"It's okay to come back, you have a point, you want to come back to see the children in the welfare home."

When Liszt went to Fox, the welfare home was already beyond its means, and Maria's pension was only used by so many children.

In San Francisco, Liszt went to school, worked part-time, and earned "extra money", and most of these legal and illegal incomes were given to Maria by him except for buying equipment, which he used to improve the food of the welfare home, but it was still a drop in the bucket for the daily operation of the welfare home.

After he went to Fox, the welfare home couldn't go on, and no one would donate money to the welfare home on the territory of the underworld.

"The welfare home was demolished, I was afraid that you couldn't help but rush back and didn't tell you, but you can rest assured that the government has arranged those children, and there are records of who adopted them, if you want to go and see, I will help you check tomorrow."

Liszt was noncommittal, although he was out for the children in those orphanages, it did not mean that he had deep feelings for those children.

In addition to the second secondary school thinking, he still wants to use this to improve his strength, and at the same time, he is also grateful to Dean Maria who helped him a lot.

Dean Maria was gone, and Liszt didn't think much about the children to understand their current situation, and understood the meaning of Tom's words.

To be able to live so long in that environment, a few of them are simple-minded, and Liszt doesn't like these young people who learn to intrigue and do their best for the adopted place.

Of course he doesn't like it, he doesn't have a position to blame these children, who let them face the problem of survival since they were young.

Even Maria doesn't care about this kind of thing, as long as she doesn't directly hurt the other party, it doesn't matter how the children in the welfare home compete.

Those who have the ability to be adopted, and they will not be bullied outside, and those who don't have the ability will be raised by her, this is Maria's philosophy.

"Forget it, I won't go to see them, it's not easy to have a new family, don't make them unhappy, thank you Tom."

Liszt understood Tom's thoughts, he must have thought that he was the real Liszt, who had been living and growing up in the welfare home, and had feelings for other children in the welfare home, but he didn't know that he was actually an impostor, better than smuggling, and he was not a black household with identity.

But even if the children don't know this secret, except for Maria, if they see him and suddenly say, "He is the big brother who suddenly appeared that day" or something like that, it is not self-deprecating.

Besides, in the whole welfare home, except for Maria, she didn't really have much affection for those children.

Seeing that it's nothing to help, now that they are all going their separate ways, how can Liszt have the leisure to care about their current situation, anyway, they are all arranged, and with a new family, if he suddenly appears, he will have a bad reaction.

Tom also mentioned in passing, since Liszt didn't want to go, he naturally didn't care, and he also felt that Liszt made sense, maybe Liszt's appearance would make people happy, but it could also make that kind of sensitive mind think of the past, and tear open the wound that has healed again.

"Well, I respect your opinion and take you to the cemetery tomorrow."

"Okay."

……

Tom drove to a stop in front of a white wooden house in the middle of a forest.

"Liszt wake up, we're here."

Liszt opened his eyes to adjust to the light, and then looked at the house in front of him: "Oh, Tom, did I come here so coincidentally, just happened to meet you and John on vacation?"

The place where Tom brought him is actually a country holiday house, which is completely different from China, it is a single-storey house made of wood, away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

"You guessed it, we're on vacation, but it's not that I'm lazy with Tom, it's that we've been out of work for the past two years."

On the field outside the house, John is setting up a barbecue grill and his daughter is helping out (troublemaking)

"Hello John, long time no see."

I remember the first time I saw John, it was the time when I was in distress and ran into Tom and John, who had a mission.

At that time, Liszt thought that he had seen Guo Da, and even shouted out, and only when he saw it clearly did he know that he recognized the wrong person, but when John learned from Liszt's mouth that he looked like a Chinese star, he was quite happy, and even showed off this to Tom.

These two golden partners are truly a lifelong friendship.

"Diane, you're back, Tom told me I thought he was joking, come and cook, and you can roast the meat soon." Diane heard the movement and came out of the house, and when she saw Liszt, she happily ran out and hugged Liszt.

It's her broken Mandarin that makes Liszt particularly twisted, and she hasn't changed it for so long, but for an overseas Chinese born and raised in the United States, it is good to be able to insist on speaking Chinese.

"Thanks, dear Diane, do you know how much I miss the food you make, America only has steak and bread, or burgers that add them together, and I'm getting tired of it."

Liszt complained and praised Diane's cooking skills at the same time, which really made Diane excited, and it was not interesting to make food to conquer the taste of Americans, only the Chinese said that it was delicious that was the real recognition of her cooking skills.

As for Tom being Chinese-American, the fact that Liszt is the same identity was subconsciously ignored by her.

……

"Charlie said you want to be a police officer?"

Tom sprinkled the roasted tenderloin with cumin and carefully handed it to the two little children except for two breaths.

Even John is turning over the drumsticks while brushing the sauce on the drumsticks, not American turkeys but broiler chickens bought in Chinese supermarkets.

One of the advantages of San Francisco is that there are many Chinese here, and the territory of Chinatown is large enough, so there are many Chinese supermarkets, and it is relatively easy to find suitable ingredients and seasonings.

"Don't eat too much, I'll show you, Diane, do you have eggplants at home?"

Liszt looked left and right, and found that the ingredients prepared were all meat, such as steak, tenderloin, chicken thighs, and chicken breasts, not only did there be no seafood, but also no cooked dishes, and he couldn't help but be disappointed.

A barbecue without seafood is crude and coarse, and a barbecue without grilled eggplant is even more soulless.

"Yes, I bought a lot of vegetables together and just finished washing them in the kitchen."

"Great, today I'm here to show you a taste of what a soulful barbecue is."

……

"Cheers!"

The two families sat together, around the oven, waiting for the food on the oven to be roasted one by one until golden brown, and the fragrance was fragrant and then large.

The children were playing with their iron hammers not far away, and there was no danger in the seclusion here, except that there was no sea in front of them.

Women are chatting about the latest fashion trends in clothes, bags and cosmetics, and discussing when to meet up to go shopping.

The men drank and bragged together, and although Liszt was an adult and didn't even need a guardian, he couldn't drink as usual.

Liszt could only watch depressedly as the two old brothers pushed the cups and changed the glasses, chatted, and nibbled on the steak in their hands with indignation.

Eggplant in the oven, huh, don't let me drink and don't give you food.