Chapter 7.

A set of dishes.

After Santiago left and the grandfather was having breakfast, the young man asked him if he would open the gift that had been sent to him, to which the grandfather told him to do so, and while he opened it, they both looked at each other strangely: it was a set of dishes, that was completely strange, but not strange in a bad way, rather it was something unexpected that something like that was given to an older man.

They both thought that they were probably going to give him a bottle of some liquor or some relic, but some dishes were exactly what the grandfather said he gave his late wife when they got married.

Then, the boy told him that he would keep it because they already had a set of dishes in use and putting this one would be unnecessary, so the grandfather told him: keep it, when you get married someday you will use it with your wife, that kind of things are given to women or maybe the officer's wife has too many and told him to decide on at least one.

He laughed a little because the truth is that it would be a basic reaction of a woman when she has something left over and while he was drinking coffee the doorbell rang again; and this time when the boy went to open the door his face lost all kind of color, although he had not seen the whole face directly, he would never forget the eyes of a person.

The man told him that someone had sent food to this house and it had already been paid for. 

The boy immediately came out of his trance and said: Excuse me, delivery man, you can keep it, you don't have to deliver it to us. When he tried to close the door, the delivery man stopped it and looked at the boy and smiled and said: I'm not going to take someone else's things, this is for this house so take it.

The grandfather, seeing that his grandson had not returned, looked out to see what was happening, and when he saw him with the door open interacting with a delivery man, he asked what it was about. 

The man simply said: Someone has sent you food to your home for free, but the young man doesn't want to take it and I can't take it either. 

The old man then lightly hit his grandson on the head and said: Boy, when food is free, you don't refuse it, nor is it rejected, go and take good care of yourself delivery man and have a nice day, do not pay attention to the words of my grandson Ritchie, he is a very stubborn boy when he sets his mind to it, may God bless you for bringing us this food today.

After receiving the food and closing the door, the grandfather said to him: boy, but you are absent-minded, you have saved us from making lunch and dinner, ¿how are you going to reject food? Poor guy who ordered that to be delivered and it was not for him, but we crowned today…