Chapter 1684 Schedule
Mr. Zhuang asked someone to send Zhang Chen to the inn, and then took Mr. Jiang's carriage back to his home. He stood in front of the door with his three apprentices and waved goodbye to them before turning around and going into the house.
After climbing the mountain for a whole day, I was really happy, but also really tired.
When other people were tired, they could wash up, eat, and then go to sleep, but Manbao could only wash up, eat, and then silently take out the memorial to write.
Writing an article is not difficult. Isn’t it just a letter of apology?
Manbao, who had written many letters of apology to her husband, wrote quite quickly. She made a draft, checked for typos, and revised a few sentences before copying the article onto the folded paper.
Because it was too late at night, Manbao looked out the window and saw that all the lights in everyone's room were off. He didn't clean up, put down his pen, yawned, and turned to go to sleep.
The next day, she slept until noon. Zhou Lijun couldn't bear to see her so he knocked on the door and came in. Seeing that her brush and inkstone were not washed on the desk, he cleaned them up while muttering, "Auntie, Sixth Aunt is still waiting to see you. Why don't you get up?"
Manbao said dazedly: "Why do you want to see me? Didn't we recognize our relationship yesterday?"
"Grandpa said he wanted to take the family to the farm to take a look so that they can get to know the place better. When there's nothing else to do in the capital, we can go to the farm to work."
Manbao turned over and said, "I don't want to go. I have to go to the palace to do some work tomorrow morning. I can't sleep in any longer. If I run around again today, I'll be exhausted."
Zhou Lijun said, "I don't count on you anymore. Grandpa and grandma have already left. Grandpa has already come here three times this morning, and you still haven't gotten up."
She couldn't help but mutter, "It's all about climbing mountains. What's so fun about climbing mountains? You go climbing every year."
"It's fun," Manbao said, still feeling strange. "How could you not like climbing a mountain? It's so fun and comfortable to be high up and look far into the distance."
Zhou Lijun packed up his things, turned around, took a wooden basin and went out, "I'll get you some water. Aunt, you should get up quickly, or my uncle and the others will be here soon."
Manbao could only get up with difficulty.
Only a few young children were left at home in Old Zhou's family. The adults all went to Putian Village, and Zhou Liulang also went there with his new wife, Qiu.
Xiao Qian left some food for Manbao on the stove, but when Manbao took a look, he found that it was cold, so he touched his stomach and went to Baishan and his family's yard.
Bai Shan was putting breakfast on the tray. When he saw her coming, he smiled and said, "I guessed you hadn't had breakfast yet. I was just about to send you some. Come and have some."
Manbao went over and sat down. He looked around and saw that the bowls in front of Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were empty. He asked, "Are you all full?"
They both nodded.
Manbao asked, "Where's the gentleman?"
"The master is walking in the garden," Bai Shan said. "My cousin is here too. I guess they'll be playing chess by themselves in a while."
Bai Erlang added: "My eldest brother and his wife went out to play."
Yesterday was the Double Ninth Festival. Bai Dalang brought his wife Cheng to reunite with his father and brother, and stayed here. Anyway, his room was reserved, so they could live wherever they wanted, which was very convenient.
Seeing that Miss Cheng Er and Bai Dalang were in harmony, and that the Bai family and Old Zhou's family were also getting along well, the Cheng family felt relieved and knew that the three families could take care of each other in the capital. They had already chosen the twelfth day to set off for home.
After thinking about it, Mr. Bai decided to go back with his in-laws.
He had a lot of things to do at home, so it was impossible for him to live in the capital city permanently. Therefore, he could only entrust his two sons to Madam Liu again. Of course, this time he also entrusted a daughter-in-law to him.
Knowing that Old Zhou and his family were going to stay in the capital, he asked Old Zhou's family to take care of him.
Of course, he will also take care of the Zhou family in Qili Village.
Old Zhou planned to ask Mr. Bai to bring some things to his son and daughter-in-law, as well as some relatives and friends in the village.
Well, they are all local specialties of Beijing.
If some food were not difficult to carry, he would have packed some snacks for Mr. Bai to take with him.
Also because Mr. Bai and the Cheng family are about to leave, Bai Dalang and Cheng plan to stay at Zhou's house to keep them company for the next two days.
I don’t know when we will see each other again.
Anyway, they probably won’t go back to Mianzhou for the New Year.
Horses and carriages are still too inconvenient. I really hope there will be a magic spell in this world that allows you to fly with a sword like those written in fantasy books, and travel thousands of miles in a flash.
Because they had to get up early to go to the palace tomorrow, they stayed at home today and did not go anywhere. They read books and played chess. Manbao also took a hoe to the garden to weed and gave some medical advice to Zhou Liru, who was also on leave at home. Then it got dark.
Zhou Silang, Wu Wulang, and Zhou Liulang also returned from Putian Village with their wives. "My parents and my eldest brother and his wife stayed over there. They've almost finished planting the wheat fields. Dad has to watch them ferment the manure and my eldest brother has to oversee the house construction, so he didn't come back."
Although there was no service called for by Old Zhou, Manbao and the others still woke up at dawn the next day.
Because they were afraid of being late, the three of them got up immediately after waking up, washed up, had breakfast and went out.
Mr. Zhuang had a more relaxed schedule for going to the yamen, so he didn't go with them. He smiled and waved at the three of them, indicating that they would see each other in the palace later.
The three of them simply carried the basket in one hand and the reins in the other and rode directly into the imperial city.
Daji followed with his guards.
The streets were very quiet in the early morning and there were few people, but the three of them did not dare to gallop on horseback. They almost drove at the speed limit. Who knew that an imperial censor might be squatting in some corner?
Last month, Duke Zhao was impeached and fined one month's salary by the Ministry of Personnel. I heard that it was because one morning, Duke Zhao was late for a court meeting in the palace, so he galloped on the deserted street and was unfortunately seen by the censor who was squatting at the entrance of an alley.
Then Duke Zhao was impeached for breaking the law knowingly.
Manbao still cherishes his salary and doesn't want to be fined again.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang didn't want to be punished by standing or having their hands slapped again.
The three of them ran at a constant speed on the street and were seen by Gao You and others who had just arrived on the street.
Gao You stretched out his hand to say hello, but the three men and their guards had already run over. They were concentrating on the imperial city not far ahead and did not see Gao You and his companions.
The envoy accompanying Gao You saw that they only stopped at the gate of the imperial city before riding in. He couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Prince, aren't they students of the Imperial Academy? How did they get into the imperial city?"
Are you attending classes at the Imperial College today?
Shouldn’t the Imperial College be behind them?
Gao You narrowed his eyes. Xing Xuan said, "I'm afraid they aren't students of the Imperial College. Their status must be even higher."
They looked at each other, and Gao You said, "Let's go. Let's go to the Honglu Temple today to urge them to move. Living in Chang'an is not easy. If we don't settle down, we will run out of money."
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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