"It's about time, let's make our move," Hu Ji said to his bodyguard brothers.
The guard nodded, put two fingers in his mouth, and whistled towards the back hall of the Brocade Pavilion.
Upon hearing the whistle, one of the hidden guards in the back hall immediately lit the dry firewood that had been piled up there and doused with oil.
Thick smoke billowed into the sky.
Hu Ji and several of his bodyguards grabbed the bronze gongs beside them and began banging them wildly, shouting at the top of their lungs, "It's terrible! There's a fire! The Empress Dowager is trapped in the Brocade Pavilion! Come and save her!"
Near the banquet.
Bai Lu, who had been keeping an eye on the situation, saw thick smoke rising from the direction of Suijin Pavilion and vaguely heard people banging gongs and drums and shouting. She immediately shouted at the top of her lungs, "Everyone, look! There's a fire over there! And it sounds like someone is shouting for help for the Empress Dowager!"
Everyone at the banquet, including the Empress, was alarmed.
The Empress had a gut feeling that something was wrong and wanted to reassure everyone.
But the concubines who were attached to the Empress Dowager were in a panic, and they all ran away faster than rabbits.
If the Empress Dowager is in trouble, they cannot sit idly by, regardless of whether they can save her.
If the Empress Dowager were to pass away, or if she were to be rescued and found to be indifferent to her plight, their good days in the palace would be over!
There are many sycophants in the palace.
Seeing that someone was leading the way, they were afraid they would miss this opportunity to curry favor with the Empress Dowager, so they all left their seats and rushed to Suijinxuan.
Even if the Empress didn't want to go, she had no choice but to go along and pretend to go in order to avoid suspicion.
Otherwise, if something really happened over there, everyone would go to watch the excitement, while she remained calm and unmoved as if she knew the truth, and others would suspect that she had done something wrong.
Seeing that everyone on this side had moved, Bai Lu quickly slipped away as well.
They met up with Lin Shuang, who was waiting nearby.
The two took a shortcut to find Ji Fengyao and Shang Xiye.
Shang Xiye and Ji Fengyao had also heard the commotion at Suijinxuan, so they ordered someone to extinguish the burning charcoal stove and pack up.
Waiting for the return of Frost and White Dew.
They went to a nearby intersection that was the only way to reach Suijinxuan, and when the main group of people at the banquet rushed over, they secretly blended into the group.
The dead of winter has just passed, and the weather is dry.
The wind fanned the flames, and the fire quickly spread to the inner hall of Suijinxuan.
The fierce flames licked away all the old objects in the inner hall of the Broken Brocade Pavilion, along with the large amount of good medicine that the guards had left there, leaving them completely clean.
Without the influence of those potent drugs, the crazed eunuchs gradually calmed down, at least they stopped roaring, and their beast-like tearing movements became much "gentler".
So when everyone rushed in at the banquet.
What I saw was...
From the crowd came Xi Que's exceptionally loud and clear voice:
"Holy crap, I've really blinded myself! In broad daylight, how can so many people be messing around like this? Are the people in the palace really this unrestrained?!"
"Oh dear, that looks like the Empress Dowager!"
"Oh ho, look at the Empress Dowager embracing that man... no, no, that old eunuch, his head and face covered in lipstick!"
"I never expected the Empress Dowager to be so fierce at her age!"
Apart from the wind whipping up the fire, the crackling of the flames, and the magpie's constant squawking, everyone else was completely silent.
They only regretted having such long legs.
Why are you running so fast?
Why didn't they fall into a pit halfway through, or disappear halfway or something?
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