Chapter 1956 Indirect Hint
Manbao stepped on a chair, took down the top book and flipped through it. She turned her head to glance at Xiao Yuanzheng, who was frowning not far away, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you? You've been unhappy all day?"
Xiao Yuanzheng frowned and said, "I have some things on my hands. Today is the day for His Majesty to take his pulse. Doctor Liu has gone to the Imperial Medical Bureau to teach."
Manbao immediately volunteered, "I'll go for you."
Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't help but look up at her. Seeing how excited she was, he asked suspiciously, "Why do you want to go?"
"Aren't you busy?" Seeing Xiao Yuan looking at her intently, she said, "Well, I miss His Majesty a little bit, so I can go see him."
Xiao Yuanzheng was full of disbelief. It was only the fifteenth yesterday, and it was the grand court meeting. Didn’t she go there?
Zhou Man, however, opened his round eyes, stood on a chair, holding the booklet, and asked, "Do you want me to go for you? If not, I'll go and borrow the booklet to read."
Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at the booklet in Zhou Man's hand. That row of books contained the pulse records of the late emperor's consort. He knew that Zhou Man was recently writing down the symptoms from pregnancy to childbirth and various medications. This should be used for research.
Xiao Yuanzheng hesitated for a moment before nodding, "Okay, you go in my place."
Zhou Man is a sixth-rank official in the Imperial Medical Bureau, which is just enough for her to check the emperor's pulse. She is also familiar with the emperor, so there should be no problem.
Manbao immediately stuffed the booklet back and said to Dr. Lu, the doctor on duty today, "I won't borrow it for now."
He jumped off the chair and went to pack his medicine box.
Imperial Physician Lu frowned and complained to Dean Xiao, "Dean, is it really okay for Zhou Man to go to see His Majesty like this?"
Xiao Yuanzheng waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, Zhou Man is very sensible. Everything has happened at the same time today. I have already seen the Queen Mother and I have to go see Prince Gong. Please take care of the Imperial Hospital."
Doctor Lu opened his mouth to speak. He was busy, but the others were not busy. He was also a sixth-rank doctor and could also check the emperor's pulse.
But it was difficult to say such words out loud, so Doctor Lu could only hold it in.
So in the afternoon, Manbao appeared in the emperor's study carrying a medicine box.
The emperor held out his hand and looked at her curiously, "Why are you here to check my pulse?"
When he was not sick, Zhou Man was basically not responsible for his pulse. After all, she had to take the pulse of the queen, princesses, and several concubines in the harem. She was one of the busiest doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Manbao said, "Mrs. Xiao is very busy today, and Imperial Physician Liu is in class."
What about Doctor Lu and others?
However, when the emperor saw Zhou Man had already placed his hand on his pulse, he did not ask.
As for checking the pulse, the procedure was familiar to both parties. The emperor answered Zhou Man's routine questions about what he had eaten, drunk, and whether he had slept well.
Then Zhou Man asked, "Your Majesty, are you in a good mood these past two days? Have you been upset?"
The emperor glanced at her and said, "You also know that I will be angry."
Manbao then remembered that the emperor seemed to have had a quarrel with Old Lord Tang during the grand court meeting yesterday, but it didn't seem serious, so he wouldn't be offended, right?
Manbao asked, "Would you like me to give you a few acupuncture treatments to relieve your depression?"
The emperor hesitated, but finally couldn't help it and went to the inner room to change clothes. After a while, he lay down on the couch.
Gu Zhong smiled and draped a piece of silk cloth over his back to keep him cool. Man Bao continued to give him acupuncture while advising, "Your Majesty, although joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness are human emotions, being angry all the time is bad for your health."
"Well, you should talk more about this with Wei Zhi and the others."
Manbao: "...Your Majesty, shouldn't you be thinking about how to control your emotions and not be so angry?"
The emperor said, "I have studied the art of cultivating my temper for decades, and now my temper is very good. What will happen if I continue to cultivate it?"
He didn't want to use the word "coward" to describe himself.
Very good, the emperor blocked all the words that Manbao had prepared in advance.
She sighed. The other party was in a bad mood, so how could she bring it up?
The emperor heard her sigh and couldn't help but laugh, "Why, you have troubles at such a young age?"
"Of course not. Although I'm young, I have a lot to deal with, including studies, career, and family matters." Manbao selected acupuncture points for the emperor, talking to him as he did so. "But I rarely get angry, so I'm in good health."
The emperor felt that he was a little angry again, and it was because of the doctor. "Who could make you angry?"
"That's a lot," Manbao blurted out quickly, "Bai Shan always bullies me, and Bai Er always helps him, but I rarely get angry either."
The emperor did not feel better, but felt even more upset. This was just like what he and Wei Zhi and others said about the queen bullying him.
After Manbao finished speaking, he remembered something and forcefully turned the topic to Bai Erlang, "But my third junior brother is still good and helps me occasionally."
The emperor thought she was trying to change the subject, so he cooperated and asked, "Well, is your third junior brother fair?" In fact, he felt that her junior brother was just adding fuel to the fire.
Manbao didn't know this, so he nodded reluctantly and said, "It's okay."
Manbao was giving the emperor acupuncture and wanted to ask him several times what kind of son-in-law he planned to choose for Mingda, but he opened his mouth but did not ask in the end. The timing was not right.
After Manbao gave the emperor acupuncture, he felt much better, but Manbao left in a very normal manner.
Gu Zhong had long noticed that Zhou Man was worried about something, but he couldn't guess what it was. However, it seemed to be related to the emperor.
So when helping the emperor change his clothes, Gu Zhong mentioned, "Master Zhou looks like he's worried."
The emperor was lying on his stomach during the acupuncture session. He asked, "Is there anything?"
Gu Zhong smiled and nodded.
The emperor thought for a moment and humphed, "No wonder she volunteered to take my pulse. Since she won't tell us, we'll just pretend we don't know."
But he was a little curious. What could Zhou Man want from him?
Within two days, the emperor had vaguely guessed it, because it was rare for the family to get together for dinner.
The emperor held his little grandson and teased him for a while, then watched him sitting on the couch and moving his buttocks carefully, then he smiled and sat beside him to watch.
The prince then asked the emperor, "Has your Majesty chosen a consort for Mingda?"
Mingda and Changyu sat in a small room behind a screen looking at the two sets of clothes brought by the Crown Princess. They were made by an embroiderer from her mother's family. She thought they were very beautiful, so she gave them to her two sisters-in-law.
The emperor could faintly hear the Crown Princess say, "Just a slight adjustment of the waist and shoulder size will do. This simple and elegant suit suits Mingda very well."
The emperor sighed and said, "How can it be that easy? I sent a letter to Wang Min and Lu Hui, asking them to send the young disciples of the clan to Beijing to take a look."
The prince was curious, "Did they agree?"
The emperor was very depressed. "Wang Min didn't refuse, but Lu Hui didn't agree. He said he was busy recently and had no time to come to Beijing."
In addition to the Wang and Lu families, the emperor also talked to some ministers in the court with whom he was on good terms, wanting to see the young men in their families who were not engaged.
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(End of this chapter)
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