Chapter 1091 Qinghua Mountain
The crown prince offered sacrifices to heaven on behalf of the emperor. The ministers who had been persistently submitting impeachment memorials to the emperor in the past few days suddenly became silent. Most of them put down the memorials in their hands and no longer submitted new impeachment memorials.
Only a few ministers kept on passing it up with perseverance.
But the pressure on the prince was suddenly relieved a lot.
Before nightfall, the Ministry of Rites finally prepared the crown prince's formal dress and hat for offering sacrifices to heaven. They used the emperor's old ones. The embroiderer removed one of the dragon's claws to make a dragon, and then tightened the clothes according to the crown prince's stature. That was it.
Even though it's a little off, at least I have a dress to wear, right?
The Ministry of Rites also felt embarrassed, but they felt it was not their problem.
The prince didn't care about such trivial matters. While trying on clothes, he said to the princess, "I don't know what the third brother is doing right now."
The Crown Princess glared at him in anger, patted him lightly and said, "Your Highness, please restrain yourself. Don't provoke him these days. It would be good to show some respect in front of the Emperor."
The prince snorted coldly.
The Crown Princess whispered, "Even for the sake of Mother, Your Highness should not have any more conflicts with the Third Prince at this time."
The prince was silent for a while before asking, "How is mother's health?"
The Crown Princess sighed softly.
The prince frowned and asked, "What do the imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital eat?"
He paused and said, "How about bringing Zhou Manxuan into the palace to take a look?"
The Crown Princess knew that the Crown Prince was referring to the young genius doctor who had opened her brother's abdomen to treat his injuries. After thinking for a moment, she whispered, "After the Heavenly Sacrifice is over, I will mention this to my mother."
The prince nodded, looking at his blurry self in the bronze mirror, but the corners of his mouth curled up, "Tomorrow, I will piss that guy off to death."
The Crown Princess couldn't help herself and patted him again.
On the Double Ninth Festival, Manbao and his friends got up early. There was an activity at the Imperial College, and they were going hiking today!
Bai Erlang and his fellow students decided to go to Mohui Garden to play Qushui Liushang, and Manbao finally decided to accompany Mr. Zhuang to climb the mountain.
Bai Dalang naturally had his own place to go, so early in the morning, after breakfast, everyone went their separate ways.
Manbao took out his small backpack and went to the kitchen to pack a lot of hot freshly baked cakes, even small white steamed buns, and also went to his master's room to get a jar of chrysanthemum wine.
Mr. Zhuang watched her wandering around the yard, finding all kinds of things and stuffing them into the backpack like a hamster. Finally, she habitually took out her needle kit from the medicine box, wrapped it up, and stuffed it to the bottom of the backpack.
Then he took two bamboo tubes to the kitchen to fill them with boiled water, ready to drink while climbing the mountain.
Daji accompanied Bai Shan to climb the mountain, while Liu Gui drove a carriage and waited outside the door for Mr. Zhuang and Manbao.
Mr. Zhuang held a folding fan and followed Manbao with a relaxed look on his face.
Manbao climbed into the car and then remembered to ask, "Sir, where are we going to climb the mountain?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "I thought you wouldn't ask. What a coincidence, it's the same mountain that Bai Shan and the others climbed, Qinghua Mountain."
Manbao: "...Then why should we go separately?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "Isn't it because you took too long? Bai Shan has been waiting for you at the door for a quarter of an hour."
Manbao felt that the problem was not his. "You didn't tell me you were going to climb Qinghua Mountain. I thought you were going to Xuandu Temple."
"Xuandu Temple is still a little short," Mr. Zhuang said with a smile, "This time we'll go somewhere farther away. There are cliff carvings on Qinghua Mountain. I'll take you there to admire the Buddha."
Manbao was curious, "Cliff carvings?"
Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded. "It's a stone reclining Buddha. There are also some stone-carved Buddhist scriptures on the mountain. You can take a look."
He raised his hand and patted her head gently, saying with a smile, "Because you've been reading at home all day and your brain has become dull."
Manbao lowered his head and chuckled, then asked curiously, "Sir, do you also believe in Buddhism?"
"You've read some Buddhist theories, and you can read them occasionally. But you're still young, so there's no need to delve into them. When you're older, you can decide what you like."
Manbao agreed, "So this time we are going to climb the mountain?"
"Well, I'll take you there to broaden your horizons."
Qinghua Mountain is outside the city and is much larger than Xuandu Temple. The most important thing is that there is no one there. No, it is usually deserted. Today is Double Ninth Festival. There are people everywhere at the foot of the mountain, but there are not many people on the mountain.
Because the mountain is not low and is quite large, people who come to climb the mountain disperse as soon as they enter the mountain, so it seems that there are not many people.
On the contrary, at the foot of the mountain, there were many small vendors doing business, almost blocking the road.
When Manbao and his companions' carriage reached the foot of the mountain, she was the first to get off with a backpack on her back, then turned around and helped Mr. Zhuang down.
She looked at the bustling crowd and asked, "Where are Bai Shan and the others?"
"Let's go up the mountain," Mr. Zhuang said with a smile. "Qinghua Mountain is so big, and there are so many entrances. You may not meet someone there, so just go with the flow."
Manbao then asked, "Sir, where are your friends? Where are Mr. Chen and Mr. Jiang?"
Mr. Zhuang also shook his head and said with a smile, "We only agreed to meet at the foot of Qinghua Mountain the day before yesterday, but when we got here today, there were so many people that it would be difficult to find them. Maybe they went there this morning, so let's go up the mountain too. Whether we can run into each other or not depends on fate."
Manbao nodded, "I also think it's better to go with the flow."
So the master and his disciple said goodbye to Liu Gui and headed up the mountain. Manbao and Liu Gui said, "Please find a place to park and have some fun. We'll come find you when we get down. If we can find you, that's great. If not, that's up to you. You can go home when it's evening."
Mr. Zhuang: ...He said that it’s up to fate to find someone when climbing the mountain, but he didn’t say that it’s up to fate to go home as well.
But Manbao was already standing happily at the foot of the mountain. He pointed two fingers at the top of the mountain and shouted with great enthusiasm: "Go! Let's go up the mountain!"
Mr. Zhuang shook his head and started climbing the mountain behind her.
Qinghua Mountain is quite large, with several peaks connected to it. The one they climbed was neither high nor low, and was rather flat. Although Mr. Zhuang was not young anymore, he had always paid attention to his health. With his little disciple Manbao, who loved to prick people, his body was naturally in better shape, so climbing the mountain was fine for him.
After climbing for half an hour, the two stopped to rest for a while. Mr. Zhuang sat on the stone that his disciple had found for him, while Manbao carried her backpack and rummaged through the grass. After a while, she picked up a small branch and dug out an unknown grass.
She looked at the grass happily, and casually pulled off a large leaf from a small tree nearby. Then she wrapped the grass with the leaf and put it in her backpack.
Mr. Zhuang shook his head when he saw this. It seemed that his young disciple would never be able to change this bad habit in his lifetime.
Manbao felt that her husband must not have had a good rest for a while, so she waved to Mr. Zhuang and turned to go to the woods further away and deeper. Koko was also very happy to scan the nearby animals and plants for her.
The next update will be around 4:00 PM
(End of this chapter)
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