Salute To The General

Chapter 137 Incessant Bragging

The next day, Nathan Cross and Penny Smith returned home from the office to find Benson and Leah

Smith waiting for them.

Benson Smith immediately spoke up the moment he saw them enter the house. "You came back at the

right time. There's something we need to discuss with both of you."

"What's wrong?" Penny Smith asked as Nathan Cross looked on curiously.

"Do you still remember your second grand uncle?" Benson Smith asked.

Penny Smith nodded. "Of course, he's the younger brother of Grandpa. I heard that he had been

working at the Northern Grand Council. Grandpa adores him too."

"He hasn't come back for a visit for more than a decade now, and he hasn't stayed in touch with us as

well."

"That's right but you know what? He came back yesterday," Benson Smith said.

"Huh? Grand Uncle is back?” Penny Smith exclaimed.

Benson Smith nodded. "He chided your grandfather for kicking us out of the family. Uncle probably

didn't want to see a rift forming within the family."

"He called me just this morning and invited us to lunch at 2pm this afternoon. He wants to discuss this

with us.”

Leah Smith bit her lip. "The Old Master already kicked us out of the family, so what's there to talk

about?"

"Dad kicked us out, not

our senior

Council, so there's no

in this and wants to talk about it,

Penny

fact, if we manage to get on good terms with Grandpa and our

for all

Nathan Cross and company arrived at the

with Penny Smith's second grand uncle in the Peony

he was in his sixties. Even so, his greying sideburns failed to

powerful aura.

the Smith family was there too, except the Old

"Uncle!"

Smith greeted his

from his seat, the room was surrounded by

"You're here. Have a seat," he said without

and his family scurried to

serve the food now. We can talk as we

Smith said.

food came within minutes, each of them carefully

manner.

of his own wine instead of picking from the hotel's

just an errand boy at the Grand Council, but I got to enjoy the

taste of ordinary wine, if

a bottle of limited edition

members' eyes lit up

something that only those high

their praises to

pleased with the flattery, though his happiness was