Fanfan didn’t seem to want to mention such a humiliating thing either, and faintly opened his lips, “Have your soup, it’s late, finish it and go to bed early.”
“What about you, are you leaving tonight?” Fanny blurted out.
After saying that, realizing that it was a bit strange, she hastily added, “I mean, it’s so late, if you’re leaving, drive safely.”
“I’m not leaving tonight, I’m staying in the room next to yours, if you feel uncomfortable, call me next door and I’ll take you to the hospital.”
Fanfan’s face did not change as he bowed his head and drank his soup.
The fish, shaved clean of its spines, was put on a small plate and handed to Fanny.
When Fanny saw the small plate in front of her, her eyes flushed again.
She sniffled.
She had always loved fish since she was a child, but she was too stupid to shave the spines, and eight or nine times out of ten she would get them stuck.
She was so young that she would only cry when she got stuck. One time in particular, the fish spike was so thin that she didn’t get it out when she got stuck, leaving a broken spike in her throat.
The infection became inflamed the next day, causing a fever that almost made her stupid.
She spent several days in hospital hanging on to water.
Since then, she has been scared to eat fish, even though she likes fish.
Later, it was her brother who held her especially tenderly and taught her how she should eat fish by clearly separating the flesh from the spines of a fish in front of her, like an autopsy.
When she couldn’t learn, her brother didn’t get angry, he just patiently shaved off the spines for her and fed her the fish.
From that year onwards, she never got a fish spike stuck in her again ……
“Thank you brother.”
Fanny’s voice was like a mosquito as she stared at the small plate of fish.
She wasn’t a child anymore, it wasn’t that she hadn’t thought that her brother couldn’t take care of her for the rest of her life, that she would always have to learn to take care of herself.
Especially when she first heard her mother and father mention that her brother was not too young and should find someone suitable to fall in love with.
It crossed her mind though that she was not related to her brother by blood and that if she could be with him, he could take care of her for the rest of her life.
But then she thought that it would be too hard for her brother.
She had grown up and had to learn to take care of herself and her brother.
She had tried very hard to learn, even though her father always said that his daughter was naturally delicate and couldn’t let her learn to do housework, but she did learn in secret.
She had actually thought that even if she did stay with her brother in the future, she would still learn to be a good wife and mother. She was even thinking that when she had learnt all the life skills, it would be interesting to see her brother’s surprised expression when she showed him her hand in front of him in the future.
She had also thought about ……
The only thing she didn’t expect was that before she had a chance to show the “surprise” she had created for him, he had already surprised her first.
He announced his love affair.
Dating with marriage in mind ……
With the youngest daughter of the Zhong family, Zhong Rishu, who would say “you two look good together” to anyone who saw her.
“Why are you suddenly so polite as to say thank you to me, are you burnt out?” Fanfan’s eyebrows knitted slightly, after hearing her words that resembled self-talk, he asked suspiciously.
Fanny blinked back and bristled, “I’ve always been polite, I just used to be a bit insensitive and unaware of my blessings, now I’ve learnt to appreciate them.”
Yes, she had learnt to appreciate her blessings.
Even if it was just a portion of fish with the thorns removed, it was a blessing she should cherish.
Just …… is it too late?
