Though shiha was strong.. Right now she was not.
When the old lady questioned her.. She immediately tightened her hands around Ruihan's neck.. In hurry she spoke..
"Yes .. Yes.. We are couple.. I am his husband and he is my wife.."
After speaking hurriedly.. Shiha too felt that she had said something wrong..
So she corrected herself.. With a innocent face she said..
"aahh..no..no.. I am sorry.. Actually.. I am his wife and he is my husband.. I would not lie.. Truthfully I got stressed.. With your tone ma'am.. So i explained in hurry.."
There was a sweet smile on Ruihan's face..shiha herself explained everything..Ruihan didn't speak a word shiha was in Ruihan's arms. He can feel how nervous she is.
Lady Guan saw his smile. He was smiling looking at shiha.. His smile looks so genuine.. So the old lady believed that they are husband and wife.
" ok.. If you both are husband and wife.. Then there is no problem.." saying this she turn towards the other young lady standing beside her and said..
"make the arrangements for them." then she went inside.
The young lady welcomed Shiha and Ruihan inside. Shiha and Ruihan thanked the hunters and followed the young lady.
The lady guide them towards the room.
Then politely she said.. "you both get fresh.. I will make arrangements for something to eat." saying this she left them and went to other direction..
When they entered inside the room..they saw..A small bed in the centre.. Which can fit two people barely. They was a small cupboard in the corner. And in the opposite corner they was a faucet, bucket and tumbler with a Water drain..
Ruihan walked towards the bed and make shiha sit on the bed..
Shiha was still busy analysing the room. She the looked at Ruihan and said..
"where is bathroom.?"
Ruihan shrugged.. "how came i know.."
Just then.. A lady knock on the door.. Both Shiha and Ruihan looked at the door. The lady entered and gave a few pieces of clothes to them. And said..
"get fresh and change in it. It is our village's traditional clothes. If you don't know how to wear.. Then let me know. I will help you."
Shiha took a piece of cloth.. She was amazed by this traditional design.. It was nothing.. Just a long piece of cloth. Obviously shiha don't know how to wear this.. The lady saw shiha's reaction.. So she took other piece of cloth and said.." Here.. You just have to wrap yourself from the shoulder. And there is no need to wear anything inside of it. It will automatically get fit on your body." then she said..
"The food is ready. So came as soon as possible." saying this she was about to leave.. When shiha stopped her and said..
"excuse me.. Were is the bathroom.."
The lady turn around and looked at shiha. Then she pointed her finger towards the corner of the room were the faucet was. She said.. "this is the bathroom. You get fresh and let me know if you want any thing.."
Shiha was stunted.. 'this.. This is called bathroom..ahh.. Where is the door' unfortunately shiha blurted out the last sentence.
The lady looked at shiha and gave a smile and said.." you can close the door of the room.. No one will able to see from outside. In our village everybody has the bathroom in their own room. And as.. Because of past incident.. Only couple are allowed in this village to live.. It is the rule of our village. Once our children are grown up.. They leave this village and move to the city for the study. Then if they want to came back. Then they have get married. "
Then the lady gave a glance to Ruihan and said.."since.. He is your husband.. Then i don't think there is any problem.. If you take a bath in front of him.."
Shiha almost chocked.. Her eyes gets wide.. 'what a horrible village..'
Before the lady gets suspicious about them.. Ruihan gave a smile and said..
" ohh.. Its ok.. Its just.. She is behaving like this because.. We are newly married.. She is just shy.."
The lady gave a understanding smile and said.."ohh.. I understand. But young lady.. You have to get used to it. It is common. As far as i know. Not only in our village.. Infact i have heard that in city, couple usually take a bath together.. As you are just married.. Then it's ok you are feeling shy.. But looking at your husband.. He is quite good.. He will teach you everything a couple does.. " then the lady looked at Ruihan and said.."Am i right mister.. Every girls gets shy in starting period.. But then they get used to it. You should keep patience.."
Then she handed the cloth piece to Ruihan and said.. "here.. Help your wife with this.. Because it is hard to wear alone. In our village every husband help his wife to wear it.. Moreover.. It is easy to remove too.. It take time to wear.. But to remove it.. It only take a few seconds.. If you want then try it tonight.. Okay.. "
By now Shiha was as red as strawberry.. She want to shut the mouth of this lady.. But this lady.. Keep speaking continuously. 'what a shameless lady.. Ahh. This village is only weird and shameless..'
Ruihan was like.. 'what to say..'
But still he nodded his head.
Then the lady gave a smile and left the room. As soon as she left.. Shiha started to take few deep breath.. She didn't dare to look at Ruihan. She intentionally avoid Ruihan.
Right now Shiha was remembering all the dirty things Lin Mia had said to her..
Her friend was right.. Couple do bath together.. Before shiha was so naive.. That she used to think that couple usually bath together to save the water.. But then her shameless friend Lin mia explained her why couple bath together..
She immediately stood up from the bed and went towards the faucet.. She opened it and started washing her face.
Ruihan was standing like a statue.. Seeing shiha's reaction.. Deep inside he felt happy.. He gave a cute charming smile. Then he got the idea to tease her.
##STORY.. ##
Struggles In Life:
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Until it suddenly stopped making any progress, and looked like it was stuck.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man didn't think anything of it, and sat there waiting for the wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn't happen. The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny wings and a swollen body.
Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn't understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings to prepare itself for flying once it was out of the cocoon.
Moral of the story: Our struggles in life develop our strengths. Without struggles we never grow and never get stronger, so it's important for us to tackle challenges on our own, and not be relying on help from others.