(Part 3)
Hearing this Thio Kun’s speech, the guests sitting nearby laughed and all the lips smiled with their eyes glistening meaningfully at the dancer.
“Ha ha ha! What Thio said was right!” said Liok Kong then said to the dancer, “Sweet young lady, before you show your beautiful dance, first tell your name.”
With a very attractive style while bowing his face shyly, the beautiful dancer’s mother then played her beautiful voice. Seeing the silence when the room is full of guests, it can be deduced that everyone is paying attention to this answer and everyone wants to hear what the name of this great dancer is.
“Lo-ya, my she (family name) is Ong, my name Ong Lian Hong, a poor orphan girl who relies on life from a bit of dancing.”
“Good, good! What a beautiful name!” Thio Kun exclaimed happily as he clapped his hand, “Lian Hong …. it is a very nice name. Liok lo-enghiong, tell Miss Lian Hong to dance quickly. I can not wait to enjoy her beautiful dance!”
This speech received a welcome response from most of the guests present. Suddenly the old gamelan musicians immediately started playing melodious music. The three of them played three kinds of instruments, a flute, a pipe (like a guitar), and the other holding a small drum to set the rhythm.
Hearing these sounds, everyone became disillusioned because it turned out that the music consisted of three people is not something special. Many musical groups can play much better than these three.
However, after Miss Ong Lian Hong bowes respectfully to the four corners and begins to stand upright and listens to the music, then she begins with her dance, dissolving all the disappointments of the listeners. How beautiful this young lady’s dance was, or maybe not the beautiful dance, but the tempting body movements.
Her body moves gracefully like a yang-liu tree that is blown by the wind. The ten small, smooth fingers seemed as if ten snakes were alive and moving very beautifully. The waist that very slender is like shrinking again when his body move swinging. Her gleaming eyes beat the thunderbolts, his smile rivaling the full moon.
All the guests dumbfounded, including the host. During their lifetime they have never seen such a beautiful dance, or rather, a young dancer as beautiful and good as his body shape.
After dancing for a while, Ong Lian Hong then took out a red scarf that had been tucked in his belt and now he danced with the scarf. The more amazed all the guests were watching this scarf dance, because it was really really beautiful.
Deftly the ten fingers of her hand moved the scarf so that the scarf danced in the air like a dragon. But when he changed the movement of his hand, the scarf became like a red rose created in the air and then waved again and then released, a fine silk scarf caressing the dancer’s head and neck and waist.
When the dancer stopped the dance, then a voice of praise was heard that seemed to overthrow the pillars of the building and vibrate the tiles. The cheers roared with excitement, interspersed with cries of admiration.
The sound of praise is so hard that the inhabitants who had lived in the house became interested and they flocked to visit the building that is being used for the party. In the front yard crowded with people who wanted to look inside. The guests who had been in the left and right room could not have been prevented from entering the room. This can happen because there are no more guards, because all guards have also entered and watched.
“Good, good! Fantastic, Ong-siocia (Miss Ong)!” Liok Kong praised while approaching the girl dancer, “Give me your scarf, let me trade with this!” he passed a hat ornament made of gold sprinkled with gemstones.
“Wait a second, Liok lo-enghiong!” Thio Kun jumped up and reached out his hand, “Just give me the scarf, young lady! I will exchange it with something much more valuable. Look at this!”
He pulled an object out of his inner pocket and everyone looked in awe. In the Thio Kun’s hand, a statue made of marble which is a kilin (a sacred animal like a lion) is seen. This thing is very beautiful, a pair of eyes made of red gems that emit brilliant light. It cannot be estimated how much the price of these objects like this is.
The pair of dancers’ eyes seemed to emit a flash when he saw this object, but with a smile he said, “Thank you very much, siauw-ya (young master), but I’m just a messenger who must respect the host. Therefore, I must handed over this scarf to Liok-loya!” saying so, sweetly and with both hands he gave the red scarf to the accepting Liok Kong with a big laugh.
This playboy old man when receiving a scarf deliberately was about to hold the smooth arm, but he was surprised to find that he only caught wind. Somehow, all he caught was just the red scarf. Liok Kong thinks this is just a coincidence and laughs loudly while saying to Thio Kun who keeps his statue back, “You heard her words, Thio-taihiap (Warrior Thio), then you have to give up to me!”
Thio Kun smiled wryly and said with a sigh, “You’re lucky, lo-enghiong. However, who knows if next time I will get the chance to pull this young lady’s hand into a friend for the rest of my life!”
All the guests who had been affected by the loud commotion, laughed out loud at this. Some polite guests, like the monks and tosu, just shook their heads, but they were already familiar with the strange and sometimes rude kang-ouw custom, so they were just kept silent.
“Come …. come young lady, you have the honor to sit with us on the big table. For such a great dance you have to be honored with three fragrant wine cups!” said Liok Kong.
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