Fang Zhiyi cooperated very well, nodded with a smile and sat down.
But when his chopsticks reached for the winter bamboo shoots on the table, Fang Hongyuan was a little confused: "Hmm? Yi'er, have your preferences changed recently?"
Fang Zhiyi paused, still picking up a piece of winter bamboo shoots with chopsticks: "I want to give it a try. I was reading a book last night, and the idea of trying to accept a variety of things in the book made sense to me."
Fang Hongyuan nodded, his frown smoothing out. "I see. You two should learn more from your brother and read more."
The two brothers nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay." But the disdain remained on their faces.
What's the point of being able to read? Isn't he also a fool? His two brothers are the legitimate sons. Isn't Fang Zhiyi, no matter how powerful he is, still a bastard?
Fang Zhiyi was somewhat surprised and doubtful, what a close call!
For the first time, he took a serious look at Fang Hongyuan. No wonder he was able to integrate the surrounding resources into one solid entity through Fang Zhiyi. This guy was indeed an old fox!
"This guy has a pretty good brain. It won't be that easy to mess with him."
During the meal, Fang Hongyuan not only picked up some food for Fang Zhiyi, but also casually talked about how the family business was doing recently. He still did not mention anything wrong, but he praised Fang Zhiyi highly in his words.
Fang Zhiyi also behaved the same as Yuan Yu, smiling and nodding: "As long as the family is well, everything will be well. After all, a harmonious family is the foundation of everything."
"Yes, a harmonious family is the key to success. My son has really grown up." Fang Hongyuan was very satisfied.
After the meal, Fang Zhiyi's train of thought was disrupted.
"Why don't you be more direct and send someone to pin him down?" Xiao Hei said, "Get ahead of him and kill your own relatives for the sake of justice!"
Fang Zhiyi smiled. "You're thinking too well. He's got everyone in my house, from top to bottom. Believe it or not, if I expose the Fang family's evil deeds today, he'll make me seriously ill and die tomorrow? Of course I can protect myself, but what's next? Will I be a wanted criminal or an assassin?"
"Don't your human books say that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs?" Xiao Hei wondered.
Fang Zhiyi waved his hands and smiled: "That's a tiger. Although it's a beast, at least it knows the feelings of flesh and blood. But people... are much more complicated. Some people are even worse than animals."
He sat at the desk, staring blankly out the window, his expression gradually becoming weird.
The next day, Fang Zhiyi got up early and sat in the hall with a book in his hand. He had done the same thing every day, so the servants were very considerate and brought food to the hall.
"I don't know what our master is up to. He reads those lousy books everywhere, and he has to pretend to come to the lobby to read them."
Another servant replied with a smile: "My lord, you have a good father. Are you not convinced? Why don't you also ask Master Fang to be your godfather?"
“Twang twang twang.”
The two men talked in low voices, waiting for Fang Zhiyi to finish his meal. It was always like this. Their duty was to serve the prefect in front of them well, pay attention to his every move, and report to him in time to prevent the prefect from seeing anything he shouldn't see or hearing anything he shouldn't hear.
They were chatting happily when Wang suddenly turned around. They were startled to find Fang Zhiyi standing in front of them, looking at them gently.
The two servants were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats. Did they say anything treasonous just now?
"Sir, you..."
Fang Zhiyi suddenly raised his hand to stop the guy in front of him from speaking.
"What's your name?" Fang Zhiyi paused. "I'm not talking about your nicknames, but your real names." How confused was he? He only knew the nicknames of these two servants who served him.
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