A battered pickup truck, a common sight on the South Side, drove up the driveway and parked outside Grande's front door. The visitor is a well-behaved guy, at least better than Ozzie Kozier, who came here for no apparent reason a few days ago to find Amelia.
But the driver did not go through the main entrance, got out of the car, and ran to the backyard with a smile on his face, "Zach! Did you hear me coming?!" Eric did the same thing every time Zach saw him. He was full of energy and ran to Zach under the noon sun, full of heat.
"Ah Benjamin! You're back!" Eric greeted Benjamin with a smile when he saw him in the hammock, "You missed several big funerals!"
There was already a smile on Zach's face. He looked back at Benjamin who raised his hand to respond, "I just came back this morning. We were talking about things we missed each other. Then we heard the sound of a car." Obviously there was something in his words, but now is not the time to discuss it.
Zach turned to the young man in front of him, "Eric, why are you here? We have no job recruitment right now."
For funerals held in Grande, don't they always hire farm laborers to make up for Grande's shortage of manpower? Eric is a guy who often comes to Grande to make extra money. One of the few people on the South Side who crossed paths with Grande.
Zach waved and walked to the back porch to take this guy into the Grande, "You came at a good time, Alice made the steak."
"Really?!" Eric was very excited and walked one step ahead of Zach.
The biggest perk of making extra money in Grande is the meals Alice cooks. Those farmers may be used to having delicious food when they come to Grande. Although Grande does not provide jobs now and they should not have this benefit, but when they come across it, Eric obviously does not want to miss it.
And it must be said that these farmers were present at the funeral. This was when Grande was most popular. Grande, which has been "quiet and peaceful" for a long time, occasionally has some excitement with these people, and Zach doesn't feel disgusted at all.
Zack smiled and moved out of the way, making a casual gesture.
"Oh, right!" Before entering the door, Eric suddenly turned around, fished behind his ragged denim butt for a long time, and fished out an envelope. With a happy face, he said, "I'm here to send you an invitation!"
Zach raised his eyebrows and took it. He could guess that it was Cliff's invitation without opening it. Looking at the stamps affixed to it, it was obvious that Cliff was going to send it.
Zach opened it, and the invitees said 'all members of Grande', which was really lazy.
"Do you know Cliff?" Zach asked, squinting as he looked at the names of the two newcomers on the invitation.
"Of course!" Eric twitched his lips, seeming a little unhappy. "We grew up together in an orphanage. We are best friends and I am the best man! But now I realize that I don't know many things about him!" He was already complaining casually, "If it weren't for me I just went to see him, and I didn’t know he invited you. Uh, I didn’t even know you knew him! By the way, he invited a lot of people I didn’t know. Uh.”
"Haha, I must have met a few times." Zach accepted the invitation. He returned to smiling and looked at Eric, "Why haven't I heard you mention Cliff?"
"Oh, although we are friends, he doesn't do our rough work." It should be referring to farming. Eric shook his head, and he could already smell the aroma in the restaurant. "When I came to Grande, everyone was a farmer, and I couldn't talk to him."
"Go ahead." Zach stopped occupying the guy who kept looking at the restaurant, smiled and waved his hand. Watching Eric rush into the restaurant, he first said hello. "Hank! Danny! Alice! Louise! Benjamin is back, where is Matthew?..." Soon, with the food supply, there was no time to talk.
Zach shook the invitation in his hand and walked towards Benjamin again, "By the way, there is also this matter, Cliff is getting married."
"Cliff?" Benjamin swayed in the hammock, mumbling the name, thinking, "Cliff, Cliff, who?"
"That 'Inheriter'." Zach said, "He was still a teenager when we met him." The invitation was thrown to Benjamin's chest, "He has obviously grown up now."
Benjamin opened the invitation with no interest, "I remembered, the one who hid when he saw you. Humph, he would actually invite you. Who is Linda?"
"We are the ones invited." Zach pointed to all the members of Grande, "He doesn't want to either." Zach seemed to have thought of something funny and shrugged, "He and Moorman went to Silk I bumped into Bella when she was sending the invitation." After answering the first question, the second one, "Mollman said it was a foreign 'inheriter', and Cliff wanted to end the cycle of 'immortality'. "The quotation marks are required.
Benjamin raised his eyebrows, "Can't you imagine?" He looked at the names of the bride and groom on the invitation card again, "It's still two inheritors who couldn't imagine coming together. Haha." The meaning of this smile was unclear.
Zach waved his hand, "You must be tired of working. Who knows how many life cycles they have experienced."
"What a pity." Benjamin threw away the invitation, "The knowledge from the beginning of the world, there are two less, uh, things in this world that can be passed on."
Zach curled his lips, seemingly dissatisfied with Benjamin's habit of throwing things away. He picked up the invitation and stuffed it back into the envelope, "Whether they can succeed or not is still a question. There's nothing wrong with giving it a try."
Benjamin still looked uninterested and waved his hands, changing the topic, "Funeral, Eric reminded me. You probably know what I did in Newton."
There was a smile on Benjamin's face, a little, uh, malicious, "Should you also tell me what happened to Barton? I seem to have missed a lot of things. Corden and Sibella both 'specially reminded' Me. I've been reading the newspaper all morning. Haha, how many of those headlines are related to our Grande? Uh, by the way, where is Dylan."
Zach's face turned ugly. Where to start, "Dylan..." Let's start with Grande himself, "He..." Zach couldn't continue and looked at the driveway in the backyard again. Someone was coming again. "We'll talk about it later."
Not long after, a car drove into Grande's backyard. Jason got out holding a briefcase. He glanced at Zach and handed over the documents he took out of the bag with an uneasy expression. , “The documents are ready, signed, and the insurance is effective.”
Who would have thought that Zach really increased the business volume for Jason, an insurance business worker.
"Okay." Zach smiled and took the file, walked to the back corridor again, entered the stairwell, and went to the office. "You came at the right time. Alice made steak." Zach is also a lazy guy.
"No, I have other work..." Jason followed Zach, but still couldn't help himself and glanced inside as he passed by the restaurant.
"Jason?!" A muffled cry came from Eric's mouth, which was full of food. He chewed hard a few times and swallowed the food. "Jason, have you received the invitation?" This seemed to be a question asked by someone who saw something unexpected and was surprised without thinking, because immediately, there was regret on Eric's expression.
"Er, Eric?" Jason was obviously surprised, but he immediately looked at Zach, his eyes full of 'Why is he here? '
Zach had already walked up the stairs. He was not going to explain anything, so he pretended to look through the insurance documents and continued going up.
"Uh, what invitation?" Jason shook his head and asked.
"Well, Cliff is getting married. I sent the invitation, but the address is the address you just went to in the North District. I don't know if it's correct or not." He could only answer.
"Cliff is married? Uh... I've moved."
"Yes." Eric's glossy mouth was crooked, "Well, then... give me the new address. Cliff invited everyone, well, you should go too." He didn't seem to be too reluctant. look like.
"Well..." Jason seemed to be hesitating, not wanting to answer. Usually at this time, the person involved will change the subject, such as Jason is doing now, "Eric, why are you here?"
"Grande was also invited." Eric blinked and was a little dazed when he didn't get an answer. Then, his eyebrows twitched, "Why are you here..."
Eric didn't finish his question, but before he said "Grand was also invited", Jason had already raised his head and frowned at Zach, who had already reached the second floor. Zach deliberately poked his head out, smiled at him, and shook the invitation in his hand.
"I live in Noel now." Jason's hesitation was gone. "I'll get a pen and paper and write you the address." He stepped up the stairs.
There was only one reason why Jason hesitated to disappear. He was worried that a vampire would appear at the wedding of his "brother" who he grew up with.
Poor guy, now that he is chasing Zach, his world view will be refreshed.
Zach only used one sentence, "Cliff, who grew up with you, is not a human being, but a thing called a inheritor." A thing that is not even a living thing. (.)