The House 1937's
31. Bi Inah (Introduction) 2

After the introductory session he had just done in front of Papaku and Aunt Alin, Grandma immediately called Bi Inah to prepare dinner for the three of them. While preparing dinner, Grandma watches over her new housekeeper to assess her cooking later. Bi Inah listened to every grandmother's order what kind of food menu he had to make tonight. Looking at Grandma and Bi Inah who were busy in the kitchen, Aunty helps by preparing the dishes and other cutlery at the dinner table while Papa returns to his room and will return when dinner is over.

After the dinner was finished, Grandma was quite satisfied with the results of Bi Inah's cooking, as well as Papa and Aunt Alin. Bi Inah is quite happy because on his first day he worked well and was able to make his new employer happy with the results of his work. After everyone finished his dinner, including Bi Inah himself, he immediately cleaned all the tableware and rearranged the dishware that had been washed into the dish rack. Everyone has left the kitchen and seems to have returned to their respective activities. Bi Inah also stepped slowly towards his room to return to tidy up his room that he had not finished doing.

Now Bi Inah is tidying up the next bed replacing the mosquito net that surrounds the bed. It took him quite a long time to change the mosquito net alone, because only this first time he replaced the bed nets with a fairly antique design. He changed the mosquito nets very carefully because he did not want to make a mistake by accidentally damaging the mosquito net because he was careless and of course it will greatly disturb him on his first day of work. After the mosquito net was installed neatly, he sat on the edge of the bed while remembering the shape of the kitchen of this house, which he said still looks traditional as the design of this house.

In fact, long before Najim told me about the owner of this house who needed a domestic assistant, he already knows the existence of this house and as great as ever heard from people in the neighborhood where he lived about the owner of this house. That the owner of this house is a landlord of Chinese descent who is familiarly called "Babah" by the surrounding residents who have several hectares of rice fields and also the owner of the Pig farm land which is located not far from the rice fields of his. This Landlord also has a rice warehouse that is wide enough to accommodate the rice crops that are also near the rice fields and behind this house.

He also recalled that when he expressed his intention to take the job in Grandma's house as a domestic assistant to one of his neighbors, the neighbor immediately warned him in a very serious tone.

"Indeed why Mom if I took a job in that house?, Najim said that he had a good house.", Bi Inah looked at the neighbor's face with some surprise, a middle-aged woman with visible hair was already almost completely bleached.

"My advice is not Bi Inah, because I have heard the house is haunted, scary.", The middle-aged woman again showed a serious face.

"Well Mom?, how scary is that?", Bi Inah asked in a hesitant tone, even though she actually had no intention of resigning to take a job at Grandma's house.

"Emang Bi Inah doesn't know?, ever killed himself in the empty land behind the house, he said, and he said people who like to pass in front of the house sometimes like to look strange..., what I heard also said was that the house was creepy and haunted because the owner was Bi's mistress.", The middle-aged woman was intonating quite convincingly when conveying her story to Bi Inah.

While Bi Inah just shook his head slowly with a slightly disturbed facial expression hearing the story of one of his neighbors who was already known by the residents around his residence as a chatty middle-aged woman who liked once gossiping. Because anyway he was much more trusting of Najim who had already worked with this family, especially Mr. Tani who had worked for decades.

Najim once told him that this family is a good and generous family because every one year usually likes to distribute free rice from their own rice fields to people who are less able. In addition, they are also religious in performing worship in accordance with their beliefs. After he got accepted to work here and he saw it for himself, this family is a good family, unlike what the news of birds out there says. Najim was visibly irritated when Bi Inah delivered the no-no news of the house to him,

"Ah that's a lot of them are jealous of the family of the Engkoh.., do not need aunt horrin.", Najim until languishing annoyed when he heard a no-no talk about my grandmother's family.

It may be true also what Najim said, the family where he works now may be said to have a very good financial condition, because in addition to having farmland and pig farms, he said, the four children of this family all have their own income, not relying on family business alone. Regarding this house which is said to be creepy and haunted, he could not guess whether someday he would experience a strange event that was never suspected, he said, or maybe it was just his feelings. Hope it's like that.

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Bi Inah tried to open her two eyes that still felt heavy, in the midst of her consciousness that was still not fully collected, somehow she felt something strange with this bed. Bi Ina rubbed her eyes slowly and after her difficult consciousness almost filled her, sure enough, her bed was like someone was moving and also let out a strange sound, like a small squeaking sound. He jerked with his eyes open, his bed was indeed swaying like someone was moving it deliberately. He certainly remembered that he only slept alone in this restroom. His body immediately felt stiff and a little cold, there could be no occupant of this house who until well it did all this to him, right?. Bi Inah frowned and raised her head to look around her bed covered with mosquito nets, then she was surprised to see this corner of her bed. He looked like someone was standing there, but he could not see clearly because the strange figure was only a black shadow. Auntie got up straight from her bed, pulled the bed net quickly and and approached the corner of the bed that turned out!!. When he was in bed, someone was standing in the corner....

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