As soon as you enter the unopened area of the Forbidden City, you will feel completely cut off from the hustle and bustle of the open area, and the fear of being overwhelmed by the crowd of tourists at any time will disappear, and you can finally enjoy the real Forbidden City.

The first thing you feel when you enter this place is stillness. It's really quiet, except for the occasional employee or two, you can't see a few people on the road. The grass is bleak, the ancient trees are like a cover, and there are a pair of stone-bottomed copper palace lamps standing at intervals on both sides of the road, and walking here is like wandering through thousands of years of history.

Wen Li saw Zhang Zi'an looking around curiously, sneered, and said, "Did you think that the unopened area of the Forbidden City was quite mysterious, but when you came in, it was just like that?"

She was partially right.

In fact, the main reason why Zhang Zi'an looked around was to look for the suspected elf thing that ran away just now, but it was inconvenient to explain to her, so he simply acquiesced to her guess.

"It's rare to come in, can I take pictures?" he said, shaking his phone, and asked her.

The thing that ran away before was just a suspected elf, what if you have a preconceived notion and miss the real elf?

"Please. She didn't stop and graciously agreed.

Zhang Zi'an followed her on a tour, and at the same time scanned the surroundings with the game capture interface, not letting go of any corner.

Some people say that these unopened areas contain the treasures of the Ming and Qing emperors, and some people even say that the reason why the Forbidden City does not open these areas is because there will be supernatural events in the Forbidden City at night, and these unopened areas are the areas with a high incidence of supernatural events.

In fact, based on what he saw and heard along the way, he could completely disprove these groundless hypotheses that these areas were not open to the public because they had not been repaired and had not yet been opened.

Whenever he passed a palace, he could see through the open gate a corner of the courtyard, a grizzled palace surrounded by scaffolding, surrounded by piles of stones, apparently under repair.

As a centuries-old cultural relic, the restoration work of the Forbidden City is far more complicated than the repair work of ordinary houses, which is carried out carefully by experts who have been engaged in this industry for decades and leads graduate students to do it little by little, and any sloppiness may lead to irreversible damage to the cultural relics.

Therefore, although it looks like a construction site, there are only a few people working in it, wearing yellow hard hats and repeatedly certifying the drawings, and the work is progressing extremely slowly, after all, it is slow work.

Of course, there are also palaces that do not have scaffolding on the outside, so it may be that the external reinforcement work has been completed, the interior repair work is underway, or it is simply not the turn of the palace.

As for the second feeling of entering here, that is, there are really a lot of stray cats, walls, corners, thresholds, and windows, stray cats of various colors enjoy the spring sunshine in various postures.

Most cats like to be quiet, and the ordinary open area is crowded with tourists, and there are inevitably bear children who like to pull the cat's tail or something, so there is not a single stray cat in the open area, and they all run to the unopened area to enjoy a quiet time.

Every time she saw a stray cat, Wen Li would say their name like a few treasures.

The history of raising cats in the Forbidden City began as early as the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty even set up a "cat room" to manage the cats in the palace, and then selected the best of them to present to the emperor. The emperor kept his favorite cat for himself, and gave the rest to his relatives.

After years of historical changes, the noble palace cats have been scattered in all directions.

Wen Li said that some of these stray cats may be the descendants of the palace cats back then, and some of them are stray cats from the vicinity, and they have long been unclear.

These stray cats, including Xiaoxue, have markings on their ears indicating that they have been neutered.

Wen Li also proudly said that most of the buildings in the Forbidden City are wooden, but there has been no rat infestation for many years, and there must be credit to these stray cats.

Looking at these chubby, lazy and sun-basking neutered cats, Zhang Zi'an has reservations about this statement, maybe Wen Li said this to find a legitimate and reasonable excuse for the employees of the Forbidden City to raise cats and love cats.

Stray cats are the real owners of this ancient building, and some of the locked courtyard gates can dexterously drill through the gaps under the doors, through the drainage channels on the courtyard wall, and can also jump over the top of the wall.

Visiting the Forbidden City is a very boring thing, after all, all palaces are actually the same, but it is different when there are professionals leading them. Every time Wen Li passed by a palace, she would take the trouble to introduce the name and origin of the palace to Zhang Zi'an, which concubines she had lived in, and what interesting stories had happened.

Not only did Zhang Zi'an nod his head frequently when he heard it, and felt that it was worth the trip, but even the elves listened very carefully.

The further you go to the northwest, the more ...... the surrounding buildings become. Old, and those glamorous and beautiful buildings in the open area, perhaps this is the real appearance of the Forbidden City that has experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain and war, although the beauty is good-looking, but not real.

"Ahead is our destination. ”

On the east wall of Jianfu Gate, she pointed obliquely to a building between ancient trees.

Jianfu Palace is a large area, and what they want to go to is not the main body of Jianfu Palace, but an attached courtyard next to it.

At the first glance of this courtyard, Zhang Zi'an almost couldn't believe his eyes - this is too broken, right?

The row of side houses in the courtyard can no longer be described as gray-headed, it is almost like a ruined temple, the windows are all hollow, there is no glass and no window paper, the paint is almost gone, and it is a layer of dust when you rub your fingers.

If this was not the Forbidden City, he dared to guarantee that no one would have the idea of entering the house.

Wen Li understood his feelings, and said with a wry smile: "No way, this place has not been included in the repair schedule, and this courtyard itself is not of great importance, so it can only be placed in the back." ”

She walked to the door of the wing, which was also broken and was just an ornament.

To Zhang Zi'an's surprise, she did not push the door directly in, but raised her voice into the dilapidated wing: "I'm in." ”

Before she spoke, Zhang Zi'an had already roughly seen the interior from the window hole, it was dark and rumbling, although she couldn't see it clearly, but it was certain that there was no half a figure inside, who was she talking to?

Thinking of the supernatural rumors of the gods and ghosts in the Forbidden City, although Zhang Zi'an didn't believe it, he still felt a chill in his back unconsciously.

Could it be that those rumors are true, that there is indeed some supernatural thing here?