"Who came from Shuoyang?" she asked.
Nanny Qin looked troubled and said, "Only two of the unacknowledged elders of the same generation as the Crown Prince were sent over."
The cold wind swirled with snow, and a sheet of white slid down from the eaves' corner, disturbed by the tilt. The lanterns in the corridor swayed back and forth in the wind.
She pressed her lips together and remained silent for a while. Though the Bai family of Shuoyang and the Bai family of the Duke of Zhen's mansion were about to separate in her generation, the Bai family of Shuoyang relied entirely on the Bai family for protection. Every year during the New Year celebrations, the legitimate members of the Bai family of Shuoyang would almost always follow, trying to foster closer ties with the Duke's mansion.
