Chapter 1545: Tolerance (Thanks to the tip from book friend "Al Pacino")
Perhaps considering the emperor's physical condition, the political affairs discussed today were relatively peaceful, and even Wei Zhi rarely smiled at the emperor.
Seeing this, the emperor became more and more demanding and asked the prince to do most of the work. He then quietly went to see the parrot kept in the corridor and taught it to speak for half an hour before leaving satisfied.
He did this without hiding it from Wei Zhi.
After Wei Zhi knew about it, he endured it silently. The emperor was quite happy, but then his joy turned into sorrow.
While eating lunch, the emperor felt his throat was even more sore. After eating a piece of meat, he found it difficult to swallow and his head became dizzy.
The queen felt something was wrong and quickly reached out to touch his forehead. She found that it was even hotter than in the morning, so she quickly asked someone to invite Xiao Yuanzheng.
Xiao Yuanzheng didn't expect that His Majesty's condition would worsen while taking the medicine, so he quickly gave him medicine to reduce his fever.
The emperor could no longer handle government affairs in the afternoon. The prince came over and took a look. Seeing his father sleeping with a frown on his brow, he could only silently return to the front hall to work for him.
Manbao knew nothing about this. Even though the ministers seemed to be well-informed, it was because the people in the palace wanted them to know the news that they found out so quickly.
The Queen did not want Mingda and Changyu to worry, so she did not let the palace maids tell them that the Emperor had a high fever again.
When they separated in the morning, the Empress forbade them from going to the main hall. She said, "Mingda is already weak, and Changyu is not old either. Don't let your illness get to you. For the next two days, you should study with the teacher and keep your sister-in-law company. Come and pay your respects to your father when he recovers."
Because the emperor was in very good spirits when he had breakfast in the morning and even told them jokes, the two of them did not think it was a serious illness. They turned around and forgot about it, and only remembered to make the ointment.
The identity of the Crown Princess is even more difficult to mention.
So while people in the main hall were worried about making the medicine, people in the side hall were happily making the ointment.
Manbao added honey and sheep oil to two portions of ointment respectively, and then refrigerated them.
They took out the ointment and peeled it off. Manbao picked up a little and rubbed it on the back of his hand. He said to the three of them happily, "I think we did the right thing. Not to mention, the scent of this ointment is quite pleasant. Next time, we can try adding some fragrant flower juice to it. Maybe it will have a floral scent."
Mingda said, "That's great. Don't you like the flowers and plants in the garden? I dug some and it tastes pretty good. Maybe we can add some grass juice?"
Chang Yu thought about it for a moment, then shuddered and refused, "Wouldn't that make my face green? How would it look after I wipe it off? I don't want it."
The Crown Princess also refused.
Because of the Queen's instructions, they made more rouge this time, equivalent to twice the amount from last time.
After looking at it, Manbao said, "I want to dig three more cans."
Mingda and Changyu also took some from their mother and rubbed it on their faces these past two days. They both felt that they looked better, so they said, "I want some too."
Manbao took out six small wooden jars from her medicine box, while Mingda and the others took out their own porcelain jars and placed them next to Manbao's wooden jars, waiting for her to dig.
Manbao scooped some for them first, and after filling up the porcelain jar, he said, "Use less, be careful of getting acne."
Mingda and Changyu happily agreed and said, "We'll stay together next time."
They thought it was fun to do this.
The palace maids standing by thought with a worldly air, isn’t it interesting?
The princesses just pounded the herbs and added some firewood. Most of the time they did the work and they were the ones who looked after the stove.
Manbao also found it very interesting. The main reason was that making the ointment this time was completely different from following the shopkeeper Zheng to make the ointment, which required her to keep an eye on it. She only had to do some key steps, and it was not very time-consuming.
The Crown Princess had no idea that the ointment would be available at this time, so she had no experience. She was just sending someone back to get the porcelain jar when she turned around and saw Manbao digging ointment into his wooden jar. She couldn't help but ask, "Why do you need so much?"
Manbao said, "This is for my second and third sisters-in-law, this is for my sixth brother, this is for Grandmother Liu and Aunt Zheng, and I plan to wipe this one myself."
The Crown Princess finally understood why she had so much time to teach Mingda and Changyu how to make ointment.
The palace maid quickly brought the porcelain jar and the Crown Princess handed it to Manbao.
Manbao scooped out a portion of rouge for her, and in an instant only about one-fifth was left in the big jar.
Manbao felt that the jar was too empty, so after thinking for a while he asked Mingda, "Is there a bigger and more beautiful porcelain jar?"
Mingda asked the palace maid to look for it, and she found it soon.
Manbao used a wooden stick to scrape all the ointment in, then covered it and handed it to Mingda, saying with a smile, "Please pass it to the Queen for me."
After all, this time the rouge was made on the commission of the Queen Mother, right?
Mingda happily took it, then looked at the other jar of acne cream that was still two-thirds full and asked, "What about this?"
Manbao asked curiously, "Don't you want this ointment?"
Chang Yu said, "We don't have any sores on our faces."
"You don't have to have acne to use it. It has the same moisturizing effect as rouge, but rouge can also whiten the skin, while acne cream can reduce acne scars and astringe."
Mingda and Changyu were not very interested.
Manbao was slightly disappointed.
She put a lot of effort into improving this prescription, so why does everyone dislike it?
Seeing Manbao's frustrated look, Mingda whispered, "How about you leave a can for me?"
Manbao immediately became happy and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay."
So he dug a big pile for Mingda.
No one wanted the remaining ointment, so Manbao decided to make it himself. So after thinking about it, he simply picked up the whole jar and said, "Then I'll take it all away."
The medicinal herbs used here are also very precious. She took them back, sealed them, and put them in the cellar, and slowly let her sixth brother use them. She didn't know if her sixth brother still had sores on his face now. She hoped that they hadn't healed.
Zhou Liulang didn't know that his sister was worried about the pimples on his face. At this time, she and Zhou Wulang were standing in the warehouse looking at the rice they had received.
He rubbed the rice in his hand and said, "Not bad. This way, our family doesn't have to buy rice at all. We can even provide rice for the restaurant."
"That's right," Zhou Wulang said, his eyes sparkling. "When I saw the money yesterday, I thought it was too little. Manbao could get five taels of silver at Jishitang, which would be six thousand coins in copper coins. But she only got six thousand coins for holding two official positions. Only when I saw the rice did I realize how much the imperial court gave her."
Zhou Liulang was also very happy. In this way, their restaurant almost didn't need to buy rice, and there was even some left over.
He made plans, "If there's any extra rice, I'll make distiller's grains. That's delicious, too. It's midsummer now, the perfect time to eat distiller's grains."
Zhou Wulang was skeptical, "Can you do it?"
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(End of this chapter)
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