Chapter 1644 — Feng Xiaoxiao's Return
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"Hee hee, but I'll be seeing my husband Wei Zhao any moment now—oh, I'm so happy!" Feng Xiaoxiao said. "Ah, but we left in such a hurry this time. I've no idea what fine things the Ice Palace has. I should have brought a few back for my husband Wei Zhao and Sister Tang Zhi!"
"Ahem, ahem... Xiaoxiao, you're to be the Ice Palace's mistress one day. How can you be so ready to turn your elbow outward?" Bingtang coughed twice and said.
"Am I? Since I'm to be the Ice Palace's mistress one day, then the Ice Palace is my family's—which means it's my husband Wei Zhao's. Is there any difference?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.
"..." Bingtang suddenly rather regretted having kept Feng Xiaoxiao by her side. Had she let a wolf into the fold? The girl was not even mistress of the palace yet, and already she was scheming to seize the Ice Palace's wealth. Would she be moving house next?
Yet Bingtang also knew that Feng Xiaoxiao was mostly joking, and so she was not vexed. "Heh heh, by the time you've stepped into the Heaven Rank and set your sights on loftier heights, you won't much care for such things..."
"True. But by then, my husband Wei Zhao must have become a first-rate Heaven Rank master too. Otherwise it would be no fun for me!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.
Xiaoming felt a little envious of Feng Xiaoxiao, and glad for her own daughter. True, it was the same situation of several women loving one man, but their lives were completely different from hers—they were people of two different worlds entirely!
Their lives were filled with friendship and sunshine, and they lived together in harmony. And when she thought of herself... inside the Hidden Tang family, her position was lower than that of a household servant...
Thank goodness Bingtang had come. Only then did she have **... To speak plainly, she no longer felt any love at all for Chief Tang. Back when she had first resigned herself to her fate, she had harbored some hopes, but now she had long since lost every shred of feeling for Chief Tang. She even thought that if it were possible, she would leave the Hidden Tang family!
But then she feared her elder sister and brother-in-law might not take her in—might think she was coming to contend with them for Tang Zhi... At this thought, Xiaoming could not help sighing; her own future seemed to her rather hazy...
"Auntie, don't worry. From what Xiaoxiao says, my sister Tang Zhi should be a sensible person, easy to get along with. And with Xiaoxiao's help then, the two of us shouldn't be shunned or given a hard time," Bingtang said. "Since Xiaoxiao is so confident, there's nothing for us to worry about!"
"That's right, Aunt Xiaoming, it'll be fine. Sister Tang Zhi and I are the best of friends!" Feng Xiaoxiao chimed in. "You'll see once we get there."
Heartened by Bingtang's and Feng Xiaoxiao's persuasions, Xiaoming felt a little easier in her mind. And so the four of them made ready to set out!
As for Bingtang's going to Songshan City herself to see her birth parents, Old Master Tang was naturally none too pleased. Bingtang's going on her own amounted to bypassing the Hidden Tang family; plainly put, it had little enough to do with the Hidden Tang family now. When the time came, the Ice Palace would surely grow distant from the Hidden Tang family—and that was hardly the outcome Old Master Tang wished to see!
So, after Bingtang and the others had gone, Old Master Tang once again gathered the family members and held a brief family council, to study how they might maintain good cooperative relations with the Ice Palace in the future!
Chief Tang sat there sullen and silent, saying not a word. These past few days he had been thoroughly stifled. She was plainly his daughter, and then in an instant she was not. To hold on to his position as head of the Tang family, he had had no choice but to go crawling back to the Right family's coattails, and had been treated to a fine round of Right Xiaoxin's cold mockery.