Fang Yu was extremely enjoying listening to this, he waved his fan casually, who would have thought that the turbid young master of the capital would be living in deep water and hot water.
"Young Master, Eldest Miss, although this Southern Garden has a small kitchen, it doesn't have anything special. The furniture is also sixty percent new, it seems like someone else used it, and …"
"Got it, you guys go down first!" Ling Shuang's heart was already prepared for this, so she suppressed the suspicion in her heart. The two little girls turned and looked at Fang Yu: "I really wonder how you managed to live past these few years?"
"Shuang Er, follow me," Fang Yu also didn't reply as he brought Ling Shuang out of the Southern Garden's side entrance into the lush bamboo forest.
"Where did you get all this?" Ling Shuang unceremoniously sat down and started eating.
Fang Yu poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of Ling Shuang: "I knew you hadn't eaten your fill just now, since I hired you to act, I can't possibly be hungry for you right?"
Ling Shuang took a bite of the thousand layer cake and it emitted a soft and sweet fragrance. She was definitely the most authentic one in the capital, and revealed a satisfied expression. Fang Yu laughed to himself, a dignified Great General of the West was actually a glutton.
"Shuang Er, I have rarely come back to live with you before, and have caused you to suffer."
Ling Shuang was startled, she raised his eyes and looked at Fang Yu, his face had unexpectedly carried a look of guilt, the look in his eyes was gone without a trace. She sometimes really didn't know how many masks Fang Yu had. Some were evil, some were unorthodox, some were cold, and some were weak.
For a moment, she was confused. Just how many stories had such a man hidden?
"Fang Yu," Ling Shuang stared into his eyes, "Tell me your story?"
Fang Yu was surprised, a cold and heartless woman like Ling Shuang would not easily reveal her concern towards others.
But at the same time, Fang Yu's heart felt a warmth.
He turned around and looked at the bamboo forest's verdant green as he sighed and slowly rolled up his sleeves. It was obvious that these scars had been there for many years. One could imagine how deep the wound had penetrated into his bones.
"These scars can be removed, but I kept them, reminding me at every moment not to forget the terrible things that happened in the past. When my mother died, I was just five years old and was brought to the Mrs Fang's side. "
The bamboo forest was so quiet that it was oppressed, only Fang Yu's calm voice spread out.
"At that time, Father was busy with politics and did not have the time to care about the Inner Mansion. The Mrs Fang covered the entire Inner Mansion with one hand. I can't remember how many times I've been beaten, but they'll use all sorts of excuses to make my mistakes. When I ate, I said I was gluttonous. When I was studying, I said that I was lazy. I couldn't stand to say that I was naughty when I ran away. "
Ling Shuang's heart tensed, she did not know what to say to comfort her. One could imagine what kind of inhuman treatment a five-year-old child without the protection of a mother would suffer in such a mansion.
"Until one time I escaped and my father ran into me …" Fang Yu immediately stopped talking, as though he was suppressing his emotions and slowly said, "Father clearly knew that I was abused, but he still listened to Mrs Fang and placed me in the Yun Province to raise a child."
"Why?" Ling Shuang felt that it was really inconceivable. Her own child being abused, was she supposed to just ignore it as a father?
Fang Yu's peach blossom eyes slightly narrowed: "Father only has his position, his future prospects, and he cannot afford to offend the Chen family that stands behind Mrs Fang. Hehe! To his career, his son's life is nothing! "
"After I was sent to the Cloud Region, the Mrs Fang sent people to kill me several times. Fortunately …" Fang Yu suddenly closed his lips, as though he did not want to continue, but instead, he seemed to be hiding something, as he turned to look at Ling Shuang and laughed: "These things are meaningless, are you full? What other snacks do you want to eat? I'll buy them for you. "
Ling Shuang knew that Fang Yu must have hidden something from her. With his position in the Fang Family, he didn't even have that much of a monthly allowance. However, Fang Yu had become the number one hedonist in the capital, where did all this money come from?
Just look at the dishes on the table. They could not be bought even with a little over 10 taels of silver, so where did he get his money from? Although Ling Shuang was suspicious, she did not question her deeply. She only laughed: "You're pretty amazing now! With such high level of martial arts and money, why not just cut off those bastards! "
Fang Yu smiled lovingly, but the malevolence in his eyes slowly surfaced: "Cut it off, that's too boring, and it's better to torture his slowly. Let her look at what he can't get without doing anything, don't you think that's interesting?"
Ling Shuang felt a chill in her heart, she was a person that she could not afford to offend.
"Did it scare you?" Fang Yu sneered, taking off his cape to place it on Ling Shuang's shoulder, he even took out a stack of silver notes and handed it over, "You can spend this silver first, East Garden's things should be exchanged for if you throw them away, don't be afraid to spend this silver."
"Then what should we do next?" Ling Shuang was not polite, she took the silver notes into her hand. It was originally a relationship of employment, so she wasn't being hypocritical.
Fang Yu slightly smiled, and slowly said with the straightforward manner that he liked her: "Let's see which one of us will be the more dramatic next. When Ling Shuang obtained these silver bills, the others would immediately say that it was from the Ling Family. "
Ling Shuang understood that he did not want others to know how strong he was right now.
The next morning, Fang Yu left early. Regarding his mysteriousness, it was inconvenient for Ling Shuang to ask. But today, he was going to spend all the silver that Fang Yu had left behind.
"Eldest Miss, where did you get all this silver?" Cha Zi could not help but be ecstatic, it was impossible for such an empty rack to be filled with so much silver for Eldest Miss.
"Young Master gave it to me, but don't tell anyone about this, understand?"
The two girls were both Ling Shuang's trusted aides, and had followed her for so many years in wars, they had a tacit understanding of one another.
"Yan Hong, I have a use for you to take the banknotes to the bank to be exchanged for crushed silver," after hearing what Fang Yu said yesterday, Ling Shuang was even less pleased than the people of Fang Family.
She wasn't made of clay, and the clay figurine had a bit of a muddy personality! Since the Fang Family placed him in a crappy place like the Southern Garden, he must have the awareness of being ruthlessly punished by Ling Shuang.
"Cha Zi, take the silver and go find wind and rain tower's Tower Lord Gu Xiao Yun. This is my letter, let him settle the matter as soon as possible."
The wind and rain tower was a famous place in the martial arts world. It could buy and sell information, hire assassins, bodyguards, and other random jobs, as long as you had money.
But Gu Xiao Yun's temper was not very good, if he was someone he liked, even if he did not have money, he would still give it his all. No matter how much money he spent, he wouldn't show any face if he didn't like Ye Xiao.
This kind of mysterious and elusive weirdo was actually very close to Ling Shuang. When Ling Shuang went to war with the Wuhuan, many of the military news were spread to the wind and rain tower to ask around. Of course, news of wind and rain tower was the most expensive in the entire martial arts world, even though it gave Ling Shuang a discount, it was still shockingly expensive.
"Bring some silver with you, that evil merchant is not easy to deal with," Ling Shuang said in consideration.