
"By, can we go to Indonesia? Uncle Aaron is in trouble" Zulaikha said carefully.
"What problems? Yes, we're there tomorrow."
"Not tomorrow, By, but now."
"Now? What's wrong?"
"Aunty Anisa said, Uncle accidentally hit the car of a landlord from the next village, and now they threaten to imprison Uncle if Uncle is not compensated with the land."
"What's? Why is it like that? That's not fair."
"Eat, By. I have to go to help Uncle find another solution."
Tareeq remained silent for a moment and approached Zulaikha. "Are you sure you want to go tonight?" Zulaikha nodded his head. "But you look very tired, tomorrow morning I have an important meeting, what if after the meeting we go?" tareeq offers.
"Can't, By. Tell you what, let me go first, and you catch up tomorrow after the meeting, I'm afraid that the boss will hurt Uncle and Aunt, however, they're like my own parents."
"Are you okay? You're pregnant again." It felt like the man was so hard to let his wife go alone, but he also could not leave the meeting tomorrow morning.
"It's okay, By. I'm not a big pregnant, I can still do things easily."
"But, Honey ...."
"Please, By."
Various considerations were also thought by Tareeq. But no matter how much he thought, it felt that his heart was still not willing to let go of the wife to return to Indonesia first, and more torturous because he did not know what the cause was.
"Please, By," whined Zulaikha again for not getting a response from her husband.
Tareeq let out a rough breath, then nodded slowly. "But you have to go with the female bodyguard, I don't calm down if you go alone."
At least with the bodyguard beside his wife, he can be calmer and monitor from afar, this is a form of his efforts to keep the wife.
"Geez, you're exaggerating, but fine, just so long as you allow." Zulaikha agreed to what Tareeq offered.
They also went to the airport together that night, until finally Tareeq had to be willing to release the wife to return to her home country, Indonesia, even though her heart was heavy. So even with Zulaikha who somehow also felt heavy leaving her husband, maybe she was used to always being with the man so that now it feels strange when going alone, so she thought.
***
A few hours have now passed, the plane carrying Zulaikha has landed at Ir airport. Soekarno-Hatta at dawn. For a moment he took a break to pray with the female bodyguard who named Asiah, not to forget he prepared some money in the form of rupiah in case.
He then returned to the village where his Uncle and Aunt were. It took a few more hours until he could get there by bus, so he only arrived at his village at 9 am.
However, it was not the warm welcome he received when he arrived in front of his uncle and aunt's house, but a commotion. Apparently, the landlord returned to collect compensation to the uncle by bringing several large bodyguards.
"What's this?" Zulaikha interrupted the commotion and passed the big man in front of his house, then met Uncle Aaron and Aunt Anisa who were already frightened.
"Zul, you come too, son. Help us, Son. They forced Uncle and Aunt to hand over the land certificate of this house to compensate for the damage to her car," said Aunt Anisa in despair.
"What's? Uh sir, how can I replace the car damage with a land certificate? That's not fair, sir!" zulaikha protest is upset.
"The problem is, Miss, my car is very expensive, and the repair costs are also certainly very expensive, even if this land is sold, not necessarily able to cover the repair costs," refute the middle-aged man whose head is almost no longer in the growth of hair, a stocky body with a typical 80s style and glasses perched on his head.
The man uses white pants with a wide end, plus a shirt with a floral pattern that is deliberately opened some buttons on the top to reveal part of his chest, plus a large gold necklace that adorns the neck to the chest.
"How much damage, sir?" ask Zulaikha.
"Bad damage to all sides of the car because of the old man." The middle-aged man called the bellboy pointed at Uncle Aaron who was standing next to Aunt Anisa.
"No, Son. Uncle just accidentally hit him from the left side with a motorbike, it did not make him peyot but scuffed a little because uncle drove the bike at low speed, Uncle remembers it very much," denied Uncle Aaron.
"In that case, where is the evidence if your car is badly damaged?" zulaikha asked, making the man instantly silent for a moment.
"The car is in the workshop" the spokesman replied later.
"Yes, please give me the address of the workshop, so that I can see it directly," said Zulaikha.
"No need! I'll bring him here later in the afternoon so you can see him, and if you've seen him, then you'll have to compensate as I said, if not, then, Your uncle will be thrown in prison and I will make you my wife, beautiful" she said, twisting her eyes at Zulaikha and leaving immediately.
"Old basar bangka does not know himself," said Zulaikha a little shudder in horror. "Well, I'd like to ask for your help" he continued speaking to his bodyguard in English.
***
During the day Tareeq had just finished his meeting, the man immediately decided to go to the airport to catch up with his wife to Indonesia. His feeling was so agitated since then that made it difficult to focus while the meeting was ongoing.
"Ali, please handle the company while I'm away" Tareeq told Ali, who accompanied him to the airport.
"Well, sir," replied Ali.
Not wanting to waste any time, Tareeq went straight into the airport leaving Ali at a quick pace.
***
In the afternoon, the coach and his bodyguards came back with the car he had promised this morning. Sure enough, the state of the car was completely destroyed here and there.
Uncle Harun was so surprised to see the condition of the car, because as the middle-aged man remembered, the condition of the car today is very much different from the condition of the car when he first hit it.
Not only was Uncle Aaron surprised, Zulaikha felt the same way. "How could the car be so badly damaged just because it was hit by a motorcycle?"
"After Aaron hit me, my car was so smashed that it hit the roadblock," the spokesman said, causing Zulaikha to frown.
"Which "road border? As far as I know all the way to the village that I passed through all the roadblocks are fine and nothing is broken" said Zulaikha.
"It wasn't broken, but my car was broken" the judge said, making Zulaikha laugh instantly.
"Why are you laughing, huh?"
"I feel funny about your efforts, sir. How big is your effort just to get my Uncle's land? I doubt you are a wealthy landlord" Zulaikha said so casually.
"Hey, are you underestimating me?" snapped the man.
Unanswered, Zulaikha pulled out her phone and showed a video of the man telling her bodyguard to wreck her own car shortly after returning from Uncle Aaron's house this morning. The face of the idolater instantly changed pias, his tongue even now felt faint to just dodge.
"Why silence, sir? You've been caught cheating, dear sir, I don't think rich people like you use cunning and cheating to add wealth, not blessing it, sir," Zulaikha said.
The sound of a police car starts to come closer, making the man start to panic. "Did you call the police here? Huh uh?" ask the man.
"Yes, sir," Zulaikha replied casually.
"Bad you!" The juragan immediately pushed Zulaikha's body firmly until it fell and his stomach hit the table on the porch of the house.
"Auw," cried Zulaikha in pain.
"Zulaicha!"
Uncle Aaron immediately approached Zulaikha who had been lying on the floor.
"Zulaicha!" Anisa and Asiah's aunt called the police out of the police car at the same time, while the police officer who saw the man fleeing immediately chased him.
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