LAILA TO KANG ROHIM
EPISODE 54 New Santri

That morning the atmosphere of Kali Bening Village was quite quiet because it was harvest season. The kids went to school too. Laila who was carrying Alya was busy with the glass she was cleaning. The morning after finishing the homework, Laila will clean the mosque.

As he was focusing on the glass and the rag in his hand. He was shocked by the voice of the man who suddenly greeted him.

"Good morning, Mother." Said the man.

Laila turned towards the man. He's a little surprised.

"Yes. Can anyone help?" Ask Laila slowly.

"Sorry I want to ask if I can meet the leader of this boarding school?" Ask Laila.

Laila said the owner was going to the garden. So the man waited on the terrace of the mosque. Laila left the man. He prepared the cooking with Ayu. Not forgetting he asked Ayu to deliver water and tea to the terrace of the mosque because the man seemed to be still waiting for Rohim.

From the looks of it, the man was from the city. Jeans and jackets made of jeans are also a backpack that is large enough, as if he was a guest from afar.

Tired, the man fell asleep on the porch. When he woke up at about eleven, he saw a man who was carrying firewood and a sack of grass. The man had to get off the bike because the grass in the sack had fallen off the bike. He pulled the sack and lifted it back up on the bike. And the man who was on the porch quickly helped the man dressed in peasant clothes. It is Rohim who has just returned from the field.

"Thank you." Rohim.

The man nodded his head. He did not know if the person he was waiting for was the man he had just helped. When he returned to the mosque. Time is almost entering the prayer of Dzuhur. The man saw busy children running towards the mosque. Someone is scrambling to hit the beduk. There is a mention of Microphone to announce the Adzan.

When the Adhan has reverberated, praise has been given to me by the children who go there. There were some worshippers who were moving towards the mosque. They just came back from the field. Some were still selling and quickly rushed to the mosque.

Rohim also entered the mosque. When he entered the mosque, it appeared that his santri-santri lowered his head. Then after the prayer time is over. The man dressed in jeans awaits the owner of the Kali Bening pesantren in front of the terrace santri putra.

Rohim appeared shortly.

"Who are you looking for?" Ask Rohim.

"Finding the owner of this pesantren." The man said he did not care about Rohim.

Rohim smiled and nodded his head. She was told by Laila that someone was looking for her. Rohim even teases Laila. Because he is not the owner of the boarding house. He just felt as a nanny for the boarding school.

"I'm a nanny in this boarding school cabin." Said Rohim quietly and let the man sit in the santri son's room.

Arriving in the room, the man lit his cigarette. Two santri Rohim carrying trays. Some of the other santri quickly welcomed the tray. They also ate around the tray. Rohim asked his guests to eat at his residence. But the man was more interested in eating with the students.

After eating, the man again insisted on meeting the owner of the boarding house. And that makes him upset. He waited until night. When Dzuhur time comes. He was immediately asked to meet the owner of the Pesantren Cottage. How surprised when he saw that gathered there were many people or fathers who had participated in the Maghrib prayer congregation.

But the man also gawked in confusion, because the pilgrims pointed Rohim Rohim pointed towards the congregation.

"Well I'm serious about this Mr. Rohim." Grouse the man.

"My spirit is right. You said you wanted to meet the owner of this pesantren. Then they are the owners. Lah wong woke them up. And this land was built in the Land of the Mosque." Rohim said slowly.

Instantly some Jama'ah was stunned. They salute Rohim's humility. If someone else would be very direct to say if the pesantren is his. But he said he was only a nanny and the owner was the worshippers.

"Where this. Who's right.?" Ask the man annoyed.

"Well, what is the need to find the owner of this pesantren?" Tanya Mukidi was impatient. Because the man looks impolite with friends and teachers for him.

"I want to study in this boarding school for one month." Said firmly.

"Gala... That's just sewot. Lah Yo this is his teacher, Kang Rohim " Mukidi said.

The man looked at Rohim in disbelief. The man who was considered an ordinary farmer this afternoon, was the nanny and owner of the place. But because he always felt that he was only a servant for those who seek knowledge, he did not feel he had what the worshipers built for him and his wife on the land of the mosque. So that he has santri and santriwati.

"So you're the kyai? Why is he called Kang?" Protest the man.

The worshippers were less and less fond of the tone of speech and the way the man looked at Rohim. They did not accept the man who had dedicated his life in the mosque and the village was almost 10 years debased by people who did not know its origin.

"What does this mean? Want to learn how to demean people who teach?!" Mukidi is starting to look emotional.

Rohim tried to calm his friend.

"Propay kang. I was wrong. I should have asked you the details of this need. But I am less healthy. Less focus today. Forgive me, yes I am Rohim and I am also the wife of teaching in this pesantren. If you want to study here. Yes please but the conditions are like this." Rohim explained to the young man.

Finally that night the young man settled in the boarding house Rohim as one of the mondok. You could say the oldest santri. If you look at his age of about 25 years. The man presents a new atmosphere in the boarding house Rohim. He tested the patience of Rohim and Umi Laila.

Even the man's behavior greatly made Rohim's students and worshipers feel upset. The second day there, the man had been busy making the sons santri feel uncomfortable. He ate quite a lot and used another blanket or pillow. But the children of Junior High and Elementary School did not dare to report to Rohim and Laila.

Until one afternoon Laila also had to talk to her husband about the presence of the man who had just one Sunday enough to make Laila's patience tested.

"Buck...." Laila said when all her children were asleep.