Chapter 1633 — Bing Tang's Worry: And Why Did She and Xiao Ming Truly Look So Alike?
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Bing Tang's words enraged the Tang family, but angry as they were, not one of them dared utter half a word of protest. Old Master Tang put on a bitter face and thought to himself that it was fortunate Tang Yu had spoken up so often on behalf of Xiao Ming and Bing Tang; otherwise Bing Tang would likely have walked out on them altogether.
Tang Yu was somewhat embarrassed too. Hearing Bing Tang call him cousin, he was both surprised and delighted, yet also a little at a loss, unsure how to respond; he could only stand there awkwardly rubbing his hands, cautious and uneasy.
"How can they be the same as pigs and dogs? Pork can be eaten—they cannot!" Feng Xiaoxiao cut in. "I would say they are worse than pigs and dogs!"
"Pff..." Xiao Qing, standing nearby, nearly burst out laughing at Feng Xiaoxiao's words. In such an atmosphere, her remark was simply too funny.
The Hidden Tang family was furious as well, but toward Feng Xiaoxiao, the future Palace Master of the Ice Palace, they dared not act out. Low as her strength might be, she was, properly speaking, Bing Tang's junior fellow disciple!
"Auntie, come to my room and talk with me!" Bing Tang took Xiao Ming's hand, not giving a moment's face to the rest of the Tang family.
Xiao Ming hesitated a moment, then followed Bing Tang and the others out of the conference room; Old Master Tang and the rest could only sigh and groan as they saw them off.
In the Palace Master's room, Bing Tang held Xiao Ming's hand affectionately and would not let go. She was not her birth mother, but she was her aunt, and thus one of her closest kin. Having lacked family affection since childhood, Bing Tang was naturally overjoyed at this moment.
"Palace Master Bing, toward the Hidden Tang family, you..." Xiao Ming asked, a little cautiously.
"Auntie, just call me Bing Tang. 'Palace Master Bing' is what outsiders call me—why stand on ceremony with me?" Bing Tang said quickly, seeing her aunt's constraint.
"Ah... then... all right..." In truth, Xiao Ming felt a closeness to Bing Tang from the bottom of her heart—so it had been from the very first glance. So hearing Bing Tang say this now, she nodded.
"As for the Hidden Tang family, I do not intend to do anything to them. Here, I acknowledge only you, Auntie! At most, that Tang Yu can be counted as my cousin; as for the rest, they are merely vassals of the Ice Palace." Bing Tang said coolly. "Auntie, do not worry. I will not do anything to them; it is simply a relationship of cooperation between the two sides."
"Then... your real parents—do you want to go and acknowledge them?" Truthfully, Xiao Ming missed her sister and brother-in-law as well. She had not seen them in so many years and did not know what they looked like now; more than that, she missed her own child...
"Acknowledge them..." Bing Tang sighed. She had in fact been hesitating over this question all along: to acknowledge, or not to acknowledge? If she did, then what of her aunt's daughter? Was she to send her back to the Hidden Tang family? Truthfully, Bing Tang did not want her aunt's daughter here—here, she would be happier as the daughter of an ordinary household!
Moreover, Bing Tang did not want to destroy that family. If her parents were to learn that the child they had raised from infancy was not their own but someone else's, then that tranquil family would be shattered—and that would be unfair to the child!