"Those medical families have books no fewer than yours, not to mention excellent teachers. They've been practicing medicine for generations."
"That's because I'm smart." Manbao thought that Teacher Mo and the Encyclopedia Pavilion couldn't be mentioned, so this was the only point that was irrefutable.
The Crown Prince sneered and asked, "There are plenty of smart people in the world. How smart can you be?"
Manbao replied, "Maybe smarter than the vast majority of people in the world. When I was very, very young—so young that I couldn't even talk or walk—people already recognized me as the smartest person in our entire prefecture. And who's to say that the smartest person in our prefecture isn't smarter than the smartest people in other prefectures? If that's the case, then I might be the smartest person across two or three, or even many, many prefectures."
