After bidding farewell to Li Biao and the others, Xiao Ziqing took Tuoba Shen to bypass the Xizhai of the Shiqian Hall and walked north. Tuoba Shen saw that he was going north, and roughly guessed that he was going to the harem.

Could it be that what Xiao Zhen said was his harem concubine?

Tuoba Shen asked with doubts: "I don't know who it is when I hear what Your Majesty said?" Please also inform Your Highness. Prudence is also a full courtesy. "Since Xiao Zhen asked Xiao Ziqing to guide, I want Xiao Ziqing to know something.

Xiao Ziqing went to Tianyuan Pool to reply to Xiao Zhen after getting his mother's words yesterday, so the relationship between his mother and Tuoba Shen's biological mother is still limited to the mother's clan, and he doesn't know the details. Now seeing Tuoba Shen asked, he replied: "So that the northern envoy knows that it is Ziqing's biological mother." Ziqing's biological mother was registered as a concubine at the beginning of her accession to the throne. The mother family is the same as the northern envoy, and it is also out of the Qinghe Zhang family. My mother was killed by the army in the past, and she lived in Jiangzuo. Yesterday, I learned that His Royal Highness came to Jiankang, and he was both a relative, and a landlord, so he invited His Royal Highness to talk about his family. ”

Tuoba was stunned slightly, there was such a coincidence? Why is there still a clansman in the Zhang family who has been displaced to the south of the Yangtze River, looking at Xiao Ziqing's age, how come he is also twenty, and his mother is nearly forty, to say the least.

Xiao Ziqing slowed down slightly, looked at the palace maids who were in a hurry in the distance, and said softly: "There is a reluctant request below, and I also ask Your Highness to help." ”

Xiao Ziqing's words made Tuoba Shen feel strange, this Jiankang can also be regarded as his land, where can I, a foreigner, help the head snake?

"Your Highness, please speak, if you have the power to reach, you dare not refuse"

Xiao Ziqing's face showed embarrassment, he was silent for a while, and said with a sigh: "There is a younger brother named Zixiang, and he is the king of Baling." In August of last year, he was first trapped by greedy ministers and disappeared, and soon he was expelled from his subordinate nationality, so that his younger brother and wife also broke off and returned to the clan. My mother was also very hurt because of this incident and was bedridden several times. Although he didn't say anything about it, he was really depressed in his heart. ”

"Today, His Royal Highness has gone to see his mother, if his mother has sad feelings again, please ask His Highness to be able to spare words and forgive one or two. I don't appreciate it very much. ”

It turned out that Xiao Zixiang, who was given to death by Xiao Zhen last year, was Xiao Ziqing's mother and brother!

"That's how it should be." Since it is a relative of the mother, it is natural that it is not the same as outsiders.

Xiao Ziqing received Tuobashen's reply, and thanked him: "Thank you, Your Highness." ”

With a consoling draft in his heart, Tuoba Shen followed Xiao Ziqing to the harem and entered the back bed (harem), Tuoba Shen did not forget to ask Xiao Ziqing about the palace bed and layout along the way, Xiao Ziqing did not expect Tuoba Shen to ask with the idea of stealing the teacher, so he also told Tuoba Shen a lot of stories about the palace bed system of the concubines and concubines of Jiankang Palace.

Walk to the corner of Xianyang Hall and turn left for more than 300 steps, and then you will arrive in front of Ningshou Palace, Xiao Ziqing said: "Your Highness, wait here." I'll go and see my aunt first! ”

Tuoba Shen waited outside the gate of Ningshou Palace for a short while, and then saw a middle-aged woman dressed in plain clothes and wearing a long belt around her waist walked out slowly, followed by Xiao Ziqing on the left, a little lady about the same size as him on the right, and seven or eight slaves and maids followed.

Tuoba cautiously guessed that this little lady might be the daughter of Concubine Zhang Shu. However, he was curious about Concubine Zhang Shuxiang wearing plain clothes, didn't he say that Xiao Zixiang had been expelled, how could Xiao Zhen allow Concubine Zhang Shuxiang to mourn Xiao Zixiang?

"The foreign envoy has seen Her Royal Highness!" Tuoba cautiously waited for Concubine Zhang Shufei to arrive at the door, and stepped forward in a small step. I haven't told the family tree yet, and I don't know what to call Zhang Shufei according to generation, so Tuoba Shen can only be called His Royal Highness first.

Concubine Zhang Shufei looked at Tuoba Shen carefully, bent down slightly and bowed for a half time, and said: "His Royal Highness the Northern Envoy is more polite" motioned for Xiao Ziqing to step forward to help Tuoba Shen.

Tuoba Shen looked at Princess Yongjia, who was looking at his long and slender braids and was stunned, and said, "Shen has seen the little lady."

Because I don't know if this little lady is really a princess or princess, in order to avoid the embarrassment of both parties, Tuoba Shen decided that it would be more appropriate to call the lady first.

Princess Yongjia came back to her senses and hurriedly saluted: "I've seen Xiao Langjun." ”

Concubine Zhang Shufei glanced at her daughter sideways, and said to Tuoba Shen: "This is the little girl Lingyuan"

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After entering the Ningshou Palace, Concubine Zhang Shufei led Tuoba Shen to the main hall, and instructed the maid to serve fruits, drink juice, dried fruits and preserved fruits, and Tuoba Shen also saw a very popular snack in his previous life - betel nut. These are all rare fruits that were paid tribute by the southern Fanguo and were popular in Jiankang. However, Tuoba Shen has read the advertorial of betel nut causing cancer in his last life, and he has never touched it.

In addition, there are several kinds of dairy and cheese drinks, which were originally the diet of the grassland nomadic area is also rare in the south of the Yangtze River, and few people can eat it, and it is also rare and expensive in Jiankang. Concubine Zhang Shufei grew up in the north and liked it in the early years, but later after a long time in the south of the Yangtze River, the diet was assimilated, and she didn't touch these dairy products much anymore. Today, it's because Tuoba is coming here, so I've prepared some.

Because she thought that Tuoba Shen was not an outsider, Concubine Zhang Shu ordered her slave maid to connect a few reed mats together, and then put a low table in the middle, and fruits and the like on the low table, and then knelt on the right with her daughter, Tuoba Shen knelt on the left, and Xiao Ziqing was in the south. The north side is the position of the master and master, Xiao Zhen is not there, so it is naturally empty.

Concubine Zhang Shufei instructed the slave maid to take the genealogy she wrote from memory, and ordered someone to take a pen and paper for her daughter and Xiao Ziqing, Tuoba Shen explained the history and valve reading of the Zhang family in Qinghe, as well as the past of Zhang's marriage with Cui, Ming, Liu, Fang and other families when she was in Qingqi, and wrote the entries with pen and paper to record them.

Tuoba Shen listened carefully to Concubine Zhang Shu's words, guessing that these words were not for Xiao Ziqing's brothers and sisters, but for him. Cui, Ming. After the Qingqi War, some of the Liu and Fang families stayed in their hometowns because they voluntarily surrendered, such as the Ming family, and a family of five or six Taishou. Several other families moved to Pingcheng, and after the imperial court gradually relaxed the ban on the people of Pingqi and allowed them to return to their hometowns, some of the children of the families crossed the river to the Southern Dynasty, while most stayed in Jiangbei, either to return to their hometowns, or to stay in the imperial court. Zhang Shufei said that these things helped him more relatively speaking. For the Xiao Ziqing brothers and sisters, it is only the extent of the story.

After listening to Zhang Shufei's narration and reading the genealogy of Zhang Shufei, Tuoba cautiously recalled the genealogical characters that his mother Zhang Concubine and his maternal uncle Zhang Shao had said before, and compared them, only to know that Zhang Shufei's father and mother Zhang Concubine's grandfather Zhang Yan are the same father. He originally listened to Xiao Ziqing's words, and thought that his mother and Concubine Zhang Shufei were just from the same family, maybe they were distant relatives who were several generations apart, but he didn't expect them to be close relatives within five suits.

Since they are close relatives, they can't help but be formal. I didn't know the genealogy details just now, and I can still be called "His Royal Highness", but now that I know that Concubine Zhang Shufei is my mother's aunt of the same clan, it is better to be more solemn.

Tuoba Shen got up, went down to the outside of the banquet, and bowed to Concubine Zhang Shu: "Grandson Shen to meet Aunt Cong!" ”

Concubine Zhang Shufei hurriedly got up, stepped forward to help Tuoba Shen, held Tuoba Shen's hand, and chuckled: "Aunt knows that you are at home, so I will call you Erlang!" ”

Ordered the slave maid to remove the low table, Zhang Shufei pulled Tuoba Shen to kneel in front of her, and said: "My aunt has been in Jiangnan for more than 20 years, and I was accompanied by my aunt at the beginning, but after only a few years, my aunt passed away, and there is no old family in Jiankang City." Although some clansmen have crossed the river over the years, they are not as close as Erlang today. ”

After the initial rustiness, and saw Tuoba Shen call her "aunt and grandmother", Zhang Shufei was very happy for a while, and Tuoba Shen and his children talked about the old things, and asked about the recent situation of the Zhang family, Tuoba Shen picked some good words, but did not talk about the decline of the Zhang family, on the way to Jiankang in the future, in the Qinghe Zhang family to talk about what he saw, but it made Zhang Shufei happy and love.

Pity! I'm afraid I won't be able to cross the river in this life.