An old woman in the crowd suddenly spotted a gap in the guards' defensive line, slipped through, and rushed toward Sun Heng by the pool, wailing loudly.
"You murderers! Give me back my son! What did my son do to deserve this?! He served the government with all his heart, but you cold-blooded monsters didn't care if he lived or died! You knew people were being killed in the government offices because of this damn opium ban, but you just had to keep enforcing it!
"I guess it doesn't hurt when it's not your child who dies!"
The guards by the pool paled slightly and quickly restrained the old woman. But she kept screaming, "I want you to pay for my son's life! Is banning this stuff more important than my son's life?! He's not the only one who died! I heard people have died in government offices in every prefecture! You goddamn butchers, can you sleep soundly at night...?"
