"What do you mean? What are you going to do?" Liu Qiaoer felt vaguely like someone was being pryed into a secret.
Zhao Ziyu took out a sachet from her arms and handed it to Liu Qiaoer.
"I have found evidence that the Queen Mother killed my mother. I think I can take action in the next two days."
When Liu Qiaoer opened the sachet, she was surprised to see two pieces of embroidery inside.
"Where did you get this thing?"
Zhao Ziyu was also a little surprised when she saw Liu Qiaoer putting the embroidery together.
"This is what my mother left behind. It should be the place where my mother was born. But they said this place is very strange and it is hard to find it without someone to lead the way."
"But I only have two pieces now, and I don't know where the others are?"
Liu Qiaoer took out all the remaining embroidery in the space and handed them to Zhao Ziyu.
"I got these by accident, and I don't know what they are. Now that they are finally complete, let's finish it."
Liu Qiaoer put all the embroidery together, and Zhao Ziyu found a piece of clean paper and drew the pattern on it. After a closer look, it was indeed a certain place.
Liu Qiaoer simply took out the map of the territory of Da Zhou from the space and embroidered the place in the southwest of Da Zhou.
Zhao Ziyu looked at it for a long time and exclaimed: "This is my fiefdom, in the forest in the southwest of Shuzhong. This is the entrance to the forest. Look at this shape, isn't it this forest?"
The embroidery is in the shape of a forest, with red lines marking what appears to be a route. There are also markings in other places, but we don't know what they are at the moment.
Zhao Ziyu put away the blueprint and said, "It seems that we have to go back to our fiefdom."
Zhao Ziyu's mother would not leave this drawing for no reason. There must be some secret.
As for what it is, no one knows.
Because the empress dowager was the only one left of the older generation, even if she knew the secret, she would probably not tell Zhao Ziyu.
Just when Liu Qiaoer was putting away the embroidery, it suddenly hit the candle on the table, and the candle almost burned the embroidery. Liu Qiaoer hurriedly tried to rescue it.
Suddenly, she exclaimed, "Look, there's something written on the back."
Zhao Ziyu was also surprised. After straightening the candle, she picked up the embroidery and roasted it over the candle. After a while, words appeared on the back of the embroidery.
"My son, Yu'er, when you got this letter, I had already passed away. You must be wondering where the place drawn on it is? This is where I was born. One day, if you can find this place, I hope you can bring my body back."
"There is another key to open this place. It is a jade pendant. It was taken away by the queen when my mother got married. When you get the key and open that holy land, there will be a surprise waiting for you."
The embroidery area was not large, and no key information was given. However, two tasks were assigned, one of which was to enter the Empress Dowager's palace and find the jade pendant.
The other was to send the body of Zhao Ziyu's mother back.
It is difficult to enter the Empress Dowager's palace, and they have never heard of where the jade pendant is placed. Zhao Ziyu and Liu Qiaoer are both confused.
It was even more difficult to send Zhao Ziyu's mother's body back. The late emperor loved his mother and made her queen. Her body was buried in the imperial mausoleum with the late emperor.
If they went to the imperial mausoleum to dig up the body, Zhao Ziyu would be beheaded even if he was the emperor's uncle. Besides, it had been nearly twenty years, and the body would have probably rotted away long ago.
However, Zhao Ziyu never thought about these things. He took a deep breath and decided that no matter how difficult the task was, he would complete it.
Liu Qiaoer knew what he was thinking and did not try to persuade him. She just held his hand silently.
"If you need me to do anything, just ask. As your friend, I will do my best to help you."
Liu Qiaoer does not have a high sense of morality, so helping others is a must, especially since the other party is Zhao Ziyu, the Ninth Prince. In the Zhou Dynasty, his status is even higher than that of the Queen Mother.
Although the emperor is the supreme ruler, he still has to call him uncle.
"Okay, wait till I make the arrangements. Then we'll break into the palace at night."
Zhao Ziyu had already made arrangements to assassinate the empress dowager. Now he just had another reason to find the key, so he naturally had to find out where the key was.
Coincidentally, the next day, Liu Qiaoer was called into the palace by the Queen Mother.
In the majestic imperial palace, the Queen Mother and Princess Mingxin sat high up. Liu Qiaoer didn't want to kneel at first, but she thought that Princess Mingxin was no longer the same as before.
Liu Qiaoer, who was flexible and adaptable, knelt in the middle obediently: "I, Liu Qiaoer, pay my respects to the Queen Mother and the Princess. May the Queen Mother and the Princess be well."
The Queen Mother did not immediately ask Liu Qiaoer to stand up, but glanced at Princess Mingxin indifferently. She was probably also wondering why Princess Mingxin's attitude towards Liu Qiaoer had changed.
After all, she was old and had seen everything, so she didn't take it to heart. She raised her hand and said, "No need to be polite. Please take a seat."
After Liu Qiao'er stood up, she was led by the palace maid. Before she sat down, she heard Princess Mingxin cough heavily and smile slightly at the empress dowager.
"Empress Dowager, I was ill a while ago. Thanks to Doctor Liu for treating me. Since this wedding is hasty, I still need to trouble Doctor Liu for his help."
The Queen Mother smiled lovingly: "This is what I also meant. Liu Qiaoer, please listen to my order..."
It turned out that Liu Qiaoer was called to the palace by the Queen Mother just to ask her to treat Princess Mingxin's illness.
Because General Zhenbei left the capital, the Queen Mother planned to let Princess Mingxin marry out of the palace. However, because the man she was going to marry, Lu Yunzheng, was only a minor official of the sixth rank, the Queen Mother asked Master Lu to arrange the wedding for Lu Yunzheng.
In disguise, it is to improve the status of Master Lu.
During this period, Liu Qiaoer was kept in the Empress Dowager's palace.
Putting aside other reasons, Liu Qiaoer didn't expect to be given a pillow when she was sleepy. She didn't know how to enter the palace. If she could stay in the palace, she could be Zhao Ziyu's internal support.
Liu Qiaoer stayed in the palace as a female doctor and lived in a side hall of Princess Mingxin's palace. Just as she had finished cleaning up the place, Princess Mingxin walked in with a swagger.
With a slight wave of her hand, all the palace maids in the room left.
Princess Mingxin sat down on the main seat in a dignified manner, and looked Liu Qiaoer up and down with a sharp gaze. After a long while, she slowly spoke.
"I was sick and forgot some things. I heard from them that you and I have a good relationship. I called you to the palace just to hear what is the good thing about our relationship?"
Princess Mingxin's body was occupied by a soul that traveled through time a while ago. Although no one knows where she went at that time, Liu Qiaoer guessed that she was probably sleeping in the body.
Now the soul that traveled through time has gone, and the sleeping original owner has awakened. Although those memories are preserved in his mind, they are not complete.
Liu Qiaoer naturally couldn't say everything, so she picked out a few important things to talk about.
For example, during last year's snowstorm, Princess Mingxin led people to donate money and grain, which won the Queen Mother's praise. In the early spring of this year, Liu Qiaoer planted new grain seeds on Princess Mingxin's fertile fields to see if they could resist drought and increase production.
For example, Liu Qiaoer also talked about the Tang Clan's assassination and Pei Yuanhai's plot.
She cleverly described Princess Mingxin as a simple white lotus who was ignorant of the ways of the world.
Princess Mingxin was indeed very happy after hearing this.
"No wonder the Queen Mother asked you to treat this princess as soon as she said she was feeling unwell. It seems that you really helped her a lot during her coma. Not only did you diagnose her, but you also gave her advice and did a lot of good things."
"This princess has decided. From now on, you will be this princess's personal doctor and this princess's person."