Bai Ruozhu and the others fell silent, their faces turning cold. Bai Yihong was especially stricken, his inner turmoil evident. He'd waited in the bitter cold for hours outside the Government Office for his mother only to have her first words be a declaration of suit against him. He could accept that, bound by the fact that he was her son. But her declaration against his two sons... Wasn't that harming the children?
"Mother, how could you say such a thing?" Bai Yihong was choked up with emotion.
The old Lady Bai gave him a cold look, addressing the senior officials: "They lied to me about staying in the main house, it was only then that I found out they've angered some Turkic people. There's been violence here in the courtyard, those people only targeted those who stayed in the main house. Can't you see they're intentionally putting me in danger?"