Chapter 5

Whether you want to recover or not, the mother-in-law doesn't care, the important thing is that now she has an idea.  Early in the morning Cynthia was banging on Stefan's bedroom door.  Surprisingly, it wasn't insults and sarcasm that were thrown, but persuasive calls like an antagonist stabbing his opponent from behind, full of tenderness and seduction.

 "Stefan, are you awake?"

 Then Stefan opened the door and answered, "I've been awake since four o'clock, Mom."

 Chnytia nodded while uploading a sideways smile that was not so pleasant.  Forced smile.  Smiles have a purpose.  If you can read his eyes, the real eyes are evil eyes.

 Cynthia gave her a sly look and said, "There's something for you to do before you go pulling, Stefan."

 "What task, ma'am?  I'm ready anytime."

 “Plates, glasses, cauldrons, all that dirty stuff you wash quickly!”

 "Okay ma'am.  I'll do it right away."

 Stefan swiftly headed for the kitchen.  Nothing is missed, all shiny.

 Cynthia called her husband and three children.

 "Now we have a new maid," said Cynthia happily.

 “Wash them clean!”  Luchy ordered.

 "Just be careful if there is still dirty!"  sneered Robert.

 Bobby is furious.  “Stefan, what are you doing giving fifty thousand to your wife?!  A little money is enough.  You want to insult my daughter?”

 While wiping the plate full of foam, Stefan replied, "Hopefully today I will get a lot of orders, Father, if necessary I will come home at eleven at night, so I can give my wife a lot of money."

 "I don't care what time you come home.  Remember, I don't want you to belittle my wife with fifty thousand living.  Don't you appreciate it?”

 “I really appreciate my wife, Dad.  All right, starting today I will give him more money than that.”

 After finishing washing the dishes, Stefan wanted to say goodbye to his mother-in-law.  However, before Stefan could leave, his mother-in-law ordered him to wash clothes and dry them.

 “Can you do it?  You said you were fine?"

 "Sure I can do it, Mom."

 When everyone was busy with their own business, there was only Stefan and Lionny at home.  Lionny could not bear to see her husband being ordered around.  Just be a housewife.  Exactly maid.

 "Stefan, you haven't had breakfast yet."

 Stefan, who was busy putting on his clothes, turned around, then answered without any complaint at all, "I'm having breakfast after this, honey."

 "You don't have to do this kind of housework."

 "It doesn't matter.  Let them believe that I am completely healthy.”

 "They believe you're healthy."

 “I want to fix my name in your family.  I don't want to be labeled as a son-in-law and parasite-in-law in this house.  I don't want to be labeled as a trash son-in-law and brother-in-law.  I don't want to be an unreliable husband.”

 Lionny looked down and touched.  "Tomorrow you don't have to do homework like this anymore."

 “I don't mind at all.  Three full years I worked only eat sleep and become a parasite.  I want to prove to your family that I am not an unreliable lazy person.”

 When the work was finished and Stefan said goodbye to go out, suddenly his mother-in-law howled from the kitchen, “You see, our yard is so dirty.  Many leaves fall.  The grass is already getting tall.  Are you feeling better, Stefan?"

 Stefan took a broomstick and shovel and carried out his mother-in-law's orders wholeheartedly.  He cut the grass, then cleaned it, so that the front yard was neat and pleasing to the eye.

 Witnessing Stefan doing well, Cynthia gawked from behind the window.  Lionny approached her mother while assuring that Stefan really recovered.  She also told her mother not to over-order her husband.

 “You shut up, Lionny!  That trash son-in-law deserved it.  At least one week he is healthy, in the end he goes crazy again."

 10:00 AM.

After breakfast, Stefan said goodbye.  Turn on the application.  He is waiting for orders around Kambang Iwak, still in the Bukit Kecil area.  Stefan is surprised when he remembers that he has to help his friend Grace.  Stefan texted Grace asking about it.

 [He has already asked someone else for help.]

 Good grief!

 In fact, Stefan had been promised a payment of three hundred thousand.  The money is quite a lot and can be given to his wife.  Ah, not the fortune, thought Stefan.  Mana Grace was also a little angry because Stefan had not responded to her chat earlier.

 At one in the afternoon Stefan just cracked an egg.  Order food.  He rushed to one of the restaurants around Taman Kambang Iwak.  When they got there, Stefan approached the cashier.

 “GF-340.  Please process."

 Stefan was sitting around waiting for his order.  Beside him was a driver who looked gloomy.  His body is thin and his skin is black and blotchy from being on the asphalt too much.  It wasn't until Stefan's heart saw it.

 "How, many orders?"  asked Stefan while handing him a bottle of flavored drink.

 John flinched and the conversation with himself was cut off.  “Hmm.  For me?  Thank you.  Just two seeds."

 "What time did you leave?"

 "From 6 o'clock," replied John limply.

 "How was it yesterday?  Just like this too?”

 "Until noon like this.  At least three orders.  By evening, at most, you can get five seeds."

 Five orders.  On average each order would cost ten thousand, so a gross income of fifty thousand.  Twenty thousand gasoline.  Keep eating.  Then not to mention smoking.  Then if there is anything on the road like a tire burst and the like.  How much is the net income?

 "Just be patient John.  Hopefully tomorrow there will be more sustenance.”

 Stefan asks for John's contact.  Judging from John's appearance and way of responding, which is relaxed and outgoing, plus John's direct conversation and not overbearing, Stefan wants to be close friends with John, a friend during his social life, of course.

 After this until late in the afternoon Stefan couldn't get any orders at all.  He hasn't received a penny today because the first order was a non-cash payment.  Around four o'clock he was perched on the side of the road not far from the PT Sanjaya Sawit office.

 Previously Stefan had been warned by his parents-in-law not to hang around his office on the grounds that he would be embarrassed if all of his staff found out that he had a son-in-law who was an ojol.  Stefan was a bit timid as he waited for Grace to arrive.

 Stefan sat not far from the bus stop, about fifty meters from the PT Sanjaya Sawit office, right in front of a conventional bank office.  Meanwhile inside PT Sanjaya Sawit's office.

 Bobby Sanjaya is angry with Grace.  "Where's that friend of yours?  He said he wanted to help our employees.”

 Grace looked down.  "Excuse me sir.  It looks like he has other things to do."

 "I don't know if he's lying.  Or are you lying.  How can he help our company later if he can forget and neglect?  How can I accept him working here?”

 Grace left the office feeling upset after being scolded by her boss.  He walked on the pavement full of annoyance.  Then he scolded Stefan who was busy sitting at the bus stop.

 “Stefan!  How are you doing?!  Said you would help my friend.”  Grace emotion.

 “I'm sorry, Grace,” Stefan replied, admitting his guilt.

 Stefan drove Grace home without any conversation on the motorbike.  Despite repeated apologies, Grace is still annoyed with Stefan.  All the way Grace pouted.

 After dropping Grace off, Stefan continues with his work as he has to catch up on deposits tonight.  At night, food orders are more than other orders such as passengers or goods.

 However, until ten in the evening, Stefan only received three additional orders.  The cash that was obtained was only thirty-five thousand plus twenty thousand fees from Grace.  Stefan went home feeling restless.

 Both mother-in-law and brother-in-law were waiting in the living room.  They deliberately haven't entered the room just to see this pitiful human come home.

 Robert and Luchy stared at Stefan very intently while rubbing their noses.  Her mother-in-law looked on with disdain and wanted to vomit.  His father-in-law was also so, very fed up, then said loudly.

 "How was today's order, damn son-in-law?  Crowded?  Your wife needs money for shopping tomorrow!”

 Stefan watched the displeased faces, then sighed tiredly.  He wiped the sweat and dust off his forehead.  His eyes were bloodshot from being exposed to the street wind all day.  His lips were dry from lack of fluids.  And his body is weak because he has not eaten dinner.

Then Stefan put his right hand into his trouser pocket, reaching for the clean money from today's hard work all day.  Sixty five thousand minus twenty thousand gasoline.  Snack five thousand buy fried food for lunch.  The remaining forty thousand, that's the wife's living tomorrow.

 "You said you'd give more than fifty thousand!"  her mother-in-law snapped while scrolling, engrossed in watching the content.

 Stefan handed the forty thousand rupiah bill to his wife who was standing right beside him stunned.  "Sorry, today's sustenance is just that much.  Hopefully tomorrow there will be more, “said Stefan, encouraging himself.

 "Thank you, Stefan," replied Lionny slowly.

 Suddenly Bobby's blood boiled.  The veins in his forehead popped up.  "You're still crazy!  Forty thousand Rupiah?  What will the neighbors say if they find out ha?  You really haven't recovered yet!"

 Because they were too lazy to serve, Robert and Luchy withdrew, screaming and facing Stefan.  “Sucking brother-in-law!”

 Before entering the room, his mother-in-law pointed and said loudly, “You can't be relied on for money.  Tomorrow you wash the dishes and clothes again.  Then you clean all the rooms in this house, you sweep, mop, and you tidy up the furniture!”