When Love Should Determine
Chapter 35

"Entik, will you go to sea tonight?" larissa asked as she was about to put her son to bed in the room.

For several days Hamzah has not gone to sea on the grounds that there is an event at the pencak silat college. Although Hamzah always said he would go to sea after the event, Larissa did not believe it. Hamzah always came home in the middle of the night and fell asleep.

And now Larissa sees Hamzah sharpening the long knife she used to use for training. It's only natural that he asks that. He was worried that Hamzah would not go to sea again. The money he held was just a few pieces.

During this time Larissa was forced to sell fried food around to add a little spending money. But apparently it was even used as an opportunity for Hamzah to laze. He thinks Larissa can already make her own money.

"Yes, just calm down. Later I go to sea" replied Hamzah without looking at it and continue his activities sharpening knives.

Although still in doubt with her husband's answer, Larissa chose to be quiet and immediately entered the room. Because if he asks a lot, Hamzah is even angry.

In the middle of the night Larissa woke up. she found her husband had not yet slept and even cool sharpened a knife. The plan is before dawn Hamzah just go to sea. But is not it better to rest first to be fresher when working later.

"You're not sleeping, ta! It's late at night, you know. Ntar wading wakeinnya difficult" reprimanded Larissa from the room. Hamzah sharpened a knife in front of the room, while the door was open. That's why Larissa could see what her husband was doing even though he was in the room.

"Yes, hang on again, gig! stay a little" replied Hamzah.

Larissa did not care what her husband did and chose to continue sleeping again.

It turns out that Larissa's worries happened. Hamza is very difficult to develop. Until he canceled the sea today. I don't know what time he just slept last night.

Larissa was upset, angry, and disappointed with her husband, but she could not express her anger. Though he had already told if the money he held stayed a little. But Hamzah doesn't even seem to care.

Larissa woke up and chose to immediately make a fry to peddle. At least he could get money from there.

After all the fritters had matured and laid out in their place, Larissa brought Fatim along with her. He did not have the heart to leave his son at home, because fat still needs ASI.

Shoulders carrying Fatim, hands carrying merchandise. Larissa stepped out of the house. He no longer cares about his husband. Even he deliberately did not make breakfast for her, besides the money from where to make breakfast.

Larissa goes around the village peddling fried foods. Although tired and hungry, Larissa still spirit of selling. By noon the merchandise was a little. Larissa is grateful because from the results of this sale she can use to eat.

This time Larissa will not be fooled again. He hid the money from Hamzah. She even bought food and ate it outside to avoid being discovered by her husband. She deliberately did it so that her husband thought that he really did not have money. So that her husband wants to work more.

Lying is a sin, especially when it is done to the husband. But Larissa had to do that too. Lying for the good is okay.

Actually Larissa has a little savings from the proceeds of selling fried foods. In addition, when night he replaces mother serves buyer. And the money he makes can be used for himself.

From everything he did, he managed to collect as much as one million rupiah. The money will be used to buy a washing machine. So that he is not too tired anymore.

Hamzah just woke up. He went to the kitchen and looked for food in the cupboard. He was very hungry, but after all the closets he opened, he did not find any food. Because today Larissa is deliberately not cooking.

Hamzah looks angry because he did not find food. He immediately approached his wife who was helping his mother serve the buyer in front.

"Encus, where's the food? why don't you cook?" shouted Hamzah.

"Where does the money come from to cook? you just these few days have not given me any shopping money" Larissa replied lightly.

Hamzah went back into the house. His face was red withstanding the anger he could not let out. I am ashamed of being outside of many buyers.

After a while, Hamzah came out again. He brought the keys to the bike and Beegegas spurred it on. I don't know where he's going. Because he just left without telling Larissa anything.

Larissa did not understand what her husband was doing. Slowly she got used to her husband's attitude. Although it is undeniable that the pain is still in the heart because of his attitude.

A single tear fell from his eye. He quickly wiped away the tears before anyone could see. He does not want people to look weakly at him.

Bu Ani just looked at what was happening. He did not dare to interfere in the affairs of his son and daughter-in-law, especially if there is Hamzah at home. But after seeing Hamzah, he began to ask his son. "Why don't you cook for your husband? Poor thing, your husband must be starving."

"Let her go hungry" Larissa replied.

"It's not nice for a woman to behave like that. Let alone letting her husband starve. Cooking is a wife's job" she advises. He blamed what Larissa did.

"I know that, Mom. And I did it intentionally. I'm mad at him. I just want to make him aware of what he's done."

"What did he really do?" ask Ani Ma'am. He was still confused by the answer given by his son, because he himself did not know what had happened.

Larissa also told me all about last night's events. How Hamzah did not sleep until late at night because of the preoccupation of sharpening the knife until it ended up not being at sea because it could not wake up.

"After I know everything, do you still blame what you're doing?" ask Larissa after she's done telling me all.

Moments Bu Ani was silent, unable to answer her son's question. But soon he started to open his voice. "If it's like that, I don't blame you. I agree with what you're doing."

"After hearing your story, I became more and more upset with your husband. Hamzah is an unreliable man. He could have behaved like that. He could not think, he already had a wife and children to feed. His responsibility as a husband does not exist at all" Bu Ani said in an annoyed tone.

"Udahlah, Ma. Don't think about him anymore. It's up to two what. We continue to serve buyers" Larissa said.

They go back to serving the buyer and forget what just happened.