The House 1937's
72. The terrible reality (3)

Now Papa and Mr. RT are on their way back home. Mr. RT himself to warn papa to be careful in riding a motorcycle asked, because Papa riding his motorcycle a little speeding. Carrying a motorcycle with speeding on the road that the surface is still a lot of uneven and rocky here and there is certainly very dangerous and at risk of accidents. Papa only sighed if he reduced the speed of his motorbike to a normal pace while apologizing to the man he was screwing behind him. No matter how he tried to feel calm, still papa could feel his own heart pounding.

"Be careful Koh.., do not speed.", Mr. RT patted slowly papa's shoulder who also felt afraid because of Papa who was speeding like that, he even showed that this motorcycle could fall because it passed one of the rocky parts on this road.

"Sorry sir.", that's all you said and went back to riding his bike at a normal rate, although it was also very disturbing considering the streets are still like this.

After a long time they passed the road that looks sad, finally papa's motorbike could enter the front yard and the motorbike had reached the front porch where papa parked his motorbike originally. Grandma who saw the arrival of Mr. RT with papa then approached the two of them who were still on the front porch of the house and Grandma greeted Mr. RT and the three of them were even engaged in talks about excavation on the former land old warehouse.

"Siang Mr. RT, sorry if during the day my son suddenly called you here", Actually grandma felt bad, I felt bad, and have a strong feeling that Papa has half forced the man with gray hair to come to this house.

"Well, it's okay, I happen to be not busy either, so I can come here, thankfully Koh Jun brought a motorbike, so quickly get here...", Mr. RT mince words to return the greetings of grandmother then his attention shifted back to Papa.

"Koh, earlier when Engkoh came to my house said there was an important business and suddenly.", Mr. RT began to open a conversation. Grandma was still there because she wanted to listen to the talk about the old barn land. Previously, he had known that the demolition would be carried out and indeed with the approval of him.

"Yes Mr. RT, so you see", Papa began to take a breath and began to tell the terrible event to Mr. RT. During papa's story, the middle-aged man who also knew Mr. Tani and his family was only showing an expression of disbelief, an event that. you could say terrible that he did not expect to happen on a large land owned by a Chinese family that is well known by the people in this area. As an apparatus that can be reached directly by the surrounding community, of course he strongly agrees to help papa related to this problem.

"I deliberately did not want to report to the Police, because I knew that it would take time for the police investigation and would take up a lot of our time as whistleblowers, and what I fear will also be many citizens who know about this and.., Mr. RT also must have known the scattered talks about my house right?,", Papa was a little closer at the end of his sentence. He remembered the events of a while ago, when there was a woman who apparently hanged herself in the backyard of the house that suddenly made the yard crowded because many residents who want to see the scene of the crime, the crime scene, and that's enough to annoy the police to conduct an investigation at the scene. That event alone was enough to disturb Papa, Grandma and other residents of the house. What later if the events in the back shed are also spread?, of course papa does not want it to happen.

"Therefore I ask Mr. RT to help me take care of all this, I don't want if until this matter is widespread to people, sir...", Papa looked at Mr. RT with a earnest gaze.

"Yes Koh I understand. Who wants his house to continue to be discussed and the person to associate with things like that..., I want to go to the place that Engkoh said, can now Koh?",

"May sir, come with me...".

"Koh, it's hard bones that he lifted from the excavation of the ground, told Engkoh that.", One of the craftsmen pointed at Chun In who looks very carefully holding the bones with his index finger. The two craftsmen who had dug the ground were sitting casually on the edge of the excavation of the land.

Chun In who saw Papa with Mr. RT, he immediately stood up and greeted Mr. RT who seemed to frown at him, probably because he had never seen Chun In before.

"Sir RT, this is Chun In, my relative who helped me to this excavation.", Chun In greeted Mr. RT kindly, and said, the three of them finally focused on the pitiful-looking carpenters, next to them there was a cloth mixed with soil which was Sukarsih's own clothes that had been very Kumal almost looks like a mound of land.

Mr. RT took the initiative to call all the builders there along with papa and Chun In to pray for Sukarsih. After thinking for a moment, Mr. RT finally told one of the artisans to ask for a white shroud in the nearest mosque on his own orders. The three of them had agreed to perform a proper burial for the Sukarsih carpenters today as well. About five artisans were assigned by papa to stay on guard at the back of the house, while the rest of the artisans and the three of them brought the bones that had been wrapped in the shroud to be buried in the tomb area which is located right next to the mosque, other places the shroud was taken. After doing some procession, finally the Sukarsih carpenters buried properly with the help of local ustadz, all who are in the same also pray for the peace of the spirit of the woman.

"Sir PT, Mr. Ustadz, I would like to thank you very much for helping me to take care of this.", he said...", Papa greeted the two of them while clenching the money in their hands as a token of gratitude. Although they both had time to refuse, papa argued that it was a windfall from the Almighty passing him to Pak Ustad and Pak RT.

"Thank you if Koh, because Engkoh is difficult to do good deeds to bury him properly.", Mr. RT also nodded in agreement.

"But what I want to tell Mr. Ustadz and all, please do not go anywhere, I mean no one knows about this, sir, I don't want no talk..",

"Do not worry, this will be my personal secret...",

Papa nodded his head in agreement and he also did not forget to tell all the artisans who were there not to tell this to anyone. So that there are no more talks or rumors that are not-not in the community. They all understood and would not say this to anyone.

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