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The evening after the prayer isya. zakir just came home from selling at the puskesmas. everyone was sitting down to eat dinner.

"bu. was lurah sir to the stall again" said zakir opened the conversation at the dining table

"we eat first yes after that we discuss" said bu zainab softly

after dinner, Zakir said all that happened, that on Sunday Pak Lurah will come back home, applying for an afifah for his eldest son named Fikri.

"sorry Mom, the afifah really do not want the same mas fikri.. hiks hyks hyks" afifah ran towards his room.

"zakir, you just learn, don't worry about your mother" said bu zainab

"iya ma'am, zakir was his guardian mbak fifah, zakir promise will not want to marry her if mbak fifah do not want" said zakir stroked his mother's shoulder

although Zakir is 17 years old, he can already think of adulthood, since he was 14 years old, he can already feel the difficulty of finding money.

at night bu zainab woke up to pray at night, he prayed to ease all his affairs. Afifah has rejected many men, Pak Lurah has twice proposed to him, he has already proposed, even the son of the village chief named harris often comes to the house afifah.bu zainab is afraid because of the tradition in the village, women who often reject men will be stamped women are not good so no one wants to marry his child to the girl.

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a few days later.

sunday.zakir works in the garden belonging to his neighbors, because today is Sunday. afifah and bu zainab do not sell. afifah is daydreaming behind the house. he did not know what to do because he loved ustad amir very much.

"mother wants to talk" zainab came over and sat down next to the afifah.

afifah stay still and continue peeling the onions.

"son, I know you like ustadz amir, right."

"son, usually the son of the kyai sir will marry a fellow child kyai, or a rich man. yes even though the soul mate in the hands of God, but I don't expect much if mom messes with the kyai family"

"son, mother never chose rich, poor, ugly, handsome, not a guarantee of our happiness"

"see mother, you and your father live well but we are very happy"

"son, I won't force you. I just want to give advice. that girls are not good to keep rejecting someone's proposal."

"you know, we're from a family can't afford.then what people say about you"

afifah remained silent listening to her mother, her tears had been dripping since earlier.

afifah hugged her mother and cried "hiks hiks hiks.bu afifah do not want to get married first. afifah want to help mom sell and take care of mom. zakir still has not graduated from school, mom, so zakir can't replace the afifah position."

"son. later tonight Mr. Lurah will come, you can talk to his son later.if later the son of Pak Lurah wants to stay here and allow you to keep selling with his mother. you have to accept it" said Ms. Zainab

afifah let go of her embrace and stared inside her mother.Slowly she nodded and mwngusap her tears.

"good son, if he doesn't want to. I won't force you. This is your life. so I can only give advice.all decisions are in your hands" ms. Zainab smiled and left the afifah.

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on the other hand, the family of Mr. Sanjaya is excited because they want to deliver El to the village.

"mama why bring a lot of stuff anyway.we want to send El duty state servant, not umrah" said Byan.

"that's right, anyways we're only last night ma" added caca

"iya mah, there are items that El's legs are complete, soft mattresses, soft sofas, even gym equipment has also been transported yesterday" byan continued nagging

"there it's cold, this mama brought warm clothes like we wear when abroad" bela bu lastri

"jeez ma, even though it's cold there, it won't snow" said Caca as she rolled her eyes

"let's go in" Sanjaya sir ordered.

after getting into the car driven by Mr. Dayat, the family driver.pak Sanjaya chatted about his meeting yesterday.

"yes pa, byan likes. byan want to be married equally demented" said byan shy shy shy

everyone looks happy.

"mama will soon find it for you El, you don't worry" said his mother

"El don't want to, brother byan just marry first. El next year alone" said El flat

"don't talk about it yet" lerai sir sanjaya.

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"assalamualaikum"

"waalaikumsalam"

zakir opened the door of his house, and as planned, the family of the lurah sir came with his son named Fikri who had become TNI.

after talking stale and joking, bu zainab called the afifah to come out.

fikri's eyes did not blink, he saw his heart was bowed shy in front of him.

"sir, I leave everything to Afifa because this is her life" said bu zainab

"why son? is there anything you want to talk about? or do you want to talk to each other?" ask mr. lurah

"no sir, I will speak in front of my father and mother" replied softly afifah

"sir, my late mother was often sick. then only I helped my mother sell while my sister was still in school. so I will accept the application of mas fikri if mas fikri allow afifah stay with mother here"

all shocked

"but son, you know that the fikri was assigned to the city of X" said pak lurah

"afifah tau sir, but I want to until my sister graduated from school and can replace my position to help my mother sell" replied the afifah

the real Fikri wanted to talk but bu lurah stopped him by holding his fikri's hand

"sir, I think this is just an affifah rejection alone.he is looking for an excuse to reject us again" said bu lurah cynical

"no ma'am, I'm just asking for time until my sister graduates, only 1 year left" replied the afifah

"sir we should go home. we have been rejected 2 times here. My son is handsome, has become a TNI, I can find him a more beautiful girl" snide bu lurah

after a little tense debate, bu lurah can not be persuaded and finally they go home. actually fikri and pak lurah accept the terms afifah, and finally they go home, but because bu lurah did not agree to the terms of afifah he finally decided to cancel his application.

afifah cried, in the arms of her mother.while zakir sat in the living room daydreaming, he was afraid of how people talk about the cancellation of the application that was done bu lurah. until andi came to disperse the daydream of zakir.

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at 5 pm the family of Sanjaya sir just arrived at El's house.

"so bad luck.a very far El jeez" scolded bu lastri when getting off the car.

after all go in and clean up. all confused want to eat anything.cook nothing cooked.

"in a moment the food comes, do not worry maa" said El who saw his mama pacing back and forth in the kitchen.

and it is true that shortly afterwards Andi entered carrying some of the food that he ordered from the afifah. El had planned all of it, even for breakfast tomorrow as well.Andi was at dinner, and was introduced to the El family.

"it's delicious" said byan after eating a spoonful of grilled carp

"iya ma, very good, not inferior to the cuisine in our restaurant subscription" said Caca while rem feeling the food in his mouth

"it's good, your mom cooked, son?" asked mama lastri while looking at Andi

"not ma'am, it's buy" replied plain andi

"is there a restaurant?" ask caca

"not at the restaurant, but at the puskesmas cafeteria where Mr. El works" answered andi directly

everyone was shocked and looked at each other

"mama know how much this is?" el

"all this is only 250k" replied El relaxed

"uhuh?" all shocked

"seriously El? this much is just that much? if at the resto must be all this 1 million" said Mr. Sanjaya who from earlier was just silent

after dinner, the lastri and caca mama had slept, but El, byan and sir Sanjaya joined the patrol.

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