Volume 2 Breaking into the Emperor's Capital and Dancing with the Demons Chapter 126 Turning the Tide (2)

At this point, Dust's information about the enchantment can't be revealed any more. Xu Guan didn't continue to ask, and the two of them were speechless for a while.

After a while, after making sure that Xu Guan had no other problems, Feng Chen coughed lightly and expressed his hope that Xu Guan could go to the enchantment north of the imperial capital to protect the emperor.

Xu Guan naturally would not disagree, when even if he nodded and agreed, he was about to fly over with his foot on the wind trick, Feng Chen hurriedly stopped him and said: "This is the imperial capital, not to mention that this era is different from before." It's a bit of an outrageous thing that you're flying through the air like this. ”

Xu Guan was a little embarrassed on his face, he was too concerned about the safety of the imperial capital, but he ignored these questions. After being reminded by Feng Chen's old way, he reacted, looked around, and realized that this place belonged to the edge of the imperial capital, and it was the cold winter season, so even though it was daytime, there were very few people on the street, and the pedestrians on the road below were also wrapped in tight clothes, bowing their heads and just hurrying, so he was not found and did not cause a burst of exclamation.

"It's negligence. Xu Guan clenched his fists apologetically.

"You shouldn't have had time to rush to Suolongjing in the imperial capital last night, and you didn't have the heart to take a good look at this bustling big city. After all, it's been more than 400 years of sleep, and you should take a good look at this place again. Feng Chen smiled and signaled Xu Guan not to be too nervous: "The lich will not attack the imperial capital for a while and a half, even if it is to attack, there is still an enchantment here to guard, and they will not be able to break it." You just stroll along the way, and learn about the imperial capital of this era by the way. ”

"Daoist, you're right. Xu Guan agreed, said goodbye to the old road of Fengchen, turned around and floated down.

Xu Guan came to the ground, stood on the edge of a longitudinal northbound avenue, and silently calculated in his heart, if he wanted to run through the entire imperial capital from south to north with the strength of ordinary people's feet, he was afraid that it would take a day, he looked up at the sun, and knew that it was about three o'clock in the afternoon at this moment, and it was a bit too wasteful to walk over at the speed of ordinary people.

He thought about it, and took advantage of the fact that it was not very busy and there were not many pedestrians on the streets, so he rushed forward, tossing and turning between the buildings and the alleys. Although it is not as good as flying in the air and the wind, it is not slow, and at the same time, it can take into account the opportunity to browse the imperial capital.

So about an hour later, he stood on Chang'an Avenue, only to see that the long street was wide and atmospheric, and the vehicles on the road passed in an orderly manner like water.

He crossed Chang'an Avenue and stood in a corner outside the Forbidden City, looking at the bright yellow ancient building across the moat, and his heart rose with infinite emotion.

Four hundred years ago, he was in this palace and took the exam in the Wenhua Palace. On that day, Emperor Wanli personally planned in the court, and all the candidates who were in the middle of the examination were in the palace.

You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, since the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, the emperor rarely presided over the palace examination in person, especially during the Wanli period, when Xu Guan was extremely lucky, and caught up with one of the few palace examinations presided over by the Wanli Emperor.

The familiar complex of ancient buildings seemed to bring Xu Guan back to 400 years ago, when he was a real young man, only in his early twenties. And now, although he is still twenty-seven or eighteen years old, he is actually more than four hundred years old, too old to be old.

"If you hadn't entered Beijing to take the exam, Yu wouldn't have met her teacher. If you are lucky, you will be a petty official, holding a small authority, and then you may be full of enthusiasm and conscientiousness to serve the country, or be dismissed from office because you are too upright to offend the powerful, or even exiled, or a good horse will be appreciated by Bole at the peak, and you can eventually grow into a real talent of the pillar country; 。 No matter what kind of person he becomes, Yu will turn into a handful of loess in a few decades, and he will never be able to stand here today after 400 years, looking at the Forbidden City through the moat and sighing at the same time for more than 400 years. ”

Xu Guan muttered to himself, the shadow of the majestic building reflected in his clear eyes, and the cold wind blew across his thin cheeks, puffing up his thin clothes. He looked out of place standing in the crowd.

Because it is the center of the imperial capital, and the Forbidden City is already a scenic spot that everyone can enter, there are many pedestrians on the old streets near here, and it can be regarded as bustling.

In such a cold weather, Xu Guan was still wearing a single-layer casual suit, and this dress followed him through the battle of the night lair, becoming tattered, and it looked even less cold.

Coincidentally, he was standing at the opposite corner of the moat, where mages with cameras and tripods often photographed a corner of the Forbidden City from this angle, and these people often stayed here all day, just to find the best and most appropriate time of the day to take the most satisfying picture.

So when Xu Guanzheng was still looking at the Forbidden City Wall intently, a young mage saw him, took out a spare warm coat from his bag, and put it on him.

Xu Guan woke up from his memories and saw a big boy with black glasses smiling at him.

"Thank you, brother. Xu Zhi felt that there was an extra piece of clothing on his body, and immediately reacted, hugged his fist at the big boy, and then took off his long clothes and sent them back: "It's just that Yu is used to being thinly dressed." At this time, the cold can still stand it. ”

"Uh......" The big boy with black glasses froze there, letting Xu Guan return the long coat to his hands, looking at him suspiciously, wondering in his heart, how could this tattered young man talk like he was singing, could it be that he was a patient with ancient wind poisoning?

After Xu Guan returned his long clothes, he ignored the strange eyes of the man, turned around and continued north along the old street close to the Forbidden City.

To the north of the Forbidden City is the Coal Mountain, where the eye of the imperial capital enchantment is located, but Xu Guan doesn't know it. He calmly walked to the Coal Mountain Park and glanced at the high mountain inside, after the fifteenth night of the lunar calendar, in the early morning of the sixteenth lunar calendar, Xu Guan felt the sunshine on this mountain that had been lost for more than four hundred years.

Xu Guan once heard the orange cat say that the Ming Dynasty died when the last emperor Chongzhen Emperor, when the rebel army broke into the imperial capital, the defenders in the palace scattered, and at dawn that day, the fire broke out, and the fire outside the city reflected the sky.

Emperor Chongzhen rang the bell in the front hall to summon hundreds of officials, but no one came, not only hung his head and lamented: "The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, and the world in 277 years, once it is abandoned, it will be mistaken by the traitorous ministers, so that it is so"

He walked out of the palace gate with the old eunuch and hanged himself on this coal mountain, dying with his left foot and only a red shoe on his right foot.

Xu Guan once wanted to take a look at the crooked neck tree, but it had been a long time, and the tree had long since ceased to exist. He glanced at the coal mountain again with regret and continued to walk north.