Doctor Naura

Chapter 81 Silence

The afternoon sky was so bright, the hour and a half four still looked like twelve noon. A pair of eagles look harmonious flying over shady trees towards the nest. A swarm of sparrows migrates from North to South, compact, roaring and shrill in the air. The wind is still blowing fiercely to bend the shoots of green leaves. Half of the old leaves appear to fall also because of the wind, floating in the beautiful twilight.

Madam Nindya has finished cleaning up all her crops today. He arranged it neatly on top of the pickup truck that Papa had brought. A sack of vegetables bitter melon is large, long green and straight, a little bit of tomato waste reddened in a hollow basket, pineapple almost two sacks, the shoots of sweet potatoes half a sack, while the yam is much more, the yam is much more, purple sweet potatoes are arranged already, lined with large clingy papayas. Cucumbers more than twenty kilos, large chilies were many, and not even two kilos of cayenne pepper. There are also bunches of cockerel bananas, King bananas and forty-day bananas, as well as large ambon bananas. Everything is ready, ready to be distributed. Including about two recovered kilos of round eggplant mixed with long purple eggplant, five kilos of long beans and about twenty bundles of eggplant that were being developed.

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Finished putting everything together, mbak Nindya drank a lot, after finishing work, thirst began to feel. Then she wagged the rectangular hijab and re-attached it to the head without the cover of the hijab, and because she was so tired, she sat in the shade of her house again, on a board holder with bamboo as its holder. At first glance he recalled what had just happened between him and the Fathur bang. He closed his eyes and shook his head trying to cast the shadow away. But even more attached to his brain as intense as kisses, kisses and touch bang Fathur.

The shadow that still survives and does not want to disappear from his mind. He opened the old black nokia phone that was always in the pocket of his right pants. I saw some messages from the owners of the shop. They're waiting for stuff from Nindya's mom. With nimble because it has memorized where the buttons of numbers that no longer see the writing, mbak Nindy reply one by one their message. When he finished, he put the phone back into the pocket of the trousers he was wearing. And with a long cloth, he wiped his reddened face and sweated from the heat.

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"Ibuuu..," Ma'am Nindya looked at her biological child who had run towards her.

"Be careful Annisa.." Papa warned as he saw his grandson running while swaying his head to look up at the sky. Both hands developed a ping skirt pattern of whitish leaves. In the wind her back skirt just expands.

"Had harvested all my children?" Papa asked astonished to see in the car had been neatly arranged sacks of crops, only three clams of leeks were still placed carelessly without a container on the tub of the car.

"Why was it put here?" Papa was surprised to see it.

"Naura asked to bring fresh leeks. She wanted to eat an omelet typical of my bikin' meadow." Nindya Ma'am replied. He ignored a man who went awry and stood while holding the rearview of the left car. In his mouth he saw him biting the young grass tubers he pulled out when he climbed from the river earlier.

"Did he want nothing else?" Papa asked back.

"Nindy asked earlier, she only wanted leeks. But in the red bag I prepared everything he liked. Two slices of ripe ambon banana on the stem and a large papaya that is ripe. Also purple sweet potatoes for snacks. He's been told by Zamy to cut down on rice." The melodious, meek voice was long answering. Papa just nodded, while Annisa ran around catching the green grasshopper in the middle of the garden.

"Om, um Fathur Nisa got one of his trunk. So big you know, even the bottom of this is yellowish." Nisa picked up a grasshopper she had just caught. The grasshopper nodded like it wanted to fly, but its legs were tightly held by Annisa.

"Where? That's huge huh. Nisa's good at hunting locusts." Bang Fathur approached the nimble girl. Papa then locks the back cover of his pickup car. While Mbak Nindya took the chives earlier and put them together in a big red bag for me. At first glance see Fathur bang who is still playing grasshopper with Annisa, he then hangs the big red bag to the motor carried by Fathur bang earlier.

"Nisaaa.., it's afternoon, son, let's hurry home because many vegetable shop owners are waiting." Ma'am Nindya called her son while cleaning up the big knife, small knife, and the soybeans she was carrying earlier. All he put back in the car.

"Well, I took you home, let's go home today first, play again tomorrow." Bang Fathur persuaded his future wife's son. Mbak Nindy turned her head for a moment without seeing the face of bang Fathur in the slightest. For some reason, he suddenly felt reluctant to look at the man who had proposed to him. He tried to avoid the pounding of his heartbeat which became erratic as he stared at the handsome lecturer.

"Let's go there for a minute." Nisa released her trunk onto the chili leaves. Then he turned towards Nindy by holding hands to Fathur's bang.

"Thur, let's go to the house, let's eat the cork fish again tonight...." Papa approached bang Fathur speaking kindly.

"Nindy hasn't had time to make a pempek yah." Mbak Nindy immediately replied while lifting Annisa sitting in the seat of a pickup car.

"God another time sir, Fathur also wants there to be important things to talk with you." Bang Fathur answered while glancing at Nindya who pretended not to listen to her talk. But Mbak Nindy instead turned her eyes, trying to avoid the gaze of Fathur bang.

"Owh is it then, just come to the house whenever Fathur wants. The house is always open...." Papa patted the left shoulder behind bang Fathur. A friendly smile smirked accompanying each of those claps.

"Om if you go home, please treat Nisa again yes.., bring Nisa ice cream kayak dul...." Nisa stopped talking, she stared at her mother who instantly covered her mouth with her right hand. Papa went to lock the door of the cottage in the garden after inserting a trolley and a hoe.

Seeing the actions of Nindya who covered Annisa's mouth with her hands, the Fathur bang immediately approached the two who were already sitting in the front pickup car. He let go of Nindy's hands.

"I'm sorry, I'm guilty of you. But don't stop this little girl's relationship with her future father. Let him speak his heart." Bang Fathur whispered in Nindya's left ear. While his hand stroked Annisa's fine hair from the back, Nindya sat down.

"God if you go there bring the ice cream again, son. That chocolate mix is vanilla, right?" Bang Fathur smiled kindly speaking to Annisa. While mbak Nindya, straighten the body forward trying to stay away to avoid the typical fragrance of the body bang Fathur. He did not want the shadow to come back.

"I'm sorry dear brother, don't sulk, because it will only make your chest tight miss you." Bang Fathur then whispered again while away. Papa has seen back.

"In the bag there are bananas and papaya, marinate last night so it tastes sweeter, please remove the same Naura." Madam Nindya spoke softly to bang Fathur, she only glanced for a moment and then turned back to look away. Bang Fathur nodded and waved his hands from the motor to Annisa in the car slowly walking down the fenced-off road between the gardens of Mbak Nindy and Haji Soleh. Bang Fathur with his bike at the back. In his head there were many plans that he wanted to move on.

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