1 Kindness always gets rewarded

In a village in the Yogjakarta area, Tapen village, Bantul, a village that has a fertile nature, with rice fields as far as the eye can see and stretches of sugarcane plantations that are neatly lined up, from the side of the regional road to the edge of the railroad tracks.

Separated by a railroad crossing, making the village of Tapen, a fertile village into two parts, one is in the rice fields and sugarcane fields, the other is on the opposite side of the rail with dense teak and mahogany trees covering most of the area.

Fewer than 50 houses of the residents of Tapen village live in a part of the area that has teak and mahogany trees, in contrast to the area near rice fields and sugarcane fields which has almost a hundred houses, almost double the number of residents across the tracks.

The rail that separates the two parts of the village of Tapen has two double rail lines, at the end of the village, there is a large rail bridge, made by the Dutch Colonial and the Present Government, creating two beautiful sights, one past and one present.

The large and wide Progo River is the separator, between two stretches of the bridge, connecting one side to the other, making Tapen village a village rich in nature and scenery.

In a beautiful house, Jogja cash, with a wide overhang, with a variety of beautiful flowers, which are decorated in the front yard of the house, adds to the beauty of the hash country house, with goat cages stuck in the back yard, and several birdcages consisting of, from cucak row, magpie, a turtledove, and others, making the atmosphere more complete and peaceful in the house.

Adi Setiawan, a 17-year-old teenager, who was on vacation at his mother's house in Jogja from his father's side, was having fun with his family enjoying a cool and fresh morning, free from air pollution in the big city of Jakarta, where their family lives.

Today is the third day, of their family vacation in Jogja of ten days, which they planned to stay there, after breakfast and saying goodbye to his family, Adi rushed to the house of his aunty at the end of the village.

Aunty Adi's house, is the house on the outskirts of Tapen village on the banks of the big Progo river, with the surroundings of his house is a fairly dense expanse of teak forest, after a while walking and greeting some neighbors who incidentally are distant relatives, Adi arrived in front of Aunty house, say hello and enter the house without knocking on the door

there was an answer from behind the house, more precisely Pawon (the term for the kitchen for the Javanese) "Who are you?" asked a middle-aged woman with a soft face.

"Adi, Aunty but what are you doing?" replied Adi in a friendly manner while kissing his bride's hand

"Ehhhh, you are to Adi, who do you think came to the house so early in the morning, how did you have breakfast? If you haven't come here, have breakfast with Aunty, and your cousin Yudi"

"Thanks, Aunty I had breakfast at grandma's house, adi wants to borrow a fishing rod, and wants to fish in the prego river" explains the purpose of coming to his aunty house

"Oh, you want to go fishing, okay, be careful fishing because the current is quite big, yesterday it was raining, the fishing rod and bait were already there, coincidentally yesterday your uncle wanted to go fishing but it didn't work because it was raining, the tool and bait were beside the well"

"Ok Aunty let's go fishing first, okay?" Pait while walking towards the side of the house where the well is located, there Adi sees a fishing rod and also a box of cans full of earthworms

take a fishing rod, don't forget to bring bait and a net for fishing, adi takes a short walk about 100 meters to the edge of the Progo river when he goes to the river, some cute kittens follow him, adi who likes cats takes them to participate in fishing, because adia knows These cats were familiar with playing on the banks of the Progo river, so he wasn't too worried about taking care of them.

Looking for the ideal fishing spot location Adi chose the right one, under one of the pillars supporting the rail bridge pier, which seemed to be a suitable place for fishing.

time passed quickly, without noticing, Adi had been fishing in the Progo river for an hour and the sun was starting to rise, checking the contents of the net which contained two large tilapia fish, his heart was happy because he was lucky enough today, but just as he was about to clean up his fishing rod, he heard a voice. screams from a kitten not far from his side "Meow, meow, meow" the sound of a kitten mixed with splashing water.

rushing towards the sound, adi became shocked because he saw an orange kitten, was trying to climb a wooden branch, which began to drift away with the current, adi who saw that immediately without thinking immediately threw himself into the river to swim towards the orange kitten.

After some exhausting efforts, he finally was able to hold the kitten, and put it on the wooden branch, seeing the pale and frightened expression of the kitten, Adi relaxed a little because he managed to save him in time.

swimming while pushing the wooden branch, Adi slowly headed for the riverbank, unfortunately when he was about to reach the river bank which was only a few meters away, his leg caught by something causing him to be dragged by the current, seeing that it was difficult for him to escape, and his inadequate position, having to push the wooden branch that contained the kitten, he pushed the branch with all his might, while keeping himself above the water.

Seeing a wooden branch that managed to land on the bank of the river, Adi sighed, when he saw the kitten jump to the river bank, and rejoined his friends, now Adi, who lives alone, tries to dive underwater to get rid of something holding him. he dived under the water, without Adi's knowledge, there was a large log that was swept away by the current right at him when returned to the surface of the water to breathe oxygen, unlucky for him because the wood hit his head and lost his way then Adi was unconscious and drowned under the swift current of the river, only the orange kitten who noticed it all went astray and returned to his friend scould see the condition of the orange kitten he would be amazed because the famous orange cat is capable of crying at this time.

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