Mother Xia's hands trembled slightly.
Could this question possibly mean...
She immediately knelt down and took a small white porcelain bottle out of her sleeve, deeply kowtowing to the Empress Dowager.
Three continuous, heavy kowtows later, when she raised her head, blood was seeping from her forehead.
She smiled at the Empress Dowager, "This slave was picked up by the Empress Dowager from a pile of beggars at the age of seven, I would have long died if it weren't for you!"
"All these years, this life has been a gift from the Empress Dowager!" As she opened the white porcelain bottle, "Now this old servant shall depart first. I will wait for the Empress Dowager at Naihe Bridge and continue to serve you thereafter!"
As she spoke, she was about to pour the cinnabar from the bottle into her mouth.
The Empress Dowager frowned, "What are you doing? I merely asked casually, do you really see me as such a heartless and ungrateful person?"
Mother Xia was stunned.
