Pickup Transportation
Part 273: Janur Yellow 7
Ganding and Aditia have met some people who are quite difficult to meet, such as Ganding's assumption that they all turned out to have problems with his marriage. Some are divorced and some are just separated. Aditia started to realize something.
“So, you mean, the old man's destination is good?” it was very late, Aditia and Ganding stopped by at one of the coffee shops at the top of the road, before they were both going home. Alka and Jarni are still at the base, they haven't reported anything.
“Splitting a wedding is good, Dit? Is it not the duty of the devil, as a series of proofs that man has no right to be defended by God? This is one of the promises of the devil, right? if he says the devil wants to postpone his death, so that they can tempt us and bring as many people into hell, with them. Then how could the purpose of separating marriage be something that is arguably good, Dit? Isn't marriage the soul mate God chose?”
“You are right Nding, but I am still not sure, that the old man's jinn belief as something bad, considering that Beni is very greedy with money and does not care about Sasa. Maybe it's better they're apart.”
“Dit .. if Brother is sick, will you leave him?”
“You know the answer.”
“You will never leave Brother, because you love him so much and vice versa, your love is too deep for superficial trials as Beni and Sasa experienced, he said, but how many humans love deeply and end up enduring under any circumstances?”
“So what's your conclusion?” Aditia finally asked the most genius in the herd.
“Begin Dit, could be ...”
Ganding explained what was in his thoughts, Aditia listened earnestly.
While in other places Alka and Jarni accompanied Sasa to dinner, Sasa was already calmer, he felt that after entering the headquarters, his soul was much calmer.
After eating, Sasa was taken to the living room, Alka would ask what she felt exactly.
“What's the matter Miss Sasa? How did you feel after coming out of that grave?”
Sasa hugged Jarni, being reminded of the place again by Alka.
“I'm scared, very scared.”
“We want to help, just talk about it so that your soul is healed Bu.” Jarni.
“On that night I actually hesitated to enter, but because it was not nice to Beni who had been circling and looked exhausted, I finally just entered. Then something happened that Beni might have told you before. The one thing I haven't told Beni and he won't tell you either, which is about the horrible ones we saw that night, all of his faces are faces ... Beni's ruined!”
“So you saw your husband's face, Mom?” Alka asked.
“Yes, in the shroud with those broken faces, I realized after morning we were asked by the residents who found. I just realized that those faces were Beni's ruined faces. Since then I've always been scared when near Beni, so scared that I'm not comfortable with her.”
“So all this time you were scared by your own husband?” Alka asked again.
“Yes, but I don't want him to go, because I need him, I'm afraid of being alone but I'm also afraid of being with him.”
“Then did Mr Beni also see your horrible face on the faces of those demons, Bu?” Alka asked again.
“I don't know either, because we rarely communicate after that incident, I was always scared.”
“Is Mr Beni a good husband, Bu?” ask Jarni.
“Dia ... why do you ask?”
“Jarni just want to know what the real reason you are invited there, because if we meet the reason, it could be that we easily find a cure to make mothers recover from fear when they see Mr. Beni.” Alka tried to gain Sasa's trust.
“Beni is not a bad husband, she is a good man, she is very protective of me and also responsible.”
“What's so right, Mom?” Alka was surprised, because her greedy attitude yesterday made them think Beni was not a good husband.
“Yes so right, indeed what's with him?”
“Alright, after this mother Sasa just rest first yes, we have some things to do.” Jarni asked Sasa to enter the room again and rest, while Ganding and Aditia finally reached the headquarters, the four of them immediately discussed.
“So what do you guys get?” Alka asked the two people who were allowed to go alone before.
“Aditia said that the old genie had previously said that marriage is the beginning of the end, I think that maybe it has something to do with the wedding, it could be a bad destination ..”
“Or good Nding, remember don't fixate on one belief.”
“You're stuck Dit, you're faltering.”
“Nding, this is not because I respect him, or I side with him, I just think that maybe he is good, intends to help someone's marriage to be good or part because it is not good.”
“Dit!”
“Enough! Want to argue or discuss? If you want to fight I prepare the back court, but I make sure afterwards you guys I kick from this case.” Alka was upset because it was night, tired and trapped by a lot of information, but Aditia and Ganding instead of focusing even noisily together.
“Alright, if you two, what do you two get?” Aditia finally asked back.
“Sasa said Beni was a good person, a protective and responsible husband, but what we saw was different. Is this because Sasa is a good person and Beni is bad, sometimes good people are difficult to distinguish what is evil, because he is distracted by his good thoughts. So he can't distinguish good and right.” Alka gave her assumption.
“Well, here we go I mean Nding, it could be that Beni is not a good person, so he intends to separate Beni and Sasa because Beni is not a good person, he is well-intentioned, he dared to ask about our duty. It could be that he is a lesson to all of us, he means ...”.
“Dit, why don't you make that old genie khodammu just replace Abah Wangsa? Why do you praise that man so much!”
“Nding for a moment, Aditia's intuition is almost never wrong, you know she's Kharisma Jagat, could be she's right.” Alka defended because she usually does. Not because Alka loved him, but really in fact, Kharisma Jagat's intuition rarely missed.
“Applies to Ayi, but Aditia, still have a lot to learn!”
“I won't be angry Nding, I'll hold back your insults, but let's prove it, until if one of us is wrong, then the other is right, so we can have a backup plan.”
“I love the way you two settle disagreements.”
...
Ganding is certainly a team with Jarni, while Aditia will be with Alka, they both finally collect all the data needed to answer the question of the old genie.
“Assalamualaikum.” Aditia asked Budiman to pick her up in front of the alley, because he could not find the alley that became the door of the cemetery, because it was still covered by a blanket of supernatural.
“Pak Budiman, finally come, sir can you please tell us about the count that you have told us before Sir? since I need to call the old genie to have him send out an invitation, me and my friends will come here tomorrow with an invitation. I need to know what you mean by the count and also the invitation.”
“Before, some time ago you were invited, you said you did get an invitation, but why now you are confused about the invitation, you are lying?” Budiman just realized has been lied to by this young man.”
“He's right, sir. Actually our purpose here is because of the trust of my father who before dying, asked us to investigate the case in this cemetery, honestly sir, we are people who are used to dealing with supernatural things, didn't you also already know that we could all handle them when at my father's house some time ago?” Aditia.
“So long ago, when I moved to this cemetery, I have been given a lot of encouragement by people before, happened to be the person before me who guarded this grave is my uncle, my father's sister, my father's brother, he was very old and could no longer afford the responsibility of guarding this cemetery.
So he gave me that responsibility, we were paid by the local government, because this is a public cemetery, there are operational costs that become the regional budget, he said, his salary was enough to eat us and also the education of my son.
At the beginning of living in this cemetery, my wife was very frightened, almost every night we had guests, at first we thought it was really guests, they knew the inhabitants of this cemetery who gave greetings, the term introduction.
They came in a good and not scary form, introducing names and also just chatting, the next day we found the tombstone of the guest and had died many years before.
Finally, after a week of introductions, I spoke honestly to my wife, that the tomb was here, not an ordinary meal, the tomb here was full of rules because it was famous for being very haunted, he said, I begged my wife to accept our fate to stay here, because I have no other job, here the house is free and we get paid, that's all enough.
We just need to keep all the rules that my uncle gave me.
That is about the number of days in which the invitation was spread, my family and I were not allowed to go out, if we got out, then we would be victims. “
“How does it count?” Aditia asked again, he also sipped coffee that he drank and took the goreangan served there.
“The count is like this, for us Sundanese, that day has its own count, Aditia knows?”
“Ya of course, I am also a Sundanese but do not really understand about the count, can you explain Mr?”
Budiman nodded, then began to explain, “This is the count, Lentuh in order to become Sri, not allowed Dunya, Lara is the beginning to become Pati. Ever heard of that?” Budiman asked.
“No, I never heard that word Mr.”
“Sri means 1, luh means 2, dunya means 3, lara means 4 and starch means 5. Those are all the names of the main number constituents in a sundanese count. When you want to do any wish, you must pay attention to this lift, the numbers 1, 2 & 3 are good numbers, but the numbers 4 and 5 are not allowed to hold a wish.
Because it was in the day of the lara and the Pati that they held a wish, here, in this eater, that is, on the 4th and the five.”
“Every month?” Aditia asked.
“Yes, every month, even in the tens or dozens of numbers four and five, ‘they’ hold a celebration, at that time usually, our house is knocked by without the form of the night before, <TAG1>, then there is a frangipani flower which is a sign that the next day after Maghrib, we are not allowed to leave the house. We understand, then we will stay at home after the day before preparing all the needs we need to eat. Only at night we were not allowed to go out, even though we heard screams, do not expect us to come out.
Our safety is much more important than those who ‘they’ invite.”
“Interesting, sri, luluh, dunya, lara and patih, then what else sir? do you know the name of the old man, or the old genie who became their leader?”
“There is a leader?” Budiman is confused, as he has never met the sort that Aditia asks.
“Berati Bapak has never met the old genie.” Aditia draws her conclusions.
“Old jin? Don't know, we almost never see them in such a horrible form as the night when you came, so we were surprised yesterday why they were so angry but did not dare to go into the house.”
“Pak, so you can count this from uncle Mr Budiman who used to work here, in this eater?”
“Yes, he has been working in this cemetery for thirty years, he works very long and is not married, you could say devoted his life to guarding this tomb, but dear, a few months ago he died in the village, he was taken care of by our relatives.”
“Pak Budiman, do you know, during celebration, ‘they’ what the hell?” Aditia.
“No idea Dit, my people just did not leave the house, just yes, from the victims, the same average, they will actually attend the wedding of friends or relatives, he said, but somehow they even went into this cemetery and thought that this was the wedding place of friends or relatives they were headed, when the morning they I found, must be in a daze, even died, he said, but who died it, already the second time ‘invited hajatan’, the first survived, the second he died.”
“Hah, second time, yesterday I did not tell.”
“Iya sorry, I forgot, the name also happened not in a row. I just remembered when you asked.”
“So it is not always calculated that there is a victim Sir?” Aditia asked again.
“Not always, sometimes there, sometimes not.”
“Yang died that was also husband and wife?”
“No, who died only his wife.”
“Innalillahi .. then Pak?”
“Ya so aja.”
“Father no intention to move from there? Aditia asked suddenly.”
“No Dit, we are used to it, as long as they are not evil and we are not disturbed, we live side by side.”
“Yes, they need people to keep the tomb clean, so they don't bother you too much Mr.”
“Maybe.”
“One more sir, is it always the invited person in pairs huh?”
“Iya, yesterday it was just you and and your friend the victim, you guys I have told you, if the ‘invited’ is always a couple.”
“Alright sir, thank you, let's go to the front of the alley again, I can't see the alley because we are not allowed to see the entrance, I need an invitation so that tomorrow we can enter freely.”
“Indeed tomorrow the count, should be the day after tomorrow.”
“Oh yes, the day after the 4th yes, then, I will ask for ‘undangan’ the day after.” Aditia just remembered that coming on a count day would be better, all of you see the celebration and eat well.
“How to get the invitation?” Budiman asked.
“With mantra.” Aditia wakes up, followed by Budiman after previously paying for their meals and drinks, of course eating two bakwan, say two, not one.
When it was in front of the entrance hall of the cemetery, Aditia asked, where the door of the alley, Budiman was quite surprised, because Aditia and her friends, from yesterday could not see the entrance, it was not, though Budiman and the others may be able to see as usual.
“This is here.” Budiman pointed to the entrance of the alley, in Aditia's vision it was a closed cement wall.
“Alright, then a minute ya.” Aditia holds the invisible wall, saying a sundanese mantra which means greeting for arrival, not long after, there appears a rocean jasmine flower, the jasmine flowers will be carried around Aditia's neck to guide their entrance, when the day after tomorrow will come to answer the old genie's question.
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Author's Note :
Does anyone know the above? eh it's Thursday, yes, Friday night dong. creeps no?