
Yati was in the village for three days. She did not want to stay home for long, as there were some things she had to do in the city.
In addition to a call from Mr Akihiko, who is in touch with an offer to work on his contract, Yati also wants to meet the man she loves.
"Kok tumben Nduk, just a moment at home? Biasane kan week what a week more ngono," asked mbok Minah, with the decision taken by her grandson.
Mbok Minah certainly felt a little surprised, because not usually Yati, felt not at home in the village. He saw, since his arrival, Yati had already looked uneasy and was not enjoying her days well at home, together with herself.
But, because Minah thinks that if Yati is just tired, she ends up just silent and not wondering.
And tonight, when Yati said if she was going back to the city tomorrow morning, Minah just ventured to ask.
"Mboten nopo - nopo Mbok. Yati, there's a lot of work. So you can't take a long vacation either" Yati replied, making excuses.
Mbok Minah just nodded her head, and no longer wondered. He did not want to, making his granddaughter difficult to answer questions from him.
"Yo wes, prepared anything that tomorrow will be brought. Fortunately, wae, the rice crackers, have been made from the moment you gave the news, if you are going home. If you just make, yo gak dadi, wong kudune sun also really," said Mbok Minah relieved.
A few days ago, Yati had indeed told Kang Yoga, if he was going back to the village. Yati asked kang Yoga to tell Minah.
"Satan Mbok. Suwun Njeh. Yati must have eaten a lot because there is a default of Yati's favorite crackers."
Actually, Yati felt guilty, for having inconvenienced the old man, mbok Minah, who was nearby this time.
Mbok Minah, has been taking care of him since childhood and still he bothers only because of rice crackers.
"Yo maem seng okeh to Nduk, Yati. Although there are no crackers, you need to eat. Eman your crew, wes gering iki you know," said mbok Minah, who criticized the appearance of Yati's body.
"Mrush Mbok?" ask Yati, while paying attention to how she is doing herself.
"Delok dewe try, mosok gawanane car, duwet okeh, kok not kelar manganese. Jo di eman - eman. No need to send a duwet okeh to simbok, sak rate wae, simbok not arep-arep Nduk. Important, you're healthy, iso manganese, Mbok wes seneng."
Yati hugged Minah with teary eyes. He knows, if Minah mbok is honest and sincerely raising herself. Mbok Minah never expected anything, the important thing is, Yati can give news if in good health, it has relieved her heart.
Yati, crying as much as she hugged Minah. The only person in her life who never asked for and wished for more than she had. The old man, who Yati himself never knew, who and how mbok Minah was. She took care of him, providing education and genuine affection, which she never felt and got from both her parents. Because Yati never knew, where the whereabouts of both parents so far.
Mbok Minah also never said anything, about her past. Whether it was the origin, where and who exactly was Yati whom he had already considered as his own grandson.
"Kang Yoga wingi piye, do you love shoes?" mbok Minah asked, after the embrace of the two of them came off.
Mbok Minah wants to know, how the reaction of kang Yoga, Junior High School teacher, who has the status of a widower, when given a shoe gift by Yati.
"Well, how to Mbok. Uh, say thank you ding. It's just that, even though he initially hesitated to pas Yati kasih," replied Yati, as she recalled the incident.
"Jare kang Yoga, Yati don't bother. He can still buy his own shoes. Maybe Yoga kang is not good enough Mbok, because in love equal gifts women. If in our village, nothing becomes a conversation. Kang Yoga may be afraid, if there will be bad talk because Yati gave him shoes."
Mbok Minah nodded at the explanation from Yati. He also understood that the Junior High teacher, was uncomfortable because of his status of widower and Yati who often became the gossip of people.
There may be a fear of kang Yoga, if their closeness and meeting it, will bring bad news and it will make it more dizzy.
"But he's okay, right, if you bother to send money on the cue?" ask Mbok Minah with worry.
Mbok Minah, not worried out of fear, if Yati will not send herself any more money. He was only worried, because he could not leave it as money given to Yati, for Yati's savings in his old age later.
Mbok Minah believes, if people like Yati, rarely think about his own old age_, and do not save part of his income. They, people like Yati, just spend the money for today and the next few days. Importantly, their lives are guaranteed and look fulfilled with the money they get today.
Yati also did not know, if the money he gave to mbok Minah, was even invested for him. As it turns out, Minah never stops thinking about her fate, even though in reality, Yati is no longer a child, who needs more attention.
*****
This morning, Yati was preparing to leave for the city.
"Dear it!"
There was someone who called out to Yati, and it was a male voice.
When Yati turned her head, it turned out to be the sound of the man, whose wife asked Yati for help, for a job in the city, when she returned home, before undergoing contract work with Mr Johan.
"Paklek, what's wrong?" ask Yati wonder.
Said Bulek, who now works in the city, and is a housemaid, has often sent money to her husband, for his daily needs and also the education of his son.
"You're doing a job with your Bulek what? each one sends a little money. Can't be like you? Just get him to work your kayak, so he can give you a lot of money!"
Yati frowned, thinking about what her husband said. "This man has no responsibility and thank you, instead ask for more. How can there be a man like him in the world? but, in reality, there are indeed many like him," Yati said inwardly.
"Eh, Warno. Should have been, Kowe iku. Ora kerjo, even bojomu seng kerjo. Wes sent ora matur nuwun even talking seng ora-ora. Jarke Yat's. Wong lanang ora thought blas!"
Mbok Minah is the one who is angry. She nagged and scolded Lek Wo, her husband, who was unemployed and only playing cards every day, at the substations in this Yati village.
Things that are usually done by men, when they have no work and busyness, because they have finished working on rice fields and gardens.
While Lek Wo, does not have rice fields and gardens. He's just a freelancer, employed by someone else.
And since his wife worked in the city, he was not willing to accept the work of others, who asked for his energy as usual. He only relied on money from deliverables, transfers, from his wife.