The Father Boy
ALA42S. Zuhdi's Emotions
"Why get down here, Di?" Givan greeted Zuhdi who was walking by the roadside, Zuhdi just got off his family car.
"Nothing." Zuhdi covered up his goal.
"Buy mia yayam." Cala whined to point at the roadside chicken noodle cart, which was in front of Zuhdi's parents' house which was the family's scramble.
"Chicken noodles, Mia Khalifa time?" Chandra kissed her sister who was in her lap.
"Well, you're still confused, Dek?" Givan tidied up his son's hood.
"Just go, Van." Zuhdi did not want his steps known to Givan.
"You want to buy chicken noodles." Chandra opened the door and got out of her father's car.
"Buy a lot, Bang." Givan let his son down with his youngest child.
The chicken noodle base is in front of Zuhdi's parents' house, while his family-in-law occupies the house that he asked to pay ten million per year. He had given up for the home of his parents who became the scramble, he did not want his house controlled and became a snatch again. Therefore, he gave a price to the Sekar family who occupied the house.
Zuhdi scratched his head, he was confused because of Chandra's presence in the neighborhood of the house. Of course Chandra will hear and approach the commotion, if Zuhdi comes to the family right now. He got out of the car and said he would come to his family. They must be waiting for Zuhdi to come, Zuhdi thought.
"Just go, Dad. Later let the chicken noodles be delivered. I let Cala go the same way, want to buy cigarettes also cement here to WA he said want to come." Chandra chose to be left, because he thought the distance was close.
"okay." Givan shuts the windows of the car, and the car slowly dies.
Zuhdi was still pecking on the spot, looking at Chandra who was walking towards the wagon of chicken noodles that had just a tarp. The chicken noodle dealer is a neighbor behind Zuhdi's house, he had asked permission to walk in front of Zuhdi's parents' house.
Thought Zuhdi, Chandra was busy ordering noodles. He moved out of his place to approach the family of his brother-in-law.
But he was wrong. Because as he passed by his parents' house, the call to his name sounded. Zuhdi realized that his family-in-law was gathering there.
As he was about to enter his parents' crowded house, Zuhdi turned to confirm the existence of Chandra who ordered meatballs. In fact, he was surprised because Chandra was holding his sister was stepping towards him.
"Abang mameh nyang lagak." One of Zuhdi's nephews, a schoolmate of Chandra, came out of the house waving his hand.
Chandra raised her eyebrows and smiled sweetly.
"When's the reception, Bang?" Zuhdi's niece was already on the porch and shook hands with Chandra.
Zuhdi sighed, he was more confused to rebuke his family-in-law because they were gathering together.
"When," Chandra replied with a smile.
"Ten days, I will follow. Come with Izza huh, Bang?"
Chandra is used to being called a 'branch' because of his high social status and respect.
"Ehh, do you do it too?" lontar Chandra jokingly.
"That's it! I go first, right? Want a suit of clothes." Zuhdi's nephew passed after wearing his sandals.
"Why not take a tax?" tanyanya.
"Waduh, the son of a marriage master at KUA. Let it be free, right? Marry ordinary people." Ardi's mouth made Zuhdi again remember his purpose for coming here.
"Sir Cheque didn't come anyway, so don't know?" Chandra recalled calling the man 'ash'. Only, his father forbade him repeatedly.
"You didn't send an invitation. Your father didn't know anything, but he's still family-in-law." Ardi stood at the door and opened the door wider.
"Yes, intentionally. You'll be uncomfortable, you'll have a lot of comments."
Zuhdi glanced at his relaxed-looking nephew. Zuhdi recalled who Chandra and his family were, trying not to be surprised by the boy's mouth. However, in fact it looks surprising because Chandra usually respects Ardi like himself because Chandra knows the goodness of Ardi first.
"Yes comment, the time of the rich married in KUA. Wedding without reception, wedding dress only. If daughter-in-law, cake is what it is. It's different if you marry a girl." Aini emerges from the house, she is the wife of Ardi.
"You married in black and white, and the cake wanted to go to work." For the first time Zuhdi was this way.
He was hooked, because Ardi and Aini seemed to be increasingly cornered Chandra. He did not like it, if his wife's family who was very good to him was even cornered like that.
"Oh, yes the situation is different. I'm not from the family either." This is like being a door blocker and not allowing them to enter.
"How many receptions yesterday was Ceysa's maharin, ma'am?" Chandra looked over with a big smile.
"Out of about seven hundred millions, the bed was thirty million. Room contents, house contents, it's Abu who filled all. Bail in your father's handle, but catering from the ashes." Zuhdi did not understand the direction of Chandra's talk, he just followed the way Chandra played.
"Ohh, is this reception cheap? I spent four billion, the same money in the aquarium was thirty-one millions. Farm productive, trees can still be harvested for the next twenty years. Understandably yes, the bones of the matter. So one by one, Mr. Cheque." Chandra chuckled slightly by looking at Ardi. "Had, half my savings. Direct reception, which there will be confused eating everyday. The future of Pak Cek's cake, come again to Abu minjam money to eat. Be ashamed. Reception can, later on, continue to pay." Chandra spoke so lightly.
Ardi and Aini looked at each other with glaring eyes.
"Mending debt, hitchhiking ever, too," Zuhdi chimed in with a glance at his sister. He did not understand his sister, he did not help her. But after living together with Aini, Ardi became the same figure as Aini. That makes Zuhdi never visit his brother again, even the annual reminder of the death of his parents he made at home without ever telling his own family. Because Ardi, who is his closest brother, has changed like other people who hate his wife's family.
"Can't I do this, Mr Cheque?" Chandra asked Ardi by showing off his teeth.
"Yes, no, Bang. Nahusahin continues, not as good as common." Zuhdi clasped his hands and leaned against the window frame.
"If you don't tell me, Bang!" Ardi spoke out immediately.
"Not sincere, but do not like your attitude all this time." Zuhdi was still trying to relax, especially accompanied by a relaxed Chandra nature.
"Pak Wa, a closet full of tau," to Fitri, Ardi's only child on Zuhdi.
"Oh yeah? How many people are home? How many heads of families are in the house? WC full can not call a car to drain? Should me? Shouldn't I be the one who didn't occupy this house?" Zuhdi was provoked by emotions when he learned the condition of his parents' house that seemed unkempt.
"Well, this is the house of ashes that fixed Brother." Zuhdi's sister came out.
"Oh yeah? So, is it more worthy of you? Then get out of this house." Zuhdi fluttered the door of the house with his loud speech.
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