The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
Nuri the son of a collect

During the day I bought thirteen packaged rice for the lunch of working mothers, me, bang Supri and Sumi. While we were eating on the porch of my mother's house and Mba Parmi poked behind the door.

"You're not buying rice for us, soup!" said mom on bang Supri.

Bang Supri looked up at them but Sumi and I focused on eating. I don't know why I don't respect my mom anymore and even tend to hate her. I who have always respected him and obeyed his will turned out to be only made his field of business. And now I don't want to care about her anymore.

"That bought Nuri Bu's rice, his money was also her money," said bang Supri in the middle of chewing.

"But I haven't eaten in the morning, Soup."

"Yes cook it. Tell mother-in-law to cook to let her life be useful a little."

"What the hell are you, Pri. Don't you see I have a baby." Parmi's face pouted. He doesn't accept in the Supri bang ledek.

"Well, if you don't need to eat. Your own stomach, hungry. Don't expect food to fall from the sky."

"Where to cook people there's no stock of groceries."

"If there are no side dishes, then shop at warung dong mba. If there is no money ask for the same, if the man has no money ask for work do not want him to stay to eat doang. My money's up for you to spend."

"You're really counting on us, Pri," said the mother, looking annoyed at Supri's bang.

"Not that I'm the same calculation you are but you yourself who have the same petty nature as us especially Nuri."

Mom was silent as to what she was thinking and I didn't care.

"Mama I'm hungry." Suddenly the first child Mba Parmi came and complained of hunger. Actually I can't bear to let them starve especially their children. But how else I just want to teach them a lesson so that they think and do not behave arbitrarily to me.

"Tuh, your son asked for food, mba. Make fried rice cake if there is no side dish. Rice lives in the fry."Bang Supri.

"Sum, we start yuk's work."

"Hayu Nuri." Then we left them for the factory.

At night when I was joking with Zain in the room, there came a sound of screaming and banging on the door of my room.

"Hey, Nuri came out you came out."

brak brak brak

"Get out, get out you Nuri."

Brak brak brak

Zain and I were so shocked that Zain even cried in fear. I'm so upset he's freaked my son out. Then I opened the door violently and pushed the body of the Supra bang until he fell backward and hit his wife.

"Why don't you dare to be like brother jerk and not know yourself like you." I also did not lose my guts staring at him so upset and furious at him.

Then the Supra bang came forward and was about to pounce on me but before that happened the Supri bang first restrained his body from pouncing on me. Bang Supra thrashing ronta. His rage was exactly like a possessed man.

"After the jerk. Untie me. Let me strangle him to death." His face was red. His eyes widened big. I don't know what demon is entering his heart and mind so lightly said he wanted to kill me.

"Eling you bang, eling. Nuri your sister why should she hurt her."Said bang Supra while holding both hands bang Supra.

"Sad." Bang Surya spit that was aimed at me.

"You know he's not our brother. He's just a kid picked up from the trash can by my dad."

Instantly I was stunned until my mouth was wide open to hear what was said by bang Supra. In my mind I asked, is it true that I am not a mother and father's child? not the sister of Supra bang and Supri bang? and the kid found in the trash.

"A...What do you mean?" Ask me with lips starting to shake.

"Don't talk ngaco you bang. I don't believe in you. Nuri is my mother's son and father and sister."

"Ha ha ha." Bang Supra laughed long. Then he brushed off the rough hands of two Supri bang that looked loosened. Maybe he was surprised by me too.

"You said Nuri's mother and father's son? ask mom. Who the real Nuri is."

I and bang Supri turned to the mother who was silent at the side of Mba Parmi.

"Your..!" bang Supri.

Mom looks flabbergasted to see bang Supri.

"Tell me ma'am that everything that bang Supra says is not true if Nuri was born not from the mother's womb?" Said bang supri but the mother was silent with the look of a gawking face.

There are a lot of questions I want to ask my mother about whether or not I am not a mother's child. However, my mouth was locked tightly and could not say anything. My tears started flowing easily.

"Tell them Ma'am, who Nuri really is. So that he no longer pretentious and arbitrarily act with us and so that he knows himself that he has no right to live in this house because this house is built on the land of his father and it will be passed down to her biological children not to be picked up from the garbage can like her." The long sentence bang Supra that was pointed at my mother was enough to make my chest feel very tight.

Mother was still silent with her thoughts.

"Mom." Bang bang Supra to make the mother aghast.

"I.iya's right. A..what is.di says True Supra. You're not my son Nuri, but the kid that my husband picked up from the garbage can when he was a scavenger in town. My husband found you in a cardboard box in a garbage can."

Like being struck by lightning at night hearing my mother's confession about me that I am not a mother and father but a child who was picked up in a garbage can. Why, why would my parents throw me in the trash? Am I an unwanted child and a disgrace to them? God, why, why only now do I know who I really am. Worth it, mother never loved and always hated me from childhood to adulthood and apparently I was just a child collected and then made as a money-making machine by my mother.