Chapter 1291 Send You
Manbao looked around and, seeing that no one was paying attention, he quietly asked, "Are other masters like His Majesty and the Crown Prince?"
Aunt Shang: ...
Manbao understood something from her silence. She sighed softly and nodded to show that she understood.
Aunt Shang became even more silent upon seeing this.
Aunt Shang arranged for a carriage to take Manbao back to Changqing Lane. She didn't see the pot of flowers that she had admired until she got home. The pot was quite beautiful, but the leaves looked familiar to her.
While he was hesitating, Ke Ke said, "Yes, it's the chrysanthemums you sold to the Yizhou Palace before the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Manbao: ...
Manbao moved the flowers to Baishan's door, then took out the fox fur and looked at it, and decided to find a shop to make a fox fur coat when he had time.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang returned just in time for dinner. As soon as they entered the yard, they cried out, "I'm starving!" Man Bao poured them a glass of warm water, which they drank in one gulp. Then, they touched their stomachs and asked, "Is dinner not ready yet?"
Manbao asked, "Did your Imperial College miss out on your lunch?"
"It's cold and we get hungry quickly, and today is especially demanding on our brains," Bai Shan said, "We should bring some snacks to school tomorrow."
He pulled two books from his basket, along with a stack of papers, and showed them to Manbao. "We've looked for a lot of books today, but unfortunately, there aren't many records about the Imperial Medical Bureau in the Imperial College, and they're quite fragmented and scattered. I'm afraid it'll take a few more days to find them. How was your conversation with the Empress today?"
Man Bao said, "I have already rejected her, and she also agreed to let Dr. Liu study with me for the time being."
She flipped through the stack of papers in her hand and said in surprise, "You guys found quite a lot of stuff, and you even wrote down the sources."
Bai Erlang slid over to Mr. Zhuang's table, grabbed a piece of pastry, and nibbled on it. "Of course," he said. "Not only us, but also Yin Huo, Feng Xuexiong, Yi Xuexiong, and Ji Hao all helped find it."
Manbao tilted his head and looked at Baishan.
Bai Shan said: "I only asked Yin Huo for help. I just met Brother Feng and Brother Yi in the library, and they helped me look for it."
As for Ji Hao, he didn't know why he followed him to the library. He was not a book lover.
Manbao didn't pay attention to Ji Hao. She carefully looked at the relevant information copied on the paper. Before she finished reading a page, the kitchen brought up the food, so everyone had to eat first.
Bai Shan rolled up his sleeves and was about to wash his hands. He stopped when passing by his room. He looked down at the flowerpot placed in the middle of his door, paused, bent down and moved it to the study, and then went to wash his hands.
When he came back, he couldn't help but ask Manbao, "Did you put that pot of flowers by my door?"
Manbao nodded.
"Why leave it outside? What if it freezes to death?"
Manbao said: "No, it's very strong."
"Those are chrysanthemums, their leaves are still so green in the middle of winter."
Manbao nodded heavily, "Yes, a variant of chrysanthemum."
Bai Erlang asked, "Isn't that very valuable? How can you give it to him?"
Manbao raised his eyelids and asked, "Do you want one? If someone else gives one to me later, I'll give you one too."
She turned to Bai Shan and said, "You have a bad mouth, so this first pot is for you."
While Bai Erlang was still full of questions, Bai Shan had already realized that this pot of flowers was the mutant chrysanthemum that Manbao had originally sold.
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Mr. Zhuang also realized it, shook his head and smiled, "This is karma. God is fair after all."
Manbao pouted, but did not refute. Instead, he ate a big bowl of rice angrily.
Bai Erlang also understood and chuckled.
Bai Shan found it very interesting. After dinner, he squatted in the study and looked at the pot of chrysanthemums for a long time, thinking thoughtfully: "Other chrysanthemums can only bloom until early winter at most. Now it's deep winter, how come its leaves are still so green and lush?"
Man sat at his desk, continuing to look over the information they had copied, and added, "It's a mutant, cold-resistant."
Bai Shan: "If we prune and cultivate the branches, won't we be able to enjoy the chrysanthemums in winter?"
"Don't even think about it. This flower's genes are unstable. After it blooms once, I don't know what it will look like the second time. I heard it'll be ugly."
This wasn't the first time Bai Shan had heard the word "gene" from Man Bao, and he knew what it was. Hearing this, he said, "Then let's prune the branches and graft them together to see if we can grow other flowers."
He said, "If it is possible, there will be many flowers to enjoy in the winter."
Manbao flipped over a piece of paper and said nonchalantly, "Then you can graft it. It's best to graft edible flowers. There are no green leafy vegetables to eat in winter, and we're tired of the vegetables stored in the cellar. See if you can graft some vegetables and grow them."
Manbao paused, turned his head and looked at the chrysanthemum leaves on the ground, thinking: "If the vegetables in winter can grow like this pot of chrysanthemums, then we won't have to worry about having no vegetables to eat."
Bai Shan also looked at the pot of chrysanthemums in front of him and thought deeply, "Were they originally kept in the greenhouse in the palace, or outside?"
Manbao: "Oh, I forgot to ask."
Because chrysanthemums were not expensive to Koko, she didn't take it to heart.
Upon hearing this, Bai Shan simply moved the flower pot to the yard, found a place that could shelter it from the wind and snow, and decided to prove it through an experiment.
Xiang Mingxue was just about to close the ventilation window when he saw it and couldn't help shaking his head.
Xiang Chao didn't dare let Xiang Mingxue stand there for too long, so he hurried to help close the window. He also saw it and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Why is such a precious pot of chrysanthemums left outside in the cold?"
Xiang Mingxue said: "This is where we are inferior to them."
Xiang Chao was puzzled, but Xiang Mingxue did not answer. He helped Xiang Chao back to the bed and continued his rehabilitation.
He can now barely move a few steps, but he is still not very stable and does not dare to overdo it, so he can only rehabilitate slowly.
After putting the flowerpot away, Bai Shan returned to the study to sort out the materials with Manbao, and also discussed the plans and ideas for the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Bai Erlang sat at his desk, lighting a candle and concentrating on writing a biography. Today, Bai Shan forced him to do the work for free, and he had not had time to write yet.
Mr. Zhuang was also in the study, occasionally answering Bai Shan and Man Bao's questions, such as how the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue generally operated, and how to report the addition of students to the Imperial Medical Bureau.
As Mr. Zhuang saw that their proposals were increasing in number, he gradually deviated from the topic. In the end, it seemed more like they were setting up a medical school rather than a women's hospital.
After all, they are still children, and they just go to and from school on weekdays, so they treat all functional departments as if they were in school.
He shook his head and smiled, interrupting their questions, saying, "According to your plan, it's like running a school. There's a ready-made example of this, the Imperial College."
Bai Shan's eyes lit up and he asked, "Sir, do you think the court will agree?"
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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