Chapter 1941 Superstition (March Monthly Ticket Plus 7)
The next morning, Manbao and his companions said goodbye and left the city. To her surprise, County Magistrate Zhai actually came to see them off.
Manbao felt quite embarrassed. She had troubled the man so much this time, and she hadn't been able to help him in any way. So, she felt ashamed and took out a visiting card from her bag and gave it to him. "Zhai County Magistrate, if your family has any difficult or complicated illnesses in the future, you can take this card to the capital to find me."
County Magistrate Zhai took the note with a confused look on his face and said uncertainly, "Thank you?"
Manbao smiled shyly, "You're welcome."
County Magistrate Zhai: ...
Manbao waved goodbye to him enthusiastically. County Magistrate Zhai looked at the visitor invitation in his hand and raised his hand to say goodbye to them with mixed feelings.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang didn't think there was anything wrong with Manbao's gift. They felt that they could finally return to the capital, so they breathed a sigh of relief and lay by the window in a particularly good mood, looking at the scenery outside.
It was clearly the same road and the same trees, but they could see the flowers and were very excited all the way.
Mr. Zhuang's carriage was one car away from theirs, but he could still hear their chattering.
When they returned to Beijing this time, they felt that the palace had become more lovely.
Manbao happily went to the palace to report for duty, thinking that he could perform well so that he could get leave. He also gave many gifts to his superiors and colleagues.
These are some things I bought in Shangzhou that are not very valuable but very unique.
Even the emperor got one. He looked at the object in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
Chang Yu had already covered his mouth with his sleeve and quietly took a bite. When he heard the emperor's question, he whispered, "Persimmon cake, doesn't your Majesty know it?"
It would be fine if she didn’t know him, but how come the emperor didn’t know him either?
Emperor: "...Of course I know this is persimmon cake, but who gave me a gift of persimmon cake?"
Only nine, not more, not less, how stingy is that?
Chang Yu had already chewed and swallowed the persimmon cake in his mouth. He nodded brightly and said, "It's delicious and sweet. Man Bao said it was given to her by a relative. It was dried at home and has a lot of frost. Others don't have it yet, but we do."
The emperor glanced at the silly girl and asked, "Who do we all have?"
"It's just me, the Emperor, and the Crown Prince's family," Chang Yu calculated. "Then there's only Lord Tang, Yin Huo, Liu Huan, and a good friend of hers, whom she calls Second Sister Fu."
The emperor said quietly, "This is still 'only'."
Changyu thought about it and felt that there were indeed too many outsiders, as there were only three people in their family.
The emperor asked, "Why aren't Mingda and the queen here?"
Mingda, who was sitting nearby, looked up and said, "She said I shouldn't eat too many persimmon cakes, so she told me to just give one or two to my sister."
The emperor thought this was not a good reason and said, "You can give the leftovers to Changyu. It's really stingy of you to not give them to you but let you eat Changyu's instead."
Chang Yu had already quietly taken several bites, looked at the persimmon cake in her own food box, then looked at her father's, and asked, "Father, do you like it? If not..."
The emperor turned around and said to Gu Zhong, "Keep it."
Changyu could only swallow his words.
Mingda couldn't help laughing, and the queen beside him also smiled and shook her head. After dinner, Mingda and Changyu held hands and carried their gifts back to their respective palaces.
When the emperor was about to rest, he saw the crystal bracelet wrapped around the queen's hand. It was white crystal, but the black jade in the middle looked very familiar.
He couldn't help but reach out and hold her hand to look at it. "Isn't this what Mingda is wearing? Was it a gift from Zhou Man? I remember she even worshipped the statue of Laozi for forty-nine days."
The Queen smiled and said, "Mingda asked Zhou Man to find it. He said he found it very comfortable to wear and seemed to be helpful for his respiratory problems, so he asked for one for me as well. To make it more effective, the child secretly offered me a picture of me. I only found out about it when he gave it to me today."
The emperor didn't take it too seriously, thinking that relying on this kind of thing alone could not possibly cure the disease. It was probably just a wishful thinking.
But he didn't point it out. Instead, he held her hand and smiled, "Mingda is filial, much better than the other children."
Although the Queen agreed in her heart, she said, "The other children are filial too, they just show it in different ways."
The couple exchanged a few words and then took off their bracelets. The queen didn't think the bracelet was really useful for her respiratory disease, but because it was out of her daughter's filial piety and Mingda always asked about it, she wore it every day. After wearing it for a long time, she got used to the bracelet and basically would not take it off.
The emperor was always generous in praising his children's filial piety, especially Mingda. With this excuse, he immediately took out a lot of things from his private storehouse and gave them to Mingda as a reward, many of which he had previously collected but was unable to give away.
He always favored Mingda and Prince Gong, but it was not easy for him to always reward them separately. This time he had an excuse, so he rewarded Mingda as much as he could.
As a result, not only the former court and the harem knew about Princess Mingda's filial act, but even the sick empress dowager heard about it.
She leaned against the bedside, opened her eyes, tilted her head slightly to avoid the medicine being fed to her, and asked, "Is the bracelet Mingda asked for the Queen really useful?"
The aunt who was feeding the medicine thought, since it was given by her own daughter, it would be useful even if it was useless. Isn’t this question nonsense?
But my aunt didn't dare to say that, so she could only say, "I heard that the princess offered sacrifices in front of Laozi's statue for 49 days, and it worked."
"Hmm? I remember the bracelet Zhou Man gave Mingda also had an image of me in it?"
My aunt replied, "I heard that it was. Every ten days when they entered and left the palace, they carried my portrait with them. It was quite a commotion for a while."
"I think Mingda is indeed in better health this year than in previous years. Go find her and ask Dean Xiao to come over."
My aunt wasn't sure of the Queen Mother's intentions, so she could only give instructions, then asked indirectly, "Does Your Majesty also want to see Princess Mingda's bracelet?"
"I want to see which statue of Laozi she is worshipping."
aunt:……
When Mingda and Xiao Yuanzheng arrived one after another, the Queen Mother pointed to the bed and said, "Xiao Yuanzheng, please take a look at Princess Mingda. She is weak. Is she feeling well recently?"
Because the two princesses were on good terms with Zhou Man, the safety of the two princesses, no, it should be said that the safety of most of the female members of the palace had been entrusted to Zhou Man a long time ago.
When the Queen Mother mentioned Xiao Yuanzheng, she subconsciously recalled the pulse cases they had recently filed, and found nothing unusual. Only then did she calm down and go forward to take his pulse.
After taking the pulse for a while, Xiao Yuanzheng looked at Princess Mingda in surprise. After a while, he asked about Princess Mingda's diet.
Xiao Yuanzheng's expression didn't change much, but he was actually quite surprised. He and the Queen Mother congratulated him, saying, "The princess's pulse is much stronger than before."
The Queen Mother perked up and asked, "There are many flowers in the summer. I see that she hasn't been ill much this year, and her complexion is much rosier. Is she well now?"
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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