When Love Should Determine
Chapter 115

There has been a few days of bad weather. Every day the wind blows strong accompanied by heavy rain. Lightning and thunder boomed scared anyone. Everyone complains about not being able to go to sea because of this weather.

Conditions like this certainly have an impact on the sale of Larissa. Moreover, most of the main livelihoods of the population there are fishermen.

Once the sale of Larissa to buy his son's ice cream for two thousand rupiah he could not afford. He could only shed tears looking at the disappointment on the princess' face. "I'm sorry, son! it's not that I don't want to buy you ice cream, but right now I really don't have any money," she said bitterly.

Larissa dizzy seven roving thinking of how to earn extra money. Because the results of the sale of rujak can not meet daily needs, while Hamzah himself can not go to sea because of bad weather.

Amidst the sudden despair he recalled that Ina's cousin Hamzah had a debt of one hundred and fifty thousand. He went to his house to collect the debt.

"Mbak Ina, I apologized earlier! My goal here is to collect my debt a few months ago" Larissa said when she arrived at Ina's home.

Ina's friendly face turned sour instantly when Larissa expressed her intentions, making Larissa feel bad. "One more time I'm sorry, ma'am! It's not that I don't understand the current conditions, but right now I'm not having any money at all" he added.

Although Larissa was the one who gave the loan, but she was still polite when charging it. She does not want to make people hurt just because of this problem especially mbak Ina is still a cousin of her own husband.

"But at this time I do not have that much money, mbak, how dong?," said mbak Ina.

"Please, madam! cook mbak Ina don't know how I am. If it wasn't for being forced, there's no way I would've charged it."

Ma'am Ina seemed to think, and soon she said, "How about I pay it in installments? Let's be just as good."

Larissa took a breath. "Yes, ma'am, no pa pa. It's just mbak Ina then."

Ma'am Ina went inside to take the wallet, and not long after he returned to meet Larissa. "This, madam! I love you this way first."

Larissa received the money. "Alhamdulillah! Yes, no pa pa pa. The important thing is that I have a handle on eating tomorrow" he said. "I say thank you again."

Larissa also passed away from the house mbak Ina with a smile engraved on her face.

A few weeks later Larissa returned to collect the debt because she did not have any more money. He complained of pain in his eyes and wanted to buy eye drops to relieve the pain.

Just like before, this time, Ina gave her a fifty-thousand note, and Larissa received the money without complaining.

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Most of the women have a habit of gossiping when gathering with friends. They have the name of PKK mothers (women who lack work).

There are only topics that are the subject of their gossip. Starting from the news of the artists of the country, the price of basic necessities skyrocketed sharply, household life, husband and children, as well as relationships with in-laws.

Just like this morning, Larissa seemed to be gossiping with some other mothers while waiting for their children at school. So cool they gossip to make you forget the time and place. Every now and then their laughter broke out as someone told them the ridiculous things they were going through.

In the community, bik Ika is known as a person who likes to talk about ceplas-ceplos. He always said what he thought, no matter whether his speech hurt the hearts of others or not.

"Yes, bik Ika is like that. I was once told by him. It's......" Larissa also told how Ika bik speech as she heard from mbak Ina some time ago. Not to forget he also told how the words changed direction so as to cause a quarrel between himself and the husband.

After he told me, suddenly one of the mothers asked, "Who did you hear that talk from?."

"From mbak Ika," he answered honestly without any prejudice.

"Have you figured out the truth for yourself?" ask again.

Asked like that Larissa even laughed crisply. "What's it doing to find out the truth? It's a waste of time. It was clear that Ina's words were true.

"Are you really sure that what he said is true?" ask for the umpteenth time. The look on his face looked very serious when he asked that.

Having such a question, of course, Larissa was confused. "You mean mother?," frowned at the incomprehensible omen.

The mother changed her seat and moved closer to Larissa. "Be careful! Ina it's the person who wants to sell and pinter buys," he said half whispered.

Larissa was confused by the mother's words. "Mom mean how the hell? I still don't understand."

The mother breathed. "Don't you know that he likes to turn a truth into a lie, and vice versa?."

"Really?" asked Larissa in disbelief.

The mother nodded. "Everybody knows about it, and I think he did the same to you."

"Isn't he?." Larissa still did not believe the fact that the mother said because all this time she was so trusting the words mbak Ina.

The mother breathed back. "Now try to think of the possibility, it could be that he said that to you, then said something else to your mother-in-law with the intention of pitting you against. You don't know who told your mother-in-law that anyway, do you?."

Larissa was stunned to hear the argument that the mother had said. His mind raged between believing the mother's words or not.

Seeing Larissa's silence, the mother could guess if she didn't believe her words at the moment. "If you don't believe me, please ask the other mothers!" coined.

"Yes, Larissa, what she said was true. We all know what it's like."

Hearing the defense of other mothers inevitably Larissa also believed him. And now his heart was filled with a deep sense of regret. "O Allah, so all this time I was being fought by mbak Ika? why don't I think it's possible that this could happen?."

After learning the truth, Larissa rushed to her husband to tell him.