
If there are people who like to interfere and deal with your life, love debt bonds and all your installments.. Let's be taken care of! _ Othor Gabut's.
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"Sir.. It's a gift from school because Ayu ranked first yesterday." Ayu showed his father a pack of books and five pencils.
"If this one is loved by the teacher," Ayu showed two pairs of school uniforms. One OSIS uniform (red and white), another scout uniform. The smile expands as she proudly shows what she can gain in appreciation for Ayu already being ranked one in her class.
"Alhamdulillah.. Oh, God, good teacher Yu. Have you said thank you not yet the same teacher nduk?" Teguh was happy to hear Ayu's words.
Teguh's first study was used to settle debts owed to Saodah's mother. That's why Teguh has not been able to buy a new uniform for his son. Now he was a little able to breathe a sigh of relief because little by little his debts in the stall could also be repaid.
Living with odd jobs used to really test patience and mental firmness to keep thinking clearly and straight. Because, one working day two days in the future he can be unemployed at home. No one needs his energy, whether it's in a stone-breaking project or in a market. Poverty does not shake the faith Teguh to continue to be on the path that Allah guided SWT. He remained confident that, despite his lack, he would often endure hunger so that his son could sleep with a full stomach, God never left him. Help is coming, out of nowhere.
"Yu.. I'm sorry, you can't buy Ayu a new uniform." The voice sounded slow.
"Kan Ayu already has this sir.. If there is more money to buy shoes, sir.. Ayu's shoes are too small. Pak pak dapenya. Ayu's thumb is sometimes bent if it fits the road." Terang Ayu's.
"Yes Allah.. Yes Yu.. Later if there is a windfall buyin shoes yes."
Firmly look at the nod of the sign Ayu understands. Ayu knew not always his father could fulfill what he wanted if it was related to money.
"Sir.. Ayu will play at Mbah uti's house, can you sir?"
"Yes can. Want anterin now? All of you are also going to Yu's work." Firmly combing her hair with original fingers.
"Father is now handsome hehehe" Celetukan Ayu made Teguh laugh.
"It used to be ugly, huh?" Steady menoel his daughter's little nose.
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He stopped the bike he was riding when he saw a person he knew sitting pensively on his bike.
"Eh Guh, where are you going? I've not worked in a place that used to be, I've been there said your boss, you haven't gone to work for a long time." Wibi got off the bike.
"Yes. What are you doing here? Not interested?" The persistent question made Wibi lethargic again.
"Sepi Guh now. What work makes us rich. Dizziness me Guh." Wibi took out her cigarette. Proposing to Teguh but Teguh shook his head to reject the nicotine stem.
"Hm.. Why you?" Steady looking at him curiously.
"I give it up Guh.. I want to keep Shopiah. Staying with Shopiah's parents got scolding on me. Shopiah instead of belain I even helped make my man want to break. All the macems are making my heart hurt. I knew I was just a motorcycle taxi driver, my parents were not officials, not rich people, could not give anything for living capital to live with his household.. Eh Shopiah's mother did not want me to marry her son without capital, just live in their house, there did not bring anything. Nor can you give anything to make Shopiah happy."
"I'm self-conscious Guh, I'm poor from birth.. But mok ya don't overdo it like me. I try to be a good husband, father and daughter-in-law to them.. But, in their eyes it had no effect whatsoever Guh. Shopiah asked to make her own house, I took her to my parents' house did not want. Lha he's not worried about my ability what's just a motorcycle taxi?"
Lengthy. Steady just silently hearing Wibi's long story to him. It looks like Wibi is depressed at the moment.
"Say when a woman is married, her paradise is with her husband. It's me her husband is made babu. What heaven would he get? At home yes Guh, I am the holy one, sometimes cooking, also momong abis go home ngojek. If I say tired, he says you're here hitchhiking at my parents' house. Oh God Guh.. My heartache. Not to mention that the money ngojek results felt less for him, who ngomel not only him but his father's mother followed to judge me."
"I once told my in-laws, all my household problems and Shopiah they should not interfere, do not come in, do not take part in the tour, Shopiah can be kayak is more and more revealed to me because of the nature of his parents. And you know Guh, they say that they still live there they don't have to be pretentious! Shopiah is their child so it is their duty to have her child... The kek muters are mulu."
I was so excited to hear Wibi's story.
"Mending like you Guh, marry the same person who sincerely loves you. Although fate separates the kelian but, your son can always make you. Still mending you Guh..." Sounds desperate.
"Wib, not everything you see is 'good' that looks good. You won't be able to be me. And maybe I won't be able to do it in your position either. Every human being has their own problems and their way of life. You can't say mending me, mending him, or mending them. You haven't lost your wife forever, if you can't.. You have a child who needs you, needs his mother. You have never felt hunger for two to three days because nothing is eaten. Seeing the heart when the child misses his mother, hearing the cry of the child alone makes the power of my body disappear like boneless. Not to mention his plain babble when he wanted something but my boy tried to restrain himself from being spoken.. Because I know what I'm like."
"Wib, be grateful for what you have now. About Shopiah, you can take her out of the house to talk carefully with her, to the market maybe, invite her to eat three of your children as well. As much as you can control yourself, don't fight in front of your in-laws. Indeed, living with in-laws is not always pleasant, always touched on what we give to make their children happy but, it is natural. We're Wib men, so it's a motivation and a whip for you to prove that you can make your wife happy like your in-laws want."
"Happy not only about Wib's property, maybe Shopiah asked for her own house because of the same sadness you are often touched by her parents. And he doesn't want to live with your parents afraid the same thing will happen. He's afraid that your parents might interfere with your family's household. Think of everything with a cold head.. Well, your cigarette is lacking. How many packs of cigarettes a day? If the money is saved, you can give it to Shopiah, go home from work will also not be pouted mulu because you smell cigarette smoke. Surely Shopiah think your money can buy a lot of cigarettes, can snack outside but you love him so much. He knows if the cigarette is debt in the stall or given by your ojek passengers. All he knows is that you come home smelly cigarettes means you can't make coffee, hang out, forget about him at home, smile at yourself..."
"I walk first yeah, thought again my talk earlier. If your in-laws still like to spend your life, just love your debt bond, tell me how many months your bike credit is, let them help you ngurusil nyicilin."
A line of etched smiles. Like getting a grojokan gallon of water in the tubunnya, Wibi nodded in understanding and could breathe a sigh of relief after issuing a sigh of strength to Teguh earlier.