
In the afternoon, after returning home from work for the last time, because Mar had been unanimous with his decision to stop working from Mother Neli's house in order to start a new life in the garden owned by Makwo Bastari.
Mar speeds up his steps to reach the garden to meet As.
It looks as if As is looking at his work,
"Assalamualaikum Pa's..."
Mar is approaching As.
"Greetings Walaikum.., How is Ma?"
As shows the body of the house that is almost finished.
" Www... Hurry up, too, Pa.., Good Pa.."
Praise Mar for her husband's hard work.
"Maybe next week's finished Ma.."
As sat grabbing the cigarette box lying on the floor of the house.
"Pa..I've stopped working, starting tomorrow I want to seriously take care of the vacant land, I'll plant vegetables"
Mar said as he looked at the empty land beside his house.
"Well, good then, may our lives be better in the future"
Almost dusk, though,
Mar and As prepare to go home.
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A week passed,
The house made by As already looks the shape, just install the roof then the simple tiny cottage is ready to be occupied.
Mar remains the spirit of sowing whatever seeds he can plant and later produce,
starting from cassava, various green vegetables, tomatoes, chili, eggplant, oranges, guava, various types of bananas and many more.
While Kale, which is not maintained he began to notice, sowing fertilizer and get rid of weeds that also interfere with fertility.
On the sidelines of a break in working on the hut, As sowed fish nets and the results were quite satisfying off for this lunch side dish, As,
Mar deliberately brought cooking utensils, using firewood, Mar began to cook rice, fry fish catches As, cook kale, Mar also has prepared chili that he brought from home,
After harvesting the fish, As had picked 2 young coconuts to enjoy when eating with his wife.
The two of them ate together with banana leaves with side dishes that are still fresh, what a wise lunch they had eaten together, with a breeze, with a breeze, feed after mouthful really pamper their tongue, closed with a sip of young coconut water that is directly drunk from the fruit of his catapult immediately makes them feel like they are on vacation.
After eating, and resting for a while, As resumed his work and Mar returned with his new activity of gardening.
The day began at dusk, when As had just finished installing the roof of their tiny cottage.
Now, the house they called the tiny cottage was ready, Mar began to clean the contents of the inside sweeping and mopping the floor, they planned to move tomorrow morning.
Mar and As arrived home when the magrib reverberated, immediately they cleaned themselves and prayed together.
"Ma, so tomorrow we can move?"
Eni asked who approached saw Mar was putting clothes in the cardboard box.
"So, tomorrow morning we bring clothes first, then we come back again to bring other goods, we rent rickshaws to transport all this"
Mar.
The next morning, they began to transport goods by renting rickshaws that would go back and forth to transport their belongings, luckily many neighbors who helped them in the transfer business this time, until not half a day, until the next, all the finished goods they transport.
Mar has also prepared a simple meal for the neighbors who helped them move in today.
When the meal was over one by one the neighbors who helped say goodbye, now was the time they tidied up their household, shoulder to shoulder and finally all settled before magrib.
Tonight is their first night sleeping in a new house, a tiny little cottage by As, their hearts full of joy, he said, happy with the new dreams and hopes that are in front of their eyes may this be a happy path given by God for those who want to be patient and try.
First morning atmosphere in the garden Bastari,
All the members of the family are awake, and are busy with their respective affairs.
They gathered as Mar prepared breakfast for all the inhabitants of the house, sitting on the floor they all surrounded the dishes of the Queen in their house.
His five children and As looked spirited today.
"Papa want to tell you, next week Papa wants to make a fish pond in an empty dam over there"
Saying As while pointing at the empty padang makes all eyes look at the direction designated by As.
"Emang Papa can Pa?"
Ask Vin.
"God willing, if we try for sure we can, the important thing is that we try"
"For Pa..we all support Pa..sangattt"
Eni encouraged her Papa who looked very passionate.
"So Ma, my salary this week I'll ask ya.buy a net and fish seed"
He looked at Mar for permission.
Mar nodded with a smile.
"Thank you Ma, we will try one plot first, if we succeed we add more yes"
"Yes Pa"
"Yes already then I go to work first huh, Um...Sari.Bareng Papa ya go to school.biar Papa anter"
"Well Pa, Ma. adek depart yes..."
Sari grabs her bag, then kisses Mar's hand, shortly after Sari and As leave, Hen leaves for school, as well as Eni and Win.
With an old bike Sari was piggybacked as to the school.
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Day after day, week after week even months and years passed..
As fish farming business was successful, the treated kale also thrives, as well as vegetables, bananas and all Mar garden products thrive, growing lush,
As is no longer working, his daily life is now spent taking care of his fish farm animal feed, his fish pond, on the sidelines of his free time As looking for old coconut leaves that fall then he look at his tongue and made a broomstick to sell Mar to the market, in addition to selling kale and other garden vegetables, he said, Mar also sells coconuts, and also brooms, for their own fish ponds, they will harvest catfish and tilapia every 6 months, the money from the fish harvest is used for school fees.
Their lives improved a little, at least for their daily meals were no longer dizzy, plus their only children were Hen and Sari who were in school.
Their second daughter, Vin, decides to travel to the City after a labor selection in Disnaker shortly after Mar decides to stop working from the home of Bu Neli, their third daughter Eni, and the, still at home working in the city of birth, Win after not going to school anymore is now in the culinary world that is cooking into his hobby since he was a teenager he always aspired to become a chef.
Mar also now has one granddaughter from her eldest daughter Ana, who plans to return home in the near future.
Truly it is a time that is very much awaited by Mar and As who are impatiently called nyai and Akas (call for grandfather other than Yai) by his grandson directly.
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