Chapter 1610 Good-looking
Everyone was quiet at this moment. Manbao stood there quietly and waited for a while. Seeing that everyone had stopped making noise, he felt a little disappointed.
Mingda breathed a sigh of relief and stood beside the emperor to comfort him.
Everyone's emotions gradually calmed down, and they were too embarrassed to quarrel in front of the two little girls. So the emperor gave each of them fifty lashes of the stick, scolded the nobles and censors, and symbolically fined them a few months' salary. That was the end of the matter.
No matter they were nobles or censors from aristocratic families, they did not rely on this small salary to support their families, so they did not take it too seriously and agreed obediently.
Manbao, who was standing aside, thought that the punishment was quite severe. It seemed that one could not just fight in the court.
Not only is it easy to accidentally hurt your own people, but you may also be fined your salary.
Manbao used other people's lessons to warn himself, and happily returned to Chongwenguan, and then he received a document from the Ministry of Personnel.
She opened it and was stunned for a moment. She couldn't help but shout out, "Why are you deducting my salary for two months?"
Xiao Yuanzheng, who was about to leave, took a look and saw the comments above. He looked at her with a look that seemed to show that she didn't know what was good for her. "It's just a deduction of two months' salary, not a demotion. What's your name?"
"I was only late once, and they want to demote me? Who hasn't been late or left early? Xiao Yuanzheng, haven't you?"
Xiao Yuanzheng coughed lightly and said, "Well, well, Doctor Zhou, please stop talking nonsense. When have I ever been late or left early?"
After saying that, he turned and left.
Manbao was filled with grief. She was still thinking that she would have to find a time to take a day off at the beginning of next month to collect her salary, and then she would bring her father with her...
How embarrassing! Could it be that this was the first time her father went to collect her salary after coming to Beijing, but he didn't get any money?
Manbao was so sad that he felt that the braised pork on the plate didn't taste good at all when he was having dinner.
Bai Shan said: "Don't worry, this is just a small punishment for a big warning."
"What about my dad?"
Bai Shan thought for a moment and said, "It's not good to be too proud. This is a shortcoming. You have to change it."
Manbao was still not happy to let her family know that she was punished.
Bai Shan placed the two best pieces of meat from his plate in her bowl and said to her, "This is just like the teacher making us copy books as punishment. What's so embarrassing about it? I asked other classmates, and their fathers and brothers often had their salaries cut when they were officials. Demotions were common. The officialdom is full of ups and downs. When it's up, you might even become prime minister, but when it's down, you might even lose your life."
Manbao raised an eyebrow at him.
Bai Shan smiled at her and said, "So, from now on, being punished may become the norm. If you have to worry about hiding it from your family every time, how much worry will you have to worry about?"
Manbao tilted his head and asked, "Is this normal?"
Bai Shan nodded affirmatively, "Look at Lord Wei, he's also had his ups and downs several times. He got used to it after being punished."
"Okay." Manbao accepted the explanation reluctantly.
There was nothing she could do if she didn't accept it. She was in the palace now, and there were still six days before her rest period. She couldn't keep worrying about it during these six days, right?
Since you are in a bad mood, do something happy.
The next day, Manbao, Mingda, Changyu and others climbed to the top of a small hill in Longshouyuan and asked Prince Gong to climb to the top as well.
Prince Gong was naturally unwilling to do so. He had lost a lot of weight recently and his body was not as heavy as before, but it was still a little difficult to climb such a high mountain, so he stopped moving halfway up.
But Aunt Shang was following them, and Manbao didn't even need to say anything. She just had someone half-dragged and half-pulled Prince Gong to the top of the mountain.
Prince Gong was almost out of breath. He sat on a rock with his hands on it, muttering, "I can't walk anymore. I can't walk anymore. You guys are trying to kill me..."
Manbao and the other two had already recovered their breath and were now refreshed. She pulled Mingda to the edge and pointed at the unobstructed view of the palace and the imperial city, and even the area beyond the imperial city, and said, "Look, isn't it beautiful?"
Mingda was very happy and nodded vigorously, saying, "It looks great!"
Manbao said, "If you stand here and look out during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festival, it will definitely be a different experience."
Chang Yu said, "It's nice to watch the Lantern Festival from the top of the palace tower. There are a lot of bugs here at night, so I don't want to come here."
Mingda sighed and said, "We may have to move back to Taiji Palace soon. We won't be back until next year."
Manbao said, "The summer heat hasn't ended yet."
"It's almost August, and the Imperial Astronomical Observatory has reported that after the ninth day of the lunar month, the weather will be less hot and will gradually cool down." Mingda said, "My mother said that we've been living in Daming Palace for about three months now, and it's been difficult for my father to handle state affairs, so we should return to Taiji Palace."
Manbao was reluctant to leave the endless mountains of Longshouyuan, so he encouraged her, saying, "I think the construction of Daming Palace is still very messy, and the garden is overgrown with weeds, which is quite wild. Why don't you come here to relax? After all, Taiji Palace is not far from Daming Palace. It's only a short boat ride from the West Inner Courtyard."
Chang Yu said, "It's easy for you to say that, but we still need to study with the teacher."
She sighed and said, "The bad thing about not getting married is that you always have to go to school."
Mingda said with a smile: "Then sister will get married?"
"Then I'd better go to class," Chang Yu said. "The people that the emperor chose for me were either not good at writing or martial arts, or some who had both were not good-looking."
Manbao and Mingda both looked at the portraits of her potential husband candidates and couldn't help laughing.
Chang Yu sighed and said, "It's so hard to find someone in this world who is as good as Yang Changbo in every way."
Manbao thought for a moment and then asked, "Do you want to go to Chongwenguan? There are many people there who are still unengaged."
"Forget it, do you think I haven't seen it?" Chang Yu said, "The only good-looking ones there are Yin Huo and your Bai Shan. Yin Huo is a sickly guy who gets out of breath when he walks a little fast. I don't want him."
Manbao sighed, "It still depends on the face."
Mingda asked curiously, "Isn't face important?"
Manbao tilted his head and thought carefully, then nodded, "It's important, between Senior Yang and Senior Tang, I like Senior Yang more."
But in fact, the two of them have similar personalities and knowledge.
Changyu just looked at Mingda with an expression of "Just wait and see".
Prince Gong, who had been sitting in the back to catch his breath, was forced to listen to his little daughter's worries. After glancing at Zhou Man, he couldn't help but say to Chang Yu, "Besides Yin Huo, isn't there someone else you think is good-looking?"
The three little girls turned around to look at him together.
Prince Gong smiled maliciously at Manbao and said, "If you like that girl named Bai Shan, then ask the emperor to marry you. I believe the emperor loves you and will definitely grant you the marriage. If he dares not to accept, he will be disobeying the emperor's order."
See you tomorrow. I'm going to write my draft tonight.
(End of this chapter)
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