Bai Shan left dinner for Man Bao and kept it warm in her room.
Taking advantage of the fact that the courtyard door in the palace was unlocked and he was still able to walk freely, Bai Shan followed her to her room, watched her take the food off the stove, and said, "Mr. Books for one day, I heard people say that the Chongwen Museum did not arrange other tasks for Mr.
Man Bao said: "Don't worry, when they know the master's ability, they will let him participate in the book revision."
The lecturers of the Chongwen Museum do not only give lectures to them, they usually also do some editing or annotation work.
I also do some literature research, etc., and occasionally go to Zhan Shifu to help find and sort out materials, just like a bachelor in the Hongwen Museum going to the Six Departments' servants or walking in front of the imperial court.
Also very busy.
But now Mr. Zhuang is very free.
Idle work is not a good thing, it means that your ability is not recognized. But Man Bao didn't think it was a problem. When she first became a doctor, she was very leisurely. Few patients were willing to see her. But as time went by, her skills were revealed. Not only patients liked to see her, but even doctors liked to see her.
"So time can witness everything," Man Bao said, "Just wait, sir, you won't be in a hurry."
Mr. Zhuang is not in a hurry. He also enjoys reading in the library every day. He only has two classes in three days, one on "Book of Filial Piety" and one on "Tao Te Ching". You can say whatever you want, there are not many taboos.
Needless to say, Mr. Zhuang has nothing to worry about except that he is tangled when explaining the "Book of Filial Piety".
After seeing Mr. Zhuang's gray beard, the lecturers and editors of the Chongwen Museum who looked down on him at first couldn't order him to do rough work like they did to newcomers, even if they uphold the tradition of respecting the old and caring for the young.
After all, offering wine to Confucius is a matter of the museum, and the lecturers in the Chongwen Museum also learn a lot of Confucian classics, but they can't be old and old, but they can respect the old.
What's more, he still has three direct disciples in the Chongwen Hall, not to mention Zhou Man's official status, even for Bai Shan's sake, no one will deliberately make things difficult for him.
That's right, for Bai Shan's sake.
Although it has only been less than a month since he entered school, the lecturers in the library have already discovered Bai Shan's intelligence. Except for the occasional tricky questions that make it difficult for them to answer, this child is really smart.
Even Yang Heshu couldn't help but tell County Magistrate Tang in private, "If he had been born ten years earlier, he would have just been able to make a couple with you and go to the Imperial College together. Kong Jijiu might not be able to help but chase you both away." Study abroad."
Magistrate Tang knew how tricky Bai Shan was when he heard it, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Within two days, when he was in the palace to work, he couldn't help but go to the Chongwen Museum to see them, "The melons and fruits in my village have ripened a lot, it's a pity that you are all in the palace, otherwise I can give you some."
Man Bao still couldn't forget the melon the emperor ate, and asked, "Is there any melon?"
County magistrate Tang couldn't help laughing out loud, nodded and said happily: "I didn't have any at first, but now there are many people in Beijing selling melons, you want to eat them, and I'll buy you some when you go out of the palace next time. "
At this time last year, Manbao and the others hadn't come to Beijing yet, so they didn't know that the capital was rich in melons at this moment, so they couldn't help asking: "Are the melons in the capital so early?"
"No," County Magistrate Tang suppressed his smile and said, "That is to say, some Zhuangzi planted them in the house or near Wentang in advance, and others may have to wait another ten or so days before they come out."
"Then why are they sold on the streets of the capital?" Will people who can grow melons near Wentang sell them outside
And the price is probably not comparable to ordinary melons, right
Magistrate Tang smiled and said, "Originally, these melons were mostly kept for myself or as gifts, and they didn't make much money by selling them, but since yesterday, many vendors have appeared in the capital, holding melons and claiming that your Majesty would like to sell them." The melons I like to eat cost half a tael of silver."
Mr. Tang certainly doesn't eat such expensive melons, but when Bai Shan and the others take a rest, it will be the first day of June. The first batch of melons grown in the field at that time should be ripe, and the price will definitely come down. , It’s okay to ask them to eat a few.
Man Bao immediately stopped talking. She went to Daming Palace to see the princess in the past two days and deliberately walked around the main hall, so as not to meet the emperor.
She filed the pulse case of the emperor's bad stomach, and kept her mouth shut with Xiao Yuanzheng who knew about it. She obviously only told Bai Shan, and Bai Shan didn't say anything, but the courtiers still knew about it.
Man Bao and Xiao Yuanzheng had inquired about it, and knew that the emperor would go to court as usual the next day, and nothing happened the whole day, so Man Bao went to give him acupuncture again.
As a result, when the officials of Menxia Province went to the Tai Hospital to check the medical records in the afternoon, they saw the new medical records entered by the emperor and checked them.
Of course, at that time the officials of the lower provinces didn't take it too seriously, and Xiao Yuanzheng also hinted that His Majesty didn't want too many people to know about it, but after one night, Wei Zhi and other courtiers still found out.
Courtiers like Zhao Guogong knew about this, at most they would laugh and tease the emperor face to face, is the melon delicious
In the end, Wei Zhi went to the Daming Palace to block the emperor from admonishing him, thinking that if he didn't care about his body, he didn't care about the country; secondly, as an emperor, he didn't even have the ability to control himself, so greedy for pleasure, so depending on his likes and dislikes To do things, it is obvious that one must forget the original intention of being a politician.
He thought that he had to sound the alarm for the emperor to prevent him from falling step by step and becoming more lazy and lazy.
So the emperor hid his face and apologized because of the scolding, and the matter was over.
But these two days the emperor was in a bad mood, and he scolded several people on the excuse, especially those in the capital who didn't know that this would set off a trend of eating melons. Wei Zhi hasn't said anything yet, but the emperor is still worried, thinking He may scold him again at any time.
But the emperor didn't expect that it wasn't Wei Zhi who scolded him this time, but Old Master Tang.
County Magistrate Tang said with a smile: "My father wrote a letter today, thinking that the atmosphere in the capital is because what is good at the top will make things worse at the bottom, so His Majesty will be more cautious in his actions in the future. Today, someone bought melons at a high price because His Majesty loves melons. , then there may be someone with a heart in the future who will pull out wheat and destroy rice in order to grow His Majesty's beloved melons, just to grow melons."
Man Bao was dumbfounded, "So serious?"
Even Bai Shan was surprised, "Who would do that?"
Magistrate Tang laughed and said, "A melon is half a tael of silver, and two is a tael. An acre of wheat can't be sold for so much money. The people are so ignorant that they don't think that if there are too many melons, they can't be sold at a price. They just Seeing the price in front of you, do you want to grow wheat or melons when the price of melons is so high?"
Of course it was a melon.
There is Xiao Zhuangzi, and Bai Shan and Man Bao who also love money secretly replied in their hearts.
County Magistrate Tang said: "Your Majesty called me into the palace today for this purpose."