The Story of Pilu A Village Flower
#4. Alex wants to get married again.
In the first week Sari made ulos, only 1 sheet that Sari could finish, this week Sari is not to the week, Sari could not sell ulos only 1 sheet, just 1 sheet, for basic necessities there was still the rest of the past week. Sari was still slowly weaving her, fearing her patterns or her motives were wrong.
After one sheet of ulos was completed, then Sari noticed the ulos she woven, quite the result of a beginner, and now Sari already knows the trick how to do it faster.
Continue to the 2nd ulos, and in 2 days, Sari can finish it, then continue again to the third ulos, and can be completed Sari not until 2 days, until Sunday, until the third day, Sari could finish 4 pieces of ulos, Sari also intended to sell them to the besiegers in the city.
After collecting the results of selling catches of fish dad, in one week, almost every day father catch enough fish. And collected money from the weaving and sale of father's fish catch, very good money collected.
Alex entrusts Sari to save both the money, father only asks for money as necessary to buy cigarettes, and drink in a coffee shop, Alex is not the hard type to smoke, but he is not the, cigarettes purchased today can be for needs in 3 days.
Sari type who does not like wasteful, if going to the week, buying makeshift needs, even though the hands of money are still excessive, Sari never spends it always trying to save and save, although Sari is still in 3rd grade SD, Sari is already good at managing money.
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It has been a year since the mother left her husband and children, and almost a year also Sari weave and manage the finances of her family.
Because Sari is good at saving and saving, now the savings that have been collected is intended to buy buffalo, Sari hopes the buffalo will breed into many, many, and someday can be sold if there is a very urgent need.
One morning Sari expresses her wish to Alex.
"Well, if you buy a buffalo where is it?", asked Sari curiously.
"Why did you buy Sari's buffalo?", asked Alex still confused about his daughter's strange wishes.
" Sari is leftover from weaving, and the proceeds sell catches of father fish. Sari intends to buy a buffalo, so that later the buffalo can breed, and if there is an urgent need to sell the buffalo father", explained Sari at length to Alex, who is not a part of the family, indeed Sari hoped that her father would approve of this plan.
"How many tails can you buy Sari?, the price of the buffalo is very expensive of course", Alex replied to Sari.
"Sari wants to buy a pair of father, male and female buffalo but Sari can only buy the only one" Sari told Alex.
"It's good that your plan is, I agree then, try to ask the father's friend's friend, if anyone wants to sell his armband a pair of children" explained Alex to Sari.
After days of searching for information about her baby buffalo, finally a pair of baby buffalo have been bought Sari, Sari said to her sister "Dek, you have to take care of this buffalo child as well as good, Sari said, every morning Siti and Sita before leaving school must first take this buffalo child to the field to eat grass, just moor in a shady place, later quite noon brother comes to see it.
Brother hopes this buffalo breed and multiply, so that someday it can be sold, if there is a very urgent need" said Sari trying to divide the task for her younger sister, so that one day it can be sold, if there is a very urgent need, everyone agrees and no one disputes.
Simultaneously his sister replied "Yes kak", while mangosteen mangosteen.
Sari is more persistent in finding money, now Sari weave can be 4 sheets per week. Sari hopes their lives can be better, and people are not trivial to their families.
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On a sunny morning when Alex came home from the lake, while handing the catch to Sari.
Alex wants to say something to Sari, hesitant, hesitant and afraid that her children will be angry, but Alex still insists on saying something to Sari.
"Sari" said father slowly.
"Well, what's wrong" asked Sari, actually Sari knew, if her father was upset, worried, wanted to say or not.
"There's something I want to tell you, but since your sister is now going to school, I'd better tell you this news first, later you can convey it slowly to your sister.
"yes father, just say it", said Sari urged her father because Sari was increasingly curious about something her father wanted to say.
Because Sari also urged her father to want to say something about it. Alex was getting brave enough to say it.
"Sari, I want to get married again, and I hope you guys will agree to it" Alex said steadily without hesitation.
Sari was surprised, not expecting her father to get married so quickly, actually Sari wanted her father not to marry again, because she did not want to have a stepmother.
"Sari, dad got married, so Sari can go to school again, I feel sorry to see you slam, if dad gets married, dad's new wife, later who works to weave ulos" Alex said, keep giving reasons, to be approved for marriage.
Sari is silent, rather hesitating she thinks of her father's reason, because in Sari's shadow the stepmother is usually cruel, where there is a stepmother who can think of others like her own biological child, like her and her sister.
"Sari is afraid of having a stepmother" said Sari sadly.
"Try later I bring the woman to this house, you will judge, you can also oppose it if you disagree" said the father to Sari.
"Alright father then", said Sari relieved.
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In the afternoon before dark, the woman came to the house to get acquainted with Sari and her sister.
the door was knocked, Alex immediately opened the door, and immediately let the woman in. Sari immediately greeted and introduced herself.
"I'm Sari Bu!", said Sari.
"Eastern" said the woman who would be the father's wife.
One by one Sari's younger sister also introduced herself. Since it was dinner time, Tiur went along to eat together.
From the way he ate and spoke, Tiur seemed like a good person. 'But this is not necessarily true nature', Sari bathin in heart. Tiur smiled a lot, and did not say much, but still Sari did not agree with her father-to-be, either where Sari's lack of understanding, Sari's mind was like refusing.
When he finished dinner, Tiur joined the plate to the kitchen, immediately Sari forbade him "No need for mother to lift the dirty plate, there is me and sister who will lift it" sari said to Tiur.
"It's okay" Tiur said
When Tiur comes home, Alex excuses him for a while out to take Tiur to Tiur's house.
Sari asked her younger sister, how did their assessment of Tiur. His younger brother silently could not answer, instead saying that Tiur his person like her was good. Though Sari felt her heart did not match Tiur.
Sari immediately went into the room intending to rest and immediately went to sleep at night, before going to bed, Sari first prayed, In her prayer Sari tried to express her incompatibility feelings towards Tiur, hoping that God would give a clue, in her prayer, so that his father changes his mind to marry Tiur.
Finished praying Sari immediately fell asleep, Sari was lazy to wait for her father, let tomorrow be discussed again about Tiur. If Sari had not slept when Alex arrived, surely Alex would have asked again about Tiur. 'tomorrow it', Sari's bathin in heart.
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Sure enough, Alex was impatient to ask Sari's opinion about Tiur. When Sari woke up early, about to cook her breakfast, and it happened that Alex also wanted to net fish in the lake.
Alex immediately approached Sari and asked Sari.
" How will Sari, you agree, won't Tiur be your stepmother?",
"Dad, for some reason, my bath is not compatible with her, I do not agree that Tiur will be my stepmother.
"Sari, agree or disagree, I will still choose Tiur as your stepmother" Alex said loudly.
Sari is afraid that her father is angry and Sari is silent. Sari tried to persuade her father "Dad, can't you just find another woman?",
"Can't Sari" said Alex loudly, adding "Dad remains steadfast in choosing Tiur as your stepmother, my heart is already in love with Tiur, and all you need to know, is, father wants to marry again, so that father can get a son as the successor of the clan father, If your late mother did not die, if your late mother did not have a son, if your late mother did not have a son, father will still get married again", said the father in a loud voice, Alex's voice to wake up Sari's sister, who was,
and they rushed to get up and do their own activities, never felt they heard the sound of his father's snapping as loud as they were so frightened, immediately Sari cried and went straight to her room. 'Don't expect father to yell at him just because of the woman who was known to me not long ago', Sari's bathin churned, that's how fast his father changed, what if his father was married later with Tiur, Tiur, father will definitely be more on Tiur's side and no longer care for his son.
But Sari could not argue anymore, Sari resigned to the choice of her father, Sari just pray and hope easily Mudah Sari misjudged Tiur, easily menduas fact that Tiur is indeed a kind woman, Tiur, want to consider Sari and her sister like her biological children.
