Chapter 1523: Eat Bad
The Crown Prince and the Emperor have some awkward tempers, but they are truly filial to the Queen. Today, he has asked Zhou Man to take time out to visit the Queen at Taiji Hall.
When I went to see the Empress during the afternoon break, I saw that her expression hadn't changed much. I remembered what Old Master Tang had said, so I said, "Why don't you move to Daming Palace to escape the summer heat, Mother?"
It is closer to Longshou Mountain and right on the Wei River, so it is cooler in the summer.
However, the construction of Daming Palace has been stopped, and many places have not been completed. Only Hanyuan Hall is habitable.
The Queen hesitated and said, "Your Royal Grandmother has not been feeling well these past few days..."
The prince then said, "Then let the Empress Dowager go too."
He thought for a moment and said, "Let Father persuade the Empress Dowager. He's been feeling the heat lately, too. Why not move there together?"
The queen thought about it and thought this was a good idea, so she smiled and asked, "In that case, let your wife move there too. It's almost June, and the weather is getting hotter. She's pregnant and it's hard work."
The prince did not object.
So the prince was filial and decided to move the emperor and empress to the Daming Palace to escape the summer heat. Of course, the emperor and empress were also filial, so they brought the empress dowager with them as well.
The royal family was harmonious and happy, and the lives of the court officials also became easier. Although some people were very anxious, veteran officials like Wei Zhi didn't care. The prince was doing well, and the relationship between the emperor and the prince was also improving. They had to be crazy to join those people in getting anxious.
The Daming Palace is located in the northeast of the East Palace, outside the North City. The emperor ordered the move and the ministers on duty went directly to the Hanyuan Hall to receive the announcement, which made things difficult for Manbao.
When I took the Crown Princess's pulse before, she could just walk from Chongwenguan to Xifu with her short legs, which was not far at all.
But now she had to go to Daming Palace. Apart from anything else, she had to leave the palace first before she could go to Daming Palace. Even if there was a carriage on the way out of the palace, it was still a long way away.
This directly compressed her rest time and the time she spent teaching her apprentices in the afternoon.
Fortunately, Zheng Gu and his colleagues had recently performed acupuncture on everyone in the palace and collected a lot of pulse cases. Moreover, because they had been repeating some acupuncture methods, they could now use those methods even without Manbao watching over them. This made her feel a little more relaxed, otherwise she would have been running around.
The Queen probably knew how difficult it was for her, so after she had been running for two days, she smiled and said, "From now on, you can come from the Western Inner Courtyard. It will be faster that way."
Manbao was stunned and asked, "Can the Western Inner Courtyard pass through the Daming Palace? Isn't there a river in between?"
The Queen smiled and said, "There is a boat on the river. You can get here by boat."
Manbao was so surprised that he went to the Western Inner Court early the next day with the Queen's order.
The guards and eunuchs on duty on the water looked at the warrant in Manbao's hand, then looked up at the sun and couldn't help but say, "Young Doctor Zhou, don't you usually see the Crown Princess after lunch? It's only noon today."
It seems like we came a little early.
Manbao blushed slightly, and said with all his might, "Chongwenguan isn't busy today, so I came early. How about taking a boat over there?"
"Of course we can, but we have to wait for the food from the Shangshi Bureau to arrive before we can leave. This boat has a limited number of trips a day, so we can't leave less or more."
The Western Inner Courtyard is not far from the Daming Palace. To the north of them is Longshouyuan, where there is no palace wall or city wall. To the south is the East Palace, but it is not connected to the palace wall of the Daming Palace, so there is a gap.
That opening is the river.
The water comes from Longshouyuan, flows through the West Inner Courtyard and then splits into two streams, one flows to the palace city and the other flows to the Daming Palace. A large lake was also dug inside the Daming Palace. After passing through the lake, the water flows out of the palace wall and into the inner city.
It can be said that these two rivers run through the capital, so the water source is very important, and there are imperial guards patrolling along the way.
The emperor and empress lived in the Daming Palace. Some food was delivered there directly, but many things had to be first brought into the palace before being transferred to the Daming Palace.
So this river is used to deliver things to that side.
Because Manbao arrived early, the boat that usually departed at noon set off after receiving the things sent by the Shangshi Bureau.
Sitting on the boat, Manbao was extremely excited. She looked at the clear water and took the boat out of the Western Inner Courtyard. After a while, she arrived at the wall of Daming Palace and took the boat directly in.
There was a small pier inside the wall, which was also guarded by imperial guards. Manbao had to get off the boat before he could even enjoy the scenery on the river.
She felt quite sorry.
Changyu and Mingda, who were playing at the Crown Princess's place, couldn't help laughing when they heard Manbao's regretful sigh. Changyu said, "If you want to see the scenery on the water, we can just call a boat and go to the lake. Why do we have to go all the way to the river?"
Mingda smiled and nodded, saying, "That section of the river isn't very long, and you're not allowed to plant flowers or grass in the water. What's so nice about it? The lake is more beautiful. There are lotus buds in the lake now, which is perfect."
After hearing this, everyone wanted to go play in the lake. Even the Crown Princess couldn't help but think, "I suddenly want to eat lotus seeds."
Princess Changyu: "Sister-in-law, your taste is really weird now. Just now you said you wanted to eat garlic, and now you have changed to lotus seeds."
The Crown Princess touched her belly and smiled, "This is not what I want to eat, it's what the baby in my belly wants to eat."
Chang Yu looked at the Crown Princess's belly and, for some reason, suddenly shuddered. She whispered to Man Bao, "Will this belly continue to grow?"
"Of course, this is just the beginning." Manbao said, "It has to be at least twice as big."
Manbao has seen countless pregnant women since she was a child. Not to mention those in the clinic, she has also seen several of her sisters-in-law in the village and at home. She has seen their pregnant bellies getting bigger day by day.
She said, "Just wait. In the next two months, your belly will be blown up like a balloon. By the way, you can change your diet."
The child has entered another stage and the nutritional needs have changed, so the diet needs to be changed.
The Crown Princess nodded and smiled, "I had lost my appetite when I was in the East Palace. Fortunately, I moved here. It's much cooler now, and my appetite is back."
Like the Crown Princess, the Queen and the Emperor also had improved appetites.
The emperor ate six melons in one breath and successfully made himself sick. Manbao and Mingda were halfway through their play when Gu Zhong came to invite them over.
Mingda and Changyu were very worried, so they followed Manbao.
On the way there, Gu Zhong tactfully expressed the emperor's intention to Manbao, saying that it would be better not to write down the medical record of the incident of eating too much melon.
Because the written medical record has to be submitted to the Imperial Medical Service. Once it is submitted to the Imperial Medical Service, all the ministers in the court will know about it. Not to mention the emperor, even Gu Zhong can guess how Wei Zhi will make a suggestion tomorrow.
Therefore, please help me keep it a secret. We will quietly see a doctor, prescribe medicine and cure the disease.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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