Chapter 2461 Gossip (Three chapters added for the reward from the book friend "Liang Yi")
The Wang clan leader said, "Send the child to Taiyuan, don't bring him back to the Wang family. Ma Feng from Daizhou will arrive in a couple of days, and you can give the child to him then."
Wang Geng, Wang Cheng and others looked confused.
Patriarch Wang showed them what it meant to use the opponent's force to counter attack.
In order to appease the Wang family and to clear the Cui family's name, the Cui family spared no effort in attacking the Ma family. Within two days, the Taiyuan area was full of rumors.
It was said that Wang Liuniang was bullied in the Ma family, and her aunt Cui was deceived by the Ma family and did not realize that her niece was suffering in the Ma family. So she felt guilty and sad, and sent people to take Wang Liuniang out and send her to the capital for treatment and recuperation, while at the same time she went back to her parents' home to ask for help, determined to make the Ma family pay the price.
Wang admitted this statement.
This was also the reward they received for letting Cui take action, so that what Cui's daughter had done could be covered up. As for what price Cui's daughter and the second branch of the Wang family would have to pay in the process, Patriarch Wang would not ask.
This matter caused a lot of uproar, especially with the emperor's special publicity, even the harem knew about it.
Mingda and Changyu were both very interested in this, but unfortunately they could not go out much now, and it was not convenient to summon their friends from outside to come to the palace to see them. They could only report a cold today and a stomachache tomorrow, and specifically asked Zhou Man to come and examine them.
The weather has been very stable recently, so people inside and outside the palace rarely get sick. In addition to repairing books, Manbao also takes on the job of checking people's pulses.
Whenever Mingda and Changyu made trouble, Manbao had no choice but to carry his medicine box to the harem, then put it down and sit cross-legged with them in the open pavilion with curtains to drink tea and chat.
While eating, he shook his head and said, "Dean Xiao knows everything. He has been checking on me these past two days and thinks I am wasting medical time."
Chang Yu: "You don't have any patients right now, so we're not wasting your time as a doctor. We didn't ask you to take any medicine, so how is it a waste?"
Manbao: "Wasting paper and ink is also a waste."
She said, "Paper is very expensive. Because I write books, the people at Chongwenguan dislike my high expenses. They always suspect that I use Chongwenguan's paper to get prescriptions at the Imperial Hospital."
The expenses of a department belong to that department and cannot be shared.
She has always spent a lot on paper.
Whether in Chongwenguan or Imperial Hospital, her paper expenses were the highest. Manbao didn't want to use their paper anymore. She bought her own paper in the mall, which was both cheap and easy to use.
But sometimes she needed to show others what she wrote. Although the paper she picked out from the mall was similar to theirs and there was no difference, anyone with a keen eye could still tell that it was not paper made in the palace.
There is nothing wrong with using your own paper, but Mr. Zhuang said that public and private matters must be separated, and they must be separated very clearly.
She has always spent a lot on paper. If she uses her own paper even for recording pulse records and the like, Chongwenguan and the Imperial Hospital will inevitably reduce her expenses in this area in the future, which will lead to other problems and she will be bullied.
Because they listened to Mr. Zhuang, Chongwenguan and the Imperial Hospital would occasionally complain about her excessive paper consumption, but they would never reduce her allowance.
"Even though I don't prescribe medicine, I still have to write pulse records and file them every time I go back. Isn't that a waste?"
Chang Yu said bluntly, "Then just write that I'm sick, saying I'm depressed, frightened, sad, or something like that. Just make it up, and then prescribe some tranquilizing soup for me."
Mingda nearly spit out his tea and laughed, "What a waste."
Manbao nodded, thinking that she hadn't grasped the point, and simply stopped talking about this topic. Instead, he asked, "Is there any new news today?"
"Hey, didn't Bai Shan tell you?"
Man Bao said: "It's not his turn to be on duty today. He is in the Hanlin Academy and has not entered the palace."
Although the emperor liked to invite Bai Shan into the palace to ask questions about government affairs and chat, and also liked to use him to organize memorials and the like, he couldn't be the one doing it every day.
There are three people walking together, and it’s someone else’s turn occasionally.
Therefore, Bai Shan would occasionally stay in the Hanlin Academy and not enter the palace.
Dean Xiao did not allow the Imperial Hospital to get involved in court affairs, so the Imperial Hospital rarely discussed this matter.
Half of the information about Changyu and Mingda came from the emperor, and the other half came from the eunuchs and maids in the palace.
Mingda said excitedly, "Ma Hongzhong and Wang Liuniang have officially divorced. I heard that his uncle made the decision and let the Wang family take the child away. From now on, the Ma family has no relationship with Wang Liuniang and the child."
Manbao asked with sparkling eyes: "Really?"
Chang Yu: "Of course it's true, my father said it himself."
That’s right, the emperor told the two sisters this gossip. The news spread so quickly that Wang Ruile, who lived in the Tang Mansion, probably didn’t know about it yet.
The emperor's source of information was naturally Yin Li, but this time it was not for gossip, but for something else. Gossip was just a by-product.
Chang Yu had just learned this news from her father that morning and immediately wanted to share it with Man Bao. She said, "My father said that Wang Min went to see Ma Feng overnight. No one knows what they talked about. After Ma Feng returned to Bingzhou, he asked the clan to intervene. First, he took away his brother's position as clan leader, and then he wanted to separate their branch."
"In the end, there was no division," Chang Yu said with a look of regret, "but after being frightened by this, their family was willing to give the child to the Wang family."
Mingda said, "They are trying to survive by cutting off their own limbs. It would be better for the child to stay with the Wang family than with the Ma family. Otherwise, if they force the child to stay, the Wang family might not be afraid to act rashly, but they will definitely resent their blackmail. The Ma family and the Wang family are still too different, so the Ma family can't afford to take the risk."
The reason the emperor told his two daughters this was to let them know, "Our family is a first-class family in the Great Jin Dynasty. No one in this world can be compared with our family except the common people. So you must remember, in the future, when you go out, as long as you don't break the law and offend the people of the world, don't be afraid of others who bully you. Come back and tell your father, and your father will take care of it for you."
Of course, the Ma family couldn't afford to take the risk. As far as Manbao and the others knew, Ma Hongzhong had been expelled from the provincial school. With Wang Shi around and His Majesty's words that he "has no talent and no virtue", he would never be able to make a name for himself in his life.
As for his younger brother, I heard that he was also suppressed by Wang and could no longer stay in Taiyuan Prefecture School. He had already resigned and wanted to go out to study.
At this time, Ma Feng snatched the position of patriarch from his brother, which was a fatal blow to their eldest branch.
Manbao, however, had a different understanding from the emperor. She said to Mingda Changyu, "It shows that things in the world are unpredictable. People should still stand upright and do what is right. In the past, Wang Liuniang was absolutely at a disadvantage in the Ma family. If her family had not behaved improperly, she would not have ended up like this."
"It can be seen that strength and weakness are not fixed. If a person behaves properly when he is strong, he will not suffer a fatal blow when he is weak. When he is weak, he should be as resilient as Wang Liuniang, so that he can have a glimmer of hope."
Mingda and Changyu were stunned. Changyu said blankly, "My father said that he would give me more personal guards in the future. If anyone bullies me, he will immediately call the personal guards back to the palace to report and he will take charge of the matter."
Mingda said, "...Father is very busy. Now that we have established a family, we must stand on our own feet. We can't always ask him for everything."
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