Episode 4

At midnight, Sunarti, seeing that her husband was fast asleep, tiptoed out of the house.

Sunarti immediately put a sarong over her head, covering her entire face and leaving only her eyes to see in the darkness.

Armed with a flashlight in her hand, the middle-aged woman walked through the darkness of the night. The sound of crickets and nocturnal animals made Sunarti a little scared. But when she remembered the one million rupiah she would soon receive, the fear disappeared and turned into enthusiasm to immediately complete her mission.

Although only eight houses away from her residence, considering that each house has a large yard, Sunarti still had to walk quite far to reach the place where her second younger sibling lived.

After walking for about ten minutes, Sunarti arrived at a house with a gedek fence that was very dark because there was only one oil lamp lit inside the house, namely in the bedroom of a husband and wife and also in the earthen enclosure where Tari's placenta was buried next to the back door of the house.

Sunarti went around to observe the condition of her second younger sibling's small house before she decided which way to enter.

Seeing that going through the back door was a safe option, Sunarti stepped back across the field towards Supardi's back door.

The back door terrace was plastered with cement because it was directly connected to the well and the bathroom stall.

As soon as Sunarti's foot stepped on the terrace, she suddenly slipped and fell hard, making her spine feel instantly crushed.

Not wanting to wake Supardi and his family, Sunarti could only bite the sarong she was wearing on her head tightly to relieve the pain that was afflicting her.

Supardi, who had sharp hearing, immediately stood up as soon as he heard the sound of something falling hard behind the house.

To make sure what it was, Supardi immediately took a piece of candle from the drawer and lit it as lighting and then stepped out of the room towards the back door coinciding with the voice of Tari's heart that suddenly sounded.

"That evil woman has come! But unfortunately, she was caught in the trap made by my older sibling at the back door and fell hard due to the soapy water that flooded."

Fortunately, Supardi heard his daughter's heart's voice so he was not harmed like Sunarti and only opened part of the back door, only the top part, leaving the bottom part still closed while pointing his candle out to see in the darkness.

Sunarti is currently curled up by the well after hearing the sound of the back door opening.

"That evil woman has been harmed. Tonight, my father and mother can rest peacefully because there are still many traps in the back of the house that are ready to welcome that woman who tonight will experience many losses."

Hearing that her eldest sibling would not be able to enter the house and would instead experience many losses, Supardi immediately closed the back door of his house again and propped it up with a table as a form of anticipation if Tari's prediction was wrong and Sunarti still insisted on entering the house.

Hearing the door close and footsteps walking away, Sunarti struggled to get up while holding her waist that felt very painful.

She had only taken five steps when suddenly her right foot plunged into a hole that Aan had deliberately made, causing her to fall again in a sitting position, making her sore waist feel even more throbbing.

"Arggghhh!"

Sunarti's loud scream made the corners of Supardi and Srikandi's lips twitch, trying to hold back laughter after knowing that the woman who intended evil had again been caught in the trap made by their three children.

The loud scream that Sunarti could not hold back because of the shock was only the opening, then screams of pain and curses were heard by the husband and wife along the way, until Supardi's eldest sibling walked away from the house as her voice became increasingly faint, then disappeared without a trace.

The husband and wife smiled widely because they could pass this slightly thrilling night easily.

Supardi's three children who were in separate rooms also giggled behind their pillows, afraid that their laughter would be heard by their parents who would definitely come and scold them for not sleeping until midnight.

Sunarti, who had just come out of hell, walked limping while continuing to utter curses to the family of her second younger sibling who seemed to deliberately make her suffer tonight.

She did not expect at all that at her second younger sibling's house, at night there were many hidden traps ready to welcome the guests they did not invite.

Bug!

As soon as she turned at the bend, Sunarti was hit by someone who ran away in a panic until she fell backwards.

"Hey! Don't run away! Come on, take responsibility!", she shouted angrily.

The man who covered his entire head with a sarong, just like Sunarti, ignored the woman's shouts and continued to run as if he was being chased by a ghost.

Muttering, Sunarti got up with difficulty because her waist and buttocks, which had been injured by the batman trap installed at Supardi's house, stood up with a grimacing face, holding her entire body that felt sore and very painful.

"J****k! What bad luck I have tonight!", she cursed angrily.

Bad luck seemed to continue to haunt Sunarti's steps tonight. After struggling to get up and walk again, after only a few steps, suddenly a group of residents came and immediately beat her indiscriminately.

Sunarti's screams and the groans of pain she suffered did not make everyone stop their actions, until the woman fainted because she could not stand the pain that came afflicting her.

Seeing the figure they suspected as the thief of Bambang's family's money had collapsed helplessly, instead of being sorry, the residents immediately dragged her to the village hall to be tried.

Some of the residents of the houses passed by the residents, woke up because of the noisy sound and peeked at what was happening outside.

Seeing that a group of residents seemed to have just caught a thief who was being paraded to the village hall, they went back into their rooms to rest because tomorrow there were still many activities that they had to do.

Sunarti, who had just been thrown onto the cold cement plastered floor, in the village hall, regained consciousness and held her head in a daze.

In the village hall, the lighting was better so the woman could clearly see the faces of the people who had beaten her earlier.

"All of you! How dare you beat me! I demand compensation!", said Sunarti while pointing her index finger at everyone with a fierce gaze.

She forgot for a moment the pain in her body because the anger in her heart was stronger.

Everyone was surprised because they did not expect that the thief they caught was a woman, especially a mustachioed man aged 40 named Tain.

Not wanting to guess, Tain immediately stepped forward and opened the sarong that covered Sunarti's head.

"Mother!", he shouted in shock seeing that the person he and the residents had caught was his wife, Sunarti.

PLAK!

Sunarti immediately got up and slapped her husband's face hard after realizing that one of the residents who had beaten her was Tain.

Tain, who had high self-esteem, was of course very angry to be slapped and humiliated like that by his wife in public.

PLAK! PLAK! BUGH! BUGH!

Tain slapped and hit Sunarti several times, until some of the residents who witnessed it tried to stop him.

"You barbaric husband! How can you bear to beat your wife like this!", shouted Sunarti while shedding tears with red eyes because she could no longer bear all the pain that had been afflicting her.

"You! You disobedient wife! Have I not given you enough money that you became a thief! If I knew you were going to steal, I should have broken your legs earlier when you sneaked out of the house so you wouldn't make me ashamed!", Tain shouted back fiercely.

The husband and wife then argued and hurled insults and harsh curses at each other, making the residents who witnessed it could only shake their heads.

"Enough...enough...don't take the law into your own hands. Let's sit down and find a solution together," said Wicaksono, the village head who had just arrived after being called by a resident to be a mediator and witness to the theft case that Bambang and his wife had experienced tonight.

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