Chapter 2641 Dinner
Wei Yu asked, "Princess, are you traveling? What about the tents and other valuables..."
"It's bright and sunny, and with the trees providing shade, it's quite charming even without any decoration. Don't worry, the princess won't mind." Bai Shan pulled him away and said, "Let's go straight to the princess. We can leave now. There's no need to go through all the trouble to arrange things."
Wei Yu thought about Princess Changyu's easy-going nature and nodded.
The princess's eunuchs and palace maids carried mats to the pavilion and spread them out. They swept the mats briefly and spread them out, then placed a few low tables and stools on the mats.
When Manbao washed and changed his clothes and went over, the palace maids had already cleaned up the place, and Changyu and the others came over from another place, chattering.
Bai Shan took Man Bao's hand and walked forward. Princess Chang Yu was delighted to see her. She trotted forward, took her hand and said, "You bought everything. If I had known you were so capable, I should have made more lists for you."
"I can't carry any more." Manbao and she walked into the pavilion side by side and sat down at a low table.
As soon as they sat down, palace maids came in one after another carrying food boxes, opened the boxes, took out the food inside and placed it on everyone's table.
The roast chicken that was just wrapped in lotus leaves was heated up and chopped into plates and served, one small plate on each table.
Bai Shan sat next to Man Bao, and Yin Huo sat below them. Next to them was a gurgling cold spring. The overflowing water flowed down the rocks, making a gurgling sound. The water splashed down because it was too high. They saw it when they came up just now, and it was very beautiful.
The palace maid put the tofu pudding into the cold spring to soak, and also put some fruits and vegetables in a wooden barrel, filled with some cold spring water, and then put them into the cold spring again. Under the scorching sun, eating some of the cooled fruits and vegetables in the afternoon was so delicious that even if one became an immortal, he would not change it.
But Manbao told me not to eat too much to avoid catching a cold and getting diarrhea.
Because it was hot and they had just been on the road, Manbao didn't really want to eat meat, so he chose some vegetarian dishes.
When Bai Shan saw this, he stared at Bai Erlang opposite him.
When Bai Erlang saw this, he happily picked up the plate of vegetables in front of him and handed it to him.
Immediately a maid came forward to take it and passed it to Bai Shan. Bai Shan gave the maid a plate of meat and returned it to him.
Chang Yu saw this and turned around and ordered, "Ask the kitchen to make some more seasonal vegetables and cook them in a few different ways."
The maid left immediately.
Mingda smiled and said, "I also think the vegetables in the palace are delicious."
Chang Yu, who was the most knowledgeable, said, "Right now is the time when vegetables are at their most lush, but the best time to eat them was actually two months ago, at the end of spring, when all kinds of wild vegetables were at their most plump. There's no need to elaborate on the process; just blanch them and then dip them in salty or sweet sauce, and they're delicious."
She said, "The climate in the palace is quite cold, and there are many cold springs in the mountains, so the vegetables are harvested later than those below. Although the vegetables below are lush now, the roots are a bit old, unlike the vegetables in the mountains, which are at their peak season, so they are more delicious."
When Manbao heard this, he said, "It would be nice to grow some vegetables in the yard."
After all, they will be staying here for two months.
Chang Yu didn't want to plant vegetables, and said, "The servants will take care of these."
Mingda took a few bites of food and asked Manbao, "Did you find the book you were looking for?"
Manbao said, "I found a few books. I plan to study them in a while."
Mingda said, "I have a few recipes for making incense, but they're not for sleeping. Would you like to see them? I think all incense has something in common. Perhaps if you study this, you can develop a sleeping incense."
Manbao said excitedly, "Come back and show it to me."
Mingda nodded.
Chang Yu immediately said, "If you figure it out, make me a box too."
"You have insomnia too?"
"Not now, but it's better to be prepared. I've heard that people tend to suffer from insomnia as they get older."
This preparation is really early.
Bai Shan and the others were also talking. Wei Yu asked Bai Shan, "Have you approved the memorial submitted by our Ministry of Industry?"
Bai Shan said: "No, it was suppressed for reconsideration. It should be sent back for re-doing."
Wei Yu couldn't help but feel a headache, "I've changed it twice."
Bai Shan smiled and raised his glass with him.
The ones who had it the easiest were Bai Erlang and Yin Huo. Wei Yu looked at herself and then at him. They were both princes-in-law, so why did he live such a good life?
So he couldn't help asking, "Hasn't His Majesty invited you to study recently?"
Little did he know that Bai Erlang also had a headache. He sighed and said, "No, His Majesty doesn't like to ask me to study these days. He likes to call me to attend government meetings. My head is almost hurting."
You can listen if you want, but the emperor would occasionally ask questions. For such a major national affair, even Lord Wei and others could not think of a solution that satisfied him. What would he, a fledgling Hanlin, know?
So when asked ten times, he couldn't answer five times, and he spoke nonsense four times. After all, it is very embarrassing and shameful to always say that I don't know and I don't have a good solution.
Upon hearing this, Yin Huo laughed and said, "Why don't you tell His Majesty that you want to concentrate on revising the book recently? Then His Majesty may not look for you anymore."
Bai Shan laughed and said, "He is timid and dares not speak."
He had told him this a long time ago, but Bai Erlang didn't dare tell the emperor that he was writing a storybook, so he kept pretending.
Mingda, who was standing by, heard this and smiled, saying, "Go for a few days. I'll talk to him about this when Father recovers."
Bai Erlang breathed a sigh of relief and asked Manbao, "When will your majesty recover?"
He could see the emperor every day, and with Bai Shan and Zhou Man, two people who knew the inside story, he naturally knew that the emperor was not seriously ill, but he was also sick and was taking medicine recently.
Wei Yu also knew the truth, but the one who really didn't know the truth was Princess Changyu.
She didn't know that it was her father-in-law who was seriously ill, not her biological father, so she looked at Manbao with concern.
Manbao said, "He should be almost healed. I'll go check his pulse later."
Changyu breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but put his hands together and chanted the Buddha's name.
Wei Yu poured a glass of wine and raised it to Zhou Man, saying, "Master Zhou, this is a toast to you. Thank you very much."
Manbao raised his glass with a smile, "This is all my responsibility."
The group of people were eating and drinking here when a breeze blew over, bringing with it the vapor from the cold spring. However, after being exposed to the scorching sun outside, the breeze only felt cool.
Chang Yu happily raised his head and drank a glass of wine, shouting: "Great joy——"
Wei Yu smiled and said to her, "If you like it here, we can bring food over to eat in the evening."
Chang Yu shook his head. "Forget it. It's better for the two of us to eat in the yard. Besides, there are so many mosquitoes outside. The medicine bag Zhou Man gave me may not be effective."
Manbao immediately said, "I think my medicine bag is pretty good."
Chang Yu rolled up her sleeves to show her the red spot on her arm. "Here, it bit me last night. I had a medicine bag on it, but it bit me carelessly."
Manbao looked over and couldn't help asking, "Where's that mosquito?"
"I shot him to death."
Manbao blamed her, "You must not have carried the medicine bag with you, or you didn't light it, or the distance was too far."
Wei Yu laughed and said, "The princess thinks the smell of the medicine is unpleasant."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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