Tuoba Shen walked out of the Imperial Letter Hall, slowly paced between the palace walls, reached out and touched the thick letter on his chest, feeling a little strange, the emperor's letter to the lord of the Southern Dynasty didn't belong to the national letter! Pei Zhaoming will definitely come to His Majesty the day before he leaves, and when the time comes, won't the emperor give Pei Zhaoming himself! Why pretend to be his hand?

Walked to a corner, took out the letter from his chest, looked through it, and found that the letter was not sealed, but only folded. Could it be that the emperor didn't pay attention to the seal?

Wrong! Even if the emperor didn't notice, how could Zhang Mao not know that if he dared to be so careless even to serve the emperor, he would have been belittled a long time ago, where could he be by the emperor's side for so many years?

Recalling what happened outside the Imperial Letter Hall just now, Zhang Mao seemed to have said when he took the letter that he wanted him to "collect it personally and check it carefully", but he didn't pay attention to it at the time, only when he said it was selling loyalty in front of the emperor, and now that he thinks about it, he realizes that this is obviously something in the words!

When I opened the letter, I found that there were two letters inside, and it seemed that I had guessed correctly.

Tuoba Shen took out a copy, which read "Emperor Qi of the Great Wei Emperor".

Ha ha! Great Wei Tianzi, Emperor Qi, it seems that the emperor is really interesting, even this kind of written advantage has to be taken advantage of, I don't know what Xiao Yi's mood is when he sees it.

I don't know what's written in it, and I can't take it apart and look at it.

took out another one and looked at the front, there was only one word "Feng" on it, which turned out to be a letter to Feng Run. Recall that the last time he came back from Yaoguang Temple, he presented Feng Run's letter to the emperor in the Taihe Palace, and told the emperor that Feng Run wanted to return to the palace, and then he never saw any action from the emperor.

Thinking about Feng Run's somewhat moody personality again, Tuoba Shen's head suddenly became extremely big, Feng Run is not as good as her sister, she ate soft nails last time, this time the emperor got the letter, and it took so long to reply to the letter, with Feng Run's anxious mood now, maybe he will be angry again.

Ay! Let's take it one step at a time! It's a big deal to let her clean it up.

Let's go and see how the third child is doing! Since the last time I went to Qifeng Pavilion, I haven't been there for about a month, so I just took this opportunity to take a look.

Qifeng Pavilion is the residence of the noble Gao Zhaorong, the noble man entered the palace at the age of thirteen, and he is already twenty-two years old this year, giving birth to two sons and a daughter. She herself is quite talented, and there are many people in the palace who go to her from time to time to ask for teaching, plus she herself can be a person, so her popularity is also good, Tuoba Shen used to often go to her, sometimes asking for allusions to the scriptures, and sometimes borrowing some of her treasured classics, so Tuoba Shen has a very good sense of noble people.

Speaking of her maiden Gao, there are also some stories. At the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, after the Gao family moved from Goguryeo to Pingcheng, they claimed to be from the Bohai Gao family, but Pingcheng did not believe their words, and privately called them "Goryeozi", and some concubines and palace people in the palace who hated noble people also secretly scolded her as "Goryeo maid". The Gao family often resents this.

Qifeng Pavilion is not very far from Qingxiao Courtyard, so Tuoba Shen did not return to Qingxiao Courtyard, but went directly to Qifeng Pavilion. After a few guards, Tuoba Shen entered the Qifeng Pavilion, and saw the noble man standing at a table in the court, next to a few maids, and on the ground there was a bloated child rolling on the ground with a wooden ball, this is the second son of the noble man, and the other daughter is also on the side, being taken care of by two maids, this daughter is the only Changle princess Yuan Ying who has a name in the emperor's later generations. In history, she was married by her brother Yuan Ke to Gao Meng, the son of her uncle Gao Zhao, until she died in the second year after the Six Towns Uprising, at the age of 37, but she also avoided the Heyin Change, a rare national disaster in the ages, so I don't know if it's a curse or a blessing.

Speaking of which, the emperor's children, including himself, have been recorded, except for those who died in political struggles, did not live past the age of forty, and many people in this era are due to generations of close relatives marriage, political struggles, wars, plagues, and other reasons, the total average life expectancy of upper-class people is much lower than that of the Han Dynasty, and it is an era in which short life expectancy has become the norm.

For the sake of family continuity, people can only continue to advance the age of marriage of their children. According to the weekly ceremony, the men's eighteen crown ceremony and the women's sixteen crown ceremony. And in the period of the two Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this age was greatly advanced, so that thirteen years old became the common marriage age for men in the upper society, and more extreme will appear at the age of nine, the popular drama "The Legend of Lu Zhen" in Gao Zhan married at the age of eight in history and Rouran "Neighbor and Princess", in addition to Liu Song's last emperor Liu Zhun and the last emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yu Wenxian were married at an early age, although these are all out of political marriage, but it is enough to show that early marriage in society is popular and accepted by the public.

Tuoba Shen only glanced at it for a moment, then walked forward quickly and saluted, "Ershen see Aunt Gao." ”

The noble man walked a few steps forward, smiled and took Tuoba Shen's hand and said, "Aunt Gao, are you still guessing when Erlang will come?" I didn't expect that it had only been an hour since His Majesty was here, and Erlang was here. ”

"My son really came from the Huangxin Hall, and I heard my father say that the third brother had a minor illness, so I hurried over to take a look. But I don't know what happened to the third brother? ”

The noble man didn't expect him to come over from the emperor's side, he was stunned for a moment, and he didn't ask Emperor Tuoba Shen what he was looking for him, and said: "I've taken the medicine and I'm better, but I'm still in good spirits and I'm lying down!" ”

"I'll go see the third brother first, and then come and listen to Aunt Gao's teachings."

"When did Erlang laugh with Aunt Gao, I can't teach you anything, your third brother is far behind you, and Aunt Gao still thinks that you are so good to take him!" As he spoke, he beckoned the maid on the side and said, "You take the Second Highness down, don't forget the tea of the Second Highness." Then he said to Tuoba Shen: "Aunt Gao, there is nothing good here, only some tea you like, all prepared for you." ”

"Aunt Gao's love!" Tuoba made a great salute in a dignified manner, and this salute was also out of sincerity.

Bidding farewell to the noble man, he followed the maid to Tuoba Ke's room, and just after entering, he smelled a smell of herbs, and the smell was still very good.

Looking at Tuoba Ke lying on the bed, towards the inside. Did you fall asleep? Tuoba Shen waved his hand to stop the maid who was about to wake up Tuoba Ke, and took a few steps forward to take a look, planning not to disturb him if he really fell asleep, the sick person is very obsessed with sleeping, and disturbing people's dreams is the most hateful.

When he walked to the side of the bed, he saw Tuoba Ke turn around, it turned out that he had already heard footsteps, but he thought it was someone from Qifeng Pavilion, so he didn't bother to speak, and when Tuoba Shen came in but didn't speak, he turned around to see who it was.

"Second brother, are you here like this?" Tuoba Ke saw Tuoba Shen and was about to open the quilt and make it.

Tuoba Shen hurriedly stopped him from lifting the quilt and other actions, and said with a smile: "It seems that the spirit is very good!" It's not like there's anything sick about you. Father also said that you don't have to go to Xuanwen Hall these days, and now it looks like you can still go tomorrow! ”

Tuoba Ke listened to the words of no need to go to Xuanwentang, his face was full of joy, and after listening to Tuoba Shen's words, he quickly lay down and drilled into the quilt again: "Where's it?" The younger brother saw the second brother and liked it. Not good at all. "It's not good to say it in my mouth, but the joy on my face because I don't have to go to school has not faded.

Lazy to tease him, Tuoba Shen said: "I'm here to see how your body is, and secondly, to see how your scriptures are doing, but I want to bring you to Xuanwen Hall tomorrow for my brother." ”

"It's done! The second brother will help me bring it tomorrow. ”

Because Tuoba Ke was still sick and didn't want to stay long, Tuoba Shen chatted with him for a while, told him to pay attention to his illness, and then took his scripture inscription out of the room.