My dear Siomay

Race

"Who are they, Mba?", one of the customers still in the store asked.

"They are rich people who hate the poor".

"Isn't that black-witted man Thomas Tio Wibowo?that means that the mother and father were her parents, they were rich", someone apparently knew Tio and her parents.

"Indeed why did they expel Mba?", a young man asked.

"I don't know either", I don't know what to answer.

In the minds of the people who witnessed the incident, there may be many questions and I can not answer one by one. They finally left the store. Before they left, I told them that tomorrow we'd move, but I don't know where.

"Sister, what should we do?", Erna asked, she looked confused.

"It looks like we have to find a new place", I'm cleaning up the dirty dishes.

"What if we close early, so we have time to find a new place?", Erna gave an idea.

"Better tomorrow we just find information about a new place, all of us also rest at home, we have a holiday sale first!"

I had to move places immediately because I was forcibly evicted. Is this the second answer from God that Tio is not my soul mate?just as we were about to get close, we suddenly had to be separated again by this incident.

There was a buyer. Erna went to serve the buyer. Maybe it's the last day and that person is our last buyer here.

After finishing with the buyer, Erna again helped me clean up all the items to take home.

"Have we been expelled, they also did not give money to rent a car, the basis of the bad guy, even though Kak Tio is very good, why his parents are very bad", Erna continued to babble.

"They don't like us because we're poor" I answered Erna's question.

"But why would they hate us so much, as if they would have a grudge against us?", Erna felt strange.

"Sister doesn't know either", I replied weakly.

Absolutely what Erna said, why did Tio's parents hate me so much, what was it because they didn't want their child to have a relationship with a poor person like me?or does this have something to do with Aki Somad?.

"Who do we keep moving?", Erna still looks confused.

"Sister will call Brother's friend now", I'll open my phone soon and call someone. We also agreed on the price and time of pick-up. Finally one problem was resolved and we immediately resolved another, which was to clear the items that needed to be brought.

When all things are in order, it's time to calculate our income today.

When I count the money, I see a folded paper. Then I open the paper, turns out the flyer about the race. The registration limit is tomorrow, while the race will be held the day after tomorrow.

"Erna, check this out!", I

while showing the leaflet. Erna approached and read the leaflet.

"The competition on Wednesday, means the day after tomorrow will be held a race to choose the most delicious siomay, the prize is a building to sell that is in a strategic place", Erna with sparkling eyes.

"Yes, we can come along, we can be the winners" I and Erna feel hopeful. We jumped up in excitement.

"Tomorrow we list, all preparation for the race", I with passion.

Don't forget I wrote an announcement on the paper to tell the customers that my dear Siomay moved. I added my phone number, and then I stuck it in front of the store.

The car to transport goods in the store has arrived. When everything was in the car, Erna and I sat in the front seat near the driver. We headed towards Aunt's house.

We were in front of Aunt's house. But it looks like a lot of people are there.

"Let's find out inside!", me and Erna got out of the car.

"What's the matter, Lady?", I asked my grieving Aunt while sitting on the chair.

"So there's a maling, Auntie's money and the jewelry that's stored in the closet is gone, try to see the closet in your room if there's money missing, it looks like there's also random chatter".

I'll go to my room immediately. Sure enough, in my room was also random chatter, seen clothes scattered on the floor. I looked for a wallet where I kept the results of my efforts, and it turned out that everything was lost.

"All is gone, Erna!!", I said to Erna grievingly.

"What's missing, sister?", Erna looks panicked.

"The money from the sale of Big Brother, it was going to be used to rent a new place, but everything is gone", I am very sad until the glass.

Erna hugged me immediately.

"Patience Brother, may Allah replace the lost money with more sustenance" Erna calmed me.

"We must take part in the race, Allah may we be the victors", Erna strengthened me.

"Aamiin, may God grant our do'a. We have to try as much as possible".

We both cried and strengthened each other.

The next day....

We immediately went to the registration place and registered for the race to be held tomorrow. The race will be attended by Mr. Governor, because this event was held with the aim of celebrating the anniversary of our city. Everything such as tools and ingredients for cooking will be prepared by the committee. What we prepare as participants is our strategy to make our siomay taste delicious with an attractive look.

Erna and I plan to change the shape of the siomay into the shape of a fish to make it attractive in appearance. For that we will bring fish shaped molds.

At race...

The race will take place at 8am. Erna and I can't be late. Usually, if you go through this road, it will not be jammed. But because there is a race event, the state of the road becomes dense creeping. Every now and then I see the clock on my phone, 15 minutes to 8. Erna and I are nervous.

"The road is so jammed" I said to Erna.

"Yes, I guess we can be on time no?", Erna began to look hesitant to arrive on time.

"Ease it" I hope.

We sat down with a feeling of unease, five more minutes of the event will start soon. When the car got to the venue, we immediately ran to the event venue.

"Come, get excited!", I encourage myself as well as Erna.

"Yes, all the time!", Erna while running.

We were 5 minutes late. The event is already underway. We apologise to the committee for being a little late. We sat down to listen to the welcome. Go to the core event, which is the most delicious siomay cooking competition. There were about 100 participants from various regions. Even if this is my city's birthday celebration, but for the origin of the participants is not limited.

The race will last for 2 hours. The race sign whistle begins. Erna and I did each other's jobs. I made the dough and Erna steamed the vegetables and the eggs. The other stove we use to cook spices. The atmosphere was tense for two hours. And so with our hearts. In my mind, my dear Siomay shop was also the incident of the expulsion. This is an opportunity that we have to continue the business of selling siomay and hopefully Allah will make us the winner.

Sweat began to pour on my face. The hot weather is adding to the heat of this competition. Finally two hours have passed. The siomay review of each participant has been tried on the jury table. Time for the jury to taste and judge.

After a while, arrive at the announcement of the winner.

"Winner is......"