“If you are thick-skinned enough, you can pretend not to know anything. If he doesn’t mention it, you won’t mention it. Aren’t you going to turn the page again?”
Charlie looked at Zhongquan Wade and said in a depressed tone: “Grandpa, you can’t say something personal. Didn’t you say that I’m a stubborn person?”
Zhongquan Wade immediately distanced himself from the matter: “That’s not what I meant. I was just giving you advice, wasn’t I? If you think about it, you’ll know that the advice Grandpa gave you is the best way.”
“If you don’t agree, you can only pretend to be stupid. If you directly reject your uncle Gu, it is like slapping the face of the family of three. You should know that the family of three has been waiting for you for 20 years!”
Charlie felt depressed. He knew that it was impossible to reject Philips Gu’s family outright. How shameless was he to do such a thing?
The kindness that the family of three showed me could be said to be something I could never repay, and they were willing to marry their precious daughter to me, and were even willing to let her carry on their family line first.
Even if they beat me to death, I can’t immediately say anything to refuse.
Therefore, for now I can only play dumb regarding this matter.
Although Charlie knew that his grandfather was playing with him, he couldn’t say anything else at this time. He could only sigh: “Okay, Grandpa, thank you for your idea, I know what to do.”
Zhongquan Wade nodded and smiled, “That’s good. Since you still want to go to Uncle Gu’s house, I guess you should stay at his house for lunch tomorrow.”
“You should also bring Sarah here tonight so we can have dinner together. Honestly, I haven’t seen Sarah in a long time. As a parent, I miss her too.”
Charlie knew that this was an unavoidable courtesy. No matter what his relationship with Sarah Gu was, it was only natural for him to return to Eastcliff to visit the old man.
So he agreed and said, “I will tell him after I see him and I will come to visit you tomorrow.”
“Okay!” Zhongquan Wade was very happy and said with a smile: “Don’t go out to eat tomorrow, let’s have a family dinner at home. By the way, since Sarah is coming, why don’t you ask Uncle Gu and Aunt Lin to come together?”
Charlie felt anxious: “Grandpa, what are you doing?”
Zhongquan Wade smiled and said, “It’s okay. I haven’t had dinner with the three of them for a long time. As an elder, it’s okay for the three of them to come see me.”
Charlie was helpless: “You decide. If you plan to invite Uncle Gu and his family of three to come, then it would be more appropriate for you to call Uncle Gu directly. I won’t deliver the message halfway.”
“Sure!” Zhongquan Wade agreed without hesitation and said with a smile: “Tomorrow after you pick up Sarah, go to her house to meet Uncle Gu and Aunt Lin. I will call Uncle Gu this afternoon and invite him to come home tonight. I believe he will not refuse.”
“WOW.”
Charlie knew that he was in the most passive position in this situation. Anything he said would be wrong, so he didn’t say anything. “
Zhongquan Wade said again: “Charlie, I want to call your aunt, what do you think? In this way, the three members of the Gu family and the three generations of our family will match.”
Charlie’s aunt, Cynthia Wade, was relieved of her duties as a tomb guard on Ye Ling Mountain because she had to take care of the old man. The rest of the Wade family has not been able to come down from Ye Ling Mountain.
Charlie couldn’t say that he didn’t like Cynthia Wade. The old man loved her very much, and Charlie knew it.
I think the old man also wanted to ease the relationship between him and my aunt.
So Charlie nodded: “You decide everything.”
“Okay, okay.” Zhongquan Wade said with a smile, “Then it’s all done. I’ll arrange it tomorrow. Charlie, you take a rest first. Don’t you have to go to the airport to pick up Sarah early in the morning?”
Charlie was also a little tired, so he said, “Then I’ll sit in my father’s study for a while.”
After standing up and saying goodbye to the old man, Charlie went to his father’s study.
Everything was still arranged as it was all those years ago, and every decoration brought back memories of his childhood.
Sometimes Charlie also felt that the old man was quite pitiful. His only son who could be considered a great talent died young, and the other members of the Wade family were worse than the others and were not worth mentioning at all.
This is also why the old man always keeps this place in its original state.
He often sat there alone all day without saying a word, missing the son who made him the proudest.
Charlie sits at his father’s desk, with a question on his mind: if his father were still alive, what choices would he make?
Are you faithful to your marriage, faithful to your parents’ orders, or faithful to your family?
It seems the last two options are the same.