The strongest door-to-door son-in-law

Chapter 1238 Anecdotes about the Forbidden City

Ye Feng really didn't believe this evil. He took Li Ruoyun's hand and pointed to the left: "You shouldn't be lost. Let's go this way!"

After walking for a few minutes, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed across the dark sky, followed by a loud "Boom!"

The loud noise scared Li Ruoyun and grabbed Ye Feng's arm tightly, feeling that the atmosphere around him became more and more mysterious.

"Don't be afraid, it's just thunder." Ye Feng comforted the woman beside him.

In fact, Ye Feng was still a little uneasy, because the Forbidden City had been hundreds of years ago, and the accumulated resentment was too heavy, especially in the unopened areas, where hauntings often occurred.

The two of them walked into a palace passage again. There were several thunders in the sky, but there was no rush for rain.

The floor of the palace road was paved with bluestone slabs. Although the two of them walked very lightly in casual shoes, they could still hear slight echoes in the quiet environment.

This kind of sound will make people feel panicked unconsciously.

The palace walls on the left and right sides were very high. If there was no risk of being struck by lightning, Ye Feng would have wished to use a wind talisman and lead Li Ruoyun over the wall.

"what!!"

Just when Ye Feng spread his consciousness to detect the surrounding area, Li Ruoyun suddenly let out a scream.

At the same time, another explosion of thunder sounded, startling Ye Feng.

Li Ruoyun held his arm tightly with one hand and pointed at the palace wall in front of him with the other hand. With a look of horror on his face, he stammered in a trembling voice: "Ye, Ye Feng, there, there... ghost!"

Looking in the direction Li Ruoyun pointed, Ye Feng really saw a "ghost".

A "T"-shaped fork appeared in front of the palace road, and a group of people appeared at the fork.

Specifically, it should be a group of people wearing Qing Dynasty eunuch costumes.

The leading eunuch held a blood-red lantern in his hand and led the eunuchs slowly through the fork in the road.

When the group of eunuchs was about to disappear from the fork in the road, the eunuch at the end suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of Ye Feng and the two of them. The expression on his face seemed to be crying and smiling, which looked strange, inexplicable and terrifying.

Until the eunuch's face disappeared from his eyes, Ye Feng still felt his scalp was numb.

Ye Feng was not afraid of these gods and ghosts. The reason why he felt nervous was entirely due to his body's instinctive stress response in this strange environment.

Ye Feng put his arms around Li Ruoyun's waist and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, as long as I'm here, those things won't dare to come close."

Under the perception of divine consciousness, this place is not only full of resentment, but also the evil spirit is getting stronger and stronger.

When he reached the fork in the road, Li Ruoyun subconsciously looked in the direction where the group of eunuchs disappeared, but there was nothing except the dark and gloomy palace road.

Taking Li Ruoyun to the right, there were still high palace walls on the left and right. Ye Feng saw that the expression on her face was still a little nervous and scared, so he said something to divert her attention: "Ruoyun, do you know that there are walls on this palace wall?" How high?"

Li Ruoyun shook his head and didn't understand why Ye Feng suddenly asked this question.

Ye Feng asked and answered his own question: "The most suitable height of the palace wall is nine and a half meters, which is a metaphor for the ninety-five-meter emperor. In fact, when the Forbidden City was first built, the height of the palace wall was indeed nine and a half meters. However, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the height of the palace wall was It has been heightened and the palace wall is now ten meters long.”

"There is such an interesting story about the heightening of the palace wall. Do you want to hear it?"

Li Ruoyun nodded.

According to legend, when the Forbidden City was first built, Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Di planned to set the total number of palaces at [-].On the fifth night after he handed down the imperial edict, he suddenly had a dream. He dreamed that the Jade Emperor summoned him to the Lingxiao Hall of the Heavenly Palace.

I saw the Jade Emperor looking at Emperor Yongle angrily with his face full of anger. Emperor Yongle didn't know what was going on.

He had to quietly ask the immortal official next to him, and then he found out that it was because the number of [-] palaces in the Forbidden City he wanted to build exceeded the number of [-] palaces in the Jade Emperor's Heavenly Palace.

Then Emperor Yongle said: "The Jade Emperor, please calm down. Many of my ministers have offended me. How can I have more palaces in this world than your palace in heaven?"

When the Jade Emperor heard what he said, he had a smile on his face and replied: "That's right. I will give you a 'sky stone' to control the palace and courtyard, and you can ask 72 earth evil spirits and a hundred birds and beasts to protect it." Your imperial city in the mortal world, only in this way can the weather be smooth and the country and the people be safe!"

Zhu Di quickly thanked him. When he raised his head and looked at the Jade Emperor again, there was no trace of him. He suddenly opened his eyes, and it turned out to be a dream.

After Zhu Di woke up, he quickly sent an order to summon Liu Bowen into the palace and told him what he had dreamed about from beginning to end.

Liu Bowen was stunned when he heard this: "You can't offend the Jade Emperor, so you should obey him! His heavenly palace has ten thousand rooms, so we will build it with nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half rooms. It will not lose the face of the Jade Emperor, but also Without losing the royal splendor and emperor’s dignity!”

In less than four years, the Forbidden City was completed, and Liu Bowen asked Emperor Yongle to inspect it in person.

Zhu Di walked around the palace for a long time, feeling very happy.

The Forbidden City was built with extraordinary style, with carved beams and painted buildings, and was magnificent.

The Meridian Gate is tall and majestic, and the Fengtian Hall is spacious and majestic. Compared with the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Hall, it is really not much different.

Zhu Di suddenly remembered the "heavenly stone" given by the Jade Emperor to suppress the palace and the 72 evil spirits and a hundred birds and beasts he wanted to invite, and asked Liu Bowen where they were placed.

"Long live, don't worry, I will take you through them one by one." Liu Bowen said and took him to the imperial road behind the Huagai Hall.

Liu Bowen pointed to a huge rectangular stone sculpture and said: "This is the 'sky stone' given by the Jade Emperor to guard the palace courtyard. It is called the 'Yunlong Step Stone'. There are nine giant dragons on it, leaping among the flowing clouds. It is The largest stone sculpture in the palace weighs tens of thousands of kilograms!"

"Okay! Very good!" Emperor Yongle then asked, "What about 72 Disha?"

"You won't be able to see it. I sent them to the 72 ditches under the palace to prevent the little ghosts underground from causing trouble and ruining the feng shui of the palace!"

"Well done!" Emperor Yongle nodded.

"Look at the glazed ornaments on the ridge of the palace. They are dragons, phoenixes, lions, celestial horses, eagle fish, bullfighting, xiezhi, suanni..."

"There are those that fly in the sky, those that run on the ground, and those that swim in the water. There are those that pray for rain and those that ward off evil spirits."

"Needless to say, are these the beasts you invited? Everything Liu Aiqing does is in compliance with the Jade Emperor's wishes. I will reward you generously!"

Zhu Di was very happy and finally asked: "Are there nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half halls in the palace?"

"Exactly!"

"Where is the half room?"

"In a side room on the west side of the back court."

"Okay! Let me see what the Jade Emperor has to say." Emperor Yongle was very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)