Chapter 17 (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Thank you for your trouble.” Fan Shangde nodded.
“You’re welcome. This is what I should do.” The young man scratched his head, smiling quietly.
The girl ran to the side of the living room and took out a metal case. She waved at the Vermilion Bird. “Xiao Huo, come here. These are all for you.”
She opened the case and over a dozen varieties of pet food were revealed, including flowers, fruits, gra.s.ses, and even sealed cans with worms in them. All of it was food favored by birds.
Fan Shangde threw a look and said to the Vermilion Bird behind him. “Come on and take a look. Someone brought you some nice food.”
Being an intermediate-rank pet, the Vermillion Bird was quite intelligent. It had been showing a lack of interest and only stepped over reluctantly after Fan Shangde had said so. The Vermilion Bird stuck out its head and took a look at the goods, then it turned around right away. Its eyes were filled with laziness. The bird nestled on the ground, not intrigued at all.
“Well…”
The girl was surprised. She didn’t foresee that the Vermilion Bird would ignore her like this. How come it wasn’t interested when there were so many delicacies?
The young man standing next to her was stunned as well. He felt the situation was awkward.
Fan Shangde, on the other hand, was not taken aback. He tried coaxing the Vermilion Bird into eating several of the treats the young man had brought but none of them worked.
“Grandpa, your bird is not coming down with something strange, is it?” The girl couldn’t help but consider the possibility as she saw the Vermillion Bird lying on the ground, low-spirited.
Fan Shangde raised his eyebrows. He would have had the same idea on any other day. However, he was convinced that it was because of the food, after he witnessed with his own eyes how happy the Vermilion Bird was when it enjoyed the food in the pet store.
“It has been losing appet.i.te recently and will not eat any of the usual food. I suppose it will be better after some time.” Fang Shangde answered calmly and sat down on the side to rest.
The young man’s eyes flickered. Building on what Fan Shangde said, the young man proposed, “If so, grandpa, why don’t you bring it uptown with us. We have the best hospitals for Astral Pets there and it can be cured. Problems should be solved timely to avoid things to go wrong in the future. It will be quite convenient.”
Fan Shangde snorted. “I already said my piece, I’m not going anywhere.”
The young man expression’s changed. He said nothing else.
“Grandpa, you don’t want to go but you have to consider it for Xiao Huo’s sake. It won’t last long if it continues to go on a hunger strike like this. You cannot simply wait for it to starve to death and do nothing about it!” The girl tried to persuade him from another perspective, using a different way to solve the problem.
Hearing this, Fan Shangde raised his eyebrows. Somehow, he felt smug. “It won’t starve. I already took it to get quality food today. It’s just unwilling to eat this average pet food you brought here. That doesn’t mean that it won’t eat anything else,” said Fan Shangde.
The young man was speechless. The food he brought was considered average? Every item was considered precious pet food!
“You bought food for it?” The girl sounded surprised. “Will it eat other pet food?” There was an odd look on her face.
“Of course.” Fan Shangde laughed.
“I’m not convinced.” Fan Xiaoyu was still in disbelief. She believed that her grandpa was just making up excuses. After all, in all those years, her grandpa had come up with many strange excuses just to avoid living with them in the uptown area.
Fan Yujing, the young man, was just as baffled after that exchange.
Fan Shangde puckered his eyebrows. He reached into his pocket and grabbed the little bottle. He pulled out the cap and poured out one fruit.
“Come here,” Fan Shangde called the Vermilion Bird.
The Vermilion Bird had turned over the moment Fan Shangde opened the bottle.
The fruit was thrown to the Vermilion Bird.