She doesn't think she deserves to be loved by everyone, she's not a gold ingot, and there are many people who hate her. But Bi Shangyun collected two of her paintings in a row without any intersection with her, which inevitably made people think a little too much, so Xiao Huai's reaction was reasonable.

And even if he said that he hated her, she would not be too surprised, because after all, it was a fact that he helped Wen Chan murder her, and he had murderous intentions towards Xu Jing.

But he says it's neither......

"What is the origin of a teenage boudoir woman with Master Taifu?" Xiao Huai followed his words and asked the doubts in everyone's hearts: "If you are talking about Zhang Xie of the Zhang Mansion in Yanjing and Zhang Ying, the daughter of the first assistant in the Qin Yongding period, then as far as I know, the Zhang family is very strict with their daughter, and it should not make Mr. Deqi commit the crime of exterminating the clan and destroying the country."

"Moreover, Mr. Qi is not one of the county kings who have a roster in Prince Cheng's mansion, so it is said that he will not have anything to do with Miss Zhang, and what Mr. Qi said is incomprehensible. ”

This prayer for the old gentleman was like a shock, and finally exploded a crack on Bi Shangyun's leisurely face.

The sharp light in his eyes jumped with the candlelight, and he held his breath for half a moment before recovering.

"So you remember. He looked at Shen Xi, "That's good." ”

After piercing this layer of window paper, Shen Xi also said bluntly: "I remember that there are very few things in the Helian royal family where the bloodline is messed up. Although there are occasional precedents for the children of the clan to leave pearls outside, it is rare to bring you directly to the palace like Prince Cheng. I don't know where the relationship between Mr. Qi and Prince Cheng's Mansion came from?"

She didn't expect him to answer either.

Now that he is blocking them here, he is naturally a little arrogant, and he is the first to provoke the words, and she obviously can't make sense without asking.

Bi Shangyun said with a smile: "Don't say short in front of the short man, the princess is too short to reveal the old man." ”

Shen Xi also replied casually: "Mr. Qi is in control, and now the three of us have almost become the Monkey King under your Five Finger Mountain, and I want you to give me advice." ”

Bi Shangyun laughed again and said, "Sure enough, you are worthy of being the young lady of the Zhang family, with your calmness, I also want to respect you for three points." ”

Shen Xi tugged at the corners of his mouth.

He said: "Since you recognize me, then you should remember that there was another person who entered the house with me back then, I called her an aunt, and her public identity is also a distant relative of the old concubine, in fact, I don't need to say more."

"As for why we came to the palace," he paused at this point, and looked over: "Speaking of which, we have to worship the Lingzun." ”

"Father?" Shen Xi narrowed.

"Yes. Your father Zhang Jie. He said, "You have been known as a talented woman since you were a child, and you must have heard of the incident that happened in the first year of Yongding. ”

The first year of Yongding...... Shen Xi's thoughts immediately flew back to that year.

She was seven years old in the first year of Yongding, when her grandfather was still alive even though his health was not as good as before.

Mr. Zhang was worried about the country and the people, and took the revitalization of the Qin family as his own responsibility, and was deeply worried about the increasingly acute racial conflicts, and even had the idea of letting her marry into the Tuoba family, although he gave up because he did not find a candidate who was more pleasing to him than Xu Jing, but in his spare time, he often gossiped with their brothers and sisters about the political situation.

So although she was young at the time, she still remembered what major events had happened in the court.

That year, Emperor Yongding, that is, her cousin-in-law had just ascended the throne, and the emperor was kind-hearted and merciful to the people, and as soon as he took office, he promoted Zhang Jiejin, who was then the secretary of Dali Temple, into the cabinet, and jointly promulgated a series of laws, including a decree to ease the conflict between the Tuoba and Helian tribes to encourage intermarriage.

For this reason, he even decreed that several nobles were given marriages between them.

Most of the Helian nobles among them are families that tend to decline, and now they can be used by the emperor, and they don't care so much.

However, at that time, there were still some courtiers in the court who supported the other younger brother of Emperor Yongding to ascend the throne, although the final action failed, but because of the emperor's mercy, he privately instigated the marriage of the Duke of Wu to obstruct the change.

Naturally, they did not dare to fight with the court openly, but privately used the marriage to make things difficult for the other party's family. At first, the other party was forbearing, but after several difficulties, it finally developed into an armed confrontation.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, only half a year before the emperor ascended the throne, more than 20 people died in the West City Gate because of mutual beatings, including the groom himself. It was originally a good happy event that became a funeral, and the old lady of the other party died of anger because of it, and the other party's family united with the rest of the forces to break into Wu Guogong to commit murder that night.

Although the Wu Guogong Mansion had been prepared for a long time, it also suffered heavy losses.

Emperor Yongding was furious in the early dynasty, and there was no doubt that this dispute made the contradictions between the various ethnic groups more intense, so he ordered the Duke of Wu to be cut down, and then ordered Zhang Xie to personally appease the other party.

The next few months were a bit tense.

It wasn't until Zhang Xie asked the court to issue a new decree, ordering the three clans to intermarry from the children of the clan, and set an example, each royal palace must have at least one child to marry a foreign woman Ming Media is marrying, and considering that the Helian nobles have a deep-rooted concept of blood, I am afraid that the situation will be difficult to control after the action is too big and the dragon vein is too chaotic, so the palace has not accepted foreign women as concubines for the time being.

The nobles did not enforce the law again, but by their own volition, the turmoil gradually subsided.

At that time, the Zhang family also took the initiative to propose marriage to the senior generals of the Tuoba clan for Zhang Yu, but the people who could mix high positions in the Tuoba clan were broad-minded figures, and they knew the Zhang family's attitude towards the contradictions between the three clans, so they were unwilling to blatantly take advantage of the Zhang family, so they refused because Zhang Gongzi was still young and should not be in a hurry, and only made a marriage contract with the Zhang family.

"It was precisely because of Zhang Jie's proposal to let the clan set an example and select a child to marry a foreigner, that year, Prince Cheng's Mansion would make a decision to select the second daughter, Chiyan County Lord Qi Weifeng, to marry the Tuoba clan under consideration. And it was precisely because of this decision that I was destined to take the path I would take later. ”

Bi Shangyun spoke again after a moment's pause.

In that pause, he seemed to have returned to the past, and his tone was full of obvious vicissitudes.

Qi Weifeng is the second daughter of Prince Cheng, born to Concubine Liu, who is a lively and somewhat delicate girl.

"Qi Ziyu is a concubine, and she was already engaged to the prince of Xungui at that time, but if she is not, of course she will not marry the 'inferior person' she despises in her heart, and Princess Cheng will not let her. But Concubine Liu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she didn't dare to confront Princess Cheng, and then she found us. ”

Shen Xi was slightly surprised: "How could Concubine Liu know about your existence?"