While Trinket was sipping his tea, the Empress Dowager got out a small jade bottle containing thirty precious Body-Strengthening Pills, a present to her from the King of Korea, she said.

• 太后打开箱子，取出一只锦盒，开盒拿出一只小玉瓶，说道：“启禀尊使：瓶中三十颗‘雪参玉蟾丸’，乃是朝鲜国王的贡品，珍贵无比，服后强身健体，百毒不侵。