Has Been Hanged
02. Has Been Hanged

Mr. Andi sipped a cup containing sweet tea that was a hot steam now has warmed very quickly. Eve plantation is really cold piercing tonight.

"Sir Andi, what is the cause of my marriage hanging by Mr. Shahdan,?" ask Ratria astonished. Watching the charismatic man gulp warm tea delicately. Who then nodded at him.

"Mbak Lusi, please tell Ratria the chronology at that time," said Mr. Andi turned his head and looked at Mr. Lusi.

Ratria looked at Susi who was also looking at her face. The wide-hooded woman seemed to be preparing to start talking. The breath that had been so clearly drawn long, had now been strongly exhaled from the two nostrils.

And then Lusi started telling stories.

Although Pak Andi had memorized outside the head, but the glasses face still listened to the story mbak Lusi seriously. Not inferior to Ratria. The girl was very focused on staring and hearing the voice of Susi who was telling the story of the incident eighteen years ago. A sad incident that made Ratria was allowed by her mother and grandmother to be married to hang with Pak Shahdan.

"So, my father got sick and then died, after taking care of their family, ma'am, what,?" ratria asked with a sad face.

"Yes, Rat. Your father was a very good young mantri, no matter when it was in lockdown. Your father came to hear that there was a family of immigrants who were isolated and sick in the factory villa." Lusi explained back.

Ratria's eyes glazed with water, trying to remember the sad events when he was a child. As Lusi just said. When an outbreak of a virus that is considered malignant attacks all over the country. No exception to all corners in Blitar.

The government took temporary emergency measures. That is the simultaneous lockdown action in all regions of the country. So it was considered a scary threat of the ferocity of the virus outbreak at that time.

Until all governments comply with the restriction rules from the center to remote corners though. No exception in the community who live in the area of Sirah Kencong forest.

And the day came, the days of silence at the time of the lockdown. The day when the big boss and the owner of the tea factory on the plantation came down to the village and sought help. There are three members of his family who are suddenly ill and may be critical.

The family's personal doctor who was on the phone, was abroad and was forced to be unable to help. And all factory and villa employees, as well as family drivers from outside the city are also being shut down.

Big boss came to the village chief's house. And by the head of the village invited to visit the house of Ratria's father who is a young incumbent and a permanent nurse in RSUD Wlingi city.

Long story short, Ratria's father managed to cure a married couple who was the son and son-in-law of the big boss of the plantation and tea factory. But unfortunately, the wife of a big boss who initially had often been sick. Can't be saved by Ratria's father anymore.

One week after the incident, Ratria's father was unexpectedly ill and unsuccessfully treated. His life was no longer helped even though he had been rushed by ambulance to the regional public hospital in the city of Wlingi.

And more sadly, there has not been a month, Ratria's grandfather was also very sick and died suddenly before being rushed to the hospital.

Be that as it may, Ratria lived with her mother and grandmother in the official house. Home relics of the grandfather who was a police officer Sirah Kencong. A house that can only be owned but not owned.

A few weeks later, the big boss of the estate suddenly came looking for Ratria's father. Apparently want to say thank you. Feeling very surprised, not Ratria's father who was met but the news of grief he met.

The grandmother was no less heartwarming. Crying as much as possible considering the two beloved men who had left him first. The figure of the husband and also the figure of the only boy.

And it started from a sad scene that a hanging marriage agreement between a little girl, Ratria, with a little man, Shahdan it happened. The consent of two families to marry off their little ones for the unbridled gratitude of the big boss, in an everlasting and everlasting bond.

"So Mr. Andi said it was true, mbak? I've been hanged by the granddaughter of the plantation owner and the factory,?" ratria asked Lusi. Despite understanding the reason and starting to believe, the girl wanted to confirm the truth once again.

"That's right, Rat. You may have forgotten that when you were seven years old, your mother remarried to your father. I came to babysit you for two years. Because you were only cared for by your grandmother who was a bit troubled at the time," explained Luci.

"So before this, did you ever come and live with us?" ask Ratria.

"Yes, Rat. Take care of you for two years.From the age of seven to nine years." explained Lusi. And Ratria fell silent, not asking anything more.

"Sir Andi," called Ratria to the man who was said to be the assistant of Mr. Shahdan.

"Who really asked you to come here these nights? Didn't I hear, the estate's big boss died almost three weeks ago?" ask Ratria.

"Sir Shahdan asked me to explain this, Ratria. Because in the near future, whether tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Mr. Shahdan will come and take you to the villa in the factory," explained Mr. Andi.

"Is this marriage useful to Shahdan sir? What if I mind? Because I feel very young, do not want to get married, just graduated from school and still want to feel how to look for rupiah. I was really shocked and in shock, Mr. Andi," Ratria explained implying his objection. And Andi sir nodded.

"Sorry, Ratria. I get your point. But here, my role is just to convey to you. About your objections and opinions, you can talk about it with Mr. Shahdan directly. Try nothing wrong, Ratria," replied Pak Andi in support. Understanding the feelings of the young girl who just finished college last month.

"Well, since it was late at night, I think my arrival was quite like this a while ago. I'll come back with Shahdan sir. He was returning briefly to the city of Malang," said Mr. Andi while closing his black bag. Stand by to get out of the house immediately.

"If something is suddenly confusing, you can ask anything to Susi. Perhaps he can answer all your curiosity temporarily," continued Pak Andi explained by standing up.

Ratria just looked fixedly with sculpting and silence. Still so confused and worried. Until Mr. Andi completely disappeared from view, and the door has been closed again by Mr. Lusi tight.

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