Halal Love of the Senior
Ichtiars

Bakda Asar, Adi drove the wife to the house of Mbah Suro massage at the request of the woman who had become his soul mate. After introducing herself and chatting for a while, Adelia was asked to enter a room that was specifically used for massaging.

While waiting for his wife to get a massage, Adi hangs out at the patrol station in front of Mbah Suro's house. At the patrol post were some young villagers who were gathering and chatting.

Before the massage, Adelia was asked to take off all the clothes she was wearing except underwear. He then covered his body with a cloth that had been brought from the house, which had been prepared by Mother Hasna. After that, he fell down on the small bed that was there.

(Conversation Adelia and Mbah Suro in Javanese, but because I was lazy to write in two languages so go directly to Indonesian ⁇ ️)

"How long have you been married to Adi?" tanya Mbah Suro started the conversation while still massaging Adelia.

"A little over seven months, Mbah," answered Adelia.

"It hasn't been too long" muttered Mbah Suro.

"Yes, Mbah. But, I want to get pregnant soon, Mbah."

"Hopefully a massage here can be a way to get pregnant," Mbah Suro said.

"Aamiin's."

"Alhamdulillah many soul mates massage here. Some have been married for decades and have no children. The doctor raised his hand, kept them here. After that, they usually get pregnant. It is not the mbah that makes you pregnant, but the Gusti Allah. Just as an intermediary."

"Yes, Mbah. That's why I'm working here."

"Have you had a massage before?"

"Most tired massage, Mbah. All at the salon."

"Has good skin, smooth like this. Adi is smart to find a beautiful wife," said Mbah Suro.

"So, it could be." Adelia blushed in shame.

"Ouch," cried Adelia because she felt pain when she was kneaded at a certain point.

"Because it was the first time I got sick. Don't hold back, just relax. Mbah is paving this way," said Mbah Suro.

"I-yes, Mbah." He hid his face on a pillow to endure the pain.

Mbah Suro applied a kind of oil with the aroma of spices on Adelia's massaged body, which made her body feel warm. They kept chatting during the massage process. The friendly Mbah Suro makes Adelia not so painful when massaged at a certain point.

Meanwhile in the patrol post.

"Well, there's a town guy coming back to the village. When's it coming, Di?" sapa Bowo, one of his neighbors.

"What city people? I'm still a village man here. I came yesterday afternoon. How's everything going?" Adi shines through everything that is there.

"Alhamdulillah, neat (good). You've been kinclong since you got married." Bowo shakes Adi's shoulder. They are indeed childhood friends who since Kindergarten to Elementary School one school, so it is very familiar.

"There is someone taking care of it now. Nothing my wife has prepared. That's why you're hunting marriage don't keep going." Adi elbowed Bowo's stomach slowly.

"Want me to feed my wife, Di? My work is still shabby. You're good, it's well established. Want nothing to buy," said Bowo.

Adi laughing. "He said that marriage can open the door of sustenance as long as our intention is to keep the sanctity of self. Halal sustenance if sought there must be a way. Sometimes we are just impatient. He wants an instant, wants to have a lot of money without hard work."

"Don't think overnight I could be like now. I work from morning until night. Overtime almost every day. Home is the same cost just for a bath is the same as sleep, the rest in the office and projects. Most people only see results, not knowing how the process works. I'm sure that you're painstaking and diligent it can work, too." Adi embraces Bowo then pats him on the shoulder, giving support.

"Well, you're rich in motivators now, Di."

Adi laughed at Bowo's words. "I'm just talking about my experience."

"Mas Adi, come here with Dita too?" tanya Reza interrupted Adi and Bowo's chat.

"Yes, Rez. Incidentally at home there was a big family gathering, all thanks to the birth of her son Dita."

Reza gasped at Adi's reply. She did not expect Dita to have any more children. "Oh, Dita's son is two now?"

"New one, the first one used to die in the womb. How do you know Dita's been pregnant twice?" adi asked while looking in wonder at Reza.

"Oh, that, last year I did not accidentally meet Dita at the hotel. She was just waiting for her husband to show there. It's pregnant but it's not too big yet" explained Reza.

Adi nodded at Reza's explanation. "You know, many do not know."

"Her husband Dita really works what is the event in the hotel?" Bowo was curious.

"You could say cafe entrepreneurs and coffee baristas. Graphic designers too. He often filled in barista training or stories of his experiences building ventures and developing them."

"It must be rich, her husband Dita."

Adi smiles. "You're always seeing results, Wo. Rich, poor is relative. Which is clearly enough. She has been a graphic designer since the third grade of Junior High. The course became a coffee barista, only after that open a cafe. He worked hard because he was desperate. Her father died while she was in high school and she wanted to ease the burden on her mother."

"Well, cool is her husband Dita. It's worth it your sister wants to be with him, not the same as this one." Bowo pointed at Reza with his chin.

"Signature gelut iki (this fight)." Reza looked in annoyance at Bowo.

Adi and the others laughed at Bowo who was teasing Reza. Almost everyone knows that Reza has had a crush on Dita for a long time.

They talked for about an hour. Adi was just saying goodbye after Adelia sent a message that she had finished her massage.

"Home home yes, the madam has finished massaging Mbah Suro." Adi got up from his seat.

"Hopefully your wife can get pregnant soon, Di," Bowo's heartfelt prayer.

"Aamiin, thank you everyone. Assalamu'alaikum." Adi left the patrol station and headed to Mbah Suro's house to pick up his wife.

Finished massaged and put on her clothes back, Adelia gave an envelope containing money to Mbah Suro as a massage service wage. Mbah Suro never put tariffs, so it depends on the sincerity of the people who give. Adelia was also given leaves that had to be boiled for her therapy and Adi. After that he and Adi went home.

"Where does it feel to be kneaded?" adi asked when they had driven on the motorbike, back to Pak Wijaya's house.

"It hurts, Mom. He said because he had never been used to it. My stomach was in position" replied Adelia.

"What does Mbah Suro say?"

"Say my role goes down, Mas. The leaves were boiled from 6 cups of water to 2 cups of water. We're told to drink two of us once a day."

"Then ask for a place to boil herbs together mother."

"Why ask the mother, Mas. There are lots of pots at home."

"If to boil herbs, which are good from clay, Ai."

"Oh, that, Mas. Does mom have any?"

"Mother must have, Ai."

"If we ask you later so you don't have any more, Mas."

"Let you buy again tomorrow at the market. Ai, just calm down. Uh, there's a guest, Ai." Adi began to drive the motor into the yard of Pak Wijaya's house. He saw a motorbike parked next to the porch.

"Who, Mas?"

"I don't know either, but I know the bike. Rich has Kai."

"I went in through the back, Mom."

"Yes." Yeah." He stopped the motor in front of the garage. Adelia got off the bike, then walked to the back door that was near the kitchen.

After putting the motor into the garage, Adi walked to the terrace.

"Wa'alaikumussalam warahmatullahi wabakatuh."

"Eh, there's this far away guest." Adi approached his best friend who was sitting in the living room with Rendra and Pak Wijaya.

"Where are you from, Di?" the Emperor asked while performing their special salaman.

"Antar Adel to Mbah Suro. It's been a long time?" Adi sat down near the Emperor.

"Lumayan, about 1 hour."

"Mas Kai came, not long after Mas Adi left," explained Rendra.

"Oh, what's the need?" Adi looked at his friend.

"There needs to be Rendra and Pak Wijaya."

"Hmmm, now there is no need to be the same I yes, the spirit has already gained the heart of Shasha. How many times have you been there not stopping by my house." Adi pretended to be angry at the Emperor.

"Sorry, On. My time always comes when it's right there. God willing, in two weeks I'll stop by your house."

"Sir Emperor, is this done yet to speak of a proposal? I want to take a shower." Pak Wijaya interrupted Adi and the Emperor.

"Oh, I've, sir. Tomorrow you will come here, discuss more details with Mr. Wijaya. I was only asked to confirm when Mr. Wijaya could propose to Shasha" said the Emperor.

"Then you come in first. You can also talk more freely." Mr. Wijaya then left the living room.

"So when's the proposal?" Adi looked at his friend.

"God willing in two weeks. We'll be transiting your house later, Di."

"Ready. I'm glad there's a lot of guests."

"Mas Ren, please carry Ale first. Mother same Sister Adel just bothered. My wet clothes are getting wet with Ale." Dita called Rendra from the middle room because she was not wearing a hijab.

"Just a minute, Mom." Rendra immediately moved on and took over Ale from Dita. He then returned to the living room while holding onto the recently changed Ale.

"Ale doesn't wear a pamper?" asked the Emperor who was wondering why Ale could wet Dita.

"If only he had a pamper at night, Mas. Not good also if every time wearing pampers are afraid of skin irritation. If the pain is pity, still small gini," explained Rendra.

"Metul as well, yes. But, most now of the babies have used pampers continuously. Maybe they're lazy to wash diapers and clothes that keep on getting wet." The emperor laughed.

"In expenditure, it would be more wasteful to use pampers continuously, Mas. It can add a lot of rubbish too. This is the reusable Ale pamper, a product of SME friends in Jogja," said Rendra.

"The time for heavy children to spend money, Ren." The emperor frowned.

Rendra smile. "The price of reusable pampers is more expensive than commonly sold in general units. It is not a matter of heavily spending money for children, but if we can save while saving the earth and helping MSME friends (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) it is better, Mas. As good as man is, is it not what benefits his surroundings."

"Well, cool thinking, Ren." The Emperor gave his thumbs up to Rendra.

"Whose parent was it? Ale. Yes, my son." Rendra laughed as she asked Ale to joke.

"When are you back, Kai?" ask Adi later.

"Where to go?" The emperor was confused.

"To the city."

"This will come back immediately."

"Bareng is the same as me" said Adi.

"You get in the car, I get on the bike. How's story? I'm your bodyguard." The Emperor glanced at Adi.

Adi chuckles. "Yes so that once in a while can feel escorted by the police."

"It could be you."

The three of them chatted until the time of Magrib. The emperor prayed in a mosque near there. He also had dinner with Mr. Wijaya's family.

After following Isha's prayer, the Emperor returned home. He did not want to be too late to get to his house because the trip at least took 1 hour.

Adi and Adelia are also getting ready to go home. Not to forget Mother Hasna told Adelia how to boil herbs with a round container made of clay. Adelia listened intently to the explanation of the mother-in-law.

Before leaving, Adelia took the time to play and held Ale. He smirked Ale's round cheeks in dismay. She felt sad that she had to go back to parting with that adorable little handsome baby. They will not meet for a few days until Dita returns to the house of the Goddess Mother.

Adi and Adelia then say goodbye and greet all family members. Adi with the help of Rendra put their stuff into the middle of the car. Once everything is ready, Adi and Adelia get in the car. Slowly, Adi's black fortune left Pak Wijaya's courtyard.

"I feel so sleepy already, Mas," complained Adelia who did not stop yawning since getting into the car.

"His body has been massaged so the innate wants to sleep" said Adi.

"Yes maybe, Mommy." Adelia closed her mouth again.

"Sleep if you're sleepy, Ai" Adi said.

"No, ah. Later Mas Adi so feel alone, lonely," declined Adelia.

"Nothing. I've been living alone for a long time, Ai. So, it's common to be alone." Adi smiled a little.

"The food now has a wife, right, the time is still alone continues. Let's just have a chat to get rid of drowsiness, Mas. Listen to these rich romantic songs even more sleepy me." Adelia turned off the romantic music that flowed from the music player installed on the dashboard of the car.

Adi chuckles to see his wife who is upset because the romantic music that runs in the car makes him want to sleep more.

"Yes, Ai just tell me how the experience was massaged with Mbah Suro?" Adi glanced at the annoyed expression of the wife.

"Yes, it's delicious. Mbah Suro is also friendly always invites me stories. Especially if I'm in pain, my attention will be diverted to her."

"Keep being told to come back again?" ask Adi.

"If you want to go back there again, you have to wait for the leaves to run out."

"Ai, would you like to go back there again?"

"If I'm not pregnant yet, stay there. There is no harm in trying to share sustenance with Mbah Suro."

"My wife is getting smarter and more godly now" praised Adi who made a red hue on her cheek.

"Begin the fight" murmured Adelia.

Adi chuckled when he heard his wife mutter.

"If we take herbal medicine and how vitamins, Ai?"

"Yes, keep drinking, Mas. Suppose the time is taken in the morning, the vitamins can be day or night. Can't just drink it. Rich today we take vitamins this morning, continue this afternoon we drink herbal medicine."

"Yes, Ai alone set the schedule for taking vitamins and drugs. This is gonna buy some snacks before you go home?"

"No, Mas. I'm gonna sleep till home, not gonna be cool."

"okay."

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