In front of the two children was a shallow pool with a few goldfish swimming around happily.
The girl, head down, held a small jar of fish food and fed the fish inside, her long double ponytail swaying lightly and vaguely concealing her profile.
Children also have their own kind of awkwardness between each other.
Especially when it comes to older girls and younger boys, they can intuit at first glance that the other person is not interested in connecting with them, and so they don’t know where to start.
For example, the girl and Gabriel are both quiet.
The atmosphere is even more awkward than the adults’ side.
Suddenly, the girl lifts her face and sees Monteo looking over here. She thinks that her great-grandfather is trying to persuade her to interact and play with the children more, so she takes a gentle breath and passes the fish food to the side, “Brother, do you want to feed the fish?”
It was not good to look at, but as soon as she looked, she saw Gabriel’s two little short legs swing forward, next to the edge of the pool, and he leaned back, half-lying down, with his elbows pushing against the upper step on each side to keep himself from lying completely down, and then tilting his little head in a daze.
The whole person presented a lazy state, just like, just like…
like the kind of idle, good-for-nothing adults she’s seen before, slumped on a street chair, with all the flesh on their body falling off. Her great-grandfather called those kind of people loafers.
Gabriel is only one leg-shaking away from being a loafer.
Fortunately, he didn’t shake his legs.
“…”
The girl’s eyes immediately became more complicated when she looked at him.
Gabriel was interrupted by the sound of her voice, glanced at the girl, then at the fish food in her hand, shook his head, and said, “Little lady, I’m exhausted from today’s competition, I can’t work anymore.”
“…”
The girl silently took back the fish food and continued to feed the fish, muttering, “But I saw that you won easily, I really envy you for being able to learn so quickly and well, if only I could be like that.”
Then she wouldn’t have to get a headache every time she memorized the names of medicines.
And her great-grandfather wouldn’t be so disappointed.
As she was thinking, suddenly, she felt two taps on the head.
She turned her head and saw Gabriel sitting down on the steps. He looked serious as he held out his small hand and scratched his head, then slowly brought a ball of air to her and tapped it gently on her forehead with his small palm.
“…”
The girl was a little confused.
“Okay, now I’ve given it to you, little miss, so you won’t be sad,” Gabriel smiled sweetly at her, his eyes narrowing.
“…”
The girl was stunned, and then she reacted. Looking at his cute smiling face, she felt inexplicably happy, and couldn’t help reaching out to pinch the little flesh on his face, “Thank you, little brother.”
“You’re welcome, you’re welcome. It’s useless for me to keep it, I’ll give it to you,” Gabriel said with a big wave of his hand.
Just kidding, one competition exhausted him to death, if he studies like this normally, he will definitely be wasted.
“Why is it useless?” The girl’s words also unconsciously increased.
“Little girl, do you know what studying is? Studying is to turn a lot of things you don’t understand into things you do understand, and to put all of this into your head,” Gabriel said with a serious face.
“Yes,” the girl nodded, not understanding what he was trying to say.
Gabriel snatched the fish food from her hand, “My head is like this jar. It was originally empty, and I could walk easily, but if I learn as much as this fish food, my head will be as heavy as this jar. How tired I will be.”
After saying this, he immediately returned the fish food to the girl.
“…”
The girl looked at him in a daze, always feeling that there was something wrong with the words, but she couldn’t put her finger on it. In the end, she could only say, “Brother, you really do have an interesting way of speaking.”
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Gabriel said modestly.
“…”
The girl looked at him, thought of something, took out a small bottle from her pocket and handed him a brown candy. “You have bad tongue coating, and you must have been a picky eater recently. Eat this and you’ll be able to eat well again.”
Gabriel looked at her steadily, thinking that he didn’t want to eat it. The girl explained, “This is medicine that my great-grandfather made himself. It’s like candy, not bitter, sweet, just chew it.”
“Little miss, you know a lot,”
Gabriel said, taking the candy and putting it in his mouth. It was indeed sweet.
Thinking that he was praising her, the girl, who was usually composed and mature, lowered her head shyly, with a slight upward curl at the corner of her mouth, “Not really, my great-grandfather thinks I’m slow to learn.”
“Knowing so much, you must be tired from walking,”
Gabriel said with emotion as he chewed the candy.
“…”
The girl’s smile froze at the corner of her mouth.
While the communication here was barely harmonious, the atmosphere there was gradually becoming a bit tense.
Monteo could hear the pressure in Enrico’s words and responded coldly, “What does Mr. Gustin want to do? Is he going to force me?”
Paige lifted the teacup in front of her and took a sip, when she heard the man next to her say, “What if I really want to force you?”
“…”
Monteo’s face completely sank.
“You are right, my wife has sincerity, and what I, Enrico, have… are means,”
Enrico said imperiously, turning his head to look at the girl with Gabriel. “For the sake of Country A, I believe that this child by your side should be more than willing to spend some time alone.”
“Enrico, you are at least a person of status and position, and you still want to kidnap a child?”
Monteo slammed the table hard, looking very angry.
Enrico’s thin lips curled up, his dark eyes arrogant beyond belief. “There’s no way around it, the only thing I’m good for is being patriotic.”
Paige almost choked on her tea.
“…”
Monteo had never seen such a brazen person before, and he was instantly enraged, falling backwards and breathing heavily.
Especially since he thought Paige was sincere, but she actually watched Enrico rant without saying a word to stop him. He was even more angry, and he shouldn’t have spoken up for them in the competition arena!
What kind of couple are they!
Seeing that Monteo was really angry, Paige held her glass and gave Enrico a gentle kick under the table.
She knew that Enrico was trying to force Monteo to give in this way, to test whether Monteo would give in or make other demands… But Monteo was old after all, and if he got angry and fell ill, it would not end well for them.
Enrico glanced at her and leaned back, not saying another word.
“Monteo, my husband was just joking, don’t mind him,” Paige apologetically said.
Joking? There are people who joke about such things.
“Samantha! Let’s go!”
Monteo’s face was as dark as a frying pan, and he stood up and shouted,
Hearing his voice, the little girl sitting by the pool immediately put down the fish food, stood up and walked over here, and Gabriel followed her.
Neither child had to run; one walked calmly and steadily, while the other walked lazily and carelessly.
“Great-grandpa,”
the little girl said, walking up to Monteo and looking at Paige and Enrico. She bowed her head and said, “Hello, sister, and hello, uncle.”
She had confused the generations.
Enrico looked at her coldly. How could he be her uncle? Did he look old?
Paige didn’t correct her, but just smiled and asked, “Did you two have a good chat?”