Axel remembered something, he hurriedly took a photo of his mother and compared it to the middle-aged woman in front of him. “Is that woman my mother? His face has indeed changed a little, maybe due to the age factor," thought Axel. "Hey, you're Alex, right? Why do you keep standing there? Come on, hurry up and get all these vegetables onto the truck!” A voice from Alex's co-worker stopped Axel's reverie, Axel rushed to do his work. Axel forgot for a moment the middle-aged woman he saw earlier, later he would ask Mr. Jeff who she was. Axel did his job so quickly, after it was finished and it was time to rest Axel went to see Mr. Jeff. Mr. Jeff! said Axel to Mr. Jeff who was sitting relaxed with a cup of black coffee. "Yeah, Lex, what's wrong?" asked Mr. Jeff sipping his cup of black coffee. "Can I ask a question, sir?" asked Axel first to make small talk. "Of course you can, what do you want to ask?" "I want to ask, who is that woman, sir?" Axel asked pointing his finger at the middle-aged woman earlier. "Oh, it's Mrs. Anne. She's a farmhand here, what's up, Lex? Why are you asking about him?" asked Mr. Jeff in a surprised tone. "No, sir, I'm just asking because I feel familiar with her face, okay, I'll continue working first, sir. The vegetable truck has arrived again," Axel said and headed towards the truck that had just arrived. Mr. Jeff just nodded and continued sipping his coffee. Evening came. Axel went to the river near the market and sat beside the river. Axel kept throwing stones into the river while thinking. "Is that woman my mother? I hope so. After 20 years I haven't met my mother, finally, I can see her," said Axel with tears in his eyes, he was very happy to be reunited with his mother. He was happy that his mother still looked healthy and didn't look sick at all. Does his mother still recognize him? Had his mother been looking for him all along? Did his mother miss him? Several questions appeared in Axel's mind, Axel cried happily, even though when he came to his mother, and his mother didn't recognize him he would try to make his mother remember him again. “I would say that I am your son, Mom. Finally, I can tell my friends that I also have a mother like them," said Axel. Tired of throwing stones into the river all the time, Axel walked back to the market and immediately took a break. The morning. Axel got up and immediately went to take a shower after that he went to Mr. Jeff's vegetable shop. "Today, how many trucks will deliver vegetables here, Mr. Jeff?" asked Axel, standing straight beside the road waiting for the truck to come. "Today there is only one truck, Lex," said Mr. Jeff while checking the remaining vegetables, rotten or fresh. The rotten vegetables, Mr. Jeff, throws in the trash. Axel nodded in response. Not long after the truck came, Axel immediately finished his work. After finishing, Axel sat on a bench in Mr. Jeff's shop. Suddenly Mr. Jeff came in a hurry and had a panicked face. Seeing that, Axel was surprised. "What's wrong, sir, you look panicked?" asked Axel. “Lex, please look after my shop, okay? I have to go back to my mother's village, earlier I got a letter from my sister and she said that my mother fell ill," said Mr. Jeff explaining Axel. Mr. Jeff asked Axel to look after his vegetable shop and told him the price note was under the money box, after that Mr. Jeff immediately went to his mother's village. Axel, like it or not, has to carry out an assignment from Mr. Jeff. Axel sits in the shop waiting for people to come buy vegetables. A beautiful girl with excessive make-up came, and she was an old woman walking behind her. "Hi, I want to buy vegetables," said the girl smiling sweetly at Axel, Axel only responded with a thin smile. "What vegetables do you want to buy?" asked Axel while taking a plastic bag and preparing to put the vegetables he was going to buy. "I want to buy carrots, tomatoes, and cucumbers half a kilo each, do you have papayas and grapes here?" asked the girl. Axel, who was adding carrots, tomatoes, and cucumbers and weighing them, answered the girl's question by nodding his head and putting them in the plastic. After everything that was bought was ready, Axel gave it to the girl. "How much is the total?" asked the girl, who kept smiling sweetly and her tone made her voice cheerful. "The total is 76 thousand," said Axel. "Bucks pay!" Tell the girl to the old woman behind her, it turns out that the woman is her mother. "Y-yes," said the girl's mother in a trembling tone, taking the money in her wallet to pay for her child's groceries. "The money is 100 thousand, yes, here is 24 thousand in change, ma'am," Axel said politely to the girl's mother. But the change was taken by his son. "Thank you, if I may know your name, what is it?" asked the girl. "I'm Alex." "Introducing me, Dinta, nice to meet you," said Dinta, holding out her hand, which was ignored by Axel. Feeling ignored, Dinta withdrew her hand again and kept asking questions that made Axel uncomfortable. "That's it, son, let's go," said Dinta's mother who realized that Axel was uncomfortable with her son's attitude as she asked Dinta to go by gently tugging on her son's arm. "What the hell, ma'am, don't touch it, it'll get dirty later! Your hands haven't been washed and there must be a lot of germs," said Dita, jerking her mother's hand after that, rubbing her hands as if she was cleaning her hands. Axel didn't like seeing Dinta, he felt that Dinta was an arbitrary child to his parents. "Please don't talk like that to your mother, Dinta! She's your mother, you shouldn't talk like that," Axel told Dinta. "She's not my mother, Axel. She's just my maid, "said Dinta sarcastically. "I am your mother, I am your mother," said Dita's mother in a trembling tone that wanted to cry, not being recognized by her daughter. "It's okay, Mom, don't embarrass me," Dinta said after leaving his mother with an annoyed expression. Axel shook his head slowly when he saw the argument between the mother and her daughter. Isn't it still great to have a mother? Unlike Axel, who has been separated for almost 20 years. Doesn't his mother miss him?
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