MARANTI (FOOD OF THE DEAD)
EPISODE 12: SPREAD
Ms. Reni could not sleep all night even though her husband had come to accompany her. He seemed to feel the spirit of Laras still seliweran around his house. Mr. Hartono also participated in not being able to sleep because he was always awakened by his wife every time he would sleep. In the end, the couple had a fight.
"Are you really a coward, brother? Ibnu alone dared to sleep alone, you are even like a child like this? Come on, our game is sleeping now! Tomorrow we have to work" complained Mr. Hartono.
"I'm scared, Mom. You have a holiday tomorrow! I don't want the ghost of Laras to come again" protested Ms. Reni.
"If the holidays continue, you can be fired, Dik! Now finding work is hard. What are we gonna eat if we get fired?" answer Mr. Hartono.
"Holiday two days until you get fired, Mas? Just tell me I'm sick enough, can't I?" deny Miss Reni won't lose.
"Can't, brother. The permit is a maximum of one day. Can we issue our own pain certificate? Obviously you are just hallucinating" replied Mr. Hartono.
"This guy doesn't believe me the same? Okay, I swear you'll meet the ghost of Laras himself just know the taste!" reply Bu Reni.
"The dead will not live again, brother!" replied Mr. Hartono kekeuh.
"I don't want to know, you can't go to sleep before I go to bed!" ms. Reni replied.
They both could not sleep until dawn. After dawn, drowsiness strikes and they fall asleep.
*
At nine o'clock in the morning, Mr. Salihun and Mr. Ratno were working in Mr. Herman's paddy field. Suddenly came one of their neighbors, Mr. Yadi who had just finished spreading fertilizer to his plants.
"Pak Salihun .. have you heard yet?" greet Pak Yadi.
"What's the horror, Yad?" ask Mr. Salihun.
"Try asking Mr Ratno, has he heard yet?" said Mr. Yadi while sitting on the galengan.
"If the Ratno is most unheard of like him, Yad. Kamuntabu himself, right, Ratno's ears are a little budge?" answer Mr. Salihun.
"He he ... Yeah, too. But, that's not the case, Hun. Have you heard of Laras' ghost?" said Mr. Yadi.
"Aren't I wrong, what did you say?" Mr. Salihun asked to be repeated again.
"No, Hun. People have been busy talking about Laras being a ghost" repeated Mr. Yadi.
"Yes Allah ... Really it?" pekik Pak Salihun did not believe.
"Yes right, Hun. I heard from my own wife when shopping at the store Bu Yana," replied Mr. Yadi seriously.
"race ... Rat ...," called Mr. Salihun to his friend in a loud voice.
"Well!" Mr. Ratno only said slowly.
"Duh, this gini if you have a friend is a little budge. Must use extra energy to invite him to chat," complained Mr. Salihun while walking towards the position of Mr. Ratno who was weeding rice plants.
"race ... Rat ...," call Mr. Salihun again while patting Mr. Ratno on the shoulder.
"What are you, Hun? Just surprise people. If there is a need for you to just call, do not use the backs of all," protested Mr. Ratno.
"Huh! I called you earlier, but you only answered 'huh!" replied Mr. Salihun upset.
Mr. Yadi laughed when he saw the two neighbors arguing with each other.
"Whataa?" Mr. Ratno was surprised. So surprised he threw a tool to weed the plants he was using.
Mr. Ratno walked directly to Pak Yadi and was followed by Mr. Salihun.
"Who, Yad, told you that Mbak Laras is a ghost? You don't make-up stories, do you? Ntar I reported to Mr. Herman, you can be beaten if you make such an issue" asked Mr. Ratno in an emotional tone.
"Please calm down, Rat. I'm not the one making such an issue. This guy from the Pomegranate talks about it. Earlier, my wife also heard from people when shopping at the Bu Yana store," replied Mr. Yadi with a somewhat frightened tone but still hardened for fear Mr. Ratno misheard.
"Who has met the ghost?" ask Mr. Ratno.
"Bu Nisa," replied Mr. Yadi.
"Ah, women lemes as soon as you believe. He has not liked Mbak Laras for a long time. It could be that he made up a non-existent story about Mbak Laras to drop the name Mbak Laras!" ratno protest.
"Please calm down, Rat. You listen to Yadi's explanation. Don't be angry with Yadi. Yadi knows nothing. He is just a person who wants to tell us about the issues that develop in this hamlet" said Mr. Salihun.
"OKAY. Who else claimed to be bullied by Mbak Laras' ghost other than Nisa?" ask Mr. Ratno again.
"Bu Reni ...," replied Mr. Yadi.
"Mother Reni is Mr Hartono's wife? Do you know he is brave? To the river at night he was used to being alone" Mr Ratno said.
"Well, just believe that Laras really became a ghost?" said Mr. Yadi.
"Not really. Reni is to know that I also do not like Mbak Laras. He was the hardest to spread the issue that Mbak Laras became a prostitute in localization? Ah, who knew that Reni was conspiring with Nisa to humiliate Mbak Laras?" answer Mr. Ratno.
"What's in it for them, Rat? The barrel's dead, right?" the Pak Yadi protest.
"His name is also female, Yad. If you hate, until the apocalypse still hate. Anyway I don't believe Mbak Laras to be a ghost. Mama Laras is a good man. There is no way people as good as Mbak Laras can be ghosts," replied Mr. Ratno.
"You can believe you can't, Rat. But, you saw it for yourself, right? No one here wants to take care of Laras' body. Who takes care of all outsiders. Who knew when Laras was buried, his pocong rope wasn't opened?" said Mr. Yadi.
Mr. Salihun and Mr. Ratno were astonished by Pak Yadi's analysis.
"What if the cords don't open can be ghosts?" ask Mr. Salihun.
"Come, Hun. But in the movies, is it so usual? After all from the time of our grandparents, has there ever been a corpse whose pocong rope was not opened?" Mr. Yadi asked Mr. Salihun and Mr. Ratno while looking into their eyes.
Mr. Salihun and Mr. Ratno just gawked.
"Nothing, is it?" ask Mr. Yadi again to make sure.
"Try you ask Miss Dewi, did she see when the Laras pocong rope was opened?" mr. Yadi said as he passed away leaving his two neighbors.
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