Dwarf
57. Slander

"Sambe?"

"Yes, Daeng. Sa-sambe who was holding our baby and now sees our baby is gone. Our baby is dead."

"If Sambe hadn't been holding our baby, maybe our baby would still be alive, daeng."

"He! He made our baby die. He's retarded!!!" ria shouted and then released her already unbearable cry again.

On one side, Sae is silent. Believing and not believing what his wife said. Sae is very familiar with Sanbe and Jambe is one of his best friends. How could his best friend's wife have a creature called parakang, but how could this happen.

"Brake!!! Why just shut up?"

Sae glanced at his wife who was staring at him. Ria's forehead wrinkled up at her husband who was just silent and silent.

Ria got up from the mattress while holding her baby who had paled her face and stiffened her body. He got up leaving Bakri who had been crying.

"Why is he silent?"

"Did daeng not believe? Does Daeng think I'm lying?"

Sae turned to look at his wife.

"It's not meant not to believe it's just that this isn't possible."

"Can't be?"

"Yes, I feel that-"

"If what daeng? Huh huh? If what? It's obvious that Sambe has been holding our baby and now our baby is gone, daeng!!!"

"It's not just me who saw it, but there were a lot of guests who saw it that Sambe had been holding our baby. If daeng does not believe, daeng can ask the guests who come. They also saw it just now, not just me" he said.

"Daeng now also went and taught him a lesson. He's a retard!!!"

"Today our baby will be the victim and maybe tomorrow the babies of this one village can be the next prey."

"He is a beast and we must destroy him."

Sae's jaw hardened and her body now became trembling with anger. Both of his eyes became sharp. With a quick step she left Ria who now turned to look at her husband's departure.

Sae steps so quickly down the steps and she immediately runs down her house. He opened the lower door of his house where the room was where he kept his working equipment.

Sae lighting the torch made the atmosphere of the room bright. He quickly grabbed a kerosene jug and a rope he had never used, and in quick steps he stepped out of the house and ran back through the darkness.

"Pour!!!" sae shouted when he was still far from the patrol station making some men who were relaxing immediately turned their heads.

"Why is Puang Sae shouting like that?" ask one of the men who is staring at Sae.

"Pall, help me!!!" sae shouted upon arrival at the patrol post.

"What's the pot?"

"Yes, why are you running around like that? Are you being chased by a dog?"

"Pour, my baby is dead!!!" replied Sae who was still fretting about it.

"Huh? Dead?"

"Dead?"

Sae nodded in response to questions from the villagers who were now looking at each other with shocked faces.

"Why did your baby die? Wasn't your baby all right and wasn't it the thanksgiving ceremony for your baby's birth just finished?"

"Yes, my baby is dead and this is because it's Sambe, the wife of Jambe."

"Huh? A retrenchment?"

"Parakang?"

"Yes, where is possible. Not that Jambe's wife is a good woman."

"How can there be a back?"

Sae grunted in annoyance. The villagers did not even believe him.

"Fathers all please believe me! Sambe it Parakang. He ate my baby's delicate spirit and now my baby is gone."

Sae's speech was heard to make Lao, the man who is the father of Mr. Erni is now speechless with a worried face.

"Sorry, pour Sae instead I don't believe what you're saying, but Sambe is a good woman. Isn't that right, gentlemen?"

"Yes right."

"Rubber," the villagers replied alternately.

"Whatever good someone, retard, well still back. Want him good like anything if he's been exposed to witchcraft then he'll still be Parakang."

"Where there may be a retard who wants to show the bad side to others. It's obvious that he's going to be so good-ass that no one is suspicious of him" Sae explained.

"Sorry, Puang. But we can't accuse someone if we don't have evidence. If we don't have proof then it's slander."

"But this is not slander, puang. This is reality and the truth is Jambe's wife is Parakang."

"I'm not accusing either. The proof before my baby died Sambe who had held him not long after my baby died. Is that not solid evidence that can prove that Sambe is Parakang?"

"Now this is all. Let's both meet Sambe and teach him a lesson. This we can't let."

On one side Lao looked back at the jeriken and rope that Sae was holding.

"What does Puang Sae want to do?"

"I want to spend it."

"You mean, you want to burn it?"

"Yes." Yeah."

Sae's two eyes were rounded with her unexpected gaze. How can there be anyone who does not have a heart like this.

"Sorry, puang. Not that I want to get in the way, but it's not that it's a great sin to kill someone by burning them. God will hate it."

"There's no boss if you kill Parakang. All of you listen to me, me!!!" sae shouted while staring in all directions where the citizens were now looking at each other.

"Let's kill Parakang together. Try you all think! Maybe today my baby has been the victim, but later we won't know it could be the back that will make our children the target and even us."

"Do the fathers all willing if there is a Parakang in this village. Our village won't be peaceful and peaceful if it's like this."

Hearing that made the villagers now nod to each other as if they had eaten and agreed with what Sae said.

"Now what are you waiting for, let's go to Sambe's house and burn him!!!" he shouted while raising his torch upwards.

"Yes, burn him!!!"

"Burn!!!"

"We must not let that Parakang live freely in this village!!!"

"Destroy him!!!"

"Burn!!!"

The screams of the villagers sounded so loud as they stepped away leaving Puang Lao who was now silent with his anxious face.

"It's true that they made the wrong decision."

Puang Lao let out a long sigh. He is now reminded of one thing that is Puang Ambo who is the father of the village head, yes maybe he can help overcome this problem.