
The Sweet was happy to see the mood of Wan Siang who was good, also curious about the friend who he said had just been visited by Wan Siang.
“The theme was male what female Koh?” Ask The Sweet.
“If my friend is a girl why, Sweet?” Wan Siang asked back.
The Sweet suddenly fell silent, never had he ever shown such a face, his face lowered and his lips pursed, making Wan Siang anxious and wanting to laugh.
“Engkoh never told me if I had a girl friend.”
“If I tell you, you will be angry.”
“What I'm angry about, is it Engkoh's business. My friends are also my own affairs.”
“But how does his face pout so?” Wan Siang watched the face of the Sweet One, while holding his chin.
“You don't like it when I have girlfriends huh?”
“Engkoh is handsome, surely many women who want to be the winner Engkoh. I also can't prevent.”
“Hahaha .. You are jealous yes?”
“What is jealousy, jealousy is useless. Just make heartache, but the person who is jealous remains at will,” said the Sweet. According to Wan Siang, the statement of the Sweet One is different from the content of his heart. Surely his future wife was jealous, hearing Wan Siang say had a girl friend.
“Jealousness is a sign of affection, but it should not be excessive. If the jealousy is like you, it makes you anxious,” Wan Siang continues to tease the girl.
“I'm not jealous Koh, if Engkoh wants to have a dozen girl friends also please!” This time the voice of the Sweetie was a bit high.
Wan Siang between wanting to laugh and pity seeing the Sweet One.
“Hahahaha .. My friend is a boy, I just wanted to test you.”
“Engkoh this likes to prank me.”
“And I told you, jealousy is a sign of affection. Now that I know that you can be jealous like this, I don't doubt your affection for me.”
After that, the Sweetie was relieved and smiled again. The Sweet did not know the circle of association Wan Siang, but all this time he was sure that Wan Siang was not having a girl friend. Hearing Wan Siang admit to meeting women made him shocked and jealous.
Jealousy, Sweet's whole life has never experienced it. But what Sweet felt when jealous of Wan Siang was indeed the first experience that shook his soul. Why could his heart hurt so much, just by imagining a woman speaking so closely to Wan Siang. But it was just a shadow. I don't know what would happen to him if it really happened in the real world, maybe his heart just couldn't bear it.
“Maybe now you understand how it feels to be jealous,” said Wan noon.
“Yes, I confess now. I was jealous earlier. Aih ... jealousy is bad.”
“That's what I felt when I saw Sun Kwan bring mooncakes to you, and time imagined him taking care of you who were sick.”
“Ah .. really, I don't mean to make Engkoh sad. When Sun Kwan brought the mooncake, I had no feelings for him. Yesterday when he took care of me, I had no feeling. I want to refuse, but not delicious, because he's his sister Engkoh.”
“I know your position at that time was difficult. Actually rather than blaming Sun Kwan, I blame myself more. Why don't I have your fitting pain.”
Wan Siang became grieved over his inability to continue to be on the side of his loved ones. Ever since his judiciary house was closed, somehow life was full of struggle for him. In the past when there was a gambling house, he did not need to work hard, money was quickly obtained. Sometimes he misses his time at the gambling house. But he couldn't run that gambling house anymore.
With the closure of the gambling house, Wan Siang and the Sweet One can be close to each other. On the one hand, Wan Siang was grateful for the incident. On the other hand, he also felt sad because he had to separate at certain times with the Sweet One because of his new efforts in the field of tobacco.
Some say life is full of struggle. The harder the effort is made towards success, the more satisfied it feels if success can be achieved. Therefore Wan Siang also understood, when he got a lot of money at the gambling house, because it was not done with full struggle, his feelings became mediocre when receiving a large amount of deposit money.
Unlike the efforts of the gunman, although profits are obtained with great difficulty, but when he gets money, his soul is satisfied many times. It was as if the money was as precious as a lump of gold.
While recalling the events of that day with Sun Kwan, Wan Siang also better understood his new self. He is now much more controlled and not rash. In the past if there was a problem with people, he did not hesitate to smash.
For example, while still practicing silat with Lie Kuan Tay. If one of his friends is beaten by people, he will without thinking long will also beat the person who attacked his friend. Then when he makes a troublemaker in a wine shop, Wan Siang will also not hesitate to attack people who try to stop him.
Mr. Liem often scolded Wan Siang for his eldest son's bad behavior. But Wan Siang did not want to listen and still did troublemaking. When Wan Siang began to cultivate the field of gambling houses, he began to be more in control. No more messing around in the tavern. Because there is Uncle A Seng who accompanied Wan Siang to be more in control.
That's why, Mr. Liem originally let Wan Siang with his judiciary home business. It turned out that the gambling house was able to dampen Wan Siang's habit of doing chaos. There Wan Siang is more focused on learning to play gambling and collect money. Mr. Liem deliberately asked Uncle A Seng to accompany and supervise his son.
“A Seng, I need you to take care of the boy. Don't do it again,” said Mr. Liem.
“I was your confidant when you opened that gambling house. Forever, you can entrust Wan Siang to me. I will take care of him like my own son,” Uncle A Seng said.
“If the boy would listen to the words of his own Papa.”
“I do not know the problems in your family, until the child does not want to hear the words of his own parents.”
“The problem of the child has already appeared from childhood. Her mother was very hard at educating her, and I was too busy. Maybe it was also my fault, which had no time to educate him, so our distance became far. Our heart distance.”
“Ya ... Your wife is like that, I do not understand why you want to marry her,” said A Seng.
“Every family has their own problems, so does my family.”
Mr. Liem did not elaborate on the family matter. What was clear was that A Seng at that time understood the difficulty of Lord Liem in managing his family. As a confidant, he was determined to be the one who could guide Wan Siang, replacing Mr. Liem who from childhood never felt close to his eldest son.
***
Wan Siang's heart was so filled with love and happiness, like a gift passed down from the sky.
Sometimes love comes at unexpected times. At that time Wan Siang was not thinking about women in his judiciary. Then suddenly there was someone who thrust a girl with a thin body, shabby clothes, and tangled hair.
The situation of the girl was far from attractive, so Wan Siang did not intend to make her a lustful mistress. The girl was also so afraid of him. What Wan Siang had in mind was a bit of pity looking at the miserable state of the woman.
When Parjiyem still cried a lot at the beginning he came to Wan Siang's house, the man did not stop his crying. He did not know how to persuade women to stop crying. Then he thought, if the boy was bought nice clothes and invited to go out, maybe his mood would be much better.
Then under the pretext of wanting to change the ugly clothes of Parjiyem, Wan Siang took her out and took a walk. From that day on, Parjiyem stopped crying. Wan Siang can sleep well because he does not have to hear the sound of women crying at night.
Now the little woman who used to cry when she was taken to Wan Siang's house, became a woman who often smiled at him. Carrying a million joys in Wan Siang's heart.
“Sweet, I'm glad you're here. I don't know what would happen to me if you weren't around,” said Wan Siang.
“Engkoh is a rich man, surely Engkoh remains happy even though there is no me.”
“Absolutely all the rich are happy?”
“The rich man as far as I know is always well dressed, handsome and beautiful, want anything can buy, like a person from another world.”
“That's visible, do you know what's in their hearts?” Ask Wan Siang.
“No, who can know the heart of people?”
“Happy or not, only that person knows, and cannot be judged from the outer skin. Maybe you're happier than me. You have good friends, caring parents.”
“Yes, I am happy despite living a simple life. And started crying when brought here.” The Sweet so remember the times he was first brought to the house Wan Siang.
“My life is usually chaotic, and gets better when you come here.”
The words of Wan Siang made Si Manis speechless a thousand languages, many things that came to his mind.
“But Koh, I just cried for a while here. After that my life is much happier than it used to be.” The Sweetie continued to reveal her heart.
Hearing that, Wan Siang felt very happy. The sweetie feels the same way. Then Wan Siang put the Sweet One to bed. Look at her affectionately and kiss her cheeks. The skinny little girl turned into a beautiful princess in the eyes of Wan Siang.