Chapter 1672 — Conflict at the Birthday Banquet, Part One
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"Are you two brain-dead? What are you to Tang Zhi, that you should be betrothing her off? I think you would do better to betroth yourself to him as his little boyfriend." Just as You Panhu and Tang the leader were in high spirits, a cold voice rang out. Wei Zhao seized Tang Zhi's hand and looked at Tang the leader as though at a madman.
"Boy, who are you? Have you come here on purpose to make trouble?" Tang the leader was momentarily taken aback. Earlier, Wei Zhao's sudden rising and walking over had struck him as a little irksome, but he had not taken the man seriously. Now, however, he had never imagined that Wei Zhao would dare say such things in public and leave him with no face at all.
Now Tang the leader's face was thoroughly lost; the guests below the stage were in an uproar, not knowing what on earth was going on.
"I came for the birthday banquet, and to give you a piece of news in passing: Tang Zhi has nothing whatsoever to do with your Hidden Tang clan. Do not go gilding your own face. You are not fit to be Tang Zhi's father," Wei Zhao said mildly. "And Auntie Xiaoming will be leaving with us as well. From now on she has nothing more to do with the Tang family!"
"You..." Tang the leader's face flushed crimson at his words. Never in his life had he been so humiliated. He had just been joyously acknowledging his kin, and now the other side seemed to have no intention of acknowledging him at all!
In Tang the leader's eyes, for the Hidden Tang clan to acknowledge kin was an honor beyond measure. Even if Tang Zhi's elder sister was Bingtang, the girl came of poor stock. One need only look at the petty, small-town face of Tang Zhi's mother to see how money-grubbing and vain that whole family was!
But what Tang the leader had not foreseen was that Wei Zhao would thrust himself in and have no intention whatever of letting Tang Zhi acknowledge him!
"Uncle, this is the very villain who struck people down yesterday, Wei Zhao by name. Not only did he wound your nephew without cause, he beat Lan Mao, one of the Hidden You clan's finest, into a vegetative state!" You Panhu had not expected Wei Zhao to refuse Tang the leader's proposal to his face, but he was not worried in the least.
Had Wei Zhao spoken politely, and had Tang Zhi begged Tang the leader to withdraw the betrothal, then out of regard for Bingtang, Tang the leader might well have been unable to force the matter. But Wei Zhao had refused the proposal outright, and that was a bare slap in the face for all to see.
Even if Tang Zhi had a sister who was the Ice Palace Master, Tang Zhi was still, in the end, Tang the leader's daughter. How could Tang the leader swallow such an insult? If he swallowed it, the Hidden Tang clan's face would be utterly lost for good.
So You Panhu rejoiced inwardly. Brat, I will let you strut. You think you are so very capable, do you?
Today I want to see whether the arm can twist the thigh! You are nothing but the boyfriend of Bingtang's junior sister, one who does not even count as a man of the Ice Palace, while on the Hidden You clan's side there is still the backing of an envoy from the Profound Elixir Sect!