The Story of Central Java.
A long time ago in a village lived a family consisting of father, mother and a beautiful teenage girl named garlic. They are a happy family. Although garlic dad just ordinary traders, but they live in harmony and peace. But one day the mother garlic ill and eventually died. Garlic is very sad as well as his father.
In the village lived a widow who has a son named Onion. Since the mother died Garlic, Onion mother often visited the house Garlic. He often brought food, garlic helps clean the house or simply accompany Garlic and his father to talk. Finally Garlic father thought that it might be better if he just married mother Onion Garlic is not so lonely anymore.Garlic father then married his mother Onion. At first the mother Onions and shallots very well to garlic. But over time their true nature began to appear. They often berated garlic and give him a tough job if the father Garlic're going to trade. Garlic should be doing all the housework, while the red onion and the mother just sitting around. Garlic father certainly did not know it, because Garlic never told.
One day Garlic father fell ill and later died. Since then the Onion and his mother become more powerful and arbitrarily against Garlic. Garlic is almost never rests. He had to get up before dawn, to prepare the water bath and breakfast for Onion and his mother. Then he had to feed livestock, watering the garden and washing clothes to the river. Then he still had to iron, clean the house, and many other jobs. However Garlic is always to do his job, because he hopes one day his stepmother would love her as his own child.
This morning as usual Garlic carrying basket of clothes to be washed in the river. With little singing him down a path at the edge of a small forest which is unusual in its path.The day was very sunny. Garlic immediately wash all dirty clothes he was carrying.Because too much fun, Garlic is not aware that one had been washed away clothes.Unfortunately the clothes are washed away his stepmother's favorite shirt. Once aware of it, the clothes stepmother had drifted too far. Garlic try down the river to look for it, but failed to find it. In desperation, he returned home and tell his mother.
"Basic careless!" Snapped the stepmother. "I do not want to know, just you have to find clothes that! And do not dare to go home if you have not found it. Understand?"
Garlic is forced to obey the wishes of his half overlying. He quickly washed down the river where earlier. The sun had started to rise, but the Garlic has not found her clothes. He put up his eyes, carefully examined every overhung roots jutting into the river, who knows her clothes caught there. After much stepped up and the sun was leaning to the west, Garlic saw a shepherd who was bathing buffalo. Garlic then asked: "O uncle is good, whether the uncle see red shirt drifting through here? Because I have to find and bring it home. "
"Yes, I had seen my son. If you chase quickly, maybe you can catch him, "said the uncle.
"Well uncle, thank you!" Said Garlic and ran back along the riverbank.
It was getting dark, Garlic was getting desperate. Soon the night will arrive, and Garlic.From a distance it looks light emanating from a hut by the river. Garlic immediately approached the house and knocked.
"Excuse me ..." said Garlic. An elderly woman opened the door.
"Who are you, son?" Asked the old woman.
"I Garlic Grandma. Just now I'm looking for my mother's clothes were washed away. And now benighted. Can I stay here tonight? "Asked Garlic.
"Can son. Are you looking for clothes that are red? "Asked the grandmother.
"Yes grandma. What ... grandmother found her? "Asked Garlic.
"Yes. The clothes had been stuck in front of my house. Unfortunately, when I liked that shirt, "said the grandmother. "Well I'll give it back, but you must accompany me out here for a week. I have not been talking to anyone, how? "Asked the grandmother.
Garlic thought for a moment. The old woman looked lonely. Garlic also feel pity.
"Well Grandma, I will accompany grandmother for a week, if grandma does not get bored with me," said Garlic with a smile.
Garlic weeklong stay with the grandmother. Every day Garlic helps with housework grandmother. Of course, the grandmother was happy. Until finally even been a week, she called the grandmother of garlic.
"Son, you had a week stay here. And I'm glad that you're diligent and dutiful son. It suits my promise to you should bring clothes home mother. And another thing, you may choose one of two pumpkin as a gift! "Said the grandmother.
Garlic initially refused rewarded but still forced her grandmother. Finally Garlic choose the smallest pumpkin. "I'm afraid not bring a big strong," he said. Grandma smiled and deliver Garlic up to the front of the house.
At home, Garlic handed red shirt belonging to his stepmother while she went to the kitchen to split the pumpkin yellow. Surprise, garlic when squash was cloven, therein contain gold gems that very much. He screamed and was so excited to tell this magical stepmother and onion with direct greedy grab the gold and jewels. They forced garlic to tell him how he could get the prize. Garlic also tell the truth.
Hearing stories of garlic, onion and mother are planning to do the same thing but this time the onion will do. In short red onions finally reached the old grandmother's house on the edge of the river. Such as garlic, onion was asked to accompany him during the week. Unlike avid garlic, onion during the week just lazing. If anything that is done, the results are never good because it is always done at random. Finally, after a week of red onion grandmother was allowed to go. "Should grandmother gave me a pumpkin as a gift because accompany you during the week?" Asked onion. The old woman had ordered onion choose one of two pumpkins offered. Onion quickly take a large pumpkin and without saying thanks he walked away.
At home shallots soon meet his mother and happily showing pumpkin carries. For fear of garlic will ask a part, they had garlic to go to the river. Then eagerly they divide the pumpkin. But it was not gold jewels out of the flask, but venomous animals such as snakes, scorpions, and others. The animals were immediately attacked onion and her mother to death. That is the reward for those who are greedy.
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