That night, Tuoba Shen chatted with the two aunts until late at night, and received countless instructions, such as not leaving his relatives and guards when he went out, not drinking cold water on the road, adding or subtracting clothes in a timely manner, and so on, and did not let him go back to rest until the end of the day.

After returning to the dormitory with Lu Guang, he went down to the clothes under Lu Guang's service. Tuoba Shen lay on the bed, looked at Lu Guang's back when he turned off the lights and walked out of the door, and said: "Liu Teng's matter, Lu Qing don't worry about it, Qing has been by my side for several years, and the friendship is very strong." Although Liu Teng came, Qing should not have doubts, how it was in the past, it will still be in the future. In the future, Lu Qing will help me pay more attention to him, this person is new to him, and he still doesn't know the authenticity of his person, and he needs to be investigated. After all, he was appointed by Zhaoyi's good intentions, so you don't want to have a conflict with him and attract outsiders' imagination. ”

After dinner, Feng Qing's appointment of Liu Teng was not a trivial matter for Lu Guang, Lu Guang followed Tuoba Shen from Qingxiao Courtyard, it can be said that Tuoba Shen was a cronie, Lu Guang himself must feel the same, and now that a newcomer suddenly came, anyone would mumble something in their hearts. Although he didn't show any abnormality, Tuoba Shen still understood this reason.

Perhaps in the eyes of those outsiders, they felt that Feng Qing did not trust Lu Guang, so they would find someone to come over by themselves. Lu Guang may also have a pimple in his heart because of this. That's why Tuoba said these words, appeased Lu Guang, and pointed out the difference between "his own people" and "outsiders". Of course, Liu Teng was assigned to him by Feng Qing after all, and it was impossible for him to deliberately look at Liu Teng in the other way, otherwise he would not distrust Liu Teng, but live up to Feng Qing's kindness. At least on the surface, it will be the same.

Lu Guang, who had already turned around and was about to pull the door, paused, and then bowed down and said, "The little slave will definitely serve His Highness with Liu Huangmen in the future." ”

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The next day, the hour.

After Tuoba Shen got up and washed up, it was useless to even have breakfast, and after saving Feng Qing and Cao Guiren good morning, he took Lu Guang to Guanjin Pavilion. He was going to the Southern Dynasty for a few months, and he couldn't give his mother any more incense, so he planned to stay here for an hour and stay with his mother for a while.

The two of them just walked out of the palace gate of the alto hall not far away, they heard the sound of extremely fast footsteps behind them, it turned out that Liu Teng got up early in the morning and paid attention to Tuoba Shen's whereabouts, followed a few good slaves and maids to ask for help, and after getting the notice of the eunuch guarding the palace gate, he didn't even care about the handover of the key to the treasury, and hurriedly chased after him.

Liu Teng also belongs to the Pingqi household, and his father belongs to the Qingqi clan, the plain Liu family. In his early years, he was the commander of the army under Cui Daogu, the then governor of Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasty, and Cui Daogu, the general of Jizhou Assassin Shi and Pingbei, and was stationed in Licheng with Cui Daogu. When Murong Baiyao swept Qingqi in this dynasty, he could not pull out the troops under Licheng for nearly three years, and the sergeants were killed and wounded a lot, and later after capturing Licheng, due to the stability of the situation, he did not do anything retaliatory against Cui Daogu and others. After the relocation of the Qingqi households and the situation stabilized, the generals of the army were indignant at the stubborn resistance they had encountered in Licheng, and went to the imperial court to demand that the generals who had caused heavy casualties to the Wei army be punished to appease the morale of the army. The imperial court agreed to their request because of the three-year bloody battle of these generals and the great merit of capturing Qingqi. Liu Teng's father was one of the generals who was killed because of this incident. Liu Teng's father had already moved to Qian County at that time, and soon died of his injuries. Liu Teng was punished on behalf of his father to atone for his crimes, and was sent to the palace by corruption.

Liu Teng has been in the palace for more than 20 years, because of the death of his father and the great changes in his body being punished by the palace, he has rarely interacted with his relatives in the clan over the years. After entering the palace, because of the "origin of the flat household", he suffered insults and oppression from other colleagues and seniors, and these humiliations and pains made his character extremely tenacious, and his desire for power became more and more desired. also because of his bad background, it took him 20 years to get into the position of Xiaohuangmen. After a year in the alto hall, he was able to take charge of the palace treasury by virtue of his conscientiousness, quick to see things, and alertness. It's just that although this position is not bad, it is still thousands of miles away from his dream to go to the positions of Wang Yu, Zhang Mao and others.

Last night, after being summoned by Feng Zhaoyi and assigned him to Tuoba Shen's side, Liu Teng knew that his opportunity to go up had finally come, although Tuoba Shen was not the eldest prince, and it stands to reason that there was no chance to be crowned as the king, but the affairs of the world have always been man-made, and now that the eldest prince has been punished by the emperor, His Royal Highness may not have the opportunity to seek the position of prince and vice president. As long as he can assist His Royal Highness to ascend to the crown prince's throne, he will naturally become Zhang Mao in the future, and even be knighted as a prince, intending to be the kind of eunuch who holds power like Zong Ai. As for what happened to the failure in the end, he didn't care anymore, what else could someone like him have nothing to lose? As for his relatives, he hasn't been in contact with him for many years, and he has been living alone in the palace all these years, and he hasn't seen those relatives come to give him a penny.

If you want to be Zhang Mao, Zong Ai's kind of powerful eunuch, now he is still far away, the most important thing at the moment is to gain the trust of the Second Highness, at least to be able to achieve the same status as Lu Guang.

With these thoughts, he got up at midnight today and found a guard on duty and promised some money to the other party, so that he could get the news that Tuoba Shen had left the alto hall so quickly.

"Isn't Liu Qing going to hand over the palace treasury?" Tuoba Shen turned around and asked, he didn't expect that this Liu Teng would be so dutiful and follow him so soon.

"The key to the palace treasury has been handed over, and the slave and maid heard that His Highness was out, so they came to serve." Liu Teng knelt on the ground and said cautiously

Tuoba Shen looked at Liu Teng who was kneeling, but also admired his diligent spirit, just after saying good morning to Feng Qing and Cao Guiren, Lu Guang asked if he wanted to ask Liu Teng to go with him, but Tuoba Shen didn't want more idlers to go to his mother's former residence, at least now Liu Teng still belongs to idle people in his opinion, so he didn't agree to Lu Guang's request. However, Liu Teng found it himself, so there was no reason to drive him back.

"I'm about to go to the Guanjin Pavilion, since you're here, let's go with you!" After saying that, he turned around and walked with his feet up.

Liu Teng kowtowed, ignoring that Lu Guang was a junior, smiled at Lu Guang's flattering style, and hurriedly followed Tuoba Shen.

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After arriving at the Guanjin Pavilion, Tuoba Shen asked Lu Guang and Liu Teng to fetch the clear water, let them wait outside, and went in alone, cleaning up the tribute case by himself as usual.

Burning incense with both hands, clasping them in his palms, looking up at the smile of his mother in the portrait, he was silent for a while, Tuoba Shen bowed with his palms together, bowed his head and prayed silently, said some joyful things in the past few days, reported to his mother that he was going to the Southern Dynasty, and finally asked his mother to bless him with a safe trip. After the silent prayer, he waited a little longer before he got up and put on the incense.

He had planned to stay here for an hour, so that after praying, he would sit cross-legged on the altar and recite Buddhist scriptures to pray for his mother. He also learned these Buddhist scriptures under the influence of the current popular culture, and the emperor liked it, even if he didn't like it, he had to learn some, so he deliberately chose the scriptures that his mother appreciated during her lifetime. Because he could only speak Chinese and Xianbei, and did not know Sanskrit, he could only read the translated scriptures, and he did not know whether the Buddha recognized them.