The path to Pym's tent was winding but not rough, and Lird followed Jim with heavy footsteps, and soon Jim stopped in front of a tent.

The tent has a grayish-black color that looks quite solemn, which Lird does not like very much, because this gray-black also represents death, and Pym is on the verge of that state at the moment.

At the door of Pym's tent, an elderly woman sat cross-legged on the ground, barefoot, and her eyes slightly closed.

Jim stepped forward and walked two steps briskly, and then said a few words to the old woman, and after a while, the old woman slowly opened her eyes, her gaze stayed in front of Jim for a moment, and then turned to Lird on the side, and after a sharp gaze looked up and down his body, then looked at Jim again, and said something to Jim unhurriedly.

Jim turned to Lird and shook his head regretfully, "We came a little earlier, Grandma Chas said that Mr. Pym is still in the period of effect, and he is still asleep at this time. ”

Lird frowned, "How long will it take for my father to wake up?" Jim said, "It's going to take about an hour." ”

Lird said categorically: "Then I will wait here." ”

Seeing Lird's resolute appearance, Jim also made a compromise to accompany Lird's side, and the three of them, one old, two young, and three people, stood in front of the tent.

Time passed bit by bit, and every second was particularly torturous for Lird, and it can be said that the days were like years.

I don't know how long it took, but the old woman Chas, who had always been squinting, suddenly opened her eyes and said something to Jim, who was also quite bored, and suddenly came to her senses and said to Lird, "We can go in." With that, he led the way, and lightly opened the door of the tent.

The space inside the tent is larger than when viewed from the outside, because the ground inside the tent is much deeper, making the interior space more residential.

The first moment he walked into the tent, Lird smelled a fragrance that was considered strong, which was not caused by a certain perfume, but by the burning of a certain spice burning, and the miraculous thing was that this aroma did not make Lird feel irritated, but felt that the previous irritability of the mind settled down in an instant, which shows that this spice burning has a strong medicinal effect.

The light in the room is not bright, but the light from the two lamps makes the atmosphere more peaceful and welcoming.

In the middle of the tent was a large thick bedding on which a man was lying. Seeing this, Liard's instinctive eyes soured, and he knew that this was his father, whom he hadn't seen for years.

After seeing his father, Lird's intuition was in turmoil, and all the troubles and uneasiness of Shicai were replaced by strong concerns, and Lird immediately walked a few quick steps to Pym's bedside.

Although Lird had not seen his father for many years, and his father's appearance began to fade in his mind, when he saw him again, the connection in the blood instantly made Lird recognize his father.

I haven't seen him for many years, my father Pym is much older than he was then, his hair and beard have turned gray, and because of the injury, Pym's face is also extremely pale now, and he doesn't look much stronger than raw rice paper, and a few ravine-like imprints are left on his face, making him extremely weak and weak.

At that moment, tears flowed from Lird's eyes, and his heart was as uncomfortable as if he had been cut by a knife, and he called out to his father.

Pym, whose eyes were tightly closed, seemed to hear a voice, or felt his son's call, frowned slightly, and then stretched out, and in the confusion he slowly struggled to win his eyes.

At this time, Jim, who also rushed to the side, was also very happy to see this: "Mr. Pym, you are awake." ”

Pym's state was a little chaotic, and when he slowly opened his eyes, there seemed to be an invisible and opaque film left on his eyes, and he couldn't see what was in front of him, so he could only look in the direction of Jim first by looking for a voice.

It took a while for him to regain his sight.

"Ji... Jim? yes... Are you?" said Pym in a more laborious English.

"That's right, it's me, Mr. Pym, I'm Jim, and I'm back from America. Jim said excitedly, and at that moment he was like a big boy who had completed the task assigned by his parents.

With a faint smile on his face, Pym said softly, "Okay... Good... It's good to come back... It's good to come back..."

Jim said happily, "Not only that, Mr. Pym, who do you think I've brought back?" and then looked up at Lird, and Pym was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly noticed that there was another young man beside him.

At this time, Pym's consciousness seemed to be beginning to fully awaken, and his weak body shook suddenly, and his eyes looked at Lird eagerly, and soon he began to realize what the word that had awakened him from his slumber was.

"You... You are... Lird?" Pym asked Lird in Polish.

At this time, tears had already flowed all over Lird's face, and he nodded vigorously and said, "It's me, father, I'm Lird.... Father..."

At that moment, Pym's face contorted, and a grunting cry came out of his throat, "Lee... Elder ... My baby... My child—" he stretched his hand out of the futon and reached out to Lird, who wept and took Pym's hand.

The silence in the tent was suddenly drowned out by the cries of reunion.

The reunion of relatives is sad and joyful, complaining and worrying.

Lird and Pym cried for a long time, and the two stopped crying to wipe away their tears, and Jim's eyes were faintly red.

Jim said to Pym: "Mr. Pym, don't get too excited, everything is going well, everything is going well with Lird and I on this journey, don't worry about anything, the most important thing now is to make sure that you are in good health." ”

Pym nodded to Jim and said, "Jim, hard work... You're up, I'm really... Thank you very much... Help me... Help..."

Jim hurriedly shook his head and said, "Mr. Pym, how can you say that, your great kindness to us and me is beyond my ability to do anything in return, and our people will never forget your help." ”

With that, he nodded to Lird and said, "Talk to Mr. Pym, I'll wait for you outside." Lird nodded gratefully to Jim, who turned and left the tent.

After Jim left, the tent fell silent again, and after the shock and joy of the first reunion, father and son began to fall into silence. Eventually, Pym broke the silence.

"It's been a hard journey!"

Lird shook his head and said, "The journey was a little longer, but it was not a big deal, Jim took very good care of me during the whole process, and by the way, there is a man named Raqqa, without whom I would not have been able to get here so smoothly." ”

Pym nodded, "Jim is a reliable man who can be absolutely trusted, and I feel at ease with him." ”

As if he realized something, Lird said to Pym, "Uh... I never knew his real name, but you called him Jim..."

Pym chuckled, "Of course his name is not this, Jim is a pseudonym I gave him a long time ago, there are not many people here who can speak English, so there are not many people who can communicate with me, I don't want to say a long and lame name, so I gave him this name." ”

Hearing this, Lird couldn't help but laugh and said, "It seems that the names of Rakka and Trist have also been translated and made up. ”

Pym smiled and nodded, "That's right, after all, the name is just a specific code." After passing this topic, the distance between father and son has been shortened a lot.

Pym sighed lightly and said, "We... How many years have we not seen each other?"

Lird thought for a moment and said, "Almost five years. ”

Pym nodded, sighed again, and said, "Five years! Time flies so fast, five years have passed in the blink of an eye." Lird also frowned and nodded, although the father and son did not stop writing during the five years, letters and phone calls were never interrupted, but these are different from the communication after the real meeting, paper and radio waves can never express the most sincere emotions in the human heart.

Pym said, "Is everything okay lately?"

Liard's face froze, then he nodded.

Pym said, "Is Grandmother Marge okay?"

Lird's throat rolled, and he wanted to nod again, but in the end he couldn't deceive his father.

Pym knew everything by looking at Lird's wooden expression, and instead of expressing extreme sadness, he smiled bitterly.

"I see, I'm sorry, mother, my son didn't get to see you for the last time... I'm sorry—" He slowly closed his eyes.

"But that's fine, it's okay, after all, there's such a thing as a white-haired person sending a black-haired person... Not true..."

When Lird heard this, he suppressed his sadness and immediately said to Pym: "Father, what kind of injury have you suffered? You... You'd better get out of here with me, and I'll take you to the city to find a better doctor, and find a way to get you back to the United States for treatment..."

Pym interrupted Lird's statement with a wry smile: "I'm not going anywhere, I can't go anywhere, this should be my home..." But there's no going back..."

Looking at Pym's grief-stricken expression, Lird said, "Father, this... What's going on here? Why... Why did things turn out like this? Obviously we were talking on the phone more than three months ago, and you... Everything is fine!"

Pym smiled bitterly: "Actually, fate was already destined at that time, but I didn't realize it at that time." Then Pym's dry palm stroked the back of Lird's hand and said: "Child, I am really very happy to see you, I just feel that it is worth it even if I die in the next second, I know that you are very tired from the journey, and I also want to know a lot of things, and I also have a lot to say to you, please believe me, I will tell you everything that has happened to me, and I will do my best to answer your doubts, but this will be until later, now I want to know more about you, that's all." ”

Lird looked at his father with hope in his eyes, and finally nodded, forcibly controlled the depression in his heart, and said with a smile: "So what do you want to hear?"

Pym thought for a moment and smiled, "Just tell me about your life in the United States in detail in the past two years..."

...

“... So we climbed in through the back kitchen window and ate a lot of cupcakes until our stomachs ached, and we felt very happy at that moment, but soon we realized that one piece was ' The crisis' thing, that is, we couldn't get out of the window when we came, Jenny and I were like big bad wolves trapped in the granary on the phone, and in the end we had no choice but to bang on the locked kitchen door to ask for help, and it took a long time for someone to hear us out, and Mrs. Wyatt described us as... It's like a big rat that escaped by chance!"

When Lird said that, he and Pym burst out laughing, and the wrinkles on Pym's face stretched out in the laughter.

After laughing, Pym nodded and said, "It's been hard work for Wyatt in the past two years, and he is very busy with business problems, and he has to take care of you two bear children, which is really hard for him." ”

Lird nodded, "Thanks to Mr. Wyatt's care in the past two years, the life I have received in the United States has been of the highest quality. ”

Pym nodded, "Wyatt is a good friend to be trusted, and I owe him all my life." ”

Lird paused and said, "Before I left the United States, Mr. Wyatt actually said something similar, he said that he was very sorry for you in his life. ”

With a moving smile on his face, Pym muttered, "Wyatt... My old friend, how I want to have another drink with you! It's a pity..."

Pym's sentimentality dilutes the cheerful atmosphere of the fit and plunges him into sadness, but Pym quickly realizes all this, and then says to Lird, "Wyatt is also a native of our country, but his parents left Poland earlier. ”

"These things have been mentioned to me by Mr. Wyatt," said Lird. Pym laughed, "So Wyatt really likes you." ”

Lird nodded: "Actually, this time I came to India, and the strongest opposition was Mr. Wyatt, who didn't want me to risk my life. ”

Pym nodded: "I understand him, he did the right thing, leaving you in the United States can maximize your safety, whether the United States enters the war or not, at least it is much safer on the mainland than here." ”

Then Pym said, "But boy, the reason why I asked Jim to look for you, and brought you here, is not to put you in danger, but just to see me one last time, in fact, I want to tell you something, and these things... Really, really important!"

Looking at his father's serious face, Lird realized that what happened next might not be as light and joyful as the two had talked about earlier, so he nodded with the same solemnity.

Pym looked at his son in front of him and suddenly said, "Son, do you believe that there is a god in this world?"