Charlie nodded slightly.
At this time, an Lady slowly walked out from under the cooking shed.
She looked at Charlie with some doubt, frowned and asked, “Young man, do you know my husband?”
Charlie said, “You are Grandma Treadway, right? My father knows your husband.”
The Lady hesitated for a moment and said quickly, “Come in, please come in!”
Then she said to her son, “Lucas, quickly invite the guest into the house and pour water for them.”
The young man hurried forward to open the door and said politely, “Come in, please... Please, sit inside!”
Charlie nodded, thanked him and entered the yard with Isaac.
This small courtyard was not that big, only tens of square meters in size.
There were three wooden rooms and two thatched sheds, one on the left and one on the right.
The stove and the other were built against the wall, making a circle of cover, the area was not large, it looked like a toilet. The
three wooden houses were directly opposite the gate, the main room in the middle was wide open and there were two rooms on
the left and right inside and the doors of the rooms were covered with curtains.
Charlie and Isaac followed the middle-aged man into the main room.
There was a long and slender altar table in the middle of the room against the wall.
Definitely a very old object. On the top of the altar, there were incense burners and multiple tablets, all of which had the name
Treadway.”
On the wall above the altar, there were three Chinese-style portraits hanging.
The portrait in the center was of a middle-aged man wearing a blue gown.
Although the man was skinny, he was in good spirits.
He stood on a boulder on a mountain with his hands were behind his back.
His long beard and the hem of his clothes followed him.
The wind was blowing and the old man looking up at the sky, his expression was full of pride and ambition.
On the left side of the portrait, a seven or eight-year-old child was sitting cross-legged at a stone table on the top of the
mountain, reading a book, on the right side, was an old man’s portrait sitting upright.
Charlie had been in contact with antiques, he could tell that these paintings were all ancient paintings and they were quite old.
He couldn’t help sighing secretly, “Although I don’t know whether these three paintings are from the hands of famous ancient
masters, just looking at the exquisite craftsmanship and unique charm.
It can be concluded that they are not ordinary products.
To put it bluntly, it costs at least a few hundred thousand a pair and it should be easy for three paintings to sell for one million...”
“One million is not a small number for ordinary people, since the three paintings hanging in the Lady’s house are like this.
Why was her son deceived into going to Mexico on the pretext of being a sailor? Even the mother and son almost died in a
foreign country...”
At this point, Charlie had more questions in his heart.
However, he could also see from this that his guess yesterday was correct.
Although the Lady was living in poverty now, her family had been passed down in order for more than a thousand years and her
background was absolutely extraordinary!
At this moment, the middle-aged man looked at these two well-dressed young men, somewhat nervous and cramped.
He pointed to the low wooden table and wooden bench in the middle of the main room and said with some embarrassment,
“Please sit down, I’m really sorry, the conditions at home are poor, I’ll go and pour water for you two.”
Charlie came back to his senses, smiled and said, “Thank you, don’t be so polite, we are not thirsty.”
In the meantime, Mrs.
Treadway washed her hands.
Regardless of the drops of water on her hands, she trotted in quickly and said with some panic in her mouth, “Distinguished
guests, please sit down... Our family is poor and we can’t afford decent furniture, not even a good chair for you to sit on, really
wrong for you two!”
Charlie said respectfully, “Grandma Treadway, please sit down first!”
Mrs.
Treadway hesitated for a moment, then smiled and sat down in front of Charlie.
She looked at him kindly and asked curiously, “Young man, you said that your old man knew my husband, but what do you call
your old man?”
Charlie didn’t know how to answer for a while.
In fact, his previous idea was very simple.
After finding the Lady, he would give her a rejuvenation pill with his own hands under the pretext that he was the son of her
husband’s deceased friend and then told her that he had bought a house and façade for her and her son in Donguil and put them
together to settle there.
If she doubted his identity or was unwilling to accept it, he had his own way and that was a psychological hint.
At that time, let them continue with a psychological suggestion, let them fully accepted his rhetoric and made her accept the real
estate and funds with peace of mind so that he could get out of it unscathed.
However, in the current situation, it could be seen everywhere that this Lady seemed not ordinary.
Charlie wanted to know more about it, but if he asked the Lady a question, he had to use psychological hints in a simple and
rude way.
He was really sorry, so he didn’t know what to do right now.
The Lady also seemed to see Charlie’s embarrassment and entanglement, so she said to her son, “Lucas, before it is dark, you
take your crossbow arrows and go outside to hunt a pheasant and come back.
There are distinguished guests at home today.
We have to kill a bird to entertain.”
The middle-aged man nodded without thinking and said, “Yes, mother, you entertain the guests first and I will go out.”
The middle-aged man said and took a handful of arrows from behind the door, the self-made crossbow and then quickly walked
out of the house.
Charlie could tell that the Lady wanted to send her son away first, so he didn’t say anything.
Isaac was a little surprised and asked her, “Grandma... Wouldn’t it be dangerous to go out hunting at such a late hour?”
The Lady shook her head and said, “He is a young boy who is capable of hunting.
We don’t have any young people here and the old people can’t hunt prey, so pheasants and boars are everywhere.
He is very familiar with this place and there will be no dangers.”
As she spoke, the Lady sighed and said distressingly, “It’s just that my son was tricked into going to Mexico some time ago,
where he had a kidney and half of his liver removed.
Fortunately, he recovered very well.
He didn’t suffer from the aftereffects of the operation and is alive and well...”
Charlie was not surprised when he heard this.
After all, he just used reiki to erase the memory of the Lady and others about him, but the memory of them being cheated,
mutilated, or witnessing others being mutilated is still there.
So, he followed the Lady’s words and said in surprise “That is incredible! Did that really happen?”
The Lady said, “He never studied.
He loved making bow traps and hunting in the mountains since he was a child.
He couldn’t find a good job when he went out and had no social experience, so he believed what they said, went all the way to
Mexico and almost lost our lives there...”
Charlie comforted, “People say that if you survive a catastrophe, you will have a future, so you don’t have to be too sad.”
The Lady nodded, quietly wiping away her tears, she looked at Charlie again and asked seriously, “Young man, I dare to ask
you, are you the savior of me and my son?”