Chapter 1703 Excitement
Manbao kept her mouth shut, but was about to start writing. She rolled up her sleeves and said, "Xiao Yuanzheng, if you submit your defense, I'll submit my own to criticize them. Humph, who doesn't know how to curse?"
Xiao Yuanzheng, who was trying to organize his words to appease his subordinates, paused and asked, "How can you submit a memorial?"
The imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Service generally do not have the right to submit memorials. In the entire Imperial Medical Service, apart from the director, only the two deputy directors can submit memorials regarding matters related to the Imperial Medical Service.
However, the two deputy directors of the Imperial Medical Service are currently vacant, so only Dean Xiao has the power.
However, Xiao Yuanzheng never got involved in matters outside the Imperial Medical Service and seldom submitted memorials to the emperor. Whenever he did submit a memorial, it was because the Ministry of Revenue had withheld the money for their medicine. The daily memorials urging payment usually never reached the emperor.
Manbao said, "I'm the editor of Chongwenguan, why can't I be included?"
Oh, that’s right, Zhou Man is still a fifth-rank editor. Wait a minute, Xiao Yuanzheng only now felt that something was wrong.
He and Liu Taiyi and others also made great efforts in compiling the book, and even did as much as Zhou Man. Why did they only hold single positions and receive one salary, while Zhou Man was appointed as a sixth-rank imperial physician and awarded a fifth-rank editor?
After Zhou Man had been in office for almost half a year, Xiao Yuanzheng finally realized that something was wrong.
Seeing that Xiao Yuanzheng had a strange look in his eyes, Manbao leaned back, blinked doubtfully, and asked, "Xiao Yuanzheng, what's wrong with you? Are you stunned by anger?"
Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at her and thought to himself: Is he just angry and stunned?
But now was not the time to talk about this. He turned to look at the others, sighed, and said, "Everyone, get back to work. The Ministry of Personnel hasn't delivered the memorial to me yet, so this matter has not been decided yet. There's no rush."
"And while they say they're impeaching me, they're mainly impeaching His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. You don't have to worry."
Manbao was stunned and said dissatisfiedly: "Director, how can you be so cowardly?"
Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't help it anymore, raised his hand and patted her head, saying, "Just shut up, this is an adult matter, stay out of it."
Manbao touched his slapped head and said, "I've made up my mind. I'll write and submit the impeachment memorial today. Humph!"
Xiao Yuan was just about to persuade her, but after thinking about it, he realized that she was submitting the memorial in the capacity of an editor of Chongwenguan, and her superiors were Yang Heshu and Kong Jijiu, so what relationship did she have with him?
So he shut up again.
Manbao picked up the list on the table and copied it. He handed the half-finished work to other imperial doctors and was about to leave.
"Stop," Xiao Yuanzheng called her, but couldn't help but warn her, "People in the Censorate are all very sharp-tongued. When you submit your memorial, don't stir up trouble."
"I'm not afraid," Manbao said, "The chief of the Censorate is Old Tang, and Old Tang is very reasonable."
After saying that, he ran away.
Doctor Liu couldn't help but worry after seeing this. "Director, why don't you stop him? Doctor Zhou is young after all, and his words are too careless."
Xiao Yuanzheng said coldly, "You also said that she is young. His Majesty and the other court officials are watching, so they won't take it too seriously."
He paused, then picked up the list that Manbao had circled and said, "Oh right, let's leave these circled people behind. Let's see how many are left before we choose."
Doctor Liu: ...What about the unfair revenge you agreed to take?
However, Doctor Liu still took it, removed those people, circled the overlapping families, and copied them onto another piece of paper, making it easier to choose.
For example, there were three Wang families who applied for quotas, and Wang Ji was only one of them. The other two were listed side by side.
It is much more convenient to list them in this way, and they can see at a glance when choosing later.
Man Bao ran back to Chongwenguan excitedly and brought herself a pot of freshly boiled water. She poured out a cup and began to grind ink.
When the ink was almost ground and the water was warm, she drank it all in one breath, poured another cup and put it aside, then sat down, spread out a piece of white paper, took a deep breath, chose a pen from the pen holder, exhaled, dipped the pen in ink, and began to write with shining eyes and great interest.
The other editors, who were halfway across the room from her, noticed and couldn't help but walk over and ask with a smile, "Young Master Zhou, what has made you so happy?"
Manbao said without even raising his head: "Nothing."
After thinking about it, she felt something was wrong. She raised her head and denied it seriously, "I'm not happy. I'm angry and sad right now."
The editor looked at her glittering eyes with suspicion, which she couldn't hide even if she tried to keep a straight face, and thought to herself: Is this a sign of anger and sadness?
Manbao has lowered his head again.
She had long wanted to scold some people in the Censorate, but it was indeed her fault that she was impeached last time, so she had no reason to retort.
She privately felt that there was nothing wrong in arresting them for being late, but it was too much to innocently implicate the prince and others.
Especially since they were implicating so many people not to prevent such things from happening again, but for their own selfish interests. So even though she accepted the punishment later, she was still very dissatisfied in her heart.
There were some things she had been holding in her heart, and Bai Shan also said that the timing was not right. If she said them, it would only be arrogance and shirking of responsibility. Why argue with them and leave that impression?
Her husband also asked her to relax and wait for the future.
She thought she would have to wait a long time for this future, but she didn't expect it to come true in just a few months. She thought she would forget this grudge in two months.
As expected, Master Tianzun treats her well, hahahaha...
Manbao became more and more excited as she wrote, and she didn't even realize when it was time to eat. Bai Shan waited for her in the cafeteria, but she didn't show up. So she said to Xu Yu who was waiting beside her, "Please leave your lunch box here. I'll give it to her later."
Xu Yu was already used to it, so he bowed and left.
Bai Shan put down his chopsticks and said to Bai Erlang, "Please keep an eye on her for us. I'll go find her."
Bai Erlang ate without raising his head, just nodded slightly.
Bai Shan found Chongwenguan, and Manbao was the only one in the library.
Bai Shan pushed the door open and walked in. She didn't react even when he reached her side. He couldn't help but curiously look at what she was writing.
After watching for a while, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Are you going to fight with the Censorate?"
Manbao was startled, and when he looked up and saw Bai Shancai, he exhaled, "Why are you walking without making any sound?"
"When we ran past the library after school, we saw that the doors and windows were closed. We thought no one was there, but you were still inside." Bai Shan pointed at the hourglass and explained why he came here. "It's time for dinner now, aren't you hungry?"
Only then did Manbao feel hungry. It was fine when he wasn't paying attention, but as soon as he noticed, he felt extremely hungry. When he looked at the paper in front of him, he couldn't even write a single word.
Bai Shan smiled and said, "Let's go have lunch first, and then come back to write after we finish eating."
Manbao was about to use a stone to press down the paper, when he suddenly thought of something. He glanced at the tables not far away, and simply put the paper away, folded it, and stuffed it into his arms.
Bai Shan raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled, "Not bad, you are much more cautious."
Manbao said: "This is called carefulness."
I'm back, the next update will be around 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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