Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih

Bawang Merah & Bawang Putih

The story of Central Java.
Age of yore in a village lived a family consisting of father, mother and a beautiful teenage girl named garlic. They were 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 same village lived a widow who has a son named Bawang Merah. Since the mother died Garlic, Shallots mother often visited the house garlic. He often brought food, helped clean up the house garlic or onion and accompany his father to talk. Garlic's father finally thought that maybe it's better if he had married only the mother Shallot Garlic is not so lonely anymore. So Garlic father later married the mother Onion. At first she Shallots and onions are good to Garlic. But over time, their true nature began to appear. They often scolded him garlic and hard work if the father was away Garlic trading. Garlic should be doing all the housework, while the red onion and mother just sitting around. Of course, Garlic father did not know it, because Garlic is never told.
One day Garlic father fell ill and later died. Since then the red onion and mother more powerful and arbitrarily to Garlic. Garlic is almost never break. He had to get up before dawn, to prepare the water bath and breakfast for the red onion and mother. Then he had to feed livestock, watering gardens and washing clothes to the creek. Then he still had to ironing, cleaning house, and many other jobs. Garlic, however always happy to do his job, because he hopes one day his stepmother would love her like his own child.
This morning as usual Garlic bring baskets of clothes to be washed in a river. With little singing him down the path on the edge of the usual small forest path. The day was very sunny weather. Garlic immediately wash all dirty clothes he was carrying. I was so much fun, Garlic does not realize that one of the shirts have been washed away. Unfortunately the clothes are washed his stepmother's favorite dress. When he realized it, the clothes have been washed away stepmother too far. Try the garlic down the river to look for, but could not find it. In desperation, he returned to his home and told his mother.
"Basic careless!" Snapped her stepmother. "I do not want to know, you just have to find the clothes! And do not dare to go home if you have not found it. Got it? "
Garlic is forced to the wishes of her half Ibun. He quickly washed down the river where he was. The sun had started rising, but the Garlic have not found her mother's clothes. He put his eye, carefully examined every juluran roots jutting into the river, who knows her dress caught there. After a long walk and the sun was leaning to the west, Garlic saw a shepherd who was bathing buffalo. Garlic then asked: "O good uncle, if my uncle saw a red dress that drifted through here? Because I had to find and bring him home. "
"Yes I had seen my boy. If you are chasing a quick, maybe you can catch him, "the uncle said.
"Well, uncle, thank you!" Garlic is said and ran back along the riverbank.
It was getting dark, Garlic was getting desperate. Soon night will come, and Garlic. From the distance the light coming from a shack on the riverbank. Garlic immediately went to the house and knocked.
"Excuse me ...!" Garlic said. An old woman opened the door.
"Who are you son?" Asked the old woman.
"I Garlic Nan. Just now I'm looking for my mother's clothes are washed away. And now benighted. Can I stay here tonight? "Garlic said.
"Sure son. Are you looking for clothes that are red? "Asked the grandmother.
"Yes nek. What ... grandmother found her? "Said Garlic.
"Yes. Last dress caught in front of my house. Unfortunately, though I liked that shirt, "said the grandmother. "Well I'll give it back, but first you must accompany me here for a week. I have not talked with anyone, how? "Said the grandmother.
Garlic is thought for a moment. My grandmother looked lonely. Garlic is also felt pity.
"Well Nan, I'll stay with grandma for a week, from the grandmother was not bored with me," he said with a smile Garlic.

Garlic for a week staying with the grandmother. Garlic each day helps with homework grandmother. Of course, the old woman feel good. Until finally even been a week, grandmother hailed garlic.
"Son, you have a week to stay here. And I'm glad that you are a diligent and dutiful. According to my promise that you can bring your mother home clothes. And one more, you can choose one of two pumpkins this as a gift! "Said the grandmother.
Garlic initially refused to be rewarded but still made her a grandmother. Garlic finally chose the smallest pumpkin. "I'm afraid not bring a big strong," he said. Grandma smiled and delivered up front Garlic house.
At home, Garlic's red shirt gave his stepmother while he went into the kitchen to chop yellow squash. Garlic surprise when the pumpkin was split, inside it contains jewels of gold very much. She screamed and let excitement of this magical thing to her stepmother and onion langsun greedily grab the gold and jewels. They forced the garlic to tell how he got the prize. Garlic also told the truth.
Hearing stories garlic, onion, and her mother plan to do the same thing but this time the red onion will do. Short red onion finally reached the old grandmother's house on the edge of river. Like garlic, onion was asked to accompany him for a week. Unlike diligent garlic, during the week of onion idle only. Even if there are done then the result is never good because it is always done at random. Finally after a week allowing the grandmother to leave the red onion. "Should not the grandmother gave me a pumpkin as a gift because it keep you company for a week?" Asked the red onion. My grandmother was forced to send red onion choose one of two offered pumpkin. Onion quickly took a big pumpkin and without thanking him walk away.
Arriving at the house red onion immediately find her mother and happily brought pumpkin show. For fear of garlic will ask for a part, they had garlic to go into a river. Then they impatiently sliced the pumpkin. But it was not gold jewels out of the pumpkin, but poisonous animals like snakes, scorpions, and others. The animals were immediately attacked the onion and mother to death. That is the reward of a greedy person.
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