Once there was a kingdom named Jenggala. Jenggala kingdom was ruled by a
king named Raden Putra. Raden Putra lived with his beautiful wife, the queen of
the kingdom and also with his concubine. The king’s concubine was so jealous of
the life of the queen. All of her time was spent by thinking on how to get rid
of the queen and become the only queen in the kingdom.
One day, the desire of being a queen filled the concubine’s heart and
blinded her. She was coming to the kingdom physician to set a plan to get rid
of the queen. With all the wealth promised by the concubine, the physician agreed
to join her. As the agreement made, the queen walked back to her room with a
self-satisfied smirk on her face.
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The next day, the concubine was lying unmoved in her bed screaming for
help. Of course it was her trick to fool all people in the kingdom. The king
that heard the scream rushed to the concubine’s room. As he checked the state
of his second wife, he told his people to summon the kingdom physician.
The physician had done checking the condition of the concubine when the queen
arrived in the room. The king worriedly asked the physician what triggered the
illness of the concubine. There was a short pause before the physician started
to say that the concubine was poisoned. He found that the drink the concubine
drank before she slept was intentionally put with dangerous substance by
someone. The physician told that it was such a lucky that the king wasn’t too
late to call him.
There was anger in the king’s face to know that there was someone trying
to poison his wife. The king then interrogated all present that time to find
who had brought the drink to the concubine out. All the questions given, then,
led to a conclusion that it was the queen who brought the drink that she made
by herself. The queen denied to be said that she put the poison into the drink.
But the king was blinded by everything that seemed to happen so fast and bad
that night. The king, then, asked his viceroy to take the queen to the forest
and told him if it was needed he could kill the queen.
The viceroy then took the queen to the forest. The queen couldn’t help
not to cry and beg him not to kill her. But he didn’t say a word to the queen’s
beg. After few hours of travelling, they finally arrived in the middle of the
forest. The forest was so thick that it seemed a bit dark even in the middle of
the day. The viceroy took his sword out of its scabbard. The queen screamed as
she saw it. She thought that it was the end of her life. But how baffled she
was when he saw the viceroy used the sword to cut the bushes and small trees.
With those, he build small hut that the queen could use to sleep and stay
during the day.
When the queen asked why the viceroy didn’t do what the king ordered him
to do, he answered that he didn’t believe what had been accused to her. Besides,
the viceroy would never kill a woman that was pregnant. The queen was pregnant
the time she was taken to the forest. After explain that, the viceroy hunted
for a small rabbit. As he killed the rabbit, he simmered his sword with the
rabbit’s blood. Before he travelled back to the kingdom, the viceroy told the
queen that she shouldn’t be worried the king would look for her because he
would tell the king that he had killed the queen by showing his blood-covered
sword.
Few weeks later, the queen gave birth to a baby boy. She named the baby
Cindelaras. Time flew so fast. The baby grew up into a healthy handsome boy. He
liked to play around the forest and befriend with many animals in the forest.
One day, while he was playing, an eagle was flying above him and dropped
an egg. Cindelaras was curious of the egg. He decided to keep the egg until it
hatched to know what animal he would see. After three weeks, the egg hatched to
a small chick. Cindelaras was so happy that he began to raise the chick until
it grow up into a beautiful roaster. His mother was also happy to see how happy
his son was to have a friend that he could keep inside the house.
One morning, the rooster crowed like it usually did every morning, but
this morning, instead of producing sound of a rooster, it screamed “Kukuruyuuk!!! Cindelaras, his home inside
the forest in the hut, the roof is from the leaf of coconut, and his father is
the king Raden Putra, the fact that will always unshut.
Cindelaras was fascinated of what he heard. He, then, told his mother
about it. His mother told the history of what happened to her in the past.
After listening her mother revealing the truth, Cindelaras decided to go to the
place to meet Raden Putra that her mother told him to be his father.
Next day, Cindelaras began his journey. He passed a village where there
were a battle called “nyabung”, where people would bring their roosters and put
them into a fight. When Cindelaras passed the crowd, many people were amazed by
the beauty of his roosters. They asked Cindelaras to join the nyabung battle.
Apparently, Cindelaras’ rooster could easily defeat all roosters in the
villages.
Since then, every time Cindelaras passed a village, he would be asked to
join “nyabung” battle. And every time he took part in the competition, he would
always come out as a winner. The word of his popularity spread so fast to the
entire villages and kingdom.
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The king who heard that there was a boy with his beautiful strong
rooster asked his people to take Cindelaras to him. As Cindelaras arrived in
front of the king, he bowed and greeted the king. The king was amazed on
Cindelaras’ manner and also his appearance. The king didn’t expect that he
would see a very good-looking boy.
The king told Cindelaras that he would like to ask him to battle their
roosters. Before they began the battle, Cindelaras asked for one condition that
if he lost, the king could behead his head but if he win, he could have all the
wealth and kingdom. The king agreed on the offered condition.
The battle began. The roosters fought each other with their claws and
beaks. They hit each other so hard. The roosters were bleeding so badly.
Finally, after a long fight, the Cindelaras’ rooster could take down the king’s.
The king was stunned to see what happened and to think what would
happened. He then asked Cindelaras “Who are you?”. But, before Cindelaras could
open his mouth to answer the king’s question, the rooster crowed ““Kukuruyuuk!!! Cindelaras, his home’s inside
the forest in the hut, the roof is from the leaf of coconut, and his father is
the king Raden Putra, the fact that will always unshut..”
The king was shocked with what the rooster said. He called his viceroy
to ask what was happening. The viceroy then told what happened to the queen and
also told his suspicion on the concubine and the physician. The king was gone
for seconds while listening to what the viceroy words. There were tears dripping
from his eyes. He walked toward Cindelaras and hugged him. He told the viceroy
to take the queen home and put the concubine and physician into the kingdom
jail.
The next day, the king, the queen and Cindelaras gathered as one in the
palace. And for once again, there was happiness in both king and queen’s face.
They lived happily ever after.
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