Chapter 268: Attacked
Although the vehicle was slow, fortunately, the distance was not very far, so after a long snail march, we finally arrived at the Old Summer Palace.
Today's Old Summer Palace has lost its color, although some places can still see the traces left by the invaders, but this does not affect people's love for him.
The two divine beasts saw the traces left by history, and asked Liu Long from time to time, why there was a war, if there was no fire to burn the Old Summer Palace at that time, then today's Old Summer Palace must be more pleasing to the eye.
Liu Long can't answer the question of the divine beast, because this is reality, this is human nature, and often the human nature of reality is cruel and bloody.
Liu Long looked at the traces that had been baptized by the fire of war, fell into deep thought, and the two divine beasts who did not get an answer turned his head to look at Liu Yi and Yili.
"Baby, remember, no matter when, your own strength is really strong, and anyone who relies on others to pretend to be strong is a paper tiger. Yili looked at the broken pillars and said to the two divine beasts.
"In other words, we're paper tigers now, aren't we? The intelligent Liu Rui asked thoughtfully.
"You're still young, of course you're paper tigers, and when you grow up, you'll be stronger. Seeing the two divine beasts so serious, Liu Long, who had woken up from his contemplation, stroked his hair and said.
"We have to eat more and grow up quickly, so that we are really strong, and we are not paper tigers. ”
While discussing with the two divine beasts, Liu Long took his daughter-in-law and little sister to visit the beautiful scenery of the Old Summer Palace.
After browsing the Old Summer Palace, Liu Long and the others went to the Summer Palace again.
The Summer Palace, formerly known as Qingyi Garden, cost more than 480 taels of silver to build, and the Qingyi Garden has the idea of "Three Immortal Mountains on the Sea" in the ancient mythology of China.
Three small islands were built in Kunming Lake and the two lakes on the west side: Nanhu Island, Tuancheng Island, and Zaojiantang Island, which were used as a metaphor for the three mountains on the sea: Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou. The overall planning of Qingyi Garden is based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and at the same time, it is widely imitated in the gardens and landscapes of the south of the Yangtze River, such as Fenghuangdun imitation of Taihu Lake, Jingming Building imitation of Yueyang Tower, Wangchan Pavilion imitation of Yellow Crane Tower, Houxi Lake Trading Street imitation of Suzhou Water Street, Xisuo Trading Street imitation of Yangzhou Twenty-four Bridge, etc.
The main building in the park is the Great Newspaper Grace Yanshou Temple, and there is a long corridor of more than 700 meters long, its architecture and decorative paintings are quite wonderful, with artistic value and many pleasure buildings, the buildings of the nature of governance and residence in the Qingyi Garden of Wanshou Mountain in the Summer Palace are very few, that is, the Qianlong Emperor who was in power at that time visited the Qingyi Garden after visiting the Qingyi Garden, they are all day trips, and have never lived in the garden.
In its heyday, the Summer Palace was large-scale, covering an area of 2.97 square kilometers, mainly composed of two parts, Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake, of which the water surface accounted for three-quarters. The building in the park is centered on the Buddha Xiang Pavilion, there are more than 100 scenic spot buildings in the park, more than 20 large and small courtyards, 3555 ancient buildings, an area of more than 70,000 square meters, a total of more than 3,000 pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, corridors, pavilions and other different forms of buildings.
Among them, the Buddha Xiang Pavilion, the Long Corridor, the Stone Boat, Suzhou Street, the Seventeen Hole Bridge, the Harmonious Garden, and the Grand Stage are representative buildings, with more than 1,600 ancient and famous trees.
After the Qing Dynasty, due to the weakening of the national strength, it was announced that the three mountains would be withdrawn, and the Qingyi Garden was gradually abandoned. In the tenth year of Xianfeng, Qingyi Garden was destroyed by the fire of the British and French forces.
From 10 to 21 years of Guangxu, it became the garden of the Empress Dowager Cixi's retreat, and in the name of Emperor Guangxu ordered the reconstruction of Qingyi Garden.
In the 26th year of Guangxu, the buildings and cultural relics in the park were damaged by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and in the 28th year of Guangxu, they were restored again under the call of the authorities.
Although the landscape of Qingyi Garden has been largely restored to the Summer Palace, many of the quality has declined, and many high-rise buildings have been forced to reduce their size due to financial constraints.
For example, the Wenchang Pavilion Tower has been reduced from three floors to two floors, the Le Shou Hall has been changed from a heavy eaves to a single eaves, and there are also heightened buildings, such as the Grand Theater Building. Suzhou Street was burned down and never recovered. Due to Cixi's preference for Soviet-style paintings, the paintings of many houses and pavilions were also changed from Hexi paintings to Soviet-style paintings, which changed the original appearance of Qingyi Garden in details.
Walking on the path of the Summer Palace, Liu Long felt the historical atmosphere here, just when he stopped in front of Penglai Island to watch, a dangerous breath flew towards him, Liu Long, who was holding two divine beasts, did not hesitate at all, said that it was too late and that it was fast, he directly dodged the flying foreign objects sideways, but before he could recover his senses, several foreign objects flew towards him.
Looking at the steel needles flying close at hand, in order to prevent the two divine beasts from being harmed in the slightest, he could only dodge with all his might.
At this moment, Liu Long was holding two divine beasts in his arms, so his actions would inevitably be affected, when he dodged multiple steel needles, his arm was punctured, and blood flowed down his arm, and the two divine beasts in his arms were a little at a loss when they saw the arms that suddenly bleed.
Although the incident happened suddenly, the reaction of the two intelligent robot bodyguards who followed was also very fast, one quickly came to Liu Long, and the other protected Liu Yi Yili, while Yili and Liu Yi only saw Liu Long suddenly come sideways and then jumped, and then saw the bodyguards running quickly, and they didn't know the truth, and they were about to ask forward, but they were also stopped by Liu Long.
Everything just happened in an instant, from Liu Long's encounter to the arrival of the intelligent robot bodyguard, it was only three seconds, but it was these short three seconds that made Liu Long feel like he had been closed from the ghost gate.
At this moment, he can conclude that the steel needle that just flew from the opposite side of the rockery is aimed at him, if the steel needle is a coincidence for the first time, then the many steel needles that come later are the murder of him.
"Go find him. Liu Long said to the bodyguard in front of him.
The intelligent robot jumped and came to the opposite side of the rockery, and at this time it was empty, where were there any attackers.
Liu Long, who got the answer, knew that this time he had encountered a difficult role, although Liu Long only brought two bodyguards, but this is the imperial capital after all, and the Y-ray detection device on their bodies has been scanning the surrounding environment, if there are weapons such as firearms, they must not escape the Y-ray scanning.
"Husband, what happened just now. Yili, who didn't know why, ran over, and Liu Yi was with her.
Liu Long didn't tell them about the attack, but prevaricated a few casually, but he forgot about the blood that had coagulated on his arm.