The Forbidden City is very big, very big, covering an area of 720,000 square kilometers. From the beginning of construction in 1406 to 1872, it took 466 years of wind, frost, snow and rain!
Countless people have lived here, and countless people have died here. How many conspiracies, secretions, and joys and sorrows have been staged within the towering palace walls. The 466 years of nourishment in popularity have gradually made this huge palace seem to have its own soul. Same!
Today, the soul that has experienced thousands of palaces in the Ming and Qing dynasties seems to have turned over in a deep sleep and woke up briefly!
A resentful lament came, and suddenly there was a strong wind in the palace!
Cixi, who was leaning on the couch with her eyes closed to meditate, suddenly opened her eyes and said, "Who is sighing? Where is this sound coming from..."
Li Lianying said in confusion, "Sigh? Lafayette, please pay attention. Who dares to make a sound while you are resting... Oh, by the way, it seems that the wind is blowing outside, is it the wind?"
"Wind?" Cixi listened carefully and sure enough, there was a strong wind outside the window!
This wind is not the kind of demonic wind covered in sand and dust that was seen in the capital at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period, nor is it the northwest wind that blows snow in the cold winter months, nor is it the turbulent wind before a sudden heavy rain in the hot summer!
This is a southeasterly wind, a very gentle and steady push, the trees in the entire Forbidden City are swaying, and all the open windows are trembling!
You can feel the power of this strong wind, but it has no destructive power at all!
Cixi couldn't describe the feeling in her heart. People are familiar with such things as wind, but everyone knows that wind never goes hand in hand!
When there is strong wind, there is always turbulence in the air, causing conflicts between left and right, some are faster in some places and slower in others. According to Chinese research, air flow is a very precise science and it is very responsible!
Specifically, if you see a sudden storm in summer, a row of tall trees will be swayed left and right by the wind, but this row of trees will never sway left and right in the same rhythm!
Because of the width of such a row of trees, the wind force passing through each moment is definitely different. Maybe the trees with stronger wind pressure in these ten meters are more bent, while the wind force in the other ten meters is weaker, and the trees will rebound in advance. go back!
This produces uneven effects on people's vision, and you can feel the violent, violent and uneven power distribution of the wind!
But today was different. The wind was so fierce that it was like a huge wall of air coming from the southeast!
All the trees, flowers and plants, the dust on the palace roof, the open windows, and the flags everywhere seemed to have been scraped by a straight ruler, moving uniformly without any confusion!
The evil wind was raging, and Cixi's heart skipped a beat. "Where is Your Majesty? Where is Your Majesty at this moment?"
"Queen Mother, Your Majesty is still taking a walk in the Royal Garden at the moment. Your Majesty has had a few more drinks today. It seems that you need to let go of the alcohol. I sent someone to watch and nothing will happen!"
The court meeting in the Yangxin Hall started this morning. The angry Zai Chun didn't have lunch until two o'clock in the afternoon, and it took a long time to drink, complain, and chat!
When the drunken Zai Chun ran to the Royal Garden to let go of the alcohol, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon!
Looking at the clock on the table at this moment, it has already pointed to five forty-five. Zai Chun has been strolling in the imperial garden for more than an hour!
"The wine is almost gone. Your Majesty, please go back and rest!"
"Hey, I will go and invite you personally!" As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the strong wind outside the window suddenly disappeared strangely, and the sudden silence made people feel chilly!
"The wind has stopped?" Cixi and Li Lianying said in unison. At the same time, the hairs on their skin suddenly exploded, and their scalps were numb as if there was an electric shock!
"No, let's go to the Aijia to see what's going on..."
The evil wind came and dispersed quickly. Cixi, who was in the Forbidden City, felt something strange, and Ci'an, who was on Jingshan Mountain, was even more fidgety with fear!
The towering Jingshan Mountain attracts more wind, and the strong wind just now was also raging in Beiyuan. Ci'an, who was reading in Qiwang Tower, threw down his book and ran out. Standing on the high observation deck, this wind hit him directly. !
To the south is the Forbidden City. Ci'an saw with his own eyes a wave of light spreading diagonally from the southeast corner of Donghua Gate like rippling water patterns!
In just a few minutes, it spread throughout the Forbidden City, including Beiyuan!
That gust of wind feels like a wall of air on the ground, but on the top of the high Jingshan Mountain, you can see it is a rippling golden light!
What's even more strange is that this wind only covers the Forbidden City and Beiyuan, the imperial city area, and it seems that the distant cities don't feel it at all!
"Come here! Arrange a sedan chair and let the Ai family go into the palace to see the Long Live Lord!"
Cixi and Ci'an were both inexplicably restless, and they didn't know why they were thinking about Zai Chun!
At this time, in the Imperial Garden, there was a group of people who were even more frightened and anxious than the two Queen Mothers, namely Er Mao and Da Sixi, His Majesty's personal eunuchs. A total of more than a dozen people's faces were pale with fright at this moment!
I thought Zai Chun was lost, but just now Zai Chun disappeared!
"Oh my God! Could it be that the wind just now was the monster in Journey to the West... that took away the Long Live Lord?" Xiao Sixi's crotch was a little wet, and she was so scared that she peed now!
"Shut up!" Er Mao was also anxious, "What kind of bullshit monsters and ghosts! What kind of era is this? You still believe this? If you dare to disturb people's hearts again, I will cut out your tongue!"
Er Mao looked around and stamped his feet and said, "Where was the last place I saw Lord Long Live just now? Is it over there at Duixiu Mountain?"
"Look for it, look for it quickly, don't miss a corner...it's such a big imperial garden, it's impossible to lose it!"
Zai Chun was really drunk today. It is easy to get drunk when you drink when you are angry. In addition, the 28-year-old Zhuyeqing wine is still very strong. Zai Chun naturally got drunk after drinking some sparkling wine!
In addition, he needed to think about and digest what the Queen Mother told him, so when he entered the Imperial Garden, he ordered that no one should follow him. He wanted to walk alone, on the one hand, to diffuse the wine, and on the other hand, to Think about the current political situation and the future governance of the empire!
The emperor issued a decree. The eunuchs and maids on duty in the imperial garden absolutely did not dare to disturb the emperor, and they all withdrew from the garden, leaving an empty imperial garden!
But Er Mao would not obey the emperor's orders 100%. He was worried about Zai Chun wandering around the garden alone, so he personally took Da Sixi, Xiao Sixi and a dozen reliable eunuchs and secretly entered the imperial garden!
Keep a visual distance from Emperor Tongzhi, don't get close to Lord Long Live, but you must ensure that the emperor is within your sight!
Precisely because this order was given by Er Mao, Zai Chun was helpless when he saw them and did not lose his temper. When Ci Xi heard that Er Mao had brought someone to follow him, she rested boldly and took a nap!
But who would have thought that after following him around, the little emperor would still lose track of him!
