In the evening, the car carrying Lird and Jenny slowly drove into the manor, and Jenny jumped out of the car and stretched exaggeratedly.

"Phew, the day is finally over, and it feels good to go home. ”

Leard laughed and said, "Since you feel good at home, don't always be at odds with Mr. Wyatt, what he says and does is for your own good." ”

Jenny narrowed her eyes, walked over to Lird, pulled his ear with her hand, and said, "You little traitor, warn you again, it's important to take a position." ”

Lird smiled bitterly: "My position is very clear. ”

Jenny snorted coldly, shook her little fist and said, "No matter what you say, I want you to be clear in your heart." ”

The two of them had already come to the door of the house, and Jenny stopped and said, "You go to visit Grandmother Marge first, and I'll go back to the room to freshen up, and then I'll go too." Lird nodded in agreement.

When Lird arrived at his grandmother's room, a maid came out with a plate and greeted him with a smile when she saw him. In the manor, all the servants Lird loved each other, and they became acquainted with each other during the two years they had lived together.

Liard also greeted him and said, "How is my grandmother's health?"

The servant said, "At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. Gus came to treat the old lady, said that it was all right, prescribed a few pairs of medicines, and left. ”

Lird breathed a long sigh of relief when he heard this, and a happy smile appeared on his stiff face.

"Alright, I'll go in and see her now. With that, Lird stepped into the room, not noticing the servant's slightly complicated expression.

There was a bitter smell wafting through the room, which reminded Lird of the smell of burning wheat straw in his Polish homeland, two years was not a long time, but this originally vivid memory became more and more blurred in Lird's mind.

Grandmother lay on the bed with her eyes closed, covered with a snow-white goose-down quilt, apparently newly prepared by Mr. Wyatt, and on the bedside table was a glass of green vegetable juice, which must have just arrived from the servant.

Lird walked up to his grandmother and looked down at the old man with a wrinkled face, and for a moment Lird felt strange.

He had the impression that his grandmother had always been the one who had been urging herself with a loud voice, standing clumsily in front of a dilapidated window and adjusting the radio broadcast, her figure overlapping with all sorts of things, but completely inconsistent with the rich and exquisite interior accessories around her.

After a brief loss of consciousness, Lird sat down and reached out to hold his grandmother's vicissitudes of palm, which was very cold, which not only shocked Liard's heart.

"Grandmother," Lird called tentatively.

However, the old man did not react at all when he saw that he was already lying quietly on the bed.

"Grandmother" was so loud this time that Lird was even about to stand up.

At this moment, my grandmother, who had been closing her eyes, suddenly said, "Don't worry, God hasn't come to my room yet, don't be nervous." ”

Seeing this, Lird breathed a sigh of relief, sat back down with a thud, and then complained, "What are you doing, it's really going to scare me to death." ”

Grandmother slowly opened her eyes, and those eyes that had been bright and translucent were now soft.

"What is there to be scared to death about this, even if Hitler pointed a gun to his forehead, as long as he did not pull the trigger, man would never die. ”

Lird shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, grandmother, let's not talk about Hitler now, he doesn't pose any threat here, I'm more concerned about you now." ”

Grandmother snorted faintly, "If it weren't for that executioner, I wouldn't be what I am now." ”

"Now all we have to think about is for you to recover from your condition, and then everything else will be discussed separately." ”

Grandmother crooked her lips and said, "If I could put Hitler's head on my bedside table now, then I would be cured." ”

"Grandmother, that's enough. Lird shook his grandmother's palm vigorously.

Grandmother sighed and said, "Okay, don't talk about those troublesome things. ”

Lird nodded in satisfaction, then reached out and touched his grandmother's forehead and said, "How are you feeling now?"

Grandmother thought for a moment and smiled, "Although God didn't knock on my door, I feel that his steps are getting closer and closer. ”

Hearing this, Lird frowned and said, "Okay, don't talk nonsense. Don't always talk about life and death, everything will be fine, didn't the doctor come in the afternoon, and soon you will be back to normal. ”

A look of surprise flashed in my grandmother's eyes, and then she smiled and said, "Maybe, I won't die easily until I see Hitler fall." He laughed.

Soon, however, the laughter came to an abrupt end, and more sadness and pain came out of his face.

Lird saw it in his eyes, and he realized it in his heart.

Sighing and roaring, Lird said, "Grandmother, what was written in that letter yesterday?"

Learder knew that the letter to his grandmother yesterday was the key to the disease, and it was clear that the contents of the letter had dealt a great blow to her. Although Lird was reluctant to talk about it, he knew he needed to help his grandmother untie the knot, and he was curious about the hometown he hadn't seen for two years.

Grandmother's expression became sad, and after Lird's questioning, she fell into a long silence, and after a long wait, she sighed heavily.

"I can't go back, I can't go back," tears filled her eyes as she spoke.

Seeing this, Lird did not know what to say to comfort his grandmother, but only clenched her palm harder.

After a while, my grandmother said slowly, "We were occupied by the Germans, and soon it became a hell on earth, and it was converted into a concentration camp, you know what a concentration camp is, it is a slaughterhouse." ”

"In the early days of the German occupation, the people of the town were first suppressed, many men were killed, and then many more died in the concentration camps. Do you remember Father Scar?"

Lird nodded.

"He died the worst of all," said the grandmother, for he took in some Jews who had fled into exile in the church, and when it was revealed that he was captured by the Germans and starved to death in the cellar where they had been hiding with the Jews who had been living in exile. Hehe, it is said that the Germans just watched them starve to the end and ate on each other. ”

Liald frowned and remained silent.

Although he witnessed it with his own eyes, just by his grandmother's retelling of Xinjiang, the tragic scene emerged in front of his eyes.

"Remember Joanna, the girl who always wore two braids all year round. There was a time when she was a very favoured candidate for me, and if that hadn't happened, she would have been your wife. ”

Hearing this, Lird smiled bitterly and said, "Grandmother, please, I really didn't know that I ever had this thought. ”

Grandmother raised an eyebrow and said, "You will always think of yourself as a child, but in my eyes you should have started a family a long time ago, and your grandfather was already about to become a father when he was your age." ”

Lird smiled and waited for his grandmother's next step.

The grandmother sighed softly and said, "It's a pity that such a good girl was ruined after the arrival of the Germans, and her family was killed in the concentration camp, and she finally committed suicide in the concentration camp." After a pause, the grandmother said heavily, "It is said that she was pregnant with a child before she died." ”

Lird felt a little dizzy in his head, a dull feeling in his chest, and a feeling of nausea.

Grandmother continued: "The letters I sent before were not answered because they could not enter the concentration camp. In the last few letters, the client has used some methods to send them to former acquaintances. Do you remember Nigel?"

"Of course, he was my best friend at that time. ”

Grandmother smiled and said, "Yes, at that time you all wanted to be seafaring adventurers, but the difference is that now you are studying navigation at university, and he has become a German soldier." ”

"German soldier," Lird frowned.

"That's right, don't you simply think that after the Germans occupied Poland, they would only lock everyone up in concentration camps and run them, they needed more human support, and men of Nigel's age had been forced into the army by the Germans and became their minions. ”

Lird bit his lip and said nothing.

Grandmother sighed and said, "Although I hate the Germans to the core, I can understand the suffering of these people in Nigel, and I can see from his reply to me how painful his heart is, and it can be said that living in such a world is more painful than death." Oh, poor boy, may God bless him from committing an irreparable sin. ”

Lird nodded silently.

After the grandmother had finished praying softly, she suddenly said to Lird, "Hey, boy, you have been hiding something from me for the past two years." ”

Lilde said, "No, I can hide something from you. ”

"Since I came to the United States, my habits have completely changed, I don't communicate with people, I hardly leave my house, and I don't even listen to the radio anymore because I don't know English at all. But you know, you know the latest news in this country, so you tell me how the whole world says about the Poles now"

Hearing this, Lird's expression couldn't help but become solemn, and his eyes became dodgy.

"What else can be said, of course we are victims of war. ”

Grandmother's eyes widened, "But what I read in the letter is that we Poles are called accomplices and lackeys of the Germans, can you imagine that this matter is actually something I know in a letter from a Pole who became a German soldier, it is really ironic." ”

Lird sighed softly and said, "There are some rumors out there, but don't worry about those,"

"How could I not care why we became accomplices of the aggressor, we are the worst victims of this war"

Grandmother cried out, burning anger in her eyes.

Seeing this, Lird immediately comforted, "Grandmother, don't do this, those are inconsequential lies, the people who say these things don't know the truth at all, they are just a bunch of ignorant fools"

Lird explained in a panic, trying to calm his grandmother's emotions. Perhaps because of her physical strength, after some excitement, my grandmother's spirit had declined, and she could only lie on the bed panting for breath.

After a long time, he sighed helplessly.

"I understand, everything understands that I don't blame you, I don't blame you, I know that you don't tell me these things for my own good, hehe, even if I know this, what's the use, I can't do anything to change this, I'm just a coward who has fled from my homeland and abandoned my country. ”

Lird said eagerly, "You are not a coward, the reason why you chose to leave in the first place was because you chose to leave for me, because you wanted to protect me." ”

Grandmother looked at Lird with a kind look in her eyes.

"Good boy, you're really going to be comforting. To be honest, I was a little reluctant when your father arranged for us to leave Poland, but I was also glad. At that time, I actually had a hunch that something was wrong. ”

"I had already experienced a brutal war before this war began. It's funny to think that I have been at war all my life, I have been at war every day of my life, and our country has been in a state of fragmentation, and it seems that I have become accustomed to it for a long time. ”

Grandmother's mood was much better, and she was no longer as agitated as before, and she listened intently to what Grandmother had to say, reassuring Lird.

"I think a lot of times about what I would be like now if I hadn't left my country two years ago, like me, even in such a luxurious manor, if I had been locked up in a concentration camp, I would have been in a different place, but even then it was nothing, at least I was still in that familiar land. ”

"But if God gives me another choice, maybe I will choose to come to the United States with you, because I can't leave you alone to live in this foreign land, and I'm not sure that everything will go well with you here. You know, when we came here, during the turbulent days of the sea, I even thought that maybe it would be a good ending to die in this sea, after all, it is better to have me by your side than to live in a different place. ”

"It's just that I was wrong, very wrong. We live very well here, and although your father never returned, the Wyatts took great care of us, and you grew up well, even far better than in Poland. Although I have always said that America is a land born of the devil, it is the best land of abundance for you, and I thank God, your father, and even more so the Wyatts. ”

With tears in his eyes, Lird shook his grandmother's hand and said, "The person I am most grateful for is you." ”

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