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The Queen Mother touched Zhang Yulu's hand and began to praise her: "Your hands show that you are blessed. If you have a child with us, you will definitely be very happy."

The emperor also praised her: "Even though we are not in the court, we are relatives. My cousin is very strict in everything he does. Once he makes up his mind, he will never change. Since you are his wife, I believe my cousin will treat you well."

Zhang Yulu remembered that there was another Qiu Feng. Zhang Yulu was thinking about something. The Queen Mother saw what she was thinking and said, "Miss Yulu, don't worry about Qiu Feng. I will take care of it for you."

When the emperor mentioned Qiu Feng, he felt something was wrong and couldn't speak: "Don't say that. I believe my cousin will change. He is a responsible man."

Because Liu Zhongqing couldn't say anything now, he had to change the subject: "Zhang Yulu is planning to open the shop that Zhang Laojiu gave us in the south of the city. He plans to open it slowly. He hopes everyone can support the screens, rouge and powder."

When Zhang Laojiu was mentioned, the Empress Dowager was visibly stunned: "So you know Zhang Laojiu?"

Liu Zhongqing pretended not to know: "I just heard from others that he was a scoundrel. He sold the shop in the south of the city to us because he owed us money."

Liu Zhongqing was choosing his words carefully, thinking that using the word "sell" would make the empress dowager less embarrassed while also giving her a warning.

Zhang Yulu knew it very well, so he didn't say anything, pretending to be ignorant and said: "That Zhang Laojiu does evil things all day long. Many people don't like him because he often robs other people's money. He relies on the people behind him and is really lawless."

Zhang Yulu said this to the Queen Mother, who laughed and said, "Regarding this Zhang Laojiu among the common people, I heard that he left his family, and his cousin is a concubine in the palace, and that is the recently deceased Concubine Xiao."

When the emperor mentioned Concubine Xiao, he was obviously displeased: "Don't mention her in front of me."

When the Queen Mother saw this, she said to Zhang Yulu, "See? This is the nature of these brothers. They are both passionate."

After a few people exchanged greetings for a while, Zhang Yulu and Liu Zhongqing walked out of the palace gate.

Zhang Yulu asked Liu Zhongqing curiously: "What on earth are you thinking?"

Liu Zhongqing felt that Zhang Yulu's question was strange: "Why do you think so?"

Liu Zhongqing laughed: "If we take out this piece of cloth so easily, the Queen Mother will definitely suspect us. If we knew her purpose earlier, we would not know what the Queen Mother is up to now."

Zhang Yulu said naively, "The Queen Mother is a very nice person. She kept saying that you misunderstood him. At the same time, the Queen Mother also admitted that he didn't like the eldest princess very much. In addition, I opened a shop, and the Queen Mother also wanted to send me a gift."

Liu Zhongqing was a little worried: "Then you have to be careful. Not many people can receive gifts from the Queen Mother. You have to check whether there are any dangerous items in these gifts?"

Zhang Yulu nodded and said, "When do you plan to hand over the cloth?"

Liu Zhongqing touched his chin and said, "Now Zhang Laojiu has disappeared, and there is still Lin Xuefeng. I think Lin Xuefeng will be the biggest target next."

After hearing this, Zhang Yulu also agreed, and the two returned home with their own thoughts.

Early the next morning, he reopened his shop. It was truly his own shop, and he invited many people to perform the lion dance.

And he said to everyone: "Today all the goods in the house are half price, please come in and take a look."

After hearing this, all the people went in to watch. At this time, a woman picked up a handkerchief embroidered with lotus flowers and asked, "Excuse me, who embroidered this?"

Because of the blessing of the golden finger, the flowers Zhang Yulu embroidered were lifelike, as if they were about to bloom. Zhang Yulu said to the woman, "I embroidered it. Do you have any comments, sister?"

The woman shook her head and said, "I am the embroiderer across the street. Among all the girls across the street, everyone embroiders better than you."

It seemed that this woman was here to cause trouble. Zhang Yulu knew very well that she came here deliberately to cause trouble because she saw that he was stealing their business.

The woman twisted her fat body and said to Zhang Yulu, "You just came to this place, do you know why Zhang Laojiu gave the shop to you? Everyone knows? The Nine Gates Admiral is behind my shop." Zhang Yulu didn't know who the Nine Gates Admiral was, but he remembered a passage in his book that the Nine Gates Admiral's son ran this embroidery workshop.

Zhang Yulu asked tentatively: "Then let the son of the Nine Gates Admiral, your boss, come and talk to me. You are not qualified to talk to me."

After hearing this, the woman raised her neck and said, "You are not qualified to see our boss. Your embroidery is not even worthy of being on the table."

At this moment, someone sent a gift to the palace.

Some officials were fence-sitters, and when they saw the queen mother giving gifts, they all came over to join in the fun.

The wife of one of the officials told Zhang Yulu: "Miss Zhang, why do you have to go against the Nine Gates Admiral's family when you can go against anyone else?"

Zhang Yulu felt that this Nine-Gates Admiral must be no simple person.

At this moment, the woman who had just held the embroidery just now lay on the ground: "Everyone, come and have a look. The things in their embroidery workshop contain hidden weapons. I just saw a needle on this handkerchief. Now it pierces my hand. Look at my hand, it immediately turns black."

The woman screamed loudly, attracting everyone's attention, and everyone was talking about it: "Is it really like what happened to Zhang Laojiu? Someone is going to die here?"

With this rumor, everyone was so scared that they all ran out of the store, as if they were avoiding a flood or a beast.

It seems that the opening of Zhang Yulu's new store is not going smoothly at all.

Zhang Yulu saw this and said to the woman angrily, "What do you want to do? Tell me now."

When the woman heard what Zhang Yulu said, she got up from the ground and said, "At 3 p.m. that evening, go to the bamboo forest in the south of the city. Someone wants to see you. Remember, you must come alone."

The previous incident happened again. Who is it this time?

Zhang Yulu felt very confused. At this moment, Liu Zhongqing, who was patrolling past the store, walked in from outside. Along the way, he had heard many people say that the new store opened by Zhang Yulu was a black shop that harmed people and people could easily die.

As soon as Liu Zhongqing entered the door, he saw Zhang Yulu standing at the bar in a depressed look.

Liu Zhongqing sighed, "This Nine Gates Admiral is very powerful. He holds great military power in his hands. Even the Queen Mother and the Emperor have to give him some face. And his son is known as the Black King of Hell."

Zhang Yulu was very surprised: "Why is he called Black King of Hell?"

Liu Zhongqing coughed and said, "His name is Shi Yufeng. He is always reckless when doing things. He is actually the child of the Nine Gates Admiral and a foreign princess."

Zhang Yulu finally got a rough idea. Now it seems that Shi Yufeng is someone he really can't afford to offend.

But I have never known this Shi Yufeng. Why did he come to find me?

Zhang Yulu had no way to explain it clearly, so she could only say to Liu Zhongqing in a comforting way: "Don't worry about me, I will definitely solve this matter, just wait for my good news."