Volume 1 Chapter 102

  Fang Mo Nan glanced at the time, it was noon. They were having a free buffet lunch provided by the hotel, which was famous worldwide for its variety of dishes ranging from affordable to expensive prices. In order to cater to tourists, many hotels in the casino city had set up their own buffets, where guests could eat and drink as much as they wanted before returning to the gaming tables to continue betting. The buffet spread in the casino city was quite large, with Western-style buffets being the main focus.

  They walked around the buffet and looked at the three categories of dishes: cold dishes, hot dishes, and desserts. The cold dishes included salads, cold cuts, and cold seafood. There were many types of salads, including garden salad, Caesar salad, Greek salad, potato salad, egg salad, bean salad, and New York steak salad. Among them, the most popular was the egg salad with caviar, which consisted of chopped hard-boiled eggs mixed with pepper, salt, and mayonnaise, paired with caviar, a very expensive food, making it incredibly delicious.

  Cured meats include Italian Salami, Polish sausage, various smoked hams, turkey breast, black pepper beef and red beef. The cold seafood includes smoked salmon, sashimi-grade tuna, boiled shrimp and oysters. Then there are all sorts of cheeses with crackers - any cheese you can think of is available. These appetizers already fill a 10-meter-long table. If you take a little bit of each, you'll need three large plates, and that's just the beginning.

  Hot dishes include roast beef, ham and turkey. The chef slices a thin piece of meat and then pours a spoonful of gravy over it. On the steamer trays are plates of roasted fish fillets, lamb chops, fried pork cutlet, grilled steak, veal cutlet, fried chicken wings, roasted chicken breast, curry chicken, boiled green mouth, Vancouver crab legs. Boiled green flowers, white flowers, small carrots, rose potatoes, Brussels sprouts...

  Walk through this row, and it's a steam cabinet with two Italian pasta masters who take orders at any time. One is responsible for making various Italian pasta dishes at any time, and the other is in charge of baking pizzas that customers have assembled themselves. The main course has just ended, and finally, it's time for dessert: cheesecake, Black Forest cake, chocolate mousse, tiramisu, egg tarts, all kinds of puddings, jellies, cookies... This still isn't the end. There are also dozens of ice cream flavors in the display cabinet, and finally, there's a coffee bar with over ten varieties, which marks a perfect ending.

  Cheng Shigui and the others took a look around before taking their plates to get food, so they wouldn't miss out on anything good. Otherwise, like other people, when they see something delicious, they eat it first, and then when they see something even more delicious, their stomachs are already full and they can't eat anymore.

  "Wow... I'm so full!" The fatty patted his own belly and muttered.

  "Dead fat boy! No energy!" said Liang Zi, "Now it's uncomfortable! Go exercise a bit."

  "What's planned for this afternoon?" asked Liang Zi.

  "I'm going to sleep, I don't want to play anymore. It's too noisy!" She rubbed her head, finally having a day off, she needed to catch up on some rest, the hospital work was too exhausting. Although she could recover quickly just by sitting still for a bit, sleep was still better. "If you guys want to have fun, find your own entertainment!"

  Cheng Shigui saw that she looked a bit tired, "Alright, I'll send you back first, and then we can go have some fun." Then he turned to Liang Zi and the others, "Do you guys have any plans for this afternoon?"

  Liangzi said bluntly, "My English isn't very good, help me find a translator, I want to take a look around." For now, he's followed his wife and learned some, which is enough for daily use. This was still something he picked up while running a hotel abroad, looks like he needs to strengthen his studies in this area.

  "Hmm! No problem with this." Cheng Shigui said, "And you, Fatty."

  "Haha......" The fat boy smiled embarrassingly, "I still want to continue playing, but my English can't even recognize all 26 letters."

  "Pangzi followed me and got it," said Han Zhijian.

  "Great! Great!" Fatso exclaimed happily.

  "Alright, since it's all settled," said Cheng Shigui, "let's send Nannan back first."

  The four of them sent Fang Mo Nan back to the villa and each went their separate ways. Fang Mo Nan lay on his bed, soon entering a dreamland.

  Liangzi looked at the hotel he was staying in seriously with the translator by his side. Cheng Shigui, Han Zhijian and Pangzi continued to rush into the casino.

  The surveillance room of the casino, "Boss, this afternoon they only had three people playing in the casino, losing more and winning less." Huh... Is this normal?!

  The housekeeper let out a sigh of relief and said, "Just keep an eye on them." Opening the door for business can't just be one-way traffic.

  The whole afternoon passed like this. Liangzi was the first to return. At the dinner table, Fang Mo'nan was tasting the hotel's Western food. Indeed, you get what you pay for.

  After Liangzi sat down, the waiter brought up the same Western-style food. The two of them ate and chatted at the same time, "Where did you go for a stroll this afternoon?"

  "Let's take a rough look at the hotel we're staying in, and then go through the procedures." Liang Zi said with his mouth full of steak, cutting another piece with his knife and fork.

  "Look at you, still can't get used to it." Fang Mo Nan said with a smile as he saw his unwilling expression. "Get used to it then."

  "It's hard for a person to change their inherent habits." Liang Zishu continued cutting without stopping. "However, human adaptability is also very strong, and one doesn't know what they can achieve unless they push themselves."

  "If you don't push yourself a bit, you'll never know how excellent you can be." Fang Mo said thoughtfully.

  Liangelo gave a thumbs up, "Awesome!"

  After dinner, the two sat in the living room, and the servant came up with tea, quietly retreating. Liang Zid held a teacup, his fingers constantly rubbing the rim of the cup, looking very worried.

  Fang Mo put down his cup of tea on the tea table and said, "If you have something to say, just say it. You look like you want to speak but are hesitating."

  Liang Zi looked up at her, his eyes dim and lost. "Did you know that Shou Hou had ulterior motives all along? That's why when we divided the shares last year, you never mentioned him."

  Fang Mo Nan scratched his chin and said faintly: "When Liang Zi came, he went to see the thin monkey." Liang Zi nodded.

  "He didn't even plan to come see me, and yet he still thanked me." Fang Mo Nan said, and Liang Zi nodded again.

  "Liangzi remembers that Skinny Monkey went to Shanghai, in the few days before you left for the south, did I ever look for you?" Fang Mennai said.

  Liang Zi suddenly looked up, "You're saying that at the time, Shou Huan chose to start his own business alone." He found it somewhat inconceivable, "But why? Wouldn't following you have led to a bigger stage?"

  Liangzi remembered when they went south. Fang Mo Nan gave them two options: one was to borrow money and start their own business, the other was to follow her arrangement and go south. At that time, he and Pàngzi chose the second option. "So, why?" Liangzi was clearly more shocked by Shòuhóu's choice than when they last met.

  "This is his own choice, and it can also be said that it's a man's ambition. It's very normal, nobody wants to be inferior to others, who doesn't want to turn the tables and become the master?"

  "But... but..." This blow was a bit too big for Liang Zi. He thought that someone as close as a brother would not choose the first option!

  Fang Mengnan continued: "If measured by the amount of money, compared to you, he has developed very well and smoothly, but still lags far behind!"

  Liang Zi remained silent, and Fang Mo sighed: "Life also has four basic principles: knowing how to choose, learning to let go, enduring loneliness, and withstanding temptation." She continued: "Everyone has their own aspirations, Liang Zi."

  Liang Ziping calmed down. No wonder Xiao Hou only came back when he got married, and after that they never met again, just keeping in touch by phone. He let out a deep sigh, unsure if it was for him or for himself.

  "Haha......" Fang Mo Nan burst out laughing.

  Liángzi looked at her with a smile and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

  "I lost a thin monkey, but I gained a friend who worries about me. Do you call that a loss?" Fang Mo Nan turned back and said: "Come out!"

  Cheng Shigui and the others walked in one by one from the entrance, Allen, Fatso, Diao Mei, Yang Fan, and Han Zhiqian. "Liangzi, you didn't say it earlier, looking at you this time, always frowning when there's no one around, turns out it was because of this matter." Cheng Shigui said.

  "We're not blind, of course we can see that there's something on your mind!" Han Zhiqian said, patting his shoulder.

  "Alright, since we have different paths, let's just part ways. You still have us! Aren't we friends?" Yang Fan said.

  Fat boy patted his shoulder and didn't speak, the three of them grew up together since childhood, their feelings were naturally incomparable to others. At that time, he was eavesdropping at the gate, almost couldn't hold back, if Skinny Monkey was there, he would definitely rush forward and ask what's going on?

  "Boss, you just let us be like this, aren't you afraid that we will abscond with the money?"

  Everyone glared at him, Yang Fan innocently blinked his eyes, "But I really want to know!" He didn't forget to wiggle his butt on the sofa and throw a flirtatious glance.

  Obviously his problem is more stimulating than his appearance, making everyone's skin crawl!

  Fang Mo Nan smiled and asked in return: "Can you?"

  Just like this, three faint words, but for some reason they felt a strong and confident aura.

  Yang Fan shook his head like a drumstick, "I found that I would lose even more that way."

  Fang Mo Nan smiled and shrugged his shoulders, laughing but saying nothing.

  Cheng Shigui said with deep emotion: "He Huabu once said, 'This is an inexpressible affection between two people. What he gave us was like the fragrance that flowers give.'"

  "This is a charm that transcends gender and age." Xie Yun said emotionally.

  "Hehe......" Fang Mo Nan said with a pure and innocent gaze at the crowd: "It's not as good as you all say, I'll go make some midnight snacks for you. What do you want to eat?"

  Behind Fang Mernan's back, a string of dish names came to mind.

  Everyone watched the boss flee in a panic and burst out laughing without any politeness. Although some people didn't spend much time with her, seeing her only once a year, the sense of identity, trust, and admiration they had for her was deeply imprinted on their hearts. Her IQ and EQ were both top-notch; she knew how to interact with others and didn't need to be guarded around. With her wise mind, sharp insight, tolerance, and ability to see through fake intentions, people couldn't, didn't dare, and didn't want to have any second thoughts about her. Such a person is someone you can entrust everything to! The distance between you and her isn't measured by physical proximity but by the closeness of your hearts.

  The sea does not refuse the tiny streams, therefore it can become great. The mountain does not reject the fine dust, only then can it reach its height. When money is abundant to the point of being just a pile of numbers, emotions are what bind them together.

  Fang Mengnan stood in the kitchen, she liked to consider problems from a Chinese characteristic management perspective, with three starting points: practicality, dialectics and emotional appeal. Running an enterprise and doing business is not like governing a country, it requires human governance.

  This is Fang Mernan's view, which does not apply to many places, but applies to her. Any management system has loopholes, and no one can avoid this, the hardest thing to control is people's hearts.

  Perhaps her foolish trust will turn into nothing, but she still likes that sentence: "Isn't it better to be distant from people rather than being close only to relatives?"