"How thoughtful of you." Fan Shangde nodded.
"Don't mention it. This is what I should do." The young man scratched his head.
The girl went to the living room with a grin and took out a metal box. She waved to the Vermilion Bird and said, "Xiao Huo, come here. These are all for you."
She opened the box. There were more than a dozen kinds of pet food in there, including flowers, fruits, and plants. There were even sealed insect jars, all of which were food that birds loved.
Fan Shangde looked at the box and said to the Vermilion Bird behind him, "Hey, come here. Someone has brought you some good food."
As a middle-rank pet, the Vermilion Bird was intelligent. It had been showing little interest in the food. When Fan Shangde spoke, the Vermilion Bird walked over reluctantly. It stuck its head out to take a look and then turned its head away. The Vermilion Bird lay on the ground lazily, showing no interest.
"Eh …"
The girl was surprised. She didn't expect that the Vermilion Bird would be so disrespectful. How could it not have an appetite for so many delicacies?
The young man next to her was stunned as well. He was embarrassed.
Fan Shangde wasn't surprised. He had fed the Vermilion Bird many of the pet food in the box but none of them worked.
"Grandpa, is your bird sick?" The girl couldn't help but ask as she looked at the Vermilion Bird that was lying on the ground lazily.
Fan Shangde raised his eyebrows. He would have thought so in the past. However, after seeing the Vermilion Bird happily eating in the pet store, he believed it was because of the food.
"The Vermilion Bird has been having a bad appetite lately and it doesn't eat much food. I think it will get better after some time," Fan Shangde said casually. At the same time, he sat down and rested.
The young man took the opportunity to say, "If so, grandpa, why don't you take the Vermilion Bird to the uptown area? There is the best Astral Pet Hospital there. They will be able to cure the Vermilion Bird. If anything goes wrong in the future, they will be able to solve it in time. Everything will be convenient."
Fan Shangde snorted. "I told you that I will stay here and not go anywhere."
The young man's expression changed. He didn't say anything else.
"Grandpa, even if you don't go, you still have to think about Xiao Huo. If it continues to go on a hunger strike, it won't last more than a few days. You can't just watch it starve to death!" The young girl immediately tried to save the situation, persuading him from another angle.
Hearing this, Fan Shangde raised his eyebrows. Somehow, he felt proud. "It won't go on a hunger strike. Today, I took it to buy some delicious food. It just won't eat the normal pet food you brought. It doesn't mean that it won't eat anything else."
The young man was speechless. He had brought average pet food? Everything in there was precious food for pets, okay?!
"You bought food for it?" The girl was surprised. "Will it eat other pet food?"
"Of course." Fan Shangde smiled.
"I don't believe it." Fan Xiaoyu's face was full of suspicion. She felt that her grandpa had deliberately made up an excuse. After all, for so many years, her grandpa had used countless strange excuses to avoid living with them in the Upper City District.
The young man beside him, Fan Yujing, was also puzzled.
Fan Shangde raised his eyebrows. He took out a small bottle from his pocket, unscrewed it, and poured out a fruit.
"Here," Fan Shangde said to the Vermilion Bird.
As a matter of fact, when he unscrewed the bottle, the Vermilion Bird had already turned around.
He threw out a fruit.
The Vermilion Bird opened its mouth to catch the fruit and swallowed it.
The siblings were a little stunned by this scene.
Soon, Fan Xiaoyu came back to her senses. She could not believe it. "It must be because the food on the ground didn't arouse Xiao Huo's appetite. I fed it in the wrong way."
With that said, she took out some fruits from the box and said, "Xiao Huo, come here."
The Vermilion Bird looked over.
A fruit smashed into its face.
Fan Xiaoyu: "…"
The Vermilion Bird's feathers were standing on end. Fan Xiaoyu was covered in a cold sweat. She didn't dare to try again.
"Now, do you believe me?" Fan Shangde said with a grin, proud of himself.
Fan Xiaoyu was speechless. She knew that she would not be able to make use of Xiao Huo this time.
"Grandpa, what kind of pet food is this? How come I have never seen it before? Where did you get it?" Fan Yujing looked at the fruit in his hand carefully. He was confused. He had gone to many battles and had seen many things. Yet, he had never seen this kind of bird fruit.
Fan Shangde smiled. "I bought it from a pet store nearby. It's called something like the Scarlet Stone Fruit."
"Scarlet Stone Fruit?" Fan Xiaoyu chewed on the name. Even with her knowledge as a top student, she could not find any relevant information. She asked curiously, "I have never heard of this fruit. Is it edible? Don't tell me it's something bad."
Fan Yujing nodded. "That's right. Some unscrupulous pet stores sell weeds as pet food. This kind of thing would be strictly enforced in the uptown area, but not here. Grandpa, don't buy anything unknown and harm Xiaohuo."
"What?"
Fan Shangde's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this.
The Vermilion Bird was his treasure and it meant a lot to him. He could not imagine what would happen if something were to happen to it.
"Well, I don't think so. I bought it from a regular pet store. They have a business license." Fan Shangde was worried but he managed to keep a calm face.
Fan Xiaoyu thought about it and said, "I heard that some unscrupulous stores would mix some special chemicals into pet food to make the food they sell more delicious. The pets would not be able to stop eating. Once they stop eating, they would go crazy. But if they eat for a long time, the pets could die suddenly or something serious would happen."
Fan Shangde was stunned. He had also seen such reports on TV before. His heart instantly tightened.
"That's right. The pet food I brought is the favorite food of birds of the fire family. But Xiao Huo didn't even look at it. It was only interested in the one you gave him. That is strange." The honest smile on Fan Yujing's face disappeared after hearing his sister's words. A glint of viciousness took over.
"Right, grandpa, how much did you pay for this?" Fan Xiaoyu asked all of a sudden.
Fan Shangde answered without thinking, "1500 …"
"1500 for a bottle?" Fan Xiaoyu was surprised. Her pretty face turned cold. "This is not the uptown area. How can you find pet food so expensive? This is definitely an unscrupulous store!"
"Grandpa, where is this store and what is its name?" Fan Yujing asked directly.
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