Chapter 1879 Shame
Even Changyu and Mingda took advantage of the opportunity to run over to watch the fun. Changyu reached out to open the box in front of Laozi's statue, but Manbao knocked his hand away.
Manbao said: "It is not yet consecrated, you are not allowed to look at it."
Mingda was very curious, "What's in it? Why do you value it so much and even consecrate it?"
Manbao chuckled and was about to speak when Changyu reached out and interrupted him, saying, "I know, there's your birthday gift in there."
After saying this, he was a little unconvinced, "The gift you gave me last year wasn't this elaborate."
Manbao said, "Do you know what it means when a small gift is made but the sentiment is great?"
Chang Yu: "Does your gift to Mingda outweigh the importance of friendship?"
Manbao didn't speak to her, but explained to Mingda, "Didn't you say last time that you envied us for being able to travel and study? I thought of making something for you. Maybe it can bless you to not have your qi disease come back, or at least alleviate it. That's why I asked the Lord Tianzun for help."
Mingda had always kept his distance from ghosts and gods, neither believing in them nor slandering them. Therefore, he laughed out loud, his eyebrows curved as he said, "Thank you, but why do you have to do this?"
Manbao knew she didn't quite believe it, she herself didn't quite believe it, but the thing was indeed real. She smiled and said, "Why not give it a try? It's just a little more troublesome to go in and out of the palace, and it will take an hour every day."
Manbao pulled the two of them to sit on the edge of the bed. There was no other way. Her room was small and she had just added a small bookshelf. There was no room for an extra table and chairs, let alone a wooden couch.
She said to Changyu, "You're not sick, so I won't bother you."
Chang Yu didn't really care. She kicked off her shoes, sat cross-legged on her bed, nodded, and asked quietly, "Are you going to the Imperial Medical Bureau for classes tomorrow?"
Manbao nodded.
Chang Yu took out a fan pendant and gave it to her, blushing slightly, saying, "Then give it to him for me when you pass by the Imperial College."
Although he didn't mention any names, Manbao still understood. She was very surprised and asked, "Why did you take the initiative to send him something again?"
"What do you mean I took the initiative? This time it was he who took the initiative," Chang Yu said. "Lao Wu left the palace yesterday and came back, bringing me some things."
Mingda laughed out loud, saying, "It's more than just a few, it's a lot."
She said to Manbao, "Perhaps he didn't run into you yesterday, or he knew it would be inconvenient for him to ask you to carry something, so he deliberately stopped Fifth Brother outside the palace to help."
The fifth prince is about to get married. The emperor seems to want to marry the fifth prince off before the empress dowager... and move out of the palace, so he is preparing for his wedding recently. Even the wedding date has been set: June 1st, a very good day.
Originally, because of Xu Yu's incident, the emperor wanted him to go to his fiefdom as soon as possible, and even calculated the time. The fifth day of June was a good day.
The ministers in the court also agreed. The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works were preparing for his enfeoffment, and the Ministry of Personnel was already selecting the chief historian of the prince's palace and others.
Things developed too quickly, and it was hard to say what the Fifth Prince felt. Yang Guifei cried so hard, but she didn't cry to the Emperor, she cried to the Queen.
The empress felt sorry for her, so after she cried for two days, she whispered in the emperor's ear. Finally, the emperor agreed to let the fifth prince stay in the capital for a month after getting married, so that the new princess could get familiar with the royal family and go to the fiefdom in July.
Yang Guifei finally felt better and began to concentrate on preparing for her son's wedding.
She only has this one son. Originally, when her brothers and nephews were still alive, when he got married, the Yang family would definitely give him a large gift, which would make it much easier for him to set up a family.
Yang Guifei had a lot of money deposited in her parents' home.
As a result, some members of the Yang family were exiled, some were driven back to their hometowns, and all their property was confiscated. Naturally, the money that originally belonged to her flowed into the emperor's pocket.
If you don't come back.
So when the fifth prince got married, Yang Guifei could only give him her own money. The betrothal gifts prepared by the emperor and the Ministry of Rites were not enough. The most important thing was that the child needed a lot of things when he went to his fiefdom.
Part of Yang Guifei's personal belongings was kept by herself, and the other part was in the hands of the queen.
When she was given to the emperor by her father and brother, she was too young, only thirteen or fourteen years old. At that time, the queen had already become a mother and was overflowing with maternal love, so she brought Yang Guifei with her.
Later, the Yang family continued to send money to Yang Guifei, intending to let her manage her personal connections in the palace, but the palace was well managed by the queen, and she rarely needed to spend money.
It happened that the emperor had just registered and it was the most difficult time. Yang Guifei didn't know what was happening outside, but she could see that life was difficult in the palace, so she gave the queen a lot of money at that time.
The Queen kept track of it all for her, and spent part of it on palace expenses, which she would make up for later when she had more money; and part of it was used to manage external businesses as her share.
Yang Guifei hardly cared about these things because the Yang family was really rich. She had worried about all kinds of things in her life, but never about money.
It was not until her parents' home was ransacked that she went to the queen crying for money.
Mingda knew more, but she rarely talked behind people's backs. Changyu, however, was very interested in the news and whispered to Manbao, "This time, Yang Guifei gave Fifth Brother a lot of money again, asking him to go out and buy some things and have them taken to his fiefdom first, in case there's nothing left over there."
She deliberately lowered her voice and said, "I heard that he bought a lot of things to send to the Yang family."
Yang Guifei's family was raided. Although the women and children were not exiled but were sent back to their hometown, their property was lost and their life must have been difficult.
Although Yang Guifei was not very worldly-wise, it did not mean that she was unaware of these tricks, so she specifically asked the fifth prince to take some money out to take care of her mother's family.
But she is still too young, who can she hide these things from?
Do you think the palace won't know if you let the Fifth Prince spend money at the shopping stall?
But in fact, the emperor, empress, even the prince and others knew about it. Even two princesses like Mingda and Changyu heard the news, not to mention those well-informed adults outside the palace.
Mingda then spoke up, "Someone has reported to the emperor and impeached him. But the empress dowager and the emperor said that the Yang family is criminals to the Jin Dynasty and us, but they are still Yang Guifei's family. If she were cruel, would we call her cold-blooded? Now she is caring for the women and children of her family, and you are impeaching her? Why blame her so harshly?"
"That's why my father suppressed the memorial, and the matter was left unresolved," Mingda said. "Wei Yu must have known all this, so he found a man at the market and asked him to bring the things to the palace for my sister."
Manbao was very curious, "What did Wei Yu give you?"
Chang Yu smiled and said, "Nothing special, just some ordinary stuff. He made me a polo club."
The other things were just incidental, but she really liked the polo stick, so she asked Manbao to help pass on a fan pendant to the other party.
Manbao looked at her expression and clicked his tongue. Mingda found it funny and clicked his tongue with her, which made Changyu so embarrassed that she went to beat them up.
The three of them started laughing and playing on Manbao's bed.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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