The Sound of Tears

Blessings and betrayal

Today is the time of harvest season, the farmers look to be harvesting the results of their respective fields. Not to be left with me as well, farming work before was used to do, but this time it felt different for me. where I had to do it myself without help from others, but this time it felt different for me, but it's okay that I have to be strong for my future and my brother's. Previously I had asked permission to the school not to enter the next few days, while my sister remained in school as usual, even though she insisted on not going to school because she wanted to take part in harvesting rice as well.

While busy harvesting rice in the rice field, came some women who are none other than the family of the mother minah whose rice fields are located not far from the mother's rice fields that I currently harvest.

" o Ella... Why harvest alone, brother and father where are you?" hello ma'am interested in me.

" yes ma'am, it happens that Ayu is in school so I harvest it myself ma'am" I replied while stopping work for a moment.

"Where's your father?" ask mommy sister

"mmm. I'm busy working out of town ma'am" I answered covering up the real situation.

"in that case let us help the harvest ta la, pity the children your age work hard like this" pinta ma'am..

Without me answering they rushed to help me harvest the rice.

'thank you, Allah, without a doubt come to help the servant' I murmured in my heart while continuing the work that had stopped for a moment.

A few days later, the harvest was over. Now was the time for the farmers to receive their crops, as well as the things with me. Generally the crops of the farmers here they leave to the rice tauke. Because the land we use for farming belongs to the tauke, so the result must be 50% for the tauke, 50% for the farmers in each land.

One by one the tauke distributed the money from the harvest, and it was my turn

"Bu Siti aminah" said the Tauke

"I'm Siti's son, Mr. Tauke" I replied

" mm so you're Siti's son, yes. yes.. this is the harvest this time. one. two. three.. bla bla bla.." then the Tauke gave me 350 grand.

"thank you tauke" I received the rice field harvest that my mother had been working on. 'Oh Allah, so all this time the working mother only receives this kind of reward?' I murmured in my heart. But behind it all I do not forget to be grateful for being able to buy some materials and equipment for daily needs. For the cost of school I did not think too much about it because while my mother was still alive, I got a student duty until the end of High School. While Ayu is also so, he also gets a student duty plus the cost of assistance from the homeroom Monic homeroom Ayu.

"Yes tauke." I replied.

" because uh because the cause of musabab enk siti is no longer, so the farmland that used to be cultivated, siri, is now taken over by bu minah"

"what? why is it so tauke? haven't my family worked on the land for years?" I just don't accept what the Tauke said.

"hey girl, you are still a child. You will not be able to work on such a large land.your energy will not be strong, the proof is that only yesterday the minah ma'am who helped harvest"

"but tauke... "

"ah. don't have to talk much you girl, you should just take care of your sly sister and father" said the tauke with a loud laugh.

I immediately ran home, unexpectedly it turned out that the help that was once given by the mother turned out to be a way to seize the rice fields that had been cultivated by my family. 'forgive me mother' tears were unstoppable again, so many trials were coming back and forth. Today happened to be Ayu asked for permission to stay at Bu monic's house, and at home only I live alone.

*night of the day

TOK TOK....

the sound of people knocking on the door

"who?" ask me to make sure who comes, because there is usually no one who visits these nights

Hi readers, do not forget to press the like button

the author is excited to continue this story...😊

Thank you😊