THE WEALTH SCAVENGER SYSTEM
EPISODE 3'S. DREAMS MAKE MOM HAPPY
Zero's mother paced back and forth, every citizen who passed by, she called just to ask if any of them saw her son. But their answers were all the same, no one had seen Zero all day.
His worries increased when he saw the clock had shown at nine o'clock in the night but Zero had not yet returned home. Mother wears her hijab, locks the door, she intends to find Zero to the market despite having to walk.
But when the mother turned around her body about to leave in the distance, she saw a figure she knew. Zero had arrived before mom went to look for him.
Mother hugged Zero while crying, her worries spilling through tears. Although Zero is not her biological son but for her mother, she is the jewel of her heart, let alone the mother is only a childless widow whose husband died long before finding Zero.
Zero who saw my mother crying, felt guilty, "Mom! sorry Zero yes, Zero is late coming home, but Zero will not do it again. Zero promises Mak, Zero will be home early tomorrow. Don't you cry, Mom? Zero's coming along."
Both of them were crying, the mother seemed reluctant to let go of her embrace, then Zero said again, "If the crying continues, then Zero's mother will get worse! How did Zero get another father? since childhood until now Zero continues to make Mother cry until no man wants to be with Mother anymore," said Zero who wants to make her mother laugh.
"Basik you! start again yes fun Mom," said Mak Salmah while releasing his embrace and rent out Zero's ear.
Although Zero is a teenager but Mother still considers him as her little son who is always worrying.
"Let's go in! you must not have eaten, put the sack down first, Mom wants to heat your food first."
Zero puts his sack in the backyard, then he cleans up before starting to eat.
Mom waited for Zero to finish, then she asked, "Where did you scavenge? Mom's been asking all the passers-by but no one's seen you, even in the market."
"Zero mulung in the market kok Mak, but it was Zero preoccupation so late home. Sorry, Mak, I've worried about you."
"Emak see enough sustenance today, so you can directly shop for necessities tomorrow? Did you sell your mulung?"
"Yes Mak, thank God. Today God gives us more sustenance. Do'ain Zero continues, Mommy?"
"God willing, Mother always pray for you to be given a smooth sustenance, happy and successful someday."
"Aami...Zero dear Mother. God willing, Zero will be happy one day. Oh yes Mak, Zero wants to pray first yes, it's too late, after that Zero will go to sleep immediately. Mother also has to rest to heal quickly, tomorrow we control to the doctor huh Mak? after that, Zero went out."
"Emak already eat, the money you save, certainly there are still many lack-kan for the cost of exams and graduation. Mom doesn't want you can't take the exam and don't pass it just because you take care of Mom."
Mother also guaranteed Zero's wishes, then they returned to their respective rooms. After performing the prayer, Zero momentarily opened his textbook only to repeat in preparation for the exam.
Zero rolled out a foam mattress that was very thin on the floor, hugging the bolster that contained only patchwork on the solid, then lay down while looking at the flat object he found earlier.
Before going to bed he just hopes, what the phone says is true, that the balance of his account is indeed increased. Otherwise, Zero no longer knew if he could bring his mother to treatment tomorrow or not.
Currently Zero has not dared to be honest with Mother about the old school and smart phone that she found, he said, but later at the right time Zero will definitely say it because since childhood he can not keep any secrets from his mother.
His tired body made Zero momentarily fall asleep and enter the dreamland. In his dream he went to the holy land with Mak Salmah.
But the thunderous sound of lightning managed to wake him up, Zero smiled, it was all just a dream.
Still imagining his dream earlier, Zero was shocked back by the lightning coming from between the walls of his house, along with the sound of lightning that again boomed with the sound of heavy rain falling.
Zero hurriedly rolled up his mattress, putting it in a safe place from the raindrops. He also took some used bread cans that were deliberately stored in his room to hold water if it rains.
After that Zero immediately moved out of the room, but it turns out that Mom was awake and was in the living room while carrying a bucket and basin to accommodate rainwater that poured in from the leaking roof to wet the existing butut sofa just there.
Zero was very concerned about the condition of his house, but at the moment he could not do anything about it. He only has a plan if tomorrow his account balance increases, Zero will use the rest of the money after bringing his mother to buy used zinc to replace the roof of their house that has been leaking.
He will set aside his school fees first, for the sake of Mother's comfort. Zero wants you to feel comfortable resting without having to wake up to hold rainwater, especially in the condition now that you are sick.
"Looking at Zero who was still rubbing her eyes, she said, "You sleep, son, in the corner I don't think it's leaking. You must be tired and tomorrow still have to start again."
"It's okay, Mak, Zero was also sleeping. Mother who rests, so that tomorrow is not tired of waiting in line at the doctor's clinic. Zero will clean up and throw away this water, hopefully soon the rain will also subside."
Mother finally complied with Zero's words, he also did not want to trouble Zero if tomorrow became sick. Zero threw almost full water in the bucket and in the basin, both in the mother's room and in the living room.
While in his room, the water in the cans was also almost full and Zero immediately threw it away.
Experiments like this Zero had experienced since childhood, he never complained. Only at the end of each prayer, Zero always inserted strands of do'a, could provide a decent place to live and bring his mother to the holy land of Mecca before death.