,"What did you argue with Amanda about this time? With women, you just need to coax them a bit, why get yourself upset too? I really can't understand, if you don't like her, why do you have to make yourself suffer for her?"
"Smack!"
Samuel Johnson slammed his chopsticks on the table, creating a loud noise. He turned his head to look at his mother, and said coldly, "Is this ever going to end?"
...
Mrs. Johnson was seeing her son look at her with such a cold expression for the first time. She was so scared that she could not get the words out of her mouth.
"Alright, alright, let's just eat," she said hastily, her head bowed, trying to smooth things over.
Without the noise, Samuel ate much more comfortably, but he was a little unused to there being one less person at the table.
After having a few bites, he looked up to the servant standing by his side and said, "Ask the cook if she has prepared all the dishes she was supposed to."
