Man Bao kept his horse speed and controlled the direction. He lowered his head and asked Eunuch Wu, "Does the prince know that I am arriving in Beijing today?"
Eunuch Wu smiled and said: "You said you would leave for a month. Our family only planned to arrive in the capital in the next two days, so we have been waiting at the city gate tower since yesterday. Oh, little doctor Zhou, we want to go
Didn't you stop and talk? This car had to avoid people and accidentally hit it."
Man Bao reined in his horse and looked around. Bai Shan pointed his whip in front and said, "Go there, let's stop at the entrance of the alley."
There were few people there. In Bai Shan's memory, the alley seemed to be a dead end with no access, so there were no people in that opening.
A group of people stepped forward, Man Bao and three others jumped off their horses, and the three heads also jumped down, holding the guard's hand. They looked very curiously at Eunuch Wu who got off the car in front.
As soon as Eunuch Wu got out of the car, he saluted Man Bao and the other three, and then said, "Mr. Zhou, I see that you have also entered Beijing. Why don't you go to the palace to see His Highness?"
Man Bao then lowered his head and looked at the clothes on his body and said, "I'm so dusty. I didn't wash up or change my clothes. It's too rude."
She said: "Why don't you wait until I get home and change my clothes?"
Eunuch Wu looked embarrassed: "This..."
Bai Shan had already taken out his own money bag. Without looking at the money inside, he put it directly into Eunuch Wu's hand and asked, "Eunuch, what happened to Your Highness?"
"Oh, I don't dare to say that," Eunuch Wu pushed the money bag back and whispered: "Little Doctor Zhou is very kind to our family. Little Doctor Zhou can use this money bag to buy snacks."
He hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness, he drank the wrong wine not long ago..."
Man Bao looked puzzled, "What does drinking the wrong wine mean?"
Eunuch Wu said vaguely: "Master Zhou will know if you go to the palace and take a look. For this reason, your majesty beheaded several people during the Chinese New Year. Prince Gong didn't even spend the seventh day in the capital, and was sent back to Luozhou directly."
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Prince Gong is the third prince. After he left the capital and became a feudal lord, everyone habitually called him Prince Gong.
Man Bao was confused, but after looking at the clothes on his body, he still said: "I still have to go wash up. We have been on the road for nine days and haven't done much to wash up."
Eunuch Wu no longer stopped him, but said with a smile: "Then our family will accompany you back?"
"good."
Originally, we wanted to stroll along the street and buy some food, but the few of us had no choice but to go back to Evergreen Alley.
The concierge who stayed in Changqing Lane opened the door and saw them. He immediately screamed with joy. While opening the threshold to let them in, he said: "I was thinking that the young masters will only arrive in the next two days, and I am still talking to the young masters and ladies of the Zhou family."
We discussed that we would start guarding the city gate tomorrow, but we didn’t expect that the young masters would arrive today.”
Bai Shan handed the horse to him and said, "Go to Erliu Lane and let me know that Grandma and the others are entering the city now. Please clean up the yard quickly. They will put the car away later and boil water. The old lady and the others will be boiled."
Madam’s room has been tidied up…”
Manbao had already led Santou and the others into the house, pointed to her room and said to Sanya: "This is my room, and that is Erya's. You choose one to live in first, Santou, Sitou,
You guys should take a rest in Fourth Brother’s room, and then figure out where to live later.”
She ran to the kitchen and bumped into Aunt Rong who ran out to take a look when she heard the noise. Man Bao grabbed her and said, "Aunt Rong, I need to wash up. Is there hot water?"
"No," Aunt Rong said, "I'm going to burn it right away. Miss Man, why didn't you send a letter in advance when you came back so that we could pick you up?"
"I'm afraid the letter was not delivered as fast as us," Man Bao shook her arm and said, "I have to go to the palace immediately to see the prince, and I will give you a red envelope when I get back."
When Aunt Rong heard this, she immediately said: "That's an urgent matter. You go back to the house to find some clothes. I just want to prepare lunch. The stove is hot. Just pour water on it and it will start cooking."
Man Bao agreed and happily went back to the house to find clothes.
Bai Shan arranged for people to notify Erliu Alley and the restaurant, and also rolled up his sleeves to clean up the yard and park the car.
He went to the guest room to take a look, and was about to ask brother Xiang Mingxue, but found that there was no one at home who could ask him.
Seeing that they were all busy, Bai Erlang could only ask Eunuch Wu to sit down in the main room. When he touched the teacup, he found that it was empty and the teapot was clean, without a drop of water.
Sanya walked in with a straight face, without looking away, nervously took the teapot from his hand, turned around and went out, and ran to the kitchen as soon as she left.
The third and fourth heads have also rolled up their sleeves and started working, especially in the kitchen.
Because of the Chinese New Year, there were few people in the house, so Aunt Rong asked the two cooks to go home to celebrate the Chinese New Year. So many people came back soon to have lunch, but there was rice and noodles at home, but not much food.
So after the cook lit up the fire, she began to arrange for the guards to go to the streets to buy meat and vegetables. Santou and the others took out a few cabbages from the cellar, selected vegetables according to the available vegetables, and washed and cooked rice.
Eunuch Wu didn't even have a glass of water, so naturally he couldn't sit still, so he walked around the yard with his hands behind his back. Looking at the lively yard, he felt a little dazed for a moment.
Seeing Bai Shan carrying a few flowerpots to the garden, he turned to Bai Erlang and asked, "You guys still do the work by yourself?"
Bai Erlang said matter-of-factly: "We just came back to clean up, otherwise the carriage will be very busy when it comes back soon."
After the hot water was boiled, Manbao really wanted to wash her hair, but on a day like this, it was obvious that she wouldn't be able to dry it for a while after washing her hair. She didn't dare to risk getting her hair wet and exposed to the cold wind, so she just washed and changed her hair.
After getting a set of clothes, I went out.
She said to Eunuch Wu with empty hands: "My medicine box is still outside the city."
Eunuch Wu immediately said, "These are all available in the Eastern and Western Palaces. Doctor Zhou only needs to follow our family into the palace."
Bai Shan, who had been busy all the time, stood beside Man Bao at some point. He was a little worried, "Shall I take you there?"
Man Bao was accustomed to entering the palace, and after getting along with him several times, she felt that the prince was not so unreasonable, so she shook her head and said: "Forget it, you can stay at home. Your husband and Grandma Liu will be back soon."
Bai Shan could only send them out, watch them get in the car and leave.
Santou also stood beside Bai Shan and waited until the car was far away before asking, "Little uncle, is it dangerous to enter the palace?"
Bai Shan was so frightened by the sound of "little uncle" that he almost flew out of his head. The tips of his ears turned red. After swallowing, he said: "Yeah, it's okay. I don't know what news happened in the palace."
, so I’m a little worried.”
Santou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, if you are lucky, my luck is always very good."
Bai Shan nodded and was about to turn around and go back to the house with San Tou when he saw Xiang Mingxue holding a cane and Xiang Chao slowly coming from the other end of the alley. He saw Bai Shan and said in surprise: "Are you back?"
Bai Shan immediately stepped forward to hold his other side, helped him into the house with Xiang Chao, and then asked: "Do you know what happened to the prince during the Chinese New Year?"