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"As much as people hate it, even the rich still want to take care of poor letters just to put down debt, my goodness," Bang Parlindungan still nagged after the man left.
"Yes, Bang, my brother's advice is not steady this time, not everyone has shame," I replied later.
Bang Parlindungan continued to make fishing tools, the tool he said was called lukah or boduh, made of bamboo. He said it would be put in the river after putting the coconut bait inside. Until noon he was busy making the wound.
Bang Parlindungan is indeed a person who can adjust, when his life is well established, he travels around Indonesia, giving his way here and there, when bankrupt, he remains enthusiastic, starting from the beginning again. What makes me salute is, there is always a way of sustenance, even if we currently have no income, but can buy cows, can pay employees, can even buy a house.
During the day, Ucok and Butet had gone home from school, they both immediately enthusiastically asked their father.
"This is what, Dad ?" ask the Butet.
"Lkah, that,"
"Oh, where's Dad's wound ?"
"Our injuries, to catch fish in the river, so we can burn fish if we take the Rembo for a walk," said Bang Parlin.
"Horeee, burn the fish" cried Butet.
"Assalaamu'alaikum" greetings from a mother.
"Waalaikumsalam," we all answered in unison. The one who came turned out to be the mother who yesterday asked for a solution to Bang Parlindungan.
"I'm sorry, Mom, if the way that I said is not effective, universal sorry, it turns out not everyone has shame" said Bang Parlindungan while greeting the woman. The woman came with a child, maybe she picked up her son as usual.
"I came to thank you, sir,"
"Thank you for what, ma'am ?"
"Because of the father's teachings, my sister-in-law has already paid her debt, so I came to thank you, please accept this," the mother said as she gave the envelope.
"Oh, no, ma'am, I can't take it, I'm sorry, ma'am," said Bang Parlindungan.
"When did he pay, ma'am ?" ask me kepo, because just this morning the man came here and asked for a poor letter.
"So around ten o'clock, he came to the house, used the crying event again, even though he was a man, I was so moved, it was powerful teachings of Bang Parlin," said the mother again.
"What's the story, ma'am ?" Bang Parlin followed kepo as well.
"Gini, yesterday I went to his house, told him exactly as Bang Parlin taught him, he said yes, wait tomorrow, he came, he paid ten million, over a million, because he said it was natural, because it had been five years, until he cried he said thank you," said the mother.
Bang Parlin and I looked at the envelope, still on the wooden chair, and finally I took the envelope. Mom, excuse me to go home.
"Where can you accept that" Bang Parlin protested.
"May, Bang, I also learned from Bang Parlin, let's just say we are alms dealers" I said as I walked up to the school guard's father who was about to close the school gates.
"Sir, this is a little sustenance for you, father" I said as I gave the envelope, I did not open how much it contained, I gave it all to the father.
"Thank you, ma'am" replied the father with tears in his eyes.
I walked into the house with my head up, Bang Parlin was still looking at me, maybe he couldn't believe it at this difficult time I gave him the envelope without seeing how much it contained. Though I learned from Bang Parlin, there was once a person who insisted on paying, Bang Parlin accepted it and gave it back.
"You're cool, Chocolate, '" said Bang Parlin.
"Cool off, Dad, the kid's cool, too" replied Ucok.
"My dad's cool, too" Butet went along. We finally laughed together.
That afternoon by the Bang Parlin truck, we all went to the garden. Niyet and Rembo then removed Bang Parlin from his cage, we walked to the river, Bang Parlin brought the two lukah he had made.
River banks are overgrown with good grass for cow feed, this is a favorite place of Bang Parlin, especially now just finished harvesting rice, so that cows can freely enter the fields of people on the river bank.
Bang Parlin then went down to the river with two lukah, then went up again, we sat in the cottage on the edge of the rice field.
Bang Parlin began to show his clever flute he took out of the bag, then played the flute, his voice was haggling, Bang Parlin's singing always made me sleepy.
The children were playing with mud, Bang Parlin let him, I was also asleep in Bang Parlin's lap.
"What's up, Butet ?" my many.
"Bang Ucok, Mak, he wants to catch a snake" Butet said, pointing to Ucok running in the mud.
"Where ?" Bang Parlin ran up to the Ucok, I ran along.
It turns out there is a fairly large rice field snake, strangely Ucok instead chasing the snake, it seems the snake is difficult to move, the path is slow.
"Snack!" bang Parlin shouted as Ucok caught the snake's tail, I screamed hysterically. What's wrong with my son, cook he's not afraid of snakes.
Bang Parlin immediately lifted Ucok and took him away, Ucok even thrashed, he said he wanted to catch the snake cake on youtube. Yes, God, my son has become a youtube victim, he thinks catching a snake is easy as in the video.
The snake was still trying to run, but he had trouble walking in the mud.
"Sir, I want to catch the Panji cake snake" said Ucok again.
"Don't, son, I can't" I said.
"Our father's word must not be afraid until the snake, the snake that is afraid of us, this is the rice snake, Dad said not venomous," said Ucok again.
"Oh, this means the teaching of my brother, yes" I said annoyedly, I pulled the ears of my husband and Ucok.
"Come, go home!" my snapping.
I was upset too, in addition to watching youtube, Ucok apparently got heresy from his father, childhood taught not to be afraid of snakes.
"Take HP, Dek, let's be happy with the Ucok," Bang Parlin even joined the tail of the snake.
As far as I know, Bang Parlin often catches snakes, rice field snakes often meet in palm oil. Bang Parlin even caught a big snake when we went to Bang Parta's place in Borneo.
"Take it, Mak, let us videoin Bang Ucok," Butet actually supports.
Immediately I ran to take the HP that was in the cottage. Bang Parlin and Ucok began to act, Bang Parlin caught the head, the ucok holding the tail, really a compact father and son. There is no fear of snakes. Everything I've filmed. Horrified to see this father and son, they consider snakes like ordinary animals.
"Take the burlap, Mak," cried Ucok.
"Where to find the burlap here, throw away the snake" I said as I continued to record
After nine years, his curiosity is huge. It was with his father who had a lot of knowledge. Finally the snake was released Bang Parlin into the grass, Ucok who seemed to be very happy, he still had time to talk to the snake.
"Hey, the rice snake, don't play here anymore huh, good to see us," "If you meet someone else, your skin has become a belt," Bang Parlin connect his son's babble. They're really brave clop, crazy clop.
When I played the video, Bang Parlin even forbade me from uploading it on Facebook, while his son already wanted to be uploaded on youtube or tiktok. This is where the father and son differ.
"Do not seek sensation, Cok, famous may, but do not be famous for the snake hornke, famous for the hafiz Qur'an, new steady," said Bang Parlin.
After the snake was thrown away, Bang Parlin went back down to the river with his son, I just kept recording their actions, this time wanting to lift bubu, two bubu lifted, can only four fish.
"Our sustenance is right with Allah, we have four people, we have four fish" said Bang Parlin.
The fish was then burned, we ate together in the hut. Rice and side dishes have been brought from home. The fish is just an enhancer. It feels good and happy. I got hooked on videoing everything. When we ate, I took a picture. Maybe someday it will be a memory.
When we returned home, it was already before the magrib, rushed us to bathe and prayed Magrib congregated. After the prayer, it is time for Ucok and Butet to learn to teach who became a teacher is their father.
"Assalaamu'alaikum, ma'am," the next-door neighbor came to see you.
"Muleta'aikumussalaam,"
"Mother Kadus, every time I hear Bang Parlin teach a lesson, I always remember when I was a child, learning the same, can my son come to study here ?"
I asked Bang Parlin, Bang Parlin was happy, finally the two neighboring children were teaching, how to teach Bang Parlin is still the way it used to be, Alip ba ta, like we were children. Tomorrow night two neighbors came again to want his son to teach, Bang Parlin still agreed.
Finally a week later, our house was full of children, there were about twenty children who were taught Bang Parlin.
I'm Kadus, Bang Parlin is a naji teacher. That is our life in the village.
. _Connected ..._