Leap Dream (Love From Another World)
MYSTERY SOLVED
After the mess Bear made, Rome asked me to tour the village market. Bear waited at home, well because Rome's house was a little far from the village center and there was no other house besides his house around so Bear was safer there.
“Kakak try here.”
The bustling atmosphere was not much different from the city market I had been to with Rey. ‘Rey.. what is he doing now.’.
Various kinds of food I try and taste sweet all, for sweet taste lovers are highly recommended to come here. I walked side by side with Rome, bought some groceries and took her home.
‘Guard.’.
Seen guards with royal insignia were patrolling. ‘sial, are they still chasing me?’
I sped up and hid behind the tree.
“Kak why?”
“Not only a little tired.”
“Wait here for a moment..” Rome's orders then run in the direction of the market again.
“This drink kak.” he said give me mineral water.
‘air sugar again’
“Sweet.. Do you like sweet foods and drinks?” much
“Hmm, don't really like.”
“then why every food and drink you love always tastes sweet?”
“It... because the water in my village is sweet”.
“Ha?”
“Iya, the water sister in my village feels sweet. Therefore my father and mother sometimes go up to the mountain to get mineral water that there is no taste”.
“So you mean river water tastes sweet?” Rome nodded in response to my question.
During the return trip Rome tells of the origin of the water in her village to be sweet. He said that the water in his village changed a year and a half ago, and no one knows why. Even the villagers there were some who got sick and died, which I knew was definitely diabetes.
“Have you guys reported to the palace?”
“After brother, the royal party has come and seen it but there is no action they can do. They only help us in the availability of foodstuffs, it is rare, even, because since the water here is sweet the plant so not too good”
“How about the well? Does the water also taste sweet?”
“Hmm well, but not all wells are sweet water, there are wells whose water there is no taste but to get it we have to buy.. and other wells have long been dry so only one well that still produces air”
“Ha? Why should I buy?”
“That's because he's a businessman and very haughty. Poor people like us cannot buy and can only survive with sweet water or take it directly to the mountain. Because it is also an expensive food here because the water needed for plants must be purchased”
I put our groceries and intend to make observations. ‘yah I do not believe if the water here is sweet from its origin’
“Growll” Bear came up to me with his pinched face. ‘ah my funny horse’
“Bear wait here take care of uncle and aunt, I want to see the water that tastes sweet.” Bear bowed to my words.
We went down the river, and sure enough the river water was sweet. It is not worth seeing a fish. I was curious and traced along the river. ‘there is no way river water can be as sweet as this’
“Where did this river flow come from?” I heard it sounded by Rome
“Gunung” answer directly
“Mount?” bean ku. “then how can the water in the mountain not be as sweet as the water in the river.”
“Rome let's go to the mountain!”
“Serious brother? Chances are we'll be home tonight, dad and mom will definitely worry”
“hmm let's go back first, we'll ride a thick hairy horse!” take me. The bear can be a horse given the escape it managed to make because of its help.
I went with Rome's parents, explained what I found, though they were worried in their faces, but they still couldn't stop me. Plus I brought Bear, a bear who had already made a fuss in their yard.
“My brother is coming!”
“Rom, you don't see father and mother worrying about you.” reject me. Don't let my job be hampered by having to look after a boy.
“My mother's father wants to accompany my sister. I man will not let a woman alone go to the mountain.”
‘look he's really like an adult man’
Seen to the worry of the couple's husband and wife. “Rome, are you sure you can take care of it?”
“Sure dad, look I've brought a gun, and this bear will also help me” he said showing a slingshot hanging around his neck and he doesn't look scared anymore with Bear.
“Sure aunt, we will return safely!”
We boarded Bear, Poko also participated in the mission of solving the mystery of sweet water.
“Bear can you afford?”
“Growll” as if saying of course. Like I'm starting to understand it.
*****
“Kakak here.” we follow the direction of Rome when we get to the mountain
“Dad and Mom usually take water from here.”
‘hmm, true water here clear and fresh no sweet taste like sugar’ I drink mountain water, because I have been eating and drinking sweet.
“So what are we going to do now sister?”
“hmm let's try to trace it, from which the water began to taste sweet” my suggestion. We traced the flow of water that led to the river.
“Poko drink..” there is no way I taste every stream of this water, can-can be bloated. We took turns drinking it.
“Growll!!”
“There Bear?” Bear seemed to find something he was pointing towards in the river.
“Sweet..” I said after tasting the water flow pointed to Bear
“How is sister?”
“It looks like starting from here the water becomes sweet.”
“Meow..? (is there something in it?)”
“It seems not, the water here looks very clear and there is nothing in it other than..” My speech stopped when I saw the plant close to the river flow.
I plucked out the plants I'd seen in the book that aunt gave me. There are many of these plants along the river.
“Rome, you know what plant this is?” he shakes not knowing.
“The plant was there almost two years ago, when the bloom looks beautiful because it along the river becomes very beautiful…” Rome thought for a moment “If not wrong that time a kind traveler gave it to us, so that the village looks beautiful in view”
I washed the plants I had removed and tasted their roots in unsweetened water. As I thought, the roots were sweet.
I smiled knowing my brain could be used ‘ah mystery solved. But how to unplug all this, while this plant to beautify the village’
“Let's go home, it looks like I've understood what happened”
We came home after I deduced the real problems experienced by the river's water flow.
“Dad.. Mother.. we go home.” Rome hugged both her parents
“How are you guys doing?”
“We're okay aunt, and it looks like we've found a problem as to why sweet” river water
“Really?”
“Uncle see this” said I took out that strange plant. “Try.” I showed you the root of that plant.
“Sweet.. how can it be?”
“I also do not know why it can be so, which is clear river water so sweet because the roots of this plant that gives off a sweet taste it”
Aunty tasting the roots of the plant, “This is what plant?”
“I also know less aunty” not more precisely forget. “It looks like this plant is used to beautify the river in the village..”.
“Then it must be unplugged all..”
I nodded “Because it's uncle, can uncle explain to the villagers?”
“certain! I'll go to the village chief's house now”
“I heard the plant was from a wanderer? Looks like a rogue businessperson played his part.” I said with great emphasis. No problem is not suspecting business people who take advantage of the misery of the people.
“Thank you I'll pass it on.”
“Oh yes uncle because the plant looks beautiful when in bloom, the plant can be planted in the middle of the village for the beauty of the village, not near the stream”
“Alright, your advice is very good, you guys wait at home I will be back after finished talking to the village chief”