There was a long silence.
It was so long that Kevin looked up at Dr. Clinton.
“…”
Dr. Clinton opened his mouth but couldn’t find the words to say.
“Huh,” Enrico said, staring absently at the fire in front of him and laughing.
Dr. Clinton was silent.
Bastion was puzzled and said, ‘Dr. Clinton, Paige has taught me a lot of words. I know all the less complicated ones, and I can remember them.’
He thought that Dr. Clinton was upset because he didn’t know how to pronounce the name.
Facing Bastion’s sincere and simple eyes, Dr. Clinton raised his hand to his forehead, and then said word by word, “Clinton Farrar.”
“Huh?” Bastion was even more confused.
Kevin was also a little puzzled. Uncle Artie, who was standing next to him, looked at Dr. Clinton, and even the old lady tilted her head.
Dr. Clinton felt uncomfortable being stared at by everyone, and finally gave up and said, ‘My family has been in the medical profession for generations. When I was a child, I didn’t touch medical books when I grabbed the week. My mother was afraid that I wouldn’t learn medical skills, so she gave me this name. Later, she also forbade me from changing it again, so I just used it until now.’
“…”
“…”
“…”
There was silence all around.
“So, your name is Clinton Farrar.” Kevin nodded knowingly, “Not bad, not bad.”
“You’re even more sloppy than my name,” Bastion lamented.
“…”
Dr. Clinton was so embarrassed that he quickly changed the subject, “By the way, Bastion, I didn’t hear it all just now, can you tell me again?”
He had just been there to see patients for everyone, and he heard Bastion and the people from Temple in Heaven talking about Paige’s exploits, but he only caught a glimpse of it.
Bastion loves to tell stories about Paige, and he got excited when he heard this. He said, “Before Sister Paige came, our island was in chaos. We were afraid to go up the mountain because of the tigers, and we were afraid to go into the dense forest because of the poisonous snakes. If someone managed to get some food, everyone would fight to the death to get it.”
Artie, standing next to the old woman, also sighed with emotion when he heard this. “Yes, at that time I witnessed a father and son fighting over a rabbit. The son killed the father with a stone, but the rabbit died of poisoning, and the son also died after eating it.”
Without supplies, survival was difficult on Wind Island, and human nature became something unnecessary.
Everyone seemed to have turned into a beast, indifferent and cold-blooded, living a meaningless life.
“Then, Miss… how did things change after Miss Paige arrived?”
Dr. Clinton asked curiously. He noticed that the people on this island revered Paige greatly, and they would follow her every word.
“Sister Paige is awesome. She takes us to the mountains and the dense forests to find new food, and then we distribute it when we get back. If anyone dares to take it without working for it, she can beat them until they cry! Sister Paige’s fists are the hardest!” Bastion said with great admiration, his eyes full of respect.
On hearing this, Enrico’s eyes darkened as he looked at Bastion, “So you just wait for her to do everything?”
A bunch of people who have become lazy, cowardly and selfish since arriving on Wind Island, why should she pay?
“…”
Bastion always felt that this man was not as easy-going as the others, and this sentence seemed to accuse them. He looked to Kevin for help, turning his head.
Kevin glanced at Enrico’s stern eyebrows and said, “Not everyone is Paige. Most people in the world are mediocre. When they encounter adversity, they give up and degenerate. If it weren’t for Paige, I wouldn’t be alive today.”
“That’s right. Sister Paige has saved many people,”
Bastion added. ‘I had a bad cold and was dying. Everyone was afraid of being infected, so they wrapped me in tree bark and tried to throw me into the sea. It was Sister Paige who brought me back. She nursed me back to health and even gathered herbs to cook for me. That’s how I survived.’
Enrico listened with a broken twig in his hand, his face showing no emotion.
His woman, when he wasn’t around, was brave as a king.
“That’s why the lady has such a high reputation among you.” Dr. Clinton understood. No wonder those people were so excited that they wanted to kneel down when they saw Paige.
“There is only one figure like Paige on the entire Wind Island,”
Uncle Artie said slowly as he stood to the side, “She is like a tree whose back will never be bent. The harder the sky presses down on her, the straighter she can stand. Just by looking at her, people can feel that everything is hopeful. In the eyes of many people on the island, she is even a kind of faith.”
If there is danger, she will be the first to rush; if there is unknown food, she will be the first to try it; if someone is sick, she will insist on saving them until the end, regardless of whether it is contagious or not.
“Sister Paige taught us to read, taught us rules, and taught us that we must not be lazy in our daily work… Life on the island became a little better, everyone stopped fighting and stealing, and everyone worked hard every day building houses and hunting for food.”
Bastion rested his chin in his hands and said, “But then Sister Paige left, and the slums slowly returned to the way they were before. Everyone was lazy, everyone robbed, everyone killed each other. It was as if they had all forgotten what Sister Paige had said…”
Bastion had not yet reached the age of puberty, and he spoke in a very childish voice, causing everyone to fall silent.
In the quiet air, the only sound was the occasional popping of sparks from the fire.
Enrico lowered his head and remained silent.
Kevin added some firewood to the fire, looking dejected.
Dr. Clinton didn’t feel good listening to this either. Seeing that the atmosphere was too depressing, he couldn’t help but say, “Now that the young lady is here, everything will be fine once we get you out of here.”
Bastion was happy to hear this, “Yes, with Paige here, everything will be fine.”
Dr. Clinton looked at Kevin again and joked, “By the way, Mr. Kevin, Bastion keeps calling you ‘second brother-in-law’. Is there something you haven’t told us while you were on this island?”
He deliberately tried to lighten the mood.
Upon hearing this, Kevin silently lifted his face to look at him, his expression deep and hard to read, “I advise you not to ask about this.”
Dr. Clinton laughed, “Why? Mr. Kevin, this is not a good idea. You don’t want to admit it, do you? Bastion, tell your second sister to come out and force him to admit it.”
Enrico sat there, looking up at Paige as she walked around in the distance, not paying attention to the conversation.
“Second sister?”
Bastion looked at Dr. Clinton doubtfully, “I don’t have a second sister. I only recognize Paige as my sister.”
Dr. Clinton was also puzzled, “Then why do you call Mr. Kevin your brother-in-law?”
If there is no second sister, then there is no brother-in-law.
Enrico looked at Paige’s figure and picked up a piece of firewood.
“Because there is an older brother-in-law before the younger brother-in-law,” Bastion said matter-of-factly, realizing that doctors were also of average intelligence.
“If you don’t have two sisters, where do you get an older brother-in-law and a younger brother-in-law?”
Dr. Clinton was even more puzzled.
“I have sister Paige,” Bastion said with justification as he roasted the firewood, “of course I have to call her older and younger brother-in-law.”
“Pop!”
Enrico snapped a piece of firewood as thick as a child’s arm in his hands, and his expression froze.
“…”
Dr. Clinton had already sat down on the ground in a panic, and Kevin looked at him with glee.
Ask.
Ask again.
Enrico slowly turned his head, and his angular face was reflected in the firelight, looking extremely seductive and sinister.
He stared at the teenager and said in a cold voice, “What did you say?”
Uncle Artie on the side had long felt that Enrico’s appearance and aura were extraordinary, and there was an air of strength from the bones of a person in power, not at all like Paige’s subordinate, but he had never asked.
Seeing Enrico’s face was not right this time, he couldn’t help but ask, “Bastion, this gentleman is…”
Bastion was startled again by Enrico’s gaze. Hearing Uncle Artie’s inquiry, he thought about the way Enrico and Paige had gotten along before, and said with great sadness-
“I think he might be… my third brother-in-law.”