Early the next morning, Manbao and the others said goodbye and left the city. To her surprise, Magistrate Zhai came to see them off.
Man Bao was quite embarrassed. After all, she had troubled him a lot this time, but she couldn't help him. So Man Bao felt ashamed and took out a door post from his bag and gave it to him, "Magistrate Zhai, from now on."
If your family has any incurable diseases that cannot be cured, you can take this post and go to the capital to find me."
Magistrate Zhai took the post with a confused look on his face and said uncertainly: "Thank you?"
Manbao smiled shyly, "You're welcome."
Magistrate Zhai:...
Man Bao waved goodbye to him enthusiastically. Magistrate Zhai looked at the door post in his hand and raised his hand to say goodbye to them with mixed emotions.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang didn't think there was anything wrong with Man Bao's gift. They felt that they could finally return to the capital. They breathed a sigh of relief and lay in a particularly good mood by the window to look at the scenery outside.
It was obviously the same road and the same trees, but they could still see the flowers and were very excited along the way.
Mr. Zhuang's carriage was separated from them by another car, and he could still hear their chirping.
This time when they returned to Beijing, they felt that the palace had become more lovely.
Manbao happily entered the palace with the idea of asking for leave because of his good performance, and also gave many souvenirs to his boss and colleagues.
They are all not very valuable but very unique things bought in Shangzhou.
Even the emperor got one. He looked at the thing in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
Chang Yu had already covered it with his sleeve and took a bite quietly. When he heard the emperor ask, he whispered: "Persimmon cake, don't you know your father?"
It doesn't matter if she doesn't know him, why doesn't his father know him either?
Emperor: "...Of course I know these are persimmon cakes, but who gave me persimmon cakes as a gift?"
Not too much, not too little, only nine are given away, how stingy is this?
Changyu had already chewed the persimmon cake in his mouth and swallowed it. Shi Ji nodded brightly and said: "It's delicious. It's sweet. Manbao said it was given to her by a relative of hers. It was dried at home and there was a lot of frost."
, others don’t have it yet, only we have it.”
The emperor glanced at the silly girl and asked, "Who are we?"
"It's just me and my father, as well as the prince's brother and his family," Chang Yu said, "Then there are only Mr. Tang, Yin You, Liu Huan, and a good friend of hers. She calls her Second Sister Fu."
The emperor said quietly: "This is still 'only'."
Changyu thought about it and felt that there were indeed a lot of outsiders, and there were only three people in their family.
The emperor asked, "Why aren't Mingda and the Queen there?"
Mingda, who was sitting next to him, raised his head and said, "She said I shouldn't eat too many persimmon cakes. Just let me eat one or two of my sister's."
The emperor felt that this was not a reason and said: "If you can't finish eating, you can give it to Changyu. I don't give it to you, but let you eat Changyu's. It's really stingy."
Chang Yu had quietly taken several bites, looked at the persimmon cakes in her food box, then looked at her father's, and asked: "Father, do you like to eat it? If you don't like to eat it..."
The emperor had already turned his head and said to Gu Zhong: "Keep it."
Changyu could only swallow his words.
Mingda couldn't help laughing, and the queen beside him also smiled and shook his head. After eating, Mingda and Changyu returned to their respective palaces holding their gifts hand in hand.
It was only when the emperor was about to rest that he saw the crystal bracelet wrapped around the queen's hand. It was white crystal, but the black jade in the middle looked familiar.
He couldn't help but stretched out his hand to hold her hand and looked at it, "Isn't this what Mingda is wearing? It was a gift from Zhou Man? I remember that she even worshiped the statue of Lao Tzu for forty-nine days."
The Queen smiled and said: "Ming Da asked Zhou Man to find it. He said that it was very comfortable to wear and seemed to be useful for qi diseases, so he asked for a bunch of them for me. In order to be effective, the child secretly offered the statue of Lao Tzu himself.
I only found out when you brought it to me today."
The emperor didn't take it seriously, thinking how could it be possible to cure the disease with this kind of thing alone? Most of the time, he just relied on it.
But he didn't point it out. Instead, he held her hand and said with a smile: "Mingda and filial piety are much better than the other children."
Although the queen agreed in her heart, she said: "Other children are also filial, but they behave differently."
The couple said some words and then took it off. The queen didn't feel that this bracelet was really useful for qi diseases, but she wore it every day because of her daughter's filial piety and because Mingda kept asking about it.
After wearing it for a long time, she became accustomed to the existence of this bracelet and basically never took it off.
The emperor never hesitated to praise his children's filial piety, especially to Mingda. With this excuse, he moved a lot of things from his private treasury in one go and gave them to Mingda, many of which he had not collected before.
He always favored Mingda and Prince Gong, but he couldn't always reward them individually. This time he had an excuse, so he could reward Mingda vigorously.
As a result, not only did the former harem know about Princess Mingda's filial act, but even the sick Queen Mother heard about it.
She leaned on the bedside and opened her eyes, tilting her head slightly to avoid the medicine being fed to her, and asked: "Is the bracelet Mingda asked for from the Queen really useful?"
The aunt who was giving the medicine thought that it was given by her biological daughter, even if it is useless, it is still useful. Isn't this question nonsense?
However, my aunt did not dare to say that, so she could only say: "I heard that the princess prayed in front of the statue of me for seven or forty-nine days, and it was very effective."
"Huh? The Ai family remembers that the bracelet Zhou Man gave to Mingda was also a statue of me?"
My aunt responded: "I heard that it is true. Every ten days, they carry the statue of Lao Tzu when entering and exiting the palace. It makes a lot of noise."
"I see that Mingda is indeed healthier this year than in previous years. Go find her and ask Xiao Yuanzheng to come over."
The aunt was not sure of the Queen Mother's intention, so she could only give instructions, and then asked in a subtle way, "Does the Queen also want to see Princess Mingda's bracelet?"
"The Ai family wants to see which statue of Lao Tzu she offered."
aunt:……
When Mingda and Xiao Yuanzheng came one after another, the Queen Mother pointed to the bed and said: "Xiao Yuanzheng, please show Princess Mingda. She is weak. How is her health recently?"
Because the two princesses were on good terms with Zhou Man, the peace of the two princesses, no, it should be said that most of the female family members in the palace were handed over to Zhou Man.
When the Queen Mother mentioned Xiao Yuanzheng, she subconsciously recalled the pulse cases they had filed recently and found nothing unusual. Then she calmed down and stepped forward to check her pulse.
After feeling her pulse for a while, Xiao Yuanzheng looked at Princess Mingda in surprise. After a while, he asked about Princess Mingda's diet.
Xiao Yuanzheng's face didn't change much, but he was very surprised in his heart. He and the Queen Mother congratulated her: "The princess's pulse condition is much stronger than before."
The Queen Mother perked up and asked: "There are many flowers in summer. I see that she didn't get sick much this year and her face is much rosier. Will she be fine?"