The prince didn't expect such a thing to happen, he laughed and looked at Man Bao: "So your surname should be Xia, so is there anyone else in your mother's family?"
"No more," said the old Zhou, "her mother was the only daughter in their family. It was her grandfather and grandmother who passed away, so her parents brought her back to their hometown."
The prince picked up the tea at hand, hid his smile by drinking the tea, and simply continued to ask, "Then where is her mother's family? Well, I remember it was in Shangzhou?"
He seemed to have seen it when he checked Zhou Man's details.
Old Zhou nodded repeatedly, "It's in Shangzhou. Manbao's parents left some property for her in Shangzhou. I don't know if they are still there after all these years."
The prince smiled and said, "Whether you're here or not, don't you know if you go and have a look?"
Old Zhou Tou sighed, "I've always wanted to go, but Manbao has never been able to find time, and I can't even go out of Beijing at will during the New Year. It's not right for us people to go there, so we have been procrastinating."
King Gong said: "If you don't have the grace of nurturing, if you have the heart, how can you not squeeze out a few days?"
Ming Da looked at Prince Gong disapprovingly, "Third Brother!"
Prince Gong sneered, and glanced coldly at Zhou Man, his attitude was very clear.
Man Bao was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what he said was correct, she was indeed not caring enough, otherwise as long as she squeezed time, she would always be able to squeeze it out.
The prince frowned slightly, naturally he didn't want his own people to be attacked for being unfilial, he thought for a while, glanced at Queen Gong who was at the side, and said: "Shangzhou is not very far from the capital, so after the Dragon Boat Festival, I will be alone You have a few days off, you can take the opportunity to go back and deal with these matters."
Man Bao was a little apprehensive, but also a little happy, and said in surprise: "Really?"
The prince smiled and nodded, "I won't lie to you about these things."
Bai Erlang quietly tugged on the corners of Lamanbao and Baishan's backs.
Bai Shan pulled back his clothes, and asked for leave without changing his face, "I don't worry about her going alone, and please allow us to ask for leave for a few days, so we can go with her."
The prince glanced at them, nodded slightly in agreement.
Bai Shan lowered his head and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, Bai Erlang was also very happy in his heart.
When she heard that Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were going with her, Man Bao breathed a sigh of relief.
Eunuch Wu came in quickly, and nodded with the prince, indicating that it was time to eat.
Mingda and Changyu sat down, and called Man Bao to sit down together. The crown prince decided to keep the old Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Liu, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. It just so happened that he had something to ask, "Look at you This job field is well maintained, and there is even an experimental field, is there any difference between the seedlings planted in the field and ordinary seedlings?"
Old Zhou swallowed his saliva. He had a lot to say when it came to farming, but he was a little nervous right now, so he couldn't speak.
He couldn't help looking at Man Bao.
Man Bao was about to answer, but Qian had already smiled and said, "It's just that the seeds are different. The children came back with a bunch of seeds from other places, saying they came from other places, and wanted to see if they could grow better rice, so A special piece of land was set aside for planting.”
She said softly: "The rice has just been planted now, and there is no good or bad, but the seeds have germinated, obviously there are no bad seeds, and they are all planted on the same day, ten days later than other seedlings, so look Smaller."
The prince nodded slightly, and said to them: "Farming is a major issue for the people's livelihood. If you can grow new rice seeds, you will be the country's heroes."
They didn't take much credit for Mai Zhong before, but with Zhou Man as an official in the court, the court obviously wouldn't fool around.
Man Bao winked at her father, and she said that it would be no problem to let the eldest brother and the third brother farm the land, right
Changyu started to go towards the steamed meat when the prince moved the first chopsticks. Although it is summer and the weather is hot, she still likes to eat meat.
Prince Gong casually picked up his chopsticks with a look of disgust, and after taking a bite, his face turned up slightly, he ignored the prince who was still gossiping, and began to eat seriously.
When he was about to serve the third bowl of rice, the prince raised his eyelids and glanced at the waiter behind Prince Gong, and said to Prince Gong: "Third brother, you just lost weight, you should eat less, or you should gain weight again, you should You don’t want to go to Daming Palace to climb the mountain again, do you?”
Prince Gong froze.
In a year and a half, he lost fifty catties, and his whole person has changed. He feels that he is already thin enough, but every time he visits him at the end of the week, he is still defined as slightly fat and needs to continue to lose weight.
God knows that he can't lose weight no matter how much he practices martial arts recently, but his appetite is getting better and better. Aunt Shang is in charge of the food in his palace, he can't eat much at all, so he occasionally eats more from his wife and children.
The waiter didn't dare to disobey, and he didn't dare to add more food to Prince Gong with the bowl in his hand, so he could only lower his head and put the bowl on the table again.
Prince Gong was furious, he slapped the table on the waiter and got angry, "Why, is it okay if I want to eat a bowl of rice?"
The servant fell to his knees with a thud, lying on the ground trembling.
The prince snorted coldly: "Third brother, this is for your own good, after all, obesity has a short lifespan."
The old Zhou was frightened and almost choked on the food in his mouth. He looked at Man Bao helplessly.
Man Bao picked up the serving chopsticks and gave Prince Gong a meat pie, and persuaded him: "Your Highness, don't eat, try my meat pie."
Then he said to the prince: "It's okay to eat once or twice once in a while, just go back to the palace and seriously reduce it. Then I will give the prince an injection."
Prince Gong was so angry that he dropped his chopsticks and got up to leave.
Seeing him leaving angrily, Man Bao sighed and said to the servant who was kneeling on the ground: "Get up, let the prince calm down alone."
Ming Da glanced at the crown prince, and said to the servant: "Get up."
Only then did the servant get up tremblingly, bent over and retreated to the side.
The prince succeeded in getting Prince Gong away, and he was very happy. He took a meatloaf and started to bite.
Man Bao and Ming Da looked at each other, and sighed inwardly.
Bai Shan also felt that these two could not get together. I really don't know what the empress thinks, but let the crown prince and Prince Gong go out together.
However, as long as they are not in front of them, whether they fight or quarrel, it has nothing to do with them.
So Bai Shan speeded up his meal, just like Man Bao, he just wanted to send the prince and Prince Gong away quickly.
It's just that the prince ate slowly, sat down and drank a cup of tea after he was full, and then got up to leave.
Prince Gong had already taken a step ahead with his entourage, he was furious and didn't want to see the prince again.
The prince didn't mind either, he turned around and said to Mingda Changyu: "I will keep a team of imperial guards for you, don't play too late, go back to the palace as soon as possible."
Mingda agreed, and after watching the prince leave, he let out a sigh of relief, turned his head and asked Man Bao embarrassedly: "Did you scare your family?"
Man Bao shook his head, "It's okay, my father has a big heart, and he forgot it after a while, but the crown prince and Prince Gong won't fight on the road, right?"
Ming Da was also a little worried, but he still said: "Probably not, Father specially asked the officials of the East Palace to accompany him, they should be able to warn the prince and brother."