Chapter 669: Calm (birthday extra for book friend "Shu Xiang Man Yuan")
The gifts filled half of the room, and the most numerous of them were fabrics of various colors. Manbao touched them all and found that they were all things he had never seen before, and the colors were particularly beautiful.
Zhou Lijun and Bai Erlang opened the box on the ground. Zhou Lijun looked at the ink stick in his hand, then looked at the box of pens in Bai Erlang's hand, closed it and put it down, then went to look for other things.
Then I discovered that in addition to a set of pearl jewelry, my aunt also had boxes of strange medicinal herbs.
Zhou Lijun was stunned. "Why did they send medicinal herbs to my aunt?"
Bai Shan guessed: "Because Manbao is a doctor?"
Manbao went to look at the Polygonum multiflorum in one box and the bird's nest in another box, scratched his head and said, "I can't eat these things either."
Especially the Polygonum multiflorum. She looked at it again and again and found that the quality was quite good, so she said, "Send it back to Dad?"
Zhou Lijun said, "Sell it."
The aunt and niece looked at each other, and Zhou Lijun said, "Aunt, you can send it back. Grandpa finally asked my father to take it to the pharmacy to exchange for money."
Bai Shan said, "Put it away. Maybe it can be used as a gift in the future."
He also felt that the gift from the Ji family was a bit strange. Even if it was a gift of medicinal herbs, there were many kinds. Why would they give Polygonum multiflorum?
But who cares? They are here to receive gifts, so they will accept whatever they are given.
All they have available now are some fabrics and pens and ink, which Bai Shan generously shared with everyone.
Manbao only kept the pearl jewelry and took out the rest to share with everyone.
Bai Erlang and Zhou Lijun were not polite and picked one they liked, and put the rest in their rooms.
Zhou Lijun also asked, "Should we keep an account book? I heard that wealthy families keep a record of all the gifts they receive, just like when we have a party in the countryside, we have to record the gifts from each family and return them later."
Manbao was surprised: "We have to return it? Isn't this a gift to repay us for saving our lives?"
Bai Shan almost spit out the tea in his mouth and said to Man Bao, "Just know it in your heart, don't say it out loud."
"We are all family in the house, not outside."
Bai Erlang was too bothersome and waved his hand, saying, "Then don't remember it. We won't have much contact with the Ji family in the future anyway."
Bai Shan nodded, "Ji Hao is too good at getting into trouble. He even forced the master to run away."
"Let's have dinner first. My husband and fourth brother are probably out drinking. I have to go to Jishiditang tomorrow." Manbao got excited when he mentioned this and said to them, "You don't know, I saw a very amazing person yesterday. He sewed wounds very quickly. There was a lot I didn't understand. I'm going to ask Doctor Ji for advice tomorrow."
But Doctor Ji was not in Jishitang. Doctor Ji said, "Father has been left at the Ji family. He probably won't be back before Young Master Ji wakes up."
"What about the patients who come to the pharmacy for treatment?"
"We have me and Manager Zheng." Doctor Xiao Ji was still a little confident, but he still invited Manbao to join him. "You can already prescribe medicine and treat patients independently, right? Do you want to stay?"
Manbao rolled his eyes and asked, "Are there any patients who have had their stomachs scraped?"
Doctor Xiao Ji: "...Generally speaking, patients with abdominal scrapings would bleed to death before they can be brought to us. Besides, where do so many patients with abdominal scrapings come from?"
He endured it again and again, but still couldn't help but say: "Don't think about the patient with a broken belly. What if the people of the Ji family hear it?"
Manbao put down his backpack, took out his writing brush and sighed, "Okay, I understand. Come on, let's see the doctor together."
Bai Shan also went to the provincial school to attend classes. The holiday would not start until tomorrow, the Double Ninth Festival. According to the original plan, he should have spent half a day today to go to the school supervisor to confirm the purchase or rental of horses, but after what happened yesterday, the entire provincial school was very quiet.
A kind of calm before the storm.
Apart from the students in Class A3 who whispered about Ji Hao's injury, no one in other classes in the prefectural school talked about this matter.
It was said that the teachers from the school came early in the morning and strictly forbade the students from discussing the matter in any class. Even their teacher, Mr. Zhai, mentioned it briefly, saying that he didn't want them to get too involved in the matter.
He said coldly: "This is an adult matter. You are still young, so you don't need to get involved too much. If you have free time, you can go to the Ji family to visit your classmates."
Although the students in Class A3 were very angry at Ying Wenhai for hurting others, they did not dare to say anything.
The county government was also calm.
County Magistrate Tang imprisoned Ying Wenhai and neither tried him nor tortured him. He also allowed the Ying family to send him bedding and food.
But he rejected everyone who came to take him away. Even when the chief secretary of the palace came, County Magistrate Tang rejected him neither softly nor harshly.
County Magistrate Tang's advisor was perplexed and asked, "Since you won't immediately intervene on behalf of the Ji family, and you won't give face to the Yizhou Palace, aren't you afraid of offending both sides?"
County Magistrate Tang said, "I've already offended you, so there's no need to worry about it. I'm an official appointed by the court, and I'm only responsible for following court regulations."
County Magistrate Tang was extremely exhausted. After returning to the rear quarters, he told Madam Tang, "I truly regret that I shouldn't have sought the position in Huayang County. It would have been much better if I had just been like Yang Heshu and found a small county to serve as magistrate. I'd have been free and unfettered. Within a county, the county magistrate is the most powerful. Who dares to ride on my neck... ahem, that's all."
Madam Tang glanced at him and said, "It's not that you think small counties are boring, but when you snatched the position of Huayang County before Yang Heshu did, you were so proud of it for a long time, right?"
County Magistrate Tang could only sigh.
Mrs. Tang was silent for a moment and then asked, "Do you want to write a letter to your father?"
County Magistrate Tang shook his hand. "It's just a small case, not that serious."
"On one side is Ji Xiang, and on the other side is the King of Yizhou. How can it be small?"
"It's a simple, straightforward case, isn't it?" County Magistrate Tang said, "Pack up tomorrow and go to a temple or a Taoist temple, take the child and hide away. You'll avoid being annoyed by everyone coming to see you these next couple of days."
Mrs. Tang was still worried, "Are you really capable?"
"Ji Hao isn't dead yet. I'm just waiting to see how he does. If he's alive, everything will be fine. I probably won't even have to make a judgment. The Ji and Ying families will be able to work out a plan," County Magistrate Tang said. "But if he's dead, then it's all over. My judgment here won't be of any use. The case will have to be sent to the Ministry of Justice or the Dali Temple for another ruling."
"But the important thing is, how will you judge this first time?"
County Magistrate Tang asked, "Judgment according to the law?"
Mrs. Tang said, "That's it. We've offended both sides."
County Magistrate Tang said, "It's okay. At worst, we can pack up and go back to the capital. I've also been feeling a bit frustrated over the past two years."
Mrs. Tang snorted coldly, "I see you're enjoying yourself. I heard you were standing on the hillside talking to a little girl for quite a while yesterday. What did you talk about for so long? Tell me about it, too."
County Magistrate Tang tutted his words and shook his head, "You're being jealous again. It was just a twelve-year-old girl. She came into the tent to give Ji Hao an acupuncture injection to stop the bleeding, so I just asked her about Ji Hao's condition. Oh, and didn't I tell you that she and her junior fellow apprentice were friends of Changbo? Changbo specifically asked me to take care of them."
“Oh, now it’s not Yang Heshu anymore, it’s Changbo again.”
When County Magistrate Tang saw that she was jealous of Yang Heshu, he immediately stopped talking.
I wish my book friend "Royal Princess" a happy birthday. May you become more and more beautiful, happy every day, and everything goes well.
Well, I think the Royal Princess is more domineering than the Bookish Garden.
And, good night!
(End of this chapter)
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