"Your Majesty, this..."
Aunt Sun slowed down, puzzled, and turned her head to see that the Empress Dowager also looked suspicious.
This doesn't seem right.
Why are there several people's voices in the room?
The mute woman next to her sniffed, her thin, single eyelids almost squinting into a line. At that moment, she felt the contents of the black box in her hand start to move violently, the force of the impact on the lid was so great that she almost lost her grip on the box.
"Ah-ee-ya..."
The mute woman waved the box in her hand, gesturing laboriously to the Empress Dowager and Aunt Sun.
Unfortunately, the Empress Dowager did not understand her sign language.
Her gestures were too hasty for Aunt Sun to understand, but she knew that she was warning them: "Your Majesty, the mute woman said there is something fishy about this."
The mute woman: "!!!"
I'm telling you guys to get the hell out of here!
Just as the mute woman was about to step forward and pull the Empress Dowager away, a small pebble flew by with a slight whooshing sound, hitting the mute woman on the back of the neck and knocking her unconscious.
The Empress Dowager and Aunt Sun looked down at the mute woman upon hearing the sound. Before they could react to what had happened, they suddenly heard the tightly closed door of the inner hall of Suijin Pavilion creak open from the inside.
Five or six eunuchs, dressed in disheveled manners, rushed out laughing and shouting in an extremely lewd manner. They pounced on people like madmen, and each of them had large and small rouge marks on their faces and necks, and wore brightly colored fur coats.
The Empress Dowager and Aunt Sun felt that those fur coats looked very familiar.
But the crazed eunuchs pounced on them in the blink of an eye, and they didn't have time to think about where they had seen these fur coats before.
Aunt Sun pushed the Empress Dowager's wheelchair backwards while shouting at the top of her lungs, "Help! There's an assassin! Protect the Empress Dowager!" But she was too panicked, and since she had only recently started pushing wheelchairs, she wasn't very skilled. She tried several times but couldn't turn the wheelchair around; instead, it just spun around in place.
The Empress Dowager, unable to move, watched as the crazed eunuchs pounced on her. She swayed frantically, unable to stand or run. Forgetting all about composure and dignity, she screamed in terror, "Sun Qian, you useless old hag, hurry up and push me away!"
"This old servant is pushing, this old servant... Ah!" Aunt Sun was even more flustered when the Empress Dowager pointed at her name and shouted. At this moment, two crazy eunuchs rushed over.
Aunt Sun was grabbed by the hair and clothes and thrown to the ground, along with the Empress Dowager in her wheelchair. All four of them tumbled to the ground.
She and several other palace maids tried to come to her rescue, but they were chased around the courtyard by other crazy eunuchs, running and shouting wildly.
The once quiet Suijinxuan Pavilion suddenly became incredibly lively.
Aunt Sun and the Empress Dowager were pinned to the ground and torn apart by the two mad eunuchs. During the struggle, Aunt Sun suddenly noticed a small lotus flower embroidered on the corner of the fur coat worn by one of the mad eunuchs.
The Empress Dowager's maiden name was "Xiao He".
Therefore, the Empress Dowager's personal clothing all had this pattern.
Aunt Sun suddenly realized something and her face turned pale with fright: "Empress Dowager, it seems we've fallen into the bandits' trap! These fur coats are your fur coats!"
What!
Her fur coat!
In her frantic struggle, the Empress Dowager fixed her gaze on the mad eunuch who was pressing down on her. On the hem of his light pink fur coat, wasn't there an embroidered little lotus bud about to bloom?
Her mind went blank for a moment, and she nearly fainted on the spot.
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