Chapter 3269 Reward

The old Zhoutou couldn't help asking about Zhou Liwei's situation. He hadn't seen this grandson for several years.

"He is now the ambassador of the Salt Works Approval Office of the Salt Transport Division. Eight-pin, although he is the last stream, he is in charge of the largest salt field in Qingzhou. If he works for a few more years, as long as he does not make mistakes, he will be able to rise by one liter in the future. However, he still has to study and take the exam, and if he really doesn't pass the exam, at most he will be an off-site salt inspector."

Zhou Dalang: "Didn't he take the test?"

"I didn't pass the exam," Zhou Man said depressedly, "It's too bad, Bai Shan didn't have the nerve to let him go through the back door."

Old Zhoutou was a little angry, "Stinky boy, you can't pass the exam if you walk through the back door."

Zhou Man interceded for him, "I can't blame him entirely. In those years, the salt field was really busy, and when he basically had no free time, the work was heavy. According to his wife, it was dark every day when he came home. , Sometimes I fall asleep on the bed without even wanting to eat."

But now Zhou Liwei doesn't want to take the exam himself. He thinks it's pretty good now. He's already an eighth-rank official. Before that, he didn't dare to think about it.

He is already very satisfied to be able to achieve the eighth-rank official position from the steward, and leave the rest to his son.

Zhou Mandao: "He said that in the future, let his son study hard and go to the examiner, and he will not take the test."

Qian shi didn't care much about this, and smiled: "It's good that they are safe and healthy. Now he has a craft to support himself. In the future, even if the child can't study, he won't be able to fail with a craft."

She thought very openly, and comforted the old Zhoutou, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. How much can you worry about with so many children in the family? We are old now, and taking care of ourselves is to save them blessings and effort."

Mrs. Liu couldn't help but nodded her head and said, "It's still something my in-laws can think of."

Mr. Zhuang also nodded and smiled: "It's a good thing to live a long life."

He raised his hand to toast Mrs. Liu and said with a smile: "Lady should also relax, now that both Zhishan and Ziqian can take care of themselves and shoulder the heavy burden."

Mrs. Liu responded with a smile, "Okay."

It's just that she has worked hard all her life, and it is impossible to really let go. Sure enough, as soon as she returned to the East Court and heard that Zhou Man was making pills for the emperor, she paid more attention to restraining her servants. Except for a few confidants, the rest Don't wait near Zhou Man's pharmacy.

"Daji wants to go out with Ziqian, so the yard will be handed over to you," Mrs. Liu said to Madam Liu: "You personally take someone to guard the pharmacy, and don't allow anyone to approach."

Madam Liu responded, "Tomorrow, the slave will take the needle and thread to guard the door for the lady."

Mrs. Liu nodded with a smile, "Where's eldest sister? Are you asleep?"

"The lights in the main room are off, I should be sleeping."

"She's young. It's the first time she's walked such a long distance. She must be tired. You don't have to wake her up early tomorrow, let her sleep until she wakes up naturally. I heard that she likes sweets, so let the kitchen make her some desserts..."

Mrs. Liu explained everything in detail before she fell asleep.

In the main room, Zhou Man's mother and daughter were lying on the bed and whispering.

"...Mother, there are many family members and many children. I like it very much."

"If you like it, go to them to play, but you are not allowed to bully others. Mother will be busy for the next two days. After she is done, I will take you to play with Da Bao'er."

"Mother, why doesn't Dabao live with us?"

"He has his own home in the capital, so he went to live in his own home."

"Is his house far away?"

"It's not far, it's a square away."

"What is a square?"

"Uh..." Zhou Man counted and said, "It's three streets away. As for what a square is, I'll take you back to see it."

"It's so far, we used to be separated by three."

Can Beihai County be compared with Beijing?

Zhou Man said with pride: "When your mother is free, I will take you around the capital with a horse, and then you will know how big the capital is."

"But it's so cold now, I don't want to ride a horse, I want to ride a car."

"There are so many demands," Zhou Man covered her with the quilt, closed his eyes and said, "Go to sleep now, I won't take you out if you talk more."

The little boy Bai Jingxing hurriedly closed her eyes, and after a while she started snoring, she was really sleepy, she was very tired today.

Zhou Man also spent a lot of energy and fell asleep after a while.

Zhou Man went to the palace every day to make medicine for the emperor, and after disposing of the dregs, he left the palace and went home to make pills. On the third day after the emperor's decoction was finished, she also made the pills. There were three porcelain jars in total. After the hospital inspected it, she handed it over to the emperor with her, "Your Majesty, this medicine is twice a day, one pill in the morning and one in the evening, and it's almost done."

If it didn't work out, Zhou Man thought about her points and sighed sadly. In order to make medicine for the emperor, she bought two more medicines. However, this is already the upper limit of what he can take. , can only think of other prescriptions.

The emperor took it. In the past three days, he has felt that his body is different. He has a feeling that his body is better now than before he took the medicine pill.

He couldn't help looking at Zhou Man, and then at Xiao Yuanzheng, thinking of the brand new prescription that Xiao Yuanzheng said, and then looking at Zhou Man's thin body, he sighed: "I knew this earlier, I should have I sent you back to Beijing earlier."

Zhou Man: ...Aren't they talking about medicine? Why did this come up all of a sudden?

The emperor accepted the medicine, took one bottle by himself, and handed the other two bottles to Gu Zhong to put away, so the two of them retired.

But the two returned to the Imperial Hospital on the front foot, and the reward on the back foot arrived. Both Xiao Yuanzheng and Zhou Man received a lot of gold, silver, jade and cloth rewards.

Xiao Yuan was about to be richer than Zhou Man, and needed a large group of people to carry it back to the Xiao family. It was said that the emperor was grateful that Xiao Yuan was testing medicine for him, and it was a hard time again.

Zhou Man glanced at Xiao Yuanzheng enviously, then leaned over to Xiao Yuanzheng, "Yuanzheng, do you think I can rest for a few days?"

Xiao Yuanzheng looked at her, thinking that she had been busy for nearly 20 days, and the whole person had lost a lot of weight, so he nodded, "Okay, I'll give you three days off, take a good rest, but you are not allowed to leave the capital, in the palace If there is an edict..."

"I will receive it as soon as possible."

Xiao Yuanzheng was satisfied and waved his hand: "Go, you are inconvenient now, you should pay more attention to rest."

Imperial Physician Zheng listened in doubt, "What happened to Imperial Physician Zhou?"

Imperial Doctor Lu raised his eyelids to look at him, "Doctor Zhou is pregnant, can't you tell?"

Doctor Zheng: ...he really can't see it.

He couldn't help but glance at Zhouman's flat abdomen, is this less than three months old?

Enough hard work, you work so hard when you are pregnant?

Imperial Physician Zheng raised his hand hurriedly, "Congratulations Imperial Physician Zhou."

Zhou Man thought that the days were not too short, so he accepted it calmly, "Thank you, thank you."

The other imperial physicians also congratulated her.

When Zhou Man left and Xiao Yuanzheng also brought his reward home, the imperial physicians gathered together and said small talk, "Why is Xiao Yuanzheng's reward bigger than that of Lord Zhou? Isn't this the first work of Lord Zhou? Seeing that during this period of time, in order to study the prescription, Lord Zhou has lost a lot of weight, but he is still pregnant."

"Yeah, since His Majesty cut off the medicinal herbs, Lord Zhou either rummaged through medical books in the palace, or studied the properties of medicines at home. I heard that he would go to bed after the first hour every day, and even had to rely on people to feed his meals. Just eat it. Why is Xiao Yuanzheng's reward bigger than Zhou Man's?"