Manbao was lying on the pillow with her legs crossed and her toes twitching. She was still thinking about the anthropomorphic models in the classroom that kept coming to life. After hearing this, she said nonchalantly: "Zheng Erlang's injury is much better. I touched it today."
I touched his head and found that the bones were growing. Although he still refused to speak in front of others, I checked the control of his right hand. Now he can write every word very well, unlike before, which was heavy and light.
He can't grasp one stroke, so I think his aphasia will be cured given time."
"The Qizhou land case is a matter for your Zhongshu Province and various ministries, and has little to do with our Taiyuan Hospital." Man Bao put his hands on the back of his head and said leisurely: "I thought about it carefully today.
This kind of thing is too nerve-wracking and energy-intensive, so I’ll just wait and see if you’ve heard the story and don’t be too curious.”
Bai Shan spread out the quilt halfway, patted her feet and motioned her to lie down in it. Hearing this, he asked, "Why did you suddenly feel this way?"
Man Bao moved inside and made room for him with quilts. He looked at the top of the mosquito net and sighed: "I discovered that if you act too curious, someone will take advantage of your curiosity to trick you, such as County Magistrate Guo."
She hummed and said: "Magistrate Guo greatly satisfied my curiosity today, but he is not very kind, so I decided to just listen to the stories with my ears open in the future, and no longer take the initiative to ask these questions that have nothing to do with our hospital.
It’s over.”
Bai Shanxiao asked: "Can you bear it?"
Manbao held his breath hard and said, "I will work very hard."
Controlling your curiosity is indeed a difficult thing.
Bai Shan folded the quilt partially, drove the mosquitoes out of the mosquito net, added a piece of spices to the incense burner and lit it, and then got into bed and lay down.
He lay side by side with Man Bao, nodded and said, "Yes, you should control your curiosity."
Man Bao asked him curiously, "Have you ever taken the initiative to ask them anything?"
"No," Bai Shan said: "I was a little worried about you when the incident first broke out, so I went to the Ministry of Household Affairs and took the initiative to inquire about some things. Later I found out that the matter involved aristocratic families and land enclosures, so I stopped talking.
This matter has been discussed in front of others.”
Unless the emperor asks.
However, for such a major matter, the emperor will not ask these few small family members for the time being.
Manbao swayed on his feet and sighed: "My parents should be back home now, right?"
Bai Shan calculated the days and said, "If it doesn't rain on the way, we should be able to arrive tomorrow afternoon. If it rains, we will probably have to wait two more days."
After the spring planting here, it rained for a few days, so Lao Zhoutou and Qian packed up their things and went back to Qili Village with Mr. Bai and his wife.
At that time, Manbao was still in the palace rescuing Zheng Erlang, and could not leave the palace to see them off.
"I don't know how my eldest sister's pregnancy is going," Man Bao said sadly, "Being an official is not free, and I don't know when we can go back to Qili Village."
Bai Shandao: "Then I guess we have to wait until we are released, and we need to be in a position where we are not in a hurry to take up the post."
Man Bao's eyes brightened slightly, and he began to think about it, "What kind of leave should we take to go back? We've already taken our wedding leave, so we can't wait until I have a baby before we can go back, right?"
Bai Shan quickly said: "No, there is still family leave."
Bai Shan calculated and said: "Mianzhou is thousands of miles away. Officials can take 25 days off in three years, but..."
Bai Shan turned to look at Man Bao and said, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law have been living with you in the capital for the past few years. The Ministry of Official Affairs may not approve of this."
Only when the parents are far away from home, the Ministry of Personnel will calculate the family leave based on the official's distance from home. Moreover, there are holidays during the week, but not for Bai Shan. He has not been an official for three years.
Bai Shan touched his chin and thought, "Maybe we can try to use the back door."
Man Bao immediately turned sideways and looked at him, his eyes sparkling, "Whose back door should I take?"
"Of course it belongs to His Majesty, who else can it belong to?" Bai Shan said: "Things like holidays are just a matter of a word from Your Majesty. Just wait, I will find the right time to discuss it with Your Majesty."
Man Bao: "You have to find a time when he is in a good mood."
Bai Shan nodded, "I know, he's been in a bad mood lately. This case is probably going to cause more trouble. I don't think he'll be in a good mood in the first half of the year."
Bai Shan is right. Although other people's melons are delicious, when he eats them, he realizes that he is always the one who suffers. How can the emperor's mood be better?
The more the Yushitai and the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Justice were sent to Qizhou to investigate, the more information came back, and the emperor's mood became worse.
When he arrived at the queen's palace, he kicked out all the palace servants, and then got angry with the queen: "They are like a coward in the country. Every piece of good land in Qizhou has been taken over by them. In the past two years, every household has been
The Ministry of Finance is strapped for money, and they want to buy land for employment. They have to endure it when they don’t have enough money, but in the end they sell it to those people at less than one-third of the price quoted by the Ministry of Household Affairs. Isn’t this a scam?”
The queen poured him tea, let him drink it to relieve his anger, and asked: "Master Wei, what did they say?"
"What else can I say?" The emperor said: "Of course I have to investigate further. If I find evidence, it is good, and I can take back part of the fields. If I can't find evidence, I will have to suffer the loss of being dumb."
He took a deep breath and said, "I really don't understand why officials in the DPRK and the world's literati still respect them. They have no contribution to the country and the people."
If not, he wouldn't be restrained in doing things.
The queen said: "Don't your majesty and the late emperor also claim that they are from the Li family in Longxi?"
emperor:……
The queen said: "Everyone in the world is the same. They yearn for the illustrious ancestors, yearn for their own illustrious birth, and also yearn for making friends with such illustrious people."
The emperor frowned and sighed after a while: "I know that these aristocratic families have hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation, and even our royal family is not as good as them. What the world longs for is the strength behind them. Unless they are destroyed
power, otherwise this humility and obedience will not disappear."
The queen asked softly: "Then your majesty wants to destroy their power?"
The emperor was silent for a moment and then shook his head, "No, I don't want to fight with them. If we fight, both sides will lose. Moreover, the world has not been stable for a long time. The old wounds on my body are still there. How can I let the people of the world get involved in war again?"
middle?"
The queen quietly breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly.
The emperor said: "It is better to leave it to the prince, or even to the emperor's grandson."
He said: "We will wait until the country becomes stronger and the emperor has more say. Zi Tong, it is impossible for me to see all this. You can only come to see it. You have to watch it carefully."
He has to die to pass the throne to the prince, but the queen mother can exist.
The emperor started planning and quietly said to the queen: "You should note this down first, and you can tell the prince when I die."
Queen: "Don't talk nonsense. Besides, you asked me to tell the prince too many things. I almost forget it."
"Then take a small notebook and write it down. These are my last words. You must remember them."