Chapter 20: The Forbidden City (Part II)

"West Sixth Palace!" I couldn't help but shout out loud. "What a joke."

I am afraid that following this person to Beijing is the worst decision I have made this year.

I have also told you before, before opening the teahouse, I have been drifting in Beijing for a few years, this Forbidden City has also been to the Forbidden City twice, the first time is to have a tour guide to explain, from the noon gate to enter, cross the Jinshui Bridge to the Taihe Gate, Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Palace, Baohe Palace, Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, Kunning Palace, Imperial Garden. Walk along the central axis from south to north, the Forbidden City is also after the tour, you may catch up with any activities, and you will go to the Wuying Palace, the Ceramics Museum, the Clock Museum to see, although this kind of line is a locomotive, although there is no novelty, but it can satisfy the appetite of most people. The second time I went by myself, I was about to leave Beijing, I wanted to take a good look at the Forbidden City, I saw almost every corner of the entire Beijing Forbidden City, but there were only two places I didn't go, one is the Zhenfei Well, and the other is the West Sixth Palace. Let's not talk about whether there are ghosts first, I don't know if there has been any change in the past two years, anyway, I was in Beijing during the incident, most of the area of the West Sixth Palace is not open, it seems that only Yikun Palace and Chuxiu Palace can be viewed by tourists, many palaces have not been repaired, and they are overgrown with weeds and broken walls.

"The West Sixth Palace is not open, what are we going to see?" I gave him a funny look and said helplessly.

"It's because it's not open that we should go even more, do you want to be so prosperous in the Forbidden City on weekdays, ghosts generally don't show up, they will hide." As he spoke, Zuo Dao Chang took out another bronze mirror from his backpack and flipped it back and forth, making a few spots of light on the ground not far away. "Where do you think you can hide? Isn't it just those deserted places. ”

I kind of understand, dare to say that there are ghosts in any place, we will go wherever we want.

Zuo Daochang suddenly grabbed my palm tightly with his hand, and his palms touched, and he immediately felt the sweat on my palm.

"Look at your frightened bird." Zuo Dao Chang sneered. "You've never seen a ghost, so why be afraid of ghosts? Is it just because of the apocryphal things in the book? Actually, let me tell you the truth, many ghosts are not scary, and they are quite likable. ”

"Like? Hehe. I pulled my face and sneered twice.

"I'm not going to talk nonsense with you, come here." As he spoke, the left chief pulled me through the noon gate and the Taihe gate and ran towards the Taihedian Square, but suddenly he turned his steps and walked straight west towards a vermilion wall.

Although I am not particularly familiar with the Forbidden City, because I have only been to it twice, I vaguely remember that if you want to go to the West Sixth Palace, you must first go to the Imperial Garden, and then enter the West Sixth Palace through the door on the left side of the Imperial Garden. Zuo Daochang only arrived at the Taihe Hall now and began to go west, obviously unable to go.

"Zuo Daochang, you don't seem to be walking right, let's go further and there is the right-wing gate, and through the right-wing gate is the Forbidden City Opera Research Institute, not the West Sixth Palace." I kindly reminded him, not in the slightest hint of complaining about the chief, thinking that he might be a little anxious.

"I know, normally we should go in from the Imperial Garden, but that's the path that ordinary people take, and if we want to go, we must take the nearest road." Zuo Dao Chang said calmly. "Between two points, the line segment is the shortest."

"What do you mean?" I was suspicious, but Zuo Daochang didn't mean to stop at all, he grabbed my hand tightly and ran straight towards the red wall. "Holy! Are you going to hit the wall? ”

"Close your eyes and don't speak!"

I exclaimed, honestly closed my eyes, and felt the wind whistling in my ears, accompanied by a shade that penetrated deep into my skin.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw a small two-story building that had just been renovated, with eight vermilion pillars supporting the building, and the green glazed tiles looked particularly bright on the gray building. The front eaves are out of the corridor, and the door is open in the open room. I looked in through the window and saw that there were several Buddha statues faintly visible inside.

"This! Where is this? ”

"This is the Treasure Statue Building, located in the north of the garden of Cining Palace, and then it is Cining Palace, and then through Cining Palace is where the West Sixth Palace is located." Daoist Zuo was no longer impatient at the moment, and patiently explained to me.

"How did we get straight here? Isn't it necessary to go to Cining Palace before you can enter the garden to the south? I hurriedly interrogated with a bit of panic. Is it possible that you can still pass through the wall? ”

"Is it really through the wall? Looks like you know quite a bit. ”

I rubbed my eyes, I couldn't believe what I saw, but it was incomprehensible that they were actually there. "Laoshan Taoist Piercing Wall Technique......"

Daoist Zuo sneered twice and hurriedly shook his head. "You say that the wall-piercing technique is good, but you say that the Laoshan Taoist wall-piercing technique is not right, this wall-piercing technique existed thousands of years ago, and it was neither invented by the Laoshan Taoist priest, nor exclusive to the Laoshan Taoist priest. You can learn if you want to. ”

Although I was still faintly worried in my heart, his words really surprised my heart. "I want to learn can you teach me?"

"If you want to learn, you need to be single like me for a while, you see your current haggard face, if you want to learn, you still have to cultivate for a while."

"No more." The left chief then pulled me and rushed towards the wall to the north. "Close your eyes!"

The cold wind blew in my face, and I sneezed a few times in a row, only to feel as if this time I had passed through several layers of walls in a row, and the cold increased layer by layer, and the footsteps of the left chief became faster and faster.

I clutched Zuo Dao Chief's hand tightly, and it wasn't until Zuo Dao Chang said that we had arrived that I opened my eyes in fear.

Accustomed to the prosperity and lively, this sudden full of gloom made me really a little confused, we suddenly found ourselves in a closed courtyard, not to say how dilapidated here, although the building here is old, but it is still decent, single eaves rest on the top of the mountain, the face is wide and five bays, the front out of the corridor under the eaves of the bucket, the beam is decorated with Soviet-style paintings, and the blue plaque is written with three big characters of Chuxiu Palace. There are two smaller houses in the east and west, both of which are three-room-wide and built on the top of a hard hill. The reason for Xiao Suo is that this place is too deserted, silent, only a few silent crows, and the two ancient trees in the courtyard stand alone, which adds to the poignant.

Chuxiu Palace is one of the few open palaces in the West Sixth Palace, according to legend, the Empress Dowager Cixi also lived here, as soon as I entered, I felt my scalp numb, like something lying on my back, which made people feel uneasy.

Zuo Dao Chang took out his compass, and then I realized that the pointer on it had been broken, it seemed that it was because the yin qi of the West Sixth Palace was too heavy, so that its compass was temporarily out of order.

He was not in a hurry, and slowly took out a pair of silver needles from his backpack, then deftly unloaded the dial and began to assemble it. Just as we were changing, suddenly a black cat suddenly came out of nowhere, snatched the compass from the hand of the left chief, and then climbed to the top of an ancient tree three times and two times, and winked at us vigilantly.

Meow......

Its voice seemed to say something.