chapter 5 In ten years, things have changed and people have changed

Gilbert was stunned.
"Yes, mother told Liz that father is a soldier and a great hero!"
When Gilbert looked stunned, Liz's big black eyes were full of pride and happiness, "He is more powerful than Superman and more handsome than Iron Man."
"Although Dad has never visited Liz once, Mom said it was because Daddy wanted to protect more people and catch all the bad guys! Liz doesn't blame him, Liz just misses him."
There were tears in her eyes, but she quickly wiped them away.
"But, but Mom said that whenever Liz is in danger, whenever Mom and Liz are bullied, Daddy will definitely appear in front of Liz to protect Liz!"
The little girl's big black eyes blinked, full of hope and desire, "Uncle, you are so powerful, my father must have sent you to protect Liz. He will be back soon, come back to see Liz, right? "
"Right?"
Gilbert felt like his heart was filled with something, and he was so uncomfortable that he couldn't breathe. He had red eyes and nodded with a smile,"Yes, Liz is so smart."
"Yeah, Daddy is coming back, Liz has a Daddy!"
The little girl jumped up happily at that time. Her smile was so pure, so clean, as pure as a dream as if it would be broken with the slightest touch.
Natalie's beautiful eyes turned red, and she secretly turned around to wipe away the tears on her cheeks.
Only her and daughter knew the bitterness and pain of these years, which was difficult for ordinary people to understand.
"Uncle, I want to show you a secret. Only the two of us know it. Even the teacher and mother don't know." Liz took Gilbert to her room with her little hand and took out a graffiti with a longing look on her face,"Uncle, look, this is the father I drew. The man in military uniform and holding a gun is my father, and the two little red men behind him are my mother and me!"
"When Dad comes back, Mom will no longer be bullied by bad people. She will no longer have to worry about stray dogs wandering the long way home. Mark and the others will no longer dare to call Liz a wild child without a father."
"Uncle, you know, Liz is so happy."
Gilbert's hands were trembling as he held the childish and innocent graffiti. The emotions in his heart surged out instantly, and he could no longer bear the deep guilt and self-blame.
Sorry, baby, your Dad was not a hero.
He was the most useless, selfish, useless, and bastard beast in the world!
He wanted to slap himself twice right away.
"Uncle, what's wrong with you?" Liz blinked her big innocent eyes and wiped away the hot tears on Gilbert's cheeks with her small hands, "Why are you crying?"
"Liz, I'm sorry, uncle still has something to do. I'll see you another day." Gilbert turned around and strode away.
At this moment, all his thoughts disappeared, and he just wanted to escape the scene quickly and escape from his guilty!
"Gilbert."
Natalie chased him out and shouted, but found that the latter had long since disappeared. She frowned slightly and shook her head.
"What a weirdo."
The weather was getting cooler.
Gilbert leaned against a maple tree with his tall and straight figure, slowly lighting a cigarette, feeling melancholy.
Before, he had rehearsed ten thousand ways to recognize Natalie and her daughter in his mind and was even mentally prepared to be scolded, accused, and even hated.
But he never expected that when he really faced their mother and daughter, he would not dare to recognize them!
Natalie was so sensible, so gentle, and virtuous. She gave birth to a daughter for him and stayed alone in the empty boudoir for five years, even at the cost of being kicked out of the house and breaking up with the family.
And Liz regarded her father, whom she had never met, as a great hero. She admired him so much, and in her heart, he was so perfect.
But how could he bear such high expectations? How could he be worthy of his wife and daughter?
How could Gilbert, who had not shown the slightest care in the past five years, have the dignity to stand in front of his wife and daughter for a so-called family reunion?
"I owe them both mother and daughter too much. At least for now, I am not qualified to be a husband or a father!" Gilbert looked far away and exhaled,"Still, don't recognize each other for the time being."
"I will stay with them and do everything I can to protect them and compensate them until I feel qualified to face my own identity."
But, in what way and in what capacity should he stay with them so that it seemed logical and did not affect the suspicion of them?
Gilbert only felt that he had a terrible headache.
He put out his cigarette butts, thought about walking all the way, and left the community.
"Lord, are you back?"
Pete, who had been waiting on the roadside, quickly got out of the car, his body upright and full of respect.
"Yeah." Gilbert nodded and got into the car.
"Lord, is there anyone who wants to fight with you?" Pete frowned. He was also a soldier, and he could feel the hostility flowing from Gilbert's body.
"If you want, I will help you kill them all."
There was a concentrated murderous aura between Pete's brows, although, in front of the military god Gilbert, he was as respectful as a primary school student.
But at the same time, he is also a ruthless character who holds great power in Jorthtown.
At least, second-rate families like the Stock family and the Christ family could only kneel down and beg for mercy in front of him.
"Some clown, forget it."
Gilbert sat in the car, waving his hands lazily, his eyes twinkling.
After all, the Stock family is Natalie's relative. This silly woman was soft-hearted and still cared about family ties. She didn't want to go too far and made the woman sad.
However, if they were stubborn and wanted to challenge his bottom line, then he didn't mind and personally killed them.
"Yes." Pete nodded loudly, without any opinions or emotional fluctuations. A soldier's bounden duty was to obey orders.
"Lord, where are we going?"
Where to go?
Gilbert looked at the busy traffic on the street through the car window, his eyes filled with memories and longing.
Jorthtown, his second hometown, did have too many beautiful childhood memories and reluctance.
For example, his adoptive parents.
They had no blood relationship with them, but they treated him as if he was their own children.
Also, that little follower girl, Beatrice, who is always pestering him, liked to wear floral skirts and braids and called him brother non-stop.
It had been ten years since he left the army without saying goodbye that night.
"It's been ten years, they must have aged a lot, it's time to go back and take a look..."
Gilbert's eyes revealed a deep feeling of longing and reminiscing. Anyway, Natalie and Liz couldn't be impatient for the time being, so he would go back to see the two elders.
"Pete, let's go back home."
"Go home? Lord, are you going back to Jormiles City?" Pete was slightly surprised, but as soon as the words came out, he immediately felt a thump in his heart and screamed secretly.
This was the taboo of the Lord!