Chapter 2438 Together
Manbao and Baishan kept persuading him, "Since the adults think that you are going to be sent out, then you must be on the list."
Liu Huan was still very depressed. How could he forget to look at his name?
The three of them hurried back to the Ministry of Personnel.
The people at the top of the list have already dispersed. There is no fool who can pass the Ministry of Personnel examination. It’s just that they don’t have connections. It would be nice to take the opportunity to go around the Ministry of Personnel and get to know more people.
There will be something to say when it comes to selecting officials, right?
So everyone dispersed.
Bai Shan and the others could go straight to the list. Liu Huan sniffed and looked from the back to the front.
Bai Shan looked from the front to the back, while Man Bao looked from the middle to the back. After a while, Man Bao found it. She happily stepped forward and pointed at the location, saying, "Look, it's here."
Bai Shan and Liu Huan immediately leaned over to take a look. Seeing the two big characters "Liu Huan" on it, they both breathed a sigh of relief. Bai Shan said, "See, we didn't lie to you, did we?"
Li Maoyue stood in the corridor, watching the three of them. After a long while, he coughed speechlessly and asked, "Master Zhou, County Master Bai, aren't you having a banquet at home today? Why aren't you going home yet?"
Manbao looked up at the sun in the sky and said confidently to Li Shangshu, "It's okay. Everyone is still in the government office. They definitely haven't gone."
Li Mao looked at her for a long moment, then said, "Oh!", "I just came out of the palace. Even Lord Wei told Your Majesty that he wanted to finish his official duties early and ask for a glass of wine from you. So the small court meeting in the palace has already ended."
Manbao then remembered, yes, the results were announced today, and as the Minister of Personnel, Li Maoyue must attend the small court meeting. He is already here now...
Manbao glared, pulled Baishan and turned away.
Bai Shan hurriedly bowed to Minister Li and immediately followed him out.
Liu Huan was a little afraid of these old men who were about the same age as his grandfather, so he smiled ingratiatingly at Minister Li and ran after the two men.
Manbao stood on the main road, looking conflicted. "Should we go back immediately to entertain the guests, or should we go to the palace and pick up Bai Er?"
Bai Shan had already pulled her to the palace. "Let's go. Today is the wedding of three families, not just one. My uncle and aunt came from Changqing Lane early this morning."
Mr. and Mrs. Bai arrived in the capital a few days ago. Their luggage was left at Zhou's house, but they are temporarily living in Changqing Lane.
Because the eldest son and his wife lived there, they also moved in to see their grandson.
On the Zhou family's side, except for Zhou Erlang and his wife who stayed in their hometown and Zhou Silang who was purchasing tea, everyone else was in the capital.
Most of the people Zhou Man invited were colleagues and ladies he got along well with after meeting in Beijing, but there were many people coming from the Bai family.
So this time, the banquet was actually divided into two parts, one part was the relatives of the Zhou family and the other part was the relatives of the Bai family.
Ever since Bai Shan passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi two years ago, Longzhou has been in contact with their family. Not only Bai Shan, but also Bai Erlang's branch that had already separated has been ranked in the clan.
Not to mention that this time when Bai Shan and his men returned from the Western Regions, they were directly granted the titles of baron and viscount, and their fiefs were all in Longzhou. Although it was not big, with only a few villages, it was enough to shock the Bai family.
So they arrived in the capital two months earlier, waiting to attend the Bai family's celebratory banquet.
With their arrival, some of Bai's relatives also showed up, and thus, the number of guests at the Bai family increased.
Originally, if they didn't have an invitation, it would be useless for them to come, but their family had informed them in advance.
After some thought, Mrs. Liu thought of her property in Longzhou and agreed. "If you don't return home in splendor, it's like walking in the night in embellished attire. Since they came to us on their own initiative, we should put on our most beautiful clothes and serve them our best food."
She had to take back everything that had been taken from her.
So Mrs. Liu created a lot of posts specifically for them.
She took full responsibility for arranging the banquet. Old Zhou and Qian wanted to share some of the responsibility at first, but after seeing what Old Lady Liu had assigned, they stopped talking and simply left it all to her.
A family like theirs even has particular rules about what kind of cups and plates to use on which table, but Old Zhou and Mrs. Qian can't even tell who is who.
The couple discussed it and felt that they really couldn't help Manbao with this matter, so they just had to avoid causing her trouble. So they called the children and handed them over to Old Lady Liu for care, telling her to just tell them to do anything, and they would just make the decision and they would be responsible for the work.
Old Madam Liu breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and agreed with Old Zhou and Qian, then turned around and used Zhou Wulang and the others.
When Old Zhou saw this, he was happy, thinking that Old Madam Liu was indeed a family member to them and would not be a stranger to them.
Madam Liu also said to Zheng, "Your in-laws are very generous. This is the Zhou residence, and Manbao is one of the main characters, yet they are able to leave everything to us to take care of. They don't care about the long and short of things like other families do. When you let Manbao and his family take charge of the household in the future, you must get along well with your in-laws. They are all easy to talk to."
Zheng agreed obediently.
Anyway, there are a lot of people coming today, and the majority are from the Bai family, so as one of the protagonists, Bai Erlang has to appear with them no matter what.
So Manbao and the others stood at the palace gate and found a eunuch, asking him to go to Chongwenguan and tell Bai Erlang to pack up and come out quickly. He had asked for leave yesterday and should have been out early in the morning. He must have slept in.
The three of them lazily leaned against the palace wall and waited. Bai Shan said to her, "You are too lazy. You can enter the palace."
Manbao snorted and turned to look to the other side. She was tired and didn't want to walk so far to Chongwenguan.
The three of them waited for a long time, almost half an hour before Bai Erlang came out. However, he was not alone, but came with a large group of people. In addition to his classmates who had also taken leave to come out for a drink, there were also Princess Changyu and Princess Mingda.
Princess Mingda said seriously, "We are going to Huguo Temple to burn incense."
Manbao nodded blankly.
After everyone had mounted their horses and gotten into their carriages, Manbao rode his horse to catch up and quietly got into the carriages of the two princesses.
The princesses' guards and maids turned their heads away and pretended not to see.
Manbao and Mingda huddled together and asked, "Why did you come out so early?"
Changyu pointed at Mingda and said, "Ask her."
Mingda said sheepishly, "I wanted to give the gifts I prepared for you to Bai Er to take back, but while we were talking, my cousin and his family arrived. When they heard we were leaving the palace too, they just… came along."
Manbao comforted her, "It's okay, I'll send them away in a while, and you can just come home with me."
I'm going to have a major outburst tomorrow, so I'm going to save the manuscript tonight and start adding more on Monday.
Whenever I have a big expense, I want to reach out to the sky and ask them to lift me up so I can write for another eight days and eight nights.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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