The rooster crowed, his voice echoed in response. Mrs. Keni woke up, got up from her sleep, the first thing she did was to see Shee. The blanket no longer protected the gril's body and she even fell on it partly. Mrs. Keni pulled it slowly, until she got the blanket completely, then covered Shee's body from the tip of her feet to her neck.
Usually shee is the same as her father, she likes to cover all parts of her body up to the limit of her neck, until only her head is visible when she is done, then she can fall asleep.
Mrs. Keni watched Shee, her only daughter, even when Shee was sleeping she was able to make Mrs. Keni smile to herself, seeing Shee's sleeping style was like clockwork, Mrs. Keni smiled and muttered
Mrs. Keni : "How come now your head is facing the door, last night you were going to sleep your head was facing the wall, you just like a man's style"
Mrs. keni shook her head after seeing Shee turning 90 degrees while sleeping.
Mrs. Keni cleaned the house then prepared 2 cups of warm tea and placed it on a long table with no backrest which shee liked it very much. He looked at the air circulation above the door, the sunlight was getting clearer.
Mrs. Keni returned to her room, the blanket now only covered her legs, but this time she no longer fixed the position of the blanket, even again pulled it slowly and folded it neatly.
Today is the 210th day of Mr. Tour's departure. Shee began to get used to it without his father, she began to enter kindergarten and was allowed to register in a kindergarten owned by a factory that stood in a village, in the land of Java, Indonesia and where all of the students were not ordinary employees but staff from outside the city even from the Netherlands as the owner of a very very good factory successful at that time.
The factory has a sugar cane area of thousands of square meters, a special train track that transports sugar cane along the road to the sugar cane plantation, which is harvested every 6 months.
The villagers on average depend on the factory for their work. In fact, there is no one in Mrs. Keni's environment who works as a farmer.
But despite this success, the factory officials have very good rules, they pay attention to the needs of the community, Provide basic food items of rice and sugar which are sufficient for one month, each member of the house is recorded, they get an individual share. Similarly, when retiring, even though it is only a private company, but the factory provides pension salaries, until it falls to the wife, then until the child and the provision of pension are terminated when the child is married.
Factory employees consist of regular staff and employees, staff from out of town are given a house, while those who are single live in dormitories.
Mrs. Keni has worked there as a chef for decades. Mrs. Keni arranges menu of dishes and cooks.
Every 2 times a week there is a schedule of featured menus such as cooking meat, or chicken, usually they will be stewed, rendang or fried, or just fried, sometimes also fish menus, such as carp or carp, goldfish.
The other days are regular menus that are not too special, such as tempeh, tofu, eggs, but wader fish which is a river fish is also included in the regular menu, because the price is very affordable, besides being delicious, tasty, highly nutritious, because that's the best, bukeni often buy and cook it as one of the simple favorite menu.
Mrs. Keni is very honest, the spending money bestowed on her is always used properly, shee uses it only for cooking needs.
Mrs. Keni is very trusted and loved even the head of staff wants to get to know her family, they even compliment Shee's beauty. Sometimes there is something they give to Shee through Mrs. Keni.
Chief of staff's wife: "Mom, is your doughder not here today anymore
Mrs. Keni: "No ma'am"
Chief Sraff's wife: "why?, I think she likes to play here"
Mrs. Keni: "No ma'am, she prefers to be with his friends, they have their own activities
Chief of staff's wife: "Yes you are right bi, everything that goes along is more fun"
wife of the chief of staff: "Then, I'll leave this small package for him.
Mrs. Keni: "Don't bother, Mrs. Keni" said
Mrs. Keni while shaking her head
Factory staff wife: "Accept it, I don't like being rejected, also Shee would be happy to accept it"
Mrs. Keni: "Okay ma'am, I will tell her, thank you". she said and could not refuse.
Factory staff's wife: "I'm glad you have a schedule of wader fish dishes up to 3 times a week, maybe everyone thinks the same as me, you just fry it but it's really delicious it really tastes delicious and fresh."
Mrs. Keni: "Yes ma'am, they took it from the river and immediately sold it, there were many sellers, and the fish were abundant.
Factory staff's wife: "Okay you can bring out this menu and we will change the schedule again when we get bored"
Mrs. Keni : "Okay ma'am, I will do as you say.
Factory staff wife: "Then what about the finances, will this be too wasteful for us?"
Mrs. Keni : "No ma'am, actually the wader fish menu is not included in the special menu, because the cost is also very affordable"
The factory staff's wife: "Oh, I see, it's very pleasant, i thought why did you never complains about lack of shopping money, actually I've been wanting to ask about it since yesterday, but then I feel relieved,please don't be shy about any shortcomings or problems in the kitchen section"
Mrs. Keni: "Okay ma'am" Mrs. Keni said softly.
The wife of the factory staff is a little quiet but she really cares about all her employees, even to Shee, Mrs. Keni feels grateful to have a kind employer.
Mrs. Keni's work demands made her willing or unwilling to leave Shee. The factory dormitory is located in front of the factory, even though it's not far from home but that doesn't mean that Mrs. Keni can go home whenever she wants.
During the day, Mrs. Keni's break time gets food for the family at home as well as in the afternoon
Mrs. Keni walked from a distance, walking slowly, carrying a little food with side dishes, that day she wore a kebaya with a solid pattern.
A long cloth is wrapped around the waist, tied again with an inch-wide cloth that is plain in color and a little thicker, wrapped around the waist and slightly wider at the waist, but the cloth is meters long so it takes quite a while to wear it and the top is a kebaya with long sleeves and half transparent.
It is not surprising that the way they dress is currently only formal clothing, but in the past around the 60's, kebaya was the everyday clothing of villagers or in the countryside.
Like having a very sharp smell, the sweet cat ran after Mrs. Keni who was walking alone towards home. Like the way Shee treated her father in the past, even sweet cat could approach before Mrs. Keni could be seen, and she would faithfully take Mrs. Keni off to work.
Shee didn't like cats, even though Mrs. Keni's favorite shee was still Shee didn't like her.