Jogja At A Time
56. About a Grateful Heart

The kitchen looks busy. Mother Dibyo was seen crouching making embers from a pile of firewood that had been lit.

Not far from the fireplace, Asri helped the Warni clamp pieces of smoked fish with carefully prepared bamboo slats.

"Let the mother bake it, son," Mother Dibyo dipped the ready-made fish pieces in bamboo slats into the seasoning.

The one bamboo blade received from Asri's hand began to be placed on the coals.

Asri noticed the deft hand of Dibyo's mother who flipped the bamboo blade. The aroma of the baked spice began to smell. The smell of charcoal wood sonokeling smoke mixed with the smell of fish smoke makes a taste sensation that evokes hunger.

The simplicity and hospitality of the residents of Banjarejo house forget the exhausting day of Asri. Like his mother, ... there is absolutely no visible grate of distress from Dibyo's mother.

It seems that the two middle-aged women who stopped in his heart had a similar view of the life journey of a Javanese woman who always nrima ing pandum .... No need to cheer when receiving a windfall and not complain when there are obstacles.

"Help the corn rice forward As, ... I want to make a paste first" Warni pinta told Asri.

"Yes, yes,..." Asri rushed to arrange the corn rice wrapped in teak leaves to tampah.

"If it's hard, let me carry it forward" Warni smiled.

It seems like Warni hesitates that Asri is able to lift the rice packet in front.

"Ah mbak Warni do not have to worry... I used to do it at home" Asri chuckled and raised a full-fledged look. Carefully Asri stepped out of the Warni home kitchen.

Mother Dibyo and Warni who noticed Asri's flexible steps unperturbed by the look she brought seemed to justify all Dibyo's stories about Asri.

Once dissolved in the pain of seeing Dibyo who was unconscious and seriously injured, slowly feeling it became the pride of Dibyo and Warni's mother after knowing the cause of what caused Dibyo to be injured.

Hearing how Dibyo could try to protect the persecuted Asri in front of her eyes without fear, making the two women justify what Dibyo did.

For both of them, Dibyo has become a very proud adult male of his extended family, especially his father who became Kades and was highly respected and reared in Banjarejo.

About Asri who made Dibyo affected by the events of Drini, Mother Dibyo who had met him several times also did not expect there was someone who was so hearty to do something that was very inappropriate to him.

His meeting again with Asri at Banjarejo's house with further familiarity inevitably made Dibyo's motherly instinct stronger to convey what was still stuck in his heart ... The matter of Drini should immediately become clear and clear ...

Asri's freshness is undeniable mother Dibyo. His little heart admired him. How not easy it was in her mind as a fellow woman to quickly recover the trauma of the inner wounds that Asri had experienced. Moreover, he also has a Warni who will not necessarily be able to live if he experiences what happens to Asri.

"Sambal and this fish forward nduk, nduk,... Mother took a bath before meeting them," Mother Dibyo shifted the shadow of Dibyo and Asri from her mind and told the Warni she saw was done making sambal.

"Yes mom, ..." Warni continued slicing cucumbers for the rice sauce she had made.

Making sure nothing else was forgotten, Dibyo's mother left the kitchen.

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If he brought a change of clothes, Asri actually wanted to join Warni who invited him to take a bath in the lake not far from the Banjarejo house.

Feeling fresh and clean enough to wash his face and hands, Asri dried the remnants of washing water that was still attached to a towel given by Warni.

"Thank you mbak," Asri returned the towel she had just worn.

"Don't really take a shower ?" Warni repeated her invitation.

"If you know I'm gonna stop by here, I'm gonna go to the lake,... The problem is I do not bring change," replied Asri, "When Dibyo said bathing in a crowded lake is very pleasant," he said again with regret.

"Yes already.. anyway sometime you must be here again," Warni understood Asri's words. "I followed mom to the lake first yes As.... We'll talk in front again."Another imbibing.

Asri walked towards the front house after the mirror tidied her hair and berias as necessary without cosmetic polish that she did not carry after the death of Warni.

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The living room table of Banjarejo looks already put together when Asri enters. There are enough chairs and risban to sit everything in it. Sitting in a risban waiting for Dibyo and Warni's mother who seemed to have finished bathing and dressing up, Asri listened to the serious chatter without a loud word being thrown.

Arguments seeking solutions from each opinion seem to converge on Drini's case. Mr. Dibyo conveyed how he had difficulty to prevent acts of revenge from residents and their extended families. He also said about Sigit car and another car that would be burned by the mob when he found out that his son was one of the victims.

Santo and Gunawan did not refute the words of Mr. Dibyo and thanked him for his efforts to prevent residents and his family from retaliating which could even complicate the situation.

Harsh natural obstacles and economic limitations on the southern coast of Gunung Kidul could be an uncontrollable rage if the helplessness of its people due to natural shock is disturbed by acts of violence that are very beyond reason.

Fortunately the wick of the explosive was not easy to light. Belief in the ruler who is considered able to protect them makes the South coast remains cool when the Drini incident occurred.

Do not want the trust of his family and citizens entrusted to him fade along the long process of unraveling the incident, mr. Dibyo asked where the process of justice for Dibyo and others to Gunawan and Santo in the midst of the Banjarejo house discussion.

Mother Dibyo and Warni joined soon after when Santo conveyed some problems due to the events of Drini.

Asri shifted slightly giving Dibyo and Warni's mother a place to sit next to her in the risban.

The presentation of the process of expelling the case of Drini delivered by Saint to all who have joined is delivered in a simple and flexible legal language. About the continuation of what to do if later the matter is protracted presented carefully.

Regarding the news in the local media Santo only said not to rush to respond when Mr. Dibyo asked the truth of the contents.

"We should eat first, son ... Let Mr. Dibyo all lead the prayer first for all to be carried out all affairs and kept away from danger ... "Dibyo's mother interrupted the conversation."All of you here, I also ask you not to forget to thank Kanjeng Gusti Pangeranan for the restoration of Dibyo and Asri." She stared at her husband.

Replying to his wife's gaze with a shady gaze of Mr. Dibyo then invite everyone to stop the conversation and start reciting prayers solemnly for the safety and ease given by the Khalik.

That shady tone finally ended the words of prayer with relief and hope from each. "Please taste the ndeso cuisine of his mother Dibyo." Invite Mr. Dibyo shortly after with a friendly conversation as well as divert a moment to what is presented on the pandan mat of Banjarejo house.

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