BERHALA ISLAND
EPISODE 61: SOME ARE CONFUSED

    "Mas Podin .... This is you .... See that .., that's you know, that little girl who always comes here, and who I always give rice wrap .... See that ..., it's like that. Pity ..." so Rina said to her husband, showing the little girl who was in front of Rina's shop that morning.

    Once told by his wife, Podin turned his head, even stepping from the kitchen, to observe the child shown by his wife. Of course, Podin was shocked. Podin's heart was pounding. As if to be removed. Of course, the feeling of the heart of Podin became unreasonable when he watched the little girl in front of his house. Yes, the girl was indeed the child she took from the crossroads of the road and she took it to Pulau Berhala. Not wrong. The boy was a sacrifice of Podin on the offering stone on the altar of the palace of Pulau Berhala.

    Podin realized that the child who was always fed by Rina was the little girl he had kidnapped from the crossroads, then he took her to hide in the boarding house for a few days, then invited to Pulau Berhala with a reason invited to picnic. Then Podin who sacrificed the child as an offering to the ruler of Pulau Berhala by stabbing his neck using a dagger available on the stone table range. The Idol Eye Dagger. Yes, just once stabbed, the neck of the child who was offered was immediately cut off.

    However, after Podin witnessed the child standing in front of his house, when he was shown by his wife, Rina, that the child was a child beggar who was always given rice wrap by his wife, every day when the boy was in front of his house.

    "Why, Mas ...?" asked Rina who was certainly surprised when she saw her husband as if frightened to see the little girl in front of his house.

    Even though the child was already wearing the clothes that Rina had bought while in the market, the clothes were good even if only the quality of the market, the clothes that a little girl deserved to wear. And Podin watched the boy, dressed in almost the same clothes, similar to the clothes that had been bought by Podin. The clothes worn when the boy was taken to the island of Berhala. The same clothes as the boy were laid by Podin on a range stone. Podin was really astonished. Why did the child appear, exactly like the child he had offered to the ruler of Pulau Berhala?

    And even stranger, the boy's pale face could not be hidden from the look on the boy. It was as if the boy had no blood. Pallid. If Rina says, the child is malnourished. But for Podin, the boy did not actually have blood, because his blood had been offered by him to be replaced into treasure-treasures taken by Podin. The boy's blood had already turned into his fortune. Such is the reality experienced by Podin when watching the child, who seemed to see the ghost of the boy who was sacrificed on the Island of Idol.

    "Pity of the boy, Rina .... I don't have the heart" said Podin, who pretended to be sorry to see the pale child.

    "Yes, Mas Podin .... Therefore, I often feed him, so that he has nutrition, so that he is healthy, so that he is strong. Unlike people who are in such pain, Mas." Rina told her husband.

    "Yes .., you help to feed a lot, so that the child can be nutritious and healthy" Podin told Rina, who of course wanted the child not to pale. Though in the real mind of Podin, how could the child not pale because his blood had been drained by Podin on the offering stone in the palace of Pulau Berhala.

    "Surely, Mas Podin .... Don't worry." said Rina who had prepared rice and vegetables and side dishes, to be given to the child.

    "Rina ..., I can't bear to see the boy. My head is muter-muter .... You take care of the kid. I'm not strong enough to see it. I just go in, Rin .... You're the usual one, it's helped." said Podin, who finally went into the room. And like a frightened person, Podin immediately hid his face in a way covered with a pillow.

    "Yes, Mas .... It's okay if you can't see the boy. Mas Podin just go into the room, let me always feed for the child." so said Rina who of course she willingly left her husband.

    But of course, Rina did not know what really happened to her husband related to the child who often came to his house. Rina rushed to hand over the rice package along with the side dishes to the little girl in front of her house. The hope is that the child will soon eat, and his body will be healthy again, nutritious again, strong again, as expected by Podin who did not want the child to look pale due to lack of blood. Yes, Podin did not want to see the pale child, out of pity as if there was no blood in his body. So that was conveyed by Podin to his wife.

    "This, Neng .., rice for you .... Eaten to be full, to be healthy, let you not pale anymore" said Rina while handing a plastic package of crackles to the little girl in the yard.

    As usual, the girl received the package given by Rina, just by extending her hand asking for the package. He said nothing either. He just kept quiet. As Rina said, the child is mute and deaf. You can only accept it, without being able to say anything.

    But this time, after the boy received the rice packet given by Rina, his right hand pointed towards Rina's house, right at the door of Rina's house. Yes, the little girl whose left hand was already holding the plastic bag of crackles, her right hand several times pointed towards the door of Rina's house. And the boy's eyes were fixed on the door.

    "What's up, Neng?" rina asked the child, which was certainly a confused Lina, because the child pointed to the door of her house.

    But, again the boy raised his hand, pointed his forefinger, and pointed towards the door of Lina's house. The boy was silent and did not speak. Only his hand seemed to signal that there was something in Rina's house, namely by showing his hand to the door of the house.

    "What's up ...? You want to come into my house?" Lina questioned the child, and she was already squatting in front of the child. Of course Rina also wanted to know, what exactly was meant by the child. Unfortunately, the boy could not talk at all, so it was very difficult to communicate with.

    Again, the boy did not answer. Nor does he shake or nod his head. The boy was mute and deaf. So as not to hear the words spoken by Rina. And now, he again raised his hand, pointed his index finger and pointed at the door of Lina's house.

    "Bec .... I am confused .... What do you really want? What do you mean it is? I don't know what you mean ..." said Rina to the child, of course Rina did not know what the child was trying to convey.

    The boy was silent, and his hand was already back beside his waist. Then the boy turned around, and left in front of Rina.

    Rina looked at the child who was walking away from her, leaving her in front of her house, until the child was not seen. Actually Rina wanted to know, where is the kid's house? Who are his parents really? Where do they live? At least, if Rina wanted to give alms in excess, she wanted to feel like she came to her house.

    "Eat, Pok ..." the voice of a man in Lina's ear.

    "Astafirloh ....." Rina was shocked.

    "From the call, be quiet .... Even on the side of the road .... I'm hungry, Pok .... Want to eat .... Kok even Mpok Rina is looking at the end of the road. What's the matter, Pok?" said the man who had sat on the place to eat, even crackers.

    Rina was certainly shocked, because it was not aware that there was already a buyer who would eat there.

    "Eh ..., sorry, Mang .... Sorry ..., I didn't see Mang coming in .... I saw the little boy I had given food to, the little beggar who often came here .... I did deliberately want to look on, want to know the house .... Uh, until she disappeared at the crossroads." so replied Rina to the man who had been sitting in her food stall and would order food for lunch.

    "God .... How to watch soap opera ....Who is that kid? Where's his house?" ask the man to Rina.

    "Not yet to know .... His son cannot speak .... Just be quiet ..." said Rina.

    "Oi .... Mute?" ask the man.

    "What do you want to eat, Mang?" ask Rina to the buyer.

    "Nasi rames .... Ordinary, given an omelet ..." replied the buyer.

    "What drink?" ask Rina again.

    "Es tea .... Don't be so sweet .... Old, not too much sugar. I'll get diabetes" said the man again.

    "Alah .., who said .... That is, people who get diabetes are people who are lazy to move, lazy to exercise, do not want to sweat .... Until he got diabetes .... If we drink sweet, drink sugar, but if we move a lot and sweat, the sugar will burn .... It just becomes energy for us, Mang ..." so Rina's sergeant to the buyer who is afraid of getting diabetes.

    "Yes, Pok .... But if we are old, at least it must reduce sugar .... Uh, Pok ..., that was Mpok see whose child the beggar had? How to look not to look at all .... Until I crossed in just ignored .... My calls were not answered either" said the buyer who had received the order from the seller.

    "Tadi .... The little boy, whom I used to feed .... That's the way there ..., towards the intersection .... I want to know where the house is." said Rina while putting a glass of iced tea, and finally Rina also sat down across the buyer.

    "What is Pok ...?!" ask the buyer if they are suspicious.

    "Yes .... It was her son's way, from the front of it to disappear at the intersection, because it turned." replied Rina.

    "Kok I didn't see his son ...?!" the buyer said while eating his meal.

    "Well, it's turned .... Yes invisible, lah ..." denied Rina.

    "Pok Rina this is weird .... Squatting on the side of the road, he said looking at the child, he said there was a child beggar .... Already so, called-call diem aje .... There are buyers also didiemin .... Weird .... I was even confused with Pok Rina ..." said the customer who was certainly confused by the attitude of Rina who just saw it.

    "Ah, Mango .... People say that the child of beggars is confused .... If you don't believe it, you will .... Ask my husband, who also met him earlier" said Rina who did not want to lose.

    "Yes .... I believe .... But how come to that extent, you know .." said the buyer.

    "Yes, her name alone is also curious, Mang ..." said Rina who returned to her kitchen, and left the man who was eating it. And of course, he will prepare the cutlery, because soon it will be the factory break. Surely the stall will be invaded by the employees who will eat lunch.