Still believing his first son to be mentally challenged, Gu yelled,"What is the meaning of this nonsense, Wang Ting?
What have you put your foolish husband up to? Are you trying to challenge me and my house by inciting this fool to disrupt our peaceful home?".
Yue Yan has had it. Screw being gentle. It seems violence is the only language these people understand when they are unhappy.
And why are they all ignoring him and attacking his moon instead. That infuriated him more.
Gathering his wits, Ting apologised frantically and decided to take his family away from there before further abuse is extended to his them.
He himself does not mind being subjected to such ill treatments but not to his family.
He took their two-year old in his left arm, and told his four-year old to follow him.
He held his husband's left hand with his right and was about to drag him from there but Chen Yan pulled his hand out and rather held onto Wang Ting to prevent him from leaving.
He turned to face those at the table with glares. "My family and I will stay and have dinner here as it is within our rights", he paused to allow that to sink in their minds since they were all shocked, including Tingting, his moon.
This will be the first time that he had heard his husband voice.
And 'oh, what an authoritative voice, it's so sexy voice that is.' 'foolish me, how can I be thinking such nonsense right now in this situation', he thought and slapped himself back to reality.
The whole table remained quiet for a while. This will be the first time in the last five years since that accident that they have heard Chen Yan speak.
As for the moon of the second son this is his first time hearing the eldest son's voice. One can imagine the shock that they were all in.
Now that he's gotten their attention Yan continued,
"I am gravely sorry for any harm caused this family due to my illness but as you all can see, by the grace of the Deity, Zhelaria, I am finally healed.
I therefore intend to resume my duties as the first son of this household and the next in line as the head of this family.
In view of this, my small family and I will be moving back into my quarters before I had the accident.
So I expect whoever or whatever may be occupying it to be vacated effective from this moment." he concluded.
He puts Yuyu back on his seat and took Lulu from his wife and made him go sit at where he had sat earlier before he also sat in his own seat with Lulu now on his laps.
Clearing his throat after the shock, the matriarch, mama Chen Yen decided to say what was on everyone's mind.
"Erm, Chen Yan, so you and your moon were hiding your recovery process from us all this while, is that not so?
When were you seen by a physician and how come all of a sudden you were able to speak? Were you even ever sick in the first place?
Have you always been well and yet pretended to be sick just so you could further disgrace this family?
And who are you to think that you could come back and continue from where you left off?
How do you suppose this family made it till now while you were busy playing pretend, huh?
And you Wang Ting, what were you thinking you would achieve by conniving with your husband to deceive us?".
For your information, nothing is going to change just because you are no longer sick.
Your brother is now the next in line as the head of this family whether you like it or not. So you can leave this family if you think it's unfair to you."
"We even need the hut that you are occupying now to raise some fowls, so you leaving will be more than welcomed".
"Yes, Chen Yan. You cannot just decide to make claims on things that are no longer yours", his brother, Wu, chimed in.
Yue Yan's glare at him made him shut up. The sound of Lulu's stomach rumbling reminded Yan why they were there in the first.
Seeing that their aggressiveness will not allow his little family to eat in peace,
he turned to his wife and instructed him to bring some food bowls with covers from the kitchen and put them on a tray and to bring them to him.
He decided to forgo tradition since the rest of the family would rather attack him than to eat their food.
He puts some dumplings on a plate and placed it before Yuyu telling him to eat up.
He picked one dumpling from the plate, bit part of it to eat and then fed Lulu the rest all the while waiting for Tingting to come with what he had asked.
"Chen Yan!", his dad's screamed his name startling all of the them. To say he was fuming with rage was an understatement.
From what his mama had said earlier and also from the memories of the original Chen Yan,
and with the experience that Yue Yan himself had dealing with people in his line of work, he had concluded that it was a waste of time trying to reason with these people.
Right now, he and his small his family are hungry and getting some food in their stomachs is his priorities now.
He will think of how to deal with these people called family later. Thus he ignored his dada's scream and continue eating the dumplings.
Fortunately too, Wang Ting came faster than he had estimated along with three huge food bowls with covers on a large tray. He smiled at him and took them from his hand after putting Lulu on his seat.
Tingting was mesmerised, he had never seen that smile before and it was making his heart beat faster. He stood there watching his husband and waiting for his next instruction.
He watched his man as he puts the bowls on the dinner table, opens their covers and he literally poured different dishes into the three bowls, covered them back and placed all three bowls now filled with sweet delicacies back on the tray.
He then turned to his wife, gave the tray with the dishes to him, carried Lulu and took Yuyu's and together they left. The remaining ones at the table were beyond shocked.
It took a while for them to come back to their senses. His parents, Dada Gu and mama Yen seemed to have lost their appetite.
They also left the dining table, leaving behind their second son and his moon, who was still in disbelief and and their two children.
The third son does not live with them now. He was preparing to write the National examinations at the capital town for the following year so he lives in a private Inn over there.
He will come back after the exams is over and he too will find a bride and settle down just like his older siblings.