The House 1937's
42. "Seeing"

"How does Bi?, feel at work there?", a woman who was choosing vegetables in front of Bi Inah asked with intonation that sounded very annoying.

"Alhamdulilah, I am at home Mom, my new employer is good person.", Bi Inah adjusts her breath so that her intonation when answering sounds reasonable, no

Bi Inah simply answered her and tried to focus her gaze towards the vegetables that were in front of her at this time. Currently, Bi Inah is in a vegetable cart that always passes in front of grandma's house in the morning. The wagon is now located not far from the red water guava tree which is close to the roadside. Earlier this morning the grandmother did tell Bi Inah to wait for this vegetable handyman to buy kitchen spices such as chili, onion, garlic, etc, salt and pepper and some fresh vegetables and chicken for lunch and dinner. Grandma today has not taken the time to go back to shop at the market because of her rheumatism which is now being rumored. Grandma finally told Aunt Alin to take the time to shop at the market after she finished work. While what he bought at this vegetable maker is a supply of food for today only. Though Bi Inah had told grandma that she only went to the market to shop, but the grandmother refused him on the grounds they wanted to leave the house because of boredom.

"Bi Inah", One of the mothers who was shopping there also called Bu Inah.

"Why Ma'am?", without even asking Bi Inah actually knew where this conversation was going.

"How long has Bi Hinah been working in that house?",

"It's been almost a month Ma'am.", Bi Inah looked back at a bunch of spinach in the wagon, however she was the grandmother and owner of the big house behind this was her employer, anyway, he doesn't want to talk or not.

"At that time my neighbor had wanted to work in the house, loh Bi...",

"Oh so Ma'am", replied Bi Inah lazily. Bi Inah looked at the woman who looked the same age as him with a lazy look, answering just for politeness.

Although she tried to cover her hearing, the mothers there still had time to paraphrase things they should have talked about, starting from talking about the daughter of her neighbors who allegedly pregnant out of wedlock, he said, talking about women who often come home at night, other people's households who according to their estimates are troubled, the boys of their other neighbors who are famous for lazing that is a burden on the family, and the, or even they talk about Bi Inah herself who works at the home of grandmother, who is famous for being haunted.

"Mom-mom, let me go first...",

After finishing choosing and paying for his groceries, Bi Inah began to say goodbye to those who were still there and began to step away from the vegetable cart accompanied by various gazes that looked at Bi Inah.

"I did not expect Loh Bu, it turns out that Bu Inah can work here.., which I know, he said the big house was haunted..",

"Yes.., I've also heard, ma'am, from the people, it's said that this house is creepy...",

"Yes Ma'am, my brother just did not so when he wanted to work there because he had to live in that house too.", he said...",

"What Bi Inah is not afraid of?, I do if I already knew like that would not dare to come, but what I heard about the family about the owner of the house who did the worship is not true...",

"The work takes care of the rice field that has the house, Mom, the story to me...",

"If I were Bi Inah yes Ma'am, I wouldn't want to work in that house, because of my husband.", she said...",

"Indeed her husband, why did you?, ever want to work at Ndoro's house?", one of those who are native Javanese call grandma with the name Ndoro, Ndoro, a kind of appellation or call to the employer or to call the priyayi. And the fact that the grandmother's family still has the blood of "big people", has also spread among people around, usually told by people of the old generation who know the family of the grandmother who is still alive.

"Open so Mbo, my husband told me that time.......",

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Suparto drove a yellow truck vehicle that he drove carefully because the road conditions were still rocky and not yet paved. Not to mention the street lighting that is classified as still makes it must be observant to pay attention to the streets that are only highlighted by lights from the yellow truck. I don't know what time it is, but Suparto estimates that it's almost midnight. He became a little regretful because tonight had to go home until this late because the work is quite tempting with a fairly large payment, he said, but the risk of the job is that he must be willing to go home until late like this.

Although having to stay focused to drive at a late time, his heart and feelings still cheered Sorai gave him the spirit of fatigue paid off with payment with a large enough nominal, arguably more than usual that he received.he also imagined how happy from the look of his wife's face that emanated because his work this time made the bag thick. He plans tomorrow morning to have his wife shop at the market, buy some groceries to process into delicious appetizing dishes, such as ingredients to make chicken soup or ikam mas pepes.

But even if he came home with a generous payment, he still felt anxious because he currently came home late at night alone because his other friends did not want to come with him for this work, he said, but his superiors told him they would not go along so Suparto could take full payment for himself.

He took his breath slowly until the yellow truck he was driving across the prohibition of the grandmother's house which was quite extensive, he glanced at a glance at the grandmother's yard and remembered that the owner of this house and land was also the owner of most of the rice fields in this region and also had a fairly large pig farm close by with their own land. At first glance Suparto felt amazed by the owner of the house, he had met once and felt impressed because the owner of this house looks good and friendly, he said, beyond the sloping news out there that sounds that he and his family are doing a gift for the wealth they have today. Suparto tilted his head, not only feeling sore because of this trip, but also the slanted news that he heard. Can those who know nothing without seeing the truth accuse others with such vileness, is it because they envy the success of others so they can throw slander?, he said?, I don't know. Suparto just thought hopefully he wouldn't be that kind of person. If the news of the bird is true, people can not do anything, right?.

Suparto accidentally glanced at the red water guava tree in the yard of the house which was quite close to the road he passed. He was quite surprised to see there was such a strange figure that like him nakedly ran and hid behind the trunk of a tree that was large enough. Suparto had jumped in shock because the figure looked very strange, naked and at first glance his hands look very long, different from the size of a normal human hand. He was just trying to sigh, probably because he was too tired to see strange things that did not make sense.

Suparto who felt a little relieved because he had passed the spacious yard when looking back at the window that was next to the chair next to him was very surprised to see the strange figure was now on outside that window with a very clear and terrible appearance. His wide grin with completely white eyes and his long, thin hands were like tree branches twitching around his windshield like car wipers. The desperate Suparto turned his yellow truck to the side of a deserted road and stopped his car. His breathing rose and fell violently and the monstrous creature was no longer there. He got limp in the driver's seat and in his heart he recited the sacred verses he memorized repeatedly.

What he saw earlier felt very real, but disappeared just like that in the blink of an eye.The view was very extreme for him and his whole life had only seen such a right. Maybe later he will reconsider whether he will take a job at a late time like this...

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