Upon waking from her long sleep, Lina felt her body aching as if she had been beaten. Every joint in her body ached and felt extrely sore. Even so, she felt no regret when she imagined that Laus would soon be hers completely. A satisfied smile spread across her pale face.
Many cunning scenarios were neatly arranged in Lina’s head at that mont. With the abilities she had just gained last night from the evil ritual, she was very confident that she could easily realize everything she had planned for a long ti without anyone being able to stop her. No one would be able to stop her this ti.
"Laus, wait for , my dear. Soon you will be mine," Lina muttered with a broad smile and eyes sparkling with obsession. Her face looked frightening with that unnatural smile.
After getting dressed in the sa clothes she wore yesterday because she didn’t bring a change of clothes, Lina imdiately left the old wooden house without saying goodbye to Grandpa Sura because the old man had said earlier that she could leave as soon as she woke up without waiting for him, who was currently performing a ritual in his dark, incense-filled private room.
Knock knock knock...
Lono woke up with a start when the car window was knocked on repeatedly and imdiately unlocked the door so Lina could get in, while trying to gather his senses, which felt like they had flown away sowhere. His eyes were still half closed.
"Ouch, you scared , Lin," he complained, rubbing his eyes.
Seeing Lono just waking up with his hair disheveled, Lina was not surprised because she knew for sure that last night the man had been put to sleep by Grandpa Sura so that all the rituals he perford could run smoothly without any interference from anywhere. That was part of the plan.
"Let’s go ho! Quickly! I can’t stand this place anymore," Lina ordered impatiently.
Lono, who had been eager to leave this haunted forest as soon as possible, imdiately stepped on the gas pedal. His hands were still trembling with fear.
This ti, the way ho felt very smooth, as if soone had deliberately cleared the way for him, unlike when they first entered the forest yesterday, which was full of obstacles and dead ends. It was as if a supernatural force was helping them.
After leaving the dark and scary forest, Lono felt very relieved and imdiately sped up his vehicle to find a food stall because he was very hungry after not eating any rice for almost a whole day yesterday. His stomach felt very sore.
"Next ti, if you want to stay overnight, don’t stay in the forest, Lina. I’m traumatized!" Lono complained with a voice full of regret. "Luckily, after eating two large packs of bread last night, I fell asleep for so reason. If not, I could have died of hunger and fear last night in the middle of the forest alone. It felt like soone was watching from the darkness."
Lina, who saw that Lono looked very pale from hunger and fear, imdiately took out a wad of red money from her bag.
"This is compensation for your hard work! You’ve helped a lot," said Lina as she placed the money in Lono’s cold, sweaty hands, making the man’s complaints disappear instantly and replace them with a big smile on his face. His eyes sparkled at the sight of the large amount of money.
"Wow, thank you, Lina! This is quite a lot," said Lono happily.
"But rember! You must keep your mouth shut. If anyone finds out what I’m doing here, you’re done for! Do you understand what I an?" said Lina threateningly, staring intently at Lono.
"Don’t worry, Lina! My lips are sealed," replied Lono with a smile of delight and imdiately put the money into the small bag he was carrying carefully. "I won’t tell anyone. Trust !"
The two of them imdiately continued their journey as soon as the traffic light turned green, heading for the nearest restaurant they saw on the side of the road.
After filling their stomachs with pecel rice and warm sweet tea, they hurried back to the village of Sukora. Fortunately, the highway was smooth and safe with no traffic jams, so they arrived ho safely within four hours.
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At Laus’ residence,
After returning from the Amanah cottage with a calr heart, Lura imdiately went to the production room while Laus went to the central market to et with the middlen who usually supplied raw materials for the production of snacks to inform them to provide additional stock this week because orders were increasing.
The two of them prepared everything thoroughly before the store in the city of U officially opened. They didn’t want to do this business half-heartedly.
Inside the house, Liona, who was accompanying her third sister while she drew, also enthusiastically scribbled on the paper in front of her with colored pencils.
At first, Lano thought his baby sister was just scribbling on the paper given to her as usual. But when he looked closely at the picture Liona had drawn, Lano couldn’t help but be surprised. His mouth opened wide.
"What... what is this?" he muttered in surprise.
His sister had drawn a very detailed picture of a machine, although he didn’t know what kind of machine it was. However, Lano, who could already read, saw the slightly ssy letters written underneath it.
"A sealing machine! A spinner machine!" Lano read the sowhat ssy writing while scratching his head in confusion. "How could my sister draw sothing like this?"
Curious and unable to contain his curiosity, Lano cautiously asked a question. "What are these machines for? They look really complicated."
"These are machines for producing the chips that mom makes so they last longer and are of good quality," replied Liona in her shrill voice while continuing to draw.
"Oh... I see," responded Lano, nodding even though he didn’t fully understand.
Because his childish mind couldn’t comprehend the things Liona sotis said or muttered to herself, such as the two machines his sister had drawn today, Lano, who felt that everything his sister did was for the good of their family, didn’t ask any more questions and returned to drawing the landscape with mountains and rice fields that he had only half finished.
In addition to drawing the two machines in great detail, Liona also neatly wrote down the parts of the machine underneath so that her father could easily make it or find soone who could make it.
Liona also took into account the conditions in the village, where there was no electricity, so she replaced it with a device that could use diesel power, which only required diesel fuel, and diesel was easy to find at nearby shops.
After completing the two machines that perfectly supported her family’s chip production, the chubby baby wrote down several important things that her father and mother needed to prepare for their shop.
Liona began listing the snacks that could be sold in her shop because the more varieties sold, the more attractive it would be to consurs to co and buy from their shop. Business competition had to be carefully considered.
Because there were many items on Liona’s long list, and it was impossible for her family to make all the chips themselves, she had a brilliant idea for her parents to find chip makers who had been selling their products independently to work with them in a mutually beneficial system.
Liona wants Laus to buy the chips they produce in large quantities. For packaging, they will package them neatly themselves and offer several flavors to attract consurs to buy their products.
However, if the chip producers did not want to sell their unbranded products in bulk, her parents could offer them a consignnt system, where they would only pay for the products that were sold at a price agreed upon by both parties, while unsold products could be returned without any loss. This system would certainly benefit both parties, and everything must be discussed clearly from the outset to avoid any misunderstandings later on that could damage the business relationship.
Lura, who had just entered the house to see what her two children were doing, was a little surprised by what her baby was thinking at that mont. She could hear Liona’s heartbeat clearly.
Seeing the neat picture Liona had drawn, Lura was even more surprised because she never expected her baby to be able to draw in such detail, a machine she had never seen before anywhere.
Not only did Liona draw this unfamiliar machine, she even drew each component of the machine in detail, accompanied by explanations on the side like a professional blueprint.
"What is this, dear? What is this picture?" asked Lura, who was still unclear about the picture her baby had drawn, while sitting next to Liona.
"It’s a machine to help mom’s production so that the chips made can last longer and not go stale quickly," replied Liona proudly.
After hearing Liona’s detailed explanation about the function and how the machine worked, Lura began to understand and imdiately looked at the papers under the picture her baby had drawn with great attention.
The more she looked at and read everything her baby had made carefully, the more Lura felt amazed and sad because Liona was thinking so much about their fate. Even her playti, which should have been used for fun things, was used to think about such complicated matters for the sake of her family.
"Honey, thank you so much. Liona has helped mom and dad a lot. Mom is very proud of and loves Liona very much," said Lura as she hugged her baby affectionately. Her eyes were filled with tears because she was so moved.
"Liona loves mom too. Don’t be sad, mom," replied Liona as she kissed Lura’s cheek gently.
Lano, who was beside her, also pushed his cheek forward playfully. "Do you love too, Liona?" he asked with sparkling eyes full of hope.
Liona turned her head and smiled sweetly. "I love you too, brother..." she replied, kissing her third brother’s cheek affectionately, making Lano’s face light up instantly with happiness.
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