Chapter 1388 Panic
The Crown Princess looked at it and carefully put it away. Turning around, she saw her taking another piece of dessert from the plate and eating it, so she asked with a smile, "Are you hungry? Indeed, when Eunuch Wu came to pick you up, you probably hadn't had lunch yet. It's almost dark now. Why don't you stay here and have dinner before leaving?"
The prince standing by suddenly threw the teacup in his hand to the ground and said, "What are you eating? Get out!"
The Crown Princess' expression froze for a moment, but her face didn't change much. She simply stood up and said, "Then I'll take Doctor Zhou out."
Manbao was also startled by the prince's words, and hurriedly stood up with the princess. However, he was reluctant to put down the snacks in his hands, so he put his hands into his sleeves, saluted, and followed the princess out.
The prince saw this and was so angry that he fell backwards. He couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Useless thing..."
The Crown Princess pulled Manbao out. She asked the palace maids to stay far behind them and took Manbao's hand as they walked towards the palace gate.
The two walked quietly for a while, and when they reached a fork in the road, the Crown Princess ordered the people behind her, "Go, have Eunuch Wu bring over the box in the study."
The palace maid agreed and quickly went to the study to find Eunuch Wu.
The Crown Princess looked back and waved to the palace maids. The palace maids bowed and retreated five steps. Seeing that the Crown Princess was still staring at them, they retreated another ten steps.
The Crown Princess then withdrew her gaze and looked at Man Bao and said, "Doctor Zhou, please do not spread the news of what happened today, including my illness and that of His Highness."
Manbao immediately said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I never reveal the Crown Prince's illness to anyone. Even before, I never told anyone about it."
The Crown Princess smiled and nodded, "I know that the news outside, whether true or false, is our problem and has nothing to do with you."
She lowered her head and looked at Manbao carefully, and then she realized that only one year had passed, and she had grown a little. Before the New Year, she looked like a child, but now she looked like a young girl, and seemed to have grown a little taller.
The Crown Princess couldn't help but reach out and touch her hair, and asked with a smile: "You are fourteen, right?"
Manbao nodded. The Crown Princess suddenly remembered something and couldn't help laughing. She asked, "I remember you said you were fifteen last year. Now that I look closely, I haven't even had your thirteenth birthday yet..."
Manbao immediately said, "My birthday is in the twelfth lunar month. I turned thirteen last month, so I should say fourteen. I'll be one year older after the new year..."
The Crown Princess laughed so hard that tears were about to come out. She reached out and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. Manbao was speechless because she did not feel the Crown Princess's happiness.
The Crown Princess looked at her with tears in her eyes and smiled, "You are such a child. Now you want to grow up quickly and wish you could add two more years to your age. But you don't know that in the future you will want to live more slowly and be younger."
Her hand was still on Manbao's hair. She stared at her blankly and said, "But sometimes I feel like you. I feel that time is passing too slowly. I wish it would just pass by ten years at a time, so that I can grow old straight away."
Manbao tried to hold it in, but couldn't help it, whispering in defense, "My Lady, I don't think the days are going by slowly, nor do I want them to go by quickly. I feel so busy every day now, and I wish the days were longer. My teacher said that if I don't sleep more, I might not grow taller, but if I sleep more, I won't be able to finish all the things I have to do every day."
The Crown Princess stared at Manbao in a daze, and after a while she murmured, "That's great..."
Looking at the energetic Manbao, a tear welled up in the corner of the Crown Princess's eye, but she was smiling. She took her hand away from Manbao's head and said softly, "You are a good child. You can stop seeing patients in the palace for now. From now on, when you come to the palace, you can only see the Crown Prince and leave after you are done."
Manbao was just wondering when Eunuch Wu had already brought the box over himself.
The palace servants still stood far away.
The Crown Princess opened the box in front of him, confirmed the contents with Manbao, and then closed it.
She said to Eunuch Wu, "This is a reward from the Crown Prince for Doctor Zhou. You should personally carry it to the carriage and find someone to take Doctor Zhou back."
He didn't even let Eunuch Wu deliver it in person.
Although Eunuch Wu rarely personally sent Manbao to Changqing Lane before, this was the first time that the Crown Princess gave such instructions. Not only Eunuch Wu, but even Manbao noticed it.
Eunuch Wu quickly agreed.
Although Manbao was confused, he still bowed and followed Eunuch Wu.
The Crown Princess watched her walk away.
Manbao and Eunuch Wu walked out along the palace wall. When they were out of the East Palace, Manbao reached out and lifted a corner of the box, indicating that she wanted to share it with Eunuch Wu.
This stone is too heavy, and this box is made of solid wood, which makes it even heavier.
Although Eunuch Wu didn't know what this thing was used for, the Crown Prince had even sealed his study, and the Crown Princess's expression was not right, so he felt that this was a very important thing and he didn't dare to entrust it to others.
He had been carrying the baby all the way and was already sweating profusely.
As soon as Manbao stretched out her hand, he smiled at her, and then changed from carrying to carrying, and he and Manbao each carried a corner of the box and walked slowly out along the palace wall.
The young eunuch who had been following behind glanced at his master, then slowly slowed down his pace and stopped ten steps away.
Eunuch Wu then moved his lips slightly and asked in a low voice, "Doctor Zhou, what are the Crown Prince and Crown Princess doing..."
Manbao lifted the box with one hand and took out the snacks he had been keeping with the other and ate them. As he ate, he sighed softly and said, "You should be careful recently. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in a bad mood."
Eunuch Wu smiled and said, "Your Highness has been a little unhappy about the issue of offspring."
Manbao shook her head. That kind of unhappiness was different. Manbao couldn't put it into words for a moment, but she knew it was different.
Before she returned for the New Year, although the prince would occasionally lose his temper, his temper had actually improved a lot. He would occasionally joke with her and would never quarrel with the Crown Princess in front of her.
When she came back after the New Year and took the prince's pulse for the first time, the prince was also angry, but that kind of anger was different from the anger he felt after knowing that he was poisoned.
She could sense that although he was angry at the time, he had not yet lost his mind. He was more anxious and annoyed because of the failure.
But after knowing that she was poisoned, she felt that the prince was no longer the prince he was a moment ago.
Manbao's heart trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but shiver.
Eunuch Wu was quick to notice. He was slightly startled, but didn't show it on his face. He smiled and changed the subject, "Young Doctor Zhou, are you hungry?"
Manbao took a look at the snacks in his hand and simply stuffed them all into his mouth and ate them all.
Eunuch Wu: ...
A look of helplessness flashed across Eunuch Wu's face as he continued to chatter, "It's also my fault. We were in such a hurry to get to the palace that we didn't have time to prepare anything for you. It's almost dark now, and you haven't even had lunch yet."
Manbao said: "It's okay, I can have dinner when I get home, and I can just eat an extra bowl of rice to make up for it."
Can it be supplemented in this way?
See you at nine o'clock in the evening, I am still the lovely manuscript box
(End of this chapter)
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