The prince offered sacrifices to heaven on behalf of the emperor. The courtiers who had been insisting on handing the impeachment papers to the emperor in the past few days fell silent. Most of them pressed down the papers in their hands and stopped handing over new impeachment papers.

Only a few ministers continued to hand it over.

But the pressure on the prince also eased a lot.

Before nightfall, the Ministry of Etiquette finally prepared the prince's ceremonial dress and hat. They used the emperor's old ones. The embroiderer took apart one of the dragon's claws and turned it into a dragon, and then made the clothes according to the prince's body.

Just take it once and for all, and that's it.

Although it's a little bit worse, at least you have a dress to wear, right?

The Ministry of Rites also felt shabby, but they felt that this was not their problem.

The prince didn't care about such trivial details. He told the princess while trying on clothes, "I don't know what the third child is doing at the moment."

The Crown Princess glared at him angrily, patted him gently and said, "Your Highness, please restrain yourself. Don't mess with him these days. It's okay to make a gesture in front of your father."

The prince snorted coldly.

The Crown Princess then whispered: "Even if it is for the sake of the Queen Mother, it is not appropriate for Your Highness to have another conflict with His Highness the Third Prince at this time."

The prince fell silent for a while before asking: "How is mother's health?"

The Crown Princess sighed quietly.

The prince frowned and said, "What do the doctors of the imperial hospital do for food?"

He paused and then said: "Why don't you take Zhou Manxuan into the palace and take a look?"

The princess knew that the prince was talking about the little miracle doctor who opened the abdomen and treated her brother's injuries. After thinking about it for a while, she whispered: "I will mention it to the queen mother after the sacrifice to heaven is over."

The prince nodded, looking at himself blurred in the bronze mirror, but the corners of his mouth curled up, "Tomorrow, I'm going to make that guy mad to death."

The princess couldn't hold it back and reached out to pat him again.

During the Double Ninth Festival, Manbao and the others also got up early. There was an activity at Guozixue, and they were going to climb a mountain today!

Bai Erlang and his first-level students decided to go to Mo Hui Garden to play with the water flowing wine cup, and Man Bao finally decided to go mountain climbing with Mr. Zhuang.

Bai Dalang naturally had his own place to go, so early in the morning, after breakfast, everyone dispersed.

Man Bao took out his small backpack and went to the kitchen to pack a lot of hot, freshly baked pastries, even steamed buns. He also went to his husband's room and took out a jar of chrysanthemum wine.

Mr. Zhuang watched her wandering around the yard, picking out various things and stuffing them into the backpack like a hamster. Finally, he habitually took out his needle bag from the medicine box, wrapped it, and stuffed it into the bottom of the backpack.

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Then he took two bamboo tubes to the kitchen to fill them with boiling water to drink while climbing the mountain.

Daji accompanied Bai Shan to climb the mountain, while Liu Gui drove a carriage and waited for Mr. Zhuang and Man Bao outside.

Mr. Zhuang held a folding fan and followed Man Bao with a relaxed expression.

Man Bao climbed into the car and then remembered to ask, "Sir, where should we go hiking?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "I thought you wouldn't ask, as a teacher. It's a coincidence that the mountain Bai Shan and the others climbed is the same one, Qinghua Mountain."

Man Bao: "...then why should we go separately?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "Isn't it because you have been delayed for too long? Bai Shandu has been waiting for you at the door for two-quarters of an hour."

Man Bao felt that the problem did not lie with him, "You didn't tell me that I was going to climb Qinghua Mountain. I thought I would go to Xuandu Temple instead."

"Xuandu Temple is still a little short," Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "This time we will go a little further. There are cliff carvings on Qinghua Mountain. This time I will take you to visit the Buddha."

Man Bao was curious, "Carvings on cliffs?"

Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded, "It's a stone-carved reclining Buddha. There are also some stone-carved Buddhist scriptures on the mountain. You can take a look."

He raised his hand and patted her head gently, and said with a smile: "Lest you study at home all day long and your brain will be dulled."

Man Bao lowered his head and smiled, and asked curiously: "Sir, do you also believe in Buddhism?"

"You can read some Buddhism and take a look at it from time to time. But you are still young, so you don't need to delve into it. When you are older, it will depend on your own preferences."

Man Bao agreed, "So this time we are going to climb the mountain?"

"Well, let me lead you to learn more about it."

Qinghua Mountain is outside the city and is much larger than Xuandu Temple. The most important thing is that there is no one around there. No, there is usually no one around there. Today is the Double Ninth Festival. There are people everywhere at the foot of the mountain, but there are not many people on the mountain.

Because the mountain is not short and quite big, those who really want to climb the mountain disperse as soon as they enter the mountain, so it seems that there are not many people there.

On the contrary, at the foot of the mountain, there were many small vendors who came here to do business, almost blocking the road.

When Man Bao's carriage arrived at the foot of the mountain, she got out of the carriage first with her basket on her back, then turned around and helped Mr. Zhuang down.

She looked at the lively crowd and asked, "Where are Bai Shan and the others?"

"Let's go up the mountain," Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "Qinghua Mountain is so big, and there are so many entrances, you may not encounter them, just let it happen."

Man Bao asked, "Sir, where are your friends? Where are Mr. Chen and Mr. Jiang?"

Mr. Zhuang also shook his head and said with a smile: "We only made an appointment to meet at the foot of Qinghua Mountain the day before yesterday, but today we came and saw that there were so many people, it would be difficult to find them. Maybe they went there in the morning, so let's go up the mountain as well.

, if we can meet each other, let’s let it happen.”

Man Bao nodded, "I also think it's good to just let it happen."

So the master and the apprentice said hello to Liu Gui and started to go up the mountain. Man Bao and Liu Gui said: "You can find a place to park. You can go and have fun by yourself. When we come down the mountain, we will find you."

If you can find it best, if you can't find it, just leave it to chance and go home when evening comes."

Mr. Zhuang: ...He said that you can just go with the flow when you go up the mountain to find someone, but he didn't say that you can just go with the flow when you go home.

But Manbao was already standing at the foot of the mountain happily, pointing two fingers at the top of the mountain and shouting energetically: "Come on - let's go up the mountain!"

Mr. Zhuang shook his head and started climbing the mountain behind her.

Qinghua Mountain is quite big, and there are several peaks connected to it. The one they climbed is neither high nor short, and is relatively gentle. Although Mr. Zhuang is not young, he has always paid attention to his health, and he has the love of Man Bao.

With the prickly little apprentice here, my body is naturally in better condition, so climbing the mountain is okay.

The two of them climbed for half an hour before stopping to rest for a while. Mr. Zhuang sat on the stone that his disciple had found, while Man Bao carried her backpack and rummaged around in the grass. After a while, they came across a small branch.

Plow out an unknown grass.

She looked at the grass with joy, pulled off a big leaf from a small tree nearby, then wrapped the grass with the leaves and put it in her backpack.

Mr. Zhuang shook his head when he saw this. It seems that this young disciple will never be able to change his problem in this life.

Man Bao felt that his husband must not have rested well for a while, so he waved with Mr. Zhuang and turned around to go deeper into the woods. Keke was also very happy to scan the animals and plants nearby.

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Chapter completed!