Chapter 1124 Gift
After getting in the car, Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng squeezed in and sat next to her.
Manbao looked at him silently.
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng coughed lightly and said, "Doctor Zhou, it sounds to me like Aunt Shang is saying that you're going to enter the palace tomorrow."
Manbao nodded, "The Queen gave me an invitation to attend the Queen Mother's Thousand Autumn Banquet."
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng covered his chest with his hands, feeling very complicated. Although he had guessed it long ago, he was still shocked when he really knew what was going on.
He felt both envious and bitter, "My uncle has been an imperial physician for so many years, and even at such a grand banquet, he can only stay on duty at the Imperial Hospital."
He paused and said, "No, even the director of the Imperial Hospital can only be on duty in the Imperial Hospital."
Manbao asked, "Why?"
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng sighed and said, "We doctors are inferior to those adults after all. We only treat patients."
Manbao frowned. Although he disagreed in his heart, he didn't say anything. Instead, he asked, "What does the Queen Mother usually do at her Qianqiu Banquet?"
Shopkeeper Zheng has never participated in it, so how would he know?
However, "A banquet is mostly just about eating and drinking."
Manbao thought so too. It was a birthday banquet after all. Although she ate little, she had eaten before. She had a meal, gave a gift, talked to the birthday boy, made him happy, and the banquet was over.
It’s just that the people who attended the Empress Dowager’s birthday party were different.
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng got off the car in front of Jishitang and said to Manbao, "Doctor Zhou, I can't accompany you to the palace tomorrow. You should be careful."
Manbao nodded in agreement.
Manbao checked the time in the system and said to Daji with a smile, "Let's go and pick up our junior brothers."
When they arrived at the gate of the Imperial College, Bai Shan and his friends had not yet finished school. Manbao sat in the carriage and took out a pen and paper from the medicine box to write down the things they were going to buy.
When Bai Shan and the others arrived, she had just finished writing.
Liu Huan greeted her warmly and asked, "Where are you going today?"
Manbao said, "Let's go shopping today."
Liu Huan asked, "What are you buying?"
"Buy some toys for my friends." Manbao said happily to Bai Shan: "The Queen gave me some invitations. We can go to the Queen Mother's Thousand Autumn Banquet together tomorrow."
After saying that, he took out the four invitations, gave one to Bai Shan and Bai Cheng each, took one for himself, and handed the remaining one to Yin Huo who was standing beside him.
Yin Huo was stunned and took it blankly.
Liu Huan, the only one with nothing in his hands, looked around and then looked at the note in Yin Huo's hand. "What do you want this for?"
Yin Huo had already put it away and said to Man Bao, "Then let's meet at the palace gate tomorrow?"
Manbao nodded.
Liu Huan: "No, you can enter the palace anyway, why do you need another letter?"
Bai Shan asked unhappily, "Has he ever been to the palace before?"
"That's not the case," Liu Huan said, "but isn't it because he's weak? Entering the palace requires formalities, and one has to stand. His family was afraid he couldn't handle it, so they didn't let him in."
Manbao said, "He is now well enough to enter the palace."
She turned to Yin Huo and said, "You can enter the palace anyway. You can use this invitation, or keep it as a souvenir. I think the calligraphy and painting on it are quite beautiful."
"Of course they look good," Bai Erlang said, "These invitations were written and drawn by our senior students, and they chose the ones with good calligraphy."
Manbao: "Hey, do you students from the Imperial College still do this kind of thing?"
Bai Shan didn't think it was a big deal. "Students at our Imperial College are often forced to copy things. It's normal."
As they were talking, several people climbed onto the carriage. Liu Huan squeezed in. He was also very curious about what Manbao was going to buy.
Manbao knew what Mingda wanted, so he went straight to the main street, jumped off the carriage and started to choose.
For example, some small dragonflies, some wooden swords or uniquely shaped pen holders, wooden horses, and some beautiful small hairpins and rings. Manbao bought two of them all, planning to find a beautiful rattan box to pack them up after returning home, one for Mingda and the other for Princess Changyu.
Liu Huan was still mumbling, "Since you asked for an invitation for him, why didn't you get an extra one for me?"
Manbao listened with one ear and listened out with the other. She was so annoyed that she said, "You can definitely enter the palace. Your family won't stop you."
Liu Huan turned around and asked Yin Huo, "Will your family stop you?"
Yin Huo nodded, "Yes."
"So how are you going to go out tomorrow?"
"In a carriage."
Liu Huan: ...
Bai Shan turned around and asked, "Do you want us to pick you up?"
Yin Huo was about to shake his head, but after thinking for a moment, he didn't. Instead, he asked, "Are you guys up so early?"
"It's not that difficult. We get up early when we go to the temple fair at home."
Yin Huo smiled and said, "Okay, then come to my house to pick me up."
Liu Huan was very jealous. "I'll go with you too. Our two families happen to live not far from each other. Just call me when you come to pick him up."
Bai Erlang thought he was very strange. "Didn't you dislike Yin He before? Why do you always want to play with us now?"
Liu Huan stiffened his neck and said, "Didn't you have conflicts with him before? Besides, I don't like him. I like you guys."
When Manbao and the other two heard this, they thought what he said made a lot of sense, so they patted him on the shoulders and agreed.
When they got home, Mr. Zhuang saw that they had divided up the toys and other things, but they still hadn't mentioned the most important thing, so he asked, "What do you plan to give to the Queen Mother when you attend the Qianqiu Banquet?"
The three of them froze and looked up from their wicker boxes. "We still need to give gifts?"
Manbao then realized belatedly, "Oh, right, we didn't go with the adults, and no one gave us gifts, so we had to give them."
Bai Shan frowned, "How do I send this?"
Bai Erlang said, "They are the royal family, they won't give gifts, right? What about buying things? Many shops outside are about to close now, and what can we buy?"
Manbao also began to worry. She finally remembered, "Mingda seems to have embroidered a longevity character for the empress dowager."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang looked at her in unison, "Can you embroider?"
Manbao shook his head. "But I can write. How about we find a piece of nice-looking paper and write the word 'longevity' on it?"
Bai Shan: "How about just one? How about ninety-nine?"
Bai Jilang: "It's too late to write well now, right?"
Mr. Zhuang coughed lightly and asked, "Where are you going to find some nice paper right now?"
The three of them looked at each other, and Bai Erlang glared at Bai Shan hard. Bai Shan glared at him and then turned to look at Manbao.
Manbao blinked and nodded, "I'll figure out the paper, but what about the words?"
Mr. Zhuang, however, looked at Manbao and asked, "What kind of paper do you use?"
Manbao said, "I have a collection of good paper, which was given to me by others when I was seeing a doctor."
Mr. Zhuang nodded. He knew that Manbao was now frequenting the homes of the powerful and wealthy, and he always received some good things as gifts.
Seeing that he had been fooled, Manbao breathed a sigh of relief.
The next update will be around 6:00 PM
(End of this chapter)
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