Dwarf
69. Washing Clothes

Saoda opened her warm eyes. Both glances of his eyes looked at the figure of Tuo who was now looking at him with a very serious gaze.

"Are you okay?" ask Tuo.

Saoda nodded. It was a voiceless answer that Tuo nodded in response.

"Are you hungry? I cooked rice. I can take food for you."

"I'm not hungry" replied Saoda, after which he turned his back to Tuo.

Tuo now sighed.

"Can you sleep on your back? The compress will fall if you sleep like that."

"I will compress it myself" replied Saoda.

Tuo nodded slowly. What else does he have to be now?

"Tuo!" call Puang Dodi who is now stepping into the room then approached Tuo who turned his head.

"Why?"

"She wants to compress herself," Tuo replied then not long after he stepped out of the room leaving Puang Dodi who was now silent. He looked at Tuo for a moment and looked back at Saoda lying behind him.

Puang Dodi sighed. It's hard to bring boys and girls together to be friends. Puang Dodi had plans to marry Saoda to Tuo if Saoda's age had reached fourteen. This is a young age, but Puang Dodi just wants to prevent it.

For him at that age a normal child will start to be interested in the opposite sex and this is the reason he wants to marry Saoda at that age. After all what the neighbors say if they both have grown up and know a man and woman live in one house.

Puang Dodi also knew that Sambe and Jam r would also agree to this. He also remembered what Puang Jambe said when he was with him. He has also mentioned the word matchmaking between his son and the daughter of Puang Jambe. No problem or objection at that time.

Puang Dodi now stepped out. Saoda turned around to look towards the exit of the room. The sound of Dodi's pouring steps was heard making Saoda with slow steps rise from his bed.

He stood in front of the window and slowly opened the window curtain cloth staring into the yard area. From here he could see the figures of Tuo and Puang Dodi who looked busy arranging the buffalo rope.

Puang Dodi stepped in while pulling the big buffalo while Tuo was seen driving him from behind. He occasionally shouted and drove the buffalo children out of the ranks of the mother.

Saoda closed the window. The two of them had left the house and left it alone here.

Saoda stepped out. He stared at the living room that looked messy, it made no difference when he first entered this simple house.

Saoda smiled slightly. Her barefooted little feet ran towards the main door of the house and tried to peek in search of the already unseen figures of Puang Dodi and Tuo.

Saoda smiled again. Puang Dodi and Tuo had really left by now. Saoda turned to look at the room area of the house that looks messy.

Saoda stepped up, grabbing some cloth on the chair and on the edge of the wall of the house that had nails to hang clothes.

He ran to and fro to pick up cloth. His toes reached out trying to reach for the clothes hanging in a difficult place to reach.

Saoda stepped towards the kitchen and found no water to wash the clothes even a little. Saoda let out a long sigh while supporting her waist.

What's he supposed to be now?

Saoda was silent with his mind busy looking for a way out. He looked down at the basin full of dirty clothes. What should she do with these clothes?

Maybe in the river. Saoda still remembered the habit of his Indonya who always washed clothes in the river. Saoda clicked his lips. This house is quite far from his house which is not too far from the river he always went to.

Saoda could not have come to that river, that place was very far away. After all, he was too small to go alone to the river. There was no way he would go to the river, the forest and the rice fields alone.

What if there's a stray dog chasing him then who's gonna help him.

Saoda grabbed the basin containing the dirty clothes and propped it up at the waist and stepped out down the stepladder.

Saoda who intended to step was now stopped when he saw a well that was not too high.

Saoda smiled happily making him immediately run to the well whose water is so clear down there.

Saoda placed the basin beside him. He rolled up his sleeves and began to draw water with great difficulty. Saoda young not to raise water from the bucket tied with a rough rope that managed to make Saoda's palm flushed.

Saoda rubbed his wet forehead after being washed away by the sweat of exhaustion. For the first time Saoda did this. Saoda clung tightly to a wooden rod that was deliberately plugged into the ground to become a clothes clothesline.

Saoda held on tight. He was afraid that he would fall into the well. Who would help him if it happened while there was no one here but him.

Sparks of water soaked Saoda's face and clothes as he threw the wet clothes to the edge of the well with such a powerful force. Again for the first time he did this.

Saoda dipped the clothes he had thrown at the edge of the well into a container filled with water. Fortunately, when he washed the clothes, the sun was not too high up there so it did not make Saoda overheated.

Saoda let out a long sigh he put his last clothes on top of the pile of clothes he had washed.

"Huh," he lamented as he rubbed his forehead.

Saoda threw down the clothes and dried them on a rough blue rope, no different on the surface of the rope he used to draw water from the well.

Saoda stepped back while holding the blue basin that had now been empty after he dried out the clothes he had washed.

Saoda smiled. His head moved towards the rope filled with clothes that stretched from tree to tree. Saoda took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

What else does he have to do now?