812 Old ginger is spicier

She clasped her chest and said mournfully, "All these national affairs that you speak of, I do not understand. As a grandmother, I earnestly plead for you to allow me to hear Xiaoshu call me 'grandmother' while I am still alive. This is the humble request of an old lady who is almost seventy. Please show some mercy and spare us, grandmother and grandson. Is that possible?"

The identity of the Empress Dowager, for her to kneel before the Ministers and to speak so pitifully.

Everyone was terrified.

They hurriedly prostrated themselves on the ground, wishing they could press their entire bodies to the floor, each one of them trembling in fear, "Empress Dowager, please stand up, Empress Dowager..."

Even Mother Xia had not anticipated this scene; she too knelt down and persuaded, "Empress Dowager, your health is not good, and it's raining heavily. You are kneeling like this; what if something happens to you?"