Chapter 1969 Reconciliation
He nodded to Xiao Yuanzheng, then said to Zhou Man and Doctor Liu, who were about to leave, "Mingda was frightened yesterday and is ill today. You two go and see the princess."
Doctor Liu agreed, Manbao was stunned for a moment, and then followed him.
Princess Mingda was vomiting and having diarrhea. She didn't want to call the imperial physician at first, for fear that her mother would worry if she knew about it. But the palace servants dared not hide it and reported it to the emperor early.
The emperor thought that she might have been frightened yesterday, and since she was sensitive, she probably didn't sleep much last night.
So he sent Zhou Man on purpose, thinking that besides seeing a doctor, they could also talk.
Seeing Mingda's pale face, Manbao hurried to examine her. After deciding on a treatment plan with Doctor Liu, he started by giving her acupuncture.
Everyone in the room had left, leaving only the two of them. Mingda lay on the bed, her head tilted upwards, watching Manbao needlework, and asked, "How's Third Brother?"
"Your Majesty broke two bones personally, but the fractures are different. They still need treatment and may not be able to recover as they were before."
Mingda sighed, and the two of them fell silent again.
Mingda couldn't help but asked, "Are you still angry with me?"
Manbao gave her a shot, looked up at her and said, "I thought you were mad at me."
The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. Then they relaxed a little. Mingda asked her, "So you admit that what you said yesterday was to alienate the relationship between me, my eldest brother, and my third brother?"
Manbao asked calmly, "Has the estrangement arrived?"
Mingda couldn't help but sigh, nodded slightly and said, "It did create a rift, but I also feel that Third Brother didn't think too much when he did it."
"No one knows except Prince Gong," Manbao said, "I just can't understand Prince Gong's thoughts."
After she finished speaking, she saw Mingda frowning, as if he was about to sigh again, so she said, "Don't sigh. You're not in good health to begin with, and you're worrying too much. Do you still want to get better?"
Mingda lay relaxed on the pillow. Because of the acupuncture, she gradually relaxed and fell asleep in a short while.
Manbao sat aside waiting for the time to come, slightly tilting his head to look at Mingda who was sleeping soundly.
She liked Mingda very much and could understand many things even without her saying them. However, they had slightly different opinions on Prince Gong's medical accident.
Manbao understood her, and she also understood Manbao, so when Mingda opened his eyes again, their eyes met and they looked at each other silently.
Manbao said, "I've pulled out the needle. Can you turn over?"
Mingda then turned over with his hand and lay down directly. He patted his side and said, "Do you want to lie down for a while?"
Manbao took off his shoes and went up and lay down.
She exhaled and said, "I guess I'll still stay for the first half of the night."
"Then you can sleep here with me."
Manbao nodded slightly, but closed his eyes and couldn't fall asleep.
Seeing her turn over twice, Mingda asked, "Are you worried about Xiao Yuanzheng?"
"Yes, if even you think Xiao Yuanzheng is wrong, His Majesty will definitely be even more angry with Xiao Yuanzheng. I don't know how to deal with it in the end."
Mingda thought for a moment and said, "When the Queen Mother gets better, she will definitely plead with Xiao Yuanzheng. I'll plead with her then, too. It shouldn't be too severe."
She paused and said, "I know that Third Brother is more responsible for this matter, but it is also true that Xiao Yuanzheng applied medicine to him after a period of time and did not notice that the bone had grown crooked. It is indeed a crime of negligence."
Manbao sighed quietly, "If a patient wants to hide his illness, he has plenty of ways to do it. We are doctors who cure diseases and save lives, but you treat us as omnipotent gods."
Mingda blinked.
Man Bao said, "When a doctor asks questions, asking questions is paramount. If Prince Gong is hiding something, there's a 50% chance that Doctor Yu will misdiagnose. You might think I'm on his side because of my close relationship with Dean Xiao, but we're both doctors, and we know our own abilities. The doctors at the Imperial Hospital haven't been talking much today, and they're in a bad mood. It's simply because they're feeling sorry for each other."
Mingda fell silent immediately. After a long silence, Mingda asked, "Have you considered resigning?"
Manbao turned over and faced her, saying, "I just feel that being an imperial physician is rather boring. There are no more patients in the world than those in your family who are more troublesome."
Mingda couldn't help but burst out laughing. "This isn't the first time you've seen this. You didn't have any objections before, so why are you so upset now?"
Manbao snorted and said, "Maybe it's because I'm rich now. Although the official land given by the court is good, I can actually buy some land with my own money if I grit my teeth."
Mingda: "It's hard to buy land near the capital. Can you afford it?"
"I'll go to Yongzhou to buy it."
"It's difficult," Mingda said. "There's very little scattered farmland over there. Most of it is official land and imperial farms. If you want to buy it, you can only buy it from the court or our family. As for official land, buying and selling it is illegal. As for our family, I don't think our father will sell the land in Yongzhou."
Manbao: "...How do you know so much?"
"Hasn't the Emperor been wanting to arrange a marriage for me lately?" Mingda asked. "I heard him and the Empress Dowager talking about wanting to give the two imperial estates in Yongzhou to me and Sister Changyu as dowries."
In fact, not only that, the emperor also wanted to take out a county from Yongzhou to give to Mingda as a fief, but the queen hesitated and did not agree.
Because Yongzhou was the secondary capital, its geographical location, political and economic position were very important. She felt that if the emperor raised this matter, the court officials would strongly oppose it.
Manbao didn't know this yet, but it was enough for her to envy him. "An imperial farm is really huge."
Mingda nodded, "Not small, sometimes in spring and autumn we would go to the imperial farm to play."
Manbao looked at her seriously with his round eyes. Mingda couldn't help but smile and said, "This is my dowry. It can be regarded as the ancestral inheritance left to me by my parents. I want to leave it to future generations."
Mingda thought of something and said thoughtfully, "However, if you really can't find a suitable one by then, it wouldn't hurt to sell you some."
Manbao's eyes lit up, and he leaned against her pillow and said, "When the time comes, we'll split the Royal Farm in two. You sell me half, and we can build the farm together. Then, if we want to go out and play, we can go together."
Mingda said, "You didn't even know where you were at that time."
She had already heard her intention to leave, so Mingda quietly asked her, "If you resign, will you first take a position at the Jishitang in the capital, or go out and study?"
Manbao lay deflated on the bed and said, "It's not that simple. It's not certain whether His Majesty will release me or not. Most importantly, my father may not be happy. My family invested a lot in the official land last year, and I'm afraid it won't pay off this year. Besides, there are also experimental fields..."
Manbao paused and whispered, "The most important thing is, I'm an official now and own a lot of land, so my family is still considered farmers. What if I resign and people see how much money my fourth brother and his family have made as merchants and they just classify my family as merchants?"
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