
"Mas Jamal!"
Jamal turned towards the voice that called his name. Because he memorized the voice of the girl.
"What's Lina doing?"
The girl who called him was Lina. The girl he loves but loves another guy. And that's Hendra, Jamal's own friend.
"Emmmmm... Where are you from, Mas?" asked Lina with narrowed eyes.
"From the rice fields, why?"
Jamal asked Lina. Because I felt that the question asked by Lina was strange.
Obviously he's carrying a hoe. But Lina still asked him where he was from. Or, this is just a subtle satire. Because of Jamal's work as just an ordinary farmer.
Recalling what Lina had once said, Jamal turned to continue on his way. He wants to go home.
"liks. You're not from the rice fields, are you, Mas?"
Jamal's steps stopped. He paused his intention to ignore Lina.
"You didn't see I had a hoe? Where else if not from the rice fields?" jamal asked back, with the question word he pressed.
"Usually a lot of mud stuck in Mas Jamal's clothes and pants, if you go home from the rice field. Must not have been to the rice field, right?" ask Lina to investigate.
He still remains distrustful of the answer given by Jamal, who says that he is from the rice field.
Lina did not see Jamal's clothes dirty with mud or dirt, typical of rice fields. Jamal's hoe is still clean. There are no signs, if it was used to work in the fields. Because it is still in a new state.
But Jamal was offended, because of the question after question posed by Lina.
"Already Lin. Why do you keep wondering, but still not believe the answer I gave?" Jamal was inflamed, being annoyed by Lina's attitude.
In addition, he is also still upset every time he meets this one girl. Remember the rejection he did.
Plus, in addition to rejecting Jamal, Lina actually shot Hendra in front of him at that time. And then again, Hendra also wants to accept Lina. Though it turns out, Hendra himself already had a lover in the big city.
Actually Jamal wanted to tell Lina about this. But after he thought about it again, it was none of his business.
She was afraid that Lina would misunderstand. Then think of him as a sheep complainant, because of the revenge of his love that Lina had rejected.
Shaking his head several times, Jamal finally did not talk about Hendra's confession to him.
"If nothing matters, I say I go home first Lin," said Jamal later, because Lina did not continue her desire to talk again.
But when Jamal had just stepped foot again, Lina said in a loud voice. For Jamal to hear and know, about the news he was going to say. "I'd like to lamar Mas Hendra. We'll be getting married soon!"
Jamal did stop his steps, but he did not look back. Where was Lina.
And a second later, Jamal again stepped on his feet by shaking his head again several times.
"Ih, is that Jamal hak angry? got word if I'll be in Mas Hendra's room."
"I also said I'd get married soon. But why does he look so cute?"
Question after question, asked by Lina. Without anyone to answer it, too. He doesn't know if Jamal knows more about Hendra than he does. Who he said as a lover, even became his future wife Hendra.
*****
Arriving home, the handyman's job is almost halfway through. So we can be sure if the afternoon is over.
"Well, hurry up and do their job!"
"Ami. This really wants to be finished, right?" tanya Jamal made sure. If the work in his house is almost done.
"Yes Jamal. Very quickly yes their work," replied Umi, who also felt amazed by the work of the artisans.
"You're tumben home? Not hoeing that one?"
Now, replace Umi who asked Jamal. Jamal usually comes home in the afternoon. Moreover, he also saw how the condition of the clothes and hoes that Jamal brought were still all clean.
"So, I'm Ami."
"Oh yes Ami, Jamal was hungry, so he went home early. Didn't bring any supplies, hehehe..."
Umi smiled faintly, hearing her son's true words. Because this morning was busy taking care of here and there, he did not prepare supplies to bring Jamal to the rice field.
So Umi understood the condition of Jamal, who is now hungry.
"You wash your hands and feet first. Ami prepare a meal for you."
Jamal nodded his head with a happy smile, as it could distract his Ami from the questions related to the rice field.
While waiting for his Ami to come with food, Jamal keeps his hoe in a small barn, which is behind the house.
In the warehouse, stored some rice fields and garden equipment. Which was owned by his father. Because now his father was dead, everything in the warehouse was bequeathed to him.
There are sickles, hoes, crowbars, mines, tubes to spray pests, and various other equipment in general. Unfortunately, the equipment is still with the old model.
"I actually have a lot of this equipment. But these are not as sophisticated as the agricultural tools that people today use. Can I use this, but the result is just as advanced as it is?"
"Jammy!"
From the direction of the kitchen, her Ami had already called out her name.
"Yes Ami!"
In a hurry, Jamal put the hoe of the system between the tools in the warehouse. Only then did Jamal walk over to his Ami.
"Search in front of nothing, to the kitchen again nothing. It turned out to be behind," great-grandson Ami, who had been looking for his whereabouts earlier.
"Hehehe.. sorry Ami."
Jamal only chuckles while saying sorry, when Ami gives him a plate, complete with rice and side dishes.
"Here's eat first! There's a chair there. Just sit there!"
"In the house is impossible. Because it's messy and unfinished is also done by the handyman."
Jamal just confirmed Ami's words. He walked to the chair near the warehouse, to enjoy the food Ami had brought.
A short time after Jamal sat down and ate, Hendra and Lina came to his house to visit.
"Hi!"
Jamal raised his head, looking at their familiar faces.
Even just now, he had just met Lina on the street. When he had just returned from the fields.
"Do you know I'm here?" ask Jamal wonder. Because the place is sitting at this time, not visible from the front yard of the house, or from the road.
"Ask Ami earlier," replied Hendra explaining.
Lina just kept quiet, while her hands were twitching spoiled in the arms of her man, Hendra.