Chapter 1721 Love
Manbao helped Bai Shan get out of the car, carrying the medicine box. Her father didn't even look at her. She couldn't help but shout, "Dad, I'm back!"
Old Zhou finally took his eyes off those things and grabbed Manbao's hand, saying happily, "Manbao, are these all rewards from His Majesty?"
"No, it was a reward from the Crown Prince." The Emperor was being very stingy. Man Bao said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave me this reward out of joy when he had a son."
"That's a good birth! If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gives birth to a son every year..."
Manbao: "... Dad, if the prince heard what you said, he would definitely be happy."
The prince has everything except a son.
The father and daughter stood together in the yard and watched them move all the things down. Manbao pointed at the exquisite porcelain and Lijun that were delivered and said, "No need to send them to the warehouse. Just send them to the room that needs them."
Li Jun agreed, wrote down all the things that were delivered in a book, and then began to direct his brothers and sisters to move them in.
As Zhou Lixue moved, he said, "Being an imperial physician really makes a lot of money. Third sister, you want to be an imperial physician in the future too. I wonder if I can give up studying and become an imperial physician as well."
Zhou Liru said proudly, "If the imperial physician says so, then you can become one. My aunt must have seen that you have no talent, so she sent you to study. You should just study hard."
Old Zhou hadn't seen Manbao for a long time and missed her a lot, so he took her aside and asked her about her well-being.
Manbao was still thinking about roasting venison in the garden, so she told her father, "I'm well dressed and well fed, so don't worry, Dad. By the way, where's Bai Er?"
Bai Er went out early in the morning to play with his friends.
He was so worried yesterday that he didn't go out, let alone go to the roast deer banquet at the Western Suburbs Horse Farm. It was not until yesterday evening when Yin Huo sent someone to say that the Crown Princess had safely given birth to a child that he happily asked his friends to go to the Western Suburbs Horse Farm again.
Bai Shan learned about it from Daji when he carried the things back to the yard, so after meeting his grandmother and mother, he wanted to drag Manbao to make up the number, as it was not very late now.
Old Lady Liu did not stop them. The children had to stay in the palace for eighteen days out of ten days, so they naturally wanted to relax after leaving the palace.
She asked Madam Liu and Madam Zheng to fetch the new cloaks made this year, and personally tied a jet-black one on Bai Shan. She patted her hand and said with a smile, "I think this year might be even colder than last year, so I had someone make you a cloak out of black duck feathers. It's cold outside now, as the snow just stopped a while ago. Put it on to keep you warm."
Bai Shan reached out and touched the cloak. He felt the fabric and the fur on the outside were very soft. He smiled and asked, "How many black ducks did it take to make such a cloak? Grandma, I'm in good health. There's no need to spend so much money."
Madam Liu laughed and said, "They are all ducks raised at home. They are all killed and pickled in the fall. What's the value of our own stuff?"
This was just to deceive outsiders. Bai Shan had been managing the farm since he was a child, and he had long known that chicken feathers and duck feathers could be collected to make quilts and other things.
Those things were very valuable, and their family was considered wealthy, but only his grandmother and mother used quilts filled with duck feathers. He himself refused them on the grounds that "a warm quilt will make you lazy."
The duck feathers on this cloak are made from the particularly thin neck area. For such a large cloak...
But Bai Shan still accepted it, but said: "Grandma, please don't make such expensive clothes next time."
Madam Liu smiled and said "OK", then handed him another cloak and said, "This is made for Manbao. It's made of white duck fur. It's warmer than the fox fur she wore before. Take it quickly."
Bai Shan thought to himself: It seems that the ducks raised in their family have suffered a great disaster this year.
He grabbed the cloak and ran to find Manbao.
Manbao had just sent her father out of the courtyard and asked him to go and take a look at the gift sent by the prince. She was just hesitating whether to go and play with Bai Er and the others when she saw Bai Shan running over, pulling her out and saying, "Come on, let's go and eat venison with Bai Er and the others."
Manbao immediately became happy and ran out hand in hand with him, "Are we not going to grill in the garden at home?"
"There's no venison for sale outside. If we want to buy some, we'll have to ask Yin Huo and Liu Huan for help. It's not worth the hassle. Let's go to the Western Suburbs Horse Farm and find them directly."
When they arrived at the front yard, Daji, who had known the news in advance, had already prepared their horses.
Bai Shan put the cloak in his hand on her and said with a smile: "This one is more beautiful than that white fox fur."
Manbao reached out and touched it, exclaiming in amazement, "It's so soft, what kind of fur is this?"
"Duck Feather," Bai Shan pulled Dao Li over and said to her, "Let's go."
Manbao finally came back to her senses. After pulling Chiji onto his horse, she discovered that his cloak was somewhat similar to hers, except that one was white and the other black.
Manbao smiled and asked, "Is your cloak also made of duck feathers?"
"yes."
"How many ducks will it cost?"
The two people's focus was surprisingly consistent.
Bai Shan smiled and said, "This year, my family smoked a lot of ducks and pickled a lot. I'll have someone send some over later so we can try different ways to eat them."
Manbao's eyes suddenly lit up and he nodded repeatedly, saying, "Okay, okay."
The two of them rode out and ran for a while when they happened to meet Zhou Silang and Xiang Mingxue coming back from outside. Zhou Silang only had time to raise his hand before Manbao and the others ran past them. She just turned around and shouted to them, "Fourth Brother, we're going out to play. See you tonight."
The snow foam raised by the horses' hooves almost hit Zhou Silang's face. He waved his hands in front of him and could only watch them run away.
Xiang Mingxue smiled and said to Zhou Silang, "He's still a child after all, and still wants to play. But it seems that the palace is very safe."
Zhou Silang didn't think too much about it. "Didn't the young master of the Yin family send someone over last night to say that the Crown Princess and her child were safe?"
Xiang Mingxue smiled. How could such a thing be certain? It was common for children as young as seven or eight to die, not to mention a newborn baby and a mother who had just given birth.
When Manbao and Baishan ran to the Western Suburbs Horse Farm, Bai Cheng and the others started shouting and grilling the food. Liu Huan called a lot of friends and invited them over.
They directly occupied a large section of the corridor. Yin Huo could not eat these things, so he sat by a brazier to warm himself and watch them making a fuss. He turned around and saw two people, one black and one white, with three guards running towards him from afar, so he squinted his eyes and looked at them carefully.
After a moment, he smiled and said, "Bai Shan and the others are here."
Everyone turned around and saw that it was indeed the real thing. They immediately waved their hands happily, "You guys are really just in time. We just finished buying everything and started. Look, we haven't even finished the first slice of roasted venison yet."
Manbao had already smelled the fragrance. She left her horse to Daji, turned and ran into the corridor. After taking a careful look, she asked, "Is this a freshly killed deer?"
"Not only was it killed right away, it was also caught right away," Zhao Liulang said proudly. "I led my men to hunt it down. Isn't that impressive?"
Liu Huan laughed and said, "These deer are raised in captivity at the horse farm. There are so many of them, and they can't run away. Isn't it easy to hunt them?"
"How come you didn't catch any?" Zhao Liulang said, "When it comes to horseback archery, you guys are no match for me."
"That's because you're old."
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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