Merlinda (Ranging Back)
Because Jerry
Meili had just leaned her body in the garden chair, after an entire afternoon, she was sitting in the kitchen with Viona.
Chicken opor, became the first dish he wanted to learn today. Cuisine that makes it also does not stop grumbling, because the fuel is so much, and difficult to find in New York. Who will sell lime leaves and bay leaves in this modern city, plus turmeric leaves. But said Viona, the three leaves that will make the cooking opor different and more delicious.
He was frustrated when he did not find the Three leaves, in all the supermarkets that sell food and vegetables, even looking for coconut milk is very difficult in New York. And he cursed endlessly, because of that.
Even almost all the servants in the mansion became confused because of it, including Jamie.
But that was before, he found out that his mother had planted the plant, in the corner of the plantation, the cherry tree behind their Mansion.
" Why did Mami, not say it from earlier huh ", he exasperated, when Viona came to him in the kitchen, and found her face of pride in front of the pile of food spices, " you didn't tell Mami you wanted to make Chicken Opor" Viona laughed. Meili fell silent, and sighed," I thought it would surprise ", the reply was weak. After he thought, that the guide from the internet, enough to make his business make his opor, was successful today. Then ask the woman to taste it after it is finished.
But everything is impossible. Making Chicken Opor in New York, it's a lot harder than flying to Indonesia, and buying all the ingredients there, then coming back to New York.
He almost thought like that.
" Come Mam, show me where you're planting the plant" he said impatiently, to walk towards the cherry plantation.
Viona walked over with a smile. Today he was made inexhaustible by two young women in his house. First by his favorite son-in-law, who approached him once in the morning, in order to learn to make Sandwich as he made. And both at the moment. The only daughter who never touched the kitchen at all. Suddenly, I was there to learn to cook. Cooking food is so hard.
" Why do you suddenly want to learn to cook Chicken Opor ? ", he asked Meili, as they walked to the place where the plants he planted, from a few years ago. No one ever knew that, except the servants who accompanied him to the garden.
He was always there after breakfast and back before sunset.
Being there made him calm. Moving the plant, and replanting it, was more fun than staying in his lavish bedroom, and thinking about his household life with Reymond. He always wanted to give up at that moment.
But while in the small garden he created out of his own hands, he became calmer, and did not think much of it.
" Jerry likes Opor Chicken, and I do too ", Meili reasoned. He said it so easily, until Viona looked at him in surprise, then smiled, "Have you made your choice ? ".
Meili did not immediately reply, "it is heading towards that" he said later, and quietly, "I haven't spoken to Brian. Just then, he noticed Viona's gaze on him, "but I'll do it soon Mam" he continued, and he looked at Viona seriously as he said that.
" You picked Jerry ? ".
" Mam" Meili choked, "do you need to ask that again ? ", he said with a tickle, "that's the reason I want to learn to cook this difficult food. Brian did not know the opor, Mam ", his sergeant and Viona immediately laughed, "Are you sure ? ".
Meili paused for a moment, "don't make me hesitate mam ", she replied weakly.
" Then you cannot choose ", said Viona, "you must not hesitate when choosing ", he said again.
" I have to how Mam. Whose side are you on ? ", the strangler is upset.
" Sure Jerry ", said Viona so honest," but Mami, also don't want you to regret it later. If you doubt, it's better not to be both.
" He really didn't give Brian a chance" Meili muttered. But, he did not feel disappointed at that moment. And in between their steps, Viona suddenly clasped her hands, "Mommy really doesn't want you to be depressed because of this ", she said looking seriously".
Meili fell silent, returning his mother's gaze, "what if it ends up, Brian. The middle-aged woman, visibly flinched for a moment, "then don't give Jerry any hope" he said again, and this time more seriously, than he had said before.
Meili stopped her steps just then, right in their steps were in front, a small plantation, among the cherry trees.
Viona was already walking quickly towards the plants, while Meili was still staring gasp at what she saw. He never knew there was such a small garden in the grounds of their vast Mansion. And when he finds her, his last dialogue with Viona is forgotten.
" Gosh Mam ", the pekiknik girang, walk quickly to the place where Viona has stood, "it's like being in the small garden behind the old man's house" he said happily, as if he was back in his childhood, when he returned to Indonesia, "just less padded ? ", he added again.
Viona laughed hearing that, a very stiff remark, when Meili called the word Empang, "you still remember that ? ", tanyanya.
" Hemm, braid" Meili said, and Viona laughed again.
" You should have made that, too, Mam. This land is still vast to make one fish pond ".
" Repeat Lele, you mean ? ".
" hemm" Meili nodded. Viona laughed again then and there, even chuckling, "livestock catfish in New York", he concluded, and he laughed nonstop. Caring for turmeric plants in the soil of this city alone, has made it difficult. What's more hitting the catfish under the snow, it's more impossible.
" What's funny Mam" Meili quipped. He didn't realize there was anything wrong with his words.
" Your request is too ridiculous ", said Viona, sighing to no longer laugh, "what is ridiculous, our yard can make dozens of fish ponds, even more ".
" It's not that easy as Meili's ".
" Not that, there's nothing difficult for you to do. You just ordered, and it happened ".
" It's not that easy. The catfish did not live in New York ", Viona said, now her hands are moving on the turmeric plant, picking the leaf sheet, Viona said, and put it on the spot that a servant had prepared to follow him. Meili, still thought. To think of a catfish that doesn't live in New York, in his mind is impossible. Fish just need water. So in his mind.
" You should know this plant ", he said again, when Meili, was by his side. " This is the turmeric plant" he said telling, on the contents of the plant he had just removed from the ground, "and this is the leaf you were looking for" he told again.
" Do I need to know this detail ? ", Meili asked not to understand.
" Of course, if you're really Jerry's wife, you'll cook a lot of chicken opor and have to know this" Viona said. Meili's eyes sparkled again, like hearing something so interesting. And it was not about the plant before him, but the name of the person who was the reason he should know, with the plant.
Viona then moved, on the other part of the plant row, then retracted the plant "this is Ginger", he said showing the contents to Meili, "is this also part of the seasoning making Chicken opor ? ", he asked and Viona nodded, "just a little input" he said, "but even if this is not from the spice part, you should know ", he said firmly.
" Why ? ", asked Meili in surprise.
" You should know that you really want to be Jerry's wife" Viona said.
" What's the connection, Ginger and being Jerry's wife" Meili muttered, but she kept following Viona, as the woman moved back, to different parts of the plant," this galangal ", he said tell her again. Meili's forehead flinched, "Oh my God, why is there so much I have to memorize. And why is it the same shape Mam" he complained. Viona laughed back then, "That's why. You'll look like an amazing woman when you can tell these three plants apart. Meili's forehead flinched more and more, "what does this have to do with amazement ", the reply was slow, but Viona's ears still heard it, "of course amazing. Even one more minute you won't be able to go back to distinguishing these three plants" he replied.
Meili nodded in confidence, even then, he no longer remembered how turmeric was, if not just looking at the small basket in the hand of the maid, "married an Indonesian man, if not just looking at the small basket in the hand of the maid, you have to know this ", said Viona.
Meili felt burdened by that remark. She did not expect, as difficult as it was to be an Indonesian man's wife, "even forgetting, I live looking for her on the internet Mam", she said desperate.
" In that case, you won't be an amazing woman" said Viona, who is now walking towards the tree of greetings, "What other tree is this mam", Meili again complained. He complained that he was going back to have to remember it, "greet leaves", said Viona briefly, while picking the leaf. And Meili joined in, "it's like an ordinary leaf, why is it so important ", he murmured in wonder.
" He will make your cooking taste better and your cooking smell better" Viona said, again telling, and Meili sniffed the leaf, until it stuck to her nose, " there was no smell ", he said.
" It is not so there is a scent, but when in cooking, its role becomes very important ".
Meili sighed hearing a figurative sentence from Viona, as if a leaf, sounded so precious from the Pearl taken from the bottom of the Bali sea, which the woman had a few days ago. But then he confirmed, his doubts. In fact, getting a piece of bay leaf in New York is harder than finding a pearl from the bottom of the sea.
" do I have to remember this too ? ", he asked and Viona nodded, "why so many Mam" he said again complaining.
" Even more you should know ", said Viona, who then moved on a plant whose trunk was filled with thorns, "is this Mam ? ".
" Purple leaf stem ? ", obviously short Viona, who was already moving about picking the leaf, and Meili joined in, "be careful", Viona, not yet finished her words, said, meili's fingertips were already bleeding by the prick of thorns from the orange tree, "mami told you carefully", he was so panicked, took the tip of the girl's finger, and sucked it.
" Mam" Meili was surprised. But Viona didn't care, "let's go back, your hands should be taken immediately ", he said, after stopping the blood coming out of her fingertips, "mom I'm fine. It's just a small wound" Meili said, hoping Viona's anxiety was low, and it worked.
" Are you sure?, doesn't it hurt ? ".
" No longer, because Mami had treated him ", he said smiled, and lied to her, in fact the tip of his finger still felt so sore.
Meili took over the basket filled with various plants that they managed to get from the garden created by his mother's own hands. And before they left, he was very excited, when he found fresh tomatoes hanging from his little tree, then the fragrant chili fruits, "Mam, you are the best planter" he cheered, praising, while moving impatiently to pluck the fresh fruits.
" Meili, your hands will feel hot later" cried Viona, as her hands plucked one by one chili, and she did not care.
His smile spread as he looked at the contents of the basket in his hand, "it's great to do this", he muttered happily.
" I don't know, when did you make this garden Mam ? ", she told Viona, "Because you never know when I disappeared from home" replied Viona. And Meili was filled with that answer, and guilt burst into her heart. All this time, he had not paid much attention to his mother.
" It was so nice to be there" said Viona, pointing to the small garden they had left behind a few steps, Meili turned her head.
" Mommy spent the morning and dusk there", she said again, and Meili still did not talk, "you should try it, gardening is more fun, than being in a clothing store ".
" That's what you think can bring all the contents in that character here Mam. Not according to everyone ", cut Meili and Viona laughing, nodding confirming, "but fun isn't it ? ", he said and Meili nodded, "Elin should know about this, she will definitely like it.
" I think you should think of my suggestion to make Empang there, Mam ", he said again, and Viona looked in surprise at him, "planting all this alone, it's almost impossible to succeed, it's almost impossible, now you're asking for something even more impossible.
" Why is it impossible ", said Meili, looking back at the contents in the basket in his hand, "the land of New York with Indonesia is different. You should already know that ", said Viona and Meili speechless thinking, "then why is this possible ? ", he asked in wonder.
Viona smiled again, "mommy exports fertile land of Indonesia, come here" she told.
" You're a mam trickster" Meili and Viona laughed, "but you got the result ", he said.
" Then it's not hard to see the catfish here "the Meili chimps, and Viona's eyes re-enlarged, "Your mother can't export Indonesian fresh water here son, and also regulate the climate of this country ", sergeant.
" Your mother hasn't been that great" she said again and Meili chuckled, "Yes yes, as great as Wonder Women just can't do it" she said.
" Come Mam ", ask her impatiently, to return quickly to their kitchen, after she looked at the alroji in her hand, "in a moment, Jerry was up Mam", her screech, she said, with running. Viona smiled again, even almost laughed, it turns out that her daughter was as cute as it was when she fell in love.
" God please set his heart on Jerry" he said, praying before his footsteps followed Meili's.
" Come fast Mam" exclaimed the woman, growing impatient, and Viona had no choice but to obey.
She is so happy today, because of her role as Mother, so important to her two favorite young women.