"Stop right there!"
"Mother, would you please stop chasing me?"
"You unfilial daughter!"
Song Yaoyao ran until she was gasping for breath, but she still found time to quip:
"Mother, your treasured blade hasn't dulled with age! You've proved your mettle. I admit I'm no match for you!
Please stop chasing me, all right?"
Hearing that only made Madam Song angrier. She roared at the guards beside her:
"What are you all doing? Hurry up and catch that unfilial daughter of mine!"
The staff of the Princess's Residence looked at Song Yaoyao, then at Madam Song, but did not move.
They served the Princess's Residence, not the Marquis's Residence. Naturally, they could only take orders from the Princess.
But that was the Princess's mother. They could not afford to offend either of them.
When Madam Song ordered them to catch her again, they looked at the sky and the ground-anywhere but at Madam Song.
Madam Song glared at the servants. Realizing they would not obey her, she turned and shouted at Lord Song:
"What? Can I not order you around either?
Is she only my child?
She's turned out this way because the roots of your Song Household are rotten..."
Lord Song looked utterly bewildered. He had done nothing, so why had the spearhead suddenly turned toward him?
Lord Song immediately said:
"Dear, don't be angry. I'll go catch that wretched girl for you right now, and we'll teach her a proper lesson."
"Go, then!"
Song Yaoyao jumped in fright. Her father was a skilled martial artist; catching her would be as easy as turning his hand over.
As Lord Song approached, he winked at Song Yaoyao.
Song Yaoyao immediately caught his meaning and took to her heels. She could not stay at the Princess's Residence any longer. She had