Chapter 1510: Chapter 1512: Why Don’t You Chew It Before Feeding Daddy?_1
Upon seeing Ye Zi’an enter the dining hall, Lele and Yangyang greeted him with silly grins.
"Hmph!"
"Brother, Dad is so tsundere, can’t even take a joke," Ye Zi’an snorted coldly, just having sat down when he overheard Yangyang whispering to Lele.
"Alright, let’s eat!" Yang Chuxia naturally heard it too, not knowing what the two children said to Brother An that soured his mood. She patted Yangyang’s head and warned, "You’d better respect your father. Otherwise, wait and see how I deal with you."
"Got it, Mom!" Yangyang nodded his head, gave a covert glance at Ye Zi’an, saw that his dad still looked quite stern, and after thinking for a bit, he picked up a good amount of shrimp with the cutlery and ran in front of Ye Zi’an, giggling obsequiously, "Handsome Dad, here are the shrimp you love, I picked them for you."
"Can’t I do it myself?" Ye Zi’an grumbled, but internally he was quite pleased, thinking that at least the kid knew how to play along.
"The shrimp are far from you, and you have to stretch your arm to reach them. I brought them right up to you to save you the effort," saying which, he even offered a shrimp to Ye Zi’an’s mouth, "Come on, let me feed you."
Lele couldn’t stand his sycophantic, toady behavior and snickered, "Why don’t you just chew it for him before feeding, so Dad wouldn’t even have to chew."
"Oh, that’s a good idea," Yangyang’s eyes brightened. How had he not thought of that?
At that, Ye Zi’an’s face turned a shade green. Chew it for him? Was this a joke?
"Everyone sit properly. Haven’t you heard that one should not talk while eating, and not speak while sleeping?"
Seeing his dad’s face darken, Yangyang hurried back to his place with a laugh, sticking out his tongue before finally starting to eat quietly.
The Ye family’s dinner went rather pleasantly, but not so much in the other two households.
It started in the third prince’s household, where the third prince’s Secondary Princess Consort, upon hearing her son had been locked in the temple hall, cried and wailed dramatically. She first kicked up a fuss at the third prince’s consort’s place, begging and threatening alike. But the third prince’s consort was no common woman and sent her away with a few words.
Having gotten nowhere with the third prince’s consort, she waited for Baili Yan’s return to the residence and then went to find him. Baili Yan had never cared much for her, and had it not been for her bearing a son and having the support of State Duke Tong’s family behind her, he would not have wanted to give her another glance. In Baili Yan’s eyes, this kind of woman was utterly brainless, not holding a candle to the third prince’s consort.
So, when the third prince saw her with no semblance of dignity left, crying away, he simply waved his hand and had her locked in the temple hall too. You’re worried about your son, aren’t you? Afraid he’s scared all by himself? Then why don’t you go and keep him company? When you’ve both figured things out, you can come out together.
The third prince’s Secondary Princess Consort was dumbfounded because she had rushed out after hearing only that her son was locked in the temple hall. How could she understand the reason without knowing the full story?
Thus, she ended up being locked in there until the lunar new year’s celebrations, not being released until the day of the palace banquet.
As for State Duke Tong’s household, after hearing a retelling of the events at the palace from Baili Yan’s guards, the State Duchess saw no issue with her well-behaved grandson. It was just a couple of idle remarks.
But State Duke Tong was furious. A boy acting like a gossiping woman, talking about baseless things in front of others—who else should be punished if not him?
State Duke Tong was so angry that he ignored everyone in the residence’s attempts to stop him and sternly punished his grandson by making him kneel in the ancestral hall.