Lu Guang and Liu Teng entered the back bed together, and saw Tuoba Shen sitting by the window reviewing the classics from a distance, and the two of them hurriedly entered the room, walked to Tuoba Shen's couch and whispered: "Your Highness, it has reached the end of the unitary time." ”

Hearing Lu Guang's words, he looked up at the window, and saw that the shaded area between the courtyards had been moved to the wall, and he turned around and said, "Can Gong Li and the others be in the museum?" ”

"No, Li Micheng and Jiang Shilang went to Qinhuai Water when the heat stroke decreased slightly"

Tuoba Shen put down the pen in his hand, rubbed his wrist, got up and told Lu Guang and the two to put away the books.

He originally planned to invite Li Biao and Jiang Shaoyou to go together, but now that they have gone out, the area around Qin Huaishui is so big, and he doesn't know where they are at this time, so he will definitely not be able to find them back in a short time. In desperation, I had no choice but to give up this idea.

After bathing, Tuoba Shen changed his clothes with the help of Lu Guang, and suddenly felt much refreshed. Combed his braids, sorted out his clothes, and left the hall with Liu Teng. Yu Zhong had already prepared the carriage and ordered seven more people to accompany him, and in order to avoid attracting attention, all the soldiers from the Han nationality were ordered.

Because it was the first time to come to Jiankang, no one knew exactly where the Luling Mansion was, and on the way, Tuoba Shen asked Liu Teng to find a few passers-by to inquire, only to know that Xiao Ziqing lived in the eastern suburbs east of Qingxi. Qingxi is the canal excavated in the period of Sun Quan, because Jiankang at that time saw the scale at the beginning, the number of people is not much, so Qingxi is not far from the main city, Jiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty is separated by Xuanwu Lake (Houhu), Qingxi, Qinhuai Shui, and the Yangtze River, and Qingxi is located in the east, so the east of Qingxi is called the eastern suburbs.

The convoy went all the way along the street to the south, crossed the Qingxi middle bridge, and asked the passers-by again, followed the Qingxi to the north for about one or two miles, and the turn was a street with a width of eight or nine zhang, it was very straight, there was a stone workshop on the side of the street, and the words "Qingxili" were written on it. Looking inside, there are not many portals on either side, except for the high walls and watchtowers. Most of them are the mansions and villas of high-ranking officials and the children of the royal family, each of which covers a very large area, and some can even occupy a street, so there are more doors and walls and few doors.

After walking along the long street of Qingxili for a while, I saw a lot of ox carts parked in front of the gate on the left from a distance, and there were many horses tied to the tethered stones on the side of the road. Because the sky was already a little dark, I couldn't see the specific situation clearly. However, according to the passer-by who just asked, Xiao Ziqing's mansion is on the right side. Moreover, I didn't pay much attention to the tiles covered by the door, but when I was passing by, I looked inside and found many people in uniforms. There is also a lantern hanging on the porch of this house, with the word "Xiao" written on it.

Tuoba Shen also paid attention to the high-rise watchtowers on both sides of the main entrance of this house, and saw that there were two or three people holding spears stationed on them, which looked like they should be a military general's mansion. This kind of use of sergeants to guard the mansion was the rule of the two Jin and Southern Dynasties, and these generals living in Jiankang all had their own private soldiers, and they all raised private soldiers and generals in the mansion, accumulated food and weapons, and would not be criticized by public opinion.

The most powerful evidence is that when Emperor Liu Song passed by Xiao Daocheng's Qingxi Mansion at night, he wanted to raid the Xiao family. At that time, Xiao Daocheng was in Dongfu City, Xiao Daocheng's second son Xiao Wei was at home, and when he learned the news that the Emperor was going to pass by the door, he let the soldiers wave their troops and make endless noise inside. It can be seen that Xiao Daocheng was the beneficiary of this system at that time.

Continue to walk for half a mile, only to get off in front of a high gate on the right, this portal is much taller than the one just passed, the main entrance has three roads, the middle door is yellow, and the two sides are red. On either side stood a dozen halberd-wielding sergeants.

"Liu Qing, you can stab the lonely name to the Luling Mansion."

Taking advantage of Liu Teng's kung fu of stepping forward to hand over the famous assassin, Tuoba Shen summoned Yu Zhong and said, "Yu Qing, you wait for the blade to be prepared, don't go in." This place is not far from Qinhuaishui, a few days to Qing hard work, tonight is just to reward Qing for hard work, Qing can temporarily go to Qinhuai water to play, when he comes here and returns to Qingyi Hall with loneliness. ”

The current Qinhuai River is a prosperous place like the Qinhuai River in later generations, and the tertiary industry is also very prosperous. He is limited by his identity, if it is just a boat recreation, it is definitely impossible to go to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion. Yu Zhong and the others don't care. Yu Zhong has been serving by his side for the past few days, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, maybe he will go to participate in the hunting and martial arts of the Southern Dynasty, and he will be even busier at that time, so it is better to take advantage of this time to let him have a pastime.

After waiting outside the door for about half a cup of tea, I saw Xiao Ziqing walking out of the main entrance on the left, followed by a young woman wearing a brocade silk dress, who was Xiao Ziqing's princess Yu. He was followed by a dozen servants. However, I didn't see Xiao Ziqing's Luling State officials.

After Tuoba Shen and the Yu family greeted him, Xiao Ziqing welcomed Tuoba Shen into the mansion, and when he bypassed the stone (screen) shadow wall, he said, "Why did Erlang come so late? I wanted to ask you to take a look at my Luling Kingdom's junjie, but I didn't see you coming, so I had to dismiss them. ”

"When I first arrived in Jiankang, I couldn't tolerate the heat here. Therefore, we will not set off until the heat has subsided greatly. I didn't know where my uncle's house was, so I asked all the way, so I arrived at this time. Uncle is not strange. Tuoba Shen said as he looked at the handmaidens who lit the candles for the stone pillar lamps on the side of the road

Xiao Ziqing was stunned for a moment before saying, "But it's not mine, I didn't expect this section." ”

After a cup of tea, the two walked not far from the front hall, and saw many maids holding lamps and candles in their hands and going between the front hall and the cloister. At this time, the front hall was already full of candles, and it was like daylight. With the bright light shining through the door, there were bursts of laughter, which sounded like the laughter of a little girl.

It's Xiao Ziqing's daughter! Xiao Ziqing is in his twenties this year, and his age is about the same as the emperor's father, so I think his daughter is not too young. Tuoba thought carefully

followed Xiao Ziqing into the front hall, Tuoba Shen followed the laughter and looked over, but saw three little girls snuggled to one side, or sitting or standing in front of a low table, on the low table there was a square chessboard, and a few chess pieces were placed in the chessboard, and a little girl about seven or eight years old was lying in front of the chessboard and teasing the chess pieces with her small index finger. There was a cheer, and the two girls standing to her left and right clapped and laughed, and it turned out that their sister had won a son. On the other side of the chessboard was a teenage girl dressed in a lilac gauze skirt with a moire white belt embroidered with silver thread around her waist.

"Fourth sister, who are you looking at?" Xiao Ziqing waved away a few maids in the room and said with a smile.

The girl who was about to stretch out her hand to flick the chess pieces heard Xiao Ziqing's voice, quickly withdrew her hand, straightened her body and raised her head to look over.

It turned out to be Princess Xiao Lingyuan of Yongjia.

"Erlang! …… Is the distinguished guest that Brother said Erlang? Xiao Lingyuan was surprised, and then got up and stepped forward to salute.

Tuoba Shen also felt strange after returning the gift, Xiao Lingyuan is a princess, how could she still be in Xiao Ziqing's mansion at this time? The so-called men and women are not at the same table at the age of ten, even brothers and sisters are no exception! It stands to reason that she shouldn't be here!