So, the situation is still uncertain, but this was expected, and Imperial Doctor Liu and the others aren’t too disappointed.
Even at this mont, they haven’t given up trying to find other prescriptions. While pondering, they hear Manbao’s lowered voice.
They snap back to reality and turn to look at Zhou Man, seeing her whispering with a palace maid, "...don’t brew tea, just need boiled water, and help serve more rice."
Director Xiao and the others: ...
The palace maid, having been in the Eastern Palace side hall for acupuncture, has a good impression of Zhou Man, so she listens intently, notes it down, then bows and leaves.
Once she leaves, Manbao collapses into the chair, touching her belly with a sigh.
With her sigh out, Manbao feels the hall is too quiet, so she looks up at Director Xiao and the others, seeing them all looking at her.
Manbao blinks at them and asks, "What’s wrong?"
The four simultaneously look away, without saying anything to her.
Manbao doesn’t mind either, and continues to rest in the chair. From morning till now, a whole day has passed, her body hasn’t rested, nor has her mind, quite exhausting.
She looks at Director Xiao and the others discussing not far away, wondering: Adults are surely remarkable, busy all day without getting tired or hungry, how good.
You know, she has eaten a plate of snacks, and heard that at noon Director Xiao and Imperial Doctor Lu were tending to His Majesty, without a sip of water, let alone food.
Manbao thinks they’re amazing.
Indeed, those in high positions are no ordinary folk. Not only do they need extensive knowledge, but also bear what common people cannot, like hunger.
At this mont, Manbao is so hungry she’s a bit dizzy, it’s strange how she didn’t feel dizzy just a while ago when treating His Majesty?
To avoid actually fainting from hunger and causing embarrassnt, Manbao decides to find sothing to do.
Her gaze falls on the dical books and materials not far away, getting up to search through them.
This noon, her mind was focused in the lecture room researching prescriptions with Teacher Mo, and she hasn’t had a chance to see what Bai Shan brought for her.
Manbao flips through each book, finds a piece of paper clipped in her notes.
Manbao takes it out and unfolds it, seeing written, "If you win, after the holiday I’ll take you to Liu Huan’s estate to pick grapes."
Manbao’s eyes light up, storing the paper well as evidence.
Manbao feels less hungry, starts pondering whether she should swap the acupuncture thod for the Emperor tonight...
Or maybe think about the other herbal powder Teacher Mo gave?
But it’s quite challenging, she doesn’t know what nitrate is, she’ll have to ask Teacher Mo later.
Thinking about these matters, ti flies swiftly, and Manbao feels that the palace maid will soon bring the food boxes.
Director Xiao and the others, who had been discussing quietly, also sit at the table, and Manbao clears so books on the table to make space for them.
Seeing her clearing the materials so casually, Director Xiao can’t help but look at the pile of materials on the table, asking, "Are these all yours?"
Manbao nods, asks, "Do you want to look?"
With these words, not only Director Xiao, but Imperial Doctor Liu and the others also reach out.
Manbao has already pulled back her chair to allow the palace maids to set out the dishes.
Everyone gets a food box, each containing a al, and Manbao sees that the portion she receives not only has more rice but more dishes, instantly even happier.
Manbao grabs her chopsticks and looks at Director Xiao and the others, who are each reading a booklet, and seeing her looking over, Director Xiao laughs: "You eat first, we’re not very hungry."
Manbao admires them, then starts eating without hesitation.
After finishing a bowl of rice, she finally feels better in her stomach, then has the leisure to look at Director Xiao and the four, seeing them reading books with one hand and eating with the other, she says: "My teacher said, eating while reading isn’t good."
Director Xiao and the four: ... Aren’t they Imperial Doctors themselves, no need for your teacher?
Director Xiao first puts down the booklet, asks, "I see several dical formulas in this book are ones I’ve never seen before, these prescriptions are?"
"They’re all from my family’s dical books, I’ve pondered over them and verified them before writing down."
Everything brought out from the Encyclopedia Hall, Manbao considers as her own. It had a good publicity year, saying the Encyclopedia Hall belongs to everyone, preserving books relies on everyone.
What Imperial Doctor Liu and the others touched were dical books from the library, not managing to grab Manbao’s materials and notes. Three looked enviously at Director Xiao, then set down their books to start eating, asking Manbao: "Did you find any good prescriptions in these books?"
Manbao shakes her head, "No decoctions."
Director Xiao then falls into thought, says, "If your dicinal paste indeed works, it can not only be used along with decoctions to speed up results but also form a standalone thod."
With Director Xiao’s words, Imperial Doctor Liu and the three others look at Manbao’s eyes with admiration, speechless for a mont.
Manbao is still eating and doesn’t realize what this implies, only asking: "If included in the Imperial Hospital, would it co under pharmacology?"
Director Xiao thinks, "If pharmacology, then studied along with substance preparation, but we know very little about this dicinal paste, with only this single formula..."
Manbao imdiately says, "I have formulas, just haven’t had ti."
Manbao’s bright eyes et Director Xiao’s equally bright eyes, after a fond gaze exchange, Manbao says, "I have two disciples, one nad Zheng Gu, the other Zheng Shao, they started as students, very familiar with dicinal materials. I think they’d be very suitable if pharmacology is established."
Manbao’s desk is right opposite Director Xiao’s, once during a brief glance, she saw their private draft enrollnt criteria, estimating that the Imperial Hospital plans to enroll by the end of the year, or even next year.
By then, their age would not et the criteria.
Previously, Manbao didn’t think entering the Imperial Hospital was good, but after seeing the recorded dical cases, prescriptions within the hospital, and those dical canonical texts requiring many years to read in the library, Manbao knows the Imperial Hospital differs from outside drug halls.
At least, although she’s only been in the palace two months, her dical skills have improved a lot, especially every morning, her office faces where the experienced imperial doctors sit. Although their dical knowledge doesn’t surpass Teacher Mo’s, their experience far exceeds his.
Sotis, Manbao gains imnsely just by listening to their discussions without asking any questions.
So she thinks she must get her disciples into the Imperial Hospital. Didn’t Old Madam Liu say, parents caring for their children think deeply for their future?
A teacher is like a parent, she’s like their parent too.
Manbao sweetly thinks this, then, with a good appetite, eats a bite of at, and looks up with sparkling eyes at Director Xiao again.
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