But it is very relaxing. There are so many things every day. From the moment I open my eyes, I am dealing with official business. When I close my eyes, my mind is still full of official business. I run to the city gate to curse people... Oh no, it is to persuade people to surrender. After half an hour, even though my voice is loud
It may be a little uncomfortable, but it's definitely comfortable.
So the civil servants all fell in love with this task, and the generals who were deprived of a lot of work were very unhappy. Even General Ashina wondered, did he study less?
Who hasn’t read a few books?
The only one who didn't compete with them for this job was Shangshu Feng. He had besieged the city for more than twenty days, and now he felt sick when he saw the gate of the inner city, even if he cursed people, he didn't want to go.
The most leisurely one is probably Manbao.
The seriously wounded usually stayed where they were, and those who followed them on the hasty march were the slightly wounded.
Now she is only besieging the city but not attacking it. In addition to changing dressings for the wounded every day, she also treats soldiers who are sick due to colds.
But now everyone in the Imperial Medical Office is here. Although the number of people joining the army has also increased, their shifts are taking turns.
In particular, in addition to Imperial Physician Lu, there is also Imperial Physician Zheng who can be the leading physician.
So Manbao can work three shifts, freeing up a lot of time every day.
As time passed, she couldn't help but dig up some flowers and plants.
Well, it's winter now, and there aren't many visible flowers and plants, but there are a lot of trees.
There are many trees here that she has never seen before, or even though they are the same kind as those she has seen before, there are still some differences. They are subdivided into one variety due to different growing environments, and they can also be included.
Man Bao carried his basket, Bai Erlang's cakes and Daji around every day.
Sometimes when the emperor saw him, he couldn't help complaining to Gu Zhong, "If I didn't know how they get along in private and have such close contact, outsiders wouldn't know how to guess."
Gu Zhong smiled and said: "Master Bai is also busy, otherwise there would only be one more person hiding in the forest."
The emperor was very curious, "What's so interesting about those trees?"
Gu Zhong didn't understand either, so he could only apologize.
In the evening, Man Bao and Bai Erlang came back on horseback with excited faces. When the emperor came out for a walk to inspect the public sentiment, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and waved to them, "Why are you running into the woods all day?"
They both shook their heads, "Nothing."
The emperor frowned and looked at them quietly.
Man Baoqiang did not speak, while Bai Erlang felt guilty and weak. Under the emperor's gaze, his head lowered lower and lower. He had no choice but to whisper: "Your Majesty, I went into the forest to find you, the empress and the princess."
Where’s the gift?”
Emperor: "...what gift grows in the woods?"
Bai Erlang glanced at Zhou Man, and finally took off the backpack on his body, reached in and touched it, looked around secretly, then took out a cloth bag, opened the bag, and inside there were two almost human-shaped sticks.
of ginseng.
emperor:……
Gu Zhong's eyes widened.
The ginseng was still stained with dirt, so it had obviously just been dug out.
Bai Erlang only gave the emperor a look before wrapping it up and putting it back into his backpack carefully.
Only then did the emperor come back to his senses, and then stared at his face and hands, "Didn't you say it was given to me?"
Bai Erlang: "...there are also the empress and the princess."
He said: "I have to wait for the minister to dry it and prepare it."
The emperor questioned, "Will you still dry it out and prepare it?"
Bai Erlang pointed at Zhou Man and said, "She can."
The emperor then looked at Zhou Man... and the basket on her back, and asked curiously, "How many ginseng roots did you dig?"
Manbao stretched out three fingers.
She found the things, so she divided them more, hehehe...
The emperor wondered, "There are so many ginseng in the forest?"
Man Bao said: "It's not that many, the main thing is that I know how to look for them."
If you know how to look for something, you can always find it; if you don't know how to look for it, you may not be able to find it even if you wander around for the rest of your life.
Of course, she wasn't very good at finding it, but she had the skills to directly scan the specific location and then follow it to find it.
But her biggest harvest today is not ginseng, but the various branches in the baskets of Daji and Western cakes at the back. One of the branches is very valuable. According to Keke's estimation, the inclusion points will be very high.
The emperor felt itchy, "I..."
"Your Majesty," Gu Zhong interrupted the emperor's unspoken words and said to him: "You will go to the city gate tomorrow to comfort the soldiers."
Then he turned to Bai Erlang and said to Zhou Man: "Prince Consort, Mr. Zhou, the ice and snow in the forest have not disappeared. Not only is the road difficult to travel, it is easy to lose the direction. The forest has not been cleaned yet. There may be thieves hiding in it, so be careful."
Be careful, it’s better for you two to go in less often.”
This was not said to Bai Erlang and Zhou Man, it was clearly meant for the emperor.
He also said: "If you want ginseng, wait until you break through the inner city and enter the Goguryeo Palace. There are plenty of them inside. Then you can ask your Majesty to reward the Prince Consort and Mr. Zhou with some."
Gu Zhong said and glanced at the emperor quietly, "So in the future the entire palace collection will be yours, why go to the woods and risk digging for these things?"
Emperor:...Do I care about ginseng?
What I care about is obviously the process of digging.
However, he could not say that Gu Zhong's advice was reasonable. He himself knew that he would definitely not be able to go. If he really went, Yin Li could bring 6,000 imperial troops to follow him.
So I just had to forget it.
The emperor sighed and turned to leave. Before leaving, he looked at Bai Erlang and said, "Remember what you said."
Bai Erlang said with a bald mouth: "...Don't worry, I only have two dads, who else can I give them to if I don't give them to you?"
The emperor was very happy when he heard this, and his face was filled with joy, but he nodded reservedly, and all the depression in his heart disappeared, and he and Gu Zhong went back happily.
Manbao didn't care to comfort Bai Erlang who was bleeding heavily, and hurried back to the house with Daji and Western cakes.
Because Bai Shan was a close minister and Man Bao was an imperial physician, they both lived near the emperor, which was closer than Zhao Shangshu and other important ministers lived.
So Manbao strolled behind the emperor and entered the city lord's palace. When he reached a small courtyard, he slipped in and asked Daji and Xibing to put down the branches in their baskets and then let them go out with their baskets.
Man Bao sat on a small stool, holding a pair of scissors in his hand, and trimmed the branches they broke back. For example, one branch could be cut into three or four branches, and the leaves could also be trimmed...
She kept some, and gave the rest to Keke to collect, and the others were posted on the forum.
Two of the branches were left alone by her. She cut them all into pieces, which were just the right length for cuttings. One part was given to Keke for collection, and the other ones were wrapped in soaked paper and placed in the space.
middle.
She decided to wait until the forum's inclusion points came down before putting the rest on the forum, so that it would be easier to price.
If this kind of branch is really valuable and popular on the forum, she will go to the mountain more times and fold more.
Man Bao put it away, ignoring the messy branches and leaves on the ground, and went directly to check its information based on the name given by Ke Ke.