"Zuo Dao Chief, no! Brother Zuo, are you sure you're not kidding me?? Are you really going to the Forbidden City to investigate? "Before I ate a few bites of the roast duck, I was dragged out of the restaurant by Zuo Daochang, which made me really unhappy.

"Who is joking with you, it is basically certain that Jiao Yuqin disappeared in the Forbidden City, because he first mentioned to his friends that he was going to the Forbidden City, and secondly, his wife did find him outside the north gate of the Forbidden City, it will not be a coincidence." Zuo Dao Chang swore an oath.

"You don't really think that Jiao Yuqin in the middle of the night will take his two brothers to the Forbidden City to find excitement, they are not stupid, I think it's just casual nonsense, do you really believe it?"

"No matter what, let's do a good search in the Forbidden City." Governor Zuo didn't give me a chance to explain at all, and dragged me straight north. "Boss Liu, I know you're cowardly, I'll protect you if it's okay."

I know that Daoist Zuo is agitating the general, and by humiliating me, I can get me to follow him without complaint. But then again, his trick really worked.

The Peace Gate is indeed very close to the Forbidden City, and it is less than half an hour away, and we will arrive at Chang'an Avenue and Tianmen'an Square in a short time. As the most core scenic spot in China, we can understand that there are many people here, but today it is really hot, but I don't know if the Forbidden City is like this every day, or because there are some special activities today, Tiananmen Square is crowded with people at the moment, crowded and congested, and it is difficult to move an inch, which seems to be more suffocating than imagined.

"Little brother." I saw a boy who looked like a high school student squeezing forward next to me, and I stopped him. "Why are there so many people in the Forbidden City today?"

"It's not that there are more today, it's that there have been a lot of people during this time, and there should be fewer people in another week." The little boy said with a sigh of grief.

"Why is that? Why are there more people this week? ”

"Isn't it because there are famous paintings on display, haven't you watched the news? The famous paintings "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" and "Qingming Riverside Picture" were displayed in Wuying Hall for two weeks, which was the first time in ten years that these two famous paintings were exhibited. The little boy explained impatiently. If it weren't for these two paintings, our Chinese teacher wouldn't have given us an appreciation homework, and I wouldn't have had to come here in the middle of the day to suffer. ”

“……”

"It's so bad that I can't play games at home, our regiment was supposed to open up the wasteland today, and they can't open the wasteland without me as the main force." The little boy complained to himself, and no longer bothered us, and in a moment he was crowded to the front.

Looking at this endless stream of people, I feel that the brain nucleic acid pain is unbearable, for this Jiao Yuqin, Zuo Daochang and I are estimated to have to lose a layer of skin, the key is that I was still fooled.

I really don't want to go to the Forbidden City to find ghosts, there are ghosts in the Forbidden City, and I believe everyone around me will know a little bit about it.

The name of the so-called Forbidden City began with Feng Yuxiang's "Beijing Coup" in 1924. Feng Yuxiang expelled Pu Yi from the palace, and at the same time established the "Qing Aftermath Committee", took over the Forbidden City, and later announced the official establishment of the Palace Museum and opened to the public. It was only after 1925 that the Forbidden City was called the "Forbidden City". The construction of the Forbidden City, it is necessary to start from the Ming Dynasty ancestor Zhu Di, Beijing was his fiefdom, and at that time in order to resist the harassment of the northern Yuan army, he specially moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, and then according to the scale and system of the Nanjing Palace to build the Beijing Forbidden City, the construction work was prepared for 11 years, the wood, many of which are rare to grow on the mountains, the people risked death to mine, and I don't know how many people died, so the foundation of this palace is built with blood.

From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty and then to the Republic of China period, the Forbidden City has been used for nearly 500 years. How many palace queens and concubines have died unjustly in these 500 years? How many royals have killed each other over power? Thinking about the various horrific tortures in ancient China, if it is true that according to what Zuo Daochang said, if there were injustices in life, and after death, he would escape from the underworld and come to the mortal world, then the unjust souls in the Forbidden City are probably the most dense places in the Central Plains.

The most famous supernatural event about the Forbidden City is the Thunderstorm Palace Maiden Phantom Incident, but this incident was quickly confirmed by experts because the brick walls of the Forbidden City contain ferric tetroxide, which can store sound and influence during thunderstorms, and then wait until the next thunderstorm, these videos and audios will be released. Although the expert's explanation can be said to be impeccable, to be honest, many ordinary people do not recognize this account, and there are ghosts in the Forbidden City. This has been a consensus of everyone for many years, and it cannot be filled in by a few scientific explanations.

"Daoist Zuo, do you believe that there are ghosts in the Forbidden City?"

"Needless to say, there are all kinds of ghosts in it, think about it, how many people have died in it in five hundred years, and 90% of them have died unjustly." Zuo Daochang said disdainfully. "It's just that they hide relatively deeply, and they rarely show up to meet people during the day."

Daoist Zuo's words were plain, but they made me shiver. "Then do you suspect that Jiao Yuqin was harmed by the ghosts in the Forbidden City? If that's the case, how are you going to find so many ghosts? ”

"It's not difficult, I told you before that the ghosts of the underworld come to the mortal world without a name and live a marginal life, but there is a special case, which is in Beijing." Zuo Dao took out his pocket compass and placed it in front of me, and I saw the pointer on it shaking wildly like crazy. "The ghosts in the Forbidden City are systematic, not the so-called lonely ghosts, although they are all ghosts, they also have status distinctions."

"Huh?" I gasped. "It's all a ghost, do you have to divide it into three, six, nine and so on?"

"Hehe, no way, the Forbidden City is such a magical place, it can be said that it is the perfect combination of feudal hierarchy and architectural form, from the height of the palace, the form of the roof, to the number of tiles, and the number of steps are all engraved with the imprint of rank, do you know? If you had been here hundreds of years ago, standing on the square in front of the Taihe Palace, looking at the emperor's ministers from afar, they would have scared you half to death without saying anything, or doing anything. It's the sense of suffocation inherent in the architectural space. The ghosts who are willing to return here are more obsessed with power, and they have no will in life, and they will be doubled back after death, so they will come back here for a power struggle after death. ”

Hearing this, I didn't feel funny at all, but instead gave birth to a deep helplessness, I couldn't let go of it before I was alive, and I still had an obsession after death, and this kind of being a man and a ghost seems to be no different.

"Does that mean that these ghosts also have an emperor, minister, concubine, and maid here?"

"It's almost, but I don't know if it's still this system, after all, it's the new century, and many of the living conditions of ghosts in the Forbidden City have also changed a lot." Although it was very crowded, everyone's pace was relatively fast, and before I knew it, Daoist Zuo and I had already walked into Tiananmen Square and came to the ticket office in front of the noon gate.

"Daoist Zuo, I still don't understand, what does this have to do with the Jiao Yuqin incident?"

"If it's really a ghost in the Forbidden City, as long as we find the leader of these ghosts, that is, a relatively high-level ghost, we can basically find out a rough idea." Zuo Dao said confidently.

"And where are you going to find the leader of the ghosts?" Daoist Zuo has explained enough, but I am still in a fog and can't think of an approximation.

"After a while, we will go directly to the area of the West Sixth Palace, the West Sixth Palace used to be the dormitory of those queen concubines, and some of the concubines and concubines who fell out of favor also lived in the West Sixth Palace, where the resentment was the heaviest, so we tried our luck from there first."