<h4>Chapter 48: He Likes This Girl</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions
Therefore, he didn’t associate the girl in front of him with the so-called wild girl.
ire was about to answer when Evans asked her another question. “Why is there no one in the house?”
ire replied. “They went to visit the tomb of Old Mr. Smith.”
Evans didn’t say anything, but got up with his cane, and tottered towards the back garden.
ire ced the teacup back in the kitchen. She was ready to go upstairs to catch up on sleep.
Sitting at the jade stone table in the back garden, Evans suddenly beckoned her. “Come, girl,e here.”
ire stepped over.
There was a game of chess on the jade stone table.
Evans tapped the stone bench in front of her with his cane. “Sit down and y two games of chess with me.”
ire didn’t speak and took a seat.
The sun was shining, and a sweet breeze with the fragrance of flowers fluttered their hair. The old man and the girl were sitting in the back garden and ying chess.
No one disturbed them. It was blissfully peaceful.
After a few games, Evans was surprised. “Girl, you’re quite good at ying chess. How many years have you studied it?”
ire gently pushed her hair behind her ears. “I have never learned chess. This is the first time I yed it.”
“The first time?!” Evans couldn’t believe it. “Are you kidding me?”
ire’s expression was sincere. “I’m not.”
Evans hit the crutches against the ground in excitement and couldn’t help but exim. “Little girl, you are so talented. Why don’t you learn chess with me? I’m not bragging. When I was young, I was the president of the Chess Association. Countless people wanted to learn how to y chess from me, but you are the first person who makes me want to teach you.”
ire smiled without saying a word.
After a few more sets.
Evans pointed to ire, gently reproaching her. “Hey, little girl, did you deliberately make a mistake just now? Why did you lose to me deliberately? Are you afraid that I can’t afford to lose?”
ire lowered her eyes, saying tly. “No, it’s just that you’re better at ying chess than me.”
Seeing her humble attitude, Evans smiled.
He liked this girl.
“Grandpa!”
Suddenly, someone shouted in the distance.
Phoebe rushed into the back garden holding her skirt, breaking the silence.
She held Evans’s arm, and cast a provocative look at ire. She said sweetly, “Grandpa, why didn’t you tell me that you were here…”
She acted as if someone stole her treasure.
ire rested her cheek in one hand and yed with a chess piece in the other, simply ignoring her.
Evans pinched Phoebe’s little nose, and said dotingly, “I just want to give you a surprise.”
Ada came over and nced at the chessboard on the table, surprised.
This was a game between ire and her father?
“Dad, so you and ire already know each other.”
What?!
Hearing Ada’s words, Evans suddenly widened his eyes, and his old face was full of astonishment. “You mean she is… ire?!”
How could that be!
That wild girl was rebellious andwless.
But this girl in front of him was modest and polite.
How could they be the same person?!
Evans looked at ire, and his face instantly darkened. His amiable attitude waspletely gone, and a gleam of disgust shed in his muddy eyes.
Ada beckoned to ire. “Come here and call Grandpa.”
“Humph, no!” Evans snorted coldly and said impatiently, “Just call me Mr. Taylor like others.”
“Dad, why are you…”
Before Ada finished speaking, ire yawned, and stood up. She put her hands into her pockets, and walked away leisurely.
Staring at ire’s receding figure, Phoebe leaned into Evans’s ear and whispered. “Grandpa, you must not be fooled by her. She likes to y innocent to please others!”
Evans was in aplicated mood.
He felt that this girl was really very good.
She waspletely different from what he had imagined.
Was she… really pretending to be so?