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Rani noticed what Leka was buying. Must be tempe, or tofu or vegetable like kale or spinach, not far from it. The addition is most chili maker ingredients such as tomatoes, chilies and onions plus cooking oil. There is no change, only that is bought. Bosens. Poor little girl.

Leka took one board of tempeh, an ingredient to make chili and a little cooking oil. "This sir," he gave the vegetable maker money.

"Eh, Neng the price of chili again goes up so the money fits right?"

"Oh, yes. It's okay, sir."

The greengrocer put in plastic, Leka groceries.

"Eh, Sir. I've been here since why not serve it anyway? I'll order meat to make in stews. Where's?" Rani fanned her face with a fan she carried. Though the air was not so hot, but he wanted to show it to the other mothers who were visiting the traveling vegetable that he had a gold bracelet.

"Oh, don't you want to buy another one too?" The vegetable was confused for him.

"Eh, Rani's the new bracelet, huh? I just saw it." A young mother greeted him.

"Oh, I like to be bored, so the ring I sold yesterday can buy expensive bracelets."

Feeling let go, the greengrocer finally finished Leka's groceries and handed the plastic to the girl.

"Oh, that's not an engagement ring? I thought engagement ring."

Rani is upset to feel wrongly talking. He glanced at Leka for an impingement. "I'm like Leka, a spinster but a big sell-off. Felt pretty, but who would want to be the same poor person as him? Ungrateful. Applied to Mr. Nirwan so his fourth wife should want to, uh even rejected," he said sewot. The slim skinny girl and smooth white actually really disliked Leka because Leka was the prettiest girl in this village. If there were no Leka, she was the prettiest girl in this place. Rani always gets the second one. If there is a man who likes Leka and is rejected, the man will come to Rani. Always was. Rani doesn't like being second. He hated.

Leka just looked at it briefly, he then continued his steps died the traveling vegetable maker. Leka knows Rani doesn't like her, just doesn't know why. In fact, according to Leka, even though she was the same age, Rani was a beautiful girl and from a family that was quite prominent in the village. In contrast to him who comes from a poor family. The dress she has can be counted with fingers, the same as the hijab she wears. She mostly only has an instant hijab and a rectangular hijab.

"Huh! If it's wrong, run away ...." Ledek Rani's.

Leka was silent, not wanting to prolong the problem. Entering his house made of wood, Leka put his groceries on the dining table, then he returned to the outside. He went to the river not far from his house.

The water wasn't so heavy at the time, but that wasn't what it was. He was looking for his fishing net that he deliberately placed there hoping to catch fish for additional lunch. The net was drawn, but it was empty. Leka sighed. Finally he put the net back in and stood up.

"Eh, Leka."

"Astaghfirullah alazim." Leka touched his chest. He was really surprised.

"Cock surprised?" Ask the man in front of her.

"Yes you appear suddenly, how not surprised," protested Leka.

"No more fish?"

This time Leka did not. He left Bara alone on the river bank.

"We go to the market. Buy you the fish you want."

"No, thank you Bang." Leka just kept leaving Bara.

"Wait for Leka, you can buy something else for you." Bara's still after him.

Leka doesn't care. He even accelerated his steps. Bara almost caught up with Leka if there was no hand of a girl holding her back.

"Oh, what the hell is this?" I see who's holding him. "What do you want? Just disturb."

Leka took a quick look, it was Rani who had been holding Bara back. The opportunity he used to immediately leave the place.

Rani is a little annoyed with Bara's rough mouth, but in her custody because she likes Bara. "When you go after that woman, she won't care about you."

"Why is not the same as me. I'm not less beautiful than Leka." Rani rubbed Bara's burly arm.

Bara. "You again. The dream! I don't like cheap women like you. Wear short skirts, long hair, everywhere. Clothes are tight too, skinny body. What can I see from your body, huh? Nothing interesting."

Rani looks at her body. Nothing is strange. His skirt was still below the knee, his hair was everywhere but not tangled. She does not wear a hijab like most women in her village because she had studied in the city so that her style is like a city person, and she wears body armor, not tight clothes.

This man before him was indeed stupid, because it was the truest generalization of all the women in his village while his clothes looked strange. Do I have to dress like a country girl here who is mostly dressed in old fashion? Ih, really.

"In the city, many people are crazy about me."

"Yes, because they're crazy. It's already! Where else did Leka go?" Bara turned her eyes. He lost track of Leka but is still searching. He left Rani.

It was Rani who sulked herself. "Huh, why are all the men defending her anyway? But Bara can't get Leka because Bara's only for me." Mumbled.

Leka has arrived home. He immediately cooked. When he finished, he put it to the bushel. He then came out with a bushel and a kettle. Passing through the rice fields he saw many rice fields that began to grow lush and yellow. It will soon be a harvest, Leka thought.

He then went into a garden that was being tidied up. There were some people working there and one of them saw Leka. "Leka, your father is there" said an old man who was hoeing, with his finger.

Leka noticed the direction in which it was pointed. "Oh, thank you sir." He came to his father from behind.

A man who was hoeing near Leka's father saw her. He touched the old man's shoulder until he looked up. "Sir, his son is coming" he said a little loudly.

The old man looked. "O, Ea. Amu awa a'anan? Umu iu aja, ayi iai ma'an.(Oh, Leka. Why are you bringing food? Just drink it, later in the feed.)"

"It's okay sir, afraid you're not eating. Lastly you don't like the side dishes, like the Leka cuisine, so Leka bring it," Leka explained. "Others, if you want to add the rice I bring a lot huh?" Shouts of Leka that were received by other workers. He then said goodbye to his deaf and deaf father.

Passing through the rodent made Leka's heart happy. Rice plants that green as far as the eye can see really make his heart shady. The heat of the sun in the afternoon was very encouraging because it had rained very heavy last night. Leka was worried that the rice plants planted by his father were damaged, but soon the harvest but the rain soon subsided.

He looked up at the sky by protecting his face with a pinch of his fingers. Looks like the sun will last long enough that afternoon. He recalled the clothes clothes clothesline at his house, rushing him back.

He passed the river from a great distance. The river looks like the water is full but not so swift. He looked like a white garment drifting in a river moving in the direction of the flowing water. Confused that someone was washing clothes in the river when the water was overflowing, Leka finally reached his home. He saw the clothes had begun to dry, he lifted it up.

After Zuhur prayers and lunch, he returned to his father's place. Usually his father's work is finished and he usually helps bring back the bushel and kettle he brought earlier.

Passing through the river he again saw the white clothes stuck near his fishing net. Hurry him to the river. He did not want the clothes to damage his fishing net because that's where he got his fancy food. But as he approached, he found a white-clothed man stranded close to his net. It seemed like the man was trying to get on land during the torrential currents and he managed to ride with great difficulty.

Leka stopped her legs close to the body of the man who was face down. Looks like this guy is young. Is he still alive? The girl hesitated to help him. Ah, just reckless. When he touched it he knew the man was still alive. The girl pulled the man's body up to a cave-like overdraft nearby. There was a large stone resembling an altar and Leka laid the man there. His own body was wet as it helped pull the man's body there.

Not far from there it turns out that there is a new Rani coming to the river. He saw Leka dragging one's body into a cave overdraft. He quietly approached and peeked. Suddenly an idea came into his head. With a big smile he left the place.

meanwhile Leka was surprised to find the man she helped was so handsome. That man must have come from far away because he didn't know the man at all. He knew the faces of the men in his village and the neighboring village and this man, he had never seen them at all.

"Mh .. ah ...." The man woke up weakly and sighed. He saw Leka. The girl was immediately confused. What's he supposed to do? He immediately ran out of the cave. His mind is one, meet his father.

Leka ran into the garden where her father worked. It seemed like his father was living alone in the garden because the others had already moved to work elsewhere, The old man was waiting for his son to come pick him up.

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Hello reader. Meet me again with my new novel, Rivers Rindu. Don't forget the comments, likes, gifts and votes, right? Oh, yes, there is an unpretentious photo of Leka. Greetings, Ingflora 💋

Jaleka Rasmins