My cousin Maduku
Chapter 56 Sells Teak Wood from Narti

After Ratih and Riska met Lek Saswi in the village sebrang, Riska immediately contacted his friend Wisnu who is a Furniture craftsman. Luckily the money from rice fields owned by Ratih has not been taken by his Aunt, so Riska and Ratih did not meet any obstacles.

"Where Nu, can you come here to see the teak directly?" asked Riska on the phone.

"OK Ready, Ris. I must go to your house." replied Vishnu there.

"Yes I'm waiting." Riska ends her phone call with her friend Vishnu.

"Son! Should sell wood later. You must be tired, ever since your return from the city. You have not rested at all." said Ratih worriedly then sat next to his daughter.

"Faster is better, Mah. Riska is okay, Bi Narti will go home from Siska place, instead can not sell his teak."

"Mama's just worried about you, but if you think it's better, then mom's coming along."

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"Assalamualaikum." Greeting someone from the outside.

"That's like Vishnu deh, Mah." said Riska then rose from his seat and then came out to welcome the arrival of his old friend. Followed by Ratih in the back.

"Waalaikumsalam, uh Nu. So soon you're coming."

"I have a need around here, Ris. How are you?." asked Vishnu.

"I'm good. Please sit down first!. I'll make you a drink first." Riska's hand is tilted and pointed to the bench.

Vishnu walked according to the direction of the host, then dropped his body weight on the chair on the front porch of the house of Riska's parents.

Riska went inside to make a drink for Vishnu and brought him a little snack.

"Son Vishnu Riska's friend at school?." Ratih sat down to accompany Vishnu and made small talk.

"Nggeh Ma'am, I'm Riska's friend. Coincidentally, Riska was asked to come here he said to see teak wood that will be sold." Vishnu explained while taking a pack of cigarettes from his pants pocket.

"Sorry, Mom. I smoke." Vishnu smiled faintly at his mother Riska who was responded with a nod by Ratih. Actually, Ratih is an unusual person inhaling cigarette smoke. However, rejecting her daughter's friend felt bad.

"Now, I have a cigarette replacement. Sorry, my mom can't breathe in cigarette smoke." Riska has appeared with a packet of candy and a glass of coffee. Riska who knows this one friend smoking hobby also immediately stopped by the stall and bought a pack of candy.

"Ah, sorry yes, Mom. Ah, thank you, Ris. It replaces cigarettes. This mouth feels cool if you don't smoke, Ris." Riska grinned as her friend stared with the wrong face.

"Son, Mas Vishnu. Mom comes in first. Mau dzuhur prayer." Ratih patted his daughter's shoulder after getting up from his seat.

"Oh, nggih, Mom. I prayed in the mosque before I got here." Vishnu mangosteen release the departure of his mother Riska.

Now Riska is sitting across from Vishnu. The woman was so disobedient that she had no duty to keep the commandments of her Lord.

"Where's your husband, Ris?." Vishnu's question made Riska speechless for a few seconds. He had to give Vishnu a smile to cover the wound in his heart.

"I'm a widow, Nu." The face of Riska is as customary as possible. The woman did not want to show sadness with her new status.

Silence ambushed them both. Riska who is confused should talk especially can only look straight ahead - towards the road.

"Ooh forgot, this Ris I brought an invitation from Rizki. He's getting married tomorrow. Come yeah. We're reuniting with all the other friends." Vishnu took out an invitation from behind his jacket pocket.

Rizki Tanjung their unmarried friend at their age, because after High School she always wander abroad until want ahead of this marriage.

"Rizki? Did he come back from Taiwan?." Riska turned over the invitation card from her friend and rival in winning the first class champion."

"Yes, just two months ago. She married our upperclassman, Anissa. He's both overstepping. Eat it, you come. Don't come around." Vishnu grabbed a glass full of coffee. Then sip.

"God willing I came. Kangen with kids. How are they all doing? Uh, you remember Vino?." reminiscing about the gray-white age reminded Riska of Vino.

"Vino the crisps entrepreneur is yes. I met a few times. He's also officially divorced." The description of Vishnu makes Riska beroh ria.

"Today I met him even he said he lived in the neighborhood around my house in the city. I'm really pangling with him. I even felt I didn't know him. Had I not been rebuked first would have forgotten and would not have even greeted first."

"The news I heard from Vino, he got divorced because his wife cheated on him while living abroad. Vino also long in Korea eating his assets everywhere. His wife is not grateful even delicious with other people's husbands. His wife was eventually expelled without bringing anything. And what I heard, his wife is now trying to reverse." Vishnu gave a long description of Vino.

Riska is just a mangosteen alone to respond to men who have long been a hobby of storytelling.

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Arriving to carry out Riska's mission to sell teak wood, they are currently in the yard of the house of Narti. The road that was taken to come there was not through the usual road through, they walked around by riding a motorcycle.

"This, Nu." Riska pointed at a fairly large teak tree. Riska tried to hug her, but the woman had long little curly hair that did not cover her, the tree was much bigger.

"That's big, Ris." Vishnu scanned the tree that soared upwards.

"How much is this, Nu?." asked Riska impatiently wanting to know the price.

"I appreciate eleven million." Vishnu measured the circumference of the teak wood with a meter.

"Didih, cook just that. Raise dong, cook only 11 million trees like this. Fifteen, huh, Nu?."

"No way if Fifteen million, later I can not be opened the same door wife because of bankruptcy not profit transacting with you." Vishnu rejected Riska's request jokingly.

"Well we go home, not good together in a place like this, later on I guess what else." After seeing and assessing the teak tree trunk that can be made furniture material, Riska invites Vishnu out of the yard.

They also came out of the road earlier, the scorching heat made people reluctant to go out of the house. Of course, it is beneficial for Riska because she can go in and out as she pleases without anyone suspecting her.

"Well, this is 12 million, Ris. This is also I give the price is expensive because you are my friend" said Vishnu after they returned to the house Riska.

Riska was silent for a moment, weighing up a few reasons.

'It's cheap, but it's enough to replace the mama's money he used. More than enough, it's the wrong person who's doing it. Because of taking money 7 million instead lost assets twelve million. Nice one!.' Riska returns to monologue in her heart.

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