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One morning in a very distant place from the pesantren. The rain fell violently pouring down a small village containing only ten houses. In the village lived a large family that occupied the ten houses. All of them have pure Blood ties, only one of their father and mother who has blood from outside the village.

Every teenager is ready to marry. Village leaders and elders always take them out of the village for the first time. They are looking for a partner from outside to continue their lineage, anyone can marry the village child without exception. Elders or village leaders only ask for a small condition, which is that the prospective husband and their wife to live and settle in the small village, after being legally a husband and wife.

The rain that fell was so heavy, the thatched roof of their house could not at all accommodate the rush of rain that greeted. The water has been pooled knee-deep on the ground, fortunately all the houses in the village are stilt houses. Their house is only threatened wet from droplets on the roof, but avoid the flooding that strikes.

"Bok, why do we keep living here?" Ask a 15-year-old teenager, soon he will be taken to a nearby village to find a partner. He was very surprised when he heard there were other villages besides his own. All parents in the village choose to silence all small children, so that the curiosity of small children does not make them go to villages that are not so far from their village.

"We have a job, Le. You are patient, yes, later if the person you are waiting for has arrived, we will definitely move to a place more crowded from our village," Si Mbok told the young man in front of him, while putting one wakul ceting containing sweet potatoes on a wooden table in his house.

"Actually who are we waiting for, Mbok?" Ask the young man back while reaching for the yam served by Si Mbok.

"Si Mbok doesn't know either, Le. Si Mbok only heard first from Si Mbah, and Si Mbah also said that he heard from Si Mbahnya again. Our family will have to wait for one person, he will come with clothes like the one used in this painting" Si Mbok continued, pointing to a large painting.

"What does he want?" Asked the young man back with a puzzled face and cluttered forehead.

"Only the village elders know, Le. The message is always sent down to the successor who will lead this village. Later if Jaka becomes the leader of this village, tell Si Mbok, yes. The Mbok also wants to know exactly what tasks our family has," continued Si Mbok, he stroked his son's head gently. While staring at her heart, considering her son wants to leave his remote village.

The Mbok immediately smiled so widely while holding Jaka tightly. Si Mbok knows exactly what Jaka feels, she is a woman who comes from another village. Jaka's father used to propose her, so inevitably she had to obey whatever her husband's wishes. It's been the year he raised Jaka alone, Jaka's father has died of fever. Given this village does not have a healer, even if it just colds, it is already a terrible disease for all residents here. But even so the residents here rarely get sick at all, they even have such a powerful physique. They are all farmers, daily activities are just farming to meet all food needs. They eat their own crops, and in case of a bad harvest, they all raise fish, considering that they have such abundant water sources.

After the rain subsided, everyone in the village rushed to fix the roof of their damaged house. They took royong pieces to tidy up and add haystacks so that they could close every hole in all the houses. And shortly after, the village elder named Ramli came to Jaka. He asked Jaka to get ready soon, saying that this morning he would leave the village to find a partner.

The Mbok is really a little heavy to take off his son. Looking for a wife is not as fast as finding a husband. Sometimes a man leaves the village for many years, before they finally bring the girl who has become his wife. Unlike women, most of them do not even take a month. Women who are taken away usually immediately get young men who want to marry him, considering all women in this village on average have a beautiful face like his ancestors.

Even so, Si Mbok could not say anything more. He only asked Abah Ramli to continue to help him, he also advised to stop by his old house, just to tell him if he was okay. Abah Ramli agrees to Si Mbok Jaka's request, he also wants to introduce Jaka with his Grandpa and Grandma if there is still one.

After waiting long enough for Jaka to prepare, the young man finally came out with a bag of clothes that he wrapped wearing a pull on his shoulder. He was ready to leave the village dressed only. Seeing that, Si Mbok immediately grabbed Jaka with a sweat that spilled from his eye bag. He prayed for the safety of his son, and gave him an object he had kept for a very long time. Si Mbok thrust a necklace that was once given by his father, to Jaka. He smiled at the golden sheen in his hand and said "If the Mbah you are still alive, show me this necklace, and say hello to Si Mbok. Tell him that Si Mbok is fine, and also say that Si Mbok is very upset."

Hearing that, Jaka immediately wore the necklace that Si Mbok gave. Then kissed the back of Si Mbok's hand, saying "Si Mbok don't worry, Jaka must have said everything. Thanks if Jaka can see the person who wears clothes like in the painting, later Si Mbok can say the same miss Si Mbah there directly."

Si Mbok's tears broke, he held his son so tightly for quite a while, before Jaka hurried away from his home with Abah Ramli. Today, is the day that Jaka will leave from a cage that had locked him from birth. Without him knowing, if the destiny that he and all his family shouldered all this time is almost over. The clothes worn by the parents in the painting are none other than the clothes that Darto received while undergoing an exam. The lineage of the villagers has lived a fate of hundreds of years confined, only to await the arrival of the successor of the Darma kanjeng.

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