He stood at the gate and looked out.
After a moment, a figure was indeed seen coming this way.
Liam became a little more convinced of what the old man was saying, and a little more enthusiastic.
When someone came up to him, Liam followed the moonlight to see that it was a kind old man in a Smith family elder costume, slightly thin, with a full head of silver hair and a slightly gaunt look in his eyes.
"Grandpa." Liam's kind of sweet.
The elderly man is, of course, Liam's grandfather, Theodore, the third elder of the Smith family.
At the moment, he is carrying a jar of wine and a fat chicken, and looks like he is going to have a good drink with Liam.
Liam was no stranger to this, and Theodore would bring both of these items to visit Liam almost every once in a while to talk about what was on their minds.
Hurriedly came forward to take over Theodore's hands of wine and food, two people into the small courtyard.
Liam quickly cleared the leaves from the stone table in the courtyard, put away the food and drinks, and took out the large bronze oil lamp he had ordered from the room, and took out two cups instead of wine glasses, and then sat down with Theodore.
Before Theodore could speak, Liam unsealed the jar and filled each of them with a glass.
Liam picked up the glass, passed forward, like a decent tunnel: "This cup of grandchildren respect grandpa, first dry for respect, grandpa at will." Say a neck, a glass of wine immediately bottom.
Theodore gave Liam a doting pat on the head and laughed, "You've got a knack for drinking."
"Grandpa taught me that." Liam reveals his childlike side, perhaps only in the presence of Theodore, he is so unrestrained himself.
"Grandchildren are dry, I am a grandfather do not do it?" Theodore then threw back his head and downed a glass of wine.
Putting down his glass, Theodore's face became a little serious, a little sad: "I know today's trial."
Liam's smile was also one of the condensation, he naturally understood what Theodore was saying, lowered his head and a little choked up: "Sorry grandpa, grandchildren are useless, or failed to break through."
Liam understood Theodore's feelings at the moment, but to talk about Theodore's life experience, Liam felt that three days and three nights can not be finished.
Lost his wife in early life, lost his son in middle age, suddenly had a talented grandson in his later years, but did not think of "halfway to die", the ups and downs of life have experienced too much, Liam can clearly see the more deep wrinkles on his grandfather's face, and his eyes have become more and more haggard.
Liam was sometimes afraid that his grandfather would not be able to hold on anymore, so his grandfather is also the motivation for his five years of cultivation.
Theodore gave a wry smile, pretending to be angry, "You silly boy, where do you need to apologize to Grandpa? You will always be the best in Grandpa's heart."
"But I..." Liam suddenly became choked up and couldn't get the rest of his words out.
Theodore frowned, suppressing the sadness in his heart, and said, "Grandpa came not to blame you, but to believe that you are the best, maybe next time you can break through."
Although Liam had heard Theodore say these words to him every time for the past five years, every time he heard them, Liam was deeply moved.
Nodding heavily, Liam raised his head firmly with his eyes, suppressing the tears that had been swirling in his eyes, and said heavily: "Rest assured grandpa, grandchildren will not let you down."
"Grandpa believes in you." Theodore smiled so kindly after a glass of wine.
After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Theodore stared at Liam with confused eyes and suddenly smiled, "How time flies. In a blink of an eye, you are fourteen years old. You look just like your father.
"My father?" Liam's hidden feelings have been deeply pulled up, if his parents are still here now, how happy would it be?
A few years ago Theodore would never have mentioned his father to Liam. For fear of causing pain in Liam's heart, Theodore himself was reluctant to rub salt in the wound.
But Liam's strength of heart was beyond his imagination, and he had hidden everything he knew about his father from Theodore for the previous two years.
After this, Liam's father is no longer a past that Theodore is afraid to tell Liam in his heart, but a memory that the two of them use to talk about in their leisure time.
Although it will still stir up the pain in the heart, but the sharing of two people will minimize the damage.
With a deep sigh, Theodore suddenly asked, "Liam, do you blame Grandpa?"
Liam shook his head and said: "Grandchild has never blamed grandpa, why did grandpa ask?"
"More than ten years ago, Grandpa did not give your father enough care and let him..." Theodore did not go on, but Liam knew what he was going to say. Then Theodore turns the conversation to Liam, somewhat apologetically: "Grandpa has not taken good care of you for more than ten years, I am a bad father, but also a bad grandfather ah."
After saying that, he took the glass and drank it down, smashing the glass heavily on the stone table, and instantly became a pile of fragments.
When Liam saw Theodore's remorse, he felt very distressed and quickly said, "No, you are the best grandpa in the eyes of your grandchildren. I think Dad would think you are the best father in the world if he had a spirit in heaven."
"But what you've suffered all these years..."
"These grandchildren understand that all the things grandpa did to his grandchildren are also in his heart, and if you want to say that the grandchildren are guilty of grandpa." Liam fell on his knees in front of Theodore.
"What are you doing?" Theodore quickly went to help Liam, but Liam was obviously unwilling to stand up.
Only to hear him continue: "In fact, grandpa does not say grandchildren also know that in these years, grandpa is running around for grandchildren, seeking medical treatment, taking the trouble, and more grandchildren at all costs against the elders, otherwise grandchildren would have been blown out of the Smith family."
"Who told you all this?" Theodore did not know where Liam had learned all this, but he knew he had never said a word to Liam.
"No one told the grandchild. It was just his own guess."
Theodore obviously doesn't believe Liam can guess everything just by guessing. As the third elder of the Smith family, Theodore's mind is also strong, in addition to being highly cultivated.
A quick turn of the brain tells us what's going on, probably because Liam's peers laughed at him.
"It's those little bastards again. Looks like it's time to teach them a lesson." Theodore had a cold look in his eyes. "I heard Nathaniel bullied you again today?"
"No, they're just telling the truth." Liam Bland.
"They bullied you so much, and you defended them?" Theodore shook his head somewhat helplessly and said, "You are just as soft-hearted as your father."
Liam didn't object, but there was a sneer in his heart: a year from now I'm going to pay them back ten times what they gave me.
"Get up." Theodore couldn't bear Liam's continued kneeling, so he spoke.
"So Grandpa can't blame himself anymore?" Liam asked, looking up.
"No." Theodore gave Liam a hard look, but his heart was warm.
Liam sat up on one wheel, poured Theodore another glass of wine, and laughed, "Yes, grandson will follow grandpa's orders."
"You boy." Theodore's sad mood has been restored by Liam.
"By the way, did Grandpa see anything new this time? Let's hear it." Liam asked with a smile.
"Every time you come back from a trip, you always want me to tell you about the new things I met outside, but where in the world are there so many new things for me to touch?" One day you'll go out and practice it yourself." Theodore looked impatient.
"You just don't want to talk and don't have to be angry, come and come, let the grandchildren accompany you to drink a few cups."
"Why do you look happy today?" Theodore thought Liam was acting strange today.
"My grandson was really happy today." Liam didn't think Theodore was right about what he was saying, so he just went along with it.
Theodore naturally thought that Liam was having fun in the midst of pain, but he wanted to use alcohol to numb himself and not let himself worry, so he did what Liam wanted.
...
This drink was already midnight, a fat chicken only left a table of bones, a large pot of wine also ran out.
Liam is lying red-faced and talking in his sleep on the stone table, looking very drunk.
Theodore, whose face was red and eyes were beginning to be a little confused, looked up to drink the last drop of wine in the glass and pushed Liam, finding that he had fallen asleep.
Suddenly Theodore shuddered, his eyes opened, and his whole body became clear. All the intoxication had dissipated.
He looked at Liam with a grim face, his eyes full of regret.
Whispered to himself, "Liam, there's one more year to go, and no matter how it ends in one year, Grandpa wouldn't kill himself to let them kick you out of the Smith family."
Feeling the cool breeze from the yard, Theodore went inside, took out the sheet of bedding and gently put it on Liam, then turned and walked slowly away.
The slanting light of the moon stretched his shadow long, long.
Just after his figure disappeared in the courtyard, Liam, who had been drunk and asleep, actually sat up straight, where there was a half drunk appearance, the whole person was very sober.
Touching the bedding on his body, looking at the direction of Theodore's disappearance, Liam's eyes already have tears in the rotation, but also with a trace of imperceptible fine awning, some choked up and said to himself: "Grandpa, one year later today, grandchildren will make you proud."