Chapter 988 Leaked (Thanks to the book friend "Liang Yi" for the reward)
The items were delivered to Manbao's home smoothly. Changshou avoided the servants who came with him and handed the box of ginseng to Manbao, bowing and saying, "This is what the young master asked me to give to the young lady."
Manbao opened it and took a look, exclaiming, "What a great ginseng."
Of course, they don’t have much else, but they definitely have the most and best things to replenish qi and blood.
Changshou bowed and said, "Miss Zhou, I'm leaving my young master's illness in your care."
Manbao nodded repeatedly and assured: "Don't worry, I will do my best."
Manbao said he would do his best and he did his best. He specifically found Bai Shan and Bai Erlang and said, "You should take him out to play more often at school. The book says that talking is one of the ways to relieve depression. Make some friends for him."
Bai Erlang said, "I'm in the Imperial College, which is far from the Imperial Academy. I can't help him, but I can take him out to play after school. Oh, isn't he from the capital? It's a good opportunity for him to take us out to play."
Bai Shan raised his eyelids and said, "Don't even think about it. I'm afraid he's not as familiar with the capital as you are."
"No way, he was born and raised in Beijing."
"What's the use? He can't go out," Bai Shan said, "Didn't you hear Liu Huan say that he used to come out to attend banquets with relatives and friends, but in the past two or three years, he hasn't even gone to banquets. He just stays in the Yin Mansion and doesn't go out. If he hadn't gone to the Imperial College to study, I'm afraid no one would recognize him."
Bai Jilang: "How pitiful, luckily I'm not sick."
Bai Erlang paused here, touched his chest and said, "I couldn't sleep last night either, Manbao. Could I be suffering from depression?"
Manbao said angrily, "You have insomnia? You slept like a dead pig last night. No matter how I called you, I couldn't wake you up. Anyone in this world can be depressed, but you can't."
"How do you know I sleep like a dead pig?"
Bai Shan looked up and said, "You talked in your sleep last night, and it was very loud. It woke us all up. Manbao and I knocked on your window, but you slept like a dead pig."
Bai Jilang: "...What was I talking about in my sleep?"
"I couldn't hear you clearly. I only heard you shouting things like, 'You lost, I won,' and so on. What did you do for fun yesterday?"
"I went to watch people play polo," Bai Erlang became excited when he talked about this, dancing with joy. "You have no idea how cool it is to play polo. The horse is just like your own legs, running after the ball. With a swing of the pole, the ball flies up. Some people are so good that they can catch the ball in the air with the pole. It's amazing, so amazing."
Bai Shan asked, "Are you finished?"
"No," Bai Erlang said with his head down, "I'm not very good at riding."
Bai Shan was happy, "Look, I asked you to learn horse riding seriously, but now Manbao's riding skills have caught up with yours. With your riding skills, you still want to play polo? If you don't play polo, you're almost done."
Bai Erlang sighed, but quickly cheered up. He said, "I've asked around, and we new students will also be taking riding lessons. However, the Imperial College doesn't have any horses for us to rent, so we'll have to rent or buy them from outside. We'll have to ride our own horses every time we need to attend riding lessons, and the Imperial College will only supervise us for one day."
Bai Shan nodded, obviously he had known about this situation for a long time.
He said, "I have a horse at home."
"No, the horses at home have enough endurance but not enough speed. I want to learn to play polo, so I need a good horse," Bai Erlang said. "I have already discussed it with someone. I want to buy a thousand-mile horse."
Bai Shan thought about it and didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but "the stable at home can't keep so many livestock."
"Let's sell some of them," Bai Erlang said. "We brought so many cars to Beijing because we had a lot of stuff. Now it's a waste to keep so many cars at home. We might as well sell them."
Manbao immediately said, "Then I'll buy a pony too. I want to raise it myself."
Bai Shan nodded and said, "Then I'll ask Liu Gui to clean up the stable first, and then we'll go buy a horse."
The two of them immediately nodded happily.
Bai Shan asked, "What kind of horses do you want to raise? Tell me first and ask Liu Gui to help find some and ask around."
"No need," Bai Erlang said immediately, "I've already found the way back."
Manbao and Baishan looked up at him together.
Bai Erlang said proudly: "I have seen it, a true thousand-mile horse is worth a thousand gold."
The steamed bun on Manbao's chopsticks fell off, and Mr. Zhuang, who had been eating quietly, also raised his head and looked at Bai Erlang.
Bai Shan: "...a thousand taels? Ten thousand taels?"
"What do you mean by 10,000 taels? That's just a way of saying it means my horse is very valuable, understand?"
Manbao and Baishan breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and Mr. Zhuang lowered his eyes and continued to eat.
Manbao asked, "How much is it?"
"One thousand two hundred taels!"
Manbao simply put down her chopsticks and asked, "This is really a great product. Why is it so expensive?"
"Of course. Originally it was 1,500 taels, but since we're acquaintances, he gave me a discount of 300 taels."
Bai Shan asked, "An acquaintance? Who?"
"It's Zhang Jinghao from our Imperial College. He knows a horse dealer who has a lot of unselected horses. If you want to buy, I think you should go there. We're all classmates, and you can get some discounts. The horses are good, too. It's better than looking for them at the horse market."
Manbao turned and asked Bai Shan, "Do you know him?"
Bai Shan frowned and shook his head, "I haven't heard of it, but I can ask my classmates tomorrow."
Bai Erlang asked unhappily, "Why, you still don't believe me?"
Mr. Zhuang put down his chopsticks with a snap, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and said, "Don't talk while sleeping, don't talk while eating. You're becoming more and more lax in your behavior. Since you're not hungry, then don't eat and come to the study."
After saying that, he got up and went to the study.
The three of them shrank their necks, and Bai Erlang couldn't help but mutter, "Don't we always talk at the dinner table? The master never scolded us before."
Bai Shan and Man Bao glanced at him and said, "That's because you made the gentleman angry."
Mr. Zhuang and his three other disciples stood in a row below. Then he raised his eyelids and asked, "Let's start with Manbao and Baishan. What did you say to Young Master Yin yesterday? Why did you even send the medicine to your house for decoction?"
Manbao told him everything.
Mr. Zhuang nodded at the two of them from a distance and said, "You, you, I told you long ago that when you arrived in the capital, just focus on your studies and don't worry about other things. Look at what you have done since arriving in the capital. Which one of them makes me feel at ease?"
After talking to the two of them, he glared at Bai Erlang again, "You too, you have a rare day off, but you actually went to watch polo. The two of them are already making a big fuss, so you want to add fuel to the fire, right?"
Bai Erlang lowered his head and whispered, "Sir, I just want to buy a horse."
"Why would you, an ordinary student, buy such an expensive horse?"
(End of this chapter)
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