The guests looked on with surprise as Daohua and Xiao Yeyang arrived hand in hand.
Most of the attendees seriously reflected and realized that, it seemed, they had never actually had a reunion dinner with Xiao Yeyang before.
Prince Pingxi looked at the two of them, and although his face did not show much, his eyes were filled with amusement as he coughed lightly and said, "You’re here, take a seat. Dinner is about to start."
As he spoke, he looked towards Daohua.
"What are you doing with that food container?"
Daohua replied with a smile, "Your daughter-in-law has made some New Year cakes and sweet rice dumplings in fermented rice soup, and brought them over to ask Father-in-law to have a taste."
Prince Pingxi’s eyes immediately crinkled into a smile, just about to praise Daohua’s filial piety, when the Princess Consort of the Ma Family said with a sarcastic tone, "You have the nerve to bring out something so disgraceful."
The remark was laden with double meaning.
Xiao Yeyang immediately wore a stern expression and looked indifferently at the Princess Consort, "The only thing that truly has no place on this table, in this room, is you who gave birth out of wedlock; no one else even comes close."
"Xiao Yeyang!"
Xiao Yechen stood up abruptly, saying, "You’re going too far."
Xiao Yeyang sneered, looking at Xiao Yechen with mockery, "Do you think that by following the Third Prince around, reciting poems with those pretentious scholars every day, you can erase your disgraceful birthright?"
Xiao Yechen, with eyes red from anger, looked at Prince Pingxi in a mix of rage and grievance, "Father, Xiao Yeyang is humiliating me like this. You must stand up for me!" As he spoke, he knelt down with a ’thump’.
The Princess Consort also knelt down, crying pitifully, "Prince, do you see this? This is how Xiao Yeyang has been insulting me and Chenchen."
Prince Pingxi did have a sympathy for the weak, but that did not mean he lacked the ability to distinguish right from wrong. It was clear that today’s issue was instigated by the Ma Family, attempting to disgrace the girl, and Yeyang’s outburst was not unwarranted.
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