Kang Li didn't accept: "It wouldn't be appropriate for me to hold onto it. When Dad has time, he'll return it to them. It's not too late to give it to their great-grandchild when the elderly couple meets them."
"Alright."
Captain Kang tucked the crescent-shaped jade pendant back into his pocket: "Let's do that in the evening. I'll make time to go over there."
After lunch, the family sat on the side of the hall, chatting idly while eating wild fruits.
"Dad, try these hackberries. They're pretty good."
Kang Yikai handed his father a small handful of hackberries, grinning as he said, "I'm not kidding, these hackberries are really good."
"Like I need you to tell me? When I was a kid, I used to run up to the mountains a lot. Every June or July, your uncle, your third uncle, and I would go up the mountain and look for wild fruits. We ate plenty of these hackberries back then."
