Long River

Cajolery

Chris lifted his phone. "... Oh, I'm at the same flower shop wife. What was? Want to come here, huh? Mmh ...." From the chair on the veranda, he waved at the parking lot. Aska gets off with Zack and Lydia from Aska's car. Zack and Lydia run towards Chris.

"Papa, I bought you ice cream with Brother" said Zack showing the plastic package he was carrying. The translucent plastic contained a medium-sized container of ice cream.

Chris called for Aska with his hand. The man approached. "What Pa?"

"There's Aska here." Chris tilted his hp. "Have you eaten?"

"Not yet, but later."

"You want chicken pecel or catfish pecel?"

"Huh?"

"Arya wants to bring food. He was eating it, he said it was delicious. You wanna try?"

"Can too. Just chicken."

"Yes already, 2 pecels of chicken Yes. Yes ... ok." Chris hung up.

"Why just two? Not mamap?"

"Oh, Papa and Mamap have already eaten but are just curious. Besides, it feels weird that a message is only 1 pack."

"Oh."

Chris, Aska's adoptive father, a bule who is bustling with Indonesians. Many Indonesian food that he did not know but very enthusiastic if tawari. Especially since marrying Aska's mother continued, she tried spicy food.

"What do you eat, not full at home, buy ice cream that big?" Chris asked while researching what Lydia and Zack were eating in front of him. Zack eats ice cream with Lydia from the same container.

"With one of the two?" Zack's mouth started getting dirty with ice cream.

"Yes." Yeah." Lydia's mouth is no less dirty.

Fortunately, in plastic, tissue is provided.

"That's your mouth first." Chris reminded.

The children took tissues and wiped their mouths.

Aska walks into the store and sees her mother arranging flowers for customers. He then stepped around the shelves in the store.

"Sister?"

He saw that Salwa was tidying up a shelf.

"Tumben is here." Aska.

"Once upon a time, Brother."

"Not dating?"

"Same Sister Evan? He's got needs."

"Not having a boyfriend out there."

"Eh, it's good to say." Salwa splashed Aska with water from a nearby bucket.

Aska dodged and laughed.

Arya comes with her family. I immediately got down and approached Chris. "Papa." She hugged Chris.

Chris once helped Mariko who was in a coma to give birth to Tama. The boy was raised by Chris until the age of 4. Tama is then taken again by Mariko after waking up from her coma and marrying Arya. Chris still often visits him, or Tama visits Chris because he feels he is still family.

"Where were you from?"

"It's Pa's body."

"Yes lying! What sport is that, just for a minute." Aiko came after.

"I'm also a sport."

"No, not."

"Eh, that'sit. How come the fight from earlier wasn't over?" Arya followed with Mariko approaching. "It." He placed a plastic package on a wooden table on the porch.

Aiko sees Zack and Lydia eating ice cream around the table. His eyes sparkled cheerfully. "Es cream huh? Want dong!" He sat down next to Zack.

Zack gave me the spoon. Aiko happily scooped the ice cream into her mouth. "Mmh, good."

"That's it, ice cream." Zack leaned his back.

Lydia continued to notice Aiko scooping the ice cream while Zack just kept looking. "Hey, try it. Poor who has."

Aiko stopped and glanced at Zack.

"No, nothing. I'm full already." Zack told me.

Aiko glanced back at Lydia. "It's okay, wek!" He's melting. He returned to scoop the ice cream.

Lydia didn't like it the most when Aiko came. He likes to ask for things from Zack and the young man always gives them. When asked about Zack, he said pity. He always was, in school the same. Zack always gives in to anyone. That's what Lydia doesn't like. Because with his kindness, many of his school girl friends who like Zack but also because Zack is handsome.

"Hey little boy, stop eating people dong ice cream!" Ledek Tama on his sister, and Aiko pursed her mouth. Of course, Lydia was happy.

Chris was chatting with Arya while Mariko walked into the store. Aska. "Oh, is there food?"

"There's a veranda."

"Favor Aunt."

"Yes, it's okay."

Aska rushed out. He took a pack off the table and immediately went to Arya's restaurant. The restaurant was only 2 different shops from the Reina flower shop. There, because Aska knew her employees, she ate in the kitchen. The restaurant was crowded so there was no way he could eat at the guest table.

He picked up a bottled drink from the fridge and started eating.

"Enak seems to ...." The passerby greeted him.

Aska just gave a smile. It was very happy to be able to eat because his stomach began to starve, and he spent the food to live chicken bones only.

Rakas went back through it. "Well, done? What's so good about hunger, sir?" Ledek.

Aska went back to her mother's shop. "Enak Om, buy where?" Ask Arya.

"Oh it's near my housing complex but outside. He just opened it like that."

"Which side?"

Arya told Aska the location of the place.

"Oh, I know that. It's been about an empty month no one's occupied. The merchant moved to another place like that."

"The sales are now beautiful, many are tempting. Careful lameness." Aryan Ledek. He did see for himself many who bought out of curiosity wanted to see the woman's face up close, but it was not only that. The sales are good so many.

"Om can do it." Aska laughs.

Meanwhile, Leka cleared the sale as it ran out. Not only people buy to eat there, which is brought home too much. Not only that, many thought he was a widow and teased her. Invite chatting things that are not clear until he must be busy making small talk.

"Mbak, yeah .. out." A young mother came to him.

"Yes, sorry Mom is up."

"Yes, my husband came home and tasted mine. She like. Yes ends? That's fast."

He could only smile while cleaning the table.

"Where is her husband? Job huh? How not to be seen. Yesterday I woke up Ma'am, last night. You're the only two in this house." The mother looked at Leka.

Leka confused to answer.

"Mother from the village? Me also. Ma'am .. sorry, is it true that she is not a widow? Ma'am left by her husband wander, continue to follow?"

"Eh, like that." Leka finally answered him reluctantly.

"I tell you, Ma'am, be careful if the same marriage is far away, many are deceitful. Ngaku bujang yunya berbini, beranak."

I am where the intention is to marry. Because of the circumstances we got married.

"Maybe Mbak has been lied to, if that's the status of Mbak so unclear. It's nothing, there's been a lot of it so ma'am, so it's hard to marry again."

Termangu leka. The mother looked at Leka. "Hopefully that's not the case?" Mother strengthened, then left.

In the evening, Leka finished preparing for the sale tomorrow. At least he can rest because early in the morning must steam rice. Seen Runi playing her own doll. He stepped closer.

Geck, tok, tok.

Who is visiting at this hour? Had crossed his head someone's face but try he tepis, he opened the door. "Candy?" As expected.

"Assalamualaik."

"Waalaikum salam."

"I'm sorry, I thought you were selling tonight so I stopped by."

"Oh, I don't sell nights because I'm all set up, so I'm taking a break."

"Oh, so. Yes yes, yes." Candi. "Oh yeah. I brought sweet martabak for you." He told the woman.

"It's a temple." Leka confused how to.

"Watch from an old friend who's back together." Again the man thrust the parcel he had brought to Leka. I don't want that woman to take it. "Want tea?"

"Oh, can?"

"Yes, come in." They accept something without giving it anything. At least make small talk before asking him to go home immediately.

Candi happy to be allowed to enter by Leka. Door left open.

"Sorry, I don't have a chair. It's okay to sit on the floor, right?"

"Mmh, it's okay. Not in the village, is that it?" The temple opened his shoes and placed them near the door.

Leka moved the martabak to the plate.

"What food do you have?"

"Mmh?"

"And I said, I came here to eat. Is there anything I can eat?"

Leka was surprised, Candi to his house did come for dinner, but what could he offer?

The temple looked at the neatly arranged items near the closed stove and he pointed to it. "Of course, among these things, there's nothing to eat?"

"It's for sale tomorrow."

"So?"

"Eh, I'll just cook the eggs, okay? Maybe with tempe know."

"No chicken or catfish to fry?"

"It could be ...."

"Just make it sambal."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Yes, I'm waiting." He took a plate containing sweet martabak from Leka's hand and then went to sit on the floor close to little Runi. The little girl immediately shifted her seat away.

Then he started choosing chicken. Looks like the temple will be long because he also asked Leka to make sambal. Hah, he just knows how to linger here. I shouldn't have brought her in, Leka complained. Then he made a drink.

Aska remembered the chicken pecel that Arya bought last afternoon. He wanted to eat it again for dinner. That's what makes it addictive.

He got into his car and drove there. He searched for the place Arya mentioned and was disappointed. It's not a night sale, too bad. Moreover, he noticed from across the street where his car was in the parking lot that the merchant seemed to be the arrival of a guest. There's a car parked next to him. He was convinced that the house behind the merchant's stall was the house of the seller.

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