Chapter 522 is Winter's End
silence.
An eerie silence.
Fang Ce noticed that after he said that, the way his brother and Zhou Yun looked at him changed. Feeling a little strange, he asked, puzzled, "Brother, Zhou Yun, why are you looking at me like that?"
Fang Xuan replied, "Something's not right with you."
Zhou Yun nodded in agreement: "Based on my experience, I also feel that something is wrong with you."
Seeing that Zhou Yun, who was getting married at the end of the month, also felt the same way, Fang Xuan became even more convinced of his own belief. Looking at his foodie younger brother, he felt more deeply what it meant to be an elder brother like a father. Seeing his younger brother grow up, about to find someone he liked, and about to get married in the near future, he felt like an old father who had raised his son with great difficulty.
Fang Ce rolled his eyes at them and said, "I think you guys are the ones who are acting strangely."
Fang Xuanpan asked, "Who is that little glutton? Why are you paying for someone else out of the blue? Are you two very close?"
Hearing this, Fang Ce felt a little aggrieved. Although his older brother used to discipline him, he wouldn't be so strict about this. He retorted, "Brother, I'm twenty-three years old this year, not three. Can't I even spend this little bit of money freely?"
Fang Xuan: "?"
After a while, she glared at him and said, "Heh, not only can you freely spend your own money, but you also spend my share. If it weren't for you, my brother who only knows how to eat all day, I would have saved up a lot of money by now, and my family's wealth would be no less than Yu Chuan's and Zhou Yun's. The older you get, the more you eat, and the poorer I get. Having you is truly a blessing I've accumulated over eight lifetimes."
Fang Xuan emphasized the pronunciation of the word "good fortune," making it sound somewhat like he was gritting his teeth.
Fang Ce was speechless. His brother had never interfered with his spending. From childhood to adulthood, most of the monthly allowance they received went into his stomach. His brother never said anything. Whatever he wanted to eat, as long as he had enough money, he would buy it for him.
Looking at his elder brother, Fang Ce was deeply moved, and then he began to worry silently about his future. His brother would definitely get married in the future, and once he got married, he would definitely not ask his brother for money anymore. And he could eat so much, would his monthly allowance be enough to eat? Maybe he should start to control his eating now and eat less?
Seeing that he was standing there speechless, Fang Xuan said again, "What are you staring at? If you really didn't want to give you money, you would have stopped giving it to me more than ten years ago. Why are you only bringing it up now?"
Fang Ce shook his head: "No, it's just that I do feel I spend a bit too much money."
Zhou Yun said, "Enough with the nonsense, tell us honestly, who is that little glutton? Do we know him?"
Fang Ce was puzzled by his urgent question: "Who is it and what's wrong? You're not interested in food, why are you concerned about these things?"
Fang Xuan replied, "You've spent so much of my money, I have the right to know, right? At the very least, I need to know who you've been eating with."
Upon hearing this, Fang Ce frowned: "Brother, what do you mean? I did pay them, but they also bought me something of similar value. They were so kind of them, they didn't take advantage of me at all."
Zhou Yun tried to get information out of him indirectly: "That's not what your brother meant. What he meant was that it's rare to see someone as greedy as you. He wanted to know who else could be as greedy as you. Not only is he curious, but I'm quite curious too."
Upon hearing this, Fang Ce immediately fell into the trap: "You all know that little glutton, Ning Dong, who is by the lady's side. This girl looks so small, I never thought she was such a glutton. She can't resist delicious food. She can eat so much but hasn't gained weight. She is just like me, someone who is blessed by heaven."
A frozen winter?
Zhou Yun and Fang Xuan were taken aback. They had met Ning Dong many times, but they didn't know her very well. They would just exchange simple greetings when they met. In their memory, she was a lively girl.
Zhou Yun pressed further, "Have you two been getting along very well lately?"
Fang Ce nodded slightly: "It's alright. Ever since I paid her the money, she's given me a lot of good food to thank me. Some of it was a gift from the madam, and she shared it with me. But I haven't taken advantage of her for nothing. I also bring her some food when I leave the manor."
Fang Xuan was taken aback upon hearing this, somewhat surprised. He and his younger brother had an excellent relationship, yet he hadn't noticed his brother's close relationship with Ning Dong, who served the Madam. However, he was relieved that the other woman was Ning Dong; she was the Madam's trusted maid, undoubtedly a kind and good girl. His brother was the Marquis's confidant, and their statuses were well-matched, just like Zhou Yun and Qing Qiu, who served the Madam. They had taken a liking to each other, and if he asked the Madam for help, she would surely agree.
Zhou Yun didn't think too much about it. Everyone has a gossipy side, and men are no exception. He listened with great interest and asked again, "So, do you think Ning Dong is great?"
Fang Ce's objective evaluation: "It's pretty good, and it makes me greedy. Luckily, I'm not a child, otherwise I could be tricked out of a string of candied hawthorns when I go out."
Zhou Yun curled his lips into a meaningful smile: "A person with a gluttonous nature can still be fooled by a bite of food even when they grow up." He then looked at Fang Xuan and asked, "Fang Xuan, don't you think so?"
Fang Xuan's lips curved slightly, a faint smile playing on his lips, conveying everything without words. In a situation like his brother and Ning Dong's, if two gluttons were to get together, it was hard to say who would win the other over with food. Perhaps his brother would be lured away by a few bites of food, or perhaps his brother, naive and oblivious, would unwittingly feed the girl, stealing her heart and making her cling to him.
"Are there things wrong with your eyes? Can't you look normal for once?" Fang Ce felt they were acting strangely today, so he glared at them irritably before getting back to the point. "That Yu Chuan guy is so weak, let's go buy him some supplements. He's not even twenty years old yet, and he's already this weak. What will he be like when he's thirty?"
Zhou Yun nodded slightly: "Let's go. Chan'er is full of energy, but he can't get out of bed. If he doesn't take some supplements, he probably won't be able to get up tomorrow either."
Meanwhile, Yu Chuan, his face bruised and swollen, sneezed a few times and muttered, "Is someone cursing me?"
Zhou Yun and the other two left the mansion and went straight to the clinic. They asked the doctor what a weak man should eat, and then he gave Yu Chuan more than a dozen packets of medicine, all of which were tonics that were good for men. The doctor even said with certainty, "My patients all say that their wives are very satisfied with my medicine. I believe that if you take it home and decoct it, your wives will also be very satisfied with you."
Upon hearing this, the three of them said in unison, "It's not us, it's a friend of ours."
The doctor didn't believe them. He stroked his beard and nodded repeatedly in agreement: "I understand, I understand. It's just that you have a friend, and you care about your friend's health, which is very good."
They say this, but in their hearts they're thinking: Buying so many tonics and claiming they're for a friend? How could a friend drink that much? It's clearly for themselves, and they're just making up a friend to take the blame for it all to save face. Tsk tsk, these young people nowadays, I don't know what's wrong with them. They look so young, but they're all useless pretty faces. What will they do when they get older?
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