Chapter 73: The Forbidden City
Wang Jiao smiled: "Xicai is usually really deadly, but now it is rare to be generous, which shows that he really wants to thank Brother Tian." Brother, do you have something to do on National Day? If it's okay, come with us! "My parents were also beside me and asked me to agree, saying that the young couple was sincere. It's okay if you're idle anyway.
Since I said so, I had no choice but to agree. I called Fang Gang that night, and he also felt strange, it stands to reason that an ordinary person who is entangled by a yin spirit will not be so simple to get out of it, unless that yin spirit finds a more suitable person, or has already passed away. However, since even the color in the five poisonous oils has returned to normal, it seems that there is really no more.
I wanted to contact Wang Jiao privately and ask about the situation carefully, but I was afraid that Sun Xicai would hear about it, so I had to give up. A few days later. Sun Xicai sent a text message saying that the train ticket has been booked, and it will leave in two days, I think that this is the end of the matter, it is useless to think about it, just go, anyway, Sun Xicai is normal now, and I have never been to Beijing, by the way, I just happened to have fun.
Long story short. Sun Xicai and Wang Jiao and I took the train to Beijing and found a chain hotel near Xizhimen to stay. In the evening, we went to Quanjude to eat roast duck, and we began to customize a plan during the banquet, how to eat and play in the next few days. Sun Xicai strongly suggested going to the Forbidden City at the first stop tomorrow, but I checked the weather forecast and found that tomorrow would be cloudy. There was also thunder and lightning turning to moderate to heavy rain during the night.
Wang Jiao said: "Why don't we change places tomorrow?" ”
Sun Xicai disagreed: "What is there on a cloudy day, let's visit the Forbidden City during the day, not at night." It's still cool on a cloudy day, and you can even save a parasol. People say that the Forbidden City began to clear at five o'clock in the afternoon, when it was not dark, so close to Xizhimen, what are you afraid of! "Wang Jiao and I thought about it right, so we agreed to his suggestion, go to the Forbidden City tomorrow, and start going to the Summer Palace, Beihai, Xiangshan and Prince Gong's Mansion the day after tomorrow.
During the meal, a female netizen in Beijing who I met on QQ called me, knew that I was coming to Beijing, wanted to meet me, and asked me to invite her to dinner. Because the netizen looked ordinary and had no characteristics in figure, I refused. said that this time I was traveling with my cousin and others, and I didn't have time to have a private meeting with you. Hanging up the phone, Sun Xicai asked with a smile: "Brother Tian, the female netizen took the initiative to ask you, why did you still put up a fight?" It's okay, go ahead, we're not outsiders. ”
"Come on, leave my relatives behind to meet netizens, am I that kind of person? Don't go! "I pretended to be angry.
The next day, we took the subway to the Forbidden City, the weather was gloomy, but the number of tourists did not decrease at all, especially the number of foreign tourists and tour groups. To be honest, I have never been to the Forbidden City, and I used to see Tiananmen Square and Wumen Gate on TV and thought it was very big, but when I arrived at the scene, I always felt that these buildings seemed to be shrunk, far less majestic than what I saw on TV.
I bought a Forbidden City brochure at the ticket office, the three of us entered from the noon gate, Wang Jiao and I chatted while walking, and inadvertently I turned around and saw Sun Xicai standing near the noon gate, and kept looking back and back, I asked him what he was looking at, and he said: "Oh, it's nothing, there is a foreigner who is very tall." I looked at it a few times, but I didn't notice anyone who was particularly tall, and I didn't think much about it, and the three of them continued to walk inside. Macro introduction of Hua.
Entering from the Tai, Zhong, and Bao halls, first the center and then the two sides, even watching and resting, to more than three o'clock in the afternoon, basically the open places are all walked around, including the treasure hall and the clock hall. Next to the Zhenfei Well in Fuwang Pavilion, dozens of Taiwanese tourists surrounded the tour guide, and the tour guide was introducing in a matter-of-fact manner: "The Forbidden City is the place with the heaviest yin qi in China, because many people have died here in the Ming and Qing dynasties, including eunuchs, palace maids, concubines and even princes." Think about it, there were more than 3,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the palace in the old society, and there were many rules in the palace. When those palace maids were serving the emperor, the queen mother and the concubines, they would kill their heads if they sneezed or fart, and they would kill their heads if they looked at the emperor twice. Even if you didn't make any mistakes, the emperor and queen mother were in a bad mood and insisted that you were too ugly, and pushed you out to be slaughtered with a word. Between the eunuchs and the palace maids, there is also the oppression of the subordinates by the superiors, as well as those favorite concubines who were assassinated, Concubine Zhen was pushed into this well by the Empress Dowager Cixi! ”
The Taiwanese tourists gathered around the Zhenfei Well, and although it had been sealed, they still looked into the small hole in the center of the big stone, as if hoping to see something.
The tour guide continued: "Especially on cloudy days, the yin qi of the Forbidden City is even heavier. Because there is no sunlight on cloudy days, ghosts are usually most afraid of the sun, and only at night and cloudy days do they dare to come out to move. A few years ago, when there was thunder and lightning in the Forbidden City, there were often tourists who saw a team of palace maids walking over on the palace wall. ”
In addition to those Taiwanese tourists, there are also passers-by like the three of us, all of whom have serious expressions, and those Taiwanese tourists are even more frightened and pale, and several female tourists even proposed to leave here as soon as possible, looking at this well and being afraid. The tour guide smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, this wellhead has been sealed, and I also found a Taoist priest to do Dharma in the past, as long as you don't spit on the well, Concubine Zhen will not trouble you!" ”
The more he said that, the more scared everyone became, and they all fled from here. Wang Jiao asked me in a low voice if this was the case, and I nodded: "The place where the dead are often often heavy must be yin, and the open place is also conducive to the hiding of ghosts, so there are many haunted legends in the Forbidden City." Wang Jiao stuck out her tongue, and she was also a little scared.
In the process of walking, I noticed that Sun Xicai would often stand still and look back at a certain tourist, and that tourist I didn't think was anything special. I thought to myself that Sun Xicai may have seen few foreigners in Shenyang and many foreigners in Beijing, so he was curious.
Wang Jiao and I were so tired that the soles of our feet hurt, but Sun Xicai didn't seem to be tired, and proposed to continue watching until the field was almost cleared. Wang Jiao said weakly: "I can't walk, I've seen the entire Forbidden City, haven't you enjoyed it yet?" ”
"We're only a third of the way there!" Sun Xicai said with a smile.
Wang Jiao was surprised: "How is it possible?" Aren't we on a carpet tour? ”
I said, "Xicai is right, only 35 percent of the entire Forbidden City is open to tourists, and nearly two-thirds of the places are closed. ”
Wang Jiao asked puzzledly: "Then why?" I know, there must be a lot of cultural relics in the Forbidden City, which have to be hidden at ordinary times, and they can't all be shown to people. ”
I laughed and pointed to a certain page of the Forbidden City manual to show her: "You are only right, and the two-thirds of the miles that are not open to the public are used to house cultural relics, some are used for the office of the Forbidden City administrators, some are used to receive VIPs, and some are too dilapidated and have not been repaired." ”
At Sun Xicai's request, we crossed the Imperial Garden from the northeast corner and walked to the northwest corner. It was already half past four o'clock, and there were few tourists here, Wang Jiao held the Forbidden City brochure and said: "The manual says that the northwest corner of the Forbidden City was also a relatively remote place in the Qing Dynasty. ”
"No wonder it feels like it's swishing here." I say.
Sun Xicai sat down on the white marble railing, took out ten yuan and handed it to Wang Jiao: "I'm thirsty and tired, I can't walk." Go buy me a bottle of Coke, there's a small store in the restaurant across the aisle just now, go quickly. ”
Wang Jiao complained: "I said I was tired, but you said I wasn't tired; Now you can't walk anymore, bear with me, let's go out quickly. The Forbidden City is going to be cleared, and when you go out, you can drink it outside, and it is expensive to sell here. Sun Xicai said that he would not leave, he had to drink Coke, and in desperation, Wang Jiao had to buy it. I didn't want to be alone with him, so I offered to go to the toilet, so I left with Wang Jiao, and let Sun Xicai wait for us in place.
I bought a Coke and went back, and found that Sun Xicai was not waiting in the same place, and I didn't know where he went. Wang Jiao shouted for a long time, and several nearby places were also searched, but there was no trace of Sun Xicai. called his mobile phone, and it was prompted to turn it off. Wang Jiao was particularly angry: "Is there something wrong with this person?" You have to do it against me! Tell him to stay put, he's going to run around! ”
I proposed: "I think it's better for the two of us to look for it separately, and call us when we find it, it's okay, I think he's just curious, maybe it's nearby." ”
In this way, Wang Jiao and I went separately to find Sun Xicai. In the northwest corner of the Forbidden City, there are many palace gates of the Forbidden City that are locked and cannot be pushed open, which is obviously an unopened area. I looked around, but found nothing, and when I turned the corner, I found a small crack in the small palace door on a certain section of the palace wall, so I walked over and peeked into the crack.