The emperor's mood did not get better until the Chinese New Year. Perhaps because of his bad mood, he had been somewhat idle in the past four months and left many political affairs to the prince.
The entire royal family is observing filial piety, and the prince has nothing else to do. He suddenly received so much work. Apart from being irritated for a while because of the busyness, he gradually got used to it later.
Not only the emperor, but also the court officials became more and more satisfied with the prince. Seeing this, the queen finally asked the emperor to let Prince Gong return to his fiefdom after the New Year.
Prince Gong's injury has healed, but he still has a slight limp in his leg. It's not noticeable when he walks slowly, but it becomes obvious when he walks faster.
After the board was removed, Prince Gong cried about it for two days. Because the emperor had broken his leg himself, he also felt uncomfortable for a while. For this reason, Manbao had to prescribe him mind-strengthening medicine for two more days.
Because the officials are still in the national mourning period, few people gather for banquets even during the New Year. Even if they do, they are done quietly and do not dare to let outsiders know.
Anyway, Zhou Man and his family are very low-key. Because of the Chinese New Year, Bai Dalang also moved to Zhou's house. The three brothers studied together. Man Bao also came back from vacation at the Imperial Hospital and is studying the medical books sent to her by the Queen Mother. Moreover, the Imperial Medical Office will be there in the spring.
Very busy.
The Tai Hospital has decided to recruit twelve students headed by Zheng Gu into the Tai Hospital as medical assistants from the beginning of spring.
They had studied medical skills for several years before entering the school, and were basically disciples of various schools. They were selected into a separate class within half a year after entering the Imperial Medical Office, and the teaching progress was different from other classes.
After more than a year of study, although there are still many things that have not been learned, Dr. Xiao and others feel that they will not learn much if they continue to read and study in the Imperial Medical Office. Now they can try to sit in the classroom to prescribe and get in touch with real people.
of patients.
Zheng Gu and the others have all worked as medical assistants in the Imperial Medical Office for almost a year.
But there are only so many patients in the palace, so the Imperial Medical Office decided to organize several free clinics in the spring. Since they are organizing free clinics, they must have medicine.
It's impossible to give free money. It's already very expensive to use the emperor's private treasury to maintain the operation of the Imperial Medical Office. It's impossible to ask him to pay for free medicines.
Moreover, Dr. Xiao and Man Bao had discussed it privately, and they both felt that in autumn and winter they would be ready to serve in medical offices in various places, and there would definitely be another expense by then.
Regardless of whether this expenditure comes from the emperor's private treasury or the national treasury, it will definitely be difficult to obtain, so at this time, we must be cautious and not give everyone the impression that the Imperial Medical Office is very expensive.
So the doctors in the Imperial Hospital got together and thought about it for several days, and finally decided to ask the major pharmacies in the capital for help.
Of course, it's not that they get the medicinal materials for free, it would be cheaper.
Their students write prescriptions and take the prescriptions to the cooperative pharmacies to buy medicines, which are cheaper for them.
There was Imperial Physician Zheng at Jishi Hall, and it was very likely that he could be persuaded, so Imperial Physician Liu assigned Manbao a Baohe Medical Clinic.
The reason is that when she was sitting in Jishi Hall, she seemed to be very close to the Bohe Medical Center next door.
Manbao just took a bath yesterday and decided to take another day off today and go to Bohe Medical Center tomorrow...
Since Jishitang has agreed to cooperate, it should not be difficult to apply for Bohe Medical Clinic. After all, we are neighbors. Not only neighbors, but also colleagues.
Man Bao opened a page of medical books and wrote down some important knowledge points while reading.
Bai Dalang felt that his eyes were a little tired, so he put down the book and stretched. When he looked up and saw that the three of them were still sitting and reading seriously, he couldn't help but sigh.
None of the three raised their heads or spoke.
Bai Dalang was too embarrassed to twist his neck any more. He could only quietly turn his head and look out the window, and happened to see his wife walking towards him carrying a tray.
He quickly got up and opened the door.
There were two plates of snacks on the tray. Mrs. Cheng smiled at her husband and said to the three people in the room: "It's raining now. Let's take a rest and eat some snacks to warm your stomach."
The three of them also smelled the aroma and looked up to see the steaming glutinous rice cakes and meatloaf strips on the plate.
The three people's eyes lit up, and they all put down the books in their hands. They didn't mind the cold water in the study, and directly stretched out their hands in the wooden basin to clean their hands, and then went up to pinch the meatloaf strips to eat.
These meatloaf strips are a snack that Xiao Qian has recently learned, so let’s call it a snack.
Because Man Bao saw a recipe in a book that said it was delicious to use chicken wrapped in flour and fried, so Man Bao, who had not eaten meat for a long time after crying in the palace, couldn't help pestering Xiao Qian.
She eats fried chicken.
Xiao Qian couldn't resist, so he not only killed a chicken and fried it for her, but also fried other things according to this recipe, such as pork, mutton and fish. In the end, Manbao's favorite food was fish wrapped in flour and fried.
Covered in fried chicken flavor.
It's a pity that when I wanted to eat Xiao Qian's later, I was not very happy to do it because it cost too much. I just asked for one chicken at a time, and it also consumed fuel.
Fish is okay, but fish in the capital is much more expensive than in Luojiang County, and it's always hard to buy, so Xiao Qian didn't really want to fry it in the end.
But she still thought about it, and later she didn’t know how to think about it. She kneaded the flour, stuffed it with meat filling, then cut it into strips and steamed it, and then fried it in the pan because it was steamed in advance.
Not much oil is used after frying, and there is no fishy smell like fried fish.
The main reason is that the meat consumption is not much, because she also added other things to the meat filling, and if it is filled too much, it will become greasy. This little bit makes people want to eat it more.
This meatloaf strip is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Only the outer layer is crispy. When you bite it gently, you will find the sweetness of the wheat noodles and the slightly salty meat at the end. This new snack is not only full of treasures.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang like it, as do Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang, who had been eating with the Bai family, went to the Zhou family to eat for ten days. Finally, Aunt Rong learned this skill and fried it up for everyone to eat as snacks before he came back.
Bai Dalang also likes it very much, almost every three bites, but they eat slowly and slowly.
Cheng looked at it with a smile, and Bai Dalang took one to her. Cheng took it and couldn't help but frown slightly after taking a bite. She endured it and finally swallowed it.
Man Bao turned to look at her, looked her up and down, then looked at her face and asked, "Sister-in-law, are you just getting up?"
Cheng nodded sheepishly, "It's easy to oversleep during a nap in winter."
Man Bao threw all the meatloaf strips in his hand into his mouth and asked after eating, "I remember when Senior Brother Bai came to the study in the morning, he said you were still sleeping."
Cheng's face turned red, "...it's easy to get sleepy in winter."
Man Bao grabbed her hand and said, "Let me show it to you."
After saying that, he touched her pulse and asked after a while: "Has your period come this month?"
Cheng was stunned for a moment and remembered something. He looked at her expectantly and shook his head, "If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten. It seems like it's five days late."
But she was usually about seven days late, so she and the girls didn't pay much attention.
Manbao put down his hand and said: "The day is too shallow, please wait, but it is indeed a slippery pulse."
Not only Cheng Shi and Bai Dalang, but also Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were so shocked that their mouths opened wide.