Chapter 45

At the end of the day, near midnight, Yahya returned and helped Rima assemble the chairs and tables and tie the main table with iron chains in the bridge’s body. Then Adham came and took her and Zayed back to the mechanic’s workshop, where Manar and Iman were waiting for them. Thus, a quick and quiet week passed, during which Rima woke up at six in the morning and raced against the wind until she reached the place of drinks table and worked energetically, with the quality of her drinks, the number of visitors increased, which made her thinking about preparing quick meals for breakfast and selling them with the drinks to increase the money she earned. She talked about this matter with her sisters and they encouraged her to take this step.

On the morning of her eighth day at the drinks table, Yahya brought her a small stove with two eyes and a cart for selling beans, which one of the young men from the group, Adham, as they called them, was working on. Adham brought three carton