Asa At The End of Lembayung

Question by Rina

"Wah now mah Bi Ijah there is a help ya," exclaimed the owner of the garden, when Bi Ijah and Rena have arrived at the place of collecting banana leaves, he said, there were two open-top cars parked in the area.

Some banana leaves are already in the car, though, indeed, the leaves will be sold back to the city of leaves in the capital that have been ordered long before and the banana leaves will be used as food packaging, he said, other decoration and complementary materials.

"Who is this Bi?" ask the owner of the garden who is almost a generation with Bi Ijah.

"Ah this is my nephew Pak Haji Harun, now lives with me," said Bi Parijah who claimed to be his Aunt Rena.

"Ooh... Beautiful yes" she murmured

"It's not our former village Midwife" said someone who recognized Rena's face, and it turns out that the person is Akbar who works as a leaf conveyance lecturer who has been sold to Harun Hajj.

"Ooh... Yes yach, beach kayaks have seen, but what is the real name of Bi Ijah?" haji Harun who just realized it.

"Yes Bi Ijah, I consider Aunt even my own parents," said Rena chimed in words from Haji Harun.

"Ooh... I see, It's Bi Wage, let's just take it there so that Akbar who hauled to the car tub," said Haji Harun while giving money to Bi Ijah, who was not involved, he did not extend any more his question about Rena being able to stay together with Bi Ijah.

After getting paid and the sun began to rise, Rena and Bi Parijah left the banana leaf collection site to return to their homes.

***

While at Rehan's house, seen by Rina after storing her small bag, she approached the sofa and immediately threw her butt next to Zahra who was reading a daily newspaper purchased at the sub-district city market.

"What's wrong? does Rina want to accompany Umi to read?" asked Zahra, but Rina just shook her head, then was quiet for a while, after a few minutes, Rina turned her head to look at Uminya who was cool reading the news in the newspaper.

"If you feel like something you want to talk about, just say it, don't hesitate?" said Zahra back and put the paper on the table after folding it neatly.

Rina can ask you something Umi?" said hesitantly Rena, as if she was gathering her courage first before asking.

"Could it be, what's it about?" ask Zahra.

"Hmmm..." Lina took a deep breath before letting out what was in her mind.

"Why parents aunt Rena does not care about what happens to aunty, is not the word Umi parents Aunty Rena is very rich and why Umi and Abi are so very dear to aunt Rena?" ask Rina.

Zahra, who heard the question coming from her daughter's little mouth, was shocked, thinking her son had sensitivities about people more than his older son.

"Hmma... Sometimes the rich man's thinking is so hard to understand for people like us, you know the conglomerate's world is like a red onion layered by ego, stubborn by arguments, heaps of self-righteousness even when arguing with his own incompatible child, even though they are in the wrong position and may feel most noble compared to others, when they really forget that there are rich people because there are people who do not have," zahra said it was full of emotion, because he remembered what had happened with his best friend.

"And you ask why we love her so much, first because Rena is your brother's first lover, and secondly she is Umi's best friend, if no Rena maybe you will never be either," Zahrapun told Rina about Rehan's time with Rena, how the insult to Abinya, and the arranged marriage forced by her father to make Rena experience misfortune.

About her friendship from the first time she entered college, until Rena helped her family when difficulties and about the reason she could meet and marry Rehan, it all has to do with Rena.

"It turns out that aunt Rena is very good, Umi means the existence of Rina was indirectly, because aunt Rena trusts Umi to make Abi as Umi's husband, but now Rena's aunt who even experienced a very worrying tribulation," said Rina who felt compassion after hearing the story told by her mother, who was very sad, let alone looking at the fact of Rena's condition when they found her stranded in someone else's country.