He's your son
Not according to expectations
BIM at 14.40 wib.
"Assalamualaikum tek, iko Ridwan, is the current eta ko?".
(assalamualaikum aunt, this is Ridwan, where is aunt now?".)
"Waalaikumsalam, Wan, etek is waiting for luggage, wait at the door kalua yo Wan".
(Tante is waiting for baggage, you are waiting at the exit)
...pengennya use my mother tongue (our regional language) but I'm difficult if I have to type twice, so I use Indonesian only yes, maybe later I slip a little language minang, a little, but you can not if you do not need to translate kan hehehe.(signed author)...
"O Allah, how big are you, Wan, what class is it now?".
"Ridwan has been 7th semester tek, inshaa allah next year already can graduation".
"A college where Wan?, what major?.
Alhamdulillah at Univ Negeri in Padang Tek, whose S1 took the farm if the D3 has finished majoring in agriculture". Ridwan wants to continue Dad's business, many of our brothers are hanging here. While kissing aunty's hand, om and his cousin's brother.
Jose looks indifferent to Ridwan's story, for him there is nothing special that he can be proud of from his parents' village, I don't know for him people who live in the village all his kampungan, kudet alias less update ga know the times and ga educated.
"Pantesan aja Makdang want to mate his son ama me, poor and uneducated, said Jose's heart shortly after they boarded his Makdang car that picked them up to the airport.
"Assalamualaikum, Ma'am, Da we arrived". exclaimed Fatma at the door of their family's farmhouse, currently Mr. Zul the oldest brother and his one brother must live in a rumah gadang owned by their parents, contrary to their supposed customary custom when a boy is married they must step down from his mother's house and live in his wife's family home, but because they are only two brothers and mother Fatma lived migrating to Jakarta so the end of her brother one of her stay at her parents' house, her parents, fortunately, the house was a house built by his father's alm on land purchased by their father, not a hereditary heritage house, so Mr. Zul brother bu Fatma can live there without having to contradict the customs of their area, even Fatma has given his full rights to the house to his brother, because their mother or grandmother from Jose did live with Makdang Zul and also because they were only two brothers.
In Minang his usual heirloom treasure in the designation for girls, boys do not get rations, they only serve as guards and mediators if things happen that are not in the want, right, it is somewhat different from the customs in other areas.
It has a philosophy, though, because the boy is strong and powerful in making a living for himself and his family, this girl is weak and must depend and take refuge in her brother.
Therefore, the customary system in Minang uses the Matriakat system which means everything is dominated by women and its Matrilineal meaning takes the lineage of the mother, the mother, so in making decisions about the role of the mother, it does not mean that men do not play a role, but more seeing and hearing will then be the decision maker only when it has been brought into the density of family or tribe.
"Waalaikum salam, ondeh alah tibo you son, welcome grandmother Maryam, mother Fatma, a ride lah. model of the house of Fatma is tiered like the traditional model of minang house in general, if it used to be under the house left empty, so that Aisha and Ridwan used to like playing under the house, now under the house has been made into a warehouse and car garage by their father, now under the house, there is even a pavilion also made by Makdang Zul for the family Maketek Ambo, a distant brother of Bu Fatma who is in charge of helping Makdang Zul every day.
"Princo Jose?, Oh Allah is the big brother now ko, continued Maryam's grandmother as she stretched out her hand and patted her grandson's shoulder.
Where is the name Aisha aisha, from that I did not see yes, this big house during the time only Makdang, Ridwan and grandmother, where else, he said in his heart.
"Jose, let's sit here near Makdang, exclaimed Mr. Zul as he patted the chair beside him. It turns out that the height is very Jose yes, indak thought Makdang, dashing and handsome too, must be many women who like the same nephew of Makdang ni right?.
"Have a girlfriend for Jose, shoot Mr. Zul directly, which makes Jose flirting to answer him.
"Lai da's square, where there's her boyfriend, chirps Fatma's mom.
"Indak Fat asked, Jose asked, didn't Jose?. Baa son, is there a candidate, meet Makdang, which person is he? your lai urang? if the urang you tell his family to come let us finish right, but if you let Makdang come to his parents, said Mr. Zul with a sincere smile.
"Actually, Jose already has a prospective Makdang, he was a college friend Jose used to not be a crew person, it just so happens that we have a business together as well at this time.
"Ondeh, plan tu ma, what else already have a business together, what else why not just marry, why the long time is right courtship, nda nice, approaching our adultery, sinful, sinful, although Makdang believes Makdang's niece can take care of herself, but this demon is also greater than us tease her, so let alone, marry again, nda need to be delayed.
"Da, baa kok so kayak gini his talk, is not we go home to talk about Jose's matchmaking with Aisha, exclaimed ma Fatma with a bit of emotion.
"Bao batanang used to be Fat, bathe first, pray zuhur, eat our gai first, after rest later we will continue this conversation, said Maryam's grandmother.
"Aisha, ma the water for your tek, cried grandma calling aisha.
How did you get Emi?, Grandma asked. Emi is the wife of Mak etek Ambo.
"Aisha is still in mushalla mak, alun rose ka lai do house, ado son who deposit his memorization earlier I saw.
Huh, what the hell he was, pretentious, his father's brother came, not his in service even a sok alim it, grumbled Jose.
"Jun, please etak you lift the goods to your etch room yes, Ridwan you take your uda to his room.
In this house is indeed a lot of rooms, in the middle of the house there are six three-room rooms parallel and facing the other three rooms, namely, at the front of Fatma's room from long ago until now even though Fatma's mother was never in the village but her room was always cleaned and no one occupied. the second room was a one-wall granny room with a Tiara room, while opposite Aisha's room, Makdang's room was empty, the room where the etek etek get together if there is an event at the grandmother's house.
Down a little down there are each two rooms facing each other, Jose's room, Ridwan's room, Junaidi's room and their Dodi's room is the son of mak etek Ambo's son, in the middle of his dining room with a very long table and a large back there is a clean kitchen and bathroom. From the side of the kitchen door there is a ladder down to the bottom of the dirty kitchen which is actually located under the house, under the house in the minang do not think low and stuffy, because under the house it was two and a half to three meters high.
behind the house is located one place on the fence with high bamboo that contains chicken and duck cattle, in front of the house there is a rangkiang place to store rice in addition to rangkiang there is mushalla, and there is a, which is deliberately made makdang for prayer place while teaching for children around.