The emperor's mood didn't get any better until the Chinese New Year, maybe because he was in a bad mood, he had been slack in government for more than four months, and handed over many political affairs to the prince.
The entire royal family was keeping their filial piety, and the crown prince had nothing else to do. He received so much work all of a sudden, except for being agitated for a while because of being busy, he gradually got used to it.
Not only the emperor, but even the courtiers became more and more satisfied with the prince. Seeing this, the queen finally proposed to the emperor that Prince Gong should return to the fiefdom after the new year.
Prince Gong's injury is already healed, but his legs are still a little lame, and he can't see it when he walks slowly, but he can see it as long as he walks faster.
After the board was removed, Prince Gong cried for two days because the emperor broke his leg himself, and he also suffered for a while. For this reason, Man Bao had to prescribe the tranquilizing medicine for two more days.
Because the officials are still in the period of national mourning, even during the Chinese New Year, few people gather for a banquet. Even if there are, they are quietly afraid to let outsiders know.
Anyway, Zhou Man and his family are very low-key, because during the Chinese New Year, Bai Dalang also moved to Zhou's house, the three brothers studied together, and Man Bao also came back from vacation in the Imperial Hospital, studying the medical books given to her by the Queen Mother, and the Imperial Medical Office will be there after spring. very busy.
The Tai Hospital has decided that twelve students headed by Zheng Gu will be recruited into the Tai Hospital as medical assistants after the beginning of spring.
They had studied medicine for several years before entering the school, and they were basically disciples of various families. They were selected into a separate class within half a year after entering the Imperial Medical Office, and the teaching progress was different from other classes.
After more than a year of study, although there are still many things that have not been learned, the members of Imperial Physician Xiao feel that they will not learn much by reading and studying in the imperial medical office. patient.
And Zheng Gu and the three of them have been working as medical assistants in the Imperial Medical Office for almost a year.
But there are only so many patients in the palace, so the imperial medical department decided to organize several free clinics after the beginning of spring. Since it is a free clinic, there must be medicine.
It is impossible to be free for free. It is already very exhausting to use the emperor's private treasury to maintain the operation of the imperial medical office, and it is impossible to ask him to pay for the medicinal materials for the free clinic.
Moreover, Doctor Xiao and Man Bao discussed it in private, and they both felt that they would be ready to work in various medical offices in autumn and winter, and there would definitely be another expense at that time.
Regardless of whether the expense is paid out from the emperor's private treasury or the national treasury, it is definitely not easy to get it, so at this time, we must be careful not to give everyone the impression that the Tai Medical Office is very expensive.
So the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital gathered together for several days, and finally decided to ask the major pharmacies in the capital for help.
Of course, it's not to let them give out medicinal materials for nothing, if it will be cheaper.
Their students prescribe prescriptions and take them to the cooperative pharmacies to buy medicines, which are cheaper for them.
There was Imperial Physician Zheng at Jishitang, and it was very likely that he could be persuaded, so Imperial Physician Liu assigned Man Bao a Baohe Medical Center.
The reason is that when she sat in Jishitang, she seemed to have a good relationship with the Baohe Medical Center next door.
Man Bao just took a rest yesterday, and decided to take another day off today, and go to Baohe Medical Center tomorrow...
Since Ji Shitang agreed to cooperate, it should not be difficult to invite Baohe Medical Center, after all, they are neighbors, not only neighbors, but also colleagues.
Man Bao opened a page of the medical book, and wrote down some important knowledge points while reading it.
Bai Dalang felt that his eyes were a little tired, so he put down the book and stretched his waist. When he looked up and saw that the three of them were still sitting down and reading seriously, he couldn't help but sighed.
The three of them didn't lift their heads and didn't speak.
Bai Dalang was too embarrassed to twist his neck anymore, he could only quietly turn his head to look out of the window, just in time to see his wife walking with a tray.
He quickly got up and went to open the door.
There were two plates of snacks on the tray, Cheng smiled at her husband, and said to the three people in the room: "It's all ringing, take a rest, eat some snacks to warm your stomach."
The three of them also smelled the aroma, and when they looked up, they saw the steaming glutinous rice cakes and meat pie strips on the plate.
The eyes of the three of them lit up, and they put down the books in their hands one after another. They didn't dislike the cold water in the study, and directly reached out to wash their hands in the wooden basin, and then went up to eat the meatloaf strips.
This meatloaf stick is a dim sum that Xiaoqian has learned recently, so let's count it as a dim sum.
Because Manbao saw a recipe in the book, saying that it is delicious to fry chicken wrapped in flour, so Manbao, who had not eaten meat for a long time after coming out of the palace, couldn't help pestering Xiaoqian to give it to him. She eats fried chicken.
Xiaoqian couldn't resist, not only killed a chicken and fried it for her, but also fried other things according to this recipe, such as pork, mutton and fish. In the end, Manbao's favorite food was fish wrapped in flour and fried. Wrapped in the taste of fried chicken.
It's a pity that later, when I want to eat Xiaoqian's, I'm not very happy to do it, because it's too costly, and I don't need to ask for one chicken at a time, and it costs oil.
Fish is fine, but the fish in the capital is much more expensive than the fish in Luojiang County, and you can't always buy it, so Xiaoqian didn't want to fry it in the end.
But she still thought about it, and then she didn't know how to think about it. She kneaded the flour, filled it with meat stuffing, then cut it into strips and steamed it again, and then fried it in the pan again, because it was steamed in advance. After frying, not much oil is consumed, and there is no fishy smell like fried fish.
The main reason is that the amount of meat consumed is actually not much, because she also added other things to the meat stuffing, and it would be greasy if it was filled too much.
This meatloaf strip is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, only the surface layer is crispy, and when you bite it lightly, the inside is the sweetness of the wheat noodles, and the inside is the slightly salty meat. Bai Shan and Bai Erlang liked it, as did Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang.
Mr. Zhuang, who has been eating with the Bai family, went to the Zhou family to eat for ten days. In the end, Aunt Rong learned this skill. Did he fry it for everyone to eat as a snack before he came back.
Bai Dalang also likes it very much, almost three mouthfuls, but they don't eat in a hurry, they chew slowly.
Cheng looked at it with a smile, Bai Dalang gave her one, Cheng took it, took a bite and couldn't help frowning slightly, she endured it, and finally swallowed it.
Man Bao turned his head to look at her, looked her up and down, looked at her face, and asked, "Master, are you just getting up?"
Cheng nodded embarrassingly, "It's easy to oversleep during afternoon naps in winter."
Man Bao threw all the meatloaf strips in his hand into his mouth, and after eating, he asked, "I remember Senior Brother Bai said you were still asleep when he came to the study in the morning."
Cheng's face turned red, "...it's easy to get sleepy in winter."
But Man Bao grabbed her hand and said, "Let me show you."
After finishing speaking, she got on her pulse, and asked after a while: "Has your menstrual event come this month?"
Cheng was taken aback, remembered something, looked at her expectantly and shook his head, "I'd forget if you didn't tell me, it seems like it's five days late."
But she was usually about seven days late, so she and the girls didn't care too much.
Man Bao put down his hands and said: "The day is too shallow, wait a little longer, but it is indeed a slippery pulse."
Not only Chengshi and Bai Dalang, but even Bai Shan and Bai Erlang opened their mouths in shock.