The door of the courtyard house has been welded dead

Chapter 227 Visiting the Forbidden City
Forbidden City.

It was just after noon, and the sun shone on Li Feng and Li Nan, making them warm.

The sky is cloudless and blue, and the red bricks and gold tiles of the Forbidden City are also shining brightly.

"Brother, do you really want to go in? I heard it costs fifty cents per person!"

In front of the Jinshui Muqiao, Li Nan blinked his bright eyes and glanced at his brother, feeling a little distressed. He looked at the door to the north with his fingers, perfectly showing his inner thoughts of wanting to go but not wanting to pay for it.

Li Feng turned around and looked at the National Flag Square behind him, then stretched out his hand and pointed indifferently.

"If you don't want to go, just go over there and look at the cars alone!"

"No, no, brother, I want to enter, I want to enter..."

Upon hearing that his brother wanted to use him as a tool again, Li Nan quickly shook his head like a rattle, hugged Li Feng's arm tightly with both hands, and squatted down pitifully, like a child playing rogue.

"You have to pay to get in, comrade, please buy a ticket, you can get in only by buying a ticket!"

The two brothers and sisters were not far away when they heard an aunt with the word "ticket inspector" on her sleeve at the ticket gate over there, stopping the two uncles and yelling.

Li Feng looked a little surprised. The Forbidden City was only opened to the public this year. Buy tickets and visit inside. It has been published in the newspapers. Why is there still a quarrel outside when everyone knows this.

After throwing Li Nan away from his arm, Li Feng took three steps at a time and joined in the fun.

"Brother, wait for me, wait for me!"

When Li Nan saw his brother running toward the entrance, he gritted his teeth and trotted to follow.

"I'm going back to my own home, what kind of tickets do I need?"

The middle-aged man has a somewhat shriveled figure and is thin. He wears round-rimmed glasses and has a three-quarter-length haircut.

Wearing a dark Chinese tunic suit with a pen inserted in the pocket of his coat, he looked a bit polite and polite.

With thick upper and lower lips, the words he spoke seemed a bit like those spoken by an ignorant child.

Li Feng stood on the edge, leaning half against the wall. He could see his tongue licking his teeth in his mouth, and his brows were already wrinkled.

"Comrade, this is not your home, this is the Forbidden City, and this is a place that people from all over the country can visit!"

The ticket inspector looked a little impatient and waved her sleeves. She didn't take the two middle-aged old sticks in front of her seriously. She obviously regarded them as people who didn't want to spend money to get in in vain.

The middle-aged man looked at each other, and another middle-aged man with Chinese characters and a short face pulled him behind him. An awkward smile appeared on his face, and he and the aunt cupped their hands.

"Comrade, I'm sorry, I have a day off today. I want to go in and have a look. What tickets do I need and where can I buy them?"

"Lao Du, what do you mean by this? Why do I need a ticket when I go home?"

"Old Pu, stop talking. This Forbidden City is no longer your home. Ask where to buy tickets first. It took a lot of effort to come here, but you can't just go back."

Not far away, I listened to the two middle-aged men arguing. The one with glasses was obviously a little angry at the aunt for blocking him, and his thick lips were trembling, trying to explain clearly.

The short Lao Du looked sensible. If he hadn't stood aside to stop him, I'm afraid Lao Pu would have rushed in on his own.

Li Feng rubbed his chin and heard the names of the two of them. The surname PU was relatively rare. He couldn't be the man from Wushun, nor was he like the handsome man in the movie.

The dragon who played the role in the movie The Last Emperor was quite handsome, but he had nothing to do with the appearance of the man in front of him.

"Brother, these two are so strange. Don't you have to buy a ticket to go in? How can you say you are going home? Who are they?"

Li Nan leaned next to Li Feng, looking at the two of them as if he were a fool, and whispered to his brother in a low voice.

"They, I'm afraid they are the "front wave"."

After pondering for a moment, Li Feng stood up straight, almost knocking Li Nan down, and gave his answer.

"What is the front wave?"

Li Nan, who was mumbling, frowned and patted his brother on the shoulder. He hated guessing riddles like this. Why don't you explain it clearly? Will you die if you explain it clearly?

If Li Feng could know what his sister was thinking, he would definitely tell him that she would not die, but she would die.

The short man with a Chinese character face over there finally persuaded the one with glasses to stop. When he was about to go to the aunt to ask again, Li Feng stepped forward.

"I'll take you guys there. Now you need to buy tickets. They cost [-] cents each!"

When the two middle-aged men heard Li Feng's words, they turned around at the same time and looked at Li Feng up and down.

Li Nan was also a little confused. He didn't know why his brother was so nosy today. He huddled behind Li Feng and poked his head out playfully.

"Do we know this little comrade?"

"do not know?"

Li Feng, who kept smiling, had already guessed the identity of the two people, and his eyes narrowed. If these two people were really the two people in history, then the promise they made to Vet Hao might not be a blank check.

Lao Pu, to be honest, I'm afraid it's not that important. Looking at his rigid look, he seems to be stubborn, and he can't turn around at first glance.

The most important thing should be Lao Du next to him. According to the previous organizational structure, he should also be the boss of Hao Veterinarian and their former immediate boss. Liao Yaoxiang, whom he met last time in the management office, should be his subordinate.

If I remember correctly, he should be a student who graduated early from the management office I went to. I didn't seem to see this person last time I was there.

"It looks like you guys are from out of town. Anyway, I want to take my sister in for a visit today, so why don't we come together?"

After listening to Li Feng's words, Lao Du hesitated for a moment and looked at Lao Pu.

"You can't go with your little comrade, right?"

"This is my home, and I have to be taken in by someone else when I go in."

Lao Pu is still the same stubborn person, as stubborn as an old cow, convinced that the dead will not work out.

"Hey, Lao Pu, that's all in the past, let's go in first and talk about it later!"

Lao Du also had a headache. The man in front of him was one of his few good friends. His personality was sometimes really unpredictable. He couldn't do anything. It was a miracle that he could survive for decades.

The Li brothers and sisters took the two of them to the ticket gate, which was actually a shed built next door. It is not as luxurious now as it would be a few decades ago, and everything is relatively simple.

"I'll pay, I'd better do it!"

Watching the two people scrambling to pay, Li Feng slapped two dollars on the table at the ticket office.

"You two, stop yelling. I'll pay. Give me fifty cents each!"

As he said this, Li Feng picked up the four tickets handed over by the conductor and looked at the two of them with dumbfounded expressions. They started fighting over them for a few cents.

"Sure!" "Okay!"

The two of them looked at each other and saw that the four tickets were already in Li Feng's hands, so they simply stopped arguing, licked their fingers, and each took fifty cents.

He put the fifty cents given by the two people into his pocket. Li Feng deliberately opened the two fifty cents separately. Lao Du's on the left and Lao Pu's on the right were going to be kept and he didn't plan to spend them in the future.

He gave each of them a ticket and slowly led the three of them to the ticket gate where the dispute had just occurred.

The ticket inspector at the door also saw that Li Feng was kind enough to take two little old men who didn't know how to count to buy tickets. She glanced at it briefly, kept the ticket stubs, and let the group in.

"The Forbidden City was built by Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, five to six hundred years ago. It was modeled after the Forbidden City in Nanjing and covers an area of ​​more than 600 square meters!"

The group of people walked towards the Meridian Gate. Li Feng looked at the historical details along the way and gave a brief introduction to Li Nan. After all, there is no commentator now.

I don’t know much about the Forbidden City, I can only give a general introduction.

However, after I came in, I discovered that there were some mottled areas on the wall, and there were some weeds popping up in the cracks between the bricks. Although it was a bit withered and yellow, it could be seen that it was not as carefully protected as in the previous life. The interior was solemn and grand, but it was still There is still some flavor of sunset in the west.

When Li Feng introduced, Lao Du followed unhurriedly, nodding from time to time and looking around.

Lao Pu, who was following him, looked a little ugly. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

The little girl was a little happy, jumping up and down, full of curiosity about everything around her.

I have lived nearby for more than ten years. Every time I go to school, I can see the red walls and golden tiles. I have long wanted to come in and take a look, but it turns out that it has never been opened.

It was only opened to the public this year, and you can go in and visit, but Li Nan is not willing to give up the [-] cent ticket. He definitely won't. This time, he came in to visit without spending his own pocket money. How could he not be happy?

"Zhu Di, is this Emperor Yongle?"

Listening to her brother's introduction, the little girl asked some questions of her own from time to time, and looked at the two attendants with some pride. "My brother knows how much you know."

"Yes, after the Battle of Jingnan, he seized the throne of his nephew Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen. He was probably feeling uneasy, and the north had always been his sphere of influence, so he finally moved the capital to the capital and built this building that had gone through the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Forbidden City, more than twenty emperors lived in the Forbidden City."

"Brother, you said this wall is so high, wouldn't it be boring if all the former emperors and concubines lived in it and couldn't come out?"

"It's all boring, so I'm afraid you have to ask the old man in front of you." This is what someone was thinking.

While explaining to the little girl, Li Feng secretly looked at Lao Pu who was standing aside with a smile in his eyes. Seeing that his face turned blue, he couldn't help but want to laugh. This is your home. A few hundred years ago, I'm afraid it really wasn't the same, and it was outside. From a human perspective, it looks like a bigger prison.

"Wow, there's a square here."

After walking north for a while, the little girl pointed to the "concave" shaped square in front of her, looked at the sparse crowd, clapped her hands and said.

"This is not a square, this is the Meridian Gate."

Lao Pu, who had been holding back for a long time, finally opened his mouth and stood in front of the Meridian Gate, looking straight at the doorway, as if he was lost in memories.

"Meridian Gate?"

The little girl looked at the strange old man, spoke, turned her little head, bit her finger, and asked.

"Push out the Meridian Gate and behead?"

Lao Du stood next to Lao Pu with his hands behind his back, and asked doubtfully, which drama might he have read this sentence in the book, and asked directly.

"That's right, the ministers who made mistakes were beheaded here. I don't know how many people have died here for hundreds of years."

Li Feng said calmly, but the horror in his words still startled Li Nan. He immediately jumped behind Li Feng and timidly looked at the mottled and dilapidated square in front of him.

"Hey~!"

Lao Pu let out a long sigh for no reason, and the corners of his eyes were a little moist, remembering how he used to learn to ride a bicycle here.

Lao Du on the side looked at his friend who was speechless and choked. He patted his back and helped him relieve his depressed emotions. For these two children, it was a visit, but for Lao Pu, it was really a homecoming. Here is Where he grew up.

"It's been 37 years, Lao Du, it's been 37 years!"

After wandering for decades, his identity changed many times from emperor, civilian, marionette and finally prisoner.

After accepting the transformation of the new country, he became a citizen again. I am afraid that few people throughout the ages have experienced such a complicated life experience.

Standing in the Forbidden City again, I am afraid that only my friends next to me can tell what I am thinking.

Li Feng stood calmly aside, silent. Li Nan hid behind him, looking at the two uncles in front of him, wondering why one of them was stooped.

"Okay, Lao Pu, do you want everyone to recognize you? Coming home is a happy event, you shouldn't cry, you should be happy."

"But I feel sorry for my ancestors!"

Looking at the middle-aged old man, crying and crying, a trace of seriousness flashed across Li Feng's face. He could understand some of the words, but if others heard it, you didn't have enough good life, right?

"Brother, that uncle, why are you crying?"

Li Nan couldn't help but got out of his head, shook his brother's arm, and rolled his eyes.

"The rule of the feudal dynasty is ultimately corrupt, just like why the Meridian Gate exists. If you make a mistake, you must admit it, and if you are beaten, you must stand upright. How can you build a new country without overthrowing the old society."

It seemed like he was talking to Li Nan, and it also seemed like he was warning the two people over there.

It's almost done. If you keep crying, you can go play by yourselves. I won't wait for you anymore.

"Lao Pu, there are so many people, if we don't stop, you and I will not be able to survive!"

When Lao Du heard what Li Feng said behind him, his body was stunned, as if he heard the meaning. He pinched Lao Pu's arm and whispered a reminder in a voice that could only be heard by the two of them.

Feeling a sting on his arm, Lao Pu woke up from his obsessive memories, took off his round glasses, and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"Lao Du, it's a good thing you're still following me!"

As if he remembered something, Lao Pu trembled, forced a stiff smile from his face, and patted Lao Du's hand.

“I might be the first one to go home and have to buy a ticket!”

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Lao Pu said in a dull tone.

Lao Du looked at his old friend who was gradually returning to normal, his face not as ugly as before.

Maybe he has looked past it and can let go of the identity that brought him countless honors and countless troubles.

Being able to let go may be a good thing for him.

(End of this chapter)