Early the next morning, Man Bao and the others bid farewell and left the city. To her surprise, County Magistrate Zhai even came to see them off.
Man Bao was quite embarrassed, counting how troublesome the other party was this time, and she couldn't help him, so Man Bao felt ashamed and found a door post from his bag and gave it to him, "Magistrate Zhai, in the future If your family has any incurable diseases that cannot be cured, you can take this post and go to the capital to find me."
Zhai County Magistrate accepted the post with a dazed expression, and said uncertainly, "Thank you?"
Man Bao smiled shyly, "You're welcome."
Magistrate Zhai: …
Man Bao enthusiastically waved his hand to say goodbye to him. The county magistrate Zhai looked at the door post in his hand, and raised his hand to say goodbye to them with complicated emotions.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang didn't think there was anything wrong with Man Bao's gift, they felt that they could finally go back to the capital, they were relieved, and they lay down at the window in a particularly good mood looking at the scenery outside.
It is obviously the same road and the same tree, but they can see the flowers coming, and they are very excited along the way.
Mr. Zhuang's carriage was still a car away from them, so he could hear their chirping.
This time when they returned to Beijing, they felt that the palace had also become cute.
With the idea of doing well and asking for leave, Man Bao happily entered the palace and gave many presents to his superiors and colleagues.
They are all not very valuable but very distinctive things bought in Shangzhou.
Even the emperor got one. He looked at the thing in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
Changyu covered it with his sleeve and took a bite quietly. Hearing the emperor's question, he whispered, "Persimmon cake, doesn't the emperor know you?"
It's fine if she doesn't know her, but why doesn't the father know him
Emperor: "...Of course I know it's a persimmon cake, but who gave me the persimmon cake as a gift?"
No more, no less, only nine, how stingy is this
Changyu had already chewed and swallowed the persimmon cake in his mouth, Shi Shi nodded brightly and said: "It's delicious, sweet, Man Bao said that it was given to her by a relative of hers, and it was sun-dried at home, with a lot of frost , others don’t have it yet, only we have it.”
The emperor glanced at the silly girl and asked, "Who are we?"
"It's just me and my father, and the prince's brother's family," Chang Yu said: "Then there are only Master Tang, Yin You, Liu Huan, and her good friend, she calls her Second Sister Fu."
The emperor said quietly: "This is still a 'only'."
Chang Yu thought about it, and felt that there were indeed a lot of outsiders, and there were only three of them in their family.
The emperor asked, "Why aren't Mingda and the Empress?"
Mingda, who was sitting on the side, looked up and said, "She said that I shouldn't eat more persimmon cakes, just let me share one or two with my sister's."
The emperor felt that this was not a reason, and said: "If you can't finish eating, you can give it to Changyu. If you don't give it to you, but let you eat Changyu's, it's really stingy."
Changyu had already quietly taken several bites, looked at the persimmon cakes in his food box, then went to her father's, and asked, "Father, do you like it, if you don't like it..."
The emperor had already turned his head and said to Gu Zhong: "Take it."
Chang Yu could only swallow the words back.
Mingda couldn't help laughing, and the queen on the side also smiled and shook her head. After the meal, Mingda and Changyu went back to their respective palaces holding hands and carrying their gifts.
When the emperor was about to take a rest, he saw the crystal bracelet wrapped around the queen's hand. It was a white crystal, but the black jade in the middle looked familiar.
He couldn't help stretching out his hand to hold her hand and look, "Isn't this what Mingda is wearing? It was a gift from Zhou Man? I remember she worshiped the portrait of Lao Tzu for forty-nine days."
The queen smiled and said: "Ming Da Tuo Zhou Man looked for it, and said that it was very comfortable to wear, and it seemed to be useful for Qi diseases, so he asked me for a bunch of them. In order to be effective, the child secretly offered a portrait of Laozi, I only found out when it was brought to me today."
The emperor didn't take it very seriously, thinking how could it be possible to cure diseases with this kind of thing alone? Mostly still sustenance.
But he didn't point it out, but held her hand and said with a smile: "Mingda is filial, much better than the other children."
Although the queen agreed in her heart, she said: "The other children are also filial, but they behave differently."
The husband and wife took off the bracelet after talking, and the queen didn't think that the bracelet was really useful for Qi disease, but it was because of her daughter's filial piety, and Mingda asked her to ask about it every day. After wearing it for a long time, she got used to the existence of this bracelet and basically wouldn't take it off.
The emperor never hesitated to praise his children's filial piety, especially Mingda. With this excuse, he moved a lot of things from the private treasury in one go to reward Mingda, many of which were collected before and were difficult to sell.
He was always partial to Mingda and Prince Gong, but it was not good to always reward them individually, this time he had an excuse, so he could reward Mingda energetically.
As a result, not only the imperial concubine knew about Princess Mingda's act of filial piety, but even the sick Empress Dowager heard about it.
She leaned against the bed and opened her eyes, tilted her head slightly to avoid the medicine being fed, and asked: "Is the bracelet that Mingda begged for the queen really useful?"
The aunt who was feeding the medicine thought that what her own daughter gave her would be useful even if it was useless. Isn’t this asking nonsense
But my aunt dared not say that, she could only say: "I heard that the princess made offerings in front of Lao Tzu's portrait for seven to forty-nine days, which is very effective."
"Huh? Ai Jia remembers that the bracelet that Zhou Man gave to Ming Da is also a portrait of Lao Tzu?"
The aunt replied: "I heard that it is true. Every ten days, when I enter and leave the palace, I will hold the portrait of Lao Tzu. It is very noisy for a while."
"I think Mingda's body is indeed healthier this year than in previous years, you go and find her, and let Xiao Yuanzheng come over."
The aunt was not quite sure about the Queen Mother's intentions, so she could only give orders, and then asked insincerely, "Your Majesty also wants to see Princess Mingda's bracelet?"
"Aijia wants to see which statue of Lao Tzu she is offering."
aunt:…
When Ming Da and Xiao Yuanzheng came one after the other, the queen mother pointed to the bed and said: "Xiao Yuanzheng, show Princess Mingda, she is weak, how is her health recently?"
Because the two princesses had a good relationship with Zhou Man, the two princesses, no, it should be said that the safety of most of the female family members in the palace was given to Zhou Man.
As soon as the queen mother mentioned Xiao Yuanzheng, she subconsciously recalled the pulse records they had filed recently, and found nothing unusual, so she calmly stepped forward to feel the pulse.
After feeling the pulse for a while, Xiao Yuanzheng looked at Princess Mingda in surprise, and after a while he asked about Princess Mingda's diet.
There was not much change on Xiao Yuanzheng's face, but he was very surprised in his heart. He congratulated the queen mother, "Princess's pulse is much stronger than before."
The Empress Dowager cheered up and asked: "There are a lot of flowers in summer. I see that she hasn't been sick this year, and her face is much rosier. Is it all right?"