The Crown Princess finished eating the grapes on the plate, wiped her hands, and then asked: "Tell me, why are you here with me?"

Mingda: "Can't you come to your sister-in-law if you have nothing to do?"

"Farewell, you two or three are all masters who don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. Now that there are so many interesting people and things outside, you will come to me specially?"

Mingda and Manbao Changyu looked at each other and had no choice but to tell the truth.

When she heard that it was related to the emperor's personal expedition, the princess couldn't help but become more serious, "This matter is not difficult at all."

So the group moved to the garden of Taketoku Hall.

The palace banquet had not yet started at this time, but the sun was not so strong in the afternoon, so many people were enjoying the flowers in the garden.

The Crown Princess held the hands of the palace maids and led Mingda and the others slowly towards the most beautiful pavilion in the garden, where there were now seats and couches, and many ladies were talking there.

When he saw the Crown Princess and the two princesses, he immediately stood up, saluted, and then gave up his seat.

After sitting down, the Crown Princess smiled and asked, "What are the ladies talking about?"

"Tell me about the clothes that are fashionable this year."

"Oh?" the princess said with a smile: "I think the flower arrangement that is popular in Jiangnan this year is very beautiful. If we can print peonies on it, it will be magnificent."

"Yes, but it is too complicated. A weaver may not be able to weave one piece in two years. There are only a few weavers seen in the capital now. There are still several weavers working together, and it took a year to weave one piece.

It’s knitted.”

When Chang Yu heard this, he was very interested and said, "There seem to be a few horses among the tributes this year."

"How many horses are there," the Crown Princess said with a smile, "There are only three horses in total, and Your Majesty gave them all to the Empress."

It's just that the queen has always advocated frugality, so she doesn't use any of them and doesn't give them to her daughters.

The Crown Princess touched her belly. Because she was pregnant, she was rewarded with one horse. The remaining two horses were kept in the warehouse. According to the Queen's wishes, one of them was going to be sent to Wei Zhifu.

I don't know who will take advantage of the other one.

When the queen generally did not allow the royal family to use this kind of good thing, she basically rewarded the meritorious ministers.

Especially after Prince Gong fell out of favor, if before, Prince Gong folded his arms and cried before the emperor gave it to the queen, the emperor would have fully rewarded him.

Such love makes Zhi faint.

Man Bao listened to them talking about fabrics, from weaving techniques to embroidery, from Su embroidery to Shu embroidery, then to the popular jewelry styles in Shu this year, then to those in the south of the Yangtze River, and then back to the popular styles in the capital...

…

Manbao:……

Her eyes were dizzy.

After a long, long time, the topic finally came to this personal expedition. Man Bao listened with a straight face, without any enthusiasm at all.

This is also one of the important reasons why the ladies in the pavilion are so fond of the Crown Princess at this time.

The emperor personally conquered the country, and the prince supervised the country. After this time, the prince's status will only be more stable. At present, they can no longer see anyone who can compete with the prince.

If it was a few years ago when the prince had not given birth to a child, these ladies would have been polite to the prince and would not make any mistakes. They would not even dare to sit with her for too long for fear of their husbands, fathers and brothers at home.

was labeled a princeling.

Now I don't have much to worry about.

Among those present who were closely related to the personal expedition, apart from the Crown Princess, Zhou Man was the only one.

After all, the topic of supervising the country is still a bit sensitive, so although everyone wanted to please the Crown Princess, they still didn't want to continue on this topic for too long, so their eyes fell on Zhou Man.

None of the people present were strangers. Who had not seen Zhou Man once or twice?

So everyone pulled Zhou Man and asked enthusiastically: "I heard that Mr. Zhou will personally follow His Majesty in the expedition this time?"

Man Bao said: "This is the intention of Your Majesty and Xiao Yuanzheng."

Everyone sighed and comforted her: "Master Zhou, you will definitely come back safely."

"You should be safe with His Majesty, don't worry."

The Crown Princess and others who knew the inside story well said: ...She is not worried, she clearly requested the order herself.

"I don't blame you for worrying about Mr. Zhou. Aunt Cai and the others are also worried about uncle in front of my mother-in-law," Chang Yu said: "Because of this matter, aunt still had to come up with one hundred thousand yuan, saying that it would be given to the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army.

Praying for blessings, in fact, instead of praying for the Eastern Expeditionary Army, it is clearly praying for my uncle."

Mingda smiled and said: "It is better to believe that this kind of thing is true than to believe that it is not true. Mother is so wise and rational. Isn't it because she is worried about our father that she asked us to go to the palace to pray all night?"

The ladies in the pavilion quickly asked: "How to pray?"

"Did you invite Lao Tzu, the immortal, or the Buddha?"

"This kind of thing should be worshiped by Guan Gong, right? Whether it's Taoism or Buddhism, he doesn't care about fighting, right?"

Man Bao: "How can I care about this when praying for blessings? Of course there are seventy-two gods, and I have to worship all of them."

Ladies: "...that makes sense."

One lady hesitantly suggested: "How about we raise some money to do a ritual for the Eastern Expeditionary Army?"

This way we don’t fall behind. Otherwise, if Mrs. Zhao Guogong did it and the queen did it too, how unusual would it look if they didn’t do it?

Manbao:……

Even Mingda was shocked. How could this have anything to do with practicing law?

Man Bao couldn't help but said: "Are you really going to worship the gods?"

Ladies: "Didn't Master Zhou say that if there is an immortal, then worship the immortal?"

"Then why don't you worship me?" Man Bao sat up straight, straightened his official robe, sat cross-legged on the seat, and said solemnly: "Behold the gods, you don't know whether they have blessed the Eastern Expeditionary Army or not.

Your wish has been fulfilled, but if you please me, you must know that I tried my best to treat and protect the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and I can count how many people survived, how about that?"

The ladies were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter. A lady sitting above Zhou Man directly reached out and pinched her face, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, if I didn't know who you are, I would have thought you were...

Asked for a bribe."

Man Bao: I'm just asking for a bribe. Don't think it's true. Throw more money at me.

The Crown Princess smiled and said: "I think Mr. Zhou is right. It is better to worship a god than to worship her, but you can't just take our money for nothing."

She smiled and said: "All our money must be used for the Eastern Expedition Army. This is merit. In this way, I will donate some incense money to you, but you have to buy medicinal materials and cloth with the incense money."

Whenever I find something that can heal injuries and save people, I will remember it later to see how many people I have saved with this money and how much merit I have accumulated."

She touched her belly and smiled, saying: "Just think of it as a blessing for this child, remember her name when you come back."

Man Bao asked: "Have you given her a name yet?"

Crown Princess: "Take it, I will tell you quietly later."

When the others heard this, they also began to think about it. A lady whose family was not short of money was the first to say: "In that case, I would also like to pay my respects and donate a sum of merit to my boy. I don't ask for much. I just hope that he can be rich in the coming year."
Chapter completed!