TIKZ [Moving To The Golden Age]
004 - TERRIBLE PLACE PALACE

Idaline smiled broadly at the items Tok had delivered, everything was exactly like her picture. More precisely the picture of Kerto's lover. The woman is very kind, just loves her partner too much so it looks sneaky and unapproachable.

Idaline is content to try sprays, pump bottles, and some things she cannot separate from her life. Idaline turned to look at Garong who was still struggling with papers scattered on the table.

"Miss wants to go around the garden?" garong Tawar felt like his nona wanted something.

"Until you finish first." Idaline ate putu mayang served Sri.

"Miss sure to get tired of eating vegetables continue.” Sri gives other cakes her nona favorite.

"Every aunt understands best." The former Idaline and herself now have similar feeding parallels. It cannot be said the same because he is crazier when it comes to sugar. "I have to give the devil sugar." The memory of the dumbfounded faces of his schoolmates was recorded clearly. Idaline closed her mouth laughing.

"Please sir." Sri placed the glass on a long table near the Idaline snacks.

"Thank you," Garong briefly focused on the papers that were piling up.

Sri opened her mouth but soon canceled her intention to take Idaline out. "Miss is the successor," murmured Sri stepped away from her master's office.

"Uncle why do you look so dizzy?" Idaline was a little upset the man went back and forth in front of her carrying a mountain of paper from inside the closet near where she was sitting. Not once did Garong kick the box of his belongings and apologize, Idaline was afraid the man's big toe had raised a lump. Idaline boxes cannot be taken home because Garong insists they must be checked first.

"Food is near, miss."

Idaline wiped her hands and then approached the desk. "Uncle why not separate the gardener and the farmer? The people who brought the crops to the city were written on another paper. Then gathered together as one for the proof of payment of people and one book for the purposes of the garden and rice fields."

Garong noticed Idaline who gave an example.

"Better we write it like this. The first box is for the date, the second the description, the third the income, and the fourth is the expenditure, the last for the sign of the person who wrote it so that it is clear. It's called a table."

Idaline fell silent, she was too furious to see the irregular data to do things that should not. But it was wet, all he explained to Garong so that the man could easily write down the data.

"Indeed lady is as smart as ever" praised Garong trying to write a single line of expenses. "Is this so?"

"True," said Idaline awakens from her daydream. "We also have to give directly the workers do not represent one person alone."

"But ladies, these people have been chosen by the master to divide the money according to the workload of each person in the field." Although there is no message prohibiting change, Garong knows that the chosen people have been tested despite being unaware.

"Then it doesn't need a lot of groups like this. It only takes one person to pay attention in the garden and one in the rice field. If it's a group, people will obey them and it's likely that the chosen one doesn't work."

"Lady's words are correct, but wouldn't it matter if these two people weren't working and were just paying attention?"

"Don't paying attention to people working is also working? His eyes should be that big. On the other hand he will prepare food and drink so that our workers are active in working."

"Who watches over this will order food and drink every day while paying attention to the workers?"

Idaline nodded without hesitation. "Morning and daylight. The menu should be healthy" he explained.

"This will incriminate the cost," hesitated Garong.

"Every harvest Ayahanda always gives bonuses especially at food parties like this. Then use the excess funds from the food party for food and the bonus will be given after the harvest is sold out." Idaline got a lot of short stories from Sri who fed her food at the drugstore.

"All right, miss."

"I went around first uncle." Idaline waved her hand.

"Roro take Miss."

The mature brown-skinned girl who had her hair curled her legs that were about to step in. Every day he came to help his father with the paperwork. "Good dad." Roro followed Idaline calmly

"Welcome, miss."

"Thank God the lady is fine."

"Thank you all" Idaline replied to the people's greeting.

Daya is the son of a rice field manager who managed to develop tea and fruit plantations in Jana hill, Janapada village. Agni is a scholar from the capital. People respected them like noble families and were close to them because of benefactor.

"What are you doing?" idaline asked the people who threw the fruit at random.

"Greetings miss," respect them.

"This is a bitter fruit that will be thrown away" said one of them.

"Master got this tree from a foreign merchant when he was a child. He thought it was a mango tree because it resembled the leaves, it turned out that the fruit was different and it tasted bitter. But because this is the first tree he planted to a large extent, this tree is left for shade people and will be thrown out of the fruit so as not to fall on people's heads," explained another.

Sunlight dazzled Idaline's eyes as she looked up to try to notice the familiar tree, she squinted her eyes at the tree.

Following a gust of wind, a leaf fell onto Idaline's face, she took it and she looked carefully.

"Don't throw it!" Idaline smiled as she stared at the leaf in her hand. "Open the wagon" pointed Idaline at the wheelbarrow in front of the workers.

When the banana leaves covering the contents of the cart were opened, it appeared that the cocoa fruit piled on each other irregularly in the cart.

"Please don't get in the way of our work" said someone from beside the cart. Seen teenage girl with her caping staring at Idaline sharply.

"You love your job so much, don't you?" Idaline smiled calmly as she split the cacao making the woman shocked. The woman was astonished because usually their spoiled miss whined at the fellow next to her when she argued over it.

"Take this wagon to the storage warehouse."

"Sa-I'm just a miss," interrupted hesitating another teenager. He also wondered that their lady was not as usual.

"You two come with me." Idaline walked happily followed by the three people who were wondering.

"Miss, it's headed west."

"Ah yes." Idaline docked to the troupe. He is direction blind. "Oh, what's your name?"

"I'm Sirang" said the teenage boy who pushed the wagon.

"I'm Geko" said the teenage girl, who frequently debates Idaline.

"Well Sirang and Geko, cut all these fruits and put the seeds into this box. Roro asked for another empty box." Idaline gave the order when they had reached inside the warehouse.

"All right, miss."

"This is how it works." Idaline sits splitting the cacao fruit. "Then we collect the skin and make fertilizer."

Sirang and Geko followed the instructions of Idaline without asking much.

"Put it in the corner," Idaline orders as Roro enters carrying a wooden box.

They were busy with their work until the sun slipped. The very familiar sound of footsteps Idaline made her involuntarily smile.

"Miss, it's lunch time." Sri appeared at the warehouse door.

"In a moment" said Idaline showing her hand.

"The fruit is bitter. The rubber that sticks will also make the hands bitter." Sri once tried to cultivate it, but still bitter.

"Stage," said Idaline see cocoa is only 5 more.

Sri could not argue with her very serious non-existence. He went out to fetch water and waited at the door.

"Tomorrow at the same time move these seeds to another box. Move it back to this box. Repeat up to 5 times" says Idaline.

"Well, miss," replied Sirang.

"Wash and dry on the 6th day until dry. After that store in a place that is not hot and not humid."

"All right, miss."

"Wash your hands first, miss," said Sri who was waiting at the door made the two people who just opened the door surprised.

After that they followed Sri obediently.

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"Please check, miss." Garong came to Idaline at night carrying a report paper.

"Why does my uncle trust me so much?" ask Idaline while receiving the paper.

"Yes, Mr. Garong. Miss Idaline is a child, you better take care of her."

Idaline looked at Sri who interrupted the conversation, the woman just smiled warmly returning Idaline's cold gaze.

"Mendiang sir and madam must have taught the miss a lot. It all belongs to Miss."

"alright. Thanks for delivering." Idaline put the report on the table then stood up. Garong who was sitting across from Idaline stood up.

"Tomorrow our company will go to the palace. As in previous years, we sent 2 days before the celebration" Garong said.

"I'll come along."

"But the lady just came back" Sri said.

"It's okay, bi. All I'm studying," closed Idaline into her room.

When morning came and the sun shone bright. People were busy putting boxes of crops on neatly lined trains.

"Miss sure it'll go alone?" sri asked filled with worry.

"Auntie said what? Look at the many who are gone." Idaline pointed with her five fingers the whole person who was preparing.

"But on the road a lot of bandits," added Sri.

"Take care of the many uncles who will take care of me."

"True aunt Sri. There we are here" said one of the farmers who came to the capital.

"You're just five." Sri was feeling restless. Yesterday they set out with a large entourage alone ended horribly, let alone this is only five people?!

"Sri, do you want to traumatize the lady? Getting used to it will make you strong" whispered Garong in front of Sri.

The woman who was full of wrinkles on the face sighed. "Master's right. Then take care of the lady properly."

"Surely."

"I will make the lady comfortable" said Roro reassured.

"Be careful on the road," Sri's message waved towards the group that began to be invisible.

Garong looked at Idaline who was asleep with her head lying on Roro's thigh. Along the way Idaline chose to sleep because the shock of the car was very pronounced. Rather than himself having to feel nausea and vomiting, Idaline made Roro's thigh as her pillow.

"I'm here, Dad. You can rest with uncle Didi and uncle Kemo."

"Dad just worried whether this is true or not?" Garong's worried. Nonanya is still small, should she convey the truth now or need to be postponed first until the nonanya a little bigger? But the nona doesn't look like children.

"Miss is very enthusiastic to the capital, he would like to take a walk because it has been two weeks always in the drugstore. We should also show you the tombs of the masters and mistresses."

"May the lady be careful." Garong got off the train joined by Didi and Kemo dropped off the goods.

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Idaline stretched her body when she got off the car. He could not believe all the way he was asleep.

"Miss and Roro please rest," Didi said through carrying the goods.

"Roro," call Idaline.

"Yes, miss," said Roro.

"What's here where the nobles descend?"

"No, miss. We are near the food storage warehouse and will stay in the building over there while maintaining the quality of the food and its safety," Roro replied as he pointed at the building with his thumb.

Idaline raised one eyebrow. "Aren't there any palace officials guarding?"

"Yes, miss. But just in case, because the nobles can take their hands off and point out we're the ones who made a mistake."

"Good thinking" praised Idaline.

"Lord thought about it. After all we can't enter the party hall of the nobles."

"I'm sorry to interrupt. Her Majesty the Queen called Miss Idaline to face, "the interruption of a middle-aged lady-in-waiting. He came flanked by two young ladies on his right and left side.

Although dressed similarly, Idaline knew the quality of their cloth was higher than the villagers like her, moreover the silver belt that surrounded the bellies of the maids had never been seen in the village. So Idaline concluded the three people in front of her were not lying.

"Queen..?" gumam Idaline followed the three maids. His heart nearly dislodged when lifted for a stretcher ride.

"Please" said the lady-in-waiting as soon as they arrived at the door of the beautifully carved residence. The park is neatly arranged. And the yard is so broad, the short legs won't get to it quickly.

"Maybe it's half an hour to arrive." Idaline calculated the distance of doors and buildings. He staggered back when the door had just closed. "Slowly," his mind heard the sound of the door so small. "It's so weak this body," he's upset.

"Oh my beautiful daughter, how are you?"

Idaline jumped at the soft whisper in her ear, she turned to see a graceful woman dressed in magnificent, more magnificent than the nobles she had seen along the way. And the meaning is so great, engraved in majesty there. She is the queen.

Idaline was unable to cover up her entanglement as the queen lowered her head and hugged her. He did not answer the Queen's question.

"It must have been heavy" added the queen.

Idaline looked at the queen's trembling back, she patted it on the back which became even more. "Uh queen. Your jewelry's smashing everything into my body."

"Why did she become a crying Queen Mother?" the queen's murmured straightened her body and carried Idaline.

"Why is the Queen crying?"

The queen looked at Idaline who blinked her eyes not understanding, the queen rubbed the water that came back to the end of her eyes.

"Did Idaline want to stay here?" ask the queen while lowering Idaline on the chair.

"But the palace is a terrible place." Idaline recalls various dramas killing each other behind solid palace walls, quarreling in luxurious beautiful buildings, and slandering each other among people who were described as very wise.

"Haha. You're absolutely right." The queen laughed while closing her mouth. The Queen does not want to take her best friend's daughter to hell, but unfortunately her place of residence is in hell and it is impossible to monitor the little girl from afar. "Tell me if there's anything you want."

"May anything?" tanya Idaline made sure.

Queen pinches gnarled cheek Idaline. His smile is so soft. "As long as it does not oppose the palace," he replied allowing.

"Well Queen Mother, thank you very much!" exciting Eidaline full of spirit.

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