Chapter 1402: Chapter 1380: Dismissing the Idea
Manbao cleared her throat lightly and said to Teacher Mo in all seriousness, "Teacher, I have the sun here, doesn’t that mean I have solar power?"
"Hmm? Are you talking about the old-fashioned version? Such medical pods have limited functions. It’s not that you can’t use them, but if you lie inside, it would just give you a massage. You don’t have any medication either."
Teacher Mo said, "While many medications are inexpensive here, a lot can’t be sent to you. The material exchange from the teaching room is controlled by the Encyclopedia Bureau. If the amount exchanged is too large, it will be suspected of smuggling. So, my point is, opportunities like this are limited. You need to buy things suitable for your own era."
Keke also suggested the same. It grew up with Manbao in this world and understood it. Besides Manbao secretly lying in there for experience, who else could use the medical pod she bought?
Even if she wanted others to use it, she wouldn’t dare. If any anomaly were discovered, the host could be killed.
It’s not that systems haven’t encountered such things before; eventually, the host died, and the system would lose a large portion of its points for failing to guide the host properly.
Though, now it wasn’t afraid of losing some points.
But these points were earned with much effort, and it still wanted to send Manbao back to the alliance and didn’t want to wander in space.
Seeing Keke’s repeated concerns, Manbao couldn’t help but ask it in her heart, "Whose side are you really on?"
Keke replied, "I’m just telling you that you now have the qualification to exchange for a medical pod. But considering your actual situation, I don’t recommend you exchange for one."
The two discussed medical pods for quite a while before Keke suddenly said, "Someone’s coming."
Manbao quickly greeted Teacher Mo and exited the system.
Sanya knocked on the door, entered, placed the wooden basin on the stand aside, and asked, "Aunt, what were you doing in the room? I’ve been knocking for so long."
"Nothing much."
Manbao touched the water and hissed, "It’s really hot."
Sanya laughed, "The kitchen ran out of hot water, this is freshly boiled. I thought with the weather being so cold, it’s better to have it hotter."
Manbao soaked her hands first, nodded, and said, "It’s actually nice."
After she washed her face and hands, Sanya picked up the wooden basin to go out. Seeing Manbao about to close the door, she said, "Aunt, it’s almost time for dinner..."
Manbao had already closed the door and shouted, "I know, I’ll change clothes and come down."
She hurried back into the system to speak with Teacher Mo, "Alright, I haven’t decided what to exchange yet."
Seeing her take their advice to heart, both Teacher Mo and Keke breathed a sigh of relief.
Teacher Mo quickly reminded, "Be sure to check if there are more of these stones in your area. It’s best to collect them all."
Manbao agreed and asked, "What about the medication..."
"I’ve already placed the order, and I’ll make it overnight. You’ll have it by the day after tomorrow at the latest."
Manbao was slightly surprised, "So fast?"
Teacher Mo said, "The patient’s condition isn’t serious. The exposure time seems short, and the genes haven’t been affected. So, just eliminating the rejection should suffice. This type of medication isn’t very difficult to make."
Manbao nodded and felt reassured.
She exited the system and changed into different clothes.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw Bai Shan standing not far away waiting for her.
Manbao couldn’t help but pause briefly before walking up to him.
Bai Shan didn’t ask anything, just nodded at her and said, "Let’s go; Grandma and the others are waiting."
Manbao was surprised, "Grandma Liu and the others are here too?"
She thought they had returned to Elms Alley already.
Bai Shan explained, "Grandma and the others went back to Elms Alley directly. After resting there, they came to check once they heard you hadn’t left the palace. Seeing you’re back safe, they’re relieved."
He said, "Since it’s dinnertime, they’ve stayed to eat with us."
Manbao nodded.
In the main room, two tables were set. There was no other way with so many families gathered together, and the Xiang Ming brothers were also there. After Manbao came in, she greeted everyone, inquired about Xiang Ming’s foot, and then sat next to Bai Shan.
Mr. Zhuang asked her, "Is the prince alright?"
Manbao paused before shaking her head, "He’s fine."
Mr. Zhuang gave her a deep look but didn’t ask further. He nodded and said, "Let’s eat; everyone is tired today. After dinner, let’s rest."
Everyone agreed.
Afterward, Mr. Zhuang deferred to Old Madam Liu, and after a slight exchange of humility, they all began to eat.
Once the meal was finished, Old Madam Liu sat for a while, then patted Manbao’s head before leaving with Ms. Zheng.
Ms. Zheng put down the curtain of the carriage, sighed, and said, "Mother, with so many people here, why not let Shanbao live with us?"
Old Madam Liu said, "Mr. Zhuang is here, and Shanbao can learn by living with him. We can’t make Mr. Zhuang live with us, can we?"
The two women were both widows. Otherwise, Mr. Zhuang wouldn’t have stayed at Old Master Bai’s place all the time in Qili Village and rented a separate courtyard in Changqing Alley when they got to the capital.
Living in the same courtyard would be very inconvenient.
Old Madam Liu smiled, "Having more people has its benefits. You see, Shanbao is much more cheerful now, isn’t he?"
Ms. Zheng thought so too and didn’t mention it again.
Old Madam Liu continued, "Now that he and Manbao are engaged, there’s even less concern, so let’s leave it to them."
Ms. Zheng agreed.
Bai Shan saw his grandmother and mother off, then turned around to walk into the house side by side with Manbao. He said, "I’ve arranged rooms for everyone. There are enough rooms at home, but not enough beds. We’ll go to the market to buy two beds tomorrow. There are two empty rooms in the front yard, but only one bed inside. It’ll be more spacious if we get new beds."
He said, "I’ve told Grandma, we don’t need to keep too many servants here. Besides the gatekeeper and a driver, we’ll just keep Aunt Rong from the kitchen and two assistants. We can handle the rest ourselves."
Manbao nodded. There was a well in the backyard, so there was no need to fetch water. They could clean the yard and do laundry themselves. The servants were mostly for protection before, but that’s unnecessary now.
Once Daji returns, they don’t even need to keep the driver.
Of course, that’s their current thought.
The second set of rooms is the most numerous. Since the Zhou Family bought a restaurant, Datou and Second Son moved there. At that time, Erya moved out of Manbao’s room to the rooms they vacated.
Now Sanya has moved in with Erya. The sisters have always been close, with similar routines, so they don’t need to be separated and just sleep on the same bed, but with a screen dividing the inner and outer rooms.
Knowing they would go buy beds tomorrow, the two thought also to add a desk for bookkeeping and homework.
Zhou Wulang had to add this to the shopping list.
Daji’s room was still reserved for him. His room faced Bai Shan directly, and he would need it once he returned. The room originally facing Manbao in the west wing was for Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang, but since they moved to the restaurant, they rarely came back.
After Xiang Ming came to recuperate, he had been staying in that room.