Black Rose (Completed)

Chapter Ten

A voice of the sadness came out. Lilia seemed to hear the echo of a heart-rending song. Marrying a patriarch...you can't breathe...you can die...should you? Once alive... why die so many times?

Atina's death is a human tragedy as a result of a long fooling process that considers women as someone's 'things'. As an 'object', she is not worthy to sue for the injustice that has tormented her life. Like Atina who couldn't resist when the rapist killed her. Like Atina's family who can only get angry and rage but don't know what to do. On the one hand, they wanted to throw the bastard in jail, then they remembered the baby Atina. The poor baby has lost his mother, and if his father is in prison, he will lose both.

That's what the family of Atina considers, who are now stuck in a dilemma. Their days are like swallowing thorns. The tragedy of Atina's death and the long suffering caused by poverty and ignorance hit their lives hard. Don't know when the pain will stop and the wounds will heal.

Lilia said to Supina that morning in her mother's kitchen, "It's okay if you need to calm down. Take your time."

"I need to keep myself busy," Supina replied. "Otherwise I will be stuck in grief forever."

Lilia understood. Since childhood she has made many friends with poor children who are not used to showing their sadness. In her mother's kitchen there are six female students who are helping to make breadfruit flour. They were seen circling a large container filled with breadfruit that had been peeled and then soaked in water mixed with lactic acid starter.

"What's the use of this lactic acid?" Baba asked who looked ready to go to work.

"To remove the sap after stripping the breadfruit, Baba." Lilia answered.

"If you just soak it in salt and then fry it, it will be delicious and tasty." Baba jokes.

"Still the sap is quite disturbing during the frying process," Lilia explained. "The fried breadfruit isn't good either because the skillet has latex on it."

"Wow, my daughter is serious about wanting to be an entrepreneur." Baba said to Mimi. Then turned to Lilia and her friends, "Alright, get on with your work everyone."

"Thanks for the support, Baba. See you later this afternoon."

Lilia looked at her father's back who was leaving. Every time she felt like she was going to cry when she remembered the inevitable painful things.

"What's wrong with you?" Her mother asked suddenly standing beside her.

"Just thinking about my breadfruit flour factory, Mimi." Lilia chuckled to hide what she was really thinking.

"Why do you think that way? Just do it, enjoy the process, the problem of success is part of the mystery of your sustenance." Mimi advises.

Mother and daughter were chatting while Supina and the students watched their teacher's family in awe. They often talked about Lilia's beauty stemming from her mother's beauty. Then added to their warm conversation, of course this attracts more attention.

"Where are we?" Lilia turned to her friends who were dumbfounded. "Let's work."

Lilia gave an example of how to cut a wedge shape, then blanch it in the oven for ten minutes. Everyone worked quickly according to Lilia's instructions.

After ten minutes and the group doing the smelting had finished with their work, the other party prepared the soaking water mixed with sodium meta bisulfite solution.

"Let's soak the breadfruit for an hour," Lilia said to her assistants.

After an hour, the steamed sawut is washed again, then pressed. After that, the sawut breadfruit is dried to a maximum moisture content of 12 percent.