The Lives of Five Hundred Thousand
Mang Udin's story

In the midst of our confusion, the man known as the first child Mak Ninih who initially listened just arrived

vocalizing.

"A minute, a minute. You guys tea is actually no need what and there's a problem what's the same with my mom?"

We turned our eyes to her then Raihan and I looked at each other.

"Did Mr Udin know that mak Ninih had worked at Sucipto mangunkusumo hospital in Jakarta?"

Mang Udin looked silent with a gaze without switching from Raihan's gaze.

"Me..why is that?"Udin asked back and looked nervous.

"Please answer the mang Udin," said brother Bayu.

Mang Udin was still silent.

"What do you want to know about my mother?" Ask mang Udin with a thick regional language.

Raihan explained in detail what had happened to me to the man heartily. The man looked at her seriously. After Raihan finished explaining everything, Mang Udin looked at me.

"What.what is this Eneng baby that my mother means tea."

I scrunched my forehead." Mang Udin, mang Udin know about me?" I asked impatiently.

He went back silent.

"Mang Udin, or ceritakeun wae. kasian si Eneng same mas mas this tea," said Bu RT.

"He'eh mang carunya tos far away came. anyways amun according to urang mah barudak iyeu jalmi na balageur (Yes pity has come a long way. anyway if I think these people are good people)"pak RT added the proposal Bu RT.

He looked back at me then at Raihan and sister Bayu.

"Mang Udin please tell us what the Udin mang know? we're not bad people. We just want to know a truth that hasn't been revealed yet."

"But..what is it that this akhang-ak and Eneng will not imprison my mother if I tell her?"

I looked at Bu Ninih who was sitting like a dazed person.

"Yes, I will not report to the police and will forgive his mistakes. But please tell me the truth."

It looks like the mang Udin jakun up and down like he was trying to swallow his saliva.

"Emak I did work in a Jakarta hospital from my childhood until my teenage years. During that time Mom was our backbone because our Abah was dead. When I was a teenager if not wrong second grade Junior High mother came from Jakarta in a state of fear. At that time I accidentally eavesdropped on my mother's chat with my grandmother. He said he doesn't want to work in Jakarta anymore. When grandma asked why she said she was afraid of killing someone. I was surprised to hear that, my grandmother did too. I asked him who would kill his mother. Mom said a bad woman's mane.

Raihan and I looked at each other.

"The whole wicked woman. Then what else did Mak Ninih say, mang?" Impatiently I asked back.

"Killed!" I said along with my baby brother. Suddenly my chest felt tight to hear the word kill. Even my mouth feels hard to get the word out.

"Continue mang!" said Raihan with his flat face.

"The mother said, the woman originally told her friend to do evil to the woman who was going to give birth. But even his friend mother invites mother to conspire to kill the mother and her baby. Mom refused but her friend Mom threatened to tell people to kill us here. Mom is scared and finally obeys the will of her friend. But when the mother gave birth, the mother immediately took her baby out of the room and did not know what her friend was doing in the room with a doctor. When the mother came out she said she met the mother's husband who gave birth to it. She also had time to pair a bracelet on her baby's leg for identification so that her child is not exchanged. Actually, at that time, my mother wanted to tell her husband that his wife would be killed inside, but my mother remembered the same thing we had here. Mother said she wouldn't lose us."

My tears began to spill over hearing Mang Udin's story. It turns out that Hanum's mother died not because of the factor of giving birth to her child to the world but because it was killed by the person who wanted to eliminate her and her baby. It was truly a demon once that woman.

"So, so my mom was killed? not because of the end factor of giving birth to my sister?" Said brother Bayu with a stifled voice and clenched his hands.

Raihan rubbed my shoulder soothe me so that my cry does not break even though my tears have flowed profusely.

"What did your mother do with the baby?" Raihan asked back.

"The mother said when the baby's family was busy taking care of his mother's body at that time also the mother took the baby out of the hospital at night because it gave birth to her at night. Mother does not want the baby to be the next target let alone her family is careless. After being out of confusion mom wants to take the baby where. Finally, she decided to keep the baby in a cardboard box and put it next to a garbage can in the hope that someone would take her away because her life was threatened."

"How can you trick your evil friend?"

"Mom's word, put the baby on the side of the road near the garbage can. Mom went back to the hospital and her friend asked the whereabouts of the baby. Mom said she threw it with the trash in the river. Luckily, her friend believed her because she was known to be an honest nurse at the hospital."

"How can you trick the baby's body into the family?"

"Emak didn't tell grandma that problem. And the matter of the doll in the grave was not the story. Maybe the rest of him is taken care of his evil friend."

I hugged Raihan and cried. It hurts so much to hear it. My mother was killed and I was separated from my family and I lived and grew up in a family that often oppressed me.

"Week later she was caught lying that she did not kill the baby but threw it away. Before the woman who told him to kill and his friend killed him, the mother first ran away to eat his name in exchange so that people do not really recognize. But my mother felt her karma. Mom regrets. She was depressed thinking about the problem.Every day of work just daydreaming until mom finally became senile."

"Do you think you know what the characteristics of the woman who told you to kill you are?"

"I don't know kang, I think it's hard to tell if there's no picture of him."

"Yes, Aya among the dieu." Mak Ninih who during our silent chat and expression like a dazed person suddenly chattered and pointed at his upper lip.

My tears suddenly stopped hearing him speak.

"What, what does mang mean?" Ask Raihan.

"Maybe the meaning of mak Ninih characteristics of women who are being talked about the same mas and mang Udin."

"meaning?"

"Say mother, there's a mole above the right lip."

"The fly over the right lip!" say baby with a high voice. It seems he was surprised by the meaning conveyed by Mr. RT.