Cui Boxiao asked someone to close the door of the villa. After all, this was his private residence. Even if the marquis came, Cui Boxiao's guards would not let him in.
Not to mention Aunt Zhang.
Once the gate to the courtyard was locked and the guards were on duty, Cui Boxiao went straight into the city.
There was nothing Nanny Zhang could do if she couldn't find Liu Qiaoer.
But since then, the servants in the other courtyard treated Liu Qiaoer with respect. After all, they did not dare to bully someone who even the prince protected.
Liu Qiaoer stayed alone in the room of the villa. She wanted to make some pills for the emperor to regulate his body.
In fact, I have already made a few, but at the beginning I took one pill a day, and it was enough for a month.
However, Cui Boxiao said that Liu Qiaoer should go to the palace often to build a good relationship with the queen, which would be beneficial to Liu Qiaoer.
Liu Qiaoer currently had nine in her hand. After she made the tenth one, she put it in her sleeve pocket and actually went into the palace.
In the palace, the queen looked at the pills Liu Qiaoer took out and was a little hesitant.
"Qiao'er, is your medicine really effective for the emperor's body?"
There were no outsiders in the Queen's palace at this time, only the two of them, and Liu Qiaoer spoke frankly.
"It works. The main function of these ten pills is to remove toxins. There is poison in the emperor's body. I don't know how it got in. Another one is to protect the liver. The liver corresponds to the spleen and stomach. If the liver is healthy, the spleen and stomach will be healthy."
"After you finish these ten pills, there will be ten more next time. Their main function is to protect the liver and nourish the kidneys. Only when the emperor's body is well can we deal with that old witch... the Queen Mother."
The queen smiled and said, "I'm glad you understand. It seems that my naughty brother knows what your majesty and I are thinking. I just don't know if there is any medicine that can cure it..."
The Queen finally wanted to counterattack the Queen Mother. Liu Qiaoer thought again and again, and suddenly thought of "Fushou Cream."
The Queen Mother agreed to allow foreigners to do business of Fu Shou Cream in Beiyuan. Since she thinks it is good, why not let her try it
The Queen shook her head gently: "Although people outside the palace are flocking to the longevity cream, the Queen Mother will not touch this thing. She said that anything that can make people addicted is not a good thing."
Liu Qiaoer was annoyed when she heard this: "If she knew, why did she want this thing to enter our Beiyuan? Is she interested in the Minister of Rites Yang?"
The queen smiled bitterly: "Don't you know that Lord Yang is the queen mother's nephew?"
It turns out there is such a relationship. Liu Qiaoer and Cui Boxiao had just arrived and had not yet fully understood the relationship between the court officials.
The Yang family is as wealthy as a country, and half of their wealth is the Queen Mother's assets.
The Queen Mother is already the most noble woman in Beiyuan Kingdom. It can be said that the entire court belongs to her, but she is still so greedy.
Liu Qiaoer rolled her eyes and said, "I have something else that can make the Queen Mother addicted without anyone noticing."
Liu Qiaoer can make a kind of rouge by adding longevity paste into the rouge. As long as the empress dowager uses it every day, the poison can enter the body through the skin without anyone noticing, and people will become addicted over time.
The queen was very willing for Liu Qiaoer to do this, and Liu Qiaoer promised her that she could do it in three days.
While the two were talking, the marquis's wife came into the palace to visit her daughter.
When she saw Liu Qiaoer standing behind the queen, she frowned impatiently.
"Qiao'er, you are a maid and you are disrespectful to my cousin. I will punish you when I get back."
Liu Qiao'er was favored by the Queen, and was puzzled when she heard what the Marquis's wife said.
"Miss Qiao'er is clever and skillful, how could she offend Miss Biao? Mother, I don't like Miss Yiyi from my uncle's family very much."
Madam Hou sighed helplessly, "But she is my grandfather's sweetheart. She is the only girl in the family. She should be spoiled. After all, she is the master. She cannot be bullied by a servant."
The queen had been in the palace all day and was used to seeing women's tricks, so she smiled disdainfully.
"Mother, I'm afraid that cousin wants to marry the prince. Otherwise, how could she not tolerate even the maidservants around the prince? Mother, are you really willing to let her become the future mistress of the Marquis's wife?"
I have to say, the queen is really amazing and hit the nail on the head.
The Marquis's wife was shocked, as if she had suddenly realized something: "It's okay to find her a good marriage, but if she marries into our Marquis's Mansion, she will be a little girl from a small family and will not be able to achieve anything great."
The queen chuckled, "That's it. Qiao'er is the prince's maid. She is a thorn in her eyes. Of course she wants to get rid of her. Mother, you should think about it. If she succeeds and places her own people around the prince and finally marries him, then mother, don't come to me and cry."
Mrs. Hou thought about it carefully and realized that she had doted on Xie Yiyi too much.
"In my opinion, you should quickly arrange a marriage for the prince. As long as he is engaged, she will have no other thoughts."
The Queen sighed, "Originally, the two girls I had my eyes on were Su Qing and Hu Bingxue. Now, Su Qing has been snatched away by the Queen Mother, leaving only Hu Bingxue."
Therefore, the emperor arranged a marriage for Cui Boxiao with Hu Bingxue, the daughter of the Imperial Censor.
On this day, two major events happened in the capital.
One thing is that the prince of Zhennan was finally granted marriage by the emperor.
One incident: The house of the Minister of Rites was robbed.
The marriage arranged by the son of the Marquis of Zhennan was a happy event, known to the whole city, and everyone came to the mansion to congratulate.
The house of the Minister of Rites was robbed, but few people knew about it. The Yang family was extremely anxious. They couldn't report it to the police, so they went to look for the thief themselves, but they couldn't find any clues.
The guard who was guarding the warehouse said that he took a nap and when he woke up, the warehouse was still the same and there was no sign that anyone had entered.
It was not until the next day, when Yang Song wanted to go to the warehouse to get a piece of jewelry to give to someone he liked, that he found out that the warehouse had been robbed.
However, the origins of the Yang family's gold, silver and jewelry were unknown, and no one dared to speak out, let alone report to the police. They suffered heavy losses, so Yang Song personally led people to look for clues and catch the thieves.
Even the matter of Hu Bingxue's arranged marriage to Cui Boyiao was put aside.
This shows how anxious the Yang family is.
That’s fine, but there’s something more serious.
The emperor unexpectedly inspected the infantry battalion in the capital. When the emperor saw that the soldiers in the infantry battalion were listless, yawning constantly, and had no fighting power at all.
The emperor was furious and tied up the general in charge of the infantry battalion and ordered him to be executed on the spot.
But he was stopped in the end because the general was the Queen Mother's man.
The emperor did not show any weakness this time. Instead, he killed the general himself.
When the emperor returned to the palace, he found that the empress dowager was ill.
The emperor went to see the empress dowager, who scolded him angrily. This time, the emperor did not obey the empress dowager as he did in the past, but just said one sentence.
"Mother, if you are willing to take the longevity cream every day for a month, I will give my life to that general."
The Queen Mother stopped talking, and the Emperor won.
Then the emperor took drastic measures to arrest those who smoked and sold the longevity cream in the capital.
Anyone who smoked it would be fined or required to serve in the military. Those who bought or sold it would be arrested and not released unless their families gave enough money in addition to handing it over.
For a time, the capital was in a state of panic and excitement.
Even so, Cui Boxiao still did not tell the emperor that the Yang family had hidden a lot of longevity cream.
Liu Qiaoer didn't know what use he was.
However, on this day, something happened to the Hu family, the Imperial Censor.