Tuoba Shen walked to the outer door, did not see the king of Beihai and Princess Zheng, only Zheng Niangzi was alone in front of the door dozens of steps by the garden pool, looking at a few swimming mandarin ducks on the pool in a daze, the red belt on the long hair was blown by the breeze, slightly raised, and the yellow belt around the waist complemented each other.

How can you leave her here alone, Mrs. Zheng is also a guest! Naturally, there is no reason to accompany another guest.

It looks like he may have deliberately stayed here to wait for himself. Otherwise, there is no reason to know that you are inside and stay outside alone. Tuoba Shen stepped forward, the footsteps were not loud, Zheng Niangzi didn't seem to notice the arrival of Tuoba Shen, and still paid attention to a few mandarin ducks on the lake.

Tuoba Shen looked at the mandarin ducks on the water, and naturally remembered the meaning of the mandarin ducks in pairs, the current mandarin ducks are not a metaphor for the love of husband and wife, but refers to the love of brothers or friends, as for the metaphor of husband and wife, it originated from the poem of Lu Zhaolin in the Tang Dynasty.

"By asking the to Ziyan, he once learned to dance for a long time. If you have to become a muddle, why die, and be willing to be a mandarin duck and not an immortal. ”

Zheng Niangzi was looking at the mandarin duck in a daze, didn't notice that someone was coming, and suddenly heard Tuoba Shen's voice before coming back to her senses, I wanted to see the courtesy, and after listening to Tuoba Shen's two poems that are not beginning and end, my heart suddenly felt funny, I felt that Tuoba Shen's poem was strange, was it a feeling?

This poem excerpted from Lu Zhaolin's "The Ancient Meaning of Chang'an" was originally a metaphorical poem by Lu Zhaolin, describing the prosperity of Chang'an as a metaphor for the extravagance and political turmoil hidden under the prosperity. Of course, Zheng Niangzi can't see the original meaning of the poem with these two lines alone, and the metaphorical meaning of the mandarin duck is very different from the present, but there are some meanings of men and women who love each other.

Holding back a smile, Zheng Niangzi turned around, bowed to Tuoba Shen, and said, "The daughter of the Zheng family has seen His Highness. ”

Tuoba Shen returned the salute and asked, "Why is Mrs. Zheng here?" "Even if Princess Zheng wants to leave, she should take her sister with her, how can she want an unmarried woman to be alone with a foreign man.

"The princess has something important to do alone, and she knows that Her Royal Highness doesn't know the way to the mansion, so she asked the little woman to wait for Her Highness here."

"Uncle has a heart. I haven't been here much, and I really don't know Uncle Wang's mansion, so there is Lao Zheng's wife. ”

Tuoba Shen followed behind Zheng Niangzi and walked on the promenade. Along the way, both of them felt a little embarrassed, for Tuoba Shen, if there was no misunderstanding before, he would naturally be able to be chic and calm, but he has not forgotten that incident, quite unnatural, and for Zheng Niangzi, if it was just that incident, she had long since taken it to heart, but later her grandfather told her to reply to the letter, she has been haunted, and she still feels a little ashamed, except for her grandfather, father's family and best friend's daughter, she has not written a letter to her grandfather? It's okay to not think about it normally, but Tuoba Shen appeared in front of her today, making it difficult for her to be as light as before for a while.

Tuoba Shen was behind, looking at the hair hanging down from the side of Zheng Niangzi's fair skin and the flowing headband, and followed mechanically, looking for some topics to relieve the embarrassing atmosphere, but found that there were no good topics. I can't talk about whether the weather is good or not, and I don't know how to do it, so it seems frivolous to say this.

"Zheng Niangzi, I have offended many things in the past, be cautious and stupid for a while, I hope Zheng Niangzi can forgive more." Let's find something to talk about! At this moment, Princess Zheng was somewhat wronged for not being cautious, and made the two of them embarrassed out of thin air.

When Mrs. Zheng heard Tuoba Shen mention the last time, she remembered that the last time Tuoba Shen said a lot in front of her father, she was angry at his rudeness, so she left without saying a word.

Did he want to say it himself?

Just as he was about to speak, he saw a few people coming in front of him, and after a closer look, it turned out to be the second sister who had gone and returned. The second sister also said that she had something to do, so she was left alone, she thought there was something difficult to do, but she didn't expect to come back so soon.

It turned out that Princess Zheng was remembering the affairs of the dining room just now, so she left the fourth sister, hurriedly returned to the dining room and instructed carefully, only then did she think about the fourth sister, and then she hurriedly came back. I didn't expect Tuoba Shen to come out so early, and he walked with the fourth sister for a while, but the fourth sister walked in front and the second prince followed behind, which looked very strange! Where like she said to know. How can there be any reason for the prince to follow behind!

"My sister is young and ignorant, and she has always been not good at treating guests at home, and I hope Your Highness will not blame her sister for being rude." Princess Zheng took the hand of the fourth sister and said

Zheng Niangzi heard the second sister say that she was young and ignorant and not good at entertaining guests, so she remembered that she walked in front of the second prince by herself, committed the courtesy of humility, and the last time she asked her father to resign and avoid guests, as if she really didn't know how to be polite, she was a little shy and depressed in her heart, and looked at Tuoba Shen slightly, and found that Tuoba Shen did not have any different expressions, and her heart calmed down.

"It's nothing, it's the abruptness of the little nephew, and it has nothing to do with Mrs. Zheng." Tuoba Shen looked at Mrs. Zheng, who looked shy and slight, and felt extremely cute, completely different from the serious image he had seen before, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Could this be the other side of her?

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Before returning to the main hall, he saw Lu Guang waiting in front of the hall and told him not to serve here, these literati seem to be born to deal with eunuchs, although the eunuchs of this dynasty are not like the eunuchs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they can only stay in the palace, and the eunuchs of this dynasty can also be crowned kings and marquises, and serve as local governors of prefectures, towns and counties. But whether these are big eunuchs or small eunuchs, literati and doctors don't like them in their hearts, and it is polite to scold them for "slashing and sawing the rest of the people". Although he didn't care about the identity of Eunuch Lu Guang, he thought about it and didn't let him go in to recruit white eyes.

Turning around and entering the main hall, all the guests in the hall were already sitting and chatting. The northern country is not as good as Jiangzuo, and idle talk will not talk about ethereal and distant things. The north has been in the midst of war for a long time, and for many years, the scholars have been busy for survival, and there is no superior environment like the Jiangzuo Nandu clan, so they attach great importance to practice and do not be pragmatic. That's why they're getting up to the top. Therefore, even if it is a casual conversation, most of them are talking about many practical things such as national government affairs.

At this time, they were talking about the state assassin and county guards that the states were going to transfer to the town, of course, these words were on the surface, and they would not really take out some private and dark things.

After Tuoba Shen came in, the subordinate guests were ready to get up to greet him, Tuoba Shen didn't say a word, walked quickly to the position of the original master of the house, Beihai King, and sat down, arching his hand to everyone in the hall to signal that they didn't have to get up and salute.

Everyone in the hall chuckled, and their hearts were even more heartbroken for the demeanor of His Royal Highness the Second Prince.

Tuoba Shen drank tea while listening to the laughter of everyone in the hall. Whenever he was asked to express his opinions, he would also say a few words if he could say it, echo it from time to time, and if he couldn't say it, he signaled Uncle Beihai Wang to help him out of the siege, so until lunch, the atmosphere was not bad.

This is also the madness of everyone giving face to each other, Tuoba Shen did not sweep the prince with the majesty of the prince, and the following did not want to take the opportunity to shake the wit and sell literature in vain to spread the name of the palace through Tuoba Shen, so they had a good time.

The lunch meal was more hearty than usual in the palace, with beef, mutton, venison, and some vegetables. After the meal, there are also some fruits treasured by the Beihai Palace. The people below were satisfied with their meals, and they were even more happy when they looked at Tuoba Shen, because they knew that if it weren't for the second prince coming here, they wouldn't be able to eat these vegetables and fruits.

Tuoba Shen had lunch in the Beihai Palace, and listened to some people who had traveled far away to tell some local customs and anecdotes with his subordinates and guests to increase his knowledge. This is also one of the important ways to "show talents and know the world without going out" at that time, not to mention the difference between truth and falsehood in these hearsay, at least Tuoba Shen felt that he had gained a lot of knowledge.

Unconsciously, time passed, and Tuoba Shen looked at the copper kettle dripping not far away, and the carved wood showed that it was almost the time of Shen, and it was obvious that the time was not early. I also saw Li Daoyuan in the hall repeatedly signaling Pei Yue with his eyes, guessing that Li Daoyuan was still thinking about going to the State Guesthouse, seeing that the time was not early, he was anxious, and it was not good to say that he wanted to leave alone on such an occasion where the guests and hosts were happy, so he motioned Pei Yue to resign together. Tuoba Shen thought about going to Yaoguang Temple again, and felt that he couldn't delay it any longer, maybe the emperor was in a hurry.

Although everyone in the hall talked about the rise, they would not forget to pay attention to today's protagonist, His Royal Highness the Second Prince, seeing that the Second Prince first whispered a few words with the King of Beihai, and the King of Beihai looked a little reluctant on his face. Not sure what they're talking about. After the second prince finished talking to the king of Beihai, he got up and arched his hand: "Gentlemen are free first, be cautious and go to the back hall." ”

Everyone in the hall thought that the second prince was going to go to the toilet, after all, he was still young! didn't care, and arched his hand to signal the second prince to be casual.

Tuoba Shen left the king of Beihai in the hall, walked out of the back hall alone, and called a few small eunuchs from the palace to inform Lu Guang and Li Daoyuan and Pei to wait outside the gate of the palace.