Parting on bad terms

At noon, after sending Kong Jie and Valencia home, Ishmael Kearns rushed back to the Qin family in Jianghai and had lunch with his parents.
"Is your second uncle okay? Have you met Grandpa Tingqiu and the others?"
After dinner, my father Manuel Kearns was still sitting on the small stool on the balcony, smoking his old dry pipe, his face full of wrinkles and a worried look.
"Second uncle is fine."
Ishmael Kearns knew the relationship between his father and his second uncle very well,...