when Sutinah was shopping to the market, these two mbahs turned out to be gone also from home, and on that morning unfortunately no one knows where these two weeks” went

“Sutinah has come to the Chinese fortress, and asked the guard, but said the guard no two parents entered there”

“Finally Sutinah was tired of looking for her parents, and she has let go of her parents”

“Sutinah estimate, this Sastro mbah is in the Chinese fortress and can not get out of it, because said the people here, if you go there until night has not come out, but you will not get out, most likely the person is already missing there”

Until here the Sriatun ma'am is silent, because his story about Mbah Sastro is finished here…

But it is actually strange also with what is told this Sriatun, if it is true that this Mbah Sastro years lost, which means it could have been more than ten years ago lost…

It should be physical Mbah Sastro is getting older or even dead, but yes…. This is not the world where Agus and I came from…

It could be that in this world the age of people could be much longer than in our world.

“Oh so mbah uti and mbah kung is called Mbah Sastro ya bu Sri?”

“Expend sir.. These people are indeed residents here, we wait until Sutinah comes from the market first sir.. She will definitely be shocked when her parents come”

Waduuuh I was even more confused, if if I and Agus mas are parents of Sutinah, then consequently I would not be able to go to the palace.

For sure I will be restrained in the house next door until I and Agus mas trapped in this old body can not go anywhere.

Even to go back to our nature I think we will be in trouble…..

But let's see first, how the face and likeness of the name Sutinah it. whether he is my ancestor who has met me three times.

When we were in a state of silence, suddenly Sriatun stood up and walked hurriedly towards the door of the house.. Then he called out to someone named Sutinah in a loud voice.

Hehehe I wonder what will happen when I and Mas Agus meet Sutinah who should be the ancestor I have met.

If this is how I am my ancestor hihihihi.