052 At the feet of the Son of Heaven
After 21 days of trials and hardships, I finally arrived at the foot of the Son of Heaven at noon - the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty.
Outside the Daming Gate.
Ma Douhu and Qiu Chengyun's cars entered the Daming Gate.
Qin Xiao, Qiancheng, Liangyan, and Fenglin changed into their own clothes and overlooked the Forbidden City on a high post outside the city.
A moat like a jade belt surrounds the towering blue brick stone city wall, the city gate building of Daming Gate is magnificent and heavy, under the sun, a large rectangular red wall glazed tile building complex on the same line as Daming Gate shines, giving people a sense of magnificent visual impact.
"What kind of place is that?" Ma Qiancheng pointed to the red-walled glazed tile building complex and said.
Qin Xiao: "The Imperial Palace, where the emperor lives." ”
"That's the palace! What a magnanimity! Feng Lin's eyes were full of longing.
Qin Xiao: "Let's go!" ”
The group happily led the horse and ran towards the Daming Gate.
Daming Gate?
In Qin Xiao's impression, Beijing in the 21st century does not seem to have seen this city gate.
After entering the city gate, Qin Xiao really felt what it meant to be "authentic old Beijing":
On both sides of the street, there are many courtyard houses, and the banners hanging in front of each house are lined up one after another. There are also all kinds of small merchants and hawkers gathered on the street outside the merchants...... Those who pull foreign films, sell sugar gourds, sell big bowls of tea, tell stories at street stalls, pinch clay figures, sell calligraphy and painting antiques, shave their heads, and sell merchants...... Coupled with the constant shuttle of pedestrians, they are simply dazzled.
Qiu Fenglin: "The capital is much more prosperous than our Shizhu City!" ”
Ryohiko: "Yes! ”
Qiu Fenglin: "Qiancheng, how good it would be for you to be an official here in the future, I like the capital so much!" ”
Ma Qiancheng: "I still like our stone pillars, which are clear and quiet every day." It's so noisy and noisy here, I don't like it! ”
Qiu Fenglin was a little frustrated.
Qin Xiao only cared about scanning the surrounding environment, hoping to find something in his memory.
Unfortunately, except for the Chengtianmen Gate in front of it, she has never seen any other buildings here in the 21st century.
After a long time, Qiancheng, Fenglin, and Ah Di had already eaten three strings of sugar gourds, drank a bowl of tea, and ate a bowl of tofu brains, watched foreign films for a while, listened to books for a while, and bought a few clay figurines each, if it weren't for Qin Xiao reminding them to do business, Qiu Fenglin would have to eat a bowl of old Beijing fried noodles.
The nine-thousand-year-old name is really notorious and well-known, Qin Xiao and the others casually asked passers-by, and they easily knew where his mansion was.
Wei Zhongxian's mansion is a luxurious mansion with red walls and green glazed tiles.
Five three-door gate towers, four hexagonal hairpins on the door beams, 7749 gilded door nails on the door leaves, and the imperial gilt plaque with the word "Wei Mansion" on a blue background, two one-and-a-half-person stone lions with thirteen curly hairs on their heads in front of the door, and four living brocade guards standing guard, all show that the owner of this mansion is deeply favored by the imperial power to the point of madness.
Ma Douhu and Qiu Chengyun had already changed into official uniforms and came to the gate of the Wei Mansion, Ma Douhu walked straight to the mansion with the gift box, but was stopped by the Jinyi guard.
Ma Douhu: "This official is the Sichuan Shizhu Xuanfu envoy, and he asks to see——"
"What kind of stone pillar native, you should go into the bathhouse, carry your head and bare white face and rush inside!"
Wu De, a nineteen-year-old member of the Wei Mansion, stood on the threshold and looked at Ma Douhu condescendingly.
Qiu Chengyun hurriedly stepped forward: "This master, a nine-thousand-year-old cousin, came from Sichuan to visit relatives. ”
"Nine thousand years old, there are more than 1,000 godsons, cousins, cousins, cousins,