Two carriages drove towards the foot of Jingshan Mountain, one after another.

Since Xiao Cui did not leave Jingshan very far, she soon arrived at Mrs. Cai's mansion.

"Carriage?!" The soldiers patrolling outside the door were very strange.

"That's Miss Xiao Cui's carriage!" Some people recognized this carriage. Xiao Cui was a celebrity around Mrs. Cai, and it was much more expensive than those of them who served in the army, so most of them would not offend Xiao Cui, but instead please her.

"Didn't my little aunt go out to buy rouge and water powder for her wife?" a soldier asked in confusion, looking at the carriage coming out behind her but now there are two cars coming back.

"What are you asking so much?" Another man pushed him, "Go quickly, Miss Xiao Cui is the real thing next!" The seat of the carriage is still very high, so Xiao Cui, a maid, naturally, would not arrange servants, and could not jump down directly, so these things to take off the carriage were done by these soldiers and grooms.

Several soldiers hurried forward and helped Xiao Cui down from the carriage. A soldier asked, "Miss Xiao Cui, why are you back so soon! Didn't you buy rouge and water for your wife? What's behind me is "Xiao Cui goes out for her wife."

"I'm talking too much, I'll ask more questions!" Xiao Cui rolled her eyes at the soldier. These soldiers were assigned to Mrs. Cai by Liu Biao for a long time, so she was already familiar with the people on Mrs. Cai's mansion.

Although Xiao Cui blamed her, there was no sign of anger on her face. The soldiers nodded. It was okay if they asked once, but if they asked too much, they would be really annoyed.

"Where is the madam?!" Xiao Cui walked out of the carriage and asked at the leader of a soldier.

"Mrs. is still playing chess with that young man in the courtyard!"

"Okay, I understand!" Xiao Cui said and walked towards the mansion.

Liu Mang and Jia Xu also got out of the carriage behind him. Jia Xu took the box and was about to follow Xiao Cui behind Xiao Cui, but he was stopped by these soldiers from the hospital guarding. It means you can't get in.

"We are with that girl!" Jia Xu stepped forward to explain, but the soldiers were still motionless.

Xiao Cui turned her head and said to the person beside her, "They need to see the wife with me, let them come in!" Then the soldier nodded and said that he had made way.

Liu Mang and others followed Xiao Cui and walked directly to the backyard. Liu Mang's current identity is just a merchant, even if he sells the value chain. However, the merchant is not worthy of going to the main hall to discuss things.

Liu Mang didn't mind as long as he could see Mrs. Cai.

After walking for a long time, although the entire mansion at the foot of Jingshan Mountain was not big, it was winding and twisting, and walked through many courtyards. It was not until a place that Xiao Cui made Liu Mang and others stop.

He said to Liu Mang and others, "You are here to wait for me, I'll go and inform my wife!" Xiao Cui pointed to a stone table beside a flowerbed and said, "You can rest for a while!"

"Don't run around to avoid misunderstandings!" Xiao Cui added another sentence when she left.

Liu Mang knew it too, and sat down next to the stone table with Jia Xu.

"This Liu Biao is quite good at making her a living! For Hongyan, she can bear such a mansion!" As soon as Jia Xu sat down, he blinked his lips and looked at everything around him. This was a flowerbed, with flowers and fish and insects everywhere.

There are many rockery, and the whole yard can be considered green. You should know that it is winter now, and although there is no snowfall, the weather is not mild. There are many flowers in this yard that cannot be seen in Jingchu, and it is not something that should be found in this season. There are also some strange stones that are not made of Jingchu. It can be said that the things in this flower garden are worth a thousand gold. Not to mention that there is a courtyard there.

It can be said that although this mansion is small, it is complete with all internal organs and even more so than Liu Biao's mansion in Xiangyang. In addition, it is located under Jingshan, and it is also a place to cultivate people.

"Jingzhou is so rich, so naturally I will give it up!" Liu Mang nodded. Is Liu Biao extravagant? Of course, it can be seen in Liu Biao's mansion. Liu Biao's cost and other aspects are simply extravagant. Compared with Cao Cao's poor, he had to let his subordinates eat human flesh, Liu Biao was simply a rich man, but this does not mean that Liu Biao ignored the suffering of the people.

Jingzhou is too rich, so he, the owner of Jingzhou, naturally enjoys the best.

Liu Mang looked at it at first sight and saw many flowers such as peony and Clivia. Liu Mang was waiting for Xiao Cui here, so he was naturally leisurely. He turned his attention to the flowers and also began to appreciate them.

"Is this?!" When Liu Mang was observing the flowers, a very charming flower appeared in front of Liu Mang.

Its branches are 30-60 cm tall, the main root is nearly conical, vertical, and the stem is upright, non-branchy, and has white powder. The leaves are alternate, the leaves are ovate or long ovate, and the apex is gradually pointed to blunt, the base is heart-shaped, the edges are irregular wavy sawtooth, the two sides are hairless, white powder, the leaf veins are obvious and slightly protruding; the lower leaves have short stalks, the upper leaves have no sessiles, and the stems are held.

"My lord also likes this beautiful man?!" Jia Xu looked in Liu Mang's direction and asked Liu Mang in confusion.

"Mei Yu?" Liu Mang asked in confusion.

"Yes, Yu Meiren!" Jia Xu explained to Liu Mang that Yu Meiren was named after Xiang Yu's wife Yu Meiren when the Chu-Han conflict. You can know how beautiful it is. Yu Meiren is planted in many flowerbeds because of its beauty, but some people don't like him because it also represents separation from life and death and symbolizes separation, so only those who prefer it will plant it.

Looking at the few flowers in the courtyard, it must have been accidentally fallen into the flower seeds.

"This is not Yu Meiren, absolutely not!" Liu Mang shook his head. Although it didn't know much about flowers, he knew that this is not Yu Meiren's buds were drooping and drooping. She had to wait until she bloomed before the flowers gradually flowered upwards and the whole plant was covered with hair and the fruit was smaller.

"This is a heartbreaking grass!" Liu Mang said confirmingly.

"Soul-broken grass?" Jia Xu was puzzled. No matter how you think this is a flower, it is not related to grass, it is still heartbreaking?

"Haha, this kind of thing is also called a demon flower!" Liu Mang explained to Jia Xu. If the heartbroken grass and demon flower cannot be explained clearly, then a very familiar name is poppy flower.

The buds of poppies are straight upward, and the picture is also upward when they bloom. The whole plant is smooth and the fruit is larger.

Liu Mang knew so much because the police in the community taught them a lesson, which was to distinguish poppy flowers. He was afraid that someone would plant them unintentionally.

"Devil Flower, Heartbroken Grass?!" Jia Xu became even more confused.

"Wenhe, this kind of flower and plant is like a devil. Once you get infected, you will basically be unable to live without him!" The drug thing was originally from poppy flowers.

"Once you get infected, you can't live without it?" Will it be so terrible? Jia Xu looked at it for a long time but didn't feel anything.

"Of course it is a drug extracted from this flower!"

"Isn't that the same as Wushi San!" Jia Xu said a drug that is now inseparable from.

Wushi Powder, also known as Hanshi Powder, has a dry and heat-colored medicinal property. After taking it, it causes heat to the whole body and produces a short-term effect that confuses people's hearts. It originated from the time of Emperor Wu of Qin and Emperor Wu of Han, Li Shaojun, Luan Da, etc., who believed in alchemy and other minerals, such as alchemy stones, were burned.

This thing is very popular among the Han gentry because it can help it.

As for the kind of body strengthening he said, it's completely nonsense.

"The things made by this flower are only even worse than the Five Stones Powder!" The Five Stones Powder can be quit, but once it is contaminated with this thing, it is basically impossible to remove it. It is caused by this thing in the modern history of China.

"And the Five Stones are difficult to make, and as long as there is a little bit of land, it can be made!" The Five Stones are only circulated among the gentry, because it is very difficult to make, and it is really easy to make poppy flowers. Just one piece of land and one acre of fertile land can produce several kilograms!

"This trip is not false. This trip is not false!" Liu Mang suddenly laughed at the poppy flower. Although the poppy flower is demonized, you have to know whose hand is used for this thing.

What Liu Mang has always wanted to solve is that the gentry of the Han Dynasty. These gentry control the entire world. It can be said that it is not so much the emperor's world, but the emperor is just a bigger gentry. Once you decline, you will immediately take you off.

If you want to get rid of these gentry, you will definitely not be able to force it. The gentry's power is very huge. Now Liu Mang in Jingzhou does not go to Liu Biao but to look for the Cai family. This aristocratic family is too large, so big that it can no longer affect the decision of the leader of a state.

However, Liu Mang needed something to dismantle these gentry, at least to severely damage their vitality or even control them.

And this poppy flower opened a door for Liu Mang. But this poppy flower cannot fall into the hands of others.

Imagine that although poppy flowers are easy to plant, as long as Liu Mang controls the amount of his outflow, he will be as precious as Wushi Powder, which ordinary people naturally cannot afford to eat, but those gentry can enjoy it. Once you get infected with this thing, you are waiting to lose everything! If Liu Biao, Jingzhou, is now infected with drug addiction, Liu Mang still needs to travel thousands of miles to Jingzhou! He will directly control the source of Liu Biao's drugs and immediately send money and food.

Liu Mang controlled his emotions calmly. He lowered his voice and said to Jia Xu, "No matter whether this trip is successful or not, he must get these flowers, and even have their seeds!"

"These flowers!"

"With these flowers, we have opened the door to hell!" Liu Mang murmured to himself.

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Xiao Cui had already entered the courtyard where Mrs. Cai and Pang Tong played chess. When she saw the two playing chess, Xiao Cui stood aside very consciously and waited until the end of the chess game between them.

"Madam, I won again!" Pang Tong smiled silently and said to Mrs. Cai.

"Young Master Pang is naturally not as good as you!" Mrs. Cai also left the chess piece. He didn't care about winning or losing at all. Playing the chess piece was boring, because Pang Tong was so competitive that he would not win without a single game, so he naturally would not let Mrs. Cai go. What's the point of such a chess game that lost consecutively?

"You servant has been standing aside for a long time, tell me, what's the matter?" Mrs. Cai naturally saw Xiao Cui standing aside. She asked Xiao Cui to go to Xiangyang to buy rouge and water. The chess game was just started when she left. Now that Xiao Cui has just finished the game, she has come back. There must be something wrong.

"Hmm?!" Mrs. Cai sniffed her nose, and a fragrance could penetrate Mrs. Cai's nose. It was a floral fragrance. But it was different. This fragrance was a bit mixed, but it was a little heavier than the real floral fragrance.

The source of this fragrance was confirmed to be from her maid. Looking at Xiao Cui's face, Mrs. Cai discovered something. Xiao Cui's face was originally dry and could only be covered with rouge and water powder. But now the face was washed off, but the face did not dry at all. Instead, it had a kind of roundness, shining under the sunlight.

Mrs. Cai was very curious, but naturally, he, the master, would not ask questions directly, wait for Xiao Cui to report!

"Miss, I have already bought rouge powder! The maid's face is the effect of using this rouge powder!" Xiao Cui came up and said to Mrs. Cai.

Xiao Cui got closer. Mrs. Cai realized that not only her face had changed, but her hair had changed. Her hair became brighter and a fragrant wind blew towards her as she approached herself.

Xiao Cui looked like this and Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan next to her couldn't help but take a look at her.

"And there is this lip gloss! And this skin care product!" Xiao Cui showed what Liu Mang taught him in front of Mrs. Cai.

"Where did these rouge powder come from?!" Mrs. Cai had never seen these things. She was a noble lady. It can be said that she was in the boudoir and was naturally interested in whitening and beauty. But Xiao Cui said everything. Mrs. Cai had never even heard of it.

"These are all rouge powder from the Western Regions!" Xiao Cui said to Mrs. Cai.

"Oh?" There are not a shortage of merchants from the Western Regions. There are merchants from all walks of life in Jingzhou, a place with developed commercial conditions. However, this is the first time that the merchants from the Western Regions have brought rouge and water powder.

"Each one is made of the essence of flowers and plants and morning dew. The price is very expensive, and just one costs dozens of gold!" Xiao Cui also said the price. Sometimes the thing does not depend on how effective it is, but on how expensive it is. When this price is mentioned, everyone will naturally be stunned by him.

Sure enough, Pang Tong became curious. The rouge powder from the Western Regions is so expensive? It has dozens of gold. Looking at Xiao Cui’s introduction, it is all in seven or eight. This one adds up to more than one hundred gold. What kind of thing is this made of rouge powder? It is so expensive.

"Isn't the money enough?!" Mrs. Cai felt a little itchy when she heard Xiao Cui's words. What is the most important thing in women's minds? The first is appearance, the second is clothes, bags, shoes, so those who sell cosmetics can make such a profit.

Men conquered the world, women conquered men, and finally cosmetics and clothes conquered women.

"Go to the warehouse to get a hundred gold coins!" Although there are a lot of hundred gold coins, it is not much for Mrs. Cai, so I was naturally moved when I looked at the effect on Xiao Cui's face.

"No, no, no!" Xiao Cui shook her hand.

"Isn't it enough?!" Mrs. Cai asked in confusion.

"Not it's not enough!" Xiao Cui explained, "This Western Regions merchant who sells rouge and water powder has arrived in the mansion! They want to see the wife and say that they want to give the rouge and water powder to the wife!" Xiao Cui made the decision without authorization and asked Liu Mang to give a set to Mrs. Cai. If Liu Mang doesn't want to, she will give her own set.

"You!" Before Mrs. Cai could answer, Pang Tong next to her immediately became angry.

"Who asked you to bring people in!" Pang Tong immediately became furious and scolded Xiao Cui. He had a clear word. In the past few days, the Cai family's mansion was not allowed to pick up customers, but Xiao Cui brought people in quietly. Pang Tong is now a frightened bird, or he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the ropes. He was careful to strive for perfection in everything he did. Such a Western Region merchant was actually brought into the mansion. How could Pang Tong not be angry? Speaking of anger, he stepped forward and slapped Xiao Cui in the face.

"Ahhhh!" Xiao Cui was slapped on Pang Tongyi's face and fell to the ground. Although Pang Tong was a little fat, he was a man after all, and his hands were quite strong. Xiao Cui's face suddenly turned red, and a big slap was stamped on it.

Xiao Cui fell on the ground and burst into tears. She didn't know what happened and suddenly she was scolded and slapped in the face by Pang Tong. The more aggrieved she would feel.

"Rareless!" Mrs. Cai's guards next to her had a good relationship with Miss Xiao Cui. Seeing that Xiao Cui was beaten, they naturally scolded her. The group drew out the sword. As long as Mrs. Cai gave an order, they would definitely cause Pang Tong to be dismembered.

"Why, Madam is going to attack me?"

Originally, Mrs. Cai was also preparing to scold Xiao Cui, but when she saw Pang Tong's words and actions, Mrs. Cai was also angry.

"Stop!" Mrs. Cai suppressed her anger. Even if Xiao Cui did something wrong and brought someone in without authorization, she was also her Madam Cai's maid. The lesson should be done by Mrs. Cai, and it's not your turn to teach her.

"Young Master Pang, you're past!" Mrs. Cai looked at Pang Tong and frowned.
To be continued...