Chapter 2624 Moving the Palace
The team moved faster after leaving the city gate, but because there were so many carriages, it couldn't be much faster.
Manbao took out a bag of water from the horse's waist, unscrewed it, took a sip, and sighed again.
The ministers standing by couldn't help but swallow their saliva and took out their water bags to drink water. However, for some reason, Minister Liu always felt that the water Zhou Man drank was different from theirs, so he stared at her water bag.
Manbao saw it and said, "This is tea made with honeysuckle. Minister Liu, would you like some?"
If Zhou Man was not a woman, Minister Liu would have nodded, but she was, so Minister Liu just smiled and shook his head.
Manbao remembered it in his heart, and when he walked forward, he left the team and ran forward for a while before finding Princess Mingda's carriage frame.
Bai Erlang and Mingda sat together. The carriage was too slow, the sun was too strong, and they were bored, so he was a little sleepy at this moment.
There was a knock on the carriage frame, so he looked up and saw Mingda seemed to have just been awakened, so he lifted the curtain to look.
Manbao rode his horse beside the carriage and asked him, "Where are the things I asked you to bring?"
Bai Erlang pointed to the eunuch following behind him and said, "Ask Ma Fuming."
He suddenly didn't want to sit in the car anymore, so he said hello to Mingda and asked the guards outside for his horse.
As soon as he got on the horse, he was so happy, "Riding a horse is still good."
Manbao looked at him silently and said, "If you can still say that after two quarters of an hour, I will respect you as a man."
It took less than a quarter of an hour before he couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "Why is the sun so strong?"
Isn't this normal?
Otherwise, why would the emperor leave the capital to escape the summer heat?
Manbao said, "I'll go get the doctor Duan to get something. You ask Ma Fuming to go to the camping troops ahead and ask for a stove."
Bai Erlang could only run errands for her.
If Manbao and the others were traveling alone, they would not light a fire when they stopped at noon, but this was the Holy Chariot.
However, if Manbao and his group had traveled light, the distance between the capital and Yongzhou would not have meant they would still be outside in the middle of the day.
Most people had dry food, including the ministers and vice ministers who followed them. The imperial guards set up a few stoves to heat up the meals for the nobles.
Bai Erlang directly asked for some boiled tea.
He listened to Manbao and asked the cook to make two buckets of thick sour plum soup at home. He poured it directly into the pot, half a bucket at a time. After it boiled, he sprinkled some dried osmanthus flowers that Manbao had brought in, and then poured it into a bucket filled with a lot of ice...
Bai Erlang stood aside and watched. Seeing the dark red soup falling from the white ice, he couldn't help swallowing. This ice looked really delicious...
He took a spoon and was about to scoop up a piece, but Manbao came over and helped him.
Bai Jilang: "...Why did you come here so quickly?"
Manbao: "Guess?"
Bai Erlang ignored her.
The eunuchs and palace maids stirred the soup and ice in the bucket together, and the ice soon melted. Then they covered the bucket and sent it to the emperor and empress first.
After a while, the accompanying officials were also given slightly chilled sour plum soup. It was really refreshing to drink a bowl of it under the bright sun.
After finishing their work, the eunuchs and palace maids gathered together to sip the medicinal tea that had been brewed not long ago. It was also a good way to relieve summer heat, but it didn't taste as good as the sour plum soup that adults used.
But at this time, they can still drink medicinal tea to relieve the heat, and they are already very satisfied.
Of the accompanying eunuchs and palace maids, half were riding in the carriage and following from a distance, while the other half were following beside the carriage frame with their legs.
So they are the ones who lose more water.
After Gu Zhong served the emperor lunch, he came over to ask for hot water to make tea. A eunuch brought him a bowl of specially chilled medicinal tea.
He took a sip and shook his head, "It's better to drink it warm. You're adding unnecessary details."
The eunuch was startled and wanted to kneel down.
"Never mind," Gu Zhong waved his hand and said, "It's not a big deal. Is the quantity enough?"
"That's enough. Not only us, but also the imperial guards drank a bowl of medicinal tea."
Gu Zhong nodded slightly. "Lord Zhou is quite careful. You should be careful too. It's rare for someone to remember people like us. If anyone gets a heat stroke, go find Doctor Duan. Don't be like in previous years, where so many people died just for a short distance."
The eunuch bowed in response.
The carriage was moving slowly, and it was almost dusk before they arrived at the Yongzhou Palace.
The emperor and his nobles moved directly into the palace that had been arranged for them. Manbao didn't have to work hard. He breathed a sigh of relief and summoned a eunuch to ask, "Should I have a separate courtyard, or share it with Lord Bai from the Secretariat?"
The eunuch smiled and said, "Master Bai has already lived in Master Zhou's courtyard."
Manbao was satisfied, nodded, and followed the eunuch to her courtyard.
This time, the emperor showed favor to his ministers during the summer vacation, and allowed officials above the fourth rank to bring their families with them.
There were not many officials above the fourth rank in the court, and only half of them came, so it was still affordable to give each person a courtyard.
I don’t know if it’s because Bai Shan is from the Secretariat, or because of Man Bao’s special status, but the courtyard they were assigned was right next to Lord Wei’s courtyard, and not far from the Changqiu Palace where the emperor lived.
Further out are the residences of the ministers.
Yin Li lived further in, two courtyards away from them, well, diagonally across from them.
Yin Huo, an idler, came over wearing a big hat and happened to meet Manbao who was about to enter the house.
When they saw each other, their eyes lit up. Manbao walked over and said with a smile, "I was looking for you during the lunch break. They said you came early. How come you came in later than us?"
Yin Huo smiled and said, "I will be waiting at the foot of the mountain after I arrive. I will only come in after you all enter."
Seeing that he looked in good spirits, Manbao nodded and said, "I'll go clean up first. We'll have dinner together when Bai Shan comes back."
Yin Huo smiled and nodded.
Bai Shan was obviously busy at the moment, so Man Bao went into his own small courtyard. It was just a courtyard, but there were three rooms in the middle, and the east and west wings could both accommodate people.
She pushed open the door of the main room and saw that it was quite clean inside. She took off her official hat and hung it on the door, and breathed a sigh of relief. She had only been riding horses today, but she was so tired.
She sat there for a while, and the servants and luggage at the back finally passed the inspection and came up the mountain.
Daji and two guards carried two boxes, and Xibing Wuyue carried large bundles on her back and in her arms, and followed in behind a eunuch.
Manbao heard the noise and went out. He reached out and took the bag from Wuyue's arms. He was shocked. "Didn't we only pack one box? How come there are so many extra things?"
Wu Yue whispered, "This morning, after my wife left, the old lady came to check on her. She felt that she didn't bring enough things, so she packed another box for her."
So I almost missed the registration.
The list of family members and servants accompanying the officials was registered early in the morning, but the luggage had to be registered on the spot, and the number of boxes and bundles brought was noted.
Otherwise, why are all the officials and clerks in the capital so busy today?
Manbao felt that the person with the easiest life was the emperor.
However, she felt that the emperor, who was the most relaxed, had just sat down and taken a sip of tea when he received the memorial.
I'm the cute man who saved the manuscript. Although there is only one chapter, hahahaha, see you at 8 o'clock in the evening.
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