Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 9 Stubborn

Gilbert continued to accompany Lilly in her efforts to persuade the parrot after chasing Debbie away. He was irritated at the prospect of having to sweet-talk an animal into following them home rather than trapping it.

“Come on, Polly. I’ll feed you delicious meat if you come down,” the man coaxed.

The parrot stared at Gilbert and shook its head. “No meat. No meat! No fat!”

When he saw the animal was refusing to cooperate, he took a deep breath and resorted to his last resort, “Lilly, let’s go. Ignore the parrot.”

Tears welled up in Lilly’s eyes as she clutched Gilbert’s shirt and begged, “Please, Uncle Gilbert. Don’t abandon Polly.”

It broke his heart to watch Lilly in such distress. Hence, he apologized, “I’m sorry, Lilly. This is all my fault. I shouldn’t have said that.” He wanted to slap himself hard when he realized that he had forgotten the little girl was overly protective of her friends.

Lilly was surprised because that was the first time anyone had apologized to her. She smiled and patted Gilbert on the shoulder. “It’s all right, Uncle Gilbert.”

Even though she had expressed her regrets in the past, no one had assured her that everything was fine. The little girl promptly comforted her uncle, knowing that the apologizer would feel horrible if she did not respond.

They then turned their focus to the parrot.

“Polly, be good now. Uncle Gilbert didn’t mean to trick you. He isn’t a bad person,” Lilly assured.

“I’m sorry, Polly. Please come down. We are going to Clodston and the garden there was huge. We can even find you a female friend…”

aback by the duo’s peculiar behavior, and upon further clarification, they discovered that Lilly had returned to the Hatcher mansion in search of the parrot. The ordinary bird with green feathers watched on as the Crawfords

difficult about persuading a parrot? Why

would be difficult; Gilbert had spent a lot of effort

singing, “Gilby Gilby!

you do it if

Squawk!” The man patted his raised arm to signal the parrot

widened her eyes and thought, Uncle Edward looks like

and uttered, “It’s just a parrot. Why does he

Dumb! Dumb

pointed at the parrot

me!” Polly flapped

Edward’s incredulous expression; he was horrified by

and gentle. Uncle Jonas looks obedient but deep down he’s mean. Uncle Edward looks like a fiery dragon, always on the verge of exploding.

and pretended everything was all right. The man smirked when he saw how timid the little girl was. He then spoke, “Don’t waste your

you know that?” Edward

out laughing and replied, “Are you

as Edward was about to throw a tantrum, Bryson called out, “Jonas is right.

aside to join his brothers, leaving the girl with her toy rabbit. She turned to face the parrot and urged, “Polly, hurry.

parrot with her cuteness. Even Edward’s heart

but as it was ready to land