Chapter 2021 Delicious
The emperor's mood did not improve until the New Year. Perhaps because of his bad mood, he had been somewhat negligent in his duties for more than four months and left many government affairs to the prince.
The entire royal family was in mourning, and the prince had nothing else to do. He suddenly received so much work, and although he was annoyed for a while at the beginning due to the busyness, he gradually got used to it.
Not only the emperor, but even the court officials were increasingly satisfied with the prince. Seeing this, the empress finally suggested to the emperor that Prince Gong should return to his fiefdom after the New Year.
Prince Gong's injury has healed, but his leg is still a little lame. It is not very noticeable when he walks slowly, but it is noticeable as long as he walks faster.
After the board was removed, Prince Gong cried for two days because his leg was broken by the emperor himself. He felt uncomfortable for a while, so Manbao had to prescribe him two more days of calming medicine.
Because officials were still in the national mourning period, few people gathered for banquets even during the New Year. Even if they did, they did so secretly and did not dare to let outsiders know.
Anyway, the three families of Zhou, Man and others are very low-key. Because of the New Year, Bai Dalang also moved to the Zhou house, and the three brothers studied together. Manbao also came back from vacation in the Imperial Hospital and was studying the medical books given to her by the Empress Dowager. Moreover, the Imperial Medical Bureau will be very busy after the spring.
The Imperial Medical Service has decided to recruit twelve students, led by Zheng Gu, to serve as medical assistants in the spring.
They had studied medicine for several years before entering the school and were basically disciples of various families. Only half a year after they entered the Imperial Medical Bureau, they were selected to form a separate class and their teaching progress was different from that of other classes.
Although there were still many things they had not learned during this year or so of study, Doctor Xiao and the others felt that they would not be able to learn much from reading books and studying in the Imperial Medical Bureau. They could now try to prescribe medicine in the clinic and come into contact with real patients.
Zheng Gu and the other three had been working as medical assistants in the Imperial Medical Bureau for almost a year.
But there are only so many patients in the palace, so the Imperial Medical Bureau decided to organize several free clinics after the spring. Since it is a free clinic, there must be medicine.
It is impossible to provide it for free. It is already very expensive to use the emperor's private treasury to maintain the operation of the Imperial Medical Bureau. It is impossible to ask him to pay for the medicine for free clinics.
Moreover, Doctor Xiao and Manbao had discussed it privately and they all felt that by autumn and winter they would be ready to work in medical offices in various places, which would certainly incur another expense.
Regardless of whether this money comes from the emperor's private treasury or the national treasury, it is certainly not easy to get, so at this time we have to be frugal and not give everyone the impression that the Imperial Medical Bureau is very expensive.
So the imperial doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau gathered together to think about it for several days, and finally decided to ask the major pharmacies in the capital for help.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that they have to provide the medicinal materials for free, the medicine will be cheaper.
Their students write prescriptions and take them to cooperating pharmacies to buy medicine, where they can get it at a cheaper price.
Since Imperial Physician Zheng was at Jishidiang, he was very likely to be persuaded, so Imperial Physician Liu assigned Manbao a Baohe Clinic.
The reason was that when she was working at Jishidiang, she seemed to have a good relationship with the Baohe Medical Clinic next door.
Manbao just had a day off yesterday, so he decided to take another day off today and go to Baohe Medical Clinic tomorrow...
Since Jishidiang has agreed to cooperate, it should not be difficult to invite Baohe Medical Clinic. After all, they are neighbors, and not only neighbors, but also colleagues.
Manbao opened a page of the medical book and wrote down some important knowledge points while reading.
Bai Dalang felt his eyes were a little tired, so he put down the book and stretched. He looked up and saw that the three of them were still sitting there reading seriously, so he couldn't help but sigh.
The three of them didn't raise their heads or speak.
Bai Dalang was too embarrassed to twist his neck anymore, so he could only quietly turn his head to look out the window, just in time to see his wife walking towards him with a tray.
He quickly got up and opened the door.
There were two plates of snacks on the tray. Cheng smiled at her husband and said to the three people in the room, "It's already afternoon. Let's take a break and have some snacks to warm our stomachs."
The three of them also smelled the fragrance, and when they looked up, they saw steaming glutinous rice balls and meat pie strips on the plate.
The three people's eyes lit up, and they put down the books in their hands. They didn't mind the cold water in the study, and directly reached out to wash their hands in the wooden basin, and then went up to pick up the meat patties and eat them.
This meat pie strip is a snack that Xiao Qian has recently learned to make, so let’s just call it a snack.
Because Manbao saw a recipe in a book that said chicken coated with flour and fried was delicious, so Manbao, who had not eaten meat for a long time after coming out of the palace to mourn, could not help but pester Xiao Qianshi to give her fried chicken.
Xiao Qian couldn't resist, so she not only killed a chicken and fried it for her, but also fried other things according to the recipe, such as pork, mutton and fish. In the end, Manbao's favorite was the fried fish and chicken wrapped in flour.
Unfortunately, later on, when I wanted to eat Xiao Qianshi, I was not very willing to make it because it was too time-consuming. It only took one chicken at a time, but it also took a lot of oil.
Fish is fine, but the fish in the capital is much more expensive than those in Luojiang County, and they are always out of stock, so Xiao Qianshi finally didn't want to fry them.
But she still thought about it, and later she didn't know how she figured it out, she kneaded the flour, filled it with meat filling, then cut it into strips and steamed it, and then fried it in a pan. Because it was steamed in advance, not much oil was consumed after frying, and there was no fishy smell like fried fish.
The main thing is that not much meat is used, because she also added other things to the meat filling. And if it is too much, it will be greasy. It is this little bit that makes people want it more.
This meat pie strip is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Only the surface layer is crispy. When you bite it gently, you can taste the sweetness of wheat flour inside, and the slightly salty meat at the very end. This new snack is not only liked by Manbao Baishan and Bai Erlang, but also by Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang, who had been eating with the Bai family, went to the Zhou family to eat for ten days. Finally, Aunt Rong learned the craft and fried it from time to time as a snack for everyone before he came back.
Bai Dalang also liked it very much, and he almost took three bites of each one, but they didn't eat in a hurry and chewed it slowly.
Cheng looked at her with a smile, and Bai Dalang handed one to her. Cheng took it, took a bite and couldn't help frowning slightly. She endured it and finally swallowed it.
Manbao turned his head and glanced at her. After looking her up and down, he checked her expression and asked, "Sister-in-law, did you just wake up?"
Cheng nodded sheepishly, "It's easy to oversleep during winter naps."
Manbao threw all the meat pie strips in his hand into his mouth. After eating, he asked, "I remember when Senior Brother Bai came to the study this morning, he said you were still asleep."
Cheng's face flushed, "...it's easy to feel sleepy in winter."
Manbao grabbed her hand and said, "Let me show you."
After saying this, he took her pulse and after a while asked, "Did you have your period this month?"
Cheng was startled, then remembered something. She looked at her expectantly and shook her head, "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it. It seems like it's five days late."
But she was usually about seven days late, so she and the maids didn't care too much.
Manbao put down his hand and said, "It's too early. Let's wait a little longer. But it's indeed a slippery pulse."
Not only Cheng and Bai Dalang, but even Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were shocked and opened their mouths wide.
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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