Chapter 3288 Tian Jia
Xiao Yuanzheng felt that he had not considered all these matters carefully, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I will talk to the Ministry of Personnel and select a few people."
Zhou Man nodded, "Choose those who are good at numerology and writing official documents."
Xiao Yuanzheng looked at her and expressed his understanding.
Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at her big belly and said, "Okay, now that you've finished your business, you can leave first."
Zhou Man shook his head and said, "I'll go give money to Hedong Dao."
Xiao Yuan was frowning, "Aren't we going to give it to you after you come back from vacation?"
Zhou Man mentioned Lord Luo's concerns and said worriedly, "It's typhoid fever. I don't know what medicine they used. Dean Xiao, please go look at the memorial with Lord Luo and see if there's a pulse record attached."
Xiao Yuanzheng nodded, "If there is, I will copy a copy and send it to your house, and you can find a prescription for the disease."
Zhou Man agreed and turned around to find someone to count the money and distribute it.
By the time she had finished everything, it was almost dark outside, so Zhou Man held her belly and walked out of the Imperial Medical Office.
Daji quickly reached out and helped her onto the carriage, then took out a paper bag from his arms and said, "Madam, have a cake first."
Zhou Man took it and found it was still warm, so he peeled it open and took a bite. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm finally done. I have a day off tomorrow and don't need to go to the palace."
Back at the Princess's Mansion, little Bai Jingxing was almost asleep. When she heard her mother coming back, she came over holding a palace lantern and said, "Mother, I was almost asleep when you came back."
Zhou Man saw the glass lantern she was holding and waved, saying with a smile, "Are you showing off the lantern your father gave you again?"
Bai Jingxing spun the lamp in his hand and laughed.
Zhou Man reached out and touched her head and said, "Do you want to stay and sleep with your mother tonight?"
Bai Jingxing's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay."
Wu Yue hurriedly said, "My lady, you can't do that. You are already pregnant. If the lady kicks you..."
Zhou Man raised his hand to silence her and said with a smile: "It's okay, I know my limits."
Bai Jingxing climbed onto the bed with a happy face and waited for his mother.
Zhou Man smiled, washed up after dinner, and then took the picture book drawn by Bai Shan and told her a story for a while before lying down to sleep.
Zhou Man touched her red face and closed his eyes.
When Zheng heard that Bai Jingxing was sleeping at Zhou Man's place at night, she was worried that she would kick Zhou Man, so she rushed over early in the morning.
The mother and daughter were still lying in bed, refusing to get up. Zheng stood outside the window, listening, and breathed a sigh of relief. She turned around and ordered, "Tell the kitchen to prepare some hot porridge. Manbao loves porridge lately. Don't give him anything too hard."
"yes."
Zhou Man woke up when he heard the noise, and Zheng went in with the maids. Seeing Bai Jingxing still sound asleep, she asked with a smile, "She didn't bother you last night, did she?"
"No," Zhou Man said with a smile, "We had two quilts, and it was cold at night, so she just tossed and turned in her own quilt."
Zheng sat by the bed and looked at Bai Jingxing for a while, then touched her face and whispered, "She misses you. She has been talking about you these past few days, saying that mother goes out too early in the morning, doesn't come back at noon, and doesn't show up in the evening."
Zhou Man felt a little guilty, "There are a lot of things to do in the spring, and I've been too busy during this period."
In the past, except for the morning, she would come back for lunch at noon, and I could take a nap with her. He would also come back early from the yamen in the afternoon, and I could take her to play on the street.
Zheng took Zhou Man's hand and said, "No matter how busy you are, you must make sure to rest. Humans are made of flesh and blood, not iron or stone. How can you abuse yourself like this? What's more, you are pregnant."
Zhou Man touched her belly and nodded, "I know, don't worry, mother. I've let go of a lot of things recently."
Zheng didn't believe it. "Except for not being on duty at night, I really don't see where you've let go."
She temporarily stopped all classes in the classroom and even slowed down the writing of medical books. She had already let go of many things.
But it was difficult to tell Zheng about this, so she racked her brains and finally found an answer. "I'm on leave for ten days this time, so I'm not on duty at the Imperial Hospital or the Imperial Medical Bureau. When I came back yesterday, there were still people in the Imperial Medical Bureau. They were much busier than me."
Zhou Man said: "Your Majesty and Xiao Yuanzheng have taken good care of me, really."
"Okay, as long as you understand," Zheng asked, "Didn't the court grant maternity leave to female officials? When will you take your leave?"
Zhou Man said: "Wait a few more months."
Zheng: "...You will give birth in two months."
"Then wait another month." After a month, the busyness of the Imperial Medical Bureau and the Imperial Hospital came to an end.
Zhou Man had a field day off, and naturally the Zhou family's children also had one, so they didn't come to the Princess's Mansion today. I heard that they were taken to Putian Village by Old Zhou and thrown into the fields to work.
Of course, children of a few years old can't do much work, they can only help to carry some grass, pass seedlings and so on.
But Bai Ruoyu did not have Tian Jia, so he knocked on the back door of the princess's mansion early in the morning. After the door was opened, he led a group of servants in and rushed straight to Bai Jingxing's yard.
"Young Master, our young lady is in the main courtyard."
Bai Ruoyu rushed to the main courtyard and finished what his mother asked him to say in one breath, "Aunt, mother asked you to go to the academy with her. She also said that after the academy, we should go to the newly opened Jiude Hall for dinner. In the afternoon, she also wanted to buy pens, ink and paper for me and my sister."
Seeing that he didn't even take a breath, Zhou Man couldn't help laughing, "How come you have such a good memory? You can actually remember such a long paragraph."
Bai Ruoyu raised her head proudly.
Zhou Man turned to the servant behind him and said, "Go tell the princess to meet at the intersection in two quarters of an hour."
The servant responded and left.
The girls' school that Mingda and the Crown Princess want to run will start recruiting students this year. The academy was deliberately chosen to be located on the same street as the Imperial College, which is also on the same street as the Imperial Medical Bureau and is not far away, just diagonally opposite.
The queen personally went out of her way to buy the house and garden there, and the two houses were merged into one to become a girls' school.
The place is not small. Although Zhou Man has never been inside, he has heard Mingda say that it is even more spacious than their Imperial Medical Bureau.
However, they enrolled only a small number of students this year, only sixty-four, thirty of whom were from small families and entered the girls' school through examinations.
The remaining thirty-four people were daughters or granddaughters of court officials, and there was not a single daughter from aristocratic families.
Although the influence of aristocratic families is not as great as it was in previous years, they are still the trend in the minds of ordinary scholars. Therefore, the Crown Princess and Mingda were a little anxious because they did not recruit a girl from an aristocratic family.
Zhou Man, however, felt no rush. She held her belly and straightened her back slightly. After letting Xibing tuck a pillow behind her for support, she said, "There is no distinction between the classes in education. You're not running a school for fame or fortune anyway, but to help more women learn and gain knowledge. They're all women. Daughters of noble families are women, daughters of noble officials are women, and daughters of commoners are women too. It doesn't matter who you teach."
Zhou Man said, "If flowers are fragrant, butterflies will come. The same is true for your girls' school. If you run it well, what students can't you enroll?"
Mingda's anxious heart calmed down. "This time, please help me take a good look at what I still lack in the school."
Zhou Man agreed immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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