“Happy,”
Gabriel replied, turning to look at Monteo and smiling as he said hello, “Hello, great-grandpa, you’re so handsome!”
“…”
Monteo looked at him with a face full of displeasure. Your father is no good, he only knows how to force and bribe, but you’re so smooth-talking, “What do you know about being handsome? Just because you open your mouth, my beard is already turning white, how can I be handsome?”
Gabriel could sense that the old man in front of him seemed to be angry, but seeing how his mother had just acted, he should have wanted to make the old man happy, so he smiled even more brightly, “I know, what makes people feel comfortable is what is considered handsome, what is considered good-looking. Grandpa’s beard is like snowflakes, and when you see snow, you see the footsteps of spring. Spring is very beautiful, isn’t it?”
“…”
Monteo was silent, and couldn’t help but glance at Paige and Enrico again.
Where did he get such a childish way of speaking, and where did he accumulate such a messy vocabulary? It just so happened that it sounded somewhat reasonable.
The little girl Samantha obviously sensed Monteo’s displeasure and was a little puzzled, but she didn’t have a bad impression of either Paige or Gabriel, so she said to Paige, “My brother and I get along very well. He’s a very interesting child.”
Paige had always thought that Gabriel was a little adult, occasionally spouting out some incredibly weird sentences, but now, in comparison, this girl was truly a little adult.
She was serious and mature, even her eyes were calm.
She smiled, about to speak when she saw that Monteo seemed to have heard something extraordinary. He stared at Samantha, “You’re having a good time?”
“Yes,” Samantha stood next to him and nodded.
Monteo’s eyes trembled, and he looked at Gabriel with curiosity. The pretty, white face of the young man made him look at Samantha again. “Do you like this younger brother?”
“Yes,” Samantha nodded again.
Upon hearing this, Monteo seemed to be thinking about something, and then he smiled while stroking his beard, looking at Enrico, “Mr. Gustin, it is not impossible for me to make medicine with you.”
Paige looked at her son and suddenly felt something was not right.
She then looked at Enrico, and sure enough, Enrico’s expression was calm and he did not respond.
Monteo, however, paid no heed and looked at Gabriel and said, “Your son is extremely intelligent and is a good seed for studying medicine. In that case, I promise to work with you. You give me your son, let me raise him and teach him, and I will teach him for five years for every five years I live, and for ten years for every ten years I live.”
The “kidnapper” suddenly changed.
Hearing this, the little girl Samantha was very happy, and she looked at Gabriel with shining eyes.
Was this brother going to live with her and her great-grandfather from now on?
Gabriel, however, was full of fear, and he dove straight into Paige’s arms, which had a complicated look in them. He shook his little head like a rattle, “I don’t want to study, I won’t learn anything, I won’t learn anything!”
If he had known, he would not have entered the competition.
“…”
Samantha looked at him with some disappointment, lowered her eyes, and silently took two steps back, all the way to the back of Monteo’s chair, so that the back of the chair completely blocked her.
This scene fell into Monteo’s eyes, and Monteo frowned and looked ahead again, “Mr. Gustin and Mrs. Gustin are both people with great ideals and love for their country, how about it? Would you be willing to sacrifice your son for the sake of the general public infected with the virus.”
“Monteo, just now our couple was rude, please don’t be offended,”
Paige said lightly, hugging Gabriel and apologizing again.
It was them who brought up their child before, so they couldn’t blame Monteo for anything at this point.
Enrico’s face was completely gloomy, and the sound of his crossed fingers tapping on his knuckles could be heard. He looked at Monteo with cold eyes and said word by word, ‘Since we can’t agree, let’s not talk anymore.’
With that, Enrico stood up directly from his seat.
Paige followed suit and bowed to Monteo.
Seeing that his parents were not forcing him to learn from the old man, Gabriel let out a sigh of relief and quickly grabbed Enrico and Paige’s hands, holding on tightly.
“Mrs. Gustin, I am sincere, I am not joking with you,” Monteo called out to them instead.
“I have seen your great-granddaughter save someone’s life, she is a very good successor.”
Paige pointed out that he already had an heir, which was undoubtedly a joke.
“My great-granddaughter’s aptitude is not as good as your family’s child. Sometimes reality is cruel. Hard work is not as good as talent. She learned all this from elementary school, and your son will learn it all in less than three months,” Monteo said bluntly.
Samantha, who was named, lowered her head a little sadly, and her two ponytails hung down.
Paige couldn’t help but be stunned when she saw that Monteo really wasn’t using Gabriel to fight back against what Enrico had just said.
Enrico had already taken two steps, and on hearing this, he turned around with a frosty face and said, “Paige.”
There was nothing more to say to someone like this.
“It’s Gabriel’s blessing that Monteo can look at him, but raising a child is our duty as a couple, and we have never thought of leaving it to others. I’m sorry.”
After Paige finished speaking, she took Gabriel’s hand and left.
Gabriel was eager to escape the shadow of his studies. He took Enrico and Paige’s hands and ran, afraid that if he slowed down for even a second, he would be caught. He didn’t even say goodbye.
Monteo didn’t stop him again, but just sat in his seat and held his teacup.
Samantha stood behind him, slowly lifting her eyes to look in the direction Gabriel had left, a little lost.
“You rarely have a friend you can talk to. I’ll find a way to keep him with you,”
Monteo said slowly, as if he had eyes in the back of his head.
“My younger brother has a father and mother, and he doesn’t want to live with us,” Samantha said, adding, ‘Great-grandpa, I will learn from you, so you don’t need to find any more disciples.’
Just don’t push that younger brother.
“With your learning ability, by the time I die, you will have only learned 30% of what I know,” Monteo still spoke bluntly.
“…” Samantha lowered her head.
“After I die, you will still only have learned a trivial amount of skills, so how will you support yourself in the future?”
Seeing her like this, Monteo lifted his hand and touched her head, slowing down his tone, “Don’t worry, I will arrange it for you.”
Anyone Monteo sets his sights on cannot escape, even if they are the son of a major conglomerate.
…
“That was close.”
As soon as he exited the towering building, Gabriel let out a huge sigh of relief and patted his own chest.
“…”
Paige wanted to laugh at the look on his face, as if he thought she was going to abandon him.
“Mommy and Daddy, you are the best, best, best parents in the world! You feed me well, clothe me well, and don’t force me to study! I really love you so much! MUA! Buh-buh-buh!”
Gabriel began to pout at the two adults beside him.
Enrico stopped in his tracks and glanced at him with downcast eyes, “Which ear did you hear me say you don’t need to study?”
“…”
“Since you are not a bad student, you will study hard. If you are lazy again, I will give you to that old man inside,” Enrico said coldly,
failing to flatter him.
Gabriel’s small body was suddenly filled with frustration. He looked up at Paige and said bitterly, “Mommy, you let off steam, but I’m finished.”