Mu Yangling placed the two children on the couch and let them play together. Careful to avoid the eyes and ears outside, Spring whispered, "Fourth Madam, should we think of a way to send news outside?"
Mu Yangling glanced at her indifferently and said, "Don't act on your own. We just need to stay in the palace in peace."
At a time like this, it was better to be quiet than to move. Wouldn't they be courting death by rashly sending out news without knowing anything?
In the afternoon, Li Jinghua went by herself to the palace where the Yuan family lived to visit Matriarch Yuan. Only then did she know that they were not the only ones who had been brought into the palace to attend to the sick Empress. There were also the families of the three other generals. All of those generals controlled more than 100,000 troops each.
